Horologicon, Forsyth, Mark

Автор: Forsyth Mark
Название: Horologicon
ISBN: 1848315988 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781848315983
Издательство: Faber
Цена: 7910 T
Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: The Horologicon (or book of hours) gives you the most extraordinary words in the English language, arranged according to the hour of the day when you really need them. Do you wake up feeling rough? Then you're philogrobolized. Pretending to work? That's fudgelling, which may lead to rizzling if you feel sleepy after lunch, though by dinner time you will have become a sparkling deipnosophist. From Mark Forsyth, author of the bestselling The Etymologicon, this is a book of weird words for familiar situations. From ante-jentacular to snudge by way of quafftide and wamblecropt, at last you can say, with utter accuracy, exactly what you mean.

Автор: Forsyth Mark
Название: Elements of Eloquence
ISBN: 1785781723 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781785781728
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: Mark Forsyth`s `sparkling` (Charles Moore, Daily Telegraph) and idiosyncratically brilliant third book.

Автор: Forsyth Mark
Название: Etymologicon
ISBN: 1785781707 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781785781704
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: The massive Christmas 2011 bestseller and Radio 4 Book of the Week

Автор: Forsyth Mark
Название: Horologicon
ISBN: 0425264378 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780425264379
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 9810.00 T
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Описание: Do you wake up feeling rough? Then you're philogrobolized.

Find yourself pretending to work? That's fudgelling.

And this could lead to rizzling, if you feel sleepy after lunch. Though you are sure to become a sparkling deipnosopbist by dinner. Just don't get too vinomadefied; a drunk dinner companion is never appreciated.

The Horologicon (or book of hours) contains the most extraordinary words in the English language, arranged according to what hour of the day you might need them. From Mark Forsyth, the author of the #1 international bestseller, The Etymologicon, comes a book of weird words for familiar situations. From ante-jentacular to snudge by way of quafftide and wamblecropt, at last you can say, with utter accuracy, exactly what you mean.

Автор: Forsyth Mark
Название: The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
ISBN: 0425260798 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780425260791
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 11030.00 T
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Описание: Do you know why...

...a mortgage is literally a death pledge? ...why guns have girls' names? ...why salt is related to soldier?

You're about to find out...

The Etymologicon (e-t?-'ma-la-ji-kan) is:
*Witty (wi-te\): Full of clever humor

*Erudite (er-?-dit): Showing knowledge

*Ribald (ri-b?ld): Crude, offensive

The Etymologicon is a completely unauthorized guide to the strange underpinnings of the English language. It explains: how you get from "gruntled" to "disgruntled"; why you are absolutely right to believe that your meager salary barely covers "money for salt"; how the biggest chain of coffee shops in the world (hint: Seattle) connects to whaling in Nantucket; and what precisely the Rolling Stones have to do with gardening.

Автор: Forsyth, Mark
Название: Illustrated etymologicon
ISBN: 1785787853 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781785787850
Издательство: Faber
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Цена: 17600.00 T
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Описание: A new, beautifully illustrated hardback edition of the bestselling Etymologicon, published on its tenth anniversary.

Автор: Forsyth Mark
Название: The Elements of Eloquence: Secrets of the Perfect Turn of Phrase
ISBN: 042527618X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780425276181
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 10420.00 T
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Описание: From the #1 international bestselling author of The Etymologicon and The Horologicon comes an education in the art of articulation, from the King James Bible to Katy Perry...

From classic poetry to pop lyrics, from Charles Dickens to Dolly Parton, even from Jesus to James Bond, Mark Forsyth explains the secrets that make a phrase--such as "O Captain My Captain " or "To be or not to be"--memorable.

In his inimitably entertaining and wonderfully witty style, he takes apart famous phrases and shows how you too can write like Shakespeare or quip like Oscar Wilde. Whether you're aiming to achieve literary immortality or just hoping to deliver the perfect one-liner, The Elements of Eloquence proves that you don't need to have anything important to say--you simply need to say it well.

In an age unhealthily obsessed with the power of substance, this is a book that highlights the importance of style.

Автор: Lingwood, Gyles Shaw, Mark
Название: Copywriting third edition
ISBN: 1529420245 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529420241
Издательство: Laurence King
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Цена: 25290.00 T
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Описание: An inspiring and essential book for everyone interested in improving the way they write. - Brian Minards, School of Advertising, Academy of Art University, San Francisco

Автор: Forsyth, Mark
Название: A Short History of Drunkenness
ISBN: 0241359244 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241359242
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 9670.00 T
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Описание: A comic history of humankind's love affair with booze, from the Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author of The Etymologicon'Haha! . .

. Highly suitable for Xmas!' - Margaret AtwoodAlmost every culture on earth has drink, and where there's drink there's drunkenness. But in every age and in every place drunkenness is a little bit different.

It can be religious, it can be sexual, it can be the duty of kings or the relief of peasants. It can be an offering to the ancestors, or a way of marking the end of a day's work. It can send you to sleep, or send you into battle.

A Short History of Drunkenness traces humankind's love affair with booze from our primate ancestors through to Prohibition, answering every possible question along the way: What did people drink? How much? Who did the drinking? Of the many possible reasons, why? On the way, learn about the Neolithic Shamans, who drank to communicate with the spirit world (no pun intended), marvel at how Greeks got giddy and Romans got rat-arsed, and find out how bars in the Wild West were never quite like in the movies. This is a history of the world at its inebriated best.

Автор: Forsyth Mark
Название: Horologicon
ISBN: 1848315988 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781848315983
Издательство: Faber
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Цена: 7910.00 T
Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: The Horologicon (or book of hours) gives you the most extraordinary words in the English language, arranged according to the hour of the day when you really need them. Do you wake up feeling rough? Then you're philogrobolized. Pretending to work? That's fudgelling, which may lead to rizzling if you feel sleepy after lunch, though by dinner time you will have become a sparkling deipnosophist. From Mark Forsyth, author of the bestselling The Etymologicon, this is a book of weird words for familiar situations. From ante-jentacular to snudge by way of quafftide and wamblecropt, at last you can say, with utter accuracy, exactly what you mean.

Автор: Forsyth Mark
Название: Christmas Cornucopia
ISBN: 0241267730 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241267738
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 11430.00 T
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Описание: The unpredictable origins and etymologies of our cracking Christmas customs For something that happens every year of our lives, we really don`t know much about Christmas. We don`t know that the date we celebrate was chosen by a madman, or that Christmas, etymologically speaking, means `Go away, Christ`. Nor do we know that Christmas was first celebrated in 243 AD on 28 March - and only moved to 25 December in 354 AD. We`re oblivious to the fact that the advent calendar was actually invented by a Munich housewife to stop her children pestering her for a Christmas countdown. And we would never have guessed that the invention of crackers was merely a way of popularizing sweet wrappers. Luckily, like a gift from Santa himself, Mark Forsyth is here to unwrap this fundamentally funny gallimaufry of traditions and oddities, making it all finally make sense - in his wonderfully entertaining wordy way.

Автор: Forsyth, Mark
Название: Unknown unknown
ISBN: 1848317840 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781848317840
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Цена: 3160.00 T
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Описание: A brilliantly funny and clever exploration of why it`s only in a bookshop that you`ll find something you never knew you wanted to read, from the author of The Etymologicon, The Horologicon and The Elements of Eloquence

Автор: Forsyth Mark
Название: A Short History of Drunkenness: How, Why, Where, and When Humankind Has Gotten Merry from the Stone Age to the Present
ISBN: 0525575375 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780525575375
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 11650.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: From the internationally bestselling author of The Etymologicon, a lively and fascinating exploration of humankind's favorite pastime
Almost every culture on earth has drink, and where there's drink there's drunkenness. But in every age and in every place drunkenness is a little bit different. It can be religious, it can be sexual, it can be the duty of kings or the relief of peasants. It can be an offering to the ancestors, or a way of marking the end of a day's work. It can send you to sleep, or send you into battle.

A Short History of Drunkenness traces humankind's love affair with booze from our primate ancestors through to Prohibition, answering every possible question along the way: What did people drink? How much? Who did the drinking? Of the many possible reasons, why? On the way, learn about the Neolithic Shamans, who drank to communicate with the spirit world (no pun intended), marvel at how Greeks got giddy and Sumerians got sauced, and find out how bars in the Wild West were never quite like in the movies.

This is a history of the world at its inebriated best.