Based on The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, the principal authority on the origin and development of English words, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Etymology contains a wealth of information...
This invaluable work is the most authoritative and up-to-date dictionary of linguistics available. It provides concise, informative entries across the whole field of linguistics. With entries ranging...
This invaluable work includes the best-known proverbs in the English language from around the world. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs provides the fascinating history behind our proverbs....
Authoritative and up to date, this eleventh edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary contains over 240,000 words, phrases, and definitions, covering general and specialist words, literary,...
Celebrity authors, including Tom Clancy, Frederick Forsyth and Jilly Cooper, talk candidly about how they started writing and how their careers developed, expressing their views on failure, success and...
Everyone has a book in them, they say. Having gone through the process of extracting a masterpiece from your head what happens next? In most cases the book will end up in a desk drawer as a pile of...
A Curmudgeon's Guide to the Many Things That Can Go Wrong in Print–and How to Avoid Them
Bill Walsh
No writer's or editor's desk is complete without a battered, page-bent copy of the AP Stylebook. However, this not-so-easy-to-use reference of journalistic style is often not up-to-date and leaves...
English grammar has changed a great deal since the beginning of the twentieth century, and it is a subject that can provide a complex minefield of uncertainties within the language. This accessible and...
This is the most comprehensive dictionary of abbreviations available. In a world of rapidly proliferating abbreviations and acronyms, it is indispensable at home and in the office. Authoritative and...
This Pocket edition is based primarily on Robert W. Burchfield's renowned The New Fowler's Modern English Usage. Robert Allen has taken all the key elements from the best-selling parent work, rewriting...
