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0-7679-1043-5. Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words ( ISBN 0-7679-1043-5) is a book by Bill Bryson, published under several titles since 1984, that catalogues some of the English language 's most commonly misused words and phrases in order to demonstrate preferable usage. It helps writers and editors to think about how to make written ...
The book was a New York Times bestseller, [13] and was included in the best seller lists of the Los Angeles Times [14] and USA Today. [15] It has a Goodreads average rating of 4.23. [16] Kirkus Reviews calls the narrative voice of Book Woman "engaging", and praises how well-researched the novel is, illuminating the history of 1930s Kentucky ...
United States. ISBN. 978-0-375-42172-3 (first edition) Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word is a 2002 book by Randall Kennedy of Harvard Law School about the history and sociology of the word nigger. The book was prominently featured in an episode of Boston Public in which a white teacher, played by Michael Rapaport, attempted to ...
978-0-552-99786-7. OCLC. 57064968. Notes from a Big Country, or as it was released in the United States, I'm a Stranger Here Myself, is a collection of articles written by Bill Bryson for The Mail on Sunday ' s Night and Day supplement during the 1990s, published together first in Britain in 1998 [citation needed] and in paperback in 1999.
The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever is a logic puzzle so called by American philosopher and logician George Boolos and published in The Harvard Review of Philosophy in 1996. [1][2] Boolos' article includes multiple ways of solving the problem. A translation in Italian was published earlier in the newspaper La Repubblica, under the title L'indovinello ...
LC Class. G154.5.B79 A3 2006. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid is a 2006 memoir by best-selling travel writer Bill Bryson. The book delves into Bryson's past, telling of his youth growing up in Des Moines, Iowa, during the 1950s and early 1960s. It also reveals the backstory between himself and Stephen Katz, who appeared in A Walk in ...
v. t. e. The Phaedrus (/ ˈfiːdrəs /; Greek: Φαῖδρος, translit. Phaidros), written by Plato, is a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus, an interlocutor in several dialogues. The Phaedrus was presumably composed around 370 BC, about the same time as Plato's Republic and Symposium. [1] Although ostensibly about the topic of love, the ...
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