Salty Dog Talk: The Nautical Origins of Everyday Expressions (Beavis Bill)(Paperback)

Hair of the Dog to Paint the Town Red: The Curious Origins of Everyday Sayings and Fun Phrases (Thompson Andrew)(Paperback)

Ntc's Dictionary of Everyday American English Expressions (Kleinedler Steven)(Paperback)

Deathlok the Demolisher: Origins (Mantlo Bill)(Paperback / softback)

Mother Tongue - The Story of the English Language (Bryson Bill)(Paperback / softback)

Presenting a tour of English from its mongrel origins to its status as the world's most-spoken tongue; its apparent simplicity to its deceptive complexity; its vibrant swearing to its uncertain spelling and pronunciation, this book covers curious eccentricities that make it as maddening to learn

Bill Belichick: His Coaching Philosophy, Leadership Style, Game Preparation & Football Strategy (Smith Pete)(Paperback)

Bill Belichick: On FootballBill Belichick in his own words! The origins of arguably the greatest coach in professional sports is explored through interviews with Bill Belichick. Learn what he has to say about the fundamentals of football and what he focuses on during practice planning and

The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt (Manley Bill)(Paperback)

From its humble origins as a cluster of rival chiefdoms along the banks of the Nile, ancient Egypt rose to become one of the most advanced civilizations of its time. This atlas traces its turbulent history and remarkable cultural development, from the founding of Memphis around 5000 BC, through the

Internet Arabic [With CD (Audio)] (Diouri Mourad)(Paperback)

All the expressions, jargon and new words you need to talk about the internet in Arabic What's the Arabic for 'homepage'? How do you say 'podcast'? Can you recognise the phrase 'add this site to your favourites'? Or 'printer-friendly version'? This vocabulary gives you ready-made lists of key terms

Martha Calling (Meddaugh Susan)(Paperback)

Martha is a dog--a dog who can talk In this story, Martha speaks up against the injustice of 'No dogs allowed' signs and reminds humans that animals are part of the family. Martha loves talking on the telephone. When she calls into a radio contest and wins a weekend getaway at the Come-On Inn,

You Talkin' to Me?: How to Write Great Dialogue (Seger Linda)(Paperback)

Unlike the chitchat of everyday life, dialogue in stories must express character, advance the story, suggest a theme, and include a few memorable lines that audiences will be quoting for decades to come. The best stories have dialogue that sparkles, but it's easy for inexperienced writers to fall

After Effects Expressions (Geduld Marcus)(Paperback)

Put the power of Expressions to work in your animations with controls and efficiencies impossible to achieve with traditional keyframing techniques. No programming skills are required. Foundation concepts and skills orient the new designer and serve as a handy reference to the experienced one

Diary of a Dog-walker - Time spent following a lead (Stourton Edward)(Paperback / softback)

'If you are accompanied by a dog you can talk to anyone, and anyone can talk to you - about anything ...' And they do. Edward Stourton's walks with, Kudu, his dog, become an opportunity for wonderfully unlikely encounters, and reflecting on the world from the dog-walker's perspective proves

How Stella Learned to Talk - The Groundbreaking Story of the World's First Talking Dog (Hunger Christina)(Paperback / softback)

A speech therapist's memoir of her groundbreaking work in communicating with

This Is Day One: A Practical Guide to Leadership That Matters (Dudley Drew)(Paperback)

Based on his TEDx talk 'Everyday Leadership (the Lollipop Moment)' -- voted one of the 15 most inspirational TED talks of all time -- This Is Day One is leadership expert Drew Dudley's guide to cultivating the behaviors that will help you to succeed and empower those around you. If you're

Behavioural Economics Saved My Dog - Life Advice For The Imperfect Human (Ariely Dan)(Paperback / softback)

Gain a new perspective on the inevitable problems of everyday

The Common Place of Law: Stories from Everyday Life (Ewick Patricia)(Paperback)

Why do some people not hesitate to call the police to quiet a barking dog in the middle of the night, while others accept the pain and losses associated with defective products, unsuccesful surgery, and discrimination? Patricia Ewick and Susan Silbey collected accounts of the law from more than

The Origins of the Choson Dynasty (Duncan John B.)(Paperback)

The Origins of the Choson Dynasty provides an exhaustive analysis of the structure and composition of Korea's central officialdom during the transition from the Koryo dynasty (918-1392) to the Choson dynasty (1392-1910) and offers a new interpretation of the history of traditional

Origins of the Kabbalah (Scholem Gershom Gerhard)(Paperback)

With the publication of The Origins of Kabbalah in 1950, one of the most important scholars of our century brought the obscure world of Jewish mysticism to a wider audience for the first time. A crucial work in the oeuvre of Gershom Scholem, this book details the beginnings of the Kabbalah in

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (Bailyn Bernard)(Paperback)

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, awarded both the Pulitzer and the Bancroft prizes, has become a classic of American historical literature. Hailed at its first appearance as 'the most brilliant study of the meaning of the Revolution to appear in a generation,' it was enlarged in

Some Clever Title, 41: A Foxtrot Collection Blah Blah Blah (Amend Bill)(Paperback)

FoxTrot distills popular culture through the lens of everyday family life--offering a deft and humorous critique on society's latest comings and goings. You might belong in the Fox family if you . . . dress up in a Batman costume . . . model a scarecrow after your sister . . . bake cookies to

The Ladies of Salt SeaVille (Birch Juno)(Paperback)

A collection of poems and illustrations of the women in Salt SeaVille, who all encounter drastic body

The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership (Walsh Bill)(Paperback)

The last lecture on leadership by the NFL's greatest coach: Bill Walsh Bill Walsh is a towering figure in the history of the NFL. His advanced leadership transformed the San Francisco 49ers from the worst franchise in sports to a legendary dynasty. In the process, he changed the way football is

Teen Talk: The Language of Adolescents (Tagliamonte Sali A.)(Paperback)

How do today's teenagers talk? What are the distinguishing features of their style of language, and what do they tell us about the English language more generally? Drawing on a huge corpus of examples collected over a fifteen-year period, Sali A. Tagliamonte undertakes a detailed study of

The Origins and History of Consciousness (Neumann Erich)(Paperback)

The Origins and History of Consciousness draws on a full range of world mythology to show how individual consciousness undergoes the same archetypal stages of development as human consciousness as a whole. Erich Neumann was one of C. G. Jung's most creative students and a renowned practitioner of

The Origins of Greek Thought (Vernant Jean-Pierre)(Paperback)

Jean-Pierre Vernant's concise, brilliant essay on the origins of Greek thought relates the cultural achievement of the ancient Greeks to their physical and social environment and shows that what they believed in was inseparable from the way they lived. The emergence of rational thought, Vernant