Collins Gem Russian Dictionary by Collins
$13.00 AUD
Category: Reference | Series: Collins GEM
Fully revised and updated, this latest edition from Collins' bestselling Gem Dictionary range is the perfect choice for anyone needing a portable up-to-the-minute Russian dictionary. Features include: * All the latest words in both languages, such as downloadable, Wi-Fi, carbon footprint, podcast * User ...Show more
Mother Tongue - The English Language by Bill Bryson
$13.00 AUD
Category: Reference | Series: Popular Penguins
With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson--the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent--brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can't), t ...Show more
Collins Gem Spanish Dictionary by Collins
$12.99 AUD
Category: Reference | Series: Collins GEM
This latest edition of Collins' bestselling dictionary comes with a newly updated Phrasefinder supplement making it the perfect choice for anyone needing a portable, up-to-the-minute Spanish dictionary. Features include: All the latest words in both languages, such as downloadable, Wi-Fi in English, ...Show more
Collins Gem Italian Dictionary by .
$12.99 AUD
Category: Reference | Series: Collins GEM
This latest edition of Collins' multimillion-selling dictionary comes with a newly updated Phrasefinder supplement making it the perfect choice for anyone needing a portable, up-to-the-minute Italian dictionary. Features include: / All the latest words in both languages, such as e-ticket, renewable in ...Show more
The Superior Person's Field Guide to Deceitful, Deceptive and Downright Dangerous Language by Peter Bowler
$29.95 AUD
Category: Reference
The Superior Person's Field Guide is a call for the return to simple, straightforward words that say what they mean and mean what they say. Most of us know that 'downsizing' means that you're about to be fired, but have you ever heard its business-speak cousins 'offshoreable' or 'cash-flow episode'? Wit ...Show more
Times Universal Atlas of the World Edition 1 by Anon
$99.00 AUD
Category: Reference
This is a new title in the authoritative and prestigous Times world atlas range. The stunning reference atlas provides the accuracy of a Times Atlas at an affordable price. A completely new edition of a world atlas in the most prestigious atlas range in the world. 170 pages of mapping provide an amazing ...Show more
Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage (2nd Edition 2008) by Robert Allen
$34.95 AUD
Category: Reference | Series: Oxford Paperback Reference S.
This invaluable reference work offers the best advice on English usage, drawing on the unrivalled resources of Oxford's English Dictionaries programme and language monitoring. This second edition of the Pocket Fowler harks back to the original 1926 edition of A Dictionary of Modern English Usage by Henr ...Show more
Australian Slang by Anon
$16.95 AUD
Category: Reference
This dictionary brings together a colourful collection of colloquialisms from Down Under, including humorous rhyming slang, inventive insults and comical curses. Celebrating a distinctive and often irreverent language, Australian Slangis a ripper of a read that will delight visitors from OS, as well as ...Show more
Bill Bryson's Dictionary for Writers and Editors
$45.00 AUD
Category: Reference
What is the difference between cant and jargon, or assume and presume? What is a fandango? What's the new name for Calcutta? How do you spell supersede? Boutros Boutros-Ghali? Is it hippy or hippie? These questions really matter to Bill Bryson, ever since his days as a rookie subeditor on "The Times" ba ...Show more
Classics: 62 Great Books from "The Iliad" to "Midnight's Children" by Jane Gleeson-White
$24.95 AUD
Category: Reference
'What makes a classic? For me, it's a book I can't imagine having lived without; a truthful, wholly imagined world, in astonishing language, by a writer unafraid to probe those things that scare us and scar us and make us human.' - Charlotte Wood, author of The Submerged Cathedral, in CLASSICS Mark T ...Show more
How to Read a Novel : A User's Guide by John Sutherland
$23.95 AUD
Category: Reference
We assume reading is like riding a bicycle - you can do it or you can't. But reading well is almost as difficult as writing well. This book is a guide to how to do it. It shows how novels work, what they're about, what makes them good or bad, and how to talk about them with kindred spirits.John Sutherla ...Show more
A Century of New Words by John Ayto
$32.95 AUD
Category: Reference
Take a fascinating journey from plastic (1909) to podcasting (2004). This vivid picture of the last 105 years is based on John Ayto's critically acclaimed Twentieth Century Words, and was published in hardback as Movers and Shakers: A chronology of words that shaped our age. It offers a selection of the ...Show more