The famous, unconditionally guaranteed, durable paperback edition with high-quality paper and binding.

A sharp-tongued, quick-witted dictionary with a difference from the much-loved, insolent and corageous Ambrose Bierce. An American classic.

Now with bonus CD ROM. Sixth edition.

Third edition.

A fourth edition of the dictionary which includes abbreviations, foreign words and phrases, biographical and geographical entries, and over 200 photographs.

Now with bonus CD ROM. Sixth edition.

Features an easy-to-use dictionary format plus a revolutionary Concept Index that arranges words by idea, thus enhancing the user's process of association and leading to scores of additional selections.

This reference contains over 1,000,000 synonyms arranged alphabetically, including clearly labelled slang and other informal words and expressions, as well as rare, archaic, scientific and other specialized terms.

This dictionary contains over 2000 entries on the language of literature, literary criticism and literary theory, covering a wide range of categories including technical terms, genres, themes, personalities, objects and concepts.

Completely revised and updated edition.

This is a handbook for life's turns for the worse. It provides step-by-step instructions on everything from how to wrestle an alligator, and defuse a bomb, to how to escape from quick sand, an elevator or a volcanic eruption.

The third edition of 'Fowler's Modern English Usage' 1996 provided a complete revision and an expansion of the original text, bringing the book fully up to date on all matters of grammar, usage, syntax and style. This is a reissue of the revised third edition of 1998, which includes a new Supplement and revised entries.

Described as 'the ultimate reference book' by the 'Sunday Telegraph', the third edition of the 'Oxford Classical Dictionary', has now been revised by the two editors, Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth. All aspects of the classical world are embraced and the text is up-to-date for the 21st century.

Whether they're a work of wacky imagination, a piercing insight into social and cultural traditions at the time of writing, or simply a absorbing story, this work features these stories that have come about out of people's desires to communicate a story, a message or a lesson.

8TH EDITION

The classic guide to the geography and history of Middle-earth by a professional cartographer and Tolkien expert.

New edition extensively updated.

A guide to problems of English usage and spelling. It is suitable as a companion for those who work with the written word.

Just about all the people who really matter in one handy and endlessly browsable book