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| Author | : Susie Dent |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 2009-10-22 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 0191650609 |
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The Blackout Crew have a song with the title 'Put a donk on it' - but what is a 'donk'? Which ending came first: '-ise' or '-ize'? Where does the idea of a 'white elephant' come from? Who decides on the collective noun for something? And what is it that made the crocodile cry? Sparkling with insight and linguistic curiosity, this delightful compendium answers 101 of the most intriguing questions about the English language, from word origins and spelling to grammar and usage. Irresistible to anyone with an interest in the words around them. Supported by Oxford's celebrated dictionary research programme, Susie Dent tackles these and many other fascinating questions in this wonderfully accessible and endlessly entertaining exploration of the English language.
| Author | : Susie Dent |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 173 |
| Release | : 2009-10-22 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0199574154 |
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Sparkling with insight and linguistic curiosity, this delightful compendium answers 101 of the most intriguing questions about the English language, from word origins and spelling to grammar and usage. Irresistible to anyone with an interest in the words around them.
| Author | : Anthony Horowitz |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 402 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0399250565 |
Download Crocodile Tears Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Alex Rider does battle with a charity broker con artist who has invested millions of dollars in a form of genetically modified corn that can release an airborne strain of virus capable of knocking out an entire country in one day.
| Author | : André François |
| Publisher | : Enchanted Lion |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781592702275 |
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Provides step-by-step instructions for catching a crocodile in Egypt, sending it back home, and making it a pet.
| Author | : Peter Godwin |
| Publisher | : Back Bay Books |
| Total Pages | : 269 |
| Release | : 2008-04-10 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0316032093 |
Download When a Crocodile Eats the Sun Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
After his father's heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from Manhattan, where he now lives. On these frequent visits to check on his elderly parents, he bore witness to Zimbabwe's dramatic spiral downwards into the jaws of violent chaos, presided over by an increasingly enraged dictator. And yet long after their comfortable lifestyle had been shattered and millions were fleeing, his parents refuse to leave, steadfast in their allegiance to the failed state that has been their adopted home for 50 years. Then Godwin discovered a shocking family secret that helped explain their loyalty. Africa was his father's sanctuary from another identity, another world. When a Crocodile Eats the Sun is a stirring memoir of the disintegration of a family set against the collapse of a country. But it is also a vivid portrait of the profound strength of the human spirit and the enduring power of love.
| Author | : Susie Dent |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 167 |
| Release | : 2010-03-04 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1409061949 |
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'Susie Dent is a national treasure' RICHARD OSMAN 'Susie Dent is a one-off. She breathes life and fun into words and language' PAM AYRES __________________________________________ Would you be bewildered if someone described you as radgy? Do you know how to recognise a tittamatorter? And would you understand if someone called you a culchie? How to Talk Like a Local gathers together hundreds of words from all over the country and digs down to uncover their origins. From dardledumdue, which means daydreamer in East Anglia, through forkin robbins, the Yorkshire term for earwigs, to clemt, a Lancashire word that means hungry, it investigates an astonishingly rich variety of regional expressions, and provides a fascinating insight into the history of the English language. If you're intrigued by colourful words and phrases, if you're interested in how English is really spoken, or if you simply want to find out a bit more about the development of our language, How to Talk Like a Local is irresistible - and enlightening - reading. __________________________________________________ 'Nobody on earth knows more about the English language than Susie Dent and nobody writes about it more entertainingly' GYLES BRANDRETH 'It's an interesting and, at times, hilarious read. One for word-lovers' THE SUN
| Author | : Charlie O'Shields |
| Publisher | : Doodlewash Books |
| Total Pages | : 281 |
| Release | : 2018-11-22 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0960021922 |
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Charlie O'Shields is the creator of Doodlewash®, founder of World Watercolor Month in July, and host of the Sketching Stuff podcast. Every single day, for over three years, he created a watercolor illustration and wrote a short essay about whatever came to mind that day and posted it on his blog. These are some of the collected favorites along with some brand new musings. With over 180 illustrations, this book is part personal memoir and sometimes just a randomly fun romp through the sillier bits of this crazy world we all inhabit. Written to take on the impossible task of inspiring creativity, unleashing your inner child, and instilling hope, it will, at the very least, make you smile and touch your heart.
| Author | : Eva Montanari |
| Publisher | : Tundra Books |
| Total Pages | : 35 |
| Release | : 2021-06-15 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0735268134 |
Download What Does Little Crocodile Say? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A little crocodile explores a day at preschool in this colorful, noisy book filled with sounds and new experiences -- some wonderful, some not -- that are sure to delight toddlers. What sounds does the Little Crocodile hear on the first day of preschool? The alarm clock goes ring, ring The car goes vroom vroom The elephant says peekaboo The drum goes rat-a-tat The food goes nom nom nom And the crocodile says... WAHHHH! In this charming book of sounds, a little crocodile experiences the highs and lows of preschool, ultimately enjoying their day . . . after a small meltdown, of course! Little ones will delight in the adorable illustrations and fun read-aloud, and parents will delight in the sly humor and familiar emotional rollercoaster of a toddler's day.
| Author | : Donald Earl Collins |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 2013-11 |
| Genre | : African Americans |
| ISBN | : 9780989256131 |
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As a preteen Black male growing up in Mount Vernon, New York, there were a series of moments, incidents and wounds that caused me to retreat inward in despair and escape into a world of imagination. For five years I protected my family secrets from authority figures, affluent Whites and middle class Blacks while attending an unforgiving gifted-track magnet school program that itself was embroiled in suburban drama. It was my imagination that shielded me from the slights of others, that enabled my survival and academic success. It took everything I had to get myself into college and out to Pittsburgh, but more was in store before I could finally begin to break from my past. "Boy @ The Window" is a coming-of-age story about the universal search for understanding on how any one of us becomes the person they are despite-or because of-the odds. It's a memoir intertwined with my own search for redemption, trust, love, success-for a life worth living. "Boy @ The Window" is about one of the most important lessons of all: what it takes to overcome inhumanity in order to become whole and human again.
| Author | : Val Plumwood |
| Publisher | : ANU E Press |
| Total Pages | : 110 |
| Release | : 2012-11-01 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1922144177 |
Download The Eye of the Crocodile Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Val Plumwood was an eminent environmental philosopher and activist who was prominent in the development of radical ecophilosophy from the early 1970s until her death in 2008. Her book Feminism and the Mastery of Nature (1992) has become a classic. In 1985 she was attacked by a crocodile while kayaking alone in the Kakadu national park in the Northern Territory. She was death rolled three times before being released from the crocodile’s jaws. She crawled for hours through swamp with appalling injuries before being rescued. The experience made her well placed to write about cultural responses to death and predation. The first section of The Eye of the Crocodile consists of chapters intended for a book on crocodiles that remained unfinished at the time of Val’s death. The remaining chapters are previously published papers brought together to form an overview of Val’s ideas on death, predation and nature.
