The Fontana History of the Environmental Sciences

Science & Math

Bowler, Peter

Earth Sciences

Fontana

The Superior Person's Book of Words

A dictionary with a wide range of definitions of precise but neglected words chosen to enrich one's vocabulary and insult one's adversaries

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Laurel

A delightfully intelligent and unabashedly arcane new volume of words that normally lie unseen among the small print in large dictionaries offers the perfect antidote to cliches and platitudes for know-it-all linguistic snobs everywhere. Reissue.

A Superior Person's Second Book of Weird

An introduction to the history of genetics and the rethinking of evolutionism.

Mendelian Revolution: The Emergence of Hereditarian Concepts in Modern Science and Society

History

Europe

Bloomsbury USA Academic

'Words are not only tools; they are also weapons' The secret to being a truly Superior Person is to use really superior words. More impressive than a top hat, much more effective than a fist-fight, here are five hundred words to help you wiggle out of sticky debates, deal with obnoxious dinner guests and fill in sick leave application forms with panache. Impress your friends, amaze your colleagues and baffle your enemies with this witty, charming, and clever little book.

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

A book for parents, covering the pre-school and primary years, that provides fascinating information on development without interspersing advice. The second edition has been completely revised and updated. The book is unusual in including the latency years.

Your Child from One to Ten

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Australia in Print

A book for parents, covering the pre-school and primary years, that provides fascinating information on development without interspersing advice. The second edition has been completely revised and updated. The book is unusual in including the latency years.

Your Child from One to Ten: Second Edition

Linke, Pam

Self-Help

ACER Press

Like its predecessor, this useful, funny, and edifying little volume will give you the right words for any occasion. This second collection contains 600 outlandish (and thoroughly useful) words that will help readers, in the words of the author, "more readily assert a fitting ascendancy over their fellows at the traffic lights of life."

Superior Person's Second Book of Weird and Wondrous Words

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

David R Godine Pub

Superior Person's Book of Words

David R. Godine

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