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500 Beautiful Words You Should Know by Caroline Taggart
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Category: Reference Literature
CRESTFALLEN at CHICANERY and CIRCUMLOCUTION? Have no TRUCK with TOMFOOLERY and TRUMPERY? Or OMNISCIENT about OBLOQUIES and OPSIMATHS?Whether you've answered yes, no or 'sorry, I didn't catch that', 500 Beautiful Words You Should Know is for you. It offers words that flow EXQUISITELY off the tongue; word ...Show more
500 Words You Should Know by Caroline Taggart
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Category: Reference
Ever wanted to ameliorate your atavistic lexicon, engage in a little intellectual badinage or been discombobulated by tricky diction? 500 Words You Should Know has you covered. This book will inspire the reader to use uncommon words in their correct context, to utilize the English language to its full p ...Show more
A to Z Great Modern Writers by Caroline Taggart
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Category: Reference | Series: A-Z Great Modern Series
Artist and graphic designer Andy Tuohy turns his hand to the world of modern literature in this new instalment of the A-Z series. Rendered in his distinctive style, this new book features portraits of 52 key modern writers significant for their contribution to literature, with a whole host of names from ...Show more
An Apple a Day...: Old-Fashioned Proverbs and Why They Still Work by Caroline Taggart
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Category: Reference
Does absence really make the heart grow fonder? Can beggars be choosers? Is it always better late than never? Proverbs are short, well-known, pithy sayings that offer advice or words of encouragement and are used in everyday English without much thought ever being given to their meanings, or indeed, use ...Show more
An Apple a Day: Old-Fashioned Proverbs and Why They Still Work by Caroline Taggart
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Category: Reference | Series: I Used to Know That ...
From Old Testament proverbs to modern phrases like "the best things in life are free," "An Apple a Day" takes a fun look at expressions that "have stood the test of time." Read through from start to finish or search through the list of hundreds of the most common proverbs, arranged from A to Z for easy ...Show more
Back to Basics: The Education You Wish You'd Had by Caroline Taggart
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Category: Reference
A compendium of those things you always meant to learn, from Latin verse to art history to cloud types, that doubles as a reminder of the basics and provides fresh, new information as well Don't know Midas from Oedipus? Wouldn't recognize a concerto from a sonata? Many people wish that they could fill ...Show more
Back to Basics: The Education You Wish You'd Had by Caroline Taggart
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Category: Reference
Don't know Midas from Oedipus? Wouldn't recognize a concerto from a sonata? Many of us wish that we could fill in the gaps in our education in order to avoid those embarrassing situations when we feel as if we don't know things that others do. In Back to Basics, bestselling author Caroline Taggart provi ...Show more
Classical Education by Caroline Taggart
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Category: Reference | Series: The Stuff You Wish You'd Been Taught at School
How many times have you wished that your history stretched all the way back to Greek and Roman myths and legends? Or that you'd been taught Latin at school? Or perhaps you wish you knew all about the great inventions and medical developments that have made our world what it is today? A "Classical Educat ...Show more
Help a Thief!: And Other Misadventures in Punctuation by Caroline Taggart
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Category: Reference Literature
The trouble with punctuation - well, one of the troubles, anyway - is that too many of the experts suggest leaving it to the writer's judgement. What use is that if you've simply never been taught the difference between a colon and a semicolon, or where those wretched apostrophes go?Caroline Taggart, ...Show more
Humble Pie and Cold Turkey - English Expressions and Their Origins by Caroline Taggart
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Category: Reference Literature
'Caroline Taggart has carved out a niche for herself in user-friendly, wittily written factual books.' - Yorkshire Post ______________________ In this highly entertaining book, language enthusiast and Sunday Times best-selling author Caroline Taggart browses through thousands of years of history to sh ...Show more
Humble Pie and Cold Turkey: English Expressions and Their Origins by Caroline Taggart
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Category: Reference Literature | Series: I Used to Know That ... Ser.
'Caroline Taggart has carved out a niche for herself in user-friendly, wittily written factual books.' - Yorkshire Post______________________The huge variety of colourful phrases contained in the English language are notoriously varied and, often, notably odd. From blue-blooded (an invention of aristocr ...Show more
I Used to Know That Stuff You Forgot From School by Caroline Taggart
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Category: Reference
This small but mighty collection will trigger your memory with fun facts you learned in school-from adverbs to the Pythagorean Theorem. Witty, engaging, entertaining-a book you'll pick up again and again. Here is a light-hearted and informative reminder of the many things we learned at school that h ...Show more