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500 Beautiful Words You Should Know by Caroline Taggart
Category: Reference
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
Category: Non-Fiction
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 Classical Education: The Stuff You Wish You'd Been Taught at School by Caroline Taggart
Category: Non-Fiction
How many times have you wished that you'd been taught Latin at school? Or that your history stretched all the way back to Greek and Roman myths and legends? 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
A to Z Great Modern Writers by Caroline Taggart
Category: Non-Fiction | 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
All That Glisters... And Other Quotations You Should Know by Caroline Taggart
Category: Reference
Quotations - or snippets from them - are commonly used in everyday speech, most often without the speaker knowing where they came from. From words of comfort to advice for the lovelorn, you can bet that someone, somewhere has come up with phraseology that perfectly sums up whatever situation you find yo ...Show more
An Apple a Day...: Old-Fashioned Proverbs and Why They Still Work by Caroline Taggart
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
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
As Right as Rain: The Meaning and Origins of Popular Expressions by Caroline Taggart
Category: Non-Fiction
Would you be down in the dumps if, when asked the definition of certain phrases, it was all Greek to you? Let's not beat about the bush: the English language is littered with linguistic quirks, which, out of context, seem completely peculiar. If you can't quite cut the mustard, this book will explain ho ...Show more
Back to Basics: The Education You Wish You'd Had by Caroline Taggart
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
Back to Basics: The Education You Wish You'd Had by Caroline Taggart
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
Classical Education by Caroline Taggart
Category: Education | 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