Reference  New titles added: 21 Nov 2008

£2 off when you spend £20 or more online today!

Sale Clearance		View by: featured books, new arrivals, title, author, sale, bargains
Browse | Reference |

	Page: 1 2   »	152540 per page

		The Crossword Obsession
		The History and Lore of the World's Favourite Pastime		Reference
		Coral Amende
		Berkley 2001 369 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0425186822
		Published Price $14.00		Sale Price £2.99
	Since December 21, 1913, when the first crossword appeared in New York's Sunday World, crosswords have been as popular in the United States as they are here. As well as tracing the history of crosswords from 19th century forebears to present-day puzzles, this book gives an American perspective on compiling and solving crosswords and related word games, with interviews with constructors and competition winners, a guide to online crossword resources and a selection of crosswords.
Top of Page

		Little Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
		Third edition		Reference
		Susan Ratcliffe (Edited by)
		Oxford University Press 2005 480 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198609981
		Published Price £9.99		Sale Price £2.99
	Unlike its big sibling, this little dictionary of 4,000 or so quotations is arranged alphabetically by themes, from Absence to Youth, and includes subjects such as Acting ('Just say the lines and don't trip over the furniture' - Noel Coward), Drugs, Football, Fate and Forgiveness ('To err is human; to forgive, divine' - Alexander Pope). With an index of authors.
Top of Page

		Webster's Concise Edition Spanish-English, English-Spanish Dictionary
				Reference
		Geddes & Grosset 2003 384 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1842052527
		Published Price		Sale Price £2.99
	A quick, easy and up-to-date reference for students and business people, this concise and clearly laid-out Spanish-English and English-Spanish dictionary contains over 36,000 words and translations.
Top of Page

		RAC Town and City Maps of Britain
				Reference
		Collins 2004 176 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 0007192045 296x211mm
		Published Price £9.99		Sale Price £2.99
	Beginning with a 30-page section of road maps (8.7 miles to 1 inch//5.5 km to 1 cm) covering the whole of England, Wales and Scotland, this motorist's atlas contains larger scale urban maps and over 60 detailed town and city centre maps. There are also special motorway maps for Birmingham, Greater London and Greater Manchester. The order of maps is geographical, starting in the south and progressing northwards. Plus indexes, distance chart, motorway services information and drivers' websites.
Top of Page

		The Museum of Hoaxes
				Reference
		Alex Boese
		Dutton 2002 272 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0525946780
		Published Price $19.95		Sale Price £4.99
	The Swiss spaghetti harvest, fur-covered fish, mermaids and bonsai kittens - just a few of the pranks, stunts and deceptions that have amazed and amused the public. This remarkable collection of hoaxes, from the Middle Ages to the present, includes the Great Chess Automaton of 1769, the Cardiff Giant, crop circles and Snowball the Monster Cat, together with hoaxery by Edgar Allan Poe, PT Barnum and Mark Twain and a 'test your gullibility' quiz.
Top of Page

		Collins Internet-Linked Dictionary of Anagrams
				Reference
		Justin Crozier; Cormac McKeown (Edited by)
		HarperCollins 2005 904 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0007194676
		Published Price £9.99		Sale Price £1.99
	For word games enthusiasts in a hurry - or stumped - Collins provide the ideal reference: a dictionary of 100,000 anagrams, arranged by length (4 to 15 letters) and listed in alphabetical order of their component letters, with the solution/s alongside. The Dictionary is based on Collins's extensive Word Games list, which includes places, people and phrases. Plus an introduction to cryptic crosswords and a listing of internet resources for crosswords and word games.
Top of Page

		Murray's Daily Companion
		A Literary and Historical Almanac of Readings and Anniversaries		Reference
		Roger Hudson (Edited by)
		John Murray 2005 434 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0719567440
		Published Price £16.99		Sale Price £4.99
	If you're ever curious about what people may have been up to, or thinking , or writing to each other on a particular day in an earlier century, Murray's Daily Companion offers 'one set of answers among a myriad available'. His selection is drawn from diaries, letters, eye-witness accounts, speeches, sermons - even a suicide note - and ranges over time from an account of Becket's murder in 1170 (29 December) to a photographers description of his experience at the World Trade Centre, 11 September 2001. Embossed cover, no jacket.
Top of Page

		Celebrate!
		A Look at Calendars and the Way We Celebrate		Reference
		Margo Westrheim
		One World 1999 134 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 185168199X
		Published Price £9.99		Sale Price £2.99
	Celebrations such as 'stretching the chord', Yom Kippur or the Pueblo ceremony, Kachina, whether ancient or modern, religious or secular, are intimately connected with our measurement of the passage of time. This book provides a unique exploration of the ways our ancient ancestors chose to measure and organize time and, with the aid of charts and tables, it describes the major religious festivals, holy days and anniversaries and how they are celebrated.
Top of Page

		Collins Dictionary of Botany
				Reference
		Jill Bailey
		Collins 2006 504 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0007212208
		Published Price £9.99		Sale Price £1.99
	A substantial revision of the former Penguin Dictionary of Plant Sciences, this dictionary contains some 6,000 entries, encompassing all the major fields of pure and applied plant scient, including taxonomy, anatomy and morphology, physiology, biochemistry, cell biology, plant pathology, genetics, evolution and ecology. It also covers some aspects of agricultural botany, horticulture and microbiology. The dictionary is particularly suitable for A Level and undergraduate students of plant science and biology, and includes a listing of relevant internet links.
Top of Page

		Collins Dictionary of Astronomy
				Reference
		John Daintith; William Gould
		Collins 2006 528 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0007220928
		Published Price £9.99		Sale Price £1.99
	With over 3,500 entries covering the theory, practice and applications of astronomy, this dictionary is ideal for both A Level and undergraduate students and amateur astronomers. It explains the theories and principles of astronomy, deals with all the major astronomical objects, and describes the major telescopes, together with their instrumentation and observational techniques. Several appendices provide astronomical data and there is a list of useful internet sites.
Top of Page

		Poker
		Bets, Bluffs and Bad Beats		Reference
		A Alvarez
		Chronicle 2004 128 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 081184627X 240x222mm
		Published Price $18.95		Sale Price £2.99
	In this eclectic history of the game, poker writer and enthusiast A Alvarez examines the rules and techniques, language and subculture, as well as the remarkable players and legendary contests that have made poker the world's most popular card game. Illustrated with poker-inspired art, advertisements and cinema-stills, it provides an insider's look at the art of bluff, counter-bluff and 'never giving a sucker an even break'.
Top of Page

		Dewdroppers, Waldos and Slackers
		A Decade-by-Decade Guide to the Vanishing Vocabulary of the 20th Century		Reference
		Rosemarie Ostler
		Oxford University Press 2005 240 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 0195182545
		Published Price $14.95		Sale Price £2.99
	Thousands of words and expressions entered American English during the 20th century, most of them fading away in the face of new trends. This book provides a decade-by-decade guide to these passing vogues, from the first years of the century (with their movie palaces, trackless trolleys and automobubbles) to the nineties (which brought dress-down Friday, the mother of all battles and the millennium bug).
Top of Page

		How to Play Poker and Win
				Reference
		Brian McNally
		Channel 4 2000 157 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 0752272195
		Published Price £7.99		Sale Price £2.99
	Produced by the team who made Late Night Poker for Channel 4 television, this is a detailed guide for both novices and more experienced players. Covering the history of the game, the rules and main variants, it also contains advice on how to read your opponent and playing etiquette and a glossary of poker terms.
Top of Page

		Russian-English Dictionary of Contemporary Slang
		A Guide to the Living Language of Today by 'UFO' (Valery Nikolski)		Reference
		Valery Nikolski
		Bramcote 1997 142 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1900405032
		Published Price £11.95		Sale Price £2.99
	Featuring language used by sub-cultures including hippie, punk, gang and criminal, this dictionary of slang bridges colloquial speech and the language of the modern novel and magazine.
Top of Page

		History in Quotations
				Reference
		MJ Cohen; John Major
		Cassel 2004 1008 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0304353876
		Published Price		Sale Price £3.99
	From lines on the creation written in Mesopotamia in the first millennium BCE, to Joseph Stiglitz on globalization in 2003, the 9,000 quotations in this collection have been chosen as 'words that shed light on what are generally accepted to be the important events, ideas, issues and personalities of world history'. Arranged in 90 sections covering 5,000 years, and with notes on the author and circumstances of each, the quotations offer what Simon Schama in his preface describes as 'an epic parade of characters and utterances'. Paperback bookclub reprint. Slightly scruffy condition.
Top of Page

	1 of 2 pages    Next    >| Page: 1 2

Search	Show all Reference books	Top of Page
	Browse all Sale items
Reference Books	© Sandpiper Books Ltd 2001-2008	Reference Books