Eureka!: What Archimedes Really Meant and 80 Other Key Ideas Explained

The bestselling author of Brush Up Your Shakespeare offers a fun and educational guide to the many obscure and unusual terms that writers often use, including "chaos theory, " "deconstruction, " "collective unconscious, " and "tabula rasa." Annotated reading lists and a supplementary list of "Pretty Good Thoughts" are also included. 40 illustrations.