Use words w/more precise context to deliver a more powerful message.

Words That Make a Difference: And How to Use Them in a Masterly Way

Reference

Greenman, Robert

Words, Language & Grammar

Levenger Pr

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language

This dictionary was published in 1775 and was used by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and others of the period. This is a faithful adoption of the original. Three indexes have been added: words found in Shakespeare and other literary works and an index of piquant terms.

Johnson, Samuel

Lynch, Jack

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

The perfect antidote to his 'Black Dog', a depression that blighted his working life, Churchill took to painting with gusto. Picking up a paintbrush for the first time at the age of forty, Winston Churchill found in painting a passion that was to remain his constant companion. This glorious essay exudes his compulsion for a hobby that allowed him peace during his dark days, and richly rewarded a nation with a treasure trove of work.

Painting As a Pastime

Arts & Photography

Churchill, Winston, Sir

History & Criticism

How do you remember what chiasmus means? Or how to use manque correctly? Did you know that tiffany was a word before it was a jewelry story? In Rare Words, father-daughter authors and lexicographic team Jan and Hallie Leighton offer concise definitions, engaging etymologies, and lighthearted mnemonics to help you welcome some of the language's more uncommon but useful words into your vocabulary.

Rare Words and Ways to Master Their Meanings: 500 Arcane but Useful Words for Language Lovers

Leighton, Jan

Leighton, Hallie

"...a way to bring readers an essence of Tocqueville's Democracy, and an essence of America."

A Fortnight in the Wilderness

History

Tocqueville, Alexis De

Americas

Boston

Lodge, Henry Cabot

This short story was written by Sir Winston Churchill in 1947 and reprinted with permission of Churchill College, Cambridge. Originally entitled. "Private Article," it was first published in 1966. The story begins as Sir Winston is making a copy of a portrait of his father Lord Randolph who died when Sir Winston was 20 years old.

The Dream

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Sir Winston Churchill

Psychology & Counseling

On January 20, 1961, John F. Kennedy delivered an inaugural address that became one of the last great oratories of the twentieth century. Our exclusive book, praised by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, takes you behind the scenes to how the ideas became word, and the words became immortal. Full-color facsimiles of backs of envelopes, telegrams, corrected typed drafts (on onionskin paper) and JFK's handwritten version are so real, they're like touching history. You get to see what the world never saw: how JFK edited himself as he delivered his address, including his iconic "Ask not" sentence. On the DVD, you'll experience what the nation did 50 years ago, watching the Inaugural Address and the Inaugural Parade. What a powerful gift for those who lived this history, or have studied it, or simply want to commemorate the 50th year of some of the defining words of the century..

John F. Kennedy: The Making of His Inaugural Address

Journey to a land found only in memory. Though we can readily travel to China today, it remains a country of hidden histories. How much more might have been lost had not the Scottish explorer John Thomson embarked on a photographic journey of China in the late 1800s. His mesmerizing photographs and stories are all the more remarkable given his subjects' deeply held superstitions about cameras.  The Inmost Shrine  is a digitally remastered facsimile of Thomson's work, lovingly produced with the help of the George Eastman House museum. For this collector's edition, many of Thomson's portraits are enlarged for the first time, uncovering extraordinary detail heretofore hidden. The text is also enhanced with rich gold coloring and bound in a brilliant Chinese-red linen with gold foil. This is a grandly sized, coffee-table book of history—the better to savor, as the modern-day explorer Michael Meyer says in his new foreword, this "glimpse of the Great Middle Kingdom."   Only from Levenger.

Inmost Shrine: A Photographic Odyssey of China, 1873

Thomson, John

Photography & Video

He was known as the man who went to the woods, but Thoreau also journeyed to a more distant place where he could ";stand and put all America behind him."; The land was Cape Cod, the experience was the sea, and he recounts his trip to infinity in that engaging Waldenesque way. Thoreau knew Champlain had been one of the first to map the Cape, and he had annotated copies of two Champlain maps from the 1600s. Until recently, they were lost to history. Thanks to the Library of Congress, they are reproduced in this book with Thoreau's own notes and an account of their discovery. They create a new window into the early days of America and a brand new way to read Thoreau. For lovers of the sea and of the Cape, of maps and of America's history, this is a gift they'll treasure.

Thoreau on Cape Cod: His Journeys and the Lost Maps

Thoreau, Henry David`

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