Word by Word : The Secret Life of Dictionaries Condition:Well Read Excalibur and the new Captain

Excalibur and the new Captain Britain must face the truth about her brother and choose their path forward

Attention is paid to the instruction of pronunciation

rotting away in a high-security prison for a murder he did not commit

The chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Starbucks tells how he and his team built a small Seattle company into a nationwide business phenomenon through such anti-corporate principles as community-mindedness and employee-ownership

The infamous and controversial 'teleological suspension of the ethical' challenged the contemporary views of Hegel's universal moral system

Word by Word : The Secret Life of Dictionaries Condition:Well Read Excalibur and the new CaptainBrimming with intelligence and personality, a vastly entertaining account of how dictionaries are made a must read for word mavens. While most of us might take dictionaries for granted, the process of writing them is in fact as lively and dynamic as language itself. With sharp wit and irreverence, Kory Stamper cracks open the complex, obsessive world of lexicography from the agonizing decisions about what and how to define, to the knotty questions of