藻泽与苔沼有何不同？内疚与羞愧如何区分？苏打水与气泡水是一回事吗？从饮食到时尚，从伦理到建筑，成千上万的词语和概念常被我们混为一谈、模糊处理或混淆不清。这本为咬文嚼字者和语言爱好者打造的《微妙差异词典》，邀您探访纤毫毕现的语义世界，以妙趣横生的深度探究与生动插画，助您厘清微妙差别，让思考变得清晰透彻。 "绝妙的构想，精彩的呈现。以后每次喝拿铁，都会想到这本书！ 读起来真是一种享受。" ——语言学家、《剑桥语言百科全书》作者戴维·克里斯特尔 "马克·吐温曾建言：'要用确切的词，而非其隔代表亲。'埃利·伯恩斯坦这部令人愉悦的著作，恰能在需要精微辨义时助您找到最贴切的词汇。它甚至能帮您厘清亲戚关系：堂表亲与隔代表亲究竟有何区别？答案尽在书中！" ——《华尔街日报》语言专栏作家本·齐默 "犹如模糊影像逐渐对焦，英语中精微差异的辨析让我们更清晰地观察世界。埃利...(展开全部)

Swamp or bog? Guilt or shame? Club soda or sparkling water? From food to fashion, ethics to architecture, there are thousands of words and ideas that we tend to collapse, conflate, or confuse. For hairsplitters and language lovers, Dictionary of Fine Distinctions explores the world of the vanishingly small, offering up witty deep dives and lively illustrations to help sharpen t...(展开全部)

Eviatar Zerubavel argues that most of the distinctions we make in our daily lives and in our culture are social constructs. He questions the notion that a clear line can be drawn to separate one time or object or concept from another, and presents witty and provocative counterexamples in defense of ambiguity and anomaly.

Dictionaries are among the most frequently consulted books, yet we know remarkably little about them. Who makes them? Where do they come from? What do they offer? How can we evaluate them? The Dictionary of Lexicography provides answers to all these questions and addresses a wide range of issues: * the traditions of dictionary-making * the different types of dictionaries and ot...(展开全部)

Dictionaries are among the most frequently consulted books, yet we know remarkably little about them. Who makes them? Where do they come from? What do they offer? How can we evaluate them? The Dictionary of Lexicography provides answers to all these questions and addresses a wide range of issues: * the traditions of dictionary-making * the different types of dictionaries and ot...(展开全部)

From the daring imagination of one of China’s greatest living novelists comes a work of startling power and originality–the story of a young man “displaced” to a small village in rural China during the 1960s. Told in the format of a dictionary, with a series of vignettes disguised as entries, A Dictionary of Maqiao is a novel of bold invention–and a fascinating, comic, deepl...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 This book defines over 5,000 terms relating to architectural design, history, and technology. It is the only dictionary that provides concise, accurate definitions illustrated with finely detailed, hand–rendered drawings, each executed in Mr. Ching′s signature style.