Can you drink a glass of balderdash? What do you call the part of a dog’s back it can’t scratch? And if, serendipitously, you find yourself in Serendip, then where exactly are you? The answers to all of these questions—and a great many more—can be found in the pages of the Oxford English Dictionary, the definitive record of the English language. And there is no better guide to ...(展开全部)

From the best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa comes a truly wonderful celebration of the English language and of its unrivaled treasure house, the Oxford English Dictionary. Writing with marvelous brio, Winchester first serves up a lightning history of the English language--"so vast, so sprawling, so wonderfull...(展开全部)

西蒙•温切斯特（Simon Winchester，中文名文思淼），英国著名作家、记者。1944年生，1966年牛津大学地质系毕业后，担任《卫报》（Guardian）及《星期日泰晤士报》（Sunday Times）的海外特派员。为《纽约时报》、《史密森学会月刊》（Smithsonian）、《观察家》（Spectator）、《国家地理杂志》、BBC等媒体撰稿。主要作品有：《OED的故事》（The Meaning of Everything）、《世界边缘的裂缝》（A Crack in the Edge of the World）、《喀拉喀托火山爆发记》（Krakatoa）、《改变世界的地图》（The Map That Changed the World），以及《世界中央的河流》（The River at the Center of the World）、《...(展开全部)

With the assistance of: Friedrichsen, G. W. S.; Unknown function: Burchfield, R. W.

With the assistance of: Friedrichsen, G. W. S.; Unknown function: Burchfield, R. W.

This revised edition of the bestselling Pocket Oxford Dictionary provides comprehensive coverage of today's English. The layout is clear and easy to use and definitions are presented in accessible English, with clearly divided senses and expanded etymologies. Featuring usage notes and example sentences which give guidance on correct English, this is the ideal dictionary for eve...(展开全部)

The Alchemy Of The Heavens offers an exciting and accessible survey of what we know about our galaxy. The home of the earth, the sun, and countless other stars, the Milky Way has long been an object of human fascintation, but it's been in the last forty years that astromoners and astrophysicists have made the most startling discoveries about our galaxy. Author Ken Croswell re...(展开全部)

The Alchemy Of The Heavens offers an exciting and accessible survey of what we know about our galaxy. The home of the earth, the sun, and countless other stars, the Milky Way has long been an object of human fascintation, but it's been in the last forty years that astromoners and astrophysicists have made the most startling discoveries about our galaxy. Author Ken Croswell re...(展开全部)