An excellent, up-to-date dictionary specially designed for English learners. This new edition contains the book and a CD-Rom to use the dictionary straight from your computer! Type the word or expression and you'll get the definition in a snap, with lots of examples and uses. The CD includes:

• the full dictionary
• the full contents of the Longman Activator
• many interactive exercises

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Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

The most informative and complete dictionary for English learners. Its clear and simple layout helps students to find what they need in an easy and fast way. It also includes notes about grammar usage, spelling and cultural notes.
New Edition

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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language

An exploration of the history, structure, and use of the English language that discusses its Anglo-Saxon origins and subsequent evolution, its use in literature, and its structural features, and addresses grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary. Crystal allows language to speak for itself by using quotes, photos, newspaper clippings, poems, ads, cartoons, and many other types of illustrative material that complements his narrative. Highly visual with striking color, paneled, and boxed features.

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Roget's International Thesaurus

A classic reference book that has been used by millions all over the world, Roget's International Thesaurus is the product of more than a century and a half of continuous expansion, reorganization, and improvement. Today, this book is not only the most time-tested and bestselling thesaurus ever, but, newly revised, it is also the most up-to-date and comprehensive reflection of the English language as it is currently used.

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Longman Dictionary of American English with Thesaurus and CD-ROM

The world's best-selling learner dictionary of American English has been completely revised and updated! Still the only intermediate-level dictionary completely based on authentic spoken and written English, the Longman Dictionary of American English now offers even more outstanding features, including Thesaurus Boxes and a full-color picture dictionary.

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The Dictionary of Cliches

Cliches, the "coin(s) so battered by use as to be defaced," are anathema to Partridge. He says "their ubiquity is remarkable and rather frightening," and while he likens proverbs to expressions of wisdom, he says cliches are instances of "inanition." And so, from "abject apology" to "your guess is as good as mine," he lists, explains, and categorizes over 2000 trite and tired phrases to avoid--"at all costs."

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Dictionary of Word Origins

Learn about the hidden and often surprising histories of and connections between English words and their non-English ancestors. Perhaps the best inexpensive etymological dictionary available today.

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Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins

Anyone interested in the English language will be fascinated by -and then obsessed with- this dictionary that reads like an erudite gossip column for the city of words. In addition to being an indispensable reference volume, this book could well be picked up at random and read with interest and delight.

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The Merriam-Webster New Book of Word Histories

A gold mine of fascinating word histories! This engaging and informative book reveals the origins of 1,500 words from "abigail" to "zombie" tracing in terms from the mythology of ancient Greece to the comic strips of the 20th century. This delightful volume will help you discover how a skimpy bathing suit came to be called a "bikini" and what "serendipity" has to do with Horace Walpole.

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What's In A Word? Fascinating Stories Of More Than 350 Everyday Words And Phrases

Here is a fascinating and humorous encyclopedia of more than 350 words and phrases, and how they have taken on new meanings over time. It is an informative reference book for the whole family. What's in a Word? is a sequel to Garrison's popular Why You Say It.

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Word Histories and Mysteries: From Abracadabra to Zeus

Did you know that cats are related etymologically to caterpillars? Or that Thomas Edison played a key role in popularizing the use of the greeting "Hello"? Or that muscles were originally mice, since a flexed biceps looks like a little rodent scurrying under the skin?

Word Histories and Mysteries provides a panoramic view of the unique richness of English, uncovering the origins of five hundred everyday words whose surprising and often amusing stories offer insights into the history of humankind.

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