Authors:J. A. Winchester, J. A. Winchester, Tim C. Pharaoh, J
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Keywords: society, special, publication, geological, europe, amalgamation, central, palaeozoic
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2003-05-01
List price: $180.00
ISBN-10: 1862391181
ISBN-13: 9781862391185

Palaeozoic Amalgamation of Central Europe summarizes recent research designed to clarify the timing, geometry and processes by which discrete terranes of Central Europe became amalgamated during the Palaeozoic Era. The area studied extends from the southern North Sea to Central Poland along the Trans-European Suture Zone, covering much of Germany, Denmark, Belgium, the Czech Republic and Poland. The 15 papers within the volume are divided into five sections: biostratigraphic/provenance evidence; isotopic constraints; petrological and geochemical evidence; structural evolution; seismic traverse

Author: Jim Winchester
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing
Keywords: world, aircraft, breakers, record
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2006-07-30
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0836869052
ISBN-13: 9780836869057

Author: Jim Winchester
Publisher: Thunder Bay Press
Keywords: military, superfighters, airliners, civilian, modern, aircraft, encyclopedia
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2006-07-29
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1592236286
ISBN-13: 9781592236282

Man’s fascination with flight took off in 1903 when the Wright Flyer flew for a breathtaking 12 seconds. Since then, aircraft have become much more sophisticated. Now you can discover more than 300 of the most important airplanes of the last 30 years in The Encyclopedia of Modern Aircraft.• This book details some of the finest civil and military aircraft in service today, beginning with classic 1960s commercial airliners like the Boeing 747 through the latest military wonder planes like the F-22 Raptors.• Unique specification tables provide comprehensive information on dimensions, po

Author: Simon Winchester
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: english, dictionary, oxford, story, everything, meaning
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2003-10-02
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0198607024
ISBN-13: 9780198607021

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 wonderfully unwieldy’--and pays homage to the great dictionary makers, from ’the irredeemably famous’ Samuel Johnson to the ’short, pale, smug and boastful’ schoolmaster from New Hartford, Noah Webster

Author: Simon Winchester
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: english, dictionary, oxford, story, everything, meaning
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2004-10-14
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 019517500X
ISBN-13: 9780195175004

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 wonderfully unwieldy"--and pays homage to the great dictionary makers, from "the irredeemably famous" Samuel Johnson to the "short, pale, smug and boastful" schoolmaster from New Hartford, Noah Webster. He then turns his unmatched talent

Author: Simon Winchester
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: oxford, english, dictionary, making, insanity, madman, tale, murder, professor
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-07-01
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0060839783
ISBN-13: 9780060839789

When the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary put out a call during the late 19th century pleading for "men of letters" to provide help with their mammoth undertaking, hundreds of responses came forth. Some helpers, like Dr. W.C. Minor, provided literally thousands of entries to the editors. But Minor, an American expatriate in England and a Civil War veteran, was actually a certified lunatic who turned in his dictionary entries from the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. Simon Winchester has produced a mesmerizing coda to the deeply troubled Minor’s life, a life that in one sense be

Author: Simon Winchester
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: birth, modern, geology, smith, william, changed, world, map
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2002-08-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0060931809
ISBN-13: 9780060931803

In 1793, a canal digger named William Smith made a startling discovery. He found that by tracing the placement of fossils, which he uncovered in his excavations, one could follow layers of rocks as they dipped and rose and fell -- clear across England and, indeed, clear across the world -- making it possible, for the first time ever, to draw a chart of the hidden underside of the earth. Determined to expose what he realized was the landscape’s secret fourth dimension, Smith spent twenty-two years piecing together the fragments of this unseen universe to create an epochal and remarkably b