Author: David Crystal
Publisher: Overlook TP
Keywords: english, stories
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2005-09-06
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1585677191
ISBN-13: 9781585677191

When and why did ’thou’ disappear from Standard English? Would a Victorian Cockney have said ’observation’ or ’hobservation’? Was Jane Austen making a mistake when she wrote ’Jenny and James are walked to Charmonth this afternoon’? This superbly well-informed - and also wonderfully entertaining - history of the English language answers all these questions, showing how the many strands of English (Standard English, dialect and slang among them) developed to create the richly-varied language of today.

Author: Nigel Lawso
Publisher: Overlook TP
Keywords: warming, global, cool, reason, appeal
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2009-12-29
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 159020252X
ISBN-13: 9781590202524

"Clear, analytical and compelling." -The Economist In this well-informed and hard-hitting response to the scaremongering of the climate alarmists, Nigel Lawson, former Secretary of State for Energy under Margaret Thatcher, argues that it is time for us to take a cool look at global warming. Lawson carefully and succinctly examines all aspects of the global warming issue: the science, the economics, the politics, and the ethics. He concludes that the conventional wisdom on the subject is suspect on a number of grounds, that global warming is not the devastating threat to the planet it is widely

Authors:Clem Labine, Carolyn Flaherty,
Publisher: Overlook TP
Keywords: compendium, journal, house, old
Number of Pages: 452
Published: 2007-12-18
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 1590200160
ISBN-13: 9781590200162

When Clem Labine and his family abandoned Manhattan for an old brownstone in Brooklyn, Labine decided to launch a newsletter about the restoration and maintenance of antique houses. From these humble beginnings, The Old-House Journal grew until it had many thousands of subscribers in all fifty states. Since its first publication in 1980, The Old-House Journal Compendium has been the go-to guide for anyone looking to buy, restore, or maintain an old house. This new edition combines the solid, detailed advice that made The Old House Journal newsletter famous, now in a modern, easy-to-use format.

Authors:Nicole Pope, Hugh Pope,
Publisher: Overlook TP
Keywords: unveiled, turkey
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2004-06-29
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1585675814
ISBN-13: 9781585675814

The definitive book on Turkey’s history, completely revised and updated. Hugh and Nicole Pope have comprehensively updated their definitive history of modern Turkey, Turkey Unveiled. Tracing the rise of the country that transformed itself in the twentieth century from an agrarian society to an affluent, prominent republic, this new edition also includes new photos, maps, and key information on Turkey’s new-found prominent position in current global affairs, as evidenced by its vital role as a moderate Islamic government during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Nicole and Hugh Pope, who sp

Author: Peter Quinn
Publisher: Overlook TP
Keywords: america, irish, search, jimmy, looking
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-02-05
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1590200233
ISBN-13: 9781590200230

In this stunning work chronicling the author’s exploration of his own past--and the lives of many hundreds of thousands of nameless immigrants who struggled alongside his own ancestors--Peter Quinn paints a brilliant new portrait of the Irish-American men and women whose evolving culture and values continue to play such a central role in all of our identities as Americans. In Quinn’s hands, the Irish sterotype of "Paddy" gives way to an image of "Jimmy"--an archetypal Irish-American (a composite of Jimmy Cagney and Jimmy Walker) who comes to life as a fast-talking, tough-yet-refine

Author: Geoff Nicholso
Publisher: Overlook TP
Keywords: london, bleeding
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1998-09-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0879518863
ISBN-13: 9780879518868

The city of London appears as a character in this humorous novel. It is portrayed almost like a human body, displaying signs of renewal and decay, with a clogged digestive tract, bottlenecks and congestion. It is a city of obsessives, of insouciant sadists, of innocents. It is bleeding London.

Author: Joseph Roth
Publisher: Overlook TP
Keywords: roth, joseph, works, tomb, emperor
Number of Pages: 157
Published: 2002-09-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1585673277
ISBN-13: 9781585673278

The Emperor’s Tomb is a nostalgic, haunting elegy for the end of youth and the last days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. A continuation of the saga of the von Trotta family from The Radetzky March, it is both a powerful and moving look at a decaying society and its journey through the War and its devastating aftermath, and the story of the erosion of one man’s desperate faith in the virtues of a simple life. AUTHORBIO: Joseph Roth was born in 1894 in a small Galician town on the eastern borders of the Hapsburg Empire. After serving in the Austro-Hungarian army from 1916 to 1918, he