Combining scholarly excellence with revolutionary theories of communication and learning, this most up-to-date thesaurus of American English updates the traditional thesaurus for the 21st-century user. User-friendly, fast, and efficient, its features include more than one million word choices, 450,000 synonyms, hundreds of recently-coined ...
"14,000 Things To Be Happy About" is the mesmerizing bestseller that celebrates all the little things that make life worth living. Any random page is an instant pick-me-up, and reading it is as irresistible as popcorn. It includes: new babies; a well-crafted chair; having a sense of your own space; a real person answering the phone; peninsulas; ...
With the sensibility of a poet, the outlook of a practical philosopher, the obsession of a list maker, Barbara Ann Kipfer is a writer with a unique approach to life. In 14,000 THINGS TO BE HAPPY ABOUT, she tells us why to live. In THE WISH LIST, she tells us what we should do with our lives. And so far it's worked - her first two books have over a ...
This is a compendium of ideas and suggestions for living lighter, doing good, helping others and making the world a kinder, gentler place, using the wisdom of the East to instruct and inspire.
"The Order of Things" collects and organizes the world into succinct, easy-to-read lists of sets and subsets, such as atmospheric layers, climate zones, Jupiter's satellites, Dante's levels of Hell, the Braille alphabet, U.S. Army and Navy rankings, and even what all those numbers mean at the bottom of bank checks. It's both a quick reference and ...
You know what you want to say but can't think of the word. You can describe what you're thinking but you don't know the name for it. Flip Dictionary solves this common problem! Best-selling author Barbara Ann Kipfer has created a huge reference that offers cues and clue words to lead writers to the exact phrase or specific term they need. It goes ...
A quirky little to-do list for life, a check-off of goals, a wellspring of dreams, thoughts, ideas, things to accomplish, see, do, taste, and experience.
This one-of-a-kind reference offers 10,000 multi-word entries and multi-word synonyms to help writers and students avoid repetitions and make their writing more precise.
Whether they're working on a full-length novel or short magazine article, writers can make their work fresher and more evocative with this thesaurus. It's the essential guide for choosing accurate, specific words--the key to any piece of good writing.
The most comprehensive and accessible crossword puzzle dictionary ever contains thousands of answers in one alphabetical listing and words grouped by the number of letters they contain. Includes a special emphasis on proper names and nouns, an appendix and special entries on areas including geography, Shakespeare, the Bible, and much more.
At the core of Buddha's teachings is the path to happiness. The Buddha himself was known as "The Happy One," so it's no surprise that Buddhism has produced a rich heritage of ways to be happy. This book gathers the best of these ideas and makes them accessible to modern readers. "1325 Buddhist Ways to Be Happy" looks at everyday situations and ...
A pure, unadulterated listing, this captivating compendium whose title says it all offers reading that is as irresistible as eating popcorn. Without plot or rhyme, explanation or footnote, these 14,000 entries conjure up the rich evocative effect of an epic poem, proving that the little things are what make life worth living. Illustrated.
Based on Peter Roget's classic 1859 reference book, this revised, expanded, and updated thesaurus adds three thousand new words, featuring more than 230,000 entries in 1,075 separate categories and including a wide range of synonyms, antonyms, and related words that reflect the latest in English lan
We all know language changes rapidly, but to follow along requires an historical view. Chapman's Dictionary of American Slang, Fourth Edition, provides just what is needed to trace the language of today back to its American roots. And make no mistake--this is a dictionary that is purely American, the place where you can trace the development of ...
Over 1,000 provocative, thought-provoking questions are posed in the latest book by bestselling author, Barbara Ann Kipfer. Tackling philosophical questions in a fun, engaging way, this impulse purchase is bound to provoke hours of conversation with friends, colleagues, and family. Examples include: *What makes something beautiful? *Does ...
The bestselling author of 1,400 Things to Be Happy About turns her attention to children with an interactive workbook that not only celebrates all the little things that makes kids happy, but also allows them to fill in blanks with additional ideas of their own. Full color.
Dr. Barbara Ann Kipfer's "14,000 Things to Be Happy About" sold 1,100,000 copies and started a groundswell of self-awareness, gratitude, and contentment . Her new book offers easy-to-use tools and techniques for helping readers "choose" happiness in their everyday lives. Making lists, mind maps, and memory books can help you set goals, inspire you ...
Anyone curious about how nature and civilization are organized will find the answers to countless questions on classifications, systems, and structures in this illustrated reference.
This small chunky lists daily meditations that can be done while performing routine tasks and activities. There are also mantras and koans to contemplate, a checklist of meditation basics, and tips, and a list of meditation's medical and psychological benefits. The text is drawn from a range of sources and spiritual traditions, and is written in ...
A collection of approximately 1000 quotations describing the passions of our lives. Organized topically, this book is about pleasure, passion, trust, marriage, romance and fidelity.
This thesaurus in dictionary form takes the long-outdated traditional thesaurus and finally updates it for the 21st century user. This fast and efficient reference lists 17,000 main entries in alphabetical order with concise definitions for at-a-glance decision-making. The innovative Concept Index enriches the reader's understanding by grouping ...
In this fascinating and jargon-free guide, lexicographers Kipfer and Steinmetz reconstruct the births of thousands of words, including infantries, poz, mobs, Soho, dinks, choo choos, frankenfoods, LOL, narcs and perps. This word lover's guide to etymology is written in a fun, informal, and accessible style.
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