Best of
Words

2005

The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary


Merriam-Webster - 2005
    Ideal for recreational and school play. More than 100,000 playable two- to eight-letter words including 4,000 new entries. Includes British variant spelling for game players in Canada. Endorsed by the National SCRABBLE Association.

A Continual Feast: Words of Comfort and Celebration, Collected by Father Tim


Jan Karon - 2005
    Written in his own hand or typed on his idiosyncratic Royal typewriter, A Continual Feast contains the lively ideas, common sense, profound wisdom, and plain good humor he has gleaned from the likes of C. S. Lewis, Emily Dickinson, William Blake, Helen Keller, G. K. Chesterton, and Will Rogers, to name just a few. Together with its successful companion volume, Patches of Godlight, Father Tim’s latest quote journal is sure proof of the truth of an entry from Lord Byron: "A small drop of ink produces that which makes thousands think."

This Is a Poem That Heals Fish


Jean-Pierre Siméon - 2005
    "Exuding magic and unbridled creativity on every page, this is a book with the potential to heal more than just fish."—Publishers Weekly"An enchantingly abstract invitation to ponder poetry."—Kirkus Reviews"A great book for any age! At this very moment, it feels like one of the best books I've ever bought!"—A Year of Reading blog

30 Days to Taming Your Tongue


Deborah Smith Pegues - 2005
    This is why she wrote the popular 30 Days to Taming Your Tongue (850,000 copies sold). Now in trade size, Pegues's 30-day devotional will help each reader not only tame their tongue but make it productive rather than destructive.With humor and a bit of refreshing sass, Deborah devotes chapters to learning how to overcome theRetaliating TongueKnow-It-All TongueBelittling TongueHasty TongueGossiping Tongue25 More!Short stories, anecdotes, soul-searching questions, and scripturally based personal affirmations combine to make each applicable and life changing.Rerelease in trade edition

Curious George's Big Book of Curiosity


H.A. Rey - 2005
    Each page features a different concept: counting, shapes, opposites, emotions, family, jobs, homes, transportation and lots of new words! From morning to night, city to country, home to town and back again, little readers can follow George as they learn more about their own worlds. Just the right book for toddlers learning to talk to help build their vocabulary.

Key Words for Fluency Intermediate


George Woolard - 2005
    It emphasizes common words that occur in many different contexts and identifies over 150 nouns essential for fluency.

Exchanges of Earth & Sky


Jack Collom - 2005
    EXCHANGES OF EARTH & SKY, a collage-rich paean to birds in all their experimental flights, is poet Jack Collom's 21st book of poetry (all published by small presses). Collom lives in Boulder and teaches at Naropa University. He has twice been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. "Birds] foretell the future, their perspective/ is free and unique and quick./ Just like Jack Collom in this/ Field Guide to Birds for Poets"--Joanne Kyger. "Elegant and contrary. The ecology of a mind in flight"--Michael Rothenberg.Book design: Brad Miskell

So Far, So Goude (Classics)


Jean-Paul Goude - 2005
    It is, in fact, an artist’s autobiography, the life told through the work, since Goude has never been able or willing to separate his personal growth and personal desires from his art. Beginning with the strongest influences of his early years, it moves with unusual honesty and a good deal of humour through his teenage love of dance (his mother was a Broadway dancer), sport and jazz; his youthful hangouts in the sixties; his years at art school and his discovery of drawing as a means of seduction; his time at Esquire; his revolutionary work with Grace Jones for Jungle Fever; his videos for MTV and for Azzedine Alaïa; his advertising work for Lee Cooper, Chanel, Cacharel; his involvement with the Bicentennial Parade; his wife and family... 360 Pages. About the Author Selected and arranged by Jean-Paul Goude himself, written by Goude and Patrick Mauriès, So Far So Goude is the definitive book on the work of an extraordinarily innovative, talented and unorthodox man. With more than 350 illustrations in full color, it will be endlessly fascinating to all those interested in fashion illustration, photography, and all avenues of commercial design and advertising. Patrick Mauriès has written extensively on twentieth-century design and fashion. His previous books include Jewelry by Chanel, Fornasetti: Designer of Dreams, Christian Lacroix: The Diary of a Collection and, at Assouline, Jean Cocteau.

The Bibliophile's Dictionary


Miles Westley - 2005
    Each word has a definition, a phonetic pronunciation, and an example of how the word is used in literature.Enhance your own vocabulary by learning from the great minds of writers.

Dark Matters: An Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Philip Pullman's Dark Material's Trilogy


Lance Parkin - 2005
    This unofficial guide gives a breif biography of Pullman himself,an explanation of the trilogy's set-up and synopses of the three books and the follow up novella Lyra's Oxford.This is followed by a gazetteer,anA-Z guide to the people,places and items in these great books.Including notes on the publication history and availability of the books and their foreign editions,Pullmania then concludes with information on thetalking books,the radio plays,the National Theatre production and the current status of the films,making it the indispensable guide to Lyra's and Will's worlds.

Autobiography of an Artist: Charles R. Knight (Introductions by Ray Bradbury & Ray Harryhausen)


Charles R. Knight - 2005
    The autobiographical pieces feature illustrations by Mark Schultz (Xenozoic Tales). To round out the volume, it closes with memories from his granddaughter Rhoda Knight Kalt and appreciations from prominent names in the arts and sciences, from Ray Bradbury to Ian Tattersall. Though Knight once said "No one interests me less than Charles Knight," find out why artists such as Frank Frazetta, Mark Hallett, Doug Henderson, Joe Kubert, Al Williamson, and Bernie Wrightson have said that no one interests them more!