Newly updated, the nation's most popular collegiate dictionary adds many new words to its pages, including blog, proteomics, SARS, Amber Alert, and WiFi as well as new biographical data on Donald Rumsfeld, Billy Collins, and Serena Williams, among others, and is accompanied by a CD-ROM containing the complete text of the dictionary and a thesaurus. The newly updated American Heritage College Dictionary presents the very best that a college dictionary...

Bill Bryson, bestselling author of The Mother Tongue, now celebrates its magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western hamlet with neither woods nor holly came to be known as Hollywood . . . and exactly why Mr. Yankee Doodle called his be feathered cap "Macaroni."

Teaches English as a second language to Vietnamese speakers through the use of pictures dealing with everyday topics such as the body, post office, law, travel, and family.

Did you know that your answers to just a handful of questions can predict the zip code of where you grew up? In 2013, Josh Katz accumulated and visually mapped over 350,000 unique survey responses to questions about word choice and pronunciation throughout America. His dialect quiz quickly became the most viewed webpage in the history of the New York Times. In Speaking American, Katz offers a visual atlas of the American vernacular -- who says what,...

A dictionary for grades 3 through 8 including definitions for more than 44,000 words identifying parts of speech and giving examples of usage.