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Category:  Reference Books (Sorted by Author's last name)


The Devil's Dictionary [The Cynic's Word Book] (1911) - Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (6/24/1842 -1914?)    (Grade:A)

A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926 (Second Edition, 1965)) - H. W. Fowler (1858-1933)    (Grade:A+)

We Interrupt This Broadcast : The Events That Stopped Our Lives...from the Hindenburg Explosion to the Virginia Tech Shooting (2008) - Joe Garner (-)    (Grade:B-)

Know It All: The Little Book of Essential Knowledge (2008) - Elizabeth King Humphrey (-)    (Grade:B+)

Know It All: The Little Book of Essential Knowledge (2008) - Elizabeth King Humphrey (-)    (Grade:B+)

Far from the Madding Gerund and Other Dispatches from Language Log (2006) - Mark Liberman (-)   - Geoffrey K. Pullum (-)    (Grade:B)

Microsoft Encarta College Dictionary : The First Dictionary for the Internet Age (2001) - Anne Soukhanov (-)    (Grade:C)

The Elements of Style (1959) - William Strunk Jr. (1869-1946)    (Grade:A+)

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (1998) - Simon Winchester (-)    (Grade:B+)