Richard Lederer's Books

The Miracle of Language

By: Richard Lederer

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Master verbalist Richard Lederer, America's "Wizard of Idiom" (Denver Post), presents a love letter to the most glorious of human achievements... Welcome to Richard Lederer's beguiling celebration of language -- of our ability to utter, write, and receive words. No purists need stop here. Mr. Lederer is no linguistic sheriff organizing posses to hunt down and string up language offenders. Instead, join him "In Praise of English," and discover why the tongue described in Shakespeare's day as "of small reatch" has become the most widely spoken language in history: English never rejects a word because of race, creed, or national origin. Did you know that jukebox comes from Gullah and canoe from Haitian Creole? Many of our greatest writers have invented words and bequeathed new expressions to our eveyday conversations. Can you imagine making up almost ten percent of our written vocabulary? Scholars now know that William Shakespeare did just that! He also points out the pitfalls and pratfalls of English. If a man mans a station, what does a woman do? In the "The Department of Redundancy Department," "Is English Prejudiced?" and other essays, Richard Lederer urges us not to abandon that which makes us human: the capacity to distinguish, discriminate, compare, and evaluate.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439139407

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9781439139400

Word Wizard

Super Bloopers, Rich Reflections, and Other Acts of Word Magic

By: Richard Lederer

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Word Wizard

Super Bloopers, Rich Reflections, and Other Acts of Word Magic

By: Richard Lederer

After a multi-decade career of stimulating readers to appreciate and laugh at the glories and oddities of our English language, beloved language maven Richard Lederer has collected his very best and most popular pieces in Word Wizard. In this career-capping anthology the reader will find essays that enlighten, inspire, and tickle the funny bone. From his hilarious bloopers to his hymns of praise to the English language, these essays are the brightest gems of a storied career. Word Wizard includes a new introduction, prefaces for each essay, sprightly verse, and material never before published in Leader's language books. With classic chapters such as "The World According to Student Bloopers," "English Is a Crazy Language," and "The Case for Short Words," and shiny new essays such as "The Way We Word" and "Add Wealth to Your Vocabulary," Word Wizard is sure to delight language lovers and Lederer fans everywhere.

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St. Martin's Griffin

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1429906456

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9781429906456

A Man of My Words

Reflections on the English Language

By: Richard Lederer

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A Man of My Words

Reflections on the English Language

By: Richard Lederer

A new collection of essays on the joys and curiosities of the English language, from renowned word expert Richard Lederer.

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Macmillan

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0312317867

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9780312317867

Crazy English

By: Richard Lederer

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Crazy English

By: Richard Lederer

In what other language, asks Lederer, do people drive on a parkway and park in a driveway, and your nose can run and your feet can smell? In CRAZY ENGLISH, Lederer frolics through the logic-boggling byways of our language, discovering the names for phobias you didn't know you could have, the longest words in our dictionaries, and the shortest sentence containing every letter in the alphabet. You'll take a bird's-eye view of our beastly language, feast on a banquet of mushrooming food metaphors, and meet the self-reflecting Doctor Rotcod, destined to speak only in palindromes.

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Simon and Schuster

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143913894X

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9781439138946

The Bride of Anguished English

A Bonanza of Bloopers, Blunders, Botches, and Boo-Boos

By: Richard Lederer

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The Bride of Anguished English

A Bonanza of Bloopers, Blunders, Botches, and Boo-Boos

By: Richard Lederer

For years wordsmith and punster Richard Lederer has charmed and delighted fans with his bestselling "Anguished English" series. In his funniest book yet, readers will again cherish the author's latest chronicle of the goofs and gaffes and fluffs and flubs of our anguished language. And the best part? Everything in here actually occurred! Nothing has been made up! Bloopers from foreign restaurants include: * "Our wines leave you nothing to hope for." * "As for the tripe served here, you will be singing its praises to your grandchildren on your deathbed." Excerpts from students' twisted history papers include: * "World War I made the people so sad that it brought on the Great Depression." * "America was founded by four fathers. Delegates from the original 13 states formed the Contented Congress. Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Decoration of Independence, which says that all men are cremated equal and are well endowed by their creator." Hilarious illustrations by Jim McLean make The Bride of Anguished English the perfect book for anyone who loves English with all its blunders and bloopers and quips and quirks.

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1429906391

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9781429906395

Richard Lederer's Classic Literary Trivia

From Mythology, Shakespeare, and the Bible

By: Richard Lederer

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Richard Lederer's Classic Literary Trivia

From Mythology, Shakespeare, and the Bible

By: Richard Lederer

In this follow-up to Richard Lederer’s Literary Trivia, the author delves into curious facts and anecdotes about mythology, Shakespeare, and the Bible. Through his numerous books and syndicated columns, Richard Lederer’s infectious love of language and literature has inspired and intrigued readers for decades. Now the author of Lederer on Language and Anguished English delivers a volume full of fascinating trivia about some of Western literature’s most foundational works. Here you will be able to test—and expand—your knowledge of the Bible, ancient Greek mythology, and the plays and poetry of William Shakespeare.

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1423617401

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The Play of Words

By: Richard Lederer

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The Play of Words

By: Richard Lederer

Learn the origins of popular phrases in the English language through this exciting book of games perfect for language lovers. Do you know the connection between the expression A HARROWING EXPERIENCE and agriculture, between BY AND LARGE and sailing, between GET YOUR GOAT and horses, or between STEAL YOUR THUNDER and show business? You probably have heard the comparisons HAPPY AS A CLAM, SMART AS A WHIP, PLEASED AS PUNCH, DEAD AS A DOORNAIL—but have you ever wondered why a clam should be happy, a whip smart, punch pleased, and a doornail dead? Through the fifty games included in The Play of Words you'll discover the answers to these questions as well as hundreds of other semantic delights that repose in our marvelous English language.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439138966

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9781439138960

Lederer on Language: A Celebration of English, Good Grammar, and Wordplay

By: Richard Lederer

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Lederer on Language: A Celebration of English, Good Grammar, and Wordplay

By: Richard Lederer

In this wide-ranging collection of essays, best-selling language writer Richard Lederer offers readers more of the irrepressible word play his fans can't get enough of, along with his observations on a life in letters. From teaching English to Russian fifth graders to a zany dinner for punsters and from etymology to slang to dialect to fadspeak, these essays are learning and language dressed up to have fun, as only Dr. Lederer does it. He is the author of 60 books on language, history, and humor.

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1957807261

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9781957807263

Richard Lederer's Literary Trivia

By: Richard Lederer

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Richard Lederer's Literary Trivia

By: Richard Lederer

The author of Anguished English presents a compendium of fascinating facts and anecdotes about some of literature’s greatest authors and works. Author and English teacher Richard Lederer is one of the world’s foremost lovers of language and literature. In this endlessly engaging volume, he collects some of the most curious trivia about world-renowned authors and poets as well as their many immortal creations. The perfect gift for bibliophiles, Richard Lederer’s Literary Trivia sheds surprising new light on the books and writers we love.

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Richard Lederer's Literary Trivia

By: Richard Lederer

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Richard Lederer's Literary Trivia

By: Richard Lederer

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Richard Lederer's Classic Literary Trivia

From Mythology, Shakespeare, and the Bible

By: Richard Lederer

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From Mythology, Shakespeare, and the Bible

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Have Yourself a Punny Little Christmas

By: Richard Lederer

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Have Yourself a Punny Little Christmas

By: Richard Lederer

Q. Why did Frosty decide to live in the middle of the ocean? A. Because snowman is an island. Q. What do you call a bunch of parents standing in line to buy their daughters a popular doll? A. A Barbie queue. Q. An opinion survey in Alaska is called what? A. A north poll. Q. When you cross a sheep with a cicada, what do you get? A. Baa, humbug!

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1423609956

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The Revenge of Anguished English

More Accidental Assaults Upon Our Language

By: Richard Lederer

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The Revenge of Anguished English

More Accidental Assaults Upon Our Language

By: Richard Lederer

An anguished language expert provides the latest collection of unfortunate typos, tragically misplaced modifiers, and other hilarious language snafus.

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Macmillan

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031233494X

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9780312334949

Get Thee to a Punnery

An Anthology of Intentional Assaults Upon the English Language

By: Richard Lederer

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Get Thee to a Punnery

An Anthology of Intentional Assaults Upon the English Language

By: Richard Lederer

Get Thee to a Punnery proves that the pun is mightier than the sword . . . and here are sidesplitting puns of every color, stripe and persuasion to suit every whim. Even if you don't know that your humerus is your funny bone, this is the book for you. The Time of the Signs: On a diaper service truck: Rock a dry baby. On a plumber's service truck: A flush is better than a full house. Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a communist plot! -Edgar Bergen Quiche me-I'm French! Hangover-the wrath of grapes Work is the ruin of the drinking classes. -Oscar Wilde

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1423612035

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Get Thee to a Punnery

By: Richard Lederer

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Get Thee to a Punnery

By: Richard Lederer

A collection of puns, including homographs, homophones, double sound puns, meld puns, and spoonerisms.

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Wyrick

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0941711072

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9780941711074

The Word Circus

A Letter-perfect Book

By: Richard Lederer

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The Word Circus

A Letter-perfect Book

By: Richard Lederer

A fun and frolicking book of wordplay. - Hundreds of acrostics, anagrams, palindromes, puns, riddles, and spoonerisms - Presented in lively prose and light verse - Features a chapter of skill-testing word games

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Merriam-Webster

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0877793549

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The Cunning Linguist

Ribald Riddles, Lascivious Limericks, Carnal Corn, and Other Good, Clean Dirty Fun!

By: Richard Lederer

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The Cunning Linguist

Ribald Riddles, Lascivious Limericks, Carnal Corn, and Other Good, Clean Dirty Fun!

By: Richard Lederer

Have some fun with your native tongue! In The Cunning Linguist, renowned language expert Richard Lederer shows us the naughtier side of wordplay, revealing hundreds of hilarious, ingenious, unabashed, and adults-only puns, jokes, limericks, one-liners, and other adventures in sexual humor. This book of "good, clean dirty fun" will delight word hounds, punsters, bachelor-party goers, and anyone who likes a clever grown-up joke. Here's a taste of The Cunning Linguist: Q: What does a man have in his pants that you can also find on a pool table? A: Pockets. Have you heard about the incompatible couple? He had no income, and she wasn't pattable. The four stages of a couple's sex life: Under 35: Tri-weekly 35-45: Try weekly 45-55: Try weakly 55 and over: Try, try, try. For much more, sneak between the covers of this unique and laugh-out-loud book.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1429906421

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A Man of My Words

Reflections on the English Language

By: Richard Lederer

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A Man of My Words

Reflections on the English Language

By: Richard Lederer

anguage and grammar expert Richard Lederer is our foremost-and funniest-commentator on the quirks and pleasures of the English language. Popular with writers, students, and anyone who loves words, many of his books have become modern classics-including Anguished English, one of the bestselling language-humor books. Keen-eared and good-humored, these essays reflect on slang, regional dialects, Britspeak, political correctness, puns, the art of teaching, usage, and other topics ripe for the author's unique brand of skewering. Readers will follow the author from a wordy weekend in upstate New York to classrooms in Russia and inner-city Philadelphia to zero seconds of fame on a major national talk show. These essays will delight anyone who lays blame on those who confuse lie and lay, and who goes nuclear over the pronunciation noo-kyuh-lur.

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0312317859

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Crazy English

By: Richard Lederer

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Crazy English

By: Richard Lederer

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Simon and Schuster

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143913894X

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Pun and Games

Jokes, Riddles, Daffynitions, Tairy Fales, Rhymes, and More Word Play for Kids

By: Richard Lederer

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Pun and Games

Jokes, Riddles, Daffynitions, Tairy Fales, Rhymes, and More Word Play for Kids

By: Richard Lederer

Introduces the wacky world of wordplay with puns, spoonerisms, games of word substitution, and more.

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Chicago Review Press

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1613746288

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A Manual of Paper Chromatography and Paper Electrophoresis

By: Richard J. Block,Emmett L. Durrum,Gunter Zweig

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A Manual of Paper Chromatography and Paper Electrophoresis

By: Richard J. Block,Emmett L. Durrum,Gunter Zweig

A Manual of Paper Chromatography and Paper Electrophoresis provides a comprehensive discussion of the techniques of paper chromatography and paper electrophoresis. The book is organized into two parts. Part I on paper chromatography provides a readily accessible source for some of the many uses and adaptations of paper chromatography. An effort has been made to write a practical manual in which tried and proved procedures, employing relatively simple equipment and available reagents, are summarized. Part II on paper electrophoresis discusses basic principles and methodology. The emphasis throughout has been on the separation of protein mixtures, particularly blood serum. This reflects the fact that it is in this particular application that paper electrophoresis has thus far not been challenged by paper chromatography, whereas many of the smaller molecules can be resolved equally well or better by the thus far more widely employed chromatographic procedures.

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1483276805

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More Anguished English

an Expose of Embarrassing Excruciating, and Egregious Errors in English

By: Richard Lederer

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More Anguished English

an Expose of Embarrassing Excruciating, and Egregious Errors in English

By: Richard Lederer

All the joy of the best-selling Anguished English is back! 2,000 all-new side-splitting flubs, fluffs, and hilariously funny accidental assaults on our language.

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Dell

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0440215773

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Lords of Fleet Street

The Harmsworth Dynasty

By: Richard Bourne

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Lords of Fleet Street

The Harmsworth Dynasty

By: Richard Bourne

Originally published in 1990. The Harmsworth family, starting with Lord Northcliffe (1865-1922) is the greatest and most influential press dynasty Britain has known. The dynasty has had by far the greatest impact on the shape of the press today of all the great press families. The Harmsworths were big, bold characters, enormously rich and with a gift for flamboyant use of their wealth. Much more important though is the way they used their influence on public opinion to steer the country’s political and social life. ‘Public opinion’ was a force that the Harmsworths harnessed before anyone else, and they quickly understood how to use it as a political tool. This book is constructed as four biographies which together make up the central story of the popular press in Britain. Their story continues to have relevance.

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Routledge

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1317403878

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The Miracle of Language

By: Richard Lederer

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The Miracle of Language

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Simon and Schuster

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The Indian Territory Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge

By: Richard Irving Dodge,Will Rogers

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The Indian Territory Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge

By: Richard Irving Dodge,Will Rogers

These journals also provide insight into Dodge's character, with reports of his official duties as a military man and of several landmark events in his family life. Extensive commentaries and notes by Wayne R. Kime provide further detail, including a history of Cantonment North Fork Canadian River, a six-company post Dodge established and commanded in the region."--BOOK JACKET.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806132671

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9780806132679

Presidential Trivia

By: Richard Lederer

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Presidential Trivia

By: Richard Lederer

From the beloved Richard Lederer comes another kind of trivia book-Presidential Trivia. In it you'll find all the details about the lives of the United States presidents. It answers such questions as : Who was the first president to be assassinated? Who was the first to be impeached? It also answers less important but cerainly interesting questions such as: Who was our fattest president? Our Tallest? Who played golf? Who played poker? Filled with games, anagrams, poems, speeches, and an abundance of tidbits, details, and fascinating facts, this book is perfect for the novice to the history buff.

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Gibbs Smith

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1423610547

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The Countess and the Nazis

An American Family's Private War

By: Richard Jay Hutto

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The Countess and the Nazis

An American Family's Private War

By: Richard Jay Hutto

An American heiress turned Prussian countess defies the Nazis and risks everything to protect her children and save others during World War II Muriel White was a descendant of several of America’s Gilded Age “first families.” Her father, who signed the Versailles Peace Treaty on behalf of the United States, was among the most brilliant and respected diplomats of his day, and Muriel grew up in the courts of Europe, learning to speak six languages fluently and socializing among the era’s social elite. Ultimately, Muriel married a Prussian count whose family held extensive estates and a hereditary seat in the Prussian House of Lords. The new Countess Seherr-Thoss gave birth to three children, but the gathering clouds of World War II strained her relationship with her husband. He seemed to care only about protecting his family’s extensive estates, while Muriel plainly saw what Germany’s future was becoming. As she found solace in mentoring her husband’s cousin, the future Queen Geraldine of Albania, through courtship, marriage, and the birth of the crown prince, Muriel ended up witnessing firsthand the Italian Fascist invasion of Albania in 1939 and the royal family’s narrow escape from capture. As war descended on Europe and her marriage failed, Muriel sent her children to safety abroad. Cut off from her funds in the United States, she and her husband divorced—but it was too late. The Germans had already confiscated her U.S. passport, leaving Muriel virtually a prisoner. Nevertheless, she resisted the Nazis (in several verified incidents) and secured funding to save a Jewish family before she was forced to make the ultimate sacrifice rather than reveal the location of her sons to the Nazis.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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149308657X

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Paper Chromatography

A Laboratory Manual

By: Richard J. Block,Raymond Le Strange,Gunter Zweig

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Paper Chromatography

A Laboratory Manual

By: Richard J. Block,Raymond Le Strange,Gunter Zweig

Paper Chromatography: A Laboratory Manual focuses on methods, technologies, and processes, and aims to provide readers with a readily accessible source for the uses and adaptations of paper chromatography. The book first offers information on general methods, including descending, ascending, and ascending-descending chromatography, filter paper ""chromatopile"", ""reversed phase"" paper chromatography, and paper electrophoresis. The text then elaborates on quantitative methods and amino acids, amines, and proteins. Discussions focus on visual comparison, elution, area of spot, total color of spot, maximum color density, identification of amines, separation of proteins, and general directions. The publication examines carbohydrates and aliphatic acids and steroids. Topics include simple sugars, miscellaneous derived sugars, and aliphatic acids. The text also ponders on purines, pyrimidines, and related substances and phenols, aromatic acids, and porphyrins. The text is a valuable reference for readers interested in paper chromatography.

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Elsevier

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1483276872

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Adventures of a Verbivore

By: Richard Lederer

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Adventures of a Verbivore

By: Richard Lederer

In this rollicking romp through the bountiful world of words (Minneapolis Star), the bestselling author of Crazy English and More Anguished English takes readers on a logoleptic thrill ride through the beauties and perplexities of the language, spiking the text with irresistible mind scramblers.

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0671709429

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9780671709426

Literary Trivia

Fun and Games for Book Lovers

By: Richard Lederer,Michael Gilleland

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Literary Trivia

Fun and Games for Book Lovers

By: Richard Lederer,Michael Gilleland

Who was Ben Jonson describing when he said He was not of an age, but for all time? This and hundreds of other questions abound in this collection of literary anecdotes, curiosities and quizzes.

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Robson Books Limited

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1861055323

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Vaccination in America

Medical Science and Children’s Welfare

By: Richard J. Altenbaugh

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Vaccination in America

Medical Science and Children’s Welfare

By: Richard J. Altenbaugh

The success of the polio vaccine was a remarkable breakthrough for medical science, effectively eradicating a dreaded childhood disease. It was also the largest medical experiment to use American schoolchildren. Richard J. Altenbaugh examines an uneasy conundrum in the history of vaccination: even as vaccines greatly mitigate the harm that infectious disease causes children, the process of developing these vaccines put children at great risk as research subjects. In the first half of the twentieth century, in the face of widespread resistance to vaccines, public health officials gradually medicalized American culture through mass media, public health campaigns, and the public education system. Schools supplied tens of thousands of young human subjects to researchers, school buildings became the main dispensaries of the polio antigen, and the mass immunization campaign that followed changed American public health policy in profound ways. Tapping links between bioethics, education, public health, and medical research, this book raises fundamental questions about child welfare and the tension between private and public responsibility that still fuel anxieties around vaccination today.

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331996349X

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