 | 1001 People Who Made America by Alan Axelrod
Buy new: $15.56 / Used from: $0.01 A handy book for looking up who's who of the big names in America, in music, movies, politics, sports and much more.
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 | The American Heritage Abbreviations Dictionary, Third Edition
Buy used from: $0.01 Want to know an Abbreviation? this is the book.
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 | Random House Famous Name Finder : Concise Biographies of over 10,000 Legendary People, Indexed Four Ways : Last Name, First Name, Nickname, Spouse's Name by Coral Amende
Buy used from: $0.33 A handy name finder, also able to look up first names, if you forget the last name. Very handy when you want to know a famous name, or learn new one's.
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 | The Supporting Players of Television 1959-1983: Illustrated by Jack Ward
Buy used from: $8.80 Great TV reference, if you can find it.
Names you won't find in many books, unless it's on the internet.
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 | The Encyclopedia of Guilty Pleasures: 1,001 Things You Hate to Love by Sam Stall
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 Have a favorite Guilty Pleasure? it's probably in this book.
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 | Billboard's Top Pop Singles 1955-2002 (Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles (Cumulative)) by Joel Whitburn
Buy new: $53.96 / Used from: $29.76 This is not the Top 40, its the Top 100.
If it's not here, there is a good chance you didn't hear it on the radio. Great reference book.
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 | Dictionary of Politics (Oxford Paperback Reference) by Iain McLean
Buy used from: $3.19 Don't know much about politics? maybe you know, but you want to know more? this book should help.
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 | Cliches: Over 1500 Phrases Explored and Explained by Betty Kirkpatrick
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $2.03 A very interesting book, basically a history of Cliches.
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 | The Oxford Dictionary of Slang (Oxford Paperback Reference) by John Ayto
Buy new: $13.22 / Used from: $4.82 The topic, Slang has always been an interest to most people. When they got tired of saying it the regular way, they invented Slang.
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 | Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary) by Merriam-Webster
Buy used from: $0.78 Let's face it, most English dictionaries are not very different, only in minor cases do they differ. But, this one seem's to have always been a favorite. This is a good one with a CD-Rom. And a year of word origin on each word.
That's worth it by itself.
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