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$14.95 hardcover ISBN 978-160652-134-2

Confused about when to use “its” or “it’s” or the correct spelling of “principal” or “principle”? Avoid language pitfalls and let this entertaining and practical guide improve both your speaking and writing skills.

$14.95 hardcover ISBN 978-1-60652-026-0

A smorgasbord of foreign words and phrases used in everyday English—from Aficionado (Spanish) to Zeitgeist (German). Inside you’ll find translations, definitions, and origins that will delight and amuse language lovers everywhere.

$14.95 hardcover ISBN 978-1-60652-057-4

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There are four poems by Gray in the Oxford Book of English Verse, one of them the endearingly named “On a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes.”

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You’re allowed to do almost anything to an equation, as long as you do the same thing to both sides. You are not allowed, however, to a) take square roots; or b) divide by 0. You wouldn’t normally divide anything by 0 anyway, but if you were to divide something by, say, a-3 and it turned out that a equaled 3, you would get some very odd answers. More on square roots later in this section.