Product Description: What is film noir? With its archetypal femme fatale and private eye, its darkly-lit scenes and even darker narratives, the answer can seem obvious enough. But as Ian Brookes shows in this new study, the answer is a lot more complex than that...read more

Product Description: Essex CCC On This Day is fully endorsed by the club and chronicles, in diary form, the major events in their history. With individual entries for every day, and multiple listings for more historic and busier days, the book includes all the club's big matches, cup finals, significant events, and sensational signings...read more

Product Description: This new edition of Chambers Compact Thesaurus has been thoroughly revised to provide you with the most helpful alternatives for over 15,000 common words. With more than 300,000 synonyms and antonyms, this compact volume is completely up-to-date, focusing on current language usage...read more

Product Description: This enlarged edition of Chambers Rhyming Dictionary includes over 35,000 common words and phrases grouped together by rhyming pattern with an alphabetical index to take you to the word you want. Including place names, first names, and famous people, and suitable for use in schools—rude words have been omitted—it also has a wider appeal for poets and songwriters...read more

A dictionary that focuses on English, and provides definitions as well as notes to help with tricky points of language. This edition, suitable for home and office use, incorporates words from modern culture and technology.

Offering 100,000 synonyms, antonyms and related words, this thesaurus helps students write more creatively. It features over eighty practical lists such as 'different types of building' and 'terms used in mathematics'. It also includes a useful supplement on word use.

Packed with useful vocabulary and usage notes, this pocket-sized dictionary helps students develop their language skills. It pays attention to terms from curriculum subjects. It is useful for classroom use or helping with homework.

Encompassing more than 300,000 definitions, this up-to-date reference of the English language covers both old and new words, the commonplace and the unusual, with information on idioms, etymologies, and more than 200,000 references.

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