Discusses the uses of marijuana in both the past and present, issues surrounding medicinal marijuana, the use of marijuana for spiritual enhancement and creative inspiration, and the effects of legislation banning marijuana use.

Pointed, dry, witty and endlessly inventive, rhyming slang is held in greater popular affection than any other type of English colloquial language. This text is a dictionary of over 3000 rhyming slang words and phrases defined in standard English.

Product Description: Companion to the bestselling Big Book of Filth! An unabashed scat-fest supplies colorful and inventive metaphors, idioms, and euphemisms, along with their etymology, for every imaginable corporal emission, whether solid, liquid, or gaseous...read more

Product Description: Have some good "dirty" fun with more than 6,500 off-color phrases, all vividly, explicitly defined. Categories include body sites; arousal and frustration; masturbation; orgasm; intercourse in a dazzling variety of positions; oral, kinky, gay, bi, and safe sex; and many other aspects of sex...read more

Product Description: Want rice and Aberdeens for dinner? Or andy mcnish--wouldn't that be apples and spice? It's rhyme time, and this witty, wildly inventive dictionary will inform you those "code words" stand for beans, fish, and nice. Amazingly detailed, it includes a history of rhyming slang, 100 categories, and over 2,500 phrases...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Sticks and stones may break your bones-but these zingers really hurt! This arsenal of insults features the world's all-time great poisoners, such as Oscar Wilde, Dorothy Parker, and G.B. Shaw. More surprising is Gerald Ford's barb at Ronald Reagan: "He doesn't dye his hair; he's just prematurely orange...read more

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Product Description: Over 10,000 copies sold in hardback Over 1.5 million words of text and 75,000 entries, covering slang from every part of the English-speaking world from the sixteenth century to the present day Each entry records the date when a slang word appeared, whether it is still in use, and in what countries it is used Detailed etymologies throughout, showing how slang usages evolved and how they relate to one another Coverage of every area of slang: drugs words, criminal terms, swear words, humorous expressions, sex etc...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A guide to the words we use to express our national, racial and social differences. It presents a thematic and historical examination of how people view one another, from the stupid to the ugly, the tyrannical to the subordinate, and the socially repressed to the sexually deviant...read more

A history of the dictionary reveals the reasons behind the creations of dictionaries, the motivations of their creators, how their biases seep into their work, and their works effect on us. 12,500 first printing.

Takes popular standard English terms and traces the development of their slang equivalents over the past 500 years

Defines more than two thousand words recently added to the English language, from acid rain and baby boomer to yuppie and zydeco, lists the date of each word's first appearance, and includes its use in a sentence

Product Description: Voices from the English Underground movements 1961-71, an oral history of the sixties, including CND, beatniks and bop.

Product Description: Slang is the language through which we communicate on an everyday basis. Often more colorful and expressive than its formal counterpart, slang is stimulated largely by "sex, money and intoxicating liquor" and, more recently, drugs, and is ever changing and evolving...read more

Collects both popular and lesser known quotations from a variety of contemporary sources, with commentary on each quotations context and meaning

First published in 1986, the purpose of this dictionary is to clarify the technology behind nuclear jargon. The entries deal with all areas of nuclear warfare: its strategies and tactics, personnel and weapons systems, arms control and disarmament talks. The terminology of the nuclear age expands and changes as fast as the weapons and strategies it describes; the dictionary therefore covers a span ranging from the first tentative post-Hiroshima ideas and systems through to the near-fictions of the ‘Star Wars’ initiative. This fascinating reissue will be of particular value to those in need of a comprehensive guide to the vocabulary of nuclear warfare, as well as students of linguistics with a particular interest in slang and jargon. 

Product Description: A compendium of wit and witticisms on the topic of food and feasting, from writers and celebrities throughout the ages  Such quotes include: “Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are.”—Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin   “Civilized adults do not take apple juice with dinner...read more

Gathers sardonic quotations about acting, popularity, neighbors, government, women, men, jealousy, happiness, beauty, morality, and history

Explains the meaning of more than eleven thousand slang words and expressions used throughout the English speaking world

A biographical dictionary of criminals offers more than 600 entries dealing with the world's worst lawbreakers, past and present, including Lizzie Borden, Charles Manson, Victor Lustig, and many others

Gathers quotations about love, marriage, courtship, the characteristics of men and women, loneliness, divorce, adultry, and family life

Collects more than 3,000 statements of politicians and writers concerning government, war, power, revolution, patriotism, tyranny, and freedom

A comprehensive collection of more than seven thousand contemporary quotations, arranged alphabetically by author within broad subject categories and including attribution by source whenever available