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  • Money for Old Rope

    by Albert Jack ...
    From the Author of the Internationally Bestselling Red Herrings & White Elephants, Pop Goes the Weasel, What Caesar did for My Salad, Shaggy Dogs, They Laughed at Galileo:Money for Old Rope is essentially a 'best of' collection of best-selling books that reveal the origins and history of just about everything we can think of.In fact, as one wise man suggested, it is the history of everything you ... Read more

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  • Food History & Recipe Origins

    by Albert Jack ...
    From the Author of the Internationally Bestselling Books - Red Herrings & White Elephants, What Caesar did for My Salad, Shaggy Dogs, Pop Goes the Weasel, They Laughed at Galileo:Have you ever wondered where your Margherita, Melba, Suzette or Eggs Benedict come from? This is the fantastic history and origins of your favourite foods and recipe names.Food is just as entitled to a proper history as ... Read more

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  • Shaggy Dogs and Black Sheep

    by Albert Jack ...
    Albert Jack's Shaggy Dogs and Black Sheep is a compulsively readable, highly enlightening look at the phrases we use all the time but rarely consider.The English language is crammed with colourful phrases and sayings that we use without thinking every day.It's only when we're asked who smart Alec or Holy Moly were, where feeling 'in the pink' or 'once in a blue moon' come from, or even what ... Read more

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  • Children's Nursery Rhymes: The Dark History & Origins of Kid's Nursery Rhymes

    by Albert Jack ...
    Extract;Humpty DumptyHumpty Dumpty sat on the wall,Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;All the king's horses and all the king's menCouldn't put Humpty together again.The real Humpty Dumpty was a powerful cannon used by the Royalist forces during the English Civil War of 1642 to 1651. Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle led the king's men and overpowered the Parliament stronghold of Colchester early ... Read more

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  • English Word History

    How To Speak English Like a Native

    by Albert Jack ...
    How To Speak English Like a NativeThe English language is perhaps the richest and most expressive in the world. One of the reasons for this is that we have so many weird and wonderful ways of describing exactly the same thing: we can be as colourful or as plain with our language as we choose. That is why it is so difficult to learn and how this book will help you so much.Living in a foreign ... Read more

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  • The Unexplained Death of Edgar Allan Poe

    by Albert Jack ...
    From the best-selling author of Red Herrings & White Elephants, Pop Goes the Weasel, They Laughed at Galileo, Mysterious World, New World Order and many more.....Edgar Allan Poe was a master of the macabre. He wrote horror stories, mysteries, poems, fiction and non-fiction. He was a master of suspense and the father of the modern detective stories. He had the likes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and ... Read more

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  • Healthy Breakfast: Food History: The History of our Favorite Breakfast

    by Albert Jack ...
    Food is just as entitled to a proper history as castles, wars, kings, queens, art, literature and the bubonic plague. But the book world is now so saturated by celebrity chefs trying to show the working man how to rub garlic on a ciabatta or break lime leaves over a piece of raw fish that we've lost sight of the really interesting stories behind the recipes we all know and love.And, whilst I don't ... Read more

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  • The Flying Dutchman: Sea Mysteries: Mary Celeste: Bermuda Triangle: Eilean Mor: Buster Crabb: USO

    by Albert Jack ...
    From the Author of the Internationally Bestselling Books - Red Herrings & White Elephants, What Caesar did for My Salad, Shaggy Dogs, Pop Goes the Weasel, They Laughed at Galileo:We all love a good mystery don't we? And by all, I mean each and every one of us are, or will be, captivated at one time or another by a decent, real-life, scary mystery; either one of the world's most famous or something ... Read more

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  • Military & Nautical Phrases: Etymology: The Origins of Nautical & Military Phrases

    by Albert Jack ...
    From the Author of the Internationally Bestselling Red Herrings & White Elephants, Pop Goes the Weasel, What Caesar did for My Salad, Shaggy Dogs, They Laughed at Galileo:Many times, during every single day, all of us will use what is known as an Idiom. Idioms are words and phrases, which those of us with a native English tongue take for granted as we have grown up to recognise their meaning. That ... Read more

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  • How to Write

    by Albert Jack ...
    Over the years I have often been asked, by unpublished writers, how they should go about finding a publisher. I am also often asked the question, 'what should I write about.' And, whilst that is irritating; the chief reason being, 'That's your job,' it is still a good question. (The main thing a writer has to do is to have the idea in the first place.)The answer, of course, is something that other ... Read more

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  • Crop Circles Explained: World Famous Mysteries: Unsolved Mysteries

    by Albert Jack ...
    From the best selling author of Red Herrings & White Elephants, Pop Goes the Weasel, Ten Minute Mysteries and many more...Who Really Makes Crop Circles?Strange formations in fields of wheat and other crops have been appearing since the 1970s. Are they made by aliens parking their spaceships, or is the explanation rather more down to earth?Of all the subjects I've explored for this series, the one ... Read more

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  • Red Herrings & White Elephants

    The Origins of the Phrases We Use Every Day

    by Albert Jack ...
    The international bestseller. "Amusing and informative . . . [takes] you on a trip through the most fascinating and richest regions of the English language." —Knutsford Guardian (UK)Mad hatter . . . pie in the sky . . . egg on your face. We use these phrases every day, yet how many of us know what they really mean or where they came from?From bringing home the bacon to leaving no stone unturned, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus