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Do you wake up feeling rough? Then you're philogrobolized. Find yourself pretending to work? That's fudgelling. And this could lead to rizzling, if you feel sleepy after lunch. Though you are sure to become a sparkling deipnosopbist by dinner. Just don't get too vinomadefied, a drunk dinner companion is never appreciated. The Horologicon (or book of hours) contains the most extraordinary words in the English language, arranged according to ...

From classic poetry to pop lyrics, from Charles Dickens to Dolly Parton, even from Jesus to James Bond, Mark Forsyth explains the secrets that make a phrase-such as "O Captain! My Captain!" or "To be or not to be"-memorable. In his inimitably entertaining and wonderfully witty style, he takes apart famous phrases and shows how you too can write like Shakespeare or quip like Oscar Wilde. Whether you're aiming to achieve literary immortality or...

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A new, beautifully illustrated hardback edition of the bestselling Etymologicon, published on its tenth anniversary.

Kenntnisreich und berauschend witzig beschreibt Mark Forsyth in seiner feuchtfröhlichen Kulturgeschichte des Betrunkenseins, warum wir evolutionär danach streben, dem Alkohol zuzusprechen. Seriös und voller Enthusiasmus berichtet er von alten Ägyptern mit Schlagseite, Weintrinkern im antiken Griechenland und sternhagelvollen Wikingern, die wie uns ihre Liebe zum Alkohol einte. Was mit angeschickerten Einzellern in der Ursuppe begann, setzte s...

This illustrated title explores the design, evolution, and deployment of the Arado Ar 234, the world's first truly operational jet bomber and first reconnaissance jet.When the revolutionary twin jet-powered Arado Ar 234 first appeared in the skies over north-west Europe in the summer of 1944, it represented the state-of-the-art in terms of aeronautical and technical development. The Ar 234 was a formidable aircraft--powered by Jumo 004Bs, the ...

Weltgeschichte mal anders: feucht-fröhlichAlkohol: Für die Perser eine Voraussetzung zur politischen Debatte, war er für die alten Griechen ein Mittel zur Selbstdisziplinierung und im antiken Ägypten Bedingung für spirituelle Ekstase und Erleuchtung. Sich einen zu genehmigen kann religiöse oder sexuelle Gründe haben, es kann Könige stürzen und Bauern erheben. Höchst informativ und amüsant beschreibt Mark Forsyth, womit sich die Menschen zuschü...

This title tells the fascinating story of German airborne heavy weapons platform designs and the difficult history behind the types' development.Intended as a progressive development of the twin-engined Bf 110 Zerstörer ("destroyer" or heavy fighter), the Me 210 first took to the air in September 1939. However, due to a lack of sufficient flight-testing before being declared service-ready, the Me 210 suffered from a less than satisfactory repu...

Kenntnisreich und berauschend witzig beschreibt Mark Forsyth in seiner feuchtfröhlichen Kulturgeschichte des Betrunkenseins, warum wir evolutionär danach streben, dem Alkohol zuzusprechen. Seriös und voller Enthusiasmus berichtet er von alten Ägyptern mit Schlagseite, Weintrinkern im antiken Griechenland und sternhagelvollen Wikingern, die wie uns ihre Liebe zum Alkohol einte. Was mit angeschickerten Einzellern in der Ursuppe begann, setzte s...

Secondo una leggenda africana, le donne persero coda e pelliccia quando il dio della creazione insegnò loro a fare la birra. Fu così che ebbe origine l'umanità. Da allora, incontriamo l'alcol ovunque, dai primi insediamenti neolitici fino alle astronavi che sfidano l'ignoto spazio profondo, e insieme al bere troviamo la sua compagna più sfrenata, allegra e sovversiva: l'ubriachezza. L'ubriachezza è universale e sempre diversa, esiste in ogni t...

Initially designed as a fast medium bomber, the Junkers Ju 88 was also used as a Zerstörer heavy fighter by the Luftwaffe. It saw its combat debut over Poland in 1939, and heavy fighter variants saw action on every front up to VE Day. The ultimate Ju 88 fighter variant was the G-model of 1944, which boasted a FuG 220 or 227 radar, an astounding array of cannon and machine gun armament, and advanced Junkers Jumo or BMW engines. A dedicated nigh...

Mark Forsyth's The Etymologicon was a Sunday Times Number One Bestseller and his TED Talk 'What's a snollygoster?' has had more than half a million views. He has also written a specially commissioned essay 'The Unknown Unknown' for Independent Booksellers Week and the introduction for the new edition of the Collins English Dictionary. He lives in London with his dictionaries, and blogs at blog.inkyfool.com.

Almost every culture on earth has drink, and where there's drink there's drunkenness. But in every age and in every place drunkenness is a little bit different. It can be religious, it can be sexual, it can be the duty of kings, or the relief of peasants. It can be an offering to the ancestors, or a way of marking the end of a day's work. It can send you to sleep, or send you into battle. [This book] traces humankind's love affair with booze f...

In many ways, the Heinkel He 177 "Greif" (Griffon) was Nazi Germany's "lost" strategic bomber. With some fundamental creases ironed out, and built in numbers, the He 177 would have offered the Luftwaffe the means with which to carry out long-range, mass bombing attacks against targets of a strategic nature. Although competing interests and personalities served to prevent this from happening, from mid-1943 the aircraft nevertheless saw service ...