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The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang offers the ultimate record of modern, post WW2 American Slang.
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Tom Dalzell
This dictionary presents the definitive record of the lexicon of Americans who fought in the Vietnam war.
This presents all the slang terms from The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English in a single volume. Containing over 60,000 entries, this concise new edition details the…
Tom Dalzell,Terry Victor
Sex Slang not only gives you 3,000 new words to talk about your favourite pastimes, it will open your eyes to practices you didn’t even know existed. Infused with humour…
Vice Slang gently eases you into the language of gambling, drugs and alcohol, providing you with 3,000 words to establish yourself firmly in the world of corruption and wickedness.
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The definitive record of post-World War Two slang, anyone with a fascination or passion for language will delight in the wit and intelligence of this invaluable resource.
Resplendent…. A masterwork of history. -Ron Jacobs, Counterpunch
In eyewitness testimonies and hundreds of remarkable photographs, The Battle for People’s Park, Berkeley 1969 commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of one of…
This book is based on a blog widely followed in Northern California and far off corners of the Earth where people yearn to discover that all they suspected about Berkeley…
Following the success of Quirky Berkeley, arbiter of the eccentric (The New York Times) Tom Dalzell returns to take readers on a tour of even more artwork that peppers the…
