Houghton Mifflin Company Webster’s New Basic Dictionary (HOU1019935)
Webster’s New Basic Dictionary includes more than 60,000 entries that are completely revised and updated, and more than 1,000 new words and meanings. This office edition also includes up-to-date biographical and geographical sections. Tables guide you through world currencies, U.S. and metric measures, and book of the Bible. Hundreds of synonym lists help you find the right word. …
In 1922, just four years after the war to end all wars, an unknown Austrian then living in Bavaria planned a pamphlet to be called Settling Accounts. In it he intended to attack the ineffectiveness of the dominant political parties in Germany which were opposed to the new National Socialists (Nazis). In November 1923, Adolf Hitler was jailed …
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book appeared in September of that year and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Carson’s passionate concern for the future …