The Meaning of Everything: The Story of The Oxford

From the best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa comes a truly wonderful celebration of the English language and of its unrivaled treasure house, the Oxford English Dictionary. Writing with marvelous brio, Winchester first serves up a lightning history of the English language--"so vast, so sprawling, so wonderfully unwieldy"--and pays…

Pacific : The Ocean of the Future

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9780007550777

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909.09823 WIN Pac

A Crack In The Edge Of The World: The Great American Earthquake Of 1906

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141016345

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464

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979.46105122 WINC

Krakatoa

Simon Winchester, penulis The Professor and The Madman, karya best seller versi New York Times, menelusuri kisah legendaris hancurnya pulau gunung berapi Krakatoa (Krakatau) tahun 1883. Sebuah drama yang diikuti tsunami raksasa yang membinasakan hamour 40.000 penduduk. Efek dari gelombang luar biasa ini dirasakan hingga wilayah Perancis

A Crack in the Edge of the World

A burgeoning new city is built on the dreams of the American gold rush. It is also built upon a landscape that has been stretching, sliding and breaking apart for millennia. In 1906 the dreams of this city came crashing down beneath the rippling wave of a horrifying earthquake that turned roads into great rippling rivers, that set buildings ablaze for days on end, that made homes collapse upon …

The Map that Changed the World

In 1793, a canal digger named William Smith made a startling discovery. He found that by tracing the placement of fossils, which he uncovered in his excavations, one could follow layers of rocks as they dipped and rose and fell -- clear across England and, indeed, clear across the world -- making it possible, for the first time ever, to draw a chart of the hidden underside of the earth.