This is a very complete and detailed listing, with definitions, explanations, and examples of hundreds of word games, puzzles, and amusements is the English language. Typical games covered are anagrams, alliteration, car games (making up words from car license plates), charades, guessing games, limericks, palindromes, rebuses, Scrabble, and the like. It will be useful for teachers and planners of intellectual and recreational activities for people of all ages.

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Written by established pulp fiction and popular culture author Server, Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers includes information on more than 200 nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers. Arranged in alphabetical order, each entry includes a biographical sketch and list of the author's works. Also included is an introduction that serves as a concise overview and traces the start of the industry of pulp serials to the genre that it is today.

This "thesaurus of slang" contains more than 9,000 expressions. Entries are illustrated by at least two English sentences each and are organized by topic, which makes finding the right expression quick and easy. Includes an alphabetical index.