Ten adventures of Pooh, Eeyore, Tigger, Piglet, Owl, and other friends of Christopher Robin.

For more than a decade, gardeners have been turning to a beautiful little hardcover book called Gardener's Latin, by Bill Neal. Neal understood that as Latin terms began appearing with increasing frequency on nursery tags and gardening catalogs, gardeners would need help. So he weeded through the Latin words that describe and distinguish among plants and flowers and compiled a volume of select, brief, clear definitions. Gardener's Latin leads us...

Stone follows up his Latin for the Illiterati with this new dictionary, structured around the subtitle's three areas: medicine, law, and religion. Translations are brief and literal. The dictionary concludes with some of the same information given in Latin for the Illiterati as well as newer miscellaneous information, including Latin selections (with English translations) from the Roman Catholic liturgy. The dictionary ends with and English-Latin...

Considered by many to be history's greatest empire, Rome began as the humble convergence of a few small villages on the Tiber River and eventually encompassed more than two million square miles. At its height the power of Rome spread from Britain in the northwest across the Mediterranean and through the Middle East to the persian Gulf. In its contributions to our languages, cultures, and customs, no other empire has had greater impact on our lives...