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Throughout history, great speeches have produced great change. From inciting violence and asserting control to restoring peace and securing freedom...

'This is, in fact, not what you were looking for; but it's much more interesting' Terry PratchettMuch loved for its wit and wisdom since 1870,Brewe...

"Some people leave a deeper footprint in the sands of time than others. In these pages we have access to their particular stories and identities."D...

Chambers Card Games for One is a diverse new collection of patience card games that features all the classics along with many less well-known games...

Acknowledged as the definitive work on modern crosswords, Chambers Crossword Manual is an essential handbook for all crossword fans from beginners ...

With over 30,000 entries, Chambers Dictionary of Etymology is a prestigious and scholarly dictionary that explains where English words come from. A...

First published in 1933, the Chambers Murray Latin-English Dictionary is the standard reference text for all advanced students of Latin.

Spell It Yourself! is a consistently-bestselling title for upper primary school pupils that is now being published by Chambers. It lists over 7,50...

What do a comic alphabet, a glorious lipogram and a wellerism have in common?Or, an audit of accountants, an illusion of magicians, and an intrusio...

Shakespeare had an ear and hand that was able to capture our everyday thoughts and emotions, pin them to a page, and express them so well that stil...

Shakespeare had an ear and hand that was able to capture our everyday thoughts and emotions, pin them to a page, and express them so well that stil...

Have you ever stopped and thought about the name of your home country or one you're travelling to? What it means, where it came from, how it came t...

Have you ever stopped and thought about the name of your home country or one you're travelling to? What it means, where it came from, how it came t...

Which animal holds the record for having the most common names?   When and why did we stop calling giraffes "camel-leopards"?   Do mushrooms have a...

Discover the stories behind the songs THE LIFE OF A SONG contains the stories of 100 songs exploring each song's biography and how they took on a n...

Who knew that Paul McCartney originally referred to Yesterday as 'Scrambled Eggs' because he couldn't think of any lyrics for his heart-breaking t...

cooking with a range - counting sheep - curing drunkennessfinding water - signalling with semaphore - identifying plants and trees making and ...

Remember all those grammar rules from school? No? Most of us don't. Mike McCarthy, renowned corpus linguist and co-author of the 900-page Cambridge...

A powerful new anthology depicting how love over the past two-and-a-half millennia has found its expression in the words of the world's greatest po...

Silver Medal Winner for Poetry at the 2022 Nautilus Book Awards. A powerful new anthology depicting how love over the past two-and-a-half millennia...

NAUTILUS BOOKS AWARDS GOLD MEDAL WINNERSpecial Honors as 2020 Nautilus Best of Anthology    The Beautiful New Treasury of Poetry in Endangered Lan...

Gold winner in Poetry and Special Honors Award winner for Best Anthology Nautilus Book Awards  The Beautiful New Treasury of Poetry in Endangered L...

Silver Medal Winner in Relationships and Communication, 2023 Nautilus Book Awards  Have you ever struggled to communicate with a limited-English sp...