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An authoritative dictionary for students, teachers, translators and general readers includes over 50,000 entries and related phrases and idioms includes over 200 illustrations covers a wide range of scientific and technical vocabulary lists words relevant to the indian subcontinent gives accurate pronunciation in english provides detailed meanings and synonyms in english and tamil includes detailed notes on english grammar, vocabulary and usage
Bill bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can’t contain his curiosity about the world around him. A short history of nearly everything is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the big bang to the rise of civilization – how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. Bill bryson’s challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, like geology.
