Peter Mark Roget by Nick Rennison
Every day, thousands of people worldwide consult Roget's Thesaurus. How many stop to consider why that endlessly useful reference book is so called? How many know anything about the man behind it? Nick Rennison's biography reveals the full story of Roget's involvement with the great issues and the great personalities of the 19th century and recounts the forgotten life behind one of the most famous of all reference books.-
Occult London
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The Great Heresy
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A Pocket Essential Short History of the Anglo-Saxons
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Psychogeography
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A Short History of The Gnostics
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The History of Witchcraft
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A Short History of the Victorian Era
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WW1 at Sea
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Alchemy and Alchemists
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The War That Never Ended
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John Carpenter
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Jackie Chan
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The Marx Brothers
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Film Noir
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Jethro Tull
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London Writing
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Noir Fiction
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War Without Mercy
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French New Wave
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Bisexuality
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Who Shot JFK?
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Brian de Palma
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Alfred Hitchcock
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Historical Noir
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Utopia
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Brit Noir
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Clint Eastwood
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The Beatles
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Philip K Dick
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Freud And Psychoanalysis
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Vietnam War Movies
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The English Civil War
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Audrey Hepburn
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Winston Churchill
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Urban Legends
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Muses
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Agatha Christie
NICK RENNISON is a writer, editor and bookseller with a particular interest in modern history and in crime fiction. He is the author of ;Riots and Rebels: A Pocket Essential History of Popular Protest in Britain, ;1974: Scenes from a Year of Crisis, ;1922: Scenes from a Turbulent Year, A Short History of Polar Exploration, Peter Mark Roget: A Biography, Freud and Psychoanalysis, Robin Hood: Myth, History & Culture and Bohemian London, published by Oldcastle Books, and the editor of six anthologies of short stories for No Exit Press. He is also the author of The Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide to Crime Fiction, 100 Must-Read Crime Novels and Sherlock Holmes: An Unauthorised Biography. His crime novels, Carver's Quest and Carver's Truth, both set in nineteenth-century London, are published by Corvus. He is a regular reviewer for both The Sunday Times and Daily Mail.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781904048640 |
| ISBN 10 | 1904048641 |
| Title | Peter Mark Roget |
| Author | Nick Rennison |
| Series | Pocket Essential Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oldcastle Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2007-04-25 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |