Paul Dickson
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All My BooksThink Tanks--1971 The Great American Ice Cream Book--1972 The Future of the Workplace--1975 The Electronic Battlefield--1976 The Mature Person's Guide to Kites, Yo-Yos, Frisbees and Other Childlike Diversions--1977 Out of This World: American Space Photography--1977 The Future File: A Guide for People with One Foot in the 21st Century--1977 The Official Rules--1978 Chow: A Cook's Tour of Military Food--1978 The Official Explanations--1980 Toasts--1981 Words--1982 There are Alligators in the Sewers & Other American Credos (With Joseph C. Goulden)--1983 Jokes--1984 On Our Own: A Declaration of Independence for the Self-Employed--1985 Names--1986 The Library in America--1986 Family words: The Dictionary for People who Don't know a *Frone from a *Brinkle--1988 The Dickson Baseball Dictionary--1989 The New Official Rules--1989 What Do You Call a Person From ....? A Dictionary of Resident Names--1990 Slang! The Topic-by-Topic Dictionary of Contemporary American Lingoes--1990 (updated and expanded--1998 and 2006) Timelines: Day by Day and Trend by Trend from the Dawn of the Atomic Age to the Gulf War--1990 Baseball's Greatest Quotations--1991 ( updated and expanded in 2007) Dickson's Word Treasury--1992 Dickson's Joke Treasury--1992 On This Spot: Pinpointing the Past in Washington, D.C. (With Douglas E. Evelyn)--1992 (Revised and Updated--1999 and revised again 2008) Baseball: The President's Game (With William B. Mead)--1993 Myth-Informed (With Joseph C. Goulden)--1993 The Congress Dictionary: The Ways and Meanings of Capitol Hill (With Paul Clancy)--1993 War Slang: American Fighting Words and Phrases from the Civil War to the Gulf War--1994 The Worth Book of Softball--1994 The Book of Thanksgiving--1995 The Volvo Guide to Halls of Fame (With Robert Skole)--1995 The Joy of Keeping Score--1996 The Official Rules at Home--1996 The Official Rules at Work--1996 What's in a Name?--1996 The Official Rules for Lawyers, Politicians and Everybody They Torment--1996 The Official Rules for Golfers--1997 Labels for Locals--1997 The New Dickson Baseball Dictionary--1999 From Elvis to E-Mail: Trends, Events, and Trivia from the Postwar Era to the End of the Century--1999 Firestone: A legend. A Century. A Celebration (With William D. Hickman)--2000 The Official Rules of Life--2000 Sputnik: The Shock of the Century--2001 The Hidden Language of Baseball--2003 War Slang (2nd edition, Updated to the present)--2003 The Bonus Army: An American Epic (With Thomas B Allen)--2005 Label For Locals: What to Call People From Abilene to Zimbabwe--2007 Slang: The Topical Dictionary of Americanisms--2007 The Joy Of Keeping Score--2007 Family Words: A Dictionary of the Secret Language of Families--2007 The Dictionary Baseball Dictionary, Third Edition-- 2009 The Unwritten Rules of Baseball--2009 A Dictionary of the Space Age--2009 Drunk: The Definitive Drinkers Dictionary--2009 Toasts--2009 |
Selected WorksLANGUAGE
Family Words
A dictionary of the secret language of families Slang: The Topical Dictionary of Americanisms
The only slang dictionary arranged by topic--now substantially revised and expanded. Labels For Locals
In our globally interconnected age, misnaming where someone is from or the cultural group to which they belong often constitutes more than a harmless social gaffe. Labels for Locals provides guidance on the preferred, and sometimes disdained, names for selected locales, cities, regions, countries, and ethnic groups worldwide. War Slang
American Fighting Words and Phrases Since the Civil War--Recommended by William Safire in his New York Times Magazine "On Language" column. American History: narrative non-fiction
The Bonus Army: An American Epic
The all but forgotten but dramatic story of WWI vets from their historic march on Washington in 1932, to demand the bonus promised them for their wartime service, to the passage of the GI Bill which was their lasting legacy. Baseball
The Hidden Language of Baseball
-- How Signs and Sign-Stealing Have Influenced the Course of Our National Pastime --
"... an old-fashioned whiz-bang: Dickson's most complicated, most rewarding book yet." -James H. Bready, The Baltimore Sun, July 6, 2003 The Joy of Keeping Score: How Scoring the Game has Influenced and Enhanced the History of Baseball
Baseball fans young and old are certain to enjoy this book. Wes Lukowsky, Booklist BASEBALL
The Dickson Baseball Dictionary, Third Edition
"That rarest of sports books, a valuable reference work that provides absorbing and enlightening reading." -Sports Illustrated COLD WAR HISTORY
Sputnik:
The Shock of the Century
"Paul Dickson's indefatigable research and reportorial lucidity have given us a fascinating history of the event that forever changed our world." -Walter Cronkite POPULAR REFERENCE
Toasts
Special occasion? Need a toast? For ideas and inspiration check it out--over 1500 of the Best Toasts, Sentiments, Blessings, and Graces. |
