Roget's International Thesaurus 7th Edition

Description

The revolutionary achievement of Dr. Roget was his development of a brand new principle: the grouping of words according to ideas. If the user cannot find something in a reference book, it is often because of the restriction of searching alphabetically by 'known' headwords. Dr. Roget's thesaurus thus reversed the access to allow the user to find a word from another word, a concept or an idea. When in 1852 Roget published the first book ever to realize this concept with thoroughness and precision, he called it a "thesaurus" (from the Greek and Latin, meaning "treasury" or "storehouse"). And thesaurus it has remained to this day. This ultimate reference tool - the bestselling thesaurus ever in all its editions - contains over 325,000 words and phrases, more than two thousand of which are new to this edition, grouped into 1072 numbered categories. Within each category you'll find all the parts of speech, frequent cross-references, commonly-used words singled out in boldface, quotes that puts words into context , hundreds of fascinating and idiosyncratic word lists and much more. If you're a writer who needs help organising a thought or mastering the nuance of expression, the INTERNATIONAL THESAURUS remains the first source to turn to. This edition updates the 2002 paperback edition, which netted 90,000 copies internationally.

Donald P. Ryan, Ph.D. is an American archaeologist, Egyptologist, writer, and a member of the Division of Humanities at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. His areas of research interest include Egyptian archaeology, archaeology of the Bible, Polynesian archaeology, and ancient languages and scripts. He is best known for his research in Egypt including excavations in the Valley of the Kings where he discovered lost tombs and controversial mummies. He is the veteren of many expeditions and is the author of numerous scientific and popular articles on archaeological subjects and six books.For several years, Ryan worked closely with the world-renowned Norwegian explorer, archaeologist, and writer, the late Thor Heyerdahl. Together they excavated the mysterious Pyramids of Guimar in Tenerife in the Canary Islands and Ryan will be completing Heyerdahl's last book about the ancient colonization of the islands of the South Pacific.Ryan is a Fellow of The Explorers Club and the Royal Geographical Society, a founding member of the Scientific Committee of the Foundation for Exploration and Research on Cultural Origins, a mountaineering instructor, long-distance runner, and pianist.