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Words and Ideas (2nd Edition) by William J. Dominik, John Hilton, Aileen Bevis, Anne Gosling Paperback, 281 Pages, Published 2002 ISBN-10: 0-86516-485-1 / 0865164851 ISBN-13: 978-0-86516-485-7 / 9780865164857 Unlike most etymology textbooks, this one presents the words studied in the context of the ideas in which the words functioned. Instead of studying endless lists of word roots, suffixes, and prefixes in isolation, the words are enlivened by the social, literary, and cultural media in which they were |