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10,000 German Wordsby W. RowlinsonISBN 019211686X (0-19-211686-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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All Souls' Risingby Madison Smartt BellISBN 0140259473 (0-14-025947-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Authors and Printers Dictionaryby F. Howard Collins, Stanley BealeISBN 0192115421 (0-19-211542-1)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Battlesby Ian V. HoggISBN 015600397X (0-15-600397-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Boswell's Presumptous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnsonby Adam SismanISBN 0142001759 (0-14-200175-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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A Complete Guide to Heraldryby J. P. Brooke-Little, Arthur Charles Fox-DaviesISBN 0171441028 (0-17-144102-8)
Hardcover, Nelson
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The Concise Cambridge Italian Dictionaryby Barbara ReynoldsISBN 0140510648 (0-14-051064-8)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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Concise Medical Dictionary.ISBN 0192629166 (0-19-262916-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artistsby Ian ChilversISBN 0192800485 (0-19-280048-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists'Book summary:The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists, Second Edition is an authoritative and up-to-date guide to Western art from Ancient Greece to the present day. It offers over two thousand entries on painting, sculpture, and the graphic arts, covering not only artists and their work, but also patrons and dealers, collectors and writers, materials and techniques, and museums and galleries. For this new edition much new material has been added on twentieth-century art, including subjects such as Neo-Expressionism and the Turner Prize.
Written in clear, lively prose, this invaluable reference maintains a careful balance between fact and appraisal. In its pages, we encounter artists ranging from Polyclitus of Argos to Leonardo da Vinci, from Grandma Moses to Mary Cassatt, from Max Beckmann to Andy Warhol. Here also are periods and movements, including the Classical period, the Renaissance, the Ancients, Impressionism, the Ash-can School, and Cubism, as well as techniques and styles such as encaustic painting, encarnado, lithography, cabinet painting, and blot drawing.
For this abridgement, Ian Chilvers has retained all of the essential features of the original while adding new entries and eliminating the more peripheral articles. By presenting the information in a pithier format, he is able to focus more sharply on Western and Western-inspired art. The dictionary also provides a very helpful cross-referencing system for names, art media, styles, and terms. Art enthusiasts of every kind will find this entirely reliable and highly readable volume indispensable. [via]More editions of Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists:
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Operaby Ewan West, John Hamilton WarrackISBN 0192800280 (0-19-280028-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotationsby Angela PartingtonISBN 0192800264 (0-19-280026-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Concise Science Dictionaryby John Daintith, Alan Isaacs, Elizabeth MartinISBN 0192800337 (0-19-280033-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Dictionary: New Perspectiveby Holroyd StewardISBN 0140192999 (0-14-019299-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Dictionary of Third World Termsby Kofi Buenor HadjorISBN 0140512934 (0-14-051293-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Dictionary of Britain/an A-Z of the British Way of Lifeby Adrian RoomISBN 0192116622 (0-19-211662-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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A Dictionary of Computersby John Graham, Robin Williamson, Anthony ChandorISBN 0140510397 (0-14-051039-7)
Hardcover, Penguin
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A Dictionary of Datesby Cyril Leslie BeechingISBN 0192800566 (0-19-280056-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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A Dictionary of Economicsby John BlackISBN 0192800183 (0-19-280018-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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A Dictionary of Electronicsby Samuel HandelISBN 0140510192 (0-14-051019-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Dictionary of Geographyby Wilfred George MooreISBN 0140510028 (0-14-051002-8)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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A Dictionary of Political Biographyby Dennis KavanaghISBN 0192800353 (0-19-280035-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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A Dictionary of Scienceby E.B. Uvarov, D. R. ChapmanISBN 014051001X (0-14-051001-X)
Hardcover, Penguin
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A Dictionary of Surnamesby Patrick Hanks, Flavia HodgesISBN 0192115928 (0-19-211592-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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A Dictionary of the Theatreby John Russell TaylorISBN 0140510338 (0-14-051033-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century History: 1914-1990by Peter TeedISBN 0192116762 (0-19-211676-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Encyclopedia of Embroidery Techniquesby Pauline BrownISBN 0140237712 (0-14-023771-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Language and Languagesby David CrystalISBN 0140512349 (0-14-051234-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Everything You Pretend to Know About Food: And Are Afraid Someone Will Askby Nancy RommelmannISBN 014026373X (0-14-026373-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Funny You Should Say That: Amusing Remarks from Cicero to the Simpsonsby Andrew MartinISBN 0141006455 (0-14-100645-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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Harcourt Brace Student Thesaurusby Christopher Morris, Harcourt Brace & Company, Christopher G. MorrisISBN 0152001867 (0-15-200186-7)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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The Lincoln Writing Dictionary for Childrenby Harcourt Brace JovanovichISBN 0151523940 (0-15-152394-0)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Minidictionary of Computingby Valerie IllingworthISBN 0192116568 (0-19-211656-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Nelson Canadian Dictionary of the English Language: An Encyclopedic ReferenceISBN 017606592X (0-17-606592-X)
Softcover, ITP Nelson
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The New Dictionary of Computing : An A to Z of Computing Jargon and Conceptsby Dick PountainISBN 0140514376 (0-14-051437-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotationsby Robert Andrews, Kate HughesISBN 0140514430 (0-14-051443-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The New Penguin Dictionary of Scienceby M. J. ClugstonISBN 0140512713 (0-14-051271-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The New Penguin Dictionary of the Theatreby Market House Books Ltd, David Pickering, Jonathan Law, Richard HelferISBN 0140514546 (0-14-051454-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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A Northern Lightby Jennifer DonnellyISBN 0152053107 (0-15-205310-7)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Northern Light'Book summary:It's 1906 and 16-year-old Mattie Gokey is at a crossroads in her life. She's escaped the overwhelming responsibilities of helping to run her father's brokedown farm in exchange for a paid summer job as a serving girl at a fancy hotel in the Adirondacks. She's saving as much of her salary as she can, but she's having trouble deciding how she's going to use the money at the end of the summer. Mattie's gift is for writing and she's been accepted to Barnard College in New York City, but she's held back by her sense of responsibility to her family--and by her budding romance with handsome-but-dull Royal Loomis. Royal awakens feelings in Mattie that she doesn't want to ignore, but she can't deny her passion for words and her desire to write.
At the hotel, Mattie gets caught up in the disappearance of a young couple who had gone out together in a rowboat. Mattie spoke with the young woman, Grace Brown, just before the fateful boating trip, when Grace gave her a packet of love letters and asked her to burn them. When Grace is found drowned, Mattie reads the letters and finds that she holds the key to unraveling the girl's death and her beau's mysterious disappearance. Grace Brown's story is a true one (it's the same story told in Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy and in the film adaptation, A Place in the Sun), and author Jennifer Donnelly masterfully interweaves the real-life story with Mattie's, making her seem even more real.
Mattie's frank voice reveals much about poverty, racism, and feminism at the turn of the twentieth century. She witnesses illness and death at a range far closer than most teens do today, and she's there when her best friend Minnie gives birth to twins. Mattie describes Minnie's harrowing labor with gut-wrenching clarity, and a visit with Minnie and the twins a few weeks later dispels any romance from the reality of young motherhood (and marriage). Overall, readers will get a taste of how bitter--and how sweet--ordinary life in the early 1900s could be. Despite the wide variety of troubles Mattie describes, the book never feels melodramatic, just heartbreakingly real. (14 and older) --Jennifer Lindsay [via]
The Oxford Paperback Spanish Dictionary : Spanish-English/English-Spanishby Christine LeaISBN 0192800132 (0-19-280013-2)
Softcover, Oxford University Press
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The Oxford Paperback Dictionaryby Elaine Pollard, Helen LiebeckISBN 0192800124 (0-19-280012-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Oxford 3-In-1 Bilingual Dictionary: Oxdord Hachette French Dictionary/Oxford Spanish Dictionary/Oxford Duden German DictionaryISBN 0192683322 (0-19-268332-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Oxford Companion to the Second World Warby M. R. D. Foot, Ian DearISBN 0192141686 (0-19-214168-6)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Oxford Dictionary of Artby Harold Osborne, Ian Chilvers, Dennis FarrISBN 0192800221 (0-19-280022-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Oxford Guide to English Usageby Andrew Delahunty, E.S.C. WeinerISBN 0192800248 (0-19-280024-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Guide to English Usage'Book summary:Have you ever had doubts about when to hyphenate two words? Confused over whether you should disassociate or dissociate yourself from something? Do you know when to spell doggie as doggy? Is it really a rule that a preposition should never fall at the end of a sentence? Now there is a single convenient source you can turn to with all your questions about how to speak and write more clearly: The Oxford Guide to English Usage, now available in a completely revised New Edition.
In The Oxford Guide to English Usage Andrew Delahunty and Edmund Weiner (co-editor of the twenty-volume revised Oxford English Dictionary) provide succinct, practical advice on problems that writers struggle with every day. Designed for daily use, this marvelous handbook is organized according to basic themes (Word Formation, Pronunciation, Vocabulary, Grammar, Punctuation) and written to address the actual needs of a typical writer. Under "Word Formation," for instance, the authors offer helpful guidance on suffixes (drop the final silent e when adding -able), those troublesome hyphens, variations between British and American spelling, and why the prefix in- appears in some words and un- in others. The book's approach is consistently straightforward and practical. On the split infinitive, for example, the authors write that it should generally be avoided, but not to the extent that awkward, contorted sentences are the result. And they have this to say about prepositions: "It is a natural feature of the English language that many sentences and clauses end with a preposition, and has been since the earliest times. The alleged rule that forbids [it] should be disregarded." They also offer help on many other matters of grammar, punctuation, and pronunciation (with a thorough guide to differences in American and British usage). Along the way, the Oxford Guide to English Usage offers numerous examples from renowned writers that demonstrate proper usage--or how rules can be broken to good effect. For instance, after describing when the prefix un- should be used, the book offers this coinage by Anthony Burgess: "Joyce's arithmetic is solid and unnonsensical."
In the decade since The Oxford Guide to English Usage first appeared, it has emerged as a well-thumbed favorite of students and writers everywhere. This New Edition has been completely revised to keep abreast of our rapidly changing language, featuring 20% more material, along with the wry, practical advice that has made this book a classic. [via]More editions of The Oxford Guide to English Usage:
The Oxford Guide to Word Gamesby Tony AugardeISBN 0192141449 (0-19-214144-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Oxford Minidictionary of Quotations.ISBN 0192115944 (0-19-211594-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Penguin Atlas of World History: From the French Revolution to the Presentby Hermann Kinder, Werner Hilgemann, Ernest A. MenzeISBN 0141012625 (0-14-101262-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Penguin Book of Curious and Interesting Mathematicsby D. G. WellsISBN 0140236031 (0-14-023603-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Penguin Book of Twentieth Century Speechesby Brian MacArthurISBN 0140285008 (0-14-028500-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Penguin Book of Twentieth Century Speeches'Book summary:Some men speak and change the world. Sometimes for better, often for worse. As Hitler rallied the Germans for war, and twenty years later - John Kennedy sounded the bugle for the new frontier, their visions, gilded and articulated by the power of their oratory, stirred men's hearts and summoned nations to action. 'History will absolve me, ' declared Fidel Castro. 'Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country, ' said Kennedy. 'I have a dream, ' announced Martin Luther King. 'It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die, ' said Nelson Mandela. Few who were born during the Second World War and who came of age in the sixties will ever forget Kennedy's rousing exhortations or the cries for justice from King and Castro. Their words gave form to dreams and hope to men and women. There are those who claim that the age of oratory is over, that the ubiquitous 'soundbite' and our neglect of the classics and the Bible have destroyed it. Yet wherever misery and oppression exist, and while men and women uphold ideals, oratory still flourishes. Now, in The Penguin Book of Twentieth-century Speeches, Brian MacArthur has collected the great speeches which shaped this century - from Theodore Roosevelt's call to the 'strenuous life' in 1899 to Lyndon Johnson's summons to the Great Society in 1964; from Lloyd George's 'People's Budget' of 1909 to Geoffrey Howe's thrusting of the dagger into Margaret Thatcher in 1990; from Roger Casement in the dock in 1914 to Salman Rushdie in the dock in 1991; from Emmeline Pankhurst to Betty Friedan; from Mahatma Gandhi to Jawaharlal Nehru; and from Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky to Khrushchev and Solzhenitsyn. There are presidents and prime ministers, soldiers and poets, dreamers and destroyers. The Penguin Book of Twentieth-century Speeches is the perfect source book for those engaged in making speeches themselves, for students and for anyone wishing to read precisely what was said during a half-remembered speech. Yet [via]
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The Penguin Companion to European Unionby Timothy BainbridgeISBN 0140268790 (0-14-026879-0)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
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The Penguin Concise Dictionary of Computingby Dick PountainISBN 0140514368 (0-14-051436-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Penguin Dictionary of Archaeologyby Warwick Bray, David H. TrumpISBN 0140510451 (0-14-051045-1)
Hardcover, Penguin
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The Penguin Dictionary of Astronomyby Jacqueline MittonISBN 0140513752 (0-14-051375-2)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Penguin Dictionary of Astronomy'Book summary:The third edition of this classic reference work has been revised and updated to contain all the recent advances in this fast-developing field of study. Cutting through a maze of technical language, it provides: over 2,800 clear and concise entries with full cross-referencing; coverage of modern and classical astronomy; names of constellations, stars, galaxies, asteroids, comets, and nebulae; terms relating to astrophysics and cosmology; entries on telescopes and observatories; and explanation of abbreviations and acronyms; and information on space missions. Comprehensive and accessible, The Penguin Dictionary of Astronomy is the work of its kind for students and professionals. [via]
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The Penguin Dictionary of Biologyby Nicholas Abercrombie, Stephen Hill, Bryan S. TurnerISBN 0140511083 (0-14-051108-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Penguin Dictionary Of Biologyby M. Hickman, M. ThainISBN 0141013966 (0-14-101396-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Penguin Dictionary of Biologyby Michael Thain, Michael Hickman, Raymond TurveyISBN 0140513590 (0-14-051359-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Penguin Dictionary of Botany 0001703885by Elizabeth Toothill, Blackmore, Stephen BlackmoreISBN 0140511261 (0-14-051126-1)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
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The Penguin Dictionary of Computersby Anthony ChandorISBN 014051127X (0-14-051127-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Penguin Dictionary of Contemporary American History : 1945 to the Presentby Stanley Hochman, Eleanor HochmanISBN 0140513728 (0-14-051372-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The Penguin Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century Historyby Roy Porter, Jeremy BlackISBN 0140512586 (0-14-051258-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Penguin Dictionary of Electronicsby John Young, Carol Young, Valerie IllingworthISBN 0140511873 (0-14-051187-3)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Penguin Dictionary of English and European History, 1485-1789by E. N. WilliamsISBN 0140510842 (0-14-051084-2)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
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The Penguin Dictionary of English Synonyms and Antonymsby FergussonISBN 0140511687 (0-14-051168-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Penguin Dictionary of Epigramsby Mark CohenISBN 0140513957 (0-14-051395-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotationsby J.M. Cohen, M.J. CohenISBN 0140510389 (0-14-051038-9)
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The Penguin Dictionary of Psychologyby Arthur S. ReberISBN 0140510796 (0-14-051079-6)
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The Penguin Dictionary of Religionsby John R. HinnellsISBN 0140511067 (0-14-051106-7)
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Penguin Dictionary of Surnamesby CottleISBN 014051032X (0-14-051032-X)
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The Penguin Dictionary of the Theatreby John Russell TaylorISBN 014051287X (0-14-051287-X)
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The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotationsby J.M. Cohen, M.J. CohenISBN 0140511652 (0-14-051165-2)
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The Penguin German-English Dictionaryby Timothy BuckISBN 0140510737 (0-14-051073-7)
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Penguin Opera Guideby Amanda Holden, Colin Davis, Nicholas Kenyon, Stephen WalshISBN 014051385X (0-14-051385-X)
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The Penguin Opera Guideby Nicholas Kenyon, Stephen Walsh, Amanda HoldenISBN 0140251316 (0-14-025131-6)
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The Penguin Russian Dictionaryby W. F. Ryan, Peter NormanISBN 0140510672 (0-14-051067-2)
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The Penguin Spanish Dictionaryby James R. JumpISBN 0140512985 (0-14-051298-5)
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Russian Phrase Bookby Jill Norman, Pamela DavidsonISBN 0140107118 (0-14-010711-8)
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The Slang Thesaurusby Jonathon GreenISBN 0140512055 (0-14-051205-5)
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Time Out Film Guideby Time OutISBN 0141013540 (0-14-101354-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Time Out Film Guide'Book summary:A film reference book with a distinctly British flavor, the Time Out Film Guide is a collection of capsule reviews written originally for the London magazine Time Out. Its commentary is more lengthy and detailed than that of most other guides, and while some of its critics summarize too much of their movies' plots, their critical remarks are engaging and provocative. The Time Out Film Guide features contributions from scores of movie critics who sometimes spar with one another: compare the book's two assessments of Blade Runner. The reviewers cover many European and Asian movies you won't find in other movie guides. This is the only film book where you can find remarks on Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, and Forrest Gump alongside reviews of major films not widely released in America, such as Samuel Beckett and Buster Keaton's Film, Akira Kurosawa's Madadayo, and Michelangelo Antonioni's Identification of a Woman. The Time Out Film Guide also contains a great number of terrific appendices and indices. In fact, it is this book's lists of films by genre, by major film-producing country, by actor, director, and general subject that make it a necessary reference tool for movie lovers. [via]
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Time Out Film Guideby Tom MilneISBN 0140127003 (0-14-012700-3)
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Time Out Film Guide 2005by John PymISBN 0140294147 (0-14-029414-7)
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Who's Who in the Ancient World: A Handbook to the Survivors of the Greek and Roman Classicsby Betty RadiceISBN 0140510559 (0-14-051055-9)
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Who's Who in the Bibleby Peter CalvocoressiISBN 0140512128 (0-14-051212-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Who's Who in the Bible'Book summary:In tribute to the Bible's everlasting characters, author Peter Calvocoressi assembled a concise listing of biographies from both the Old and the New Testament. Unlike an encyclopaedia, a "Who's Who" is a select directory, "to which entry has to be gained by fame or favour", according to Calvocoressi. As a result, each character can be linked to a pivotal story in the Bible. The 450 listings range from short paragraphs (such as Bartholomew's brief mention as one of the 12 apostles) to two-page essays, such as the one devoted to Mark. Speaking of this "evangelist and saint", the author writes, "Mark alone records the presence at Jesus' arrest of a young man in a white cloth who followed Jesus when all others fled but was attacked and forced to flee naked". Was this Mark, Calvocoressi wonders? "If so, he has inserted himself modestly in his own work like the artists ... in Italian Renaissance pictures or Alfred Hitchcock who does likewise in his films". It is this kind of observation that makes Calvocoressi's directory so inviting as well as informative. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Words on Words: Quotations About Language and Languagesby David Crystal, Hilary CrystalISBN 0140291342 (0-14-029134-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Words on Words: Quotations About Language and Languages'Book summary:"I hate quotations," said Emerson in his Journals. "Tell me what you know." Poor Emerson. He didn't realize how very much could be known by browsing a book of quotations. Words on Words provides a sort of crash course in the history of thought about language and languages. Sure, what you get here are just snippets--nearly 5,000 of them--but those snippets will send you back to countless original sources. The result is a sort of Bartlett's for word lovers, language enthusiasts, and linguists. (As in Bartlett's, a generous portion of the text--nearly half--is devoted to indexes.)
Editors David Crystal and Hilary Crystal culled (and frequently corrected) quotations from elsewhere; they also read widely, gathering quotations from original sources. They were often surprised, they say in the book's introduction, by which texts rendered the most quotations: the works of Laurence Sterne, for example, were "unexpectedly fruitful"; Pepys's Diary, on the other hand, "yielded next to nothing." In their reading, the editors sought, among other qualities, "succinctness and autonomy of expression." They found this with abundance in the works of Oscar Wilde, as well as in those of Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Montaigne, Emerson, Samuel Johnson, Dickens, and Ambrose Bierce (his unequaled Devil's Dictionary is widely quoted). The quotations have been sorted into 65 categories, focusing on such topics as language origins, usage, multilingualism, verbosity, slang, and the language of politics. One might think, given David Crystal's renown as a linguist, that professional linguists might have made a strong showing here. No go. "On the whole," the Crystals say, "linguists are remarkably unquoteworthy." --Jane Steinberg [via]
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The Oxford Paperback German Dictionary : German-English/English-Germanby Gunhild Prowe, Jill SchneiderISBN 0192800116 (0-19-280011-6)
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