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African Languages: An Introductionby Bernd HeineISBN 0521666295 (0-521-66629-5)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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American Talk: The Words and Ways of American Dialectsby Robert HendricksonISBN 0670813303 (0-670-81330-3)
Hardcover, Viking
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The Annotated Lolitaby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0679727299 (0-679-72729-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annotated Lolita'Book summary:In 1954 Vladimir Nabokov asked one American publisher to consider "a firebomb that I have just finished putting together." The explosive device: Lolita, his morality play about a middle-aged European's obsession with a 12-year-old American girl. Two years later, the New York Times called it "great art." Other reviewers staked a higher moral ground (the editor of the London Sunday Express declaring it "the filthiest book I've ever read"). Since then, the sinuous novel has never ceased to astound. Even Nabokov was astonished by its place in the popular imagination. One biographer writes that "he was quite shocked when a little girl of eight or nine came to his door for candy on Halloween, dressed up by her parents as Lolita." And when it came time to casting the film, Nabokov declared, "Let them find a dwarfess!"
The character Lolita's power now exists almost separately from the endlessly inventive novel. If only it were read as often as it is alluded to. Alfred Appel Jr., editor of the annotated edition, has appended some 900 notes, an exhaustive, good-humored introduction, and a recent preface in which he admits that the "reader familiar with Lolita can approach the apparatus as a separate unit, but the perspicacious student who keeps turning back and forth from text to Notes risks vertigo." No matter. The notes range from translations to the anatomical to the complex textual. Appel is also happy to point out the Great Punster's supposedly unintended word play: he defends the phrase "Beaver Eaters" as "a portmanteau of 'Beefeaters' (the yeoman of the British royal guard) and their beaver hats." [via]
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The Art of Fictionby John GardnerISBN 0679734031 (0-679-73403-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Fiction'Book summary:This classic guide, from the renowned novelist and professor, has helped transform generations of aspiring writers into masterful writersand will continue to do so for many years to come.
John Gardner was almost as famous as a teacher of creative writing as he was for his own works. In this practical, instructive handbook, based on the courses and seminars that he gave, he explains, simply and cogently, the principles and techniques of good writing. Gardners lessons, exemplified with detailed excerpts from classic works of literature, sweep across a complete range of topicsfrom the nature of aesthetics to the shape of a refined sentence. Written with passion, precision, and a deep respect for the art of writing, Gardners book serves by turns as a critic, mentor, and friend. Anyone who has ever thought of taking the step from reader to writer should begin here. [via]More editions of The Art of Fiction:
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Aspect: An Introduction to the Study of Verbal Aspect and Related Problemsby Bernard ComrieISBN 0521290457 (0-521-29045-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Biology and Evolution of Languageby Philip LiebermanISBN 0674074130 (0-674-07413-0)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Biology and Evolution of Language'Book summary:This book synthesizes much of the exciting recent research in the biology of language. Drawing on data from anatomy, neurophysiology, physiology, and behavioral biology, Lieberman develops a new approach to the puzzle of language, arguing that it is the result of many evolutionary compromises. Within his discussion, Lieberman skillfully addresses matters as various as the theory of neoteny (which he refutes), the mating calls of bullfrogs, ape language, dyslexia, and computer-implemented models of the brain. [via]
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Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Lifeby Anne LamottISBN 0679435204 (0-679-43520-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Caseby Barry J. BlakeISBN 0521807611 (0-521-80761-1)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Case'Book summary:Case is an introduction for students of linguistics to the ways relations between words in sentences are marked in languages. It describes the systems of suffixes familiar from languages like Latin and also the roles of prepositions, postpositions and the use of the pronominal elements on verbs. One of the most interesting features of case is the recurrence of apparently idiosyncratic patterns and devices in otherwise unrelated languages. This book picks out these recurring strategies and explores their significance. It provides the background against which the case marking of particular languages can be best understood. Case contains in addition a useful discussion of the theoretical problems in identifying cases and the basis for distinguishing case relations from cases. A final chapter looks at the origins and development of case marking devices. [via]
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Chambers 21st Century Dictionaryby Mairi Robinson, George W. DavidsonISBN 0550106251 (0-550-10625-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Chambers Dictionaryby C. M. SchwarzISBN 0550102558 (0-550-10255-8)
Hardcover, Larousse Kingfisher Chambers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Chambers Dictionary'Book summary:Containing 300,000 definitions, 215,000 references and 25,000 new entries, this revised edition incorporates extensive coverage of new words and contemporary meanings, specialist scientific and technical vocabulary, legal and financial terminology, and the language of business. [via]
Chambers Dictionaryby Chambers EditorsISBN 0550101055 (0-550-10105-5)
Hardcover, Chambers Harrap Publishers Limited.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chambers Dictionary'Book summary:The Chambers Dictionary is one of the oldest single-volume dictionaries of its kind, and draws on a 166 year-old tradition of dictionary writing. Hailed as the most comprehensive and current single-volume dictionary of international English, this newly revised edition contains over 215,000 references and 300,000 definitions. With its bold headwords and clear type, this new edition has the all the advantages of a modern, streamlined layout and makes information on words, phrases, and expressions easier to find, easier to read, and easier to understand. An official reference source for the board game Scrabble - its wide range of vocabulary provides unrivalled coverage for word game players, crossword solvers, and crossword compilers, as well as a treasure-trove of lexical delights for word lovers. The Chambers Dictionary has long been the choice of the discerning user of English and the preferred single-volume dictionary of academics, and professionals for its coverage of the English language from the Bible and Shakespeare, to present day scientific and technological vocabulary. Many new words and meanings have been added from today's world of information sciences, business, alternative medicine, and everyday life, including cybercafe, alpha-decay, browser, road rage, birthing pool, and reiki. Etymological nesting of words show derivations, emphasizes linguistic links between words, and increases overall coverage. Prefaces include: A Short History of English, and Rules of English Spelling. Selected phrases and quotations from Latin, Greek, and modern languages. Appendices include: pronunciation guide, grammar and usage guide, punctuation, symbols, temperature, measurement and size conversions, Roman numerals, and chemical elements.[via]-
The Chambers Dictionaryby Not AvailableISBN 055014000X (0-550-14000-X)
Softcover, Ediciones Larousse Sa De Cv
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Chambers Dictionary'Book summary:A new edition of the "Chambers Dictionary", this is a dictionary for people who pride themselves on their knowledge use of language, and for those who want a single volume dictionary that gives both modern and historical meanings. [via]
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Chambers Dictionaryby Ian BrooksISBN 055010013X (0-550-10013-X)
Hardcover, Chambers Harrap Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chambers Dictionary'Book summary:This edition of the "Chambers Dictionary" combines the long-established virtues of its predecessors with a modern design and updated content. It offers coverage of English vocabulary, ranging from rare and archaic words to the latest slang and technical terms, and contains appendices with information from chemical elements to first names, and the plays of Shakespeare to the Greek and Hebrew alphabets. [via]
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Chambers Murray Latin-English Dictionaryby John Lockwood, William SmithISBN 0550190031 (0-550-19003-1)
Softcover, Chambers Harrap Pub Ltd
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The Chinese Have a Word for It: The Complete Guide to Chinese Thought and Cultureby Boye Lafayette De MenteISBN 0658010786 (0-658-01078-6)
Softcover, Passport Books
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Collins Concise Spanish-English English-Spanish Dictionary/Webster's New World Spanish Dictionaryby Mike GonzalezISBN 0671604694 (0-671-60469-4)
Hardcover, Macmillan General Reference
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Contacts: Langue Et Culture Francaisesby Jean-Paul Valette, Rebecca M. ValetteISBN 0618007482 (0-618-00748-2)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Contacts: Langue Et Culture Francaises'Book summary:Both students and instructors find this popular introductory text easy to use. The grammar lessons are presented in a logical sequence with constant vocabulary reinforcement and practice of the four skills--listening, reading, writing, and speaking. In addition, Contacts meets the five "Cs" of the national standards for foreign languages--culture, connections, comparison, communities, and communication--which are denoted by icons when they appear in the text. [via]
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Contacts: Langue Et Culture Francaises (Cahier D'Activites)by Rebecca M. Valette, Jean-Paul ValletteISBN 0618007504 (0-618-00750-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Contacts: Langue Et Culture Francaises (Cahier D'Activites)'Book summary:Both students and instructors find this popular introductory text easy to use. The grammar lessons are presented in a logical sequence with constant vocabulary reinforcement and practice of the four skills--listening, reading, writing, and speaking. In addition, Contacts meets the five "Cs" of the national standards for foreign languages--culture, connections, comparison, communities, and communication--which are denoted by icons when they appear in the text. [via]
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A Dictionary of the Underworld: British & American, Being the Vocabularies of Crooks, Criminals, Racketeers, Beggars and Tramps, Convicts, the Commercial Underworld, the Drug Traffic, the White Slave Traffic, Spivsby Eric PartridgeISBN 0710019335 (0-7100-1933-5)
Hardcover, Routledge & K. Paul
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Dutch-English and English-Dutch Dictionaryby Fernand G. RenierISBN 0710020236 (0-7100-2023-6)
Hardcover, Routledge & Kegan Paul
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dutch-English and English-Dutch Dictionary'Book summary:This two-way dictionary is ideal for both linguists and learners of Dutch. Translations are accurate and supported by relevant examples. Compact and concise, the dictionary is an invaluable reference source. Entries are supplemented by a section covering aspects of Dutch pronunciation and grammar. [via]
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Elementary Modern Standard Arabic : Lessons 31-45, Appendicesby Peter F. Abboud, Z. N. Abdel-Malek, W. M. Erwin, Ernest N. McCarus, G. N. SaadISBN 0521272963 (0-521-27296-3)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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Elementary Modern Standard Arabic: Pronunciation and Writing, Lessonsby Ernest N. McCarus, Peter F. AbboudISBN 0521272955 (0-521-27295-5)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elementary Modern Standard Arabic: Pronunciation and Writing, Lessons'Book summary:The Elementary Modern Standard Arabic Course (EMSA), published in 1983, is the premier introduction, for the English-speaking student, to the active written language of the Arab world. Expressly designed for the beginning student, the course is written by a team of Arabic language teachers consisting of native and non-native Arabic speakers, linguists and people whose primary interests are literature and allied areas. It implements an audio-lingual approach to language teaching while presenting the elements of Modern Standard Arabic as written and spoken in the contemporary Arab World. Volume 1 is complete in itself and presents a practical introduction to the writing system of Arabic and to its pronunciation, with reading and writing pronunciation drills. Thirty lessons provide a basic working knowledge of Arabic. Each lesson contains a text, a vocabulary, grammar and drills including oral and written comprehension passages. An Arabic-English glossary completes the volume. The course continues in Volume 2, which extends the knowledge of vocabulary, grammar and expression. Fifteen further lessons are followed by appendices which give reference information. [via]
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Eugenie Grandetby Honore De Balzac, Ellen MarriageISBN 0679417168 (0-679-41716-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Generative Grammarby Geoffrey C. HorrocksISBN 0582291313 (0-582-29131-3)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Generative Grammar'Book summary:This book provides a critical review of the development of generative grammar, both transformational and non-transformational, from the early 1960s to the present, and presents contemporary results in the context of an overall evaluation of recent research in the field. Geoffrey Horrocks compares Chomsky's approach to the study of grammar, culminating in Government and Binding theory, with two other theories which are deliberate reactions to this framework: Generalised Phrase Structure Grammar and Lexical-Functional Grammar. Whilst proponents of all three models regard themselves as generative grammarians, and share many of the same objectives, the differences between them nevertheless account for much of the recent debate in this subject. By presenting these different theories in the context of the issues that unite and divide them, the book highlights the problems which arise in any attempt to establish an adequate theory of grammatical representation. [via]
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The Graves of Academeby Richard MitchellISBN 0671639374 (0-671-63937-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Greek: A History of the Language and Its Speakersby Geoffrey C. HorrocksISBN 0582307090 (0-582-30709-0)
Softcover, Pearson P T R
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Greek: A History of the Language and Its Speakers'Book summary:Tracing the development of the Greek language from the Mycenean period of the second millenium BC to the late 1990s, this volume combines both external and internal history into a single narrative. It explores, in English, the evolution of the Greek language as a whole, in all its regional and social heterogeneity, and in both its spoken and written forms. The main study is supported throughout by detailed summaries of key developments in checklist form and an examination of selected texts to highlight major points. Maps are also used to illustrate more clearly the distribution of the ancient dialects and the geographical spread of the language in the early Middle Ages. A bibliography for further reading and study is also provided. [via]
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A Guide to Biblical Hebrew Syntaxby Bill T. Arnold, John H. ChoiISBN 0521533481 (0-521-53348-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Guide to Biblical Hebrew Syntax'Book summary:At the heart of biblical interpretation is the need to read the Bible's "syntax" (the way words, clauses, and sentences relate to each other). The growing demands on theological education have made it difficult for students of the Hebrew Bible (or Old Testament) to master the intermediate-level skills required to interpret the syntax of the Bible's original language. A Guide to Biblical Hebrew Syntax defines the fundamental syntactical features of the Hebrew Bible, and illustrates each feature with at least one example, extracted from the Bible itself and accompanied with English translation. [via]
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The Handbook of Good Englishby Edward D. JohnsonISBN 0671707973 (0-671-70797-3)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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Handbuch Zur Deutschen Grammatikby Larry D. Wells, Jamie RankinISBN 0618013458 (0-618-01345-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Handbuch Zur Deutschen Grammatik: Wiederholen Und Anwendenby Larry D. Wells, Jammie RankinISBN 0618013431 (0-618-01343-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Harrap's Concise English-German Dictionary/Harrap's Worterbuch Deutsch-Englischby Robin SawersISBN 0671888099 (0-671-88809-9)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursiveby Henry Yule, A. C. BurnellISBN 0710028865 (0-7100-2886-5)
Hardcover, Routledge
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How the Grinch Stole Christmasby Dr. Seuss, Alice JonaitisISBN 0679891536 (0-679-89153-6)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas!'Book summary:"The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season! / Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason." Dr. Seuss's small-hearted Grinch ranks right up there with Scrooge when it comes to the crankiest, scowling holiday grumps of all time. For 53 years, the Grinch has lived in a cave on the side of a mountain, looming above the Whos in Whoville. The noisy holiday preparations and infernal singing of the happy little citizens below annoy him to no end. The Grinch decides this frivolous merriment must stop. His "wonderful, awful" idea is to don a Santa outfit, strap heavy antlers on his poor, quivering dog Max, construct a makeshift sleigh, head down to Whoville, and strip the chafingly cheerful Whos of their Yuletide glee once and for all.
Looking quite out of place and very disturbing in his makeshift Santa get-up, the Grinch slithers down chimneys with empty bags and stealing the Whos' presents, their food, even the logs from their humble Who-fires. He takes the ramshackle sleigh to Mt. Crumpit to dump it and waits to hear the sobs of the Whos when they wake up and discover the trappings of Christmas have disappeared. Imagine the Whos' dismay when they discover the evil-doings of Grinch in his anti-Santa guise. But what is that sound? It's not sobbing, but singing! Children simultaneously adore and fear this triumphant, twisted Seussian testimonial to the undaunted cheerfulness of the Whos, the transcendent nature of joy, and of course, the growth potential of a heart that's two sizes too small. This holiday classic is perfect for reading aloud to your favorite little Whos. (Ages 4 to 8) [via]
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How to Read a Bookby Mortimer Jerome AdlerISBN 0671212095 (0-671-21209-5)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Read a Book'Book summary:How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. It is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader. And now it has been completely rewritten and updated.
You are told about the various levels of reading and how to achieve them -- from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading, you learn how to pigeonhole a book, X-ray it, extract the author's message, criticize. You are taught the different reading techniques for reading practical books, imaginative literature, plays, poetry, history, science and mathematics, philosophy and social science.
Finally, the authors offer a recommended reading list and supply reading tests whereby you can measure your own progress in reading skills, comprehension and speed. [via]
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How to Read and Whyby Harold BloomISBN 0684859076 (0-684-85907-6)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Read and Why'Book summary:Harold Bloom's urgency in How to Read and Why may have much to do with his age. He brackets his combative, inspiring manual with the news that he is nearing 70 and hasn't time for the mediocre. (One doubts that he ever did.) Nor will he countenance such fashionable notions as the death of the author or abide "the vagaries of our current counter-Puritanism" let alone "ideological cheerleading." Successively exploring the short story, poetry, the novel, and drama, Bloom illuminates both the how and why of his title and points us in all the right directions: toward the Romantics because they "startle us out of our sleep-of-death into a more capacious sense of life"; toward Austen, James, Proust; toward Thomas Mann, Toni Morrison, and Cormac McCarthy; toward Cervantes and Shakespeare (but of course!), Ibsen and Oscar Wilde.
How should we read? Slowly, with love, openness, and with our inner ear cocked. Then we should reread, reread, reread, and do so aloud as often as possible. "As a boy of eight," he tells us, "I would walk about chanting Housman's and William Blake's lyrics to myself, and I still do, less frequently yet with undiminished fervor." And why should we engage in this apparently solitary activity? To increase our wit and imagination, our sense of intimacy--in short, our entire consciousness--and also to heal our pain. "Until you become yourself," Bloom avers, "what benefit can you be to others." So much for reading as an escape from the self!
Still, many of this volume's pleasures may indeed be selfish. The author is at his best when he is thinking aloud and anew, and his material offers him--and therefore us--endless opportunities for discovery. Bloom cherishes poetry because it is "a prophetic mode" and fiction for its wisdom. Intriguingly, he fears more for the fate of the latter: "Novels require more readers than poems do, a statement so odd that it puzzles me, even as I agree with it." We must, he adjures, crusade against its possible extinction and read novels "in the coming years of the third millennium, as they were read in the eighteenth and nineteenth century: for aesthetic pleasure and for spiritual insight."
Bloom is never heavy, since his vision quest contains a healthy love of irony--Jedediah Purdy, take note: "Strip irony away from reading, and it loses at once all discipline and all surprise." And this supreme critic makes us want to equal his reading prowess because he writes as well as he reads; his epigrams are equal to his opinions. He is also a master allusionist and quoter. His section on Hedda Gabler is preceded by three extraordinary statements, two from Ibsen, who insists, "There must be a troll in what I write." Who would not want to proceed? Of course, Bloom can also accomplish his goal by sheer obstinacy. As far as he is concerned, Don Quixote may have been the first novel but it remains to this day the best one. Is he perhaps tweaking us into reading this gigantic masterwork by such bald overstatement? Bloom knows full well that a prophet should stop at nothing to get his belief and love across, and throughout How to Read and Why he is as unstinting as the visionary company he adores. --Kerry Fried [via]
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Kaleidoskop: Kultur, Literatur Und Grammatikby Jack Moeller, Winnifred R. Adolph, Barbara Mabee, Simone BergerISBN 0618103198 (0-618-10319-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kaleidoskop: Kultur, Literatur Und Grammatik'Book summary:This intermediate text uses a flexible, four-skills approach to promote communication with a primary emphasis on reading. Kaleidoskop is organized into two main sections, Lektüre and Grammatik. Lektüre features 10 Themen, which present excerpts and complete texts that reflect contemporary Germany, followed by reading comprehension activities, and speaking and writing practice. Grammatik offers a comprehensive grammar review in 10 Kapitel, which recycle and integrate vocabulary used in the Themen and provide proficiency-oriented practice. [via]
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Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div - Kaleidoskon Kultur Literatur Und Grammatik: ISBN 0618114696 (0-618-11469-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div - Kaleidoskop: Kultur, Literatur Und Grammatik: ISBN 061810318X (0-618-10318-X)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - Kaleidoskop: Kultur, Literatur Und Grammatik: ISBN 0618103198 (0-618-10319-8)
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- Kaleidoskop: Kultur, Literatur Und Grammatik: ISBN 0618103120 (0-618-10312-0)
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The Klingon Hamletby William Shakespeare, Nick Nicholas, Andrew Strader, Klingon Language Institute, Will Martin, Mark Shoulson, D'Armond SpeersISBN 0671035789 (0-671-03578-9)
Softcover, Star Trek
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Klingon Hamlet'Book summary:Prepared by the Klingon Language Institute, The Klingon Hamlet presents full English and Klingon versions of Shakespeare's play side by side. Only experienced Klingon speakers will be able to fully appreciate the nuances of the Klingon-language version, but for anyone who has dabbled in the language, this is an excellent opportunity to acquire large chunks of authentic text to practice on. Most of the vocabulary used can be found in either The Klingon Dictionary or Klingon for the Galactic Traveler.
For non-Klingon speakers, there is Shakespeare's original text, an English-language introduction, and detailed endnotes, very wittily presented. These put forward the case that Shakespeare himself was a Klingon, and underline the essentially Klingon nature of this famous play, with its themes of honor and revenge. In creating the tragic figure of Hamlet, with his very un-Klingon propensity for brooding and procrastination, Shakespeare is believed to have been commenting on a culture becoming alienated from its traditional warlike virtues, and we are told that most Klingons find it a deeply disturbing play.
All in all, this is a very clever, well-presented interpretation of one of the world's most famous plays. The Klingon translation, in all the glory of its iambic pentameter, has been lovingly constructed, and is well worth the effort of reading at least a few favorite passages aloud. --Elizabeth Sourbut, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Language and the Internetby David CrystalISBN 0521868599 (0-521-86859-9)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Latin Languageby L.R. PalmerISBN 0571068138 (0-571-06813-8)
Hardcover, Brill Academic Pub
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Listening to America: An Illustrated History of Words and Phrases from Our Lively and Splendid Pastby Stuart Berg FlexnerISBN 0671527983 (0-671-52798-3)
Softcover, Smithmark Pub
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Lolitaby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0679723161 (0-679-72316-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lolita'Book summary:Despite its lascivious reputation, the pleasures of Lolita are as much intellectual as erogenous. It is a love story with the power to raise both chuckles and eyebrows. Humbert Humbert is a European intellectual adrift in America, haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love. When he meets his ideal nymphet in the shape of 12-year-old Dolores Haze, he constructs an elaborate plot to seduce her, but first he must get rid of her mother. In spite of his diabolical wit, reality proves to be more slippery than Humbert's feverish fantasies, and Lolita refuses to conform to his image of the perfect lover.
Playfully perverse in form as well as content, riddled with puns and literary allusions, Nabokov's 1955 novel is a hymn to the Russian-born author's delight in his adopted language. Indeed, readers who want to probe all of its allusive nooks and crannies will need to consult the annotated edition. Lolita is undoubtedly, brazenly erotic, but the eroticism springs less from the "frail honey-hued shoulders ... the silky supple bare back" of little Lo than it does from the wantonly gorgeous prose that Humbert uses to recount his forbidden passion:
She was musical and apple-sweet ... Lola the bobby-soxer, devouring her immemorial fruit, singing through its juice ... and every movement she made, every shuffle and ripple, helped me to conceal and to improve the secret system of tactile correspondence between beast and beauty--between my gagged, bursting beast and the beauty of her dimpled body in its innocent cotton frock.
Much has been made of Lolita as metaphor, perhaps because the love affair at its heart is so troubling. Humbert represents the formal, educated Old World of Europe, while Lolita is America: ripening, beautiful, but not too bright and a little vulgar. Nabokov delights in exploring the intercourse between these cultures, and the passages where Humbert describes the suburbs and strip malls and motels of postwar America are filled with both attraction and repulsion, "those restaurants where the holy spirit of Huncan Dines had descended upon the cute paper napkins and cottage-cheese-crested salads." Yet however tempting the novel's symbolism may be, its chief delight--and power--lies in the character of Humbert Humbert. He, at least as he tells it, is no seedy skulker, no twisted destroyer of innocence. Instead, Nabokov's celebrated mouthpiece is erudite and witty, even at his most depraved. Humbert can't help it--linguistic jouissance is as important to him as the satisfaction of his arrested libido. --Simon Leake [via] -
The Miracle of Languageby Charlton LairdISBN 0685035980 (0-685-03598-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciencesby Michel FoucaultISBN 0679753354 (0-679-75335-4)
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An Outline of English Phoneticsby Daniel JonesISBN 0521290414 (0-521-29041-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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A Pleasure in Wordsby Eugene T. MaleskaISBN 0671447750 (0-671-44775-0)
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Pygmalionby George Bernard ShawISBN 0613998650 (0-613-99865-0)
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Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Actsby George Bernard Shaw, Harry ShefterISBN 0671704966 (0-671-70496-6)
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Washington Square Press' Enriched Classics present the great works of world literature enhanced for the contemporary reader. This edition of Pygmalion includes the analysis of Eric Bentley from his book Bernard Shaw. Essential biographical and historical background is provided, together with notes, critical excerpts, and suggestions for further reading. A unique visual essay of period illustrations and photographs helps bring the play to life. [via]
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Romance Languagesby Rebecca PosnerISBN 0521281393 (0-521-28139-3)
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Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semanticsby Alfred KorzybskiISBN 068572364X (0-685-72364-X)
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The Scott, Foresman Handbook for Writersby Maxine Hairston, John J. RuszkiewiczISBN 0673466795 (0-673-46679-5)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scott, Foresman Handbook for Writers'Book summary:"What did you write today?" "What will you write tomorrow?" The Scott Foresman Handbook for Writers, Seventh Edition, is the only handbook proven to prepare you completely for writing in the classroom and beyond. Known for its accessible style and innovation, the new edition of The Scott Foresman Handbook continues the tradition with My Handbook. This groundbreaking service allows you to personalize the online edition of The Scott Foresman Handbook to meet your needs. In addition, it offers instant access to the entire Scott Foresman Handbook, diagnostic tests, interactive wercises, and more. Click on www.prenhall.com/hairston/, and use your access code packaged free with new copy purchase of The Scott Foresman Handbook, Seventh Edition. [via]
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The Scott, Foresman Handbook for Writersby Kay Halasek, Maxine Hairston, John J. Ruszkiewicz, Roger CherryISBN 0673467082 (0-673-46708-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins College Div
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The Seeds of Speech: Language Origin and Evolutionby Jean AitchisonISBN 0521785715 (0-521-78571-5)
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Shakespeare's Bawdy: A Literary & Psychological Essay and a Comprehensive Glossaryby Eric PartridgeISBN 0710062702 (0-7100-6270-2)
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A Student's Introduction To English Grammarby Geoffrey K. Pullum, Rodney HuddlestonISBN 0521848377 (0-521-84837-7)
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A Student's Introduction To English Grammarby Rodney HuddlestonISBN 0521612888 (0-521-61288-8)
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A Student's Grammar of the English Languageby Randolph Quirk, Sidney GreenbaumISBN 0582059712 (0-582-05971-2)
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Teach Yourself Czechby W.R. LeeISBN 0679102116 (0-679-10211-6)
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There's a Word for It: A Grandiloquent Guide to Lifeby Charles Harrington ElsterISBN 0671778587 (0-671-77858-7)
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The Twenty-Six Lettersby Oscar OggISBN 0690841159 (0-690-84115-9)
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Vox Graeca: A Guide to the Pronunciation of Classical Greekby William Sidney AllenISBN 0521335558 (0-521-33555-8)
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Webster's New World Hebrew Dictionary: Hebrew/English-English/Hebrewby Hayim BaltsanISBN 0671889915 (0-671-88991-5)
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Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Languageby Merriam-Webster StaffISBN 067141819X (0-671-41819-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged: Based upon the Broad Foundations Laid down by Noah Websterby Noah Webster, Jean Lyttleton McKechnieISBN 0529048523 (0-529-04852-3)
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Where the Lightning Strikes: The Lives of American Indian Sacred Placesby Peter NabokovISBN 0670034320 (0-670-03432-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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For thousands of years Native Americans have told stories about the powers of revered landscapes and sought spiritual direction at mysterious locations in their homelands. In Where the Lightning Strikes, Peter Nabokov offers sixteen "biographies of place" that dramatize the rich diversity of Indian cultures and their religious systems across North America. From the mountains of Maine to Tennessees Tellico Valley, from the Black Hills of South Dakota to Rainbow Canyon in Arizona to the high country of northwestern California, each chapter explores a host of relationships between Indian cultures and their environments and describes the myths, legends, practices, and rituals that sustained them.Based on years of research and personal experience, Where the Lightning Strikes reveals a range of holy lands containing beneficial as well as malevolent forces and reminds us of the stubborn persistence of Indian beliefs in the sacredness of the American earth. [via]
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Wordstruck: A Memoirby Robert MacNeilISBN 0670818712 (0-670-81871-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wordstruck: A Memoir'Book summary:People become writers, in large part, because they are in love with language. Wordstruck is the story of one such writer's unabashed affair with words, from his Halifax childhood awash with intriguing accents to life as a traveling journalist who "delighted in finding pockets of distinctive English, as a botanist is thrilled to discover a new variety of plant." Each aspect of Robert MacNeil's youthful existence prompted yet another linguistic thrill. Childhood churchgoing "did not provide me with any spiritual awakening ... but it anointed me with language." His mother's passion for the natural world and his father's life as a ship's skipper gave him two more complete vocabularies. And "If you define yourself by the language you acquire as you enter different spheres," MacNeil writes, the absurd language of "cricket was another piece of my self-definition."
MacNeil is best known as a novelist, coauthor of The Story of English, and onetime executive editor of the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. In Wordstruck he imparts a passion for Shakespeare (in particular, Hamlet), Dylan Thomas, and T. S. Eliot, whose ear for the English language, he says, was "the equivalent of perfect pitch--for the harmonic range of our tongue, its rhythms, and all its voices." Wordstruck is a charming memoir from a man "crazy about the sound of words, the look of words, the taste of words, the feeling for words on the tongue and in the mind." [via]
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First Thousand Words in Spanishby Heather AmeryISBN 0590997599 (0-590-99759-9)
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