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Analytical Greek Lexiconby Harold K. MoultonISBN 0310202817 (0-310-20281-7)
Softcover, Zondervan
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Ancient Greek: A New Approachby Carl A. P. RuckISBN 0262680319 (0-262-68031-9)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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Beginning Chinese Readerby John De FrancisISBN 0300020600 (0-300-02060-0)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beginning Chinese Reader'Book summary:This second edition, like the earlier first edition, introduces some of the main varieties of Chinese as found before and after the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949. While continuing to stress the basic importance of the traditional usages, such as the regular characters to be found in all materials published before the adoption of the simplified forms in 1956 and still in use in some areas, the present revision goes further in contrasting variant usages and in providing additional material relevent to the PRC. [via]
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Beowulf: An Imitative Translationby Ruth LehmannISBN 0292707711 (0-292-70771-1)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf: An Imitative Translation'Book summary:The name "Beowulf" lingers in our collective memory, although today fewer people have heard the tale of the Germanic hero's fight with Grendel, the dreadful Monster of the Mere, as recounted in this Anglo-Saxon epic.
This edition of Beowulf makes the poem more accessible than ever before. Ruth Lehmann's imitative translation is the only one available that preserves both the story line of the poem and the alliterative versification of the Anglo-Saxon original. The characteristic features of Anglo-Saxon poetry-- alliterative verse with first-syllable stress, flexible word order, and inflectional endings--have largely disappeared in Modern English, creating special problems for the translator. Indeed, many other translations of Beowulf currently available are either in prose or in some modern poetic form. Dr. Lehmann's translation alone conveys the "feel" of the original, its rhythm and sound, the powerful directness of the Germanic vocabulary.
In her introduction, Dr. Lehmann gives a succinct summary of the poem's plot, touching on the important themes of obligation and loyalty, of family feuds, unforgivable crimes, the necessity of revenge, and the internal and external struggles of the Scandinavian tribes. She also describes the translation process in some detail, stating the guiding principles she used and the inevitable compromises that were sometimes necessary.
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The C++ Programming Languageby Bjarne StroustrupISBN 0201889544 (0-201-88954-4)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The C++ Programming Language'Book summary:More than three-quarters of a million programmers have benefited from this book in all of its editions Written by Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++, this is the world's most trusted and widely read book on C++. For this special hardcover edition, two new appendixes on locales and standard library exception safety (also available at www.research.att.com/~bs/) have been added. The result is complete, authoritative coverage of the C++ language, its standard library, and key design techniques. Based on the ANSI/ISO C++ standard, The C++ Programming Language provides current and comprehensive coverage of all C++ language features and standard library components. For example: abstract classes as interfaces class hierarchies for object-oriented programming templates as the basis for type-safe generic software exceptions for regular error handling namespaces for modularity in large-scale software run-time type identification for loosely coupled systems the C subset of C++ for C compatibility and system-level work standard containers and algorithms standard strings, I/O streams, and numerics C compatibility, internationalization, and exception safety Bjarne Stroustrup makes C++ even more accessible to those new to the language, while adding advanced information and techniques that even expert C++ programmers will find invaluable. [via]
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymologyby T.F. HoadISBN 019861182X (0-19-861182-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Word Originsby T.F. HoadISBN 0198691661 (0-19-869166-1)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Conversations With Neil's Brain: The Neural Nature of Thought and Languageby William H. Calvin, George A. OjemannISBN 0201483378 (0-201-48337-8)
Softcover, Basic Books
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Coptic Dictionaryby W. E. CrumISBN 0198644043 (0-19-864404-3)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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A Dictionary of Literary Termsby Chris BaldickISBN 0198608837 (0-19-860883-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Dictionary of Literary Terms'Book summary:Containing over 1,000 of the most troublesome literary terms encountered by students and general readers, this gem of a book gives clear and often witty explanations to terms such as hypertext, multi-accentuality, and postmodernism. The dictionary also provides extensive coverage of traditional drama, rhetoric, literary history, and textual criticism. It offers pronunciation guides and suggestions for further reading for many entries, and includes a new preface and terms that have become prominent in literature in the last few years, such as cyberpunk and antanaclasis. This second edition is the most up-to-date and accessible dictionary of literary terms available, popular with both students and teachers of literature at all levels. [via]
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Elements of Acoustic Phoneticsby Peter LadefogedISBN 0226467643 (0-226-46764-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elements of Acoustic Phonetics'Book summary:This revised and expanded edition of the classic Elements of Acoustic Phonetics provides a concise introduction to basic concepts of acoustics and digital speech processing that are important to linguists, phoneticians, and speech scientists.[via]
The second edition includes four new chapters that cover new experimental techniques in acoustic phonetics made possible by the use of computers. Assuming no background in physics or mathematics, Ladefoged explains concepts that must be understood in using modern laboratory techniques for acoustic analysis, including resonances of the vocal tract and the relation of formants to different cavities; digital speech processing and computer storage of sound waves; and Fourier analysis and Linear Predictive Coding, the equations used most frequently in the analysis of speech sounds. Incorporating recent developments in our knowledge of the nature of speech, Ladefoged also updates the original edition's discussion of the basic properties of sound waves; variations in loudness, pitch, and quality of speech sounds; wave analysis; and the hearing and production of speech.More editions of Elements of Acoustic Phonetics:
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Etymological Dictionary of the English Languageby Walter W. SkeatISBN 0198631049 (0-19-863104-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Everything That Linguists Have Always Wanted to Know About Logic* *but Were Ashamed to Askby James D. McCawleyISBN 0226556115 (0-226-55611-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The First Idea: How Symbols, Language, And Intelligence Evolved from Our Primate Ancestors to Modern Humansby Stanley Greenspan, Stuart G. ShankerISBN 0306814498 (0-306-81449-8)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Grammatical Theory: Its Limits and Its Possibilitiesby Frederick NewmeyerISBN 0226577198 (0-226-57719-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literatur Andrewsby Albert B. Elsasser, Walterand BauerISBN 0226039323 (0-226-03932-3)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literatureby Walter Bauer, Frederick W. Danker, William ArndtISBN 0226039331 (0-226-03933-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature'Book summary:Described as an "invaluable reference work" (Classical Philology) and "a tool indispensable for the study of early Christian literature" (Religious Studies Review) in its previous edition, this new updated American edition of Walter Bauer's Wörterbuch zu den Schriften des Neuen Testaments builds on its predecessor's staggering deposit of extraordinary erudition relating to Greek literature from all periods. Including entries for many more words, the new edition also lists more than 25,000 additional references to classical, intertestamental, Early Christian, and modern literature.[via]
In this edition, Frederick W. Danker's broad knowledge of Greco-Roman literature, as well as papyri and epigraphs, provides a more panoramic view of the world of Jesus and the New Testament. Danker has also introduced a more consistent mode of reference citation, and has provided a composite list of abbreviations to facilitate easy access to this wealth of information.
Perhaps the single most important lexical innovation of Danker's edition is its inclusion of extended definitions for Greek terms. For instance, a key meaning of "episkopos" was defined in the second American edition as overseer; Danker defines it as "one who has the responsibility of safeguarding or seeing to it that something is done in the correct way, guardian." Such extended definitions give a fuller sense of the word in question, which will help avoid both anachronisms and confusion among users of the lexicon who may not be native speakers of English.
Danker's edition of Bauer's Wörterbuch will be an indispensable guide for Biblical and classical scholars, ministers, seminarians, and translators.More editions of A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature:
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Knowledge of Language : Its Nature, Origins, and Useby Noam Chomsky, William EatonISBN 0275917614 (0-275-91761-4)
Softcover, Harcourt Education
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David W. Lightfoot, University of Maryland
I feel that it is his most persuasive defense of the idea that the study of linguistic structure provides insight into the human mind. Frederick J. Newmeyer, University of Washington
This is an excellent contribution to the philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind. . . . The best available introduction to Chomsky's current ideas on syntax made accessible to the non-specialist.
Julius M. Moravcsik, Stanford Unviersity
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Language and Silence: Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhumanby George SteinerISBN 0300074719 (0-300-07471-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Language and Silence: Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhuman'Book summary:"When Steiner deals with transactions between languages . . . as in discussion of various English versions of the Bible or Robert Lowell`s translation of Racine, we see a keenly discriminating literary mind at work on what it loves."-Robert Gorham Davis, New York Times Book Review "An extraordinarily sharp, brilliant, and thoughtful discussion of the strange conditions into which modern writing has worked itself. . . . Few, very few writers today have as much that is worthwhile to say on today`s writing as does the author."-Joseph G. Harrison, Christian Science Monitor "Whoever has valued and needed this book for its insights into some one particular matter . . . will upon rereading discover the astounding breadth of attention in [it]: from Homer to Thomas Mann, from Marshall McLuhan to The Warsaw Diary of Chaim Kaplan. In each of these essays, a single sentence, and often more than one, can endlessly provoke and illuminate thought."-John Felstiner How do we evaluate the power and utility of language when it has been made to articulate falsehoods in certain totalitarian regimes or has been charged with vulgarity and imprecision in a mass-consumer democracy? How will language react to the increasingly urgent claims of more exact speech such as mathematics and symbolic notation? These are some of the questions Steiner addresses in this elegantly written book, first published in 1967 to international acclaim. [via]
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Languages of the Mind: Essays on Mental Representationby Ray JackendoffISBN 0262600242 (0-262-60024-2)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Languages of the Mind: Essays on Mental Representation'Book summary:Over the past two decades, Ray Jackendoff has persistently tackled difficult issues in the theory of mind and related theories of cognitive processing. Chief among his contributions is a formal theory that elaborates the nature of language and its relationship to a broad set of other domains.Languages of the Mind provides convenient access to Jackendoff's work over the past five years on the nature of mental representations in a variety of cognitive domains, in the context of a detailed theory of the level of conceptual structure developed in his earlier books Semantics and Cognition and Consciousness and the Computational Mind. The first two chapters summarize the theory of levels of mental representation ("languages of the mind") and their relationships to each other and show how conceptual structure can be approached along lines familiar from syntactic and phonological theory. From this background, subsequent chapters develop issues in word learning (and its pertinence to the Piaget-Chomsky debate) and the relation of conceptual structure to the understanding of physical space.Further chapters apply the theory to domains outside of traditional cognitive science. They include an approach to social and cultural cognition modeled on first principles of linguistic theory, the beginnings of a formal description of psychodynamic phenomena, and a discussion of musical parsing and its relation to musical affect that bears on current disputes in linguistic parsing. The final chapter takes up a long-standing conflict between philosophical and psychological approaches to the study of mind, arguing that mental representations should be regarded purely in terms of the combinatorial organization of brain states, and that the philosophical insistence on the intentionality of mental states should be abandoned.Ray Jackendoff is Professor of Linguistics at Brandeis University.
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Learning American Sign Language: Levels I & Ii--Beginning & Intermediateby Carol Padden, Tom L. HumphriesISBN 0205275532 (0-205-27553-2)
Softcover, Allyn & Bacon
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Learning American Sign Language: Levels I & Ii--Beginning & Intermediate'Book summary:American Sign Language is a rich and complex language. Recently declared as an official language and recognized by 48 states as a foreign language, more and more high school teachers across the country are teaching American Sign Language as an elective. Learning American Sign Language: Levels I & II - Beginning &Intermediate is designed to prepare teachers to successfullyinteract with American Sign Language ASL users. Lessons are structured around language needed for common-life situations, and examples are presented in the form of dialogues coupled with grammar and vocabulary instruction. Information is also included about the culture of deaf people in the United States. Learners will discover that the book: Contains lessons designed around the conversational language needed for common life situations. Illustrates hundreds of sentences and vocabulary with over 2,000 high quality colorized drawings that aid in study and memory. Contains over 100 grammar and cultural notes, 72 exercises, and charts of the American Manual Alphabet Finger spelling and ASL number system. Teaches the rules of ASL in a natural order that is predictable and compatible with everyday language of native users of American Sign Language. Incorporates information about the cultural lives of Deaf people in the United States. Is supported by a video demonstrating all the conversations and important structures in the text. Order the Video! Video to Accompany American Sign Language, 2/e Order No. 0-205-27554-0 American Sign Language students will find themselves captivated and entertained by this state-of-the-art Video that presents all 72 dialogues and each key structure from the text in a clear and natural way. Four internationally known Deaf actors animate the dialogues bringing life to the illustrations in the text allowing students to preview and review instructional materials at home to enhance their classroom learning. [via]
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Linguistic Reconstruction: An Introduction to Theory and Methodby Anthony FoxISBN 0198700016 (0-19-870001-6)
Softcover, Oxford University Press
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Minidiccionario Espanol-Ingles Ingles-Espanol: Spanish-English English-Spanish/Espanol-Ingles/Ingles-Espanolby Christine LeaISBN 0198641567 (0-19-864156-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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In addition to wide-ranging and current coverage of the vocabulary of everyday life, the dictionary is packed with example sentences and idiomatic phrases showing words in use, and includes the core vocabulary of Latin American Spanish, common abbreviations, and irregular plurals and past tenses. Pronunciation is made simple with the standard international phonetic alphabet, which guides the user through even the most idiosyncratic words. Small enough for pocket, purse, or backpack, the Oxford Spanish Minidictionary is a must for anyone learning or using a language growing ever-more in importance on an international level. [via]More editions of Minidiccionario Espanol-Ingles Ingles-Espanol: Spanish-English English-Spanish/Espanol-Ingles/Ingles-Espanol:
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The New Cassell's French Dictionary: French-English, English-Frenchby Denis GirardISBN 0308100018 (0-308-10001-8)
Hardcover, Funk & Wagnalls
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Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotationsby Ned SherrinISBN 0198609205 (0-19-860920-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slangby John A. Simpson, John Ayto, J. A. SimpsonISBN 0198661819 (0-19-866181-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Oxford Dictionary of Slangby John AytoISBN 0198607636 (0-19-860763-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Dictionary of Slang'Book summary:If your other reference books aren't funky enough for you, get a nickel bag of unorthodoxy with the Oxford Dictionary of Slang. This comprehensive look at informal English from around the world and across the centuries is organized thesaurus-style into sections for easy browsing by category. Look up underground terminology for drugs and sex and you'll be browsing for a month of Sundays. Of course, if you need to get the skinny on a particular term but have no idea what it could mean, there's an alphabetical index that'll take you right where you need to go. Each word or phrase is thoroughly documented, as you'd expect from an Oxford dictionary; its first print sighting, place of use, meanings, and cross-contextual references are included, as well as illuminating usage quotes. The Dictionary is easy to use and the definitions are concise--you can get the information you need quickly with time left to linger over related terms. More than 10,000 entries yield plenty of insight into commonly used but still-not-quite-kosher parts of our language. When your New Zealander buddy refers to someone as a cow-spanker, you won't have to wonder for long just who you're dealing with (don't worry, she's a dairy farmer); the Oxford Dictionary of Slang will give you the moxie to deal with a discombobulated world. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Oxford English Dictionary Additions Seriesby John A. Simpson, J. A. Simpson, E.S.C. WeinerISBN 0198612923 (0-19-861292-3)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series'Book summary:The second in a major series of volumes supplementing the Second Edition of The Oxford English Dictionary, OED Additions Volume 2 contains, 3,000 new words and meanings presented in OED style, and represents work-in-progress from across the alphabetic range. Its contents include: 3,000 new words and senses; cumulative index of volumes 1 and 2; world coverage of English including the UK (exclusion order), North America (enrollee), and Australia (grummet), a wide variety of subjects, including science (superstring), literary theory (epiphanic), and sport (strokeless); all registers of English, including colloquial (everyplace) and slang (dweeb); full historical documentation, and dates of first appearance. [via]
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The Oxford German Minidictionary: German-English English-German/Deutsch-Englisch Englisch-Deutschby Gunhild Prowe, Jill SchneiderISBN 0198641508 (0-19-864150-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Oxford Guide to Word Gamesby Tony AugardeISBN 0198662645 (0-19-866264-5)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Oxford Guide to World Englishby Tom McArthurISBN 0198607717 (0-19-860771-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oxford Guide to World English'Book summary:Long gone are the days when English as proprietarily used by educated people in the tiny triangle of southern England formed by Oxford, Cambridge and London is deemed correct and all other versions wrong. The Oxford Guide to World English takes as its "descriptivist" starting point that English is now spoken in every continent by over a billion people across the world, about a quarter of them native speakers. In 70 countries worldwide English is an official or semi official language and has a significant role in 20 more. And because of the Internet--the language of which is 75 per cent English--the number of English users is rising exponentially with middle classes everywhere seeking it for their children as a global resource owned by nobody and everybody. Sadly, it has also become a very powerful almost predatory--language which seriously threatens endangered languages.
The regional varieties and their evolution make a fascinating study that forms the main body of Tom McArthurs book, a spin-off from his The Oxford Companion to the English Language (1992). In Singapore, for example, the particles "on" and "off" can be used as verbs as in "to on/off the light" and he lists 34 expressions used in Antarctic English which have "ice" as a prefix ranging from "ice year" and "ice tongue" to "icepan" and "ice pilot." Each variety of English is minutely discussed in terms of its history, grammar, pronunciation and vocabulary.
The 500 pages of The Oxford Guide to World English conclude by examining the ways in which English continues to change, and the role of so called "standard" English and whether or not the world now needs an international Standard version. Then theres the vexed question of English teaching. Should it be, or is it, a profession, a social service or a global industry? Macarthur quotes Indian journalist Santanu Bora writing in the Maharashtra Herald: "I am speaking a living language and writing one too. I dont hate Bob Marleys English any more than Paul McCartneys. Pauls got rain and snow in his way of speaking and Bobs got sun and sand in his speech. I have the monsoon, the mystic, religions, caste, poverty, the Queen... the list in long, in mine."--Susan Elkin [via]
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The Oxford Italian Minidictionary: Italian-English, English-Italian = Italiano-Inglese, Inglese-Italianoby Joyce AndrewsISBN 019864146X (0-19-864146-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Oxford Latin Course: Teacher's Bookby James Morwood, Maurice BalmeISBN 0199122326 (0-19-912232-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Oxford Latin Course, Part 1by M. G. BalmeISBN 0199120838 (0-19-912083-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Oxford Latin Course, Part IIIby Maurice Balme, James MorwwodISBN 0199120927 (0-19-912092-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oxford Latin Course, Part III'Book summary:A new edition of the Oxford Latin Course which combines both modern and traditional methods of Latin teaching from first stages to GCSE. Completely revised and restructured, the book is based on the reading of original texts. Parts I-III are built around a narrative detailing the life of Horace, based closely on historical sources. [via]
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The Oxford Latin Minidictionary/Flexicoverby James MorwoodISBN 0198642253 (0-19-864225-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Latin Minidictionary/Flexicover'Book summary:This brand new addition to the Minidictionary series is a revised edition of the Routledge Latin Dictionary. It has been updated and revised to meet the needs of both students of Latin, and those with an interest in the classical world. Offering 50,000 entries and over 120,000 translations, the dictionary now reflects recent developments in the study of Latin, such as pronunciation and grammar. The most up-to-date and comprehensive dictionary of its size, it includes complete grammatical information about each Latin word, and indicates differences in meaning, style, and context in cases of ambiguity. In addition, it provides details of conjugation for Latin verbs, comprehensive markings of vowel length as a guide to classical Latin pronunciation, and detailed appendices of historical personalities and mythological characters, and geographical names, with English explanations of who they were. A handy resource for anybody with an interest in the Latin language or ancient history, The Oxford Latin Minidictionary is also an invaluable reference for word-origin enthusiasts. [via]
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Oxford Spanish Desk Dictionary: Spanish/English English/Spanishby Oxford University Press, Jane HorwoodISBN 0198607237 (0-19-860723-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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With over 90,000 words and phrases and 130,000 translations, this revised second edition retains all of the superb features of its esteemed parent volume in an affordable, compact, and easy-to-use format. Packed with extra features, The Oxford Spanish Desk Dictionary offers a brand new grammar supplement that provides information on all of the important and essential rules of Spanish grammar. In addition to a guide to grammatical terms, this intermediate level dictionary includes extra letters, emails, postcards, and CV's, as well as a useful A-Z guide to Spanish life and culture.
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Oxford-Duden Pictorial German and English DictionaryISBN 019869153X (0-19-869153-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Oxford-Duden Pictorial German-English Dictionaryby DudenredaktionISBN 0198645023 (0-19-864502-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Philosophy of Symbolic Formsby Ernst CassirerISBN 0300000375 (0-300-00037-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Plain English Guideby Martin CuttsISBN 0198692595 (0-19-869259-5)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Plain English Guide'Book summary:Millions of us are professional writers without even being aware of it. Everyday we write countless letters, memos, instructions, legal documents, and reports. And often this writing is criticized for being full of jargon, or obscure, or long-winded, or just not in "plain English." But what is plain English, and how does one write it? The Plain English Guide offers down-to-earth advice and twenty easy-to-follow guidelines covering plain words, sentence length, active and passive verbs, punctuation, planning, and good organization of points. Martin Cutts has probably taught more writers about plain English than anyone else. This book distills his knowledge and experience, and is an essential guide for anyone who writes at work, as well as students in business and professional courses. [via]
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The Pleasure of the Textby Roland BarthesISBN 0224011871 (0-224-01187-1)
Hardcover, Cape
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The Pocket Oxford Russian Dictionaryby Della Thompson, Nigel Rankin, Jessie Senior CoulsonISBN 0198641222 (0-19-864122-2)
Softcover, Clarendon Press
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The Pocket Oxford Russian Dictionaryby Jessie Coulson, Della Thompson, Colin Howlett, Nigel RankinISBN 0198645007 (0-19-864500-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pocket Oxford Russian Dictionary'Book summary:Called "the most complete and succinct" lexicon of its type by The Times Literary Supplement, The Pocket Oxford Russian Dictionary has long been a favorite of students, scholars, businesspeople, and travelers. Now this popular dictionary is available in a completely revised Second Edition. Providing the most up-to-date coverage of general vocabulary in both languages, this handy resource offers the perfect companion for reading and conversation. No other pocket dictionary can match its outstanding features:
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The Pocket Oxford Russian Dictionary: Russian-English English-Russianby Jessie Coulson, Della Thompson, Colin Howlett, Nigel RankinISBN 0198645260 (0-19-864526-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Pocket Oxford Spanish Dictionary: Spanish-English, English-Spanishby Not Available, Jane Horwood, Carol Styles CarvajalISBN 0198610726 (0-19-861072-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Authoritative and up to date, this third edtion of the Oxford Spanish Desk Dictionary covers over 90,000 words and phrases, and 120,000 translations of contemporary Spanish and English, with brand-new words in each language. The grammar supplement provides full information on all the key points of Spanish and English grammar, including verb tables for quick reference, and a correspondence section gives example letters, emails, resumes, and new help with text messaging. Language is now studied in the context of its culture, so the existing culture section has been revised and expanded to offer lively and useful information on life in the Spanish-speaking world.
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Pocket Oxford Spanish Dictionary/Diccionario Oxford Compact: Spanish-English, English-Spanishby Jane Horwood, Carol Styles Carvajal, Carol Styles StylesISBN 0198607067 (0-19-860706-7)
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Affordable, compact, thoroughly up-to-date and packed with extra features, these intermediate-level Pocket dictionaries provide greater bilingual coverage and more pointers on grammar than ever before. They offer a complete guide to contemporary foreign languages and English, as well as extensive help with grammar. In these new editions, the Pocket dictionaries each include a brand new thirty-two page grammar supplement that focuses on the key points of that language. This supplement, along with a guide to grammatical terms, will provide invaluable support to anyone learning to speak, read, and write the language. All of this grammar help is combined with a dictionary offering wide-ranging vocabulary--with more words, phrases, and translations than previous editions. Verb tables, an A-Z guide to the life and culture of the countries the languages represent, as well as example letters, emails, postcards, and resumes add further communication help.
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Affordable, compact, thoroughly up-to-date and packed with extra features, this intermediate-level Spanish dictionary offers a complete guide to contemporary Spanish and English as well as extensive help with grammar. This edition includes a brand new 32-page grammar supplement that focuses on the key points of Spanish grammar. This supplement, along with a guide to grammatical terms, will provide invaluable support to anyone learning to speak, read, and write Spanish. All of this grammar help is combined with a dictionary offering wide-ranging vocabulary--over 90,000 words and phrases, and over 130,000 translations. Verb tables, an A-Z guide to Spanish life and culture, as well as example letters, emails, postcards, and resumes add further communication help. [via]More editions of Pocket Oxford Spanish Dictionary/Diccionario Oxford Compact: Spanish-English, English-Spanish:
A Practical Introduction to Phoneticsby J.C. CatfordISBN 0199246351 (0-19-924635-1)
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A Practical English Grammarby A.J. Thomson, Av MartinetISBN 0198631170 (0-19-863117-0)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Practical English Grammar'Book summary:This is a boxed set of three volumes, quarter bound in bonded leather. The three volumes in the set, retitled as I "Usage", II "Grammar", and III "Spelling", are "A Dictionary of Modern English Usage" by H.W.Fowler (2nd edition revised by Sir Ernest Gowers), "A Practical English Grammar" 4th edition by A.J.Thompson and A.V.Martinet, and "The Oxford Spelling Dictionary" compiled by R.E.Allen. The text of each book will remain unchanged. [via]
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Rabelais and His Worldby Mikhail BakhtinISBN 0253203414 (0-253-20341-4)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rabelais and His World'Book summary:This classic work by the Russian philosopher and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (18951975) examines popular humor and folk culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. One of the essential texts of a theorist who is rapidly becoming a major reference in contemporary thought, Rabelais and His World is essential reading for anyone interested in problems of language and text and in cultural interpretation.
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Reading Japaneseby Eleanor Harz JordenISBN 0300019130 (0-300-01913-0)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reading Japanese'Book summary:"Reading Japanese" is a pedagogical text - not a handbook or dictionary - prepared for the specific purpose of introducing adult foreigners, in particular English speakers, to the Japanese written language, to enable them to begin to learn to read. Since it is a pedagogical text, it presents information in an ordered fashion. Each increment of new material presupposes mastery of what has gone before, but only of what has gone before. Adult foreigners and native-Japanese children approach the study of Japanese reading with vastly different backgrounds and in vastly different settings. It is dangerous to assume that the same methodology will work for both groups, even though their goals are similar. In spite of the limitations of their Japanese facility, foreign students studying the Japanese written language want to learn to read, not to decode with constant dependence on dictionaries and vocabulary lists. And they want to become accustomed to working with Japanese writing that has not been specifically altered for foreign consumption, since their ultimate goal is to read native Japanese publications. This book, through its particular format and organization of the text, is aimed at achieving this stated goal as rapidly and efficiently as possible. [From the Introduction] [via]
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The Ring of Words : Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionaryby Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall, Edmund WeinerISBN 0198610696 (0-19-861069-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ring of Words : Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary'Book summary:Tolkien's first job, on returning home from World War I, was as an assistant on the staff of the OED. He later said that he had "learned more in those two years than in any other equal part of his life." The Ring of Words reveals how his professional work on the Oxford English Dictionary influenced Tolkien's creative use of language in his fictional world.
Here three senior editors of the OED offer an intriguing exploration of Tolkien's career as a lexicographer and illuminate his creativity as a word user and word creator. The centerpiece of the book is a wonderful collection of "word studies" which will delight the heart of Ring fans and word lovers everywhere. The editors look at the origin of such Tolkienesque words as "hobbit," "mithril, "Smeagol," "Ent," "halfling," and "worm" (meaning "dragon"). Readers discover that a word such as "mathom" (anything a hobbit had no immediate use for, but was unwilling to throw away) was actually common in Old English, but that "Mithril," on the other hand, is a complete invention (and the first "Elven" word to have an entry in the OED). And fans of Harry Potter will be surprised to find that "Dumbledore" (the name of Hogwart's headmaster) was a word used by Tolkien and many others (it is a dialect word meaning "bumblebee").
Few novelists have found so much of their creative inspiration in the shapes and histories of words. Presenting archival material not found anywhere else, The Ring of Words offers a fresh and unexplored angle on the literary achievements of one of the world's most famous and best-loved writers. [via]More editions of The Ring of Words : Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary:
Semantics and Cognitionby Ray JackendoffISBN 0262600137 (0-262-60013-7)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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Semiotics and the Philosophy of Languageby Umberto EcoISBN 0253203988 (0-253-20398-8)
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Shorter Oxford English Dictionaryby R. LittleISBN 0198611269 (0-19-861126-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shorter Oxford English Dictionary'Book summary:Contains over 163,000 words, with combinations and idiomatic phrases. Words and meanings are set out to reveal their chronological sequence of development since the days of King Alfred. Obsolete, archaic and dialectal uses are included, as well as modern technical and scientific words. [via]
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The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principlesby William Little, H. W. Fowler, Jessie Senior Coulson, G. W. S. Friedrichsen, Charles Talbut OnionsISBN 0198611161 (0-19-861116-1)
Hardcover, Clarendon Press
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Simple & Direct: A Rhetoric for Writersby Jacques BarzunISBN 0226038688 (0-226-03868-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Bodyby Steven J. MithenISBN 0297643177 (0-297-64317-7)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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The Slang Thesaurusby Jonathon GreenISBN 0241118514 (0-241-11851-4)
Hardcover, Elm Tree Books
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Speech Genres and Other Late Essaysby M.M. BakhtinISBN 0292720467 (0-292-72046-7)
Hardcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Speech Genres and Other Late Essays'Book summary:Speech Genres and Other Late Essays presents six short works from Bakhtin's Esthetics of Creative Discourse, published in Moscow in 1979. This is the last of Bakhtin's extant manuscripts published in the Soviet Union. All but one of these essays (the one on the Bildungsroman) were written in Bakhtin's later years and thus they bear the stamp of a thinker who has accumulated a huge storehouse of factual material, to which he has devoted a lifetime of analysis, reflection, and reconsideration. [via]
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Speech Genres and Other Late Essaysby Michael Holquist, Caryl Emerson, M.M. BakhtinISBN 0292775601 (0-292-77560-1)
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Style: Toward Clarity and Graceby Joseph M. WilliamsISBN 0226899152 (0-226-89915-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Style: Toward Clarity and Grace'Book summary:"Telling me to 'Be clear,' " writes Joseph M. Williams in Style: Toward Clarity and Grace, "is like telling me to 'Hit the ball squarely.' I know that. What I don't know is how to do it." If you are ever going to know how to write clearly, it will be after reading Williams' book, which is a rigorous examination of--and lesson in--the elements of fine writing. With any luck, your clear writing will turn graceful, as well. Though most of us, says Williams, would be happy just to write "clear, coherent, and appropriately emphatic prose," he is not content to teach us just that. He also attempts, by way of example, to determine what constitutes elegant writing.
Despite the proliferation of books in this genre, rarely does one feel so confident in one's instructor. Williams is meticulous and exacting, yet never pedantic. Though he agrees with most of his grammarian colleagues that, generally speaking, the active voice is better than the passive or that the ordinary word is preferable to the fancy, Williams is also quick to assert that there's no sense learning a rule "if all we can do is obey it." And he is most emphatic about the absurdity of prescriptions concerning usage (such as, "Never begin a sentence with a coordinating conjunction"). Such rules, he says, "are 'violated' so consistently that, unless we are ready to indict for bad grammar just about every serious writer of modern English, we have to reject as misinformed anyone who would attempt to enforce them." --Jane Steinberg [via]
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Swallowing Clouds: A Playful Journey Through Chinese Culture, Language, and Cuisineby A. ZeeISBN 0295981911 (0-295-98191-1)
Softcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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Technobabbleby John A. BarryISBN 0262521822 (0-262-52182-2)
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Ulyssesby James Joyce, Lawrence RaineyISBN 0300108184 (0-300-10818-4)
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Universals of Languageby GreenbergISBN 0262570084 (0-262-57008-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Universals of Language'Book summary:In 1961, the first International Conference on Universals in Language convened to consider the possibility of creating "something of the order of cross-cultural files for a large sample of languages."In the preliminary memorandum of this historic meeting, it was proposed that "midst infinite diversity, all languages are, as it were, cut from the same pattern." Eight of the papers presented in this volume investigate, discuss, and analyze specific proposals regarding language universals; three final papers offer summaries from the viewpoints of linguistics, cultural anthropology, and psychology; an appendix provides 45 actual language universals based on a study of 30 languages including Japanese, Hebrew, Basque, Swahili, and Maya.This book is an all-important result of a conference at which, as psychologist Charles Osgood stated, "we have been witness to a bloodless revolution. Quietly and without polemics we have seen linguistics taking a giant step from being merely a method for describing language to being a fullfledged science of language."Roman Jakobson, noted linquist, wrote: "it may well turn out that what is universal in language functions much more powerfully, and in a more fundamental way, to shape men's thoughts than what is different..."
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Words on Words: Quotations About Language and Languagesby David Crystal, Hilary CrystalISBN 0226122018 (0-226-12201-8)
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Oxford Latin Course Part Iby James Morwood, Maurice BalmeISBN 0199122261 (0-19-912226-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oxford Latin Course Part I'Book summary:The acclaimed "Oxford Latin Course" has been completely revised and restructured in the light of a national survey of Classics teachers. The course is in three parts, each with an accompanying Teacher's Book. Parts 1-111 are built around a narrative detailing the life of Horace, based closely on historical sources, which develops an understanding of the times of Cicero and Augustus. [via]
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