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Alpha Beta: How 26 Letters Shaped the Western World
by John Man

ISBN 047141574X (0-471-41574-X)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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In the tradition of small books that try to explain a lot (think How the Irish Saved Civilization), John Man's Alpha Beta is an excellent survey on the history of letters. They may have played a more dramatic role in the advancement of Western culture than most people realize: "The Greeks, so this argument runs, would not have been so influential but for the invention that fixed their writings, the invention that they named after its first two signs, alpha and beta--the alphabet." This opinion will no doubt ruffle a few feathers in the classics departments at universities, which have instructed students on the intellectual and literary achievements of the Greeks for generations. Man seems to challenge the idea that the Greeks offered something inherently worthwhile. "Possibly nothing of their oral genius would have been preserved but for a piece of astonishing good fortune. They just happened to live near one of the cultures that had stumbled on the alphabet, and they just happened to be at a crucial state in social evolution that made them open to its adoption." This is a fascinating argument, and Man makes it a compelling one, although it's also possible to believe the Greeks had the additional good fortune of producing a storyteller as good as Homer.
Most of the book is a well-told tale that runs a course from the first symbols pressed into clay tablets to the advent of the Internet--the Greeks are just a piece of it. The book covers the ancient Egyptians, Phoenicians, Etruscans, and several other cultures in some detail. One of the most interesting sections discusses the Koreans, creators of "an alphabet that is about as far along the road towards perfection as any alphabet is likely to get." Man is a colloquial writer; reading Alpha Beta is like listening to a popular college professor lecture on his favorite topic. The complex and controversial scholarship on the alphabet becomes instantly accessible to nonexpert readers on these pages. Anyone interested in the power of words and the history of civilization will find Alpha Beta irresistible. --John Miller [via]
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Alpha Beta: How Our Alphabet Changed the Western World
by John Man

ISBN 0747271364 (0-7472-7136-4)
Hardcover, Headline

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Discovering where these 26 or so letters came from and how they have evolved over the years is far more than just an academic exercise. This is a thrilling story of adventure, passion and intrigue. [via]
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Alphabet Versus The Goddess: The Conflict Between Word And Image
by Leonard Shlain

ISBN 0140196013 (0-14-019601-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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"Literacy has promoted the subjugation of women by men throughout all but the very recent history of the West," writes Leonard Shlain. "Misogyny and patriarchy rise and fall with the fortunes of the alphabetic written word."
That's a pretty audacious claim, one that The Alphabet Versus the Goddess provides extensive historical and cultural correlations to support. Shlain's thesis takes readers from the evolutionary steps that distinguish the human brain from that of the primates to the development of the Internet. The very act of learning written language, he argues, exercises the human brain's left hemisphere--the half that handles linear, abstract thought--and enforces its dominance over the right hemisphere, which thinks holistically and visually. If you accept the idea that linear abstraction is a masculine trait, and that holistic visualization is feminine, the rest of the theory falls into place. The flip side is that as visual orientation returns to prominence within society through film, television, and cyberspace, the status of women increases, soon to return to the equilibrium of the earliest human cultures. Shlain wisely presents this view of history as plausible rather than definite, but whether you agree with his wide-ranging speculations or not, he provides readers eager to "understand it all" with much to consider. --Ron Hogan [via]
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Arabic Alphabet
by Nicholas Awde, Putros Samano

ISBN 0863569544 (0-86356-954-4)
Softcover, Al Saqi

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Ever larger numbers of people are starting to learn Arabic, while even more have some contact with the Arab world. Anyone who wishes to learn the language faces the hitherto formidable initial problem: the alphabet. This book proceeds step-by-step through all the letters of the Arabic alphabet, showing the sounds they stand for and how they are combined into words. Nothing essential is left out, but no unnecessary complications are added. Readers will find that progress is rapid and will be surprised at the relative ease with which they master the first steps in learning this increasingly important world language. [via]
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The Arabic Alphabet: How to Read and Write It
by Nicholas Awde

ISBN 0818404302 (0-8184-0430-2)
Softcover, Lyle Stuart

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Ever greater numbers of people are learning Arabic and/or coming into some kind of contact with the Arab world. Anyone who wishes to learn the language faces a hitherto formidable initial challenge: the alphabet.

This book proceeds, step by step, through all the letters of the Arabic alphabet, showing the sounds they stand for and how they are combined into words. Nothing essential is left out, and no unnecessary complications added. Readers will make rapid progress and will be surprised at the relative ease with which they master the first steps towards command of this increasingly important world language.

The Arabic Alphabet: How to Read and Write It belongs on the desk of every student of the language; in the luggage of every visitor to the Middle East; in the briefcase of business people with Arab clients; and in the back pocket of every employee of British or American companies working in Arab countries.
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Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek
by Gilbert Lawall, M. G. Balme

ISBN 0195149564 (0-19-514956-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Combining the best features of traditional and modern methods, Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek, 2/e, provides a unique course of instruction that allows students to read connected Greek narrative right from the beginning and guides them to the point where they can begin reading complete classical texts. Carefully designed to hold students' interest, the course begins in Book I with a fictional narrative about an Attic farmer's family placed in a precise historical context (432-431 B.C.). This narrative, interwoven with tales from mythology and the Persian Wars, gradually gives way in Book II to adapted passages from Thucydides, Plato, and Herodotus and ultimately to excerpts of the original Greek of Bacchylides, Thucydides, and Aristophanes' Acharnians. Essays on relevant aspects of ancient Greek culture and history are also provided.

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* Short passages from Classical and New Testament Greek in virtually every chapter
* The opening lines of the Iliad and the Odyssey toward the end of Book II
* New vocabulary and more complete explanations of grammar, including material on accents
* Many new exercises and additional opportunities for students to practice completing charts of verb forms and paradigms of nouns and adjectives
* Updated Teacher's Handbooks for Books I and II containing translations of all stories, readings, and exercises; detailed suggestions for classroom presentation; abundant English derivatives; and additional linguistic information
* Offered for the first time, Student Workbooks for Books I and II that include self-correcting exercises, cumulative vocabulary lists, periodic grammatical reviews, and additional readings [via]
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Basics of Biblical Greek: Grammar
by William D. Mounce

ISBN 0310232112 (0-310-23211-2)
Hardcover, Zondervan

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The Basics of Biblical Greek is an entirely new, integrated approach to teaching and learning New Testament Greek. It makes learning Greek a natural process and shows from the very beginning how an understanding of Greek helps in understanding the New Testament. [via]
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Basics of Biblical Greek: Workbook
by William D. Mounce

ISBN 0310400910 (0-310-40091-0)
Softcover, Zondervan

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This workbook is complete with exercises and readings for Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar. [via]
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Collins Gem French Dictionary: French-English, English-French

ISBN 0004589777 (0-00-458977-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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The Complete Plain Words
by Ernest Gowers

ISBN 1567922031 (1-56792-203-1)
Softcover, David R Godine Pub

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Covers the issues in the choice and handling of words - will energise anyone with a writing job to do. Offers a checklist of words and phrases to be used with care - will save many a writer from committing embarrassing blunders by writing something unintended, misleading or downright foolish. [via]
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The Complete Plain Words
by Janet Whitcut, Ernest Gowers, Sidney Greenbaum

ISBN 0117011215 (0-11-701121-5)
Hardcover, H.M.S.O.

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Covers the issues in the choice and handling of words - will energise anyone with a writing job to do. Offers a checklist of words and phrases to be used with care - will save many a writer from committing embarrassing blunders by writing something unintended, misleading or downright foolish. [via]
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The Concise Usage and Abusage: A Modern Guide to Good English
by Eric Partridge

ISBN 0837124662 (0-8371-2466-2)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group

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This work examines the best and worst uses of English in order to help speakers, writers and thinkers express themselves more clearly. It looks at archism, echoism, obscurity and tautology, and should be useful as reference book. [via]
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Concise Usage and Abusage
by Partridge

ISBN 185326346X (1-85326-346-X)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited

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This work examines the best and worst uses of English in order to help speakers, writers and thinkers express themselves more clearly. It looks at archism, echoism, obscurity and tautology, and should be useful as reference book. [via]
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Crazy English
by Richard Lederer, Elaine Pfefferblit

ISBN 067168907X (0-671-68907-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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One of the most unforgettable moments of my youth was learning the word pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. I was in third grade. So what if Richard Lederer has come up with a chemical compound that consists of 1,913 letters? Owning a word like pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is empowering at any age. If you have ever been completely wowed by the power you can have over language, or its power over you, Richard Lederer is your patron saint. His oft-reprinted introduction to Crazy English, which was originally published in 1989, claims that English is "the most loopy and wiggy of all tongues." And then he demonstrates: "In what other language do people drive in a parkway and park in a driveway? ... Why do they call them apartments when they're all together?" And so on. Lederer's pace is frenetic. He alights on oxymorons ("pretty ugly," "computer jock"), redundancies, confusing words (are you sure you know the meaning of enormity?), phobias, contronyms, heteronyms, retroactive terms (acoustic guitar, rotary phone), and a host of other linguistic delights.
Though English may be one of the crazier languages--Lederer claims that about 80 percent of our words are not spelled phonetically--they are all, he says, a little crazy. "That's because language is invented ... by boys and girls and men and women, not computers. As such, language reflects the creative and fearful asymmetry of the human race, which, of course, isn't really a race at all." --Jane Steinberg [via]
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Crazy English: The Ultimate Joy Ride Through Our Language
by Richard Lederer

ISBN 1417616989 (1-4176-1698-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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One of the most unforgettable moments of my youth was learning the word pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. I was in third grade. So what if Richard Lederer has come up with a chemical compound that consists of 1,913 letters? Owning a word like pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is empowering at any age. If you have ever been completely wowed by the power you can have over language, or its power over you, Richard Lederer is your patron saint. His oft-reprinted introduction to Crazy English, which was originally published in 1989, claims that English is "the most loopy and wiggy of all tongues." And then he demonstrates: "In what other language do people drive in a parkway and park in a driveway? ... Why do they call them apartments when they're all together?" And so on. Lederer's pace is frenetic. He alights on oxymorons ("pretty ugly," "computer jock"), redundancies, confusing words (are you sure you know the meaning of enormity?), phobias, contronyms, heteronyms, retroactive terms (acoustic guitar, rotary phone), and a host of other linguistic delights.
Though English may be one of the crazier languages--Lederer claims that about 80 percent of our words are not spelled phonetically--they are all, he says, a little crazy. "That's because language is invented ... by boys and girls and men and women, not computers. As such, language reflects the creative and fearful asymmetry of the human race, which, of course, isn't really a race at all." --Jane Steinberg [via]
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The English Language
by Robert W. Burchfield

ISBN 0192891618 (0-19-289161-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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The English language, in its earliest period, was spoken by a few thousand people, most of whom were illiterate. Today, more than 300 million people speak and write English as their first language. In this book, Robert Burchfield takes us on a brief tour of our ever-changing language as he surveys its history and development and assesses its current state. An eloquent guide, Burchfield examines the complexities of English, as well as its amazing resilience and flexibility. From vocabulary, syntax, and pronunciation, to an analysis of the role of literature and the English Bible in shaping the language, Burchfield infuses all his discussions with his fascination with the mystery of language and his confidence that English "can be used at the present time as in the past, with majesty and power, free of all fault." [via]
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Esperanto
by John Hartley, Cresswell, John & Hartley, John

ISBN 0340270225 (0-340-27022-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas R. Hofstadter

ISBN 0465026567 (0-465-02656-7)
Softcover, Basic Books

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As stated in the Scientific American, "Every few decades an unknown author brings out a boof of such depth, clarity range, wit beauty and originality that it is recognized at once as a major literary event - this is such a work." [via]
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Going Nucular: Language, Politics, and Culture in Controversial Times
by Geoff Nunberg

ISBN 1586482343 (1-58648-234-3)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group

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Geoffrey Nunberg can make one quite self conscious to write even a simple sentence. And yes, that is a compliment. A regular language commentator on NPR's Fresh Air, Nunberg examines the curious ways in which the modern language expresses far more about history, politics, and culture than most casual English users would ever realize. Going Nucular, besides having one of the more whimsical titles to come along in a while, offers up scores of chapters, each examining specific words, phrases, or verbal tendencies. And while words like "terrorism", "fascism", "appeasement", and "Caucasian" (and even the hapless "like" and "ain't") are tossed about regularly in contemporary usage, achieving an understanding of their origin and evolution can serve to better explain not just the word but the issue to which it is attached. Other language books have become popular among the "grammarati" for their hard line approach but Nunberg seeks to explore and understand rather than to enforce and punish. To that end, he defends "blog" as being a verb and noun that has earned its place in the language; it's very phonetic clunkiness being part of the appeal. And though he can diagram a sentence with the best of them, Nunberg is at his most delightful when shining a harsh lingual light on the ways in which the average person encounters words every day. A stinging and hilarious indictment of TV news' weird obsession with the present tense ("In North Dakota, high winds making life difficult") makes the reader hear the evening news in an entirely new way. Going Nucular is much more than a nudge and a wisecrack to self-appointed word cops, it's an insider's tour of the vernacular by the English teacher you only wish you had. --John Moe [via]
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Going Nucular: Language, Politics. and Culture in Confrontational Times
by Geoff Nunberg

ISBN 1586483455 (1-58648-345-5)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group

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Geoffrey Nunberg can make one quite self conscious to write even a simple sentence. And yes, that is a compliment. A regular language commentator on NPR's Fresh Air, Nunberg examines the curious ways in which the modern language expresses far more about history, politics, and culture than most casual English users would ever realize. Going Nucular, besides having one of the more whimsical titles to come along in a while, offers up scores of chapters, each examining specific words, phrases, or verbal tendencies. And while words like "terrorism", "fascism", "appeasement", and "Caucasian" (and even the hapless "like" and "ain't") are tossed about regularly in contemporary usage, achieving an understanding of their origin and evolution can serve to better explain not just the word but the issue to which it is attached. Other language books have become popular among the "grammarati" for their hard line approach but Nunberg seeks to explore and understand rather than to enforce and punish. To that end, he defends "blog" as being a verb and noun that has earned its place in the language; it's very phonetic clunkiness being part of the appeal. And though he can diagram a sentence with the best of them, Nunberg is at his most delightful when shining a harsh lingual light on the ways in which the average person encounters words every day. A stinging and hilarious indictment of TV news' weird obsession with the present tense ("In North Dakota, high winds making life difficult") makes the reader hear the evening news in an entirely new way. Going Nucular is much more than a nudge and a wisecrack to self-appointed word cops, it's an insider's tour of the vernacular by the English teacher you only wish you had. --John Moe [via]
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How to Do Things With Words
by J.L. Austin

ISBN 0674411528 (0-674-41152-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr

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This work sets out Austin's conclusions in the field to which he directed his main efforts for at least the last ten years of his life. Starting from an exhaustive examination of his already well-known distinction between performative utterances and statements, Austin here finally abandons that distinction, replacing it with a more general theory of 'illocutionary forces' of utterances which has important bearings on a wide variety of philosophical problems. [via]
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How to Learn Any Language
by Farber

ISBN 1567315437 (1-56731-543-7)
Hardcover, Fine Communications

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The following four basic priciples of the ground-breaking but simple system in H0w To Learn Any Language are hailed by language-teaching professionals everywhere: The Multiple Track Attack, Hidden Moments, The Harry Lorayne Magic Memory System and Plunge In. In How To Learn Any Language you'll discover how to make this system work for you. [via]
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How to Learn Any Language: Quickly, Easily, Inexpensively, Enjoyably and on Your Own
by Barry Farber

ISBN 0806512717 (0-8065-1271-7)
Softcover, Citadel Pr

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Barry Farber has been a true adventurer in languages for forty-six years and can speak in 25 tongues. The techniques he presents here will have readers speaking, reading, and writing and enjoying any foreign language in a surprisingly short time. [via]
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I Stand Corrected: More on Language
by William Safire

ISBN 0380700492 (0-380-70049-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon
by H. G. Liddell

ISBN 0199102066 (0-19-910206-6)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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This abridgement of the world's most authoritative dictionary of ancient Greek is based on the 1883 revision. It includes some discussion of word usage, citing examples and characteristic phrases. Generally speaking, only words used by late writers and scientific terms have been omitted from the full lexicon. From Homer downwards, to the close of Attic Greek, care has been taken to include all words, as well as those used by Aristotle, Plutarch in his Lives, Polybius, Strabo, Lucian, and the writers of the New Testament. [via]
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Kanji & Kana: A Handbook of the Japanese Writing System
by Wolfgang Hadamitzky, Mark Spahn

ISBN 0804820775 (0-8048-2077-5)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub

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Since 1981, Japanese Kanji & Kana by Wolfgang Hadamitzky and Mark Spahn has been one of the most trusted and popular study guides for beginning and intermediate students of Japanese. This revised edition not only covers the current 1,945 joyo kanji, it also provides a comprehensive overview of the Japanese kanji and kana writing system, including writing, usage, punctuation, and how to use kanji dictionaries. Indexes allow for kanji look-up by pronunciation, radical, and stroke order. A unique feature is a jinmeiyo kanji list covering characters frequently used in personal names but seldom taught in class. Each entry includes on and kun readings, English translations, stroke order, and example vocabulary.
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Kanji and Kana: A Handbook and Dictionary of the Japanese Writing System
by Wolfgang Hadamitzky

ISBN 0804813736 (0-8048-1373-6)
Hardcover, Tuttle Pub

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This book is a uniquely comprehensive and systematic guide to the reading and writing of the Japanese language. Suitable for both home and class, it provides all the information needed for a mastery of the basic characters (kanji) and the syllabaries (kana). Through the study of written Japanese will always require time and effort, this book has been designed to help the student achieve fluency more quickly and effectively than ever before.

The first part consists of a general introduction to the Japanese writing system, which will be of interest to travelers, linguists, and others in addition to serious students of the language. Among the topics discussed are the history, form, orthography, usage, reading, and writing of kanji an dkana, as well as punctuation, romanization, and how to use Japanese reference books. Numerous examples and tables are included to aid understanding.

There follow conveniently arranged listings of all 1,945 basic characters, along with their most important readings and definitions. Up to five compounds are given for each kanji, using only kanji that have been introduced earlier, with a cross-reference number to the main entry for each. Most kanji are presented in brush, pen and printed forms, with the stroke order clearly indicated. Each kanji is cross-referenced to 'The Mdoern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary' by Andrew N. Nelson.

The Kanji are fully indexed by on-kun readings, by stroke count, and by radicals, making it possible to use the book as a concise character dictionary. [via]
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Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition
by Umberto Eco, Alastair McEwen

ISBN 015601159X (0-15-601159-X)
Softcover, Harcourt

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Describing Umberto Eco as a writer is like describing the platypus as an animal. What do readers expect when they see the author's name on a book jacket? It's a tricky question to answer, given his range and versatility: he has produced studies of semiotics, children's books, medieval history, essays on contemporary culture, and, of course, novels--most notably The Name of the Rose and The Island of the Day Before. So first, a word of warning. Anyone familiar with Eco the novelist or essayist might well be dismayed by Kant and the Platypus, for this new book returns to his preoccupations of the 1960s and 1970s--to semiotics and cognitive semantics. As such, it can be a daunting volume (the initial chapter, for example, riffs on the numerous philosophical concepts of being). And second, a word of encouragement: this is a wonderful engagement with the issues of language itself. Even as he beckons the reader into one linguistic thicket after another, Eco always keeps a commonsensical perspective, using stories to explicate the knottiest concepts.
Why did Marco Polo describe the rhinoceros as a type of unicorn? Why couldn't 18th-century observers figure out how to classify the duck-billed platypus? Given a dictionary or encyclopedia definition of a mouse, how easy would it be to identify one if we had never seen one before? These are some of the examples that Eco uses to explore the ways in which we see and describe the world--the ways, that is, in which cultures develop taxonomies. If you want to know "why we can tell an elephant from an armadillo," or why mirrors do not in fact reverse images, this book will tell you. In fact, it will also tell you why you know what I am talking about when I say "this book." Got it? No? Then get it. --Burhan Tufail [via]
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The Klingon Dictionary
by Marc Okrand, Klingon Language Institute

ISBN 067174559X (0-671-74559-X)
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The Klingon Dictionary is the first comprehensive sourcebook for Klingon language and syntax, including fundamental rules of grammar as well as words and expressions that illustrate the complex nature of Klingon culture. It features a precise pronunciation guide, rules for proper use of affixes and suffixes, and a small phrasebook with Klingon translations for essential expressions such as "Activate the transport beam," "Always trust your instincts," and the ever-popular "Surrender or die!" [via]
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The Klingon Dictionary: English/Klingon, Klingon/English
by Marc Okrand

ISBN 0671543490 (0-671-54349-0)
Softcover, Pocket Books

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The Klingon Dictionary is the first comprehensive sourcebook for Klingon language and syntax, including fundamental rules of grammar as well as words and expressions that illustrate the complex nature of Klingon culture. It features a precise pronunciation guide, rules for proper use of affixes and suffixes, and a small phrasebook with Klingon translations for essential expressions such as "Activate the transport beam," "Always trust your instincts," and the ever-popular "Surrender or die!" [via]
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Language Myths
by Peter Trudgill, Laurie Bauer

ISBN 0140260234 (0-14-026023-4)
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The media are ruining English"; "Some languages are harder than others"; "Children can't speak or write properly anymore." Such pieces of "cultural wisdom" are often expressed in newspapers and on radio and television. Rarely is there a response from experts in the fields of language and language development. In this book Laurie Bauer and Peter Trudgill have invited nineteen respected linguists from all over the world to address these "language myths"--showing that they vary from the misconceived to the downright wrong. With essays ranging from "Women Talk Too Much" and "In the Appalachians They Speak Like Shakespeare" to "Italian Is Beautiful, German Is Ugly" and "They Speak Really Bad English Down South and in New York City," Language Myths is a collection that is wide-ranging, entertaining, and authoritative.
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Latin
by Gavin Betts

ISBN 0844238112 (0-8442-3811-2)
Softcover, Ntc Pub Group

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Latin: An Intensive Course
by Floyd L. Moreland, Rita M. Fleischer

ISBN 0520027469 (0-520-02746-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr

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This is a comprehensive introduction to Latin forms and syntax, designed to train the student in reading ancient texts at an early stage.
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Latin: An Intensive Course
by Robert Fleischer

ISBN 0520031830 (0-520-03183-0)
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Latin for People: Latina Pro Populo
by Alexander Humez, Nicholas Humez

ISBN 0316381497 (0-316-38149-7)
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The Meaning of Tingo: And Other Extraordinary Words from Around the World
by Adam Jacot de Boinod

ISBN 0143038524 (0-14-303852-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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by Jacot De Boinod, Adam Jacot de Boinod

ISBN 1594200866 (1-59420-086-6)
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What began as a fortuitous discovery, when BBC researcher Adam Jacot de Boinod noticed that an Albanian dictionary contained 27 different words each for eyebrows and mustache, has become, after his obsessive 18-month journey through hundreds of foreign dictionaries, a very funny and genuinely informative guide to the world's strangest--and most useful--words. There are many books out there that invent, Sniglets-style, the words that the English language doesn't have but needs. What The Meaning of Tingo shows is that, like natural cures waiting to be found in the plants of the rainforest, many of the words already exist, in the languages of the world's other cultures. Who couldn't find a use for "neko-neko," an Indonesian word for "one who has a creative idea which only makes things worse," or "skeinkjari," a term from the Faroe Islands for "the man who goes among wedding guests offering them alcohol"? Some words that Jacot de Boinod has found are bizarre--"koro," the "hysterical belief that one's penis is shrinking into one's body" in Japanese--while others are surprisingly affecting, like the Inuit word "iktsuarpok," which means "to go outside often to see if someone is coming." And then there's "tingo" itself, from the Pascuense language of Easter Island: "to take all the objects one desires from the house of a friend, one at a time, by borrowing them."

Nearly any page you open to in The Meaning of Tingo pays hilarious tribute to the inventive genius of the world's peoples. Like Eat, Shoots & Leaves and Schott's Miscellany, with which it shares a quirky British charm and a gift-friendly look and size, The Meaning of Tingo is a UK bestseller that by all rights should become equally popular in North America. --Tom Nissley

The Man Who Swallowed 200 Dictionaries

There is no word (that we know of) to describe someone who spends a year and half of their life poring through a library's worth of dictionaries in hundreds of languages, but that's exactly what Adam Jacot de Boinod did after a chance encounter with a heavy Albanian dictionary. Listen to our interview with the author to hear just how he got started on this strange but fruitful journey, and what he hopes might be the usefulness of his light-hearted book in making us aware of the cultural riches in danger of being lost as the world's living languages become extinct nearly as quickly as its species.

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Adam Jacot de Boinod has chosen a handful of his own favorite words from The Meaning of Tingo Click here to hear him pronounce and define the words, and start slipping them into conversation today!

	nakhur, Persian	a camel that won't give milk until her nostrils are tickled
	areodjarekput, Inuit	to exchange wives for a few days only
	marilopotes, ancient Greek	a gulper of coaldust
	ilunga, Tshiluba, Congo	someone who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time
	cigerci, Turkish	a seller of liver and lungs
	seigneur-terrasse, French	a person who spends much time but little money in a cafe (literally: a terrace lord)
	Torschlusspanik, German	the fear of diminishing opportunities as one gets older (literally: gate-closing panic; often applied to women worried about being too old to have children.)
	pana po'o, Hawaiian	to scratch your head in order to remember something
	waterponie, Afrikaans	jet ski

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Midnight Justice
by Martin Delrio, Michael Avon Oeming, Neil D. Vokes

ISBN 0671568515 (0-671-56851-5)
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The Miracle of Language
by Richard Lederer

ISBN 0671028111 (0-671-02811-1)
Softcover, Pocket Books

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The author of Crazy English celebrates the English language, discussing why it is the most widely spoken one, the inherent prejudices in it, the pitfalls of it, and more. Reprint. [via]
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A Mouthful of Air: Language, Languages...Especially English
by Anthony Burgess

ISBN 068813789X (0-688-13789-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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A survey of language describes how it reached its present state, how it operates, and how it will develop in the future, discussing such topics as Shakespeare's pronunciation, low-life language, and English's place in the world. 30,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo. [via]
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New College Spanish & English Dictionary
by Edwin B. Williams

ISBN 1567654894 (1-56765-489-4)
Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc

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With over 80,000 entries and more than 3000 new terms, idioms, and phrases, The New International Webster's Spanish and English Dictionary is the most authoritative, quick reference guide on the market. It includes a clear, easy-to-use pronunciation guide and a concise grammar reference section. The student, business person, or traveler will speak and write with authority and precision with the help Webster's Spanish Dictionary from Trident. [via]
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On Language
by William Safire

ISBN 0812909372 (0-8129-0937-2)
Hardcover, Times Books

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Philosophical Investigations
by Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. E. M. Anscombe

ISBN 0631146709 (0-631-14670-9)
Softcover, Blackwell Publishing, Incorporated

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Philosophical Investigations: The English Text of the Third Edition
by Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. E. M. Anscombe

ISBN 0024288101 (0-02-428810-1)
Softcover, Prentice Hall

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Written by one of the century's truly great thinkers, Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations is a remarkable--and surprisingly approachable--collection of insights, statements, and nearly displayed thinking habits of the philosopher's work on language, symbols, categories, and a host of other topics. Organized into nearly 700 short observations, this book is a treasure trove for anyone who needs to think carefully about objects, categories, and symbols, especially in relation to structured logic applications in computer programming.
The short (and sometimes aphoristic) observations in Philosophical Investigations allow the reader to ponder basic questions on what describes a category, how language works in everyday situations, and how symbols function to represent our world.
Originally a series of notes to himself as he lectured on philosophy, the book is a brilliant grab bag of thought and example. Often framed as a question ("How do I recognize that this is red?"), the philosopher provides short answers in a sentence or two, never more than a paragraph. (The second part of the book uses longer answers of several pages to develop its arguments.) An index lets the reader browse on topics of interest--such as language, concept, games, or naming.
Any artificial intelligence researcher looking to understand human language will be intrigued by Wittgenstein's ideas on how symbols and language operate. And for anyone who designs software with objects, this book's careful attention to thinking about what makes a good category demonstrates rigorous thinking about everyday objects and things. Philosophical Investigations is at times a strange and often wonderful book that reveals the thought processes of one of history's finest minds. It exposes the fundamental problems of using language as a means of teaching machines to think using words. --Richard Dragan
Topics covered: Theory of language and language games, meaning and symbols, concepts and categories, behavior, games (including chess), color, images and perception, grammar and language, sensations, theory of mind and thinking. [via]
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Philosophical Investigations: The German Text, With a Revised English Translation
by G. E. M. Anscombe, Ludwig Wittgensstein

ISBN 0631231277 (0-631-23127-7)
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The Philosophical Investigations of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) present his own distillation of two decades of intense work on the philosophies of mind, language and meaning. [via]
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Philosophical Investigations: The German Text, with a Revised English Translation
by Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. E. M. Anscombe

ISBN 0631231595 (0-631-23159-5)
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Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations presents his own distillation of two decades of intense work on the philosophies of mind, language and meaning. When first published in 1953, it immediately entered the center of philosophical debate, and achieved a classic status it has retained ever since. This revised German-English edition is published on the fiftieth anniversary of Wittgenstein's death. It incorporates final revisions by G. E. M. Anscombe (1919 - 2001) to her original English translation. No distribution rights for this book is available outside the USA and North America. [via]
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Philosophical Investigations/Philosophische Untersuchungen
by Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. E. M. Anscombe

ISBN 0631205691 (0-631-20569-1)
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Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations -- one of the most influential philosophical works of the twentieth-century. [via]
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The Search for the Perfect Language
by Umberto Eco, James Fentress, Jacques Le Goff

ISBN 0631205101 (0-631-20510-1)
Softcover, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John

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The idea that there once existed a language which perfectly and unambiguously expressed the essence of all possible things and concepts has occupied the minds of philosophers, theologians, mystics and others for at least two millennia. This is an investigation into the history of that idea and of its profound influence on European thought, culture and history.
From the early Dark Ages to the Renaissance it was widely believed that the language spoken in the Garden of Eden was just such a language, and that all current languages were its decadent descendants from the catastrophe of the Fall and at Babel. The recovery of that language would, for theologians, express the nature of divinity, for cabbalists allow access to hidden knowledge and power, and for philosophers reveal the nature of truth. Versions of these ideas remained current in the Enlightenment, and have recently received fresh impetus in attempts to create a natural language for artificial intelligence.
The story that Umberto Eco tells ranges widely from the writings of Augustine, Dante, Descartes and Rousseau, arcane treatises on cabbalism and magic, to the history of the study of language and its origins. He demonstrates the initimate relation between language and identity and describes, for example, how and why the Irish, English, Germans and Swedes - one of whom presented God talking in Swedish to Adam, who replied in Danish, while the serpent tempted Eve in French - have variously claimed their language as closest to the original. He also shows how the late eighteenth-century discovery of a proto-language (Indo-European) for the Aryan peoples was perverted to support notions of racial superiority.

To this subtle exposition of a history of extraordinary complexity, Umberto Eco links the associated history of the manner in which the sounds of language and concepts have been written and symbolized. Lucidly and wittily written, the book is, in sum, a tour de force of scholarly detection and cultural interpretation, providing a series of original perspectives on two thousand years of European History.
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Teach Yourself Esperanto
by John Hartley, John Cresswell

ISBN 0340057815 (0-340-05781-5)
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Transformation & Development in Africa: Issues on Governance and Sustainability into the 21st Century Proceedings of the Second International Conference on African Economic Issues, Arusha
by David Atse, Tanz International Conference on African Economic Issues 1994 Arusha, Akpan Hogan Ekpo, F. M. Mwega

ISBN 0965693031 (0-9656930-3-1)
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Usage and Abusage
by Eric Partridge, Janet Whitcut

ISBN 0140514422 (0-14-051442-2)
Softcover, Penguin Uk

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Eric Partridge was a master of linguistic scholarship. Author of A Dictionary of Cliches, Shakespeare's Bawdy, and many others, Partridge's Usage and Abusage, first out in 1942, was last updated by him in 1973, six years before his death. But life and language tick on, even without Partridge. Now, Janet Whitcut has revised his classic to keep up with the 1990s. One is reminded that "ablution is now intolerably pedantic" for "hand washing," that errata should be confined to corrections in books, and that precipitously (very steeply) should not be misused in the place of precipitately (violently hurried). The entry on punctuation runs for pages and is lucid, literate, and lively. The "Vogue Words" section is completely updated and provides today's connotations for words and phrases from academic to yuppie, rounding out a scholarly reference that maintains the Partridge standard. [via]
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William Safire on Language
by William Safire

ISBN 0380564572 (0-380-56457-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
by Deborah Tannen

ISBN 0060959622 (0-06-095962-2)
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"A chatty, earnest and endearing book that promises here-and-now rewards for taking the trouble to listen more carefully to what others are saying--and to be more sensitive to what others are hearing."LOS ANGELES TIMESDiscover how men and women can interpret the same conversation differently, even when there is no apparent misunderstanding. Discover why sinscere attempts to communicate are so often confounded, and how we can prevent or relieve some of the frustration. This fascinating, helpful, and controversial book--on the NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller list for two years!--explores, in depth the differing style men and women articulate, and how to work through it and get to the heart of the matter. [via]
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Collins Gem Dictionary
by Harper Collins

ISBN 0007110030 (0-00-711003-0)
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Collins Gem French Dictionary: French English English French
by Harpercollins Uk

ISBN 0007155948 (0-00-715594-8)
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French Dictionary: French-English, English-French

ISBN 0789421941 (0-7894-2194-1)
Softcover, Dk Pub

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Como Hacer Cosas Con Palabras
by J.L. Austin

ISBN 8475091415 (84-7509-141-5)
Softcover, Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A

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Este libro contiene ideas expuestas por John Langshaw Austin -una figurra clave en el mundo filosófico contemporáneo- en sus clases y en un ciclo de conferencias ofrecido en la Universidad de Harvard: las William James Lectures. Se trata, pues, de una recopilación de notas, cuidadosamente realizada por J.O. Urmson, en la que quedan expuestas las últimas e inconclusas reflexiones de Austin sobre temas candentes de filosofía del lenguaje. A ellos contribuyó de manera original con su análisis de las denominadas expresiones realizativas (performative utterances), la noción de fuerza ilocucionaria y, en general, con su teoría de los actos lingüísticos. Las ideas de Austin sobre la importancia del lenguaje ordinario, el carácter cooperativo de la investigación filosófica, y la necesidad de una ciencia del lenguaje liberada definitivamente del yugo de la filosofía hacen -entre otras cosas- que esta obra no sólo posea atracción especial para todos aquellos interesados en la reflexión filosófica sobre el lenguaje, sino también comunicación, la semántica, la lingüística e incluso la filosofía del derecho. [via]
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Gdel, Escher, Bach
by D.R. Hofstadter

ISBN 8472234592 (84-7223-459-2)
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¿Puede un sistema comprenderse a sí mismo ? Si esta pregunta se refiere a la mente humana, entonces nos encontramos ante una cuestión clave del pensamiento científico. Y de la filosofía. Y del arte. Investigar este misterio es una aventura que recorre la matemática, la física, la biología, la psicología y, muy especialmente, el lenguaje. Douglas R. Hofstadter, joven y ya célebre científico, nos abre la puerta del enigma con la belleza y la alegría creadora de su estilo. Sorprendentes paralelismos ocultos entre los grabados de Escher y la música de Bach nos remiten a las paradojas clásicas de los antiguos griegos y a un teorema de la lógica matemática moderna que ha estremecido el pensamiento del siglo XX : el de Kurt Gödel. Todo lenguaje, todo sistema formal, todo programa de ordenador, todo proceso de pensamiento, llegan, tarde o temprano, a la situación límite de la autorreferencia : de querer expresarse sobre sí mismos. Surge entonces la emoción del infinito, como dos espejos enfrentados y obligados a reflejarse mutua e indefinidamente. Gödel, Escher, Bach: un Eterno y Grácil Bucle, es una obra de arte escrita por un sabio. Versa sobre los misterios del pensamiento e incluye, ella misma, sus propios misterios. / Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this book applies Godel's seminal contribution to modern Twenty years after it topped the bestseller charts, Douglas R. Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid is still something of a marvel. Besides being a profound and entertaining meditation on human thought and creativity, this book looks at the surprising points of contact between the music of Bach, the artwork of Escher, and the mathematics of Gödel.mathematics to the study of the human mind and the development of artificial intelligence. [via]
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Kant Y El Ornitorrinco
by Umberto Eco

ISBN 8426412653 (84-264-1265-3)
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Philosophische Untersuchungen
by Ludwig Wittgenstein

ISBN 3518065149 (3-518-06514-9)
Hardcover, Suhrkamp

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Zur Theorie Der Sprechakte: (How to Do Things with Words)
by J.L. Austin

ISBN 3150093961 (3-15-009396-1)
Hardcover, P. Reclam

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La Ricerca Della Lingua Perfetta Nella Cultura Europea
by Umberto Eco

ISBN 8842042870 (88-420-4287-0)
Hardcover, Laterza

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Basics Of Biblical Greek Vocabulary Cards
by William D. Mounce

ISBN 0310259878 (0-310-25987-8)
Hardcover, Zondervan

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Features: * Keyed to William D. Mounce's Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar * Frequency numbers on every card * Principal parts given for verbs * Cards numbered for easy assignment * First 320 cards based on order of Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar * Cards 321--1,000 ordered according to frequency [via]
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