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1st Thousand Words Japaneseby Heather Amery, Stephen CartwrightISBN 0746023030 (0-7460-2303-0)
Hardcover, Edc Pub
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Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glassby Lewis Carroll, Marlene EkmanISBN 0716631989 (0-7166-3198-9)
Hardcover, World Book
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Alice's Adventures In Wonderlandby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0688110878 (0-688-11087-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures In Wonderland'Book summary:Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new." There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser," seemingly without moral or sense.
For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glassby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0688120504 (0-688-12050-4)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass'Book summary:That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
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All the Greek Verbsby N MarinoneISBN 0715617729 (0-7156-1772-9)
Softcover, Duckbacks
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Anna Kareninaby Leo Tolstoy, Leonard J. Kent, Constance Black Garnett, Nina Nikolaevna BerberovaISBN 067978330X (0-679-78330-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anna Karenina'Book summary:Considered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, Anna Karenina is Tolstoy's classic tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop of high society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. A rich and complex masterpiece, the novel charts the disastrous course of a love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer. Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together the lives of dozens of characters, and in doing so captures a breathtaking tapestry of late-nineteenth-century Russian society. As Matthew Arnold wrote in his celebrated essay on Tolstoy, "We are not to take Anna Karenina as a work of art; we are to take it as a piece of life." [via]
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The Arabic Languageby Kees VersteeghISBN 0748614362 (0-7486-1436-2)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Arabic Language'Book summary:This general introduction to the Arabic Language, now available in paperback, places special emphasis on the history and variation of the language. Concentrating on the difference between the two types of Arabic - the Classical standard language and the dialects - Kees Versteegh charts the history and development of the Arabic language from the earliest beginnings to modern times. The reader is offered a solid grounding in the structure of the language, its historical context and its use in various literary and non-literary genres, as well as an understanding of the role of Arabic as a cultural, religious and political world language. Intended as an introductory guide for students of Arabic, it will also be a useful tool for discussions both from a historical linguistic and from a socio-linguistic perspective. Coverage includes all aspects of the history of Arabic, the Arabic linguistic tradition, Arabic dialects and Arabic as a world language. Links are made between linguistic history and cultural history, while the author emphasises the role of contacts between Arabic and other languages. This important book will be an ideal text for all those wishing to acquire an understanding or develop their knowledge of the Arabic language.
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The Art of Memoryby YatesISBN 071265545X (0-7126-5545-X)
Softcover, Pimlico
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Asterix in Britainby René Goscinny, Albert UderzoISBN 0752866192 (0-7528-6619-2)
Softcover, Orion Books Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Asterix in Britain'Book summary:The Romans have invaded Britain, but one village still holds out. Asterix and Obelix come to help, with a barrel of magic potion in hand. But to deliver the precious brew, the Gaulish heroes must face fog, rain, bad food, warm beer, and the Roman, too.[via] 
Basic English Revisited: A Student Handbookby Patrick Sebranek, Verne MeyerISBN 0686276930 (0-686-27693-0)
Hardcover, Basic English Revisited
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The Battle for Gaulby Julius Caesar, Anne Wiseman, T.P. WisemanISBN 0701125047 (0-7011-2504-7)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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C D B!by William SteigISBN 0689857063 (0-689-85706-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'C D B!'Book summary:William Steig--The New Yorker cartoonist and revered creator of the Caldecott Medalist Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Abel's Island, and dozens of other magnificent books--first wrote and illustrated the original, black-and-white edition of CDB! more than 30 years ago. Adding splashes of watercolor on larger, broader pages (and an answer key in the back!), Steig brings new life to his well-loved favorite. For the uninitiated, "C D B!" translates to "See the bee!" Other letter codes are more challenging, such as the boy leaning on a tree saying "I F-N N-E N-R-G" or a droopy decrepit man slouching in a chair labeled "O-L H." Once you get used to this abbreviated Steig-speak, all (or at least most) will become clear--"X" sometimes means "eggs," "D" is sometimes "the," and "S" can be "is" or "has," for example. Or, you can just read the letters out loud over and over until the proper phrase emerges plain as day. (The pictures help, too, of course!) Those who crave more wordplay will want to explore CDC? This book is nothing less than X-L-N, and no home where words are celebrated should be without it. (Ages 5 to 105) --Karin Snelson [via]
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptographyby Simon SinghISBN 0756754739 (0-7567-5473-9)
Hardcover, Diane Pub Co
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Colloquial Arabicby Leslie McLoughlinISBN 0710006683 (0-7100-0668-3)
Softcover, Routledge
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Colloquial Arabic of the Gulf and Saudi Arabiaby Clive HolesISBN 0710097093 (0-7100-9709-3)
Softcover, Routledge
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Colloquial Chineseby David E. Pollard, P. C. TungISBN 0710008910 (0-7100-0891-0)
Softcover, Routledge & K. Paul in association with Methuen
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Colloquial Persian: The Complete Course for Beginnersby Leila MoshiriISBN 071020776X (0-7102-0776-X)
Hardcover, Routledge & Kegan Paul
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Colloquial Polish: The Complete Course for Beginnersby B. W. MazurISBN 0710090307 (0-7100-9030-7)
Hardcover, Routledge & K. Paul
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Colloquial Romanianby Dennis DeletantISBN 0710008341 (0-7100-0834-1)
Softcover, Routledge & K. Paul
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Colloquial Turkishby Yusuf MardinISBN 0710084153 (0-7100-8415-3)
Hardcover, Routledge & K. Paul
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Comparative Grammar of the Hittite Languageby Edgar H. SturtevantISBN 0686513576 (0-686-51357-6)
Hardcover, Elliots Books
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The Construction of Social Realityby John R. SearleISBN 0684831791 (0-684-83179-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Cynic's Dictionaryby Rich BayanISBN 0688151256 (0-688-15125-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Democratic Eloquence: The Fight for Popular Speech in Nineteenth-Century Americaby Kenneth CmielISBN 0688083528 (0-688-08352-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialismsby G.A. WilkesISBN 0710089309 (0-7100-8930-9)
Hardcover, Routledge & K. Paul
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Elements of Old Englishby Thomas A. Knott, Samuel MooreISBN 0685217817 (0-685-21781-7)
Softcover, White Raven Pr
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Fictionsby Jorge Luis Borges, Anthony KerriganISBN 0714540838 (0-7145-4083-8)
Softcover, Riverrun Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fictions'Book summary:Reading Jorge Luis Borges is an experience akin to having the top of one's head removed for repairs. First comes the unfamiliar breeze tickling your cerebral cortex; then disorientation, even mild discomfort; and finally, the sense that the world has been irrevocably altered--and in this case, rendered infinitely more complex. First published in 1945, his Ficciones compressed several centuries' worth of philosophy and poetry into 17 tiny, unclassifiable pieces of prose. He offered up diabolical tigers, imaginary encyclopedias, ontological detective stories, and scholarly commentaries on nonexistent books, and in the process exploded all previous notions of genre. Would any of David Foster Wallace's famous footnotes be possible without Borges? Or, for that matter, the syntactical games of Perec, the metafictional pastiche of Calvino? For good or for ill, the blind Argentinian paved the way for a generation's worth of postmodern monkey business--and fiction will never be simply "fiction" again.
Its enormous influence on writers aside, Ficciones has also--perhaps more importantly--changed the way that we read. Borges's Pierre Menard, for instance, undertakes the most audacious project imaginable: to create not a contemporary version of Cervantes's most famous work but the Quixote itself, word for word. This second text is "verbally identical" to the original, yet, because of its new associations, "infinitely richer"; every time we read, he suggests, we are in effect creating an entirely new text, simply by viewing it through the distorting lens of history. "A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships," Borges once wrote in an essay about George Bernard Shaw. "All men who repeat one line of Shakespeare are William Shakespeare," he tells us in "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius." In this spirit, Borges is not above impersonating, even quoting, himself.
It is hard, exactly, to say what all of this means, at least in any of the usual ways. Borges wrote not with an ideological agenda, but with a kind of radical philosophical playfulness. Labyrinths, libraries, lotteries, doubles, dreams, mirrors, heresiarchs: these are the tokens with which he plays his ontological games. In the end, ideas themselves are less important to him than their aesthetic and imaginative possibilities. Like the idealist philosophers of Tlön, Borges does not "seek for the truth or even for verisimilitude, but rather for the astounding"; for him as for them, "metaphysics is a branch of fantastic literature." --Mary Park [via]
Formal Languages and Automata Theoryby Vladimir DrobotISBN 0716781867 (0-7167-8186-7)
Hardcover, W H Freeman & Co
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From Hand to Mouth: The Origins of Languageby Michael C. CorballisISBN 0691116733 (0-691-11673-3)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Geography of Thoughtby Richard E. NisbettISBN 0743216466 (0-7432-1646-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Geography of Thought'Book summary:Everyone knows that while different cultures may think about the world differently, they use the same equipment for doing their thinking. Everyone knows that whatever the skin color, nationality, or religion, every human being uses the same tools for perception, for memory, and for reasoning. Everyone knows that a logically true statement is true in English, German, or Hindi. Everyone knows that when a Chinese and an American look at the same painting, they see the same painting.
But what if everyone is wrong?
When psychologist Richard E. Nisbett showed an animated underwater scene to his American students, they zeroed in on a big fish swimming among smaller fish. Japanese subjects, on the other hand, made observations about the background environment -- and the different "seeings" are a clue to profound underlying cognitive differences between Westerners and East Asians. For, as Professor Nisbett shows in The Geography of Thought, people actually think about -- and even see -- the world differently because of differing ecologies, social structures, philosophies, and educational systems that date back to ancient Greece and China and that have survived into the modern world. As a result, East Asian thought is "holistic" -- drawn to the perceptual field as a whole and to relations among objects and events within that field. By comparison to Western modes of reasoning, East Asian thought relies far less on categories or on formal logic; it is fundamentally dialectic, seeking a "middle way" between opposing thoughts. By contrast, Westerners focus on salient objects or people, use attributes to assign them to catergories, and apply rules of formal logic to understand their behavior.
The Geography of Thought documents Professor Nisbett's groundbreaking international research in cultural psychology, a series of comparative studies both persuasive in their rigor and startling in their conclusions, addressing questions such as:
" Why did the ancient Chinese excel at algebra and arithmetic, but not geometry, the brilliant achievement of such Greeks as Euclid?
" Why do East Asians find it so difficult to disentangle an object from its surroundings?
" Why do Western infants learn nouns more rapidly than verbs, when it is the other way around in East Asia?
" What are the implications of these cognitive differences for the future of international politics? Do they support a Fukuyamaesque "end of history" scenario or a Huntingtonian "clash of civilizations"?
From feng shui to metaphysics, from comparative linguistics to economic history, a gulf separates the children of Aristotle from the descendants of Confucius. At a moment in history when the need for cross-cultural understanding and collaboration have never been more important, The Geography of Thought offers both a map to that gulf and a blueprint for a bridge that might be able to span it. [via]
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The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and Whyby Richard E. NisbettISBN 0743255356 (0-7432-5535-6)
Softcover, Free Pr
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When Richard Nisbett showed an animated underwater scene to his American students, they zeroed in on a big fish swimming among smaller fish. Japanese subjects, on the other hand, made observations about the background environment. These different seeings are a clue to profound underlying cognitive differences between Westerners and East Asians. For, as Nisbett demonstrates in The Geography of Thought, people think about and see the world differently because of differing ecologies, social structures, philosophies, and educational systems that date back to ancient Greece and China and that have survived into the modern world. [via]
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Greek Made Easyby George C. DivryISBN 068509037X (0-685-09037-X)
Hardcover, Dc Divry
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Greek Prose Compositionby A. E. Hillard, M.A. NorthISBN 0715612840 (0-7156-1284-0)
Softcover, Intl Pub Marketing
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Greek Prose Composition for Schoolsby M. A. North, A. E. HillardISBN 0715612832 (0-7156-1283-2)
Hardcover, Duckworth & Company, Limited, Gerald
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Green Eggs and Hamby Dr. SeussISBN 0679891293 (0-679-89129-3)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Green Eggs and Ham'Book summary:Young fans of the unflappable Sam-I-am will be pleased as punch to discover the plethora of flaps to lift in this 10-page board book version of the Dr. Seuss classic. Sam-I-am does his very best to convince a more finicky Seuss character to try this rather unusual delicacy.
Would you? Could you? In a car?
To which the exasperated doubter replies:
Eat them! Eat them! Here they are.
You may like them. You will see.
You may like them in a tree!
I would not,
On every page readers will find sturdy, easy-to-lift flaps behind which reside the familiar characters and lines of the unique 1960 classic--except for the last page. Here, blank spaces lurk behind the flaps, just waiting to be filled in with peel-off pictures from the accompanying sheet of silly stickers. (Ages 3 to 7) --Emilie Coulter [via]
could not, in a tree.
Not in a car!
You let me be.
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secretsby J. K. RowlingISBN 0747545774 (0-7475-4577-4)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'Book summary:What makes the Harry Potter series so successful? Maybe it's the fact that J.K. Rowling doesn't write children's books, she writes children's stories, more in the tradition of the Brothers Grimm than Dr. Seuss. The exploits of Harry and his friends captivate even the shortest attention spans by engaging the imagination with vivid characters and fast-moving action, instead of trying to merely catch the eye with colorful pictures or pop-up effects. Not surprisingly, the Potter tales sound wonderful read aloud, and adapt to the audiobook format extremely well. Broadway actor Jim Dale's impressive vocal range gives each character in the book its own distinctive voice--a considerable task, given the pantheon of witches, warlocks, ghosts, ghouls, dwarves, and elves that Harry encounters in his second outing. And thankfully, since the book is read unabridged, no one's favorite character is omitted. Engaging for children without being childish, the audio version of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is worthy addition to the deservedly popular series. (Running time: 9 hours, 7 CDs) --Andrew Nieland [via]
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International Thesaurus of Quotationsby Rhoda Thomas TrippISBN 0690445849 (0-690-44584-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Introducing Functional Grammarby Michael A.K. HallidayISBN 0713163658 (0-7131-6365-8)
Softcover, E. Arnold
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Introducing Functional Grammar'Book summary:This third edition of An Introduction to Functional Grammar has been extensively revised. While retaining the organization and coverage of the earlier editions, it incorporates a considerable amount of new material. This includes strengthening the grammar through the use of data from a large-scale corpus, upgrading the description throughout, and giving greater emphasis to the systemic perspective, in which grammaticalization is understood in the context of an overall model of language.
The approach taken in the book overcomes the distinction between theoretical and applied linguistics. The description of grammar is grounded in a comprehensive theory, but it is a theory which evolves in the process of being applied. [via]More editions of Introducing Functional Grammar:
Introduction to Modern Arabicby R.B. Winder, Farhat Jacob ZiadehISBN 0691060592 (0-691-06059-2)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Inversionsby Scott KimISBN 0716720442 (0-7167-2044-2)
Softcover, W H Freeman & Co
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James Boswell's Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscriptby James Boswell, Marshall WaingrowISBN 0748604715 (0-7486-0471-5)
Hardcover, Edinburgh University Press
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Kites Sail Highby Ruth HellerISBN 0698113896 (0-698-11389-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Language and Thought of the Childby Jean PiagetISBN 071003041X (0-7100-3041-X)
Hardcover, Routledge
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Language of Flowersby Kate GreenawayISBN 0723220069 (0-7232-2006-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Language of Thoughtby Jerry A. FodorISBN 0690008023 (0-690-00802-3)
Hardcover, Crowell
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Language Shock: Understanding the Culture of Conversationby Michael AgarISBN 0688149499 (0-688-14949-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Lao Tzu's Tao Te Chingby Timothy Freke, LaoziISBN 0749919663 (0-7499-1966-3)
Softcover, Piatkus Books
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Latin Made Simpleby R.A. HendricksISBN 0750605472 (0-7506-0547-2)
Softcover, Butterworth-Heinemann
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Latin Made Simple'Book summary:Offers a course in basic grammar and syntax to the standard of GCSE examining boards. It includes exercises that give practice in all the major usages and, since the text is intended primarily for use in self-tuition, answers are also provided. To add both interest and a further dimension to the study of the language there are frequent digressions into aspects of Roman life and culture. Revision sections follow chapter groupings covering: The Verb, Nouns, Adjectives, Irregular Verbs, Familiar
Abbreviations, Geometrical and Historical terms.
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Latin Prose Compositionby A. E. Hillard, M.A. NorthISBN 0715613227 (0-7156-1322-7)
Softcover, Intl Pub Marketing Inc
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Learn Frenchby Nicole IrvingISBN 0746005326 (0-7460-0532-6)
Softcover, Edc Pub
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-- Includes comprehensive pronunciation guide and grammar summaries [via]
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Madame Bovaryby Gustave FlaubertISBN 0685349004 (0-685-34900-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Madame Bovary'Book summary:Flaubert avait beau affirmer qu'il désirait faire du style le coeur d'un "livre sur rien", son premier roman n'en est pas moins un récit, un roman de la "fatalité", comme le souligne innocemment Charles Bovary, sans même savoir qu'il s'agit d'une fatalité d'ordre narratologique qui imbrique imperceptiblement les éléments du texte pour rendre l'issue inévitable. Tableau des Moeurs de province, Madame Bovary dépeint avec tant d'efficacité la dynamique de la frustration que le mélange d'ennui profond, d'apathie et d'exaltation romanesque qui caractérise son héroïne a donné naissance au terme de bovarysme. De Tostes à Yonville-l'Abbaye, Emma Bovary traîne sa morne existence jalonnée d'adultères. Certes, ses échappées à bord de l'Hirondelle, l'express qui relie Yonville à Rouen, pimentent sa vie. Mais elle est conduite par Hivert, vouée au retour ironique et incontournable. Quelles que soient les tentatives d'évasion, le bovarysme triomphe. Dans le portrait de cette petite bourgeoise normande, Flaubert a poussé l'écriture objective, neutralité indispensable afin de se fondre dans les personnages, au point de rendre si vivantes les aspirations d'Emma que le roman lui valut un procès. --Sana Tang-Léopold Wauters [via]
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Many Luscious Lollipopsby Ruth HellerISBN 0698116410 (0-698-11641-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories/the Great Short Works of Franz Kafkaby Franz Kafka, Joachim NeugroschelISBN 0684194260 (0-684-19426-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The New Lexicon Webster's Dictionary of the English Language: Encyclopedia Editionby Bernard S. CayneISBN 0717245462 (0-7172-4546-2)
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The New Lexicon Websters Dictionary of the English Languageby Lexicon Publications (Firm)ISBN 0717245470 (0-7172-4547-0)
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A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanishby John Butt, Carmen BenjaminISBN 0713166126 (0-7131-6612-6)
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Next of Kin: What Chimpanzees Have Taught Me About Who We Areby Roger Fouts, Stephen Tukel Mills, Jane GoodallISBN 068814862X (0-688-14862-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Nicholasby Anthea Bell, Jean-Jacques Sempe, Rene GoscinnyISBN 0714845299 (0-7148-4529-9)
Hardcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nicholas'Book summary:Book Description Nicholas is the first of five books that bring to life the day to day adventures of a young school boy - amusing, endearing and always in trouble. An only child, Nicholas, appears older at school than he does as home and his touchingly naive reaction to situations, cut through the preconceptions of adults and result in a formidable sequence of escapades. This first book in the series contains a collection of nineteen individual stories where, in spite of trying to be good, Nicholas and his friends always seem to end up in some kind of mischief. Whether in the school room, at home, or in the playground, their exuberance often takes over and the results are calamitous at least for their teachers and parents. Whether confusing the photographer hired to take the class picture, dealing with having to wear glasses for the first time, or trying desperately to help the teacher when the school inspector pays a visit, Nicholas always manages to make matters worse. Nicholas was awarded the 2006 Batchelder Honor Award, which recognizes outstanding children's books published in a foreign language and translated into English. Nicholas was also recognized by The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) as a 2006 Notable Children's Book. [via]
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Nicholasby Rene GoscinnyISBN 0714844829 (0-7148-4482-9)
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Philosophical Analysis In The Twentieth Century: The Dawn Of Analysisby Scott SoamesISBN 069112244X (0-691-12244-X)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Pillars of Monarchy: An Outline of the Political and Social History of Royal Guards 1400-1984by Philip ManselISBN 0704324245 (0-7043-2424-5)
Hardcover, Interlink Pub Group Inc
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Pride and Prejudiceby Jane AustenISBN 0679783261 (0-679-78326-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pride and Prejudice'Book summary:"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage--tracing the intricacies (not to mention the economics) of 19th-century British mating rituals with a sure hand and an unblinking eye. As usual, Austen trains her sights on a country village and a few families--in this case, the Bennets, the Philips, and the Lucases. Into their midst comes Mr. Bingley, a single man of good fortune, and his friend, Mr. Darcy, who is even richer. Mrs. Bennet, who married above her station, sees their arrival as an opportunity to marry off at least one of her five daughters. Bingley is complaisant and easily charmed by the eldest Bennet girl, Jane; Darcy, however, is harder to please. Put off by Mrs. Bennet's vulgarity and the untoward behavior of the three younger daughters, he is unable to see the true worth of the older girls, Jane and Elizabeth. His excessive pride offends Lizzy, who is more than willing to believe the worst that other people have to say of him; when George Wickham, a soldier stationed in the village, does indeed have a discreditable tale to tell, his words fall on fertile ground.
Having set up the central misunderstanding of the novel, Austen then brings in her cast of fascinating secondary characters: Mr. Collins, the sycophantic clergyman who aspires to Lizzy's hand but settles for her best friend, Charlotte, instead; Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr. Darcy's insufferably snobbish aunt; and the Gardiners, Jane and Elizabeth's low-born but noble-hearted aunt and uncle. Some of Austen's best comedy comes from mixing and matching these representatives of different classes and economic strata, demonstrating the hypocrisy at the heart of so many social interactions. And though the novel is rife with romantic misunderstandings, rejected proposals, disastrous elopements, and a requisite happy ending for those who deserve one, Austen never gets so carried away with the romance that she loses sight of the hard economic realities of 19th-century matrimonial maneuvering. Good marriages for penniless girls such as the Bennets are hard to come by, and even Lizzy, who comes to sincerely value Mr. Darcy, remarks when asked when she first began to love him: "It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley." She may be joking, but there's more than a little truth to her sentiment, as well. Jane Austen considered Elizabeth Bennet "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print". Readers of Pride and Prejudice would be hard-pressed to disagree. --Alix Wilber [via]
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A Room of One's Own and Three Guineasby Virginia WoolfISBN 0701128291 (0-7011-2829-1)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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The Sanskrit Language: An Introductory Grammar and Readerby Walter Harding MaurerISBN 0700713824 (0-7007-1382-4)
Hardcover, Curzon Pr
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Semantics: Theories of Meaning in Generative Grammarby Janet Dean FodorISBN 069000866X (0-690-00866-X)
Hardcover, Crowell
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knightby R.A. WaldronISBN 0713154934 (0-7131-5493-4)
Hardcover, Edward Arnold
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Social History of Englishby Dick LeithISBN 071009261X (0-7100-9261-X)
Softcover, Routledge & K. Paul
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The Structure of Complex Wordsby William EmpsonISBN 0701106565 (0-7011-0656-5)
Hardcover, Chatto and Windus
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Survive in Five Languagesby C. FarnesISBN 0746010346 (0-7460-1034-6)
Softcover, Riverwood Publishers, Limited
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The Tempestby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 0743482832 (0-7434-8283-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tempest'Book summary:In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero -- a magician on an enchanted island -- punishes his enemies, brings happiness to his daughter, and comes to terms with human use of supernatural power. The Tempest embodies both seemingly timeless romance and the historically specific moment in which Europe begins to explore and conquer the New World. Its complexity of thought, its range of characters -- from the spirit Ariel and the monster Caliban to the beautiful Miranda and her prince Ferdinand -- its poetic beauty, and its exploration of difficult questions that still haunt us today make this play wonderfully compelling.
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Designed to make Shakespeare's great plays available to all readers, the New Folger Library edition of Shakespeare's plays provides accurate texts in modern spelling and punctuation, as well as scene-by-scene action summaries, full explanatory notes, many pictures clarifying Shakespeare's language, and notes recording all significant departures from the early printed versions. Each play is prefaced by a brief introduction, by a guide to reading Shakespeare's language, and by accounts of his life and theater. Each play is followed by an annotated list of further readings and by a "Modern Perspective" written by an expert on that particular play. [via]
The Tempestby Alan DurbandISBN 0748703799 (0-7487-0379-9)
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Truth And Methodby Hans-Georg GadamerISBN 0722076002 (0-7220-7600-2)
Hardcover, Sheed & Ward
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Ultimate Visual Dictionaryby Dk PublishingISBN 0756626064 (0-7566-2606-4)
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Who's Whose: A No-Nonsense Guide to Easily Confused Wordsby Philip GoodenISBN 0747572313 (0-7475-7231-3)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury
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Why Business People Speak Like Idiots: A Bullfighter's Guideby Brian Fugere, Chelsea Hardaway, Jon WarshawskyISBN 0743269098 (0-7432-6909-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Word Maps: A Dialect Atlas of Englandby Clive Upton, Stewart Sanderson, John WiddowsonISBN 0709944101 (0-7099-4410-1)
Hardcover, Routledge
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The World's Great ClassicsISBN 0717200019 (0-7172-0001-9)
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Find This BookBook summary:Odyssey, The: The World's Great Classics, by Homer; tr. by S.H. Butcher and Andrew Lang [via]
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Meshuggenary: Celebrating the World of Yiddishby Sol Steinmetz, Payson R. Stevens, Charles M. LevineISBN 0743227425 (0-7432-2742-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Yiddish is rich and soulful, thick with pathos, full of humor and self-deprecating wit and sarcasm -- as a language it uniquely captures the essence of what, or who, it describes. If you've ever noshed on a bagel, or yelled at the schmuck who had the chutzpah to cut you off at the traffic light, you've been enriched and empowered by Yiddish.
Beautifully designed and illustrated, Meshuggenary is a deeply researched and eclectic introduction to Yiddish language, culture, and history. It explores the basics of Yiddish vocabulary and grammar; proverbs, expressions, blessings, curses, and insults; and even the difference between Yiddish, Yinglish (Yiddish-origin words now part of English), and Yiddlish (words that sound Yiddish but aren't). There are chapters on Yiddish humor, literature, theater, and music; a who's who of Yiddish luminaries; and a captivating glimpse of the contributions of women to its literature and culture. So you shouldn't go hungry, there's a chapter on food with a tempting selection of family recipes. And if this little taste isn't enough to satisfy you, there's information on a host of books and Yiddish Web sites and Internet links.
Erudite, accessible, highly informative, and enormously entertaining, Meshuggenary is an irresistible pleasure. [via]
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The University of Chicago Spanish Dictionaryby David PhariesISBN 0743470133 (0-7434-7013-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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For this completely updated and revised Fifth Edition, David Pharies has made a number of additions and improvements that will benefit students, teachers, and travelers alike.
- Thousands of new entries -- all with clear, concise definitions
- New words and meanings, including modern slang and expressions
- Parenthetical guides for accurate word selection
- Enhanced language and grammar guides -- in Spanish and English -- including pronunciation, parts of speech, suffixes, and regular and irregular verbs
EL DICCIONARIO BILINGÜE MÁS POPULAR Y MEJOR VENDIDO
Para esta quinta edición, completamente actualizada y revisada, David Pharies ha introducido numerosos cambios que beneficiarán a estudiantes, maestros y viajeros.
- Más de mil nuevas palabras -- todas con definiciones claras y sucintas
- Más palabras y sentidos, incluyendo modismos y expresiones populares
- Apartado gramatical -- en español e inglés -- incluyendo pronunciación, sufijos y verbos regulares e irregulares
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The Usborne First Thousand Words in Germanby Heather AmeryISBN 0746023073 (0-7460-2307-3)
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