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Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glassby Lewis Carroll, Kathy MitchellISBN 0307671119 (0-307-67111-9)
Hardcover, Golden Books Publishing Company, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice 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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Alice in Wonderland Classic Libraryby Lewis CarrollISBN 0307171116 (0-307-17111-6)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Anatomy of English: An Introduction to the Structure of Standard American Englishby Dorothy SedleyISBN 0312026870 (0-312-02687-0)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Ancient Egyptian Calligraphy: A Beginner's Guide to Writing Hieroglyphsby Henry G. FischerISBN 0300085672 (0-300-08567-2)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Annotated Pride and Prejudiceby Jane Austen, David M. ShapardISBN 0307278107 (0-307-27810-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annotated Pride and Prejudice'Book summary:This first-ever fully annotated edition of one of the most beloved novels in the world is a sheer delight for Jane Austen fans. Here is the complete text of Pride and Prejudice with more than 2,300 annotations on facing pages, including:
" Explanations of historical context
Rules of etiquette, class differences, the position of women, legal and economic realities, leisure activities, and more.
" Citations from Austens life, letters, and other writings
Parallels between the novel and Austens experience are revealed, along with writings that illuminate her beliefs and opinions.
" Definitions and clarifications
Archaic words, words still in use whose meanings have changed, and obscure passages are explained.
" Literary comments and analyses
Insightful notes highlight Austens artistry and point out the subtle ways she develops her characters and themes.
" Maps and illustrations
of places and objects mentioned in the novel.
" An introduction, a bibliography, and a detailed chronology of events
Of course, one can enjoy the novel without knowing the precise definition of a gentleman, or what it signifies that a character drives a coach rather than a hack chaise, or the rules governing social interaction at a ball, but readers of The Annotated Pride and Prejudice will find that these kinds of details add immeasurably to understanding and enjoying the intricate psychological interplay of Austens immortal characters.
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The Arabic Languageby Kees VersteeghISBN 0231111525 (0-231-11152-5)
Hardcover, 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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Archaic Bookkeeping: Early Writing and Techniques of Economic Administration in the Ancient Near Eastby Hans J. Nissen, Peter Damerow, Robert K. EnglundISBN 0226586596 (0-226-58659-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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scholarship on the earliest true writing system in human
history. Invented by the Babylonians at the end of the
fourth millennium B.C., this script, called proto-cuneiform,
survives in the form of clay tablets that have until now
posed formidable barriers to interpretation. Many tablets,
excavated in fragments from ancient dump sites, lack a clear
context. In addition, the purpose of the earliest tablets
was not to record language but to monitor the administration
of local economies by means of a numerical system.
Using the latest philological research and new methods
of computer analysis, the authors have for the first time
deciphered much of the numerical information. In
reconstructing both the social context and the function of
the notation, they consider how the development of our
earliest written records affected patterns of thought, the
concept of number, and the administration of household
economies. Complete with computer-generated graphics keyed
to the discussion and reproductions of all documents referred
to in the text, Archaic Bookkeeping will interest
specialists in Near Eastern civilizations, ancient history,
the history of science and mathematics, and cognitive
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The Art of Memoryby YatesISBN 0226950018 (0-226-95001-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Memory'Book summary:One of Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century[via]
In this classic study of how people learned to retain vast stores of knowledge before the invention of the printed page, Frances A. Yates traces the art of memory from its treatment by Greek orators, through its Gothic transformations in the Middle Ages, to the occult forms it took in the Renaissance, and finally to its use in the seventeenth century. This book, the first to relate the art of memory to the history of culture as a whole, was revolutionary when it first appeared and continues to mesmerize readers with its lucid and revelatory insights.More editions of The Art of Memory:
The Basics of New Testament Syntax: An Intermediate Greek Grammar The Abridgement of Greek Grammar Beyond the Basicsby Daniel B. WallaceISBN 0310232295 (0-310-23229-5)
Hardcover, Zondervan
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Brewer's Dictionary of 20th-Century Phrase and Fableby Alan Isaacs, Elizabeth Martin, David PickeringISBN 0304340596 (0-304-34059-6)
Hardcover, Cassell
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Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase & Fableby Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, Adrian RoomISBN 0304353817 (0-304-35381-7)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fableby Adrian RoomISBN 0304358711 (0-304-35871-1)
Softcover, Cassell P L C
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable'Book summary:If you like Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable and other word lovers' guides, you'll adore this. Adrian Room, the editor of recent editions of Brewer's, has gathered together over 8,000 words, names and phrases that "resonate in the collective memory of English-speaking people all over the world". It's a wonderful smorgasbord. The highs and lows of 20th-century culture are cheerfully ransacked for their gems. In a way, this book is a fascinating bite-by-bite history of the last century, with excursions into the 1800s and the beginning of the third millennium. (If you want to round out the picture, try The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations, which makes an interesting companion volume to this one.) The range of categories covered is almost endless, including Mathematics and mechanics, Play titles, Famous People, Alternative and New Age topics, and so many more. Slang, jargon, metaphors, catch phrases, quotations, sayings and slogans all take their bow, with fascinating "general entries" going into detail about instances of a theme such as Fakes, and "list entries" on topics such as Advertising Slogans of the 20th Century, Commercial Inventions, Programming Languages and String Quartets. What other book could explain "Jargonaut: a punning term for someone who uses an excessive amount of jargon"; the computer language Java; the origins of the phrase "Jaw-jaw"; the fact that the title of the film Jaws was a last-minute inspiration (it might have been called Leviathan Rising, or half a dozen other titles); the story of jazz-and all without turning a page? Open the book anywhere else and you'd have a similar range. It's a dream book for intellectual and cultural magpies, all written with the wit, learning and playfulness for which Brewer's is renowned. Dr Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (Blessings on his name) remains the presiding spirit, and there can be no greater compliment than that.--David Pickering [via]
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Cambodian System of Writing and Beginning Readerby Franklin E. HuffmanISBN 0300013140 (0-300-01314-0)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Cambodian System of Writing and Beginning Reader with Drills and Glossaryby Franklin E. Huffman, Chhom-Rak Thong Lambert, Im ProumISBN 0300011997 (0-300-01199-7)
Hardcover, Yale University Press
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Candideby Burton Raffel, Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0300106556 (0-300-10655-6)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:[via]In this new translation of Voltaires Candide, distinguished translator Burton Raffel captures the French novels irreverent spirit and offers a vivid, contemporary version of the 250-year-old text. Raffel casts the novel in an English idiom that--had Voltaire been a twenty-first-century American--he might himself have employed. The translation is immediate and unencumbered, and for the first time makes Voltaire the satirist a wicked pleasure for English-speaking readers.
Candide recounts the fantastically improbable travels, adventures, and misfortunes of the young Candide, his beloved Cunégonde, and his devoutly optimistic tutor, Pangloss. Endowed at the start with good fortune and every prospect for happiness and success, the characters nevertheless encounter every conceivable misfortune. Voltaires philosophical tale, in part an ironic attack on the optimistic thinking of such figures as G. W. Leibniz and Alexander Pope, has proved enormously influential over the years. In a general introduction to this volume, historian Johnson Kent Wright places Candide in the contexts of Voltaires life and work and the Age of Enlightenment.More editions of Candide:
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Candideby Francois M. Voltaire, Burton RaffelISBN 0300119879 (0-300-11987-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:[via]In this new translation of Voltaires Candide, distinguished translator Burton Raffel captures the French novels irreverent spirit and offers a vivid, contemporary version of the 250-year-old text. Raffel casts the novel in an English idiom that--had Voltaire been a twenty-first-century American--he might himself have employed. The translation is immediate and unencumbered, and for the first time makes Voltaire the satirist a wicked pleasure for English-speaking readers.
Candide recounts the fantastically improbable travels, adventures, and misfortunes of the young Candide, his beloved Cunégonde, and his devoutly optimistic tutor, Pangloss. Endowed at the start with good fortune and every prospect for happiness and success, the characters nevertheless encounter every conceivable misfortune. Voltaires philosophical tale, in part an ironic attack on the optimistic thinking of such figures as G. W. Leibniz and Alexander Pope, has proved enormously influential over the years. In a general introduction to this volume, historian Johnson Kent Wright places Candide in the contexts of Voltaires life and work and the Age of Enlightenment.More editions of Candide:
Cassell's Colloquial French: A Handbook of Idiomatic Usageby Michel Levieux, Eleanor LevieuxISBN 0304079421 (0-304-07942-1)
Hardcover, Cassell
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Cassell's Rhyming Slangby Graham Rawle, Jonathon GreenISBN 0304355135 (0-304-35513-5)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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The Classic of the Way and Virtue: A New Translation of the Tao-Te Ching of Laozi As Interpreted by Wang Biby Lao-Tzu, Pi Wang, Richard John LynnISBN 0231105800 (0-231-10580-0)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Classic of the Way and Virtue: A New Translation of the Tao-Te Ching of Laozi As Interpreted by Wang Bi'Book summary:The essential Taoist book and one of a triad that make up the most influential religious and philosophical writings of Chinese tradition, the Tao-te Ching is the subject of hundreds of new interpretive studies each year. As Taoism emerges as one of the East Asian philosophies most interesting to Westerners, an accessible new edition of this great work -- written for English-language readers, yet rendered with an eye toward Chinese understanding -- has been much needed by scholars and general readers. Richard John Lynn, whose recent translation of the I Ching was hailed by the Times Literary Supplement as "the best I Ching that has so far appeared," presents here another fine translation. Like his I Ching, this volume includes the interpretive commentary of the third-century scholar Wang Bi (226-249), who wrote the first and most sophisticated commentary on the Tao-te Ching. Lynn's introduction explores the centrality of Wang's commentaries in Chinese thought, the position of the Tao-te Ching in East Asian tradition, Wang's short but brilliant life, and the era in which he lived. The text consists of eighty-one short, aphoristic sections presenting a complete view of how the sage rules in accordance with the spontaneous ways of the natural world. Although the Tao-te Ching was originally designed to provide advice to the ruler, the Chinese regard its teachings as living and self-cultivation tools applicable to anyone. Wang Bi's commentaries, following each statement, flesh out the text so that it speaks to the modern Western reader as it has to Asians for more than seventeen centuries. [via]
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The Classic of the Way and Virtue: A New Translation of the Tao-Te Ching of Laozi As Interpreted by Wang Biby Richard John LynnISBN 0231105819 (0-231-10581-9)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Classic of the Way and Virtue: A New Translation of the Tao-Te Ching of Laozi As Interpreted by Wang Bi'Book summary:The essential Taoist book and one of a triad that make up the most influential religious and philosophical writings of Chinese tradition, the Tao-te Ching is the subject of hundreds of new interpretive studies each year. As Taoism emerges as one of the East Asian philosophies most interesting to Westerners, an accessible new edition of this great work -- written for English-language readers, yet rendered with an eye toward Chinese understanding -- has been much needed by scholars and general readers.
Richard John Lynn, whose recent translation of the I Ching was hailed by the Times Literary Supplement as "the best I Ching that has so far appeared," presents here another fine translation. Like his I Ching, this volume includes the interpretive commentary of the third-century scholar Wang Bi (226-249), who wrote the first and most sophisticated commentary on the Tao-te Ching.
Lynn's introduction explores the centrality of Wang's commentaries in Chinese thought, the position of the Tao-te Ching in East Asian tradition, Wang's short but brilliant life, and the era in which he lived. The text consists of eighty-one short, aphoristic sections presenting a complete view of how the sage rules in accordance with the spontaneous ways of the natural world. Although the Tao-te Ching was originally designed to provide advice to the ruler, the Chinese regard its teachings as living and self-cultivation tools applicable to anyone. Wang Bi's commentaries, following each statement, flesh out the text so that it speaks to the modern Western reader as it has to Asians for more than seventeen centuries.
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Comprehending Technical Japaneseby R. Byron Bird, Edward E. Daub, Nobuo InoueISBN 0299066800 (0-299-06680-0)
Hardcover, Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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Conversation: A History of a Declining Artby Stephen MillerISBN 0300110308 (0-300-11030-8)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Conversation: A History of a Declining Art'Book summary:Essayist Stephen Miller pursues a lifelong interest in conversation by taking an historical and philosophical view of the subject. He chronicles the art of conversation in Western civilization from its beginnings in ancient Greece to its apex in eighteenth-century Britain to its current endangered state in America. As Harry G. Frankfurt brought wide attention to the art of bullshit in his recent bestselling On Bullshit, so Miller now brings the art of conversation into the light, revealing why good conversation matters and why it is in decline.[via]
Miller explores the conversation about conversation among such great writers as Cicero, Montaigne, Swift, Defoe, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and Virginia Woolf. He focuses on the world of British coffeehouses and clubs in The Age of Conversation and examines how this era ended. Turning his attention to the United States, the author traces a prolonged decline in the theory and practice of conversation from Benjamin Franklin through Hemingway to Dick Cheney. He cites our technology (iPods, cell phones, and video games) and our insistence on unguarded forthrightness as well as our fear of being judgmental as powerful forces that are likely to diminish the art of conversation.More editions of Conversation: A History of a Declining Art:
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The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essaysby M.M. Bakhtin, Michael Holquist, Caryl EmersonISBN 029271534X (0-292-71534-X)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays'Book summary:These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevskyas a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel. The Dialogic Imagination presents, in superb English translation, four selections from Voprosy literatury i estetiki (Problems of literature and esthetics), published in Moscow in 1975. The volume also contains a lengthy introduction to Bakhtin and his thought and a glossary of terminology.
Bakhtin uses the category "novel" in a highly idiosyncratic way, claiming for it vastly larger territory than has been traditionally accepted. For him, the novel is not so much a genre as it is a force, "novelness," which he discusses in "From the Prehistory of Novelistic Discourse." Two essays, "Epic and Novel" and "Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel," deal with literary history in Bakhtin's own unorthodox way. In the final essay, he discusses literature and language in general, which he sees as stratified, constantly changing systems of subgenres, dialects, and fragmented "languages" in battle with one another.
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Doctor Dolittle's Delusion: Animals and the Uniqueness of Human Languageby Stephen R. AndersonISBN 0300103395 (0-300-10339-5)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Double Invention of Komoby Jay WrightISBN 0292715277 (0-292-71527-7)
Softcover, University of Texas Press
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Errata: An Examined Lifeby George SteinerISBN 0300080956 (0-300-08095-6)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Fine Art of Copyeditingby Elsie Myers StaintonISBN 0231069618 (0-231-06961-8)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Fine Art of Copyediting: Including Advice to Editors on How to Get Along With Authors, and Tips on Style for Bothby Elsie Myers StaintonISBN 0231124791 (0-231-12479-1)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fine Art of Copyediting: Including Advice to Editors on How to Get Along With Authors, and Tips on Style for Both'Book summary:Many stylebooks and manuals explain writing, but before the release ten years ago of Elsie Myers Stainton's The Fine Art of Copyediting, few addressed the practices and problems of editing. This handbook has guided users through the editing process for books and journals, with tips on how to be diplomatic when recommending changes, how to edit notes and bibliographies, how to check proofs, and how to negotiate the ethical, intellectual, and emotional problems characteristic of the editorial profession. Now featuring solid advice on computer editing and a new chapter on style, as well as more information on references, bibliographies, indexing, and bias-free writing, The Fine Art of Copyediting, Second Edition offers the same wealth of information that prompted William Safire to commend the first edition in The New York Times Magazine.
Complete with helpful checklists for the manuscript, proof, and index stages of book production, as well as an excellent bibliography of reference works useful to the copyeditor, The Fine Art of Copyediting, Second Edition is an indispensable desk reference for writers and editors confronting a host of questions each day. Why use the word "people" instead of "persons?" What precautions are necessary for publishers to avoid libel suits? How can an editor win an author's trust? What type fonts facilitate the copyediting process? How does computer editing work? For experienced and novice copyeditors, writers and students, this is the source for detailed, step-by-step guidance to the entire editorial process.
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Funk and Wagnalls Standard Handbook of Synonyms, Antonyms, and Prepositions.by James Champlin FernaldISBN 0308400240 (0-308-40024-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Greek New Testament: Ubs4 With Nrsv & Nivby John R. KohlenbergerISBN 0310414008 (0-310-41400-8)
Hardcover, Zondervan
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Greek Grammar of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literatureby Blass, F. & Debrunner, A., A. Debrunner, Robert W. FunkISBN 0310247802 (0-310-24780-2)
Hardcover, Zondervan
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Harrap's Slang Dictionary: English-French/French-Englishby Jane Pratt, Georgette A. Marks, Charles Benjamin JohnsonISBN 0245540474 (0-245-54047-4)
Softcover, Harrap
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The Hausa Language: An Encyclopedic Reference Grammarby Paul NewmanISBN 0300081898 (0-300-08189-8)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Headlines and Deadlines: A Manual for Copy Editorsby Robert E. Garst, Theodore Menline BernsteinISBN 0231048173 (0-231-04817-3)
Softcover, Columbia University Press
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Hieroglyphs Without Mystery: An Introduction to Ancient Egyptian Writingby Karl-Theodor ZauzichISBN 0292798040 (0-292-79804-0)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hieroglyphs Without Mystery: An Introduction to Ancient Egyptian Writing'Book summary:Marveling over the tomb treasures of Ramses II and Tutankhamen that have toured U.S. and European museums in recent years, visitors inevitably wonder what the mysterious hieroglyphs that cover their surfaces mean. Indeed, everyone who is fascinated by ancient Egypt sooner or later wishes for a Rosetta stone to unlock the secrets of hieroglyphic writing.
Hieroglyphs without Mystery provides the needed key. Written for ordinary people with no special language skills, the book quickly demonstrates that hieroglyphic writing can be read, once a few simple principles are understood. Zauzich explains the basic rules of the writing system and the grammar and then applies them to thirteen actual inscriptions taken from objects in European and Egyptian museums. By following his explanations and learning the most commonly used glyphs, readers can begin to decode hieroglyphs themselves and increase their enjoyment of both museum objects and ancient Egyptian sites.
Even for the armchair traveler, learning about hieroglyphs opens a sealed door into ancient Egyptian culture. In examining these inscriptions, readers will gain a better understanding of Egyptian art, politics, and religion, as well as language.
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The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Societyby Norbert WienerISBN 0306803208 (0-306-80320-8)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society'Book summary:Only a few books stand as landmarks in social and scientific upheaval. Norbert Wiener's classic is one in that small company. Founder of the science of cyberneticsthe study of the relationship between computers and the human nervous systemWiener was widely misunderstood as one who advocated the automation of human life. As this book reveals, his vision was much more complex and interesting. He hoped that machines would release people from relentless and repetitive drudgery in order to achieve more creative pursuits. At the same time he realized the danger of dehumanizing and displacement. His book examines the implications of cybernetics for education, law, language, science, technology, as he anticipates the enormous impactin effect, a third industrial revolutionthat the computer has had on our lives.[via]More editions of The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society:
Interpreting the Russian Revolution: The Language and Symbols of 1917by Orlando Figes, B. I. KolonitskiiISBN 0300081065 (0-300-08106-5)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Introduction to the Croatian and Serbian Languageby Thomas F. MagnerISBN 0271015365 (0-271-01536-5)
Softcover, Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
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The language has traditionally been called Serbo-Croatian, although it is also referred to as Serbian or Croatian. There are two main variants of the language; Croatian (Western) and Serbian (Eastern). This book is unique in its equal treatment of the two principal variants. Such even-handed treatment requires the presentation of the two alphabets in use (Latin and Cyrillic), the representation of lexical items specific to each variant (e.g., Serbian hleb, 'bread,' and Croatian kruh), a presentation of pronunciation differences (e.g., Serbian sneg, 'snow,' and Croatian snijeg), and a clear indication of syntactic differences (e.g., Serbian ja hocu da pisem, 'I want to write,' and Croatian ja hocu pisati).
The language presented is correct and colloquial since the user will typically be a beginner, not ready for belles-lettres. The correctness of usage has been established through consultation with Serbian and Croatian academic experts.
Conversations for imitation are fresh and lively, and texts are down-to-earth ('Sport in Yugoslavia,' 'Student Life in Zagreb,' etc.). A dictionary is provided at the end both for help with the lessons and for independent use, as in tourism or self-study.
The grammar is presented in modern fashion, using the techniques of applied linguistics and benefiting from the author's long experience in teaching the language. [via]More editions of Introduction to the Croatian and Serbian Language:
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Introduction to the Theory of Grammarby Edwin Williams, Henk Van RiemsdikISBN 0262720094 (0-262-72009-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Introduction to the Theory of Grammar'Book summary:In the last 30 years, linguists have built a considerable and highly sophisticated body of work on generative grammar. Today the field is more active than ever before. Introduction to the Theory of Grammar makes available to teachers and students of syntax a comprehensive critical review of the main results of present day grammatical theory and shows how they were achieved. It presents the central questions, shows how and why they were asked, what the answers were, and how these have led to new questions.
Part I discusses the way in which the overly rich, descriptive rule systems of the fifties and sixties have gradually been replaced by simpler, more constrained rule systems. Much of the work originally done by stipulations in the rules themselves has been taken over by general, universal principles which govern the form and functioning of these rules and the properties of their inputs and outputs. The establishment of such a theory of principles is the main topic of Part II.
Part III addresses the problem of how semantics fits into grammar and elaborates a conception of how the syntactic properties of logical representations can be integrated into the overall theory of grammar. The rules and principles of grammar developed in these parts account for grammatical phenomena in an essentially modular way, and this system of modules, which constitutes the study of grammar today, is established in Part IV.
An Epilogue describes such current developments as generalized binding, phrase structure, small clauses, tree geometry and NP-structure.
Henk van Riemsdijk is full professor in the Department of Language and Literature, Tilburg University, Holland. Edwin Williams is professor of linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Introduction to the Theory of Grammar is twelfth in the series Current Studies in Linguistics. [via]More editions of Introduction to the Theory of Grammar:
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James Boswell's Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript in Four Volumes, 1766-1776by James Boswell, Elizabeth GoldringISBN 0300079699 (0-300-07969-9)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Language: An Invitation to Cognitive Scienceby Daniel Osherson, Howard LasnikISBN 0262650339 (0-262-65033-9)
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The Language Complexity Gameby Eric Sven RistadISBN 0262181479 (0-262-18147-9)
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Language in the Modern Worldby Simeon PotterISBN 0233967214 (0-233-96721-4)
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The Language of New Mediaby Lev ManovichISBN 0262632551 (0-262-63255-1)
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Language: Structure, Processing, and Disordersby David CaplanISBN 0262031892 (0-262-03189-2)
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Language: The Unknown An Initiation into Linguisticsby Julia KristevaISBN 0231061072 (0-231-06107-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Language: The Unknown An Initiation into Linguistics'Book summary:Compiled by three leading experts in the psychological, sociological, and criminal justice fields, this volume addresses timely questions from an eclectic range of positions. The product of a landmark conference on gangs, Gangs and Society brings together the work of academics, activists, and community leaders to examine the many functions and faces of gangs today. Analyzing the spread of gangs from New York to Texas to the West Coast, the book covers such topics as the spirituality of gangs, the place of women in gang culture, and the effect on gangs of a variety of educational programs and services for at-risk youth. The final chapter examines the "gang-photography phenomenon" by looking at the functions and politics of different approaches to gang photography and features a photographic essay by Donna DeCesare, an award-winning journalist. [via]
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The Last Word on First Names : The Definite Guide to the Best and Worst in Baby Namesby Linda Rosenkrantz, Pamela Redmond SatranISBN 0312117485 (0-312-11748-5)
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Linguistic Key to the Greek New Testamentby Fritz Rienecker, Cleon L. RogersISBN 0310320305 (0-310-32030-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Linguistic Key to the Greek New Testament'Book summary:A translation, revision, and expansion of the German work Sprachlicher Schluessel Zum Griechischen Neuen Testament. Provides grammatical identification of words with information concerning their voice, tense, case, or mood. Provides concise definitions of more importand words in each verse according to context. [via]
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Lost For Words: The Hidden History Of The Oxford English Dictionaryby Lynda MugglestoneISBN 0300106998 (0-300-10699-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost For Words: The Hidden History Of The Oxford English Dictionary'Book summary:[via]The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) holds a cherished position in English literary culture. The story behind the creation of what is indisputably the greatest dictionary in the language has become a popular fascination. This book looks at the history of the great first edition of 1928, and at the men (and occasionally women) who distilled words and usages from centuries of English writing and through an act of intellectual alchemy captured the spirit of a civilization.
The task of the dictionary was to bear full and impartial witness to the language it recorded. But behind the immaculate typography of the finished text, the proofs tell a very different story. This vast archive, unexamined until now, reveals the arguments and controversies over meanings, definitions, and pronunciation, and which words and senses were acceptableand which were not.
Lost for Words examines the hidden history by which the great dictionary came into being, tracingthrough letters and archivesthe personal battles involved in charting a constantly changing language. Then as now, lexicographers reveal themselves vulnerable to the prejudices of their own linguistic preferences and to the influence of contemporary social history.More editions of Lost For Words: The Hidden History Of The Oxford English Dictionary:
Maya for Travelers and Students: A Guide to Language and Culture in Yucatanby Gary BevingtonISBN 0292708122 (0-292-70812-2)
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Meaning and Grammar: An Introduction to Semanticsby Gennaro Chierchia, Sally McConnell-GinetISBN 026253164X (0-262-53164-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Meaning and Grammar: An Introduction to Semantics'Book summary:This self-contained introduction to natural language semantics addresses the major theoretical questions in the field. The authors introduce the systematic study of linguistic meaning through a sequence of formal tools and their linguistic applications. Starting with propositional connectives and truth conditions, the book moves to quantification and binding, intensionality and tense, and so on. To set their approach in a broader perspective, the authors also explore the interaction of meaning with context and use (the semantics-pragmatics interface) and address some of the foundational questions, especially in connection with cognition in general. They also introduce a few of the most accessible and interesting ideas from recent research to give the reader a bit of the flavor of current work in semantics. The organization of this new edition is modular; after the introductory chapters, the remaining material can be covered in flexible order. The book presupposes no background in formal logic (an appendix introduces the basic notions of set theory) and only a minimal acquaintance with linguistics. This edition includes a substantial amount of completely new material and has been not only updated but redesigned throughout to enhance its user-friendliness.
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The Meaning of Languageby Robert MartinISBN 0262631083 (0-262-63108-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Meaning of Language'Book summary:Philosophy of language is one of the hardest areas for the beginning student; it is full of difficult questions technical arguments, and jargon. Written in a straightforward and explanatory way and filled with examples, this text provides a comprehensive introduction to the field, suitable for students with no background in the philosophy of language or formal logic.The eleven chapters in the book's first part take up a variety of matters connected to questions about what language is for - what meaning has to do with people's ideas and intentions, and with social communication. Included are chapters on the innateness controversy, the private language argument, the possibility of animal and machine language, language as rule-governed or conventional behavior, and the speech act theory.In the second part, thirteen chapters concentrate on what language is about; treating sense and reference, extensionality, truth conditions, and the theories of proper names, definite descriptions, indexicals, general terms, and psychological attributions.Many recent books and courses in the philosophy of language treat the issues and approaches covered in the first or second part of this book; however, this is the first time they are presented together (although either part may be read and/or taught independently). The book's style is pedagogic, not polemical. It shows students how much has been accomplished by philosophers of language in this century while making them keenly aware of the fundamental controversies that remain.Robert Martin is an associate professor of philosophy at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. A Bradford Book.
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The Modern Arabic Literary Language: Lexical and Stylistic Developmentsby Jaroslav StetkevychISBN 0226773388 (0-226-77338-8)
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Modern Hebrew for Beginners: A Multimedia Program for Students at the Beginning and Intermediate Levelsby Esther RaizenISBN 0292771045 (0-292-77104-5)
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Modularity of Mind: Essay on Faculty Psychologyby Jerry FodorISBN 0262560259 (0-262-56025-9)
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Mother of Writing: The Origin and Development of a Hmong Messianic Scriptby William Allen Smalley, Koua Vang Chia, Yee Yang Gnia, Mitt MouaISBN 0226762874 (0-226-76287-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mother of Writing: The Origin and Development of a Hmong Messianic Script'Book summary:In February of 1971, in the Laotian village of Nam Chia, a forty-one year old farmer named Shong Lue Yang was assassinated by government soldiers. Shong Lue claimed to have been descended of God and given the mission of delivering the first true Hmong alphabet. Many believed him to be the Hmong people's long-awaited messiah, and his thousands of followers knew him as "Mother (Source) of Writing."[via]
An anthropological linguist who has worked among the Hmong, William A. Smalley joins Shong Lue's chief disciple, Chia Koua Vang, and one of his associates, to tell the fascinating story of how the previously unschooled farmer developed his remarkable writing system through four stages of increasing sophistication. The uniqueness of Shong Lue's achievement is highlighted by a comparison of Shong Lue's writing system to other known Hmong systems and to the history of writing as a whole.
In addition to a nontechnical linguistic analysis of the script and a survey of its current use, Mother of Writing provides an intriguing cultural account of Shong Lue's life. The book traces the twenty-year-long struggle to disseminate the script after Shong Lue's death, first by handwriting, then by primitive moveable type, an abortive attempt to design a wooden typewriter, and finally by modern wordprocessing. In a moving concluding chapter, Smalley discusses his own complex feelings about his coauthors' story.More editions of Mother of Writing: The Origin and Development of a Hmong Messianic Script:
The Muse Learns to Write: Reflections on Orality and Literacy from Antiquity to the Presentby Eric A. HavelockISBN 0300043821 (0-300-04382-1)
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The Naked Neuron: Evolution and the Languages of the Body and Brainby Rhawn JosephISBN 0306445107 (0-306-44510-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Naked Neuron: Evolution and the Languages of the Body and Brain'Book summary:In the beginning there was not only life but the ability to communicate and eventually to cooperate among the most basic, primeval creatures. In The Naked Neuron Dr. Joseph - an internationally respected neuroscientist and author of the highly praised The Right Brain and the Unconscious: Discovering the Stranger Within - takes us on an intriguing journey through time as he traces the evolution of communication and language from the most primitive single-celled animals to our earliest ancestors to humans today. As he so clearly demonstrates, we are linked to all levels of animals in a common bond of sensing, feeling, and communication. Be it singing wolves, dancing bees, or writhing rock and roll dancers, all communicate a treasure chest of meaning in the absence of the spoken word. Approximately 700 million years ago, a unique type of cell came into being - the neuron. This "naked" neuron, or nerve cell, lacked a protective fatty sheath. Still, it marked a monumental and world altering development, since it would become the building block of the brain. The naked neuron generated a revolutionary change resulting in a greater complexity and subtlety of thought. Dr. Joseph vividly depicts how neurons conferred on early humans advanced powers of mental and sensory acuity, including the gift of remembering one's past and contemplating the future. Although humans possess much of the same ancient brain tissue as our fellow primates, Dr. Joseph reveals to us the singular features of the human brain that have enabled humans uniquely to develop complex, spoken language. He holds us spellbound, revealing that although the new and old brain tissue are couched within the same brain, each often has difficulty understanding the impulses and language of the other. This ground-breaking book draws on Dr. Joseph's brilliant and original research and theories, fusing the latest discoveries made in neuroscience, sociobiology, and anthropology. He illuminates how the languages of th[via]More editions of The Naked Neuron: Evolution and the Languages of the Body and Brain:
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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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Readings in the Philosophy of Languageby Peter LudlowISBN 0262621142 (0-262-62114-2)
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Real Presencesby George SteinerISBN 0226772349 (0-226-77234-9)
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"A real tour de force. . . . All the virtues of the author's astounding intelligence and compelling rhetoric are evident from the first sentence onward."Anthony C. Yu, Journal of Religion -
Rhyme and Reason: An Introduction to Minimalist Syntaxby Juan UriagerekaISBN 0262710080 (0-262-71008-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rhyme and Reason: An Introduction to Minimalist Syntax'Book summary:foreword by Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini This unusual book takes the form of a dialogue between a linguist and another scientist. The dialogue takes place over six days, with each day devoted to a particular topic--and the ensuing digressions. The role of the linguist is to present the fundamentals of the minimalist program of contemporary generative grammar. Although the linguist serves essentially as a voice for Noam Chomsky's ideas, he is not intended to be a portrait of Chomsky himself. The other scientist functions as a kind of devil's advocate, making the arguments that linguists tend to face from those in the "harder" sciences.The author does far more than simply present the minimalist program. He conducts a running argument over the status of theoretical linguistics as a natural science. He raises the general issues of how we conceive words, phrases, and transformations, and what these processes tell us about the human mind. He also attempts to reconcile generative grammar with the punctuated equilibrium version of evolutionary theory.In his foreword, Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini says, "The vast number of readers who have been enthralled by Goedel, Escher, Bach may well like also this syntactic companion, a sort of 'Chomsky, Fibonacci, Bach.'".
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Rules And Representationsby Noam ChomskyISBN 0231048270 (0-231-04827-0)
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In this influential and controversial work Chomsky draws on philosophy, biology, and the study of the mind to consider the nature of human cognitive capacities, particularly as they are expressed in language. He arrives at his well-known position that there is a universal grammar, genetically determined, structured in the human mind, and common to all human languages. Aside from his examination of the various principles of the universal grammar -- its "rules and representations" -- Chomsky considers the biological basis of language capabilities and the possibility of studying mental structures and capacities in the manner of the natural sciences. Finally, he also explores whether there may be similar "grammars" of perception, art, human nature, scientific reasoning, and the unconscious.
Based on Chomsky's lively 1978 Woodbridge Lectures, this edition, first published in 1980, contains revised versions of the original lectures and two new essays. It also includes an extensive foreword by Norbert Hornstein, discussing Chomsky's ideas and their wide-ranging impact.
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Semiotics: An Introductory Anthologyby Robert E. InnisISBN 0253203449 (0-253-20344-9)
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Sense of the Future: Essays on Natural Philosophyby Jacob BronowskiISBN 0262520508 (0-262-52050-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sense of the Future: Essays on Natural Philosophy'Book summary:Jacob Bronowski truly educated an enormous number of members of that diffuse population usually referred to, with a hint of condescension, as "educated laymen" through his widely shared television series on the concepts of science and through such highly regarded books as The Identity of Man and The Ascent of Man. This volume extends the process to a further level of insight, and it may be more than suggestive that its final essay is entitled "The Fulfillment of Man." Bronowski was an extraordinary teacher precisely because he did not condescend to his audience. He did not talk down to them; he knew how to talk them up to something near his own level, however briefly. He felt that if human beings are taken seriously, they can be led to respond to serious and difficult subjects that relate to the deepest aspects of nature, both beyond and within themselves. A Sense of the Future succeeds brilliantly in this respect, in part because it is a collection of essays that can be read independently as self-contained, delimited presentations; and in part because the book is more than the sum of these individual essays--it is a unified whole in which Bronowski's most abiding concerns are interrelated, juxtaposed, and tested for consistency in various intellectual contexts. The major unifying theme of the work is the intensely creative and human nature of the scientific enterprise--its kinship, at the highest levels of individual achievement, with comparable manifestations of the artistic imagination, and its ethical imperatives, evolved within the community of scientists over the centuries, which both embody and forge the values of civilized life at large. Still, the book's diversity of topics is as striking as the unity of its aim. Among the subjects within the realm of Bronowski's mind that are presented here are the limitations of formal logic and experimental methods, the epistemology of science, the distinctive nature of human language and the human mind, and the bases of biological and cultural evolution. Bronowski also contrasts the findings of science as the "here and now" of man's understanding with the ongoing activity of science as the open-ended search for truth, and he undertakes to demonstrate that the factual, individual is and the ethical, societal ought can be derived each from the other. A mathematician by training, Bronowski published poetry as well as books on literature and intellectual history. In addition to those mentioned above, The Common Sense of Science and Science and Human Values are among the most widely read of his books. Before his death in 1974, he was for many years a Senior Fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, where his formal area of research was concerned with the questions of human specificity and uniqueness. Clearly, his interests ranged far beyond this area, and in many directions. [via]
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knightby William VantuonoISBN 0268017670 (0-268-01767-0)
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The Sound Pattern of Englishby Noam Chomsky, Morris HalleISBN 026253097X (0-262-53097-X)
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Statistical Language Learningby Eugene CharniakISBN 0262531410 (0-262-53141-0)
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A Student's Vocabulary for Biblical Hebrew and Aramaicby Larry MitchelISBN 0310454611 (0-310-45461-1)
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The Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu: A New Translationby Lao Tzu, Brian Browne WalkerISBN 0312131909 (0-312-13190-9)
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Technobabbleby John A. BarryISBN 0262521822 (0-262-52182-2)
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The Tempestby William Shakespeare, Harold Bloom, Burton RaffelISBN 0300108168 (0-300-10816-8)
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Tower of Babel: The Evidence Against the New Creationby Robert T. PennockISBN 0262661659 (0-262-66165-9)
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The parallels are striking once we look closely: Genesis proclaims that God created all human languages at one stroke, while modern scientific thought proposes linguistic evolution similar in form to genetics. Best of all for scientists, though, linguistic change is much more rapid than biological change, and we have actually observed what might be called "speciation events" to have occurred historically in languages. While not meant to supplant traditional arguments against creationism, Pennock's ideas certainly supplement them and will be useful to educators and researchers alike. His sense of urgency is compelling; he sees the future of scientific education and freedom at stake and argues strongly for a separation between private beliefs and public knowledge. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Vaguenessby Peter Smith, Rosanna KeefeISBN 0262611457 (0-262-61145-7)
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Word Watcher's Handbook: A Deletionary of the Most Abused and Misused Wordsby Phyllis Rodgers MartinISBN 0312055412 (0-312-05541-2)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Words on Words: A Dictionary for Writers and Others Who Care About Wordsby John B. BremnerISBN 0231044933 (0-231-04493-3)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Words on Words: A Dictionary for Writers and Others Who Care About Words'Book summary:Lists words and terms, useful to journalists and students of the English language, including etymology, usage, and interesting facts. [via]
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