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A Sea of Words

A Lexicon and Companion to the Complete Seafaring Tales of Patrick O'Brian

by Dean King, John B. Hattendorf ...

A guide to the British Royal Navy in the Napoleonic Age for fans of the Aubrey–Maturin series: "A gem of a book" ( Minneapolis Star Tribune).What is a sand-grouse, and where does it live? What are the medical properties of lignum vitae, and how did Stephen Maturin use it to repair his viola? Who is Admiral Lord Keith, and why is his wife so friendly with Captain Jack Aubrey?More than any other ... Read more

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A guide to the British Royal Navy in the Napoleonic Age for fans of the Aubrey–Maturin series: "A gem of a book" ( Minneapolis Star Tribune).What is a sand-grouse, and where does it live? What are the medical properties of lignum vitae, and how did Stephen Maturin use it to repair his viola? Who is Admiral Lord Keith, and why is his wife so friendly with Captain Jack Aubrey?More than any other
... Read more
Spanish English Illustrated Dictionary

A Bilingual Visual Guide to Over 10,000 Spanish Words and Phrases

by DK ...

Organized by subject and with an accompanying audio app, this is the essential reference for all Spanish language learners.Learn more than 10,000 of the most useful words and phrases in Spanish with this beautifully illustrated dictionary for Spanish-language students.Building on the success of the English for Everyone course books and the Bilingual Visual Dictionary series, Spanish/English ... Read more

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Organized by subject and with an accompanying audio app, this is the essential reference for all Spanish language learners.Learn more than 10,000 of the most useful words and phrases in Spanish with this beautifully illustrated dictionary for Spanish-language students.Building on the success of the English for Everyone course books and the Bilingual Visual Dictionary series, Spanish/English
... Read more
Italian Vocabulary for English Speakers - 5000 Words

by Andrey Taranov ...

5000-WORD ENGLISH-ITALIAN VOCABULARYThe use of this 5000 word Italian vocabulary will allow you to understand simple texts and will give you much needed confidence in everyday conversation. Used in combination with a grammar course, it will aid in your ability to correctly compose many phrases. When watching Italian films, you will begin to hear and understand more and more words and phrases. This ... Read more

$6.99 USD

5000-WORD ENGLISH-ITALIAN VOCABULARYThe use of this 5000 word Italian vocabulary will allow you to understand simple texts and will give you much needed confidence in everyday conversation. Used in combination with a grammar course, it will aid in your ability to correctly compose many phrases. When watching Italian films, you will begin to hear and understand more and more words and phrases. This
... Read more
By Definition

The Surprising History of the English Dictionary

by Peter Sokolowski ...

A veteran Merriam-Webster editor celebrates the world’s biggest language through the dictionaryIn this engaging narrative lexicographer Peter Sokolowski uncovers the history of our language in the dictionary definitions written from Shakespeare’s time to ours. English is always changing. And so our dictionaries present a paradox; they represent stability and standards but they also constantly add ... Read more

$15.99 USD

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A veteran Merriam-Webster editor celebrates the world’s biggest language through the dictionaryIn this engaging narrative lexicographer Peter Sokolowski uncovers the history of our language in the dictionary definitions written from Shakespeare’s time to ours. English is always changing. And so our dictionaries present a paradox; they represent stability and standards but they also constantly add
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Fingerspelling NAMES: Fingerspell & Recognize 100 Common Names Using the American Manual Alphabet in American Sign Language (ASL)

by Adele Jones ...

Series series Learn American Sign Language - ASL

$2.99 USD
The Devil's Financial Dictionary

by Jason Zweig ...

Your Survival Guide to the Hades of Wall StreetThe Devil's Financial Dictionary skewers the plutocrats and bureaucrats who gave us exploding mortgages, freakish risks, and banks too big to fail. And it distills the complexities, absurdities, and pomposities of Wall Street into plain truths and aphorisms anyone can understand.An indispensable survival guide to the hostile wilderness of today's ... Read more

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Your Survival Guide to the Hades of Wall StreetThe Devil's Financial Dictionary skewers the plutocrats and bureaucrats who gave us exploding mortgages, freakish risks, and banks too big to fail. And it distills the complexities, absurdities, and pomposities of Wall Street into plain truths and aphorisms anyone can understand.An indispensable survival guide to the hostile wilderness of today's
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15-Minute Spanish

Learn in Just 12 Weeks

by DK ...

Series series DK 15-Minute Language Learning
Teach yourself Spanish in just 12 weeks with this fun user-friendly, and uniquely visual language course.DK's 15 Minute Spanish is the perfect course for busy people who want to learn Spanish fast!Twelve themed chapters are broken down into easy-to-follow 15-minute daily lessons, spanning arange of practical themes, including leisure, business, food and drink, travel, and shopping and more.Each ... Read more

Was $6.99 USD Now $1.99 USD

Teach yourself Spanish in just 12 weeks with this fun user-friendly, and uniquely visual language course.DK's 15 Minute Spanish is the perfect course for busy people who want to learn Spanish fast!Twelve themed chapters are broken down into easy-to-follow 15-minute daily lessons, spanning arange of practical themes, including leisure, business, food and drink, travel, and shopping and more.Each
... Read more
Phrased & Confused

The Curious Meanings of Timeless Quotations

by Eli Burnstein ...

“Enlightening”—Steven Pinker, author of The Language Instinct“Brilliant”—Mark Forsyth, author of The EtymologiconThis incisive and witty collection from humor writer Eli Burnstein unpacks commonly misunderstood and enigmatic quotations, revealing what they really mean—and why they still matter.Designed for the curious reader who wants to understand big ideas withou... ... Read more

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“Enlightening”—Steven Pinker, author of The Language Instinct“Brilliant”—Mark Forsyth, author of The EtymologiconThis incisive and witty collection from humor writer Eli Burnstein unpacks commonly misunderstood and enigmatic quotations, revealing what they really mean—and why they still matter.Designed for the curious reader who wants to understand big ideas withou...
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made in america

An Informal History of the English Language in the United States

by Bill Bryson ...

“A literate exploration of why we use—or mangle—our native tongue.”—USA TodayBill Bryson celebrates America’s magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western hamlet with neither woods nor holly came to be known as Hollywood…and exactly why Mr. Yankee Doodle call his befeathered cap “Macaroni.” ... Read more

$13.99 USD

“A literate exploration of why we use—or mangle—our native tongue.”—USA TodayBill Bryson celebrates America’s magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western hamlet with neither woods nor holly came to be known as Hollywood…and exactly why Mr. Yankee Doodle call his befeathered cap “Macaroni.”
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Arabic Pocket Dictionary

by John Shapiro ...

Series series Fluo! Dictionaries
Fluo!‘s Arabic Pocket Dictionary, authoritative and comprehensive, is a bi-directional (English-Arabic & Arabic-English) Dictionary, with a wide selection of thousands of lemmas and definitions. An indispensable reference for any student of Arabic or English, as well as professionals and translators. ... Read more

$5.35 USD

Fluo!‘s Arabic Pocket Dictionary, authoritative and comprehensive, is a bi-directional (English-Arabic & Arabic-English) Dictionary, with a wide selection of thousands of lemmas and definitions. An indispensable reference for any student of Arabic or English, as well as professionals and translators.
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Collins Rhyming Dictionary

by Rosalind Fergusson ...

If it’s time for a rhyme, or you need a satiric lyric, the Collins Rhyming Dictionary is the fastest and easiest way to refine your line.The most accessible way to find the rhyme you need. Other rhyming dictionaries are characterised by the use of obscure words for padding, subsections for disyllabic and trisyllabic rhymes, and reverse phonetic order – but we avoid such complications and, as a ... Read more

$8.99 USD

If it’s time for a rhyme, or you need a satiric lyric, the Collins Rhyming Dictionary is the fastest and easiest way to refine your line.The most accessible way to find the rhyme you need. Other rhyming dictionaries are characterised by the use of obscure words for padding, subsections for disyllabic and trisyllabic rhymes, and reverse phonetic order – but we avoid such complications and, as a
... Read more
Catholic Dictionary

An Abridged and Updated Edition of Modern Catholic Dictionary

by John Hardon ...

Pocket Catholic Dictionary is a comprehensive, one-volume reference work containing definitions and explanations of the key terms of Catholicism. Father Hardon has carefully selected some 2,000 entries from his original master tome of over 5,000 terms that comprise Modern Catholic Dictionary. Furthermore, this pocket edition reflects changes in the newly revised Code of Canon Law.Here are clear ... Read more

$9.99 USD

Pocket Catholic Dictionary is a comprehensive, one-volume reference work containing definitions and explanations of the key terms of Catholicism. Father Hardon has carefully selected some 2,000 entries from his original master tome of over 5,000 terms that comprise Modern Catholic Dictionary. Furthermore, this pocket edition reflects changes in the newly revised Code of Canon Law.Here are clear
... Read more
Bryson's Dictionary for Writers and Editors

by Bill Bryson ...

From one of America's most beloved and bestselling authors, a wonderfully useful and readable guide to the problems of the English language most commonly encountered by editors and writers.What is the difference between “immanent” and “imminent”? What is the singular form of graffiti? What is the difference between “acute” and “chronic”? What is the former name of “Moldova”? What is the difference ... Read more

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From one of America's most beloved and bestselling authors, a wonderfully useful and readable guide to the problems of the English language most commonly encountered by editors and writers.What is the difference between “immanent” and “imminent”? What is the singular form of graffiti? What is the difference between “acute” and “chronic”? What is the former name of “Moldova”? What is the difference
... Read more
Easy Learning Vocabulario de inglés

by Collins Dictionaries ...

Este manual de vocabulario está diseñado para ayudar a los estudiantes de inglés a ampliar su conocimiento del vocabulario de la lengua inglesa. Es un libro fácil de usar que constituye un recurso valioso para estudiantes y profesores pues es ideal para usar tanto en clase como en casa.El Collins Easy Learning Vocabulario de Inglés está dividido en 50 áreas temáticas, que van desde situaciones ... Read more

$2.49 USD

Este manual de vocabulario está diseñado para ayudar a los estudiantes de inglés a ampliar su conocimiento del vocabulario de la lengua inglesa. Es un libro fácil de usar que constituye un recurso valioso para estudiantes y profesores pues es ideal para usar tanto en clase como en casa.El Collins Easy Learning Vocabulario de Inglés está dividido en 50 áreas temáticas, que van desde situaciones
... Read more
Mounce's Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words

by William D. Mounce ...

The Most Accurate and Thorough Dictionary of Bible Words • Over 100,000 copies sold.For years, Vine's Expository Dictionary has been the standard word study tool for pastors and laypeople. But sixty-plus years of scholarship have shed extensive new light on the use of biblical Greek and Hebrew, creating the need for a new, more accurate, more thorough dictionary of Bible words. William Mounce, ... Read more

$33.99 USD

The Most Accurate and Thorough Dictionary of Bible Words • Over 100,000 copies sold.For years, Vine's Expository Dictionary has been the standard word study tool for pastors and laypeople. But sixty-plus years of scholarship have shed extensive new light on the use of biblical Greek and Hebrew, creating the need for a new, more accurate, more thorough dictionary of Bible words. William Mounce,
... Read more
আমি ফল ও শাক-সব্জি খেতে ভালোবাসি I Love to Eat Fruits and Vegetables

Bengali English Bilingual Collection

by Shelley Admont, KidKiddos Books ...

Series series Bengali English Bilingual Collection
Bengali English bilingual children's book. Perfect for kids studying English or Bengali as their second language. Jimmy, the little bunny, likes to eat candy. He sneaks into the kitchen to find a bag with candies that was hidden inside the cupboard. What happens right after Jimmy climbs up to reach the bag of candy? You will find out when you read this illustrated children's book. Since that day, ... Read more

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Bengali English bilingual children's book. Perfect for kids studying English or Bengali as their second language. Jimmy, the little bunny, likes to eat candy. He sneaks into the kitchen to find a bag with candies that was hidden inside the cupboard. What happens right after Jimmy climbs up to reach the bag of candy? You will find out when you read this illustrated children's book. Since that day,
... Read more
De la grammatologie de Jacques Derrida

Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis

by Encyclopaedia Universalis ...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’UniversalisCinq ans après son introduction-traduction de L’Origine de la géométrie de Husserl, Jacques Derrida publie, en 1967, trois livres étrangement différents, paradoxalement proches.Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour tout savoir sur De la grammatologie de Jacques DerridaChaque fiche de lecture présente une ... Read more

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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’UniversalisCinq ans après son introduction-traduction de L’Origine de la géométrie de Husserl, Jacques Derrida publie, en 1967, trois livres étrangement différents, paradoxalement proches.Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour tout savoir sur De la grammatologie de Jacques DerridaChaque fiche de lecture présente une
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Catholic Bible Dictionary

Edited by Scott Hahn ...

More than a generation has passed since the appearance of the last major Catholic Bible dictionary. It has been a fertile generation for biblical scholarship, an eventful time for biblical archaeology, and a fruitful time for the Church’s interpretation of the Bible. It is time for a new resource.Scott Hahn, internationally renowned theologian and biblical scholar, has inspired millions with his ... Read more

$6.99 USD

More than a generation has passed since the appearance of the last major Catholic Bible dictionary. It has been a fertile generation for biblical scholarship, an eventful time for biblical archaeology, and a fruitful time for the Church’s interpretation of the Bible. It is time for a new resource.Scott Hahn, internationally renowned theologian and biblical scholar, has inspired millions with his
... Read more
Essential Japanese Phrasebook & Dictionary

Speak Japanese with Confidence!

Edited by Tuttle Studio ...

Series series Essential Phrasebook and Dictionary Series
Essential Japanese Phrase Book & Dictionary teaches you the practical phrases and expressions needed for common, everyday interactions in Japan in a clear, concise, accessible and enjoyable way.Key features of this Japanese phrasebook and dictionary include:Over 1,500 practical phrases for everyday useAn English to Japanese dictionary with over 2,000 terms and expressionsEssential expressions used ... Read more

$8.09 USD

Essential Japanese Phrase Book & Dictionary teaches you the practical phrases and expressions needed for common, everyday interactions in Japan in a clear, concise, accessible and enjoyable way.Key features of this Japanese phrasebook and dictionary include:Over 1,500 practical phrases for everyday useAn English to Japanese dictionary with over 2,000 terms and expressionsEssential expressions used
... Read more
Vietnamese Picture Dictionary

Learn 1,500 Vietnamese Words and Expressions - The Perfect Resource for Visual Learners of All Ages (Includes Online Audio)

by Nguyen Thi Lien Huong ...

Series series Tuttle Picture Dictionary
A fun and helpful resource for anyone interested in learning some Vietnamese—whether you're 5 or 100!This picture dictionary covers the 1,500 most useful Vietnamese words and phrases. Each word and sentence is given using the Vietnamese alphabet—with a Romanized version to help you pronounce it correctly—along with the English meaning.The words are grouped into 40 different themes or topics, ... Read more

$12.39 USD

A fun and helpful resource for anyone interested in learning some Vietnamese—whether you're 5 or 100!This picture dictionary covers the 1,500 most useful Vietnamese words and phrases. Each word and sentence is given using the Vietnamese alphabet—with a Romanized version to help you pronounce it correctly—along with the English meaning.The words are grouped into 40 different themes or topics,
... Read more
Dictionary of Construction Engineering and Management

by Steven Smith ...

The Dictionary of Construction Engineering and Management is a comprehensive resource designed to provide a clear, concise, and accessible understanding of the terminology, concepts, and practices that underpin this dynamic field. Compiled with the needs of professionals, students, and anyone interested in construction in mind, this dictionary serves as a gateway to the vast and ever-evolving ... Read more

$2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The Dictionary of Construction Engineering and Management is a comprehensive resource designed to provide a clear, concise, and accessible understanding of the terminology, concepts, and practices that underpin this dynamic field. Compiled with the needs of professionals, students, and anyone interested in construction in mind, this dictionary serves as a gateway to the vast and ever-evolving
... Read more
Portuguese Business Dictionary

by Morry Sofer ...

Up-to-date business terms including banking, the internet, computers, accounting, insurance, real estate, taxes, and more, designed to facilitate communication and cross linguistic barriers. ... Read more

$9.99 USD

Up-to-date business terms including banking, the internet, computers, accounting, insurance, real estate, taxes, and more, designed to facilitate communication and cross linguistic barriers.
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English-Chinese Mini Dictionary

How to study Chinese words in English for school, tests, business, and travel with a smartphone

by Taebum Kim ...

This book lists approximately 4,800 core English words with standard Chinese (Mandarin) equivalents including standard American pronunciation. Main entries are in English alphabetically with standard American pronunciation with focus on stressed syllable*in bold print.. In the next line, pasts of speech label ([n.] for nouns and [v.] for verbs) and the entry’s Chinese equivalents in Pinyin ... Read more

$3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This book lists approximately 4,800 core English words with standard Chinese (Mandarin) equivalents including standard American pronunciation. Main entries are in English alphabetically with standard American pronunciation with focus on stressed syllable*in bold print.. In the next line, pasts of speech label ([n.] for nouns and [v.] for verbs) and the entry’s Chinese equivalents in Pinyin
... Read more
15-Minute Spanish

Learn in Just 12 Weeks

by DK ...

Series series DK 15-Minute Language Learning
The ideal Spanish language course for beginners, the 15-Minute language series will teach you how to speak a new language in just 12 weeks!The perfect book for anyone who wants to learn Spanish fast. 12 themed chapters are broken down into 15-minute daily lessons, spanning a range of practical themes, from socializing to doing business. Each lesson combines Spanish vocabulary and grammar ... Read more

$5.99 USD

The ideal Spanish language course for beginners, the 15-Minute language series will teach you how to speak a new language in just 12 weeks!The perfect book for anyone who wants to learn Spanish fast. 12 themed chapters are broken down into 15-minute daily lessons, spanning a range of practical themes, from socializing to doing business. Each lesson combines Spanish vocabulary and grammar
... Read more

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