Language: history & general works books

Provides a new perspective on the evolution of the language of medicine, based on a large electronic corpus of medical...  Read More >>

This volume follows the beginnings and development of seventeenth-century English periodical print news and sees...  Read More >>

"A solid foundation of reading skills is essential for children to become successful readers. Learning basic sight...  Read More >>

"""Learn to identify sight words with Sylvan's proven techniques for success""--Cover."  Read More >>

"A solid foundation of reading skills is essential for children to become successful readers. Learning basic sight...  Read More >>

"Neat handwriting enables others to read one's work. It can also help develop a student's visual memory, which is...  Read More >>

"Neat handwriting enables others to read one's work. It can also help develop a student's visual memory, which is...  Read More >>

The present volume is a collection of poems about the suffering of the Christians in Turkey leading up to the massacre...  Read More >>

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1.200 Jahre Rechtssprache in Mitteleuropa. Was hat Liebe mit Recht zu tun? Was ist ein Sackmann? Diese und andere...  Read More >>

Includes papers that discusses broadly understood cognitive turns in the philosophy of language, inspired by the...  Read More >>

Sturz published his edition of the tenth-century Greek lexical encyclopaedia, the Etymologicum Gudianum, in 1818....  Read More >>

Thomas Arnold's Practical Introduction to Greek Prose Composition, first published in 1838, was designed as a school...  Read More >>

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Although most people would assume that metaphor's only place of influence is in literature and song, this title...  Read More >>

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Does language reflect the culture of a society? Is our mother-tongue a lens through which we perceive the world?...  Read More >>

Benjawan finally reveals the story of her experience as a professional Thai and Lao interpreter, graphically showing...  Read More >>

Collects more than 300 of the English language's most disgusting, offensive and obscene words.  Read More >>

A compilation that showcases over 200 exceptional English words. Underscoring select terms for their definitions,...  Read More >>

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"Metcalf traces the history of ""OK"" from its unusual birth as a jokey mis-transcribing of ""all correct"" in the...  Read More >>

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In Language and Learning in the Digital Age, linguist James Paul Gee and educator Elisabeth Hayes deal with the...  Read More >>