A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding

A moving debut which featured in the summer BBC Radio 2 Book Club, now in paperback. Amaterasu Takahashi still grieves for her daughter and grandso...

DescriptionSomewhere in Africa, more than a million years ago, a line of apes began to rear their young differently than their Great Ape ancestors....

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Taking the reader from 'Acting green' all the way to 'Water-rat', A Dictionary of Naval Slang is a treasury of naval argot, jargon, lingo and cant,...

This bestselling dictionary contains more than 9, 500 entries on all aspects of chemistry, physics, biology (including human biology), earth scienc...

DescriptionA Dictionary of Chemistry is a popular and authoritative guide to all aspects of its discipline. With over 5, 000 entries, its broad cov...

This bestselling dictionary is an invaluable resource for both legal professionals and students of law, defining major legal terms, concepts, and p...

Publisher: Seigensha Art PublishingNumber of pages: 354Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 109 x 149 x 17Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera ...

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The Dictionary of Hiberno-English is the leading reference book on Hiberno-English - the form of English commonly spoken in Ireland. It connects th...

Containing over 750 in-depth entries, this is the most wide-ranging and up-to-date dictionary of critical theory available. This authoritative guid...

This humorous collection of quotations draws on plays, books, newspapers and tabletalk, with pages full of wit and wisdom. Wherever you start, you ...

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Publisher: Snake River Press LtdAuthor(s): W.D. ParishIllustration(s): illustrations throughoutNumber of pages: 96Collection: Sussex GuidePublicati...

Contributor(s): Author: Juan Eduardo CirlotIntroduction by: Philip PullmanTranslator: Valerie MilesA classic encyclopedia of symbols by Catalan pol...

History, literature, religion, myth, film, psychology, theory, and daily conversation all rely heavily on narrative. Cutting across many discipline...

With over 5, 500--including 150 new--accessible entries, this sixth edition of the bestselling Dictionary of Finance and Banking has been fully rev...

This sixth edition of A Dictionary of Epidemiology -- the most updated since its inception -- reflects the profound substantive and methodological ...

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A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs is a wonderful and witty homage to man's most faithful friend.Publisher: Short Books LtdAuthor(s): P...

Reducere. A long and distinguished tradition of writers have used the form of a satirical dictionary to undermine the received ideas of their day. Voltaire w...

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This new edition has been fully revised and updated to provide over 1, 800 A-Z definitions of terms from the field of social care, concentrating on...

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This authoritative, entertaining and eminently browsable reference book, arranged in easily accessible A-Z format, is an absorbing and imaginative ...

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DescriptionThis popular dictionary, formerly published as the Penguin Dictionary of Electronics, has been extensively revised and updated, providin...

This book contains 13 main entries on the basic Kleinian concepts - splitting, paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions, projective identificatio...

Reducere. Samuel Johnson, often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, mo...

Reducere. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. Unabridged.

Part encyclopedia, part dictionary, part almanac - Jonathan Scott's Dictionary of Family History doesn't claim to be exhaustive, but it is practica...

Contributor(s): Author: Rudolf SimekAuthor: Angela HallFor two and a half thousand years, from 1500 BC to AD 1000, a culture as significant as the ...

Reducere. Defines Yiddish words and phrases and provides Yiddish equivalents for English expressions.

Reducere. Revised and updated edition of the invaluable tool for Burmese language learners