A History of the English Language

The Sea Needs No Ornament / El Mar No Necesita Ornamento: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Caribbean Women Poets - Loretta Collins Klobah

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Thirty-three poets from the English and Spanish-speaking Caribbean offer poems in a variety of forms and styles - from free verse, formal, experime...

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Kyoto: A Literary Guide, Paperback - John Dougill

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The Spirit of the Chinese People, Paperback - Hung-Ming Ku

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Reducere. KU HUNG-MING (1857--1928), the author of the Book "The Sprit of the Chinese People", one of his representative works written in English by him. He ...

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To the American Indian: the Unique Personal Account of a Yurok Native American Woman of Northern California, Paperback - Lucy Thompson

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The History of the Kings of Britain: An Edition and Translation of the de Gestis Britonum [historia Regum Britanniae], Hardcover - Geoffrey Of Monmout

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Written in the 1130s, Geoffrey's imaginative history of the Britons from Brutus to Cadwallader, the first work to recount the woes of Lear and the ...

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Kobzar, Hardcover - Taras Shevchenko

222,99 RON 238,99 RON

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A Dictionary Of The English Language (illustrated), Paperback - Samuel Johnson

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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...

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Alcibiades the Schoolboy by Antonio Rocco: Introduced & Translated by, Paperback - Michael Hone

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To Keep the Ball Rolling: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell, Hardcover - Anthony Powell

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A General Introduction to the Bible: From Ancient Tablets to Modern Translations, Paperback - David Ewert

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Reducere. There are two strands woven together in the history of the Bible and its translations. One is the development of the biblical text: its materials, ...

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Political English: Language and the Decay of Politics, Paperback - Thomas Docherty

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From post-truth politics to "no-platforming" on university campuses, the English language has been both a potent weapon and a crucial battlefield f...

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The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English, Paperback - Henry Hitchings

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Reducere. AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARThe Secret Life of Words is a wide-ranging account of the transplanted, stolen, bastardized words we've come to know a...

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Understanding Public Speaking: A Learner's Guide to Persuasive Oratory, Paperback - Braj Mohan

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Public speaking is a much coveted yet difficult art. This book illustrates the use of various linguistic devices and persuasive strategies with exa...

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The Quest of the Historical Jesus, Paperback - W. Montgomery

135,99 RON 145,99 RON

Reducere. The Bible teaches us of Jesus the Christ of Christian religious faith, but who was Jesus the man? Albert Schweitzer's "The Quest of the Historical ...

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Mother/Land, Paperback - Ananda Lima

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Reducere. Poetry. Latinx Studies. MOTHER/LAND is focused on the intersection of motherhood and immigration and its effects on a speaker's relationship to pla...

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More American English Idioms: A Comprehensive Dictionary of English Idioms, Expressions, Phrases & Sayings, Paperback - Jackie Bolen

74,99 RON 80,99 RON

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Measured Constructs. A History of Cambridge English Examinations, 1913-2012, Paperback - Evelina D. Galaczi

459,99 RON

This volume establishes how English language constructs were measured in Cambridge English examinations over the period 1913 to 2012.Publisher: Cam...

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Historical Grammar of the Visual Arts, Paperback - Alois Riegl

170,99 RON

The first English translation of one of the earliest and most brilliant art-historical surveys, from one of the greatest modern art historians Aloï...

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The Magical Language of Others: A Memoir, Paperback - E. J. Koh

89,99 RON 96,99 RON

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A Dictionary of Hiberno English, Hardcover - Terence Dolan

119,99 RON

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

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Jamestown and Williamsburg: The History and Legacy of Colonial Virginia's Capitals, Paperback - Charles River Editors

75,99 RON 81,99 RON

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes excerpts of contemporary accounts from colonists *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Joh...

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English - Cherokee Phrasebook, Paperback - John C. Rigdon

89,00 RON

Cherokee is a Southern Iroquoian language now spoken by around 22, 500 people in North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. In 2005, the Cherokee Pres...

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Study Guide to Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry, Paperback - Intelligent Education

58,99 RON 63,99 RON

Reducere. A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, ranked number 11 on the Mode...

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The Very Best of Brothers Grimm In English and Spanish (Bilingual Edition), Paperback - Brothers Grimm

78,99 RON 84,99 RON

Reducere. This dual language book is the way to introduce your kids to the classics. The Brothers Grimm's fairytales are magical; but how do you get kids exc...

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Prince Philip: A Prince Philip Biography, Paperback - Katy Holborn

69,99 RON 74,99 RON

Reducere. PRINCE PHILIP: A Prince Philip BiographyFill in the blanks: Behind every great man is __________.Most people familiar with the English language wou...

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Intermediate Swedish. A Grammar and Workbook, Paperback - Philip Holmes

299,99 RON

Description Intermediate Swedish: A Grammar and Workbook combines an accessible intermediate reference grammar and related exercises in one volume ...

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Character Is Destiny: Reflections on Innovation & Integrity from Volvo's Longest Serving CEO, Paperback - Pehr Gyllenhammar

95,99 RON 102,99 RON

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Life in Space, Paperback - Galina Rymbu

107,99 RON

Poetry. LIFE IN SPACE is translated by Joan Brooks and includes additional material translated by Helena Kernan, Charles Bernstein, and Kevin M.F. ...

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San Zi Jing - Three Character Classic in Chinese and English: Pocket Edition, Paperback - Jeff Pepper

66,99 RON 71,99 RON

Reducere. Welcome to 三字经, San Zi Jing, known in English as the Three Character Classic. The San Zi Jing was written by Wang Yinglin during the Song Dynasty i...

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A Limerickal Commentary on the Second Vatican Council, Paperback - Hugh Somerville Knapman

55,99 RON 59,99 RON

Reducere. Separating the occasional high points of the formal sessions of Vatican II were long stretches of procedural tedium and usually ponderous Latin spe...

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Old Testament, Hardback - ***

157,99 RON

The King James Bible of 1611 has been one of the richest sources for English language and literature for nearly four centuries and is itself a work...

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Culture and Customs of Vietnam, Paperback - Mark W. McLeod

188,99 RON 202,99 RON

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Early Modern England 1485-1714: A Narrative History, Paperback - Robert Bucholz

259,99 RON

The new, fully-updated edition of the popular introduction to the Tudor-Stuart period--offers fresh scholarship and improved readability. Early Mod...

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Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner), Paperback - Bernardine Evaristo

88,99 RON 95,99 RON

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You Know What I'm Sayin'?: Poetry * Drama, Paperback - Debbie L. Cole

64,99 RON 69,99 RON

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A Story of Hope: The Incredible True Story of Malik Ambar in English and Amharic, Paperback - Ready Set Go Books

75,99 RON 81,99 RON

Reducere. Captured in Ethiopia and sold into slavery as a child, Malik Ambar travels throughout the Middle East until he arrives in India. Despite a lifetime...

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ReVox Reel to Reel Tape Recordes 1949-1993 (pocket ed.), Paperback - Paolo Bologna

539,99 RON

(pocket edition) This book illustrates the history, technique and anectodes of ReVox tape recorders from 1949 to 1993. A full-comprehensive manual ...

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Basic Swedish: A Grammar and Workbook, Paperback - Ian Hinchliffe

299,99 RON

Basic Swedish: A Grammar and Workbook combines an accessible basic reference grammar and related exercises in one volume, and covers most of the to...

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Oera Linda Book, Paperback - Cornelis Over de Linden

186,99 RON 200,99 RON

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Border Correspondent: Selected Writings, 1955-1970, Paperback - Ruben Salazar

337,99 RON 361,99 RON

Reducere. This first major collection of former Los Angeles Times reporter and columnist Ruben Salazar's writings, is a testament to his pioneering role in t...

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Nordic Classicism: Scandinavian Architecture 1910-1930, Paperback - John Stewart

199,99 RON

Nordic Classicism presents the first English-language survey of an important yet short-lived movement in modern architectural history. It was throu...

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The Life of Guy: Guy Fawkes, the Gunpowder Plot, and the Unlikely History of an Indispensable Word, Hardcover - Allan Metcalf

94,99 RON

Had you said "What a guy " in 17th-century England, anyone would have understood you were admiring a flaming effigy of Guy Fawkes of the Gunpowder ...

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Genesis of Living Forms, Paperback - Raymond Ruyer

204,99 RON

The Genesis of Living Forms represents the first English-language translation of a key work by Raymond Ruyer, an important yet neglected figure in ...

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To Venice with Love: A Midlife Adventure, Paperback - Philip Gwynne Jones

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Description'An inspiring, life-affirming story' Reader's Digest Philip and Caroline Jones, a middle-aged couple living in Edinburgh, found themselv...

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Going Back, Paperback - MR David Wishart

89,99 RON 96,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionWhen the ex-praetor husband of a friend of Claudius's mother-in-law is found murdered on his estate near Carthage the emperor gives Corv...

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Common Sense: The Origin and Design of Government, Paperback - Thomas Paine

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Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English, Paperback - Agha Shahid Ali

112,99 RON 120,99 RON

Reducere. In recent years, the ghazal (pronounced "ghuzzle"), a traditional Arabic form of poetry, has become popular among contemporary English language poe...

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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, Paperback - David Crystal

219,99 RON

DescriptionNow in its third edition, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language provides the most comprehensive coverage of the history, st...

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Dubliners - James Joyce

38,99 RON 41,99 RON

Reducere. James Joyce's groundbreaking collection of short stories about the beloved city of his birth. Perhaps the greatest short story collection in the En...

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The Wycliffe Bible: John Wycliffe's Translation of the Holy Scriptures from the Latin Vulgate, Hardcover - John Wycliffe

408,99 RON 437,99 RON

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Wycliffe Bible-OE, Paperback - John Wycliffe

320,99 RON 343,99 RON

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The Autumn of the Middle Ages, Paperback - Johan Huizinga

255,99 RON

"Here is the first full translation into English of one of the 20th century's few undoubted classics of history." -Washington Post Book World The A...

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Black / Maybe, Paperback - Roberto Garcia

127,99 RON 136,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionPoetry collection by Roberto Carlos Garcia. Explores themes of blackness and Dominican culture. "I'm American, but I don't speak English...

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The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Hardcover - Samuel Pepys

148,99 RON

A newly edited selection from the most famous, colorful, and vivid diarist in the English language--in the most accessible, uncensored, and clearly...

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Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws, Paperback - Charles De Secondat Montesquieu

291,99 RON

The Spirit of the Laws is without question one of the central texts in the history of eighteenth-century thought, yet there has been no complete sc...

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Philosophical Essays: A Critical Edition, Paperback - Fernando Pessoa

111,99 RON 119,99 RON

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The Sepoy Mutiny: 1857: An Annotated Checklist of English Language Books, Hardback - Richard Sorsky

314,99 RON

Publisher: Linden Publishing Co IncAuthor(s): Richard SorskyNumber of pages: 267Publication date: 2007Dimensions: 160 x 237 x 23Cover type: Hardbac...

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Russian Monks on Mount Athos: The Thousand Year History of St Panteleimon's, Paperback - Nicholas Fennell

278,99 RON 298,99 RON

Reducere. The Holy Mountain of Athos is a self-governing monastic republic on a peninsula in Northern Greece. Standing on the shores of the Aegean Sea is one...

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Icing on the Cake - English Food Idioms (Spanish-English): Glaseado Sobre El Pastel - Modismos con Alimentos en Inglés (Español - Inglés) - Troon Harr

134,99 RON 144,99 RON

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Beginner's Icelandic with Online Audio, Paperback - Helga Hilmisdóttir

153,99 RON 164,99 RON

Reducere. Learn Icelandic with this complete course, now with free audio download! Icelandic is a North-Germanic language spoken by over 300, 000 people, mai...

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Goodbye Chomsky, and Other Essays on Language, Hardcover - Robert D. King

173,99 RON 186,99 RON

Reducere. The idea of this book is that language is too interesting to be enjoyed exclusively by linguists.This is undoubtedly unfair to linguists--not peopl...

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Stories from the Marshall Islands, Paperback - Jack a. Tobin

210,99 RON 225,99 RON

Reducere. Among Marshallese the ri-bwebwenato (storyteller) is well known and respected, a living repository and transmitter of traditional history and cultu...

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A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland: In England and Ireland, Paperback - William Cobbett

169,99 RON 181,99 RON

Reducere. Written between 1824 and 1827 by an English Protestant, "A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland" has been reprinted many ti...

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The Great Lakes of Africa: Two Thousand Years of History, Paperback - Jean-Pierre Chrétien

153,99 RON 164,99 RON

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Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits, Paperback - Dimitra Fimi

264,99 RON 283,99 RON

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American Yiddish Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology, Paperback - Benjamin Harshav

253,99 RON

This remarkable volume introduces to the large English-speaking audience what is probably the most coherent segment of twentieth-century American l...

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Ancient Greek Divination, Paperback - Sarah Iles Johnston

297,99 RON 318,99 RON

Reducere. The first English-language survey of ancient Greek divinatory methods, Ancient Greek Divination offers a broad yet detailed treatment of the earlie...

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Assimilated Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940-1943, Hardcover - Katarzyna Person

270,99 RON 289,99 RON

Reducere. Jews in Nazi-occupied Warsaw during the 1940s were under increasing threat as they were stripped of their rights and forced to live in a guarded gh...

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The First Vietnam War, Hardcover - Shawn F. McHale

273,99 RON

Shawn McHale explores why the communist-led resistance in Vietnam won the anticolonial war against France (1945-54), except in the south. He shows ...

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Ancient Naples A Documentary History Origins to c. 350 CE, Hardcover - Rabun M. Taylor

379,99 RON 406,99 RON

Reducere. Rabun M. Taylor offers the first comprehensive survey of ancient Naples in the English language, tracing the history of the city from its origins i...

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