Showing posts with label Humanities. Show all posts
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Wednesday, 24 August 2016

The Ring of Words By Peter Gilliver


The Ring of Words
Title : The Ring of Words
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ISBN : 0198610696
Format : Hardcover
Number of Pages : 234




Tolkien s first job, on returning home from World War I, was as an assistant on the staff of the OED He later said that he had learned in those two years than in any other equal part of his life The Ring of Words reveals how his professional work on the Oxford English Dictionary influenced Tolkien s creative use of language in his fictional world Here three seni Tolkien s first job, on returning home from World War I, was as an assistant on the staff of the OED He later said that he had learned...

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Tuesday, 9 February 2016

Teach Yourself Gaelic Dictionary By Boyd Robertson


Teach Yourself Gaelic Dictionary
Title : Teach Yourself Gaelic Dictionary
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ISBN : 0071426671
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 320




Students of Gaelic at all levels will consider this bilingual dictionary a welcome addition to their reference bookshelf New to the Teach Yourself dictionary series, this title provides the user with a comprehensive vocabulary for working Gaelic, the Celtic language of Scotland With than 30,000 words from Gaelic to English and from English to Gaelic contained within Students of Gaelic at all levels will consider this bilingual dictionary a welcome addition to their reference bookshelf New to th...

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Friday, 13 March 2015

The Meaning of Everything By Simon Winchester


The Meaning of Everything
Title : The Meaning of Everything
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ISBN : 019517500X
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 288




From the best selling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa comes a truly wonderful celebration of the English language and of its unrivaled treasure house, the Oxford English Dictionary Writing with marvelous brio, Winchester first serves up a lightning history of the English language so vast, so sprawling, so wonderfully From the best selling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa comes a truly wonderf...

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Wednesday, 10 December 2014

Splintered Light By Verlyn Flieger


Splintered Light
Title : Splintered Light
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ISBN : 0873387449
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 196




J.R.R Tolkien is perhaps best known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, but it is in The Silmarillion that the true depth of Tolkien s Middle earth can be understood The Silmarillion was written before, during and after The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings A collection of stories, it provides information alluded to in Tolkien s better known works and, in doing so, J.R.R Tolkien is perhaps best known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, but it is in The Silmarillion that the true depth...

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Thursday, 26 June 2014

Through the Language Glass By Guy Deutscher


Through the Language Glass
Title : Through the Language Glass
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ISBN : 080508195X
Format : Hardcover
Number of Pages : 304




A masterpiece of linguistics scholarship, at once erudite and entertaining, confronts the thorny question of how and whether culture shapes language and language, cultureLinguistics has long shied away from claiming any link between a language and the culture of its speakers too much simplistic even bigoted chatter about the romance of Italian and the goose stepping o A masterpiece of linguistics scholarship, at once erudite and entertaining, confronts the thorny question of how and whether cult...

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Wednesday, 28 May 2014

The Bride of Anguished English By Richard Lederer


The Bride of Anguished English
Title : The Bride of Anguished English
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ISBN : 0312300387
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 224




Fans of Richard Lederer s Anguished English series will cherish this newest installment of the author s latest chronicle of the gifts and gaffes of our oddball language From headlines to menus, student papers to politicians speeches, every embarrassing example is true and wonderfully funny....

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Monday, 2 September 2013

A Dictionary of Modern English Usage By Henry Watson Fowler


A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
Title : A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
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ISBN : 0192813897
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 748




This book is intended for general students and teachers of English anyone wanting guidance on the correct use of English....

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