Reference Language category: 172455 books
by DK
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Do you need to learn French for an upcoming trip? The Eyewitness Travel Guide: French Visual Phrase Book can help you start learning today.
Whether you're visiting France for business or pleasure, learn how to speak French with essential words and phrases for hundreds of illustrated everyday...
by Crystal Gong
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Frustration. Excitement. Frustration. Excitement.
I understand that learning Chinese can be a frequent switch between these 2 feelings. Well, this book is designed to assist you on your journey to learn the most intimidating skill in the Mandarin Chinese language: writing.
Let me be...
The Subversive Copy Editor, Second Edition
Advice from Chicago (or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself)
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Longtime manuscript editor and Chicago Manual of Style guru Carol Fisher Saller has negotiated many a standoff between a writer and editor refusing to compromise on the “rights” and “wrongs” of prose styling. Saller realized that when these sides squared off, it was often the reader who lost....
by Hermes Language Reference
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2017
This volume presents a trilingual edition of Aristotle's Metaphysics. Each paragraph has an English, Latin and (original) Ancient Greek rendition. Students of Classics or anyone interested in ancient philosophy and languages should find in this trilingual edition an a helpful device to approach Aristotle...
by Christopher Peacocke
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2010
In Truly Understood, Christopher Peacocke argues that truth and reference have a much deeper role in the explanation of meaning and understanding than has hitherto been appreciated. Examination of specific concepts shows that a grasp of these concepts has to be characterized in terms of reference,...
Body Language and Relationships
Learn the Secret Meaning Behind Every Move
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Raised eyebrows, rubbing one’s chin, angled shoulders – what’s it all mean? Master the art of nonverbal communication and you’ll unlock these secrets and more. Body Language and Relationships is your quick course in interpreting body language in all types of romantic encounters. Now you’ll know just what your partner is thinking - without a word being said.
by Basil Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2005
The papers in this volume show the origin and development of Bernstein's theoretical studies into the relationships between social class, patterns of language use and the primary socialization of the child.
'Bernstein's hypothesis will require [teachers] to look afresh not only at their pupils' language...
The Unexpected Evolution of Language
Discover the Surprising Etymology of Everyday Words
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
This book is awesome awful!
Did you know that "awful" first originated as a compliment? How about the fact that it was perfectly fine for someone to defecate in their living room? Or that at one time a bully was actually a sweetheart?
You may think that these things sound outlandish,...
Sharp's Dictionary of Power and Struggle
Language of Civil Resistance in Conflicts
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
From the 494 B.C. plebeians' march out of Rome to gain improved status, to Gandhi's nonviolent campaigns in India, to the liberation of Poland and the Baltic nations, and the revolutions in North Africa, nonviolent struggles have played pivotal roles in world events for centuries. Sharp's Dictionary...
Data-Driven Problem-Solving in International Business Communication
Examining the Use of Bilingual Web-Based Tools for Text Production with Advanced English as a Foreign Language Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This study challenges the traditional approach of focusing on English as a foreign language learning in international business settings. The primary objective in such settings is to successfully create a linguistically correct document. Rather than relying on accumulated incomplete individual language...
by Max Cryer
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
Proverbs ... weve all grown up with them and we probably repeat them without much thought. Yes, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush and absence makes the heart grow fonder, but these sayings have almost become clichés and it is the same in every country and culture. Such pearls of wisdom...
Dictionary of Aeronautical Terms
Over 11,000 Entries
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Aviation is an industry full of terms, acronyms and technical language. This book helps users understand all the words, abbreviations, phrases, and disciplines of aviation. The most complete collection of aviation terminology available, the Dictionary of Aeronautical Terms defines more than 11,000...
by Carolyn Stanford Goss, Leonard Goss
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2004
The Little Style Guide to Great Christian Writing and Publishing provides a fresh understanding and distinctively Christian examination of style and language. It covers all the basic rules of grammar, style, and editing and will be of immediate interest to Christian writers and editors. The Little...
The Essential Guide to Being Polish
50 Facts & Facets of Nationhood
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Being Polish is no joke. For ten million people of Polish ancestry in the United States, as well as many who have settled in the UK since the fall of communism, it is a heartfelt matter⎯and amid all the travel guides and guides to Polish language, folklore, and customs, there is no single, comprehensive,...