Dictionaries

Unparalleled in its thoroughness, its accessibility, and its relevance to all areas of Latin American studies, this volume is a dictionary of 21,000 terms related to race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality used in the region over the past five centuries...

With over 25,000 English entries and their Basque equivalents in six major dialects, this volume is the most complete reference to the Basque language to date for English-speaking people. This useful resource is the very first of its kind to become...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544176188Author Editors of the American Heritage DiFormat HardbackPage Count 864Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin

A celebration of western Washington Native language and culture, this book is a completely reformatted and greatly revised and expanded update of Thom Hess's Dictionary of Puget Salish (1976). Editor Dawn Bates integrates the field notes of Vi Hilbert,...

The second volume of Julie Coleman's fascinating and entertaining history of the uses and the recording of slang and criminal cant takes the story from 1785 to 1858 and explores its first manifestations in the USA and Australia. During this period...

The Dictionary of Louisiana French (DLF) provides the richest inventory of French vocabulary in Louisiana and reflects precisely the speech of the period from 1930 to the present. This dictionary describes the current usage of French-speaking peoples in...

Developed by professional editors and educational consultants especially for preschoolers and children in the first years of school, the award-winning Picture Dictionary is a compilation of 900 of the words most commonly featured in elementary school...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345405470Author Random HouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 912Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm)...

Compiled by two internationally renowned experts, and with over 600 wide-ranging and informative entries, The Routledge Dictionary of Judaism provides the reader with an invaluable reference aid to all areas of the religion. Topics covered include:*The...

This pioneering book is the prototype of the etymological thesaurus that has been the goal of the Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus project (STEDT) since 1987. It presents nearly 170 Proto-Tibeto-Burman etymologies in the semantic area...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544785670Author Editors of Webster's New World CollFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint William Morrow & CompanyPublisher William Morrow &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553584745Author Elaine CostelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 174mm...

The Vend nyelvtan is a grammar completed in 1942 by the linguist Avgust Pavel that was designed to serve as a modern standard for the Prekmurje Slovenes who were to be subjects of Hungary. Though the grammar was meant to divide the Prekmurje Slovenes...

Did he ever play Hamlet? Has she worked in television? What was the title of his first novel? Under whom did she study? How many children has he? Answers to such questions about contemporary Canadian artists have often been difficult, even impossible, to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877792994Author Merriam-WebsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint Merriam-WebsterPublisher Merriam-Webster

Russia and the other republics of the former USSR are now more accessible than at any other time in history. In the future, the forest resource of Russia, easily the greatest of any country in the world, will become even more globally important both...

In this dictionary of the Nez Perce language, which is spoken in the states of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington, the author illustrates how each word is used by citing examples from published Nez Perce oral literature; the dictionary is thus also a...

This book is completely revised from the previous edition with increased page count. The title includes: more dictionary entries 61,000, total 13,000 thesaurus entries, 3,000 new dictionary terms, such as biscotti, dot.com, gene therapy, home page, no...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780933070103Author Luc KwantenFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Research Institute for Inner Asian StudiesPublisher Research Institute for Inner Asian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877793748Author Merriam-WebsterFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Merriam Webster,U.S.Publisher Merriam Webster,U.S.

With this fifth volume of the Dictionary of American Regional English, readers now have the full panoply of American regional vocabulary, from Adam's housecat to Zydeco. Like the first four volumes, the fifth is filled with words that reflect our...

A brand new edition for 2019 of the award-winning dictionary for children in grades 3 6, with age-appropriate vocabulary, lively example sentences, hundreds of engaging feature notes, stunning full-color art , and including hundreds of new words and...

Written specifically for Argentinian and Uruguayan learners of English, this dictionary contains clear, accurate and up-to-date translations, based on the analysis of the British National Corpus. Key Features Clear division of senses...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780933070196Author Hangin GombojabFormat HardbackPage Count 900Imprint Research Institute for Inner Asian StudiesPublisher Research Institute for Inner...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592644520Author Yitzhak FrankFormat HardbackImprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press LtdWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 224mm * 152mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781775594000Author Max CryerFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Exisle PublishingPublisher Exisle PublishingWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 150mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780914846239Author Edgar PotterFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Primer PublishersPublisher Primer PublishersWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062843739Author Barbara Ann KipferFormat PaperbackPage Count 1200Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596951747Author Merriam-WebsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Federal Street PressPublisher Federal Street PressWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm)...

Especially designed for young learners, the full-colour Longman Picture Dictionary is ideal for use in school or at home. With its attractive format and amusing illustrations, children will go back to it again and again. Samples Preview sample pages from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956482723Author Barry ReayFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Breviary Stuff PublicationsPublisher Breviary Stuff PublicationsWeight(grams) 341g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953884473Author Cooper The PooperFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Books by CooperPublisher Books by CooperWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Airplane Blonde. Intercorpse. Prostitot. Queef. Rainbow Kiss.There's a big world of obscenity out there--and you'll explore every profane nook and cranny in this compilation. We're talking about more than 2,000 insults, obscenities, and vulgarities raw...

The 3rd edition of this ever popular course combines some fantastic new materials with all the features that have made it a best seller.Book InformationISBN 9781408268025Author Bill MascullImprint LongmanPublisher Pearson Education LimitedWeight(grams)...

The cult of the penitent Magdalene grew rapidly in western Europe in the Middle Ages, as a number of shrines and church dedications attest. This medieval narration, tracing in imaginative detail the lives of the two sisters after the Resurrection of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780713199Author Andrey TaranovFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint T&p BooksPublisher T&p BooksWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 9mm

Western Words has 5,000 words of cowboy language as vibrant now as it was in the old American frontier. "Within the cowman's figures of speech lie the rich field of his subtle humor and strength-unique, original, full-flavored. With his usually limited...

They had more in common than just a scream, whether they faced Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, the Mummy, Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, King Kong, the Wolf Man, or any of the other legendary Hollywood monsters. Some were even monsters themselves, such as Elsa...

This pocket edition of the bestselling Penguin English Dictionary is the perfect reference book for everyday use. Compiled by Britain's foremost lexicographers, up-to-date and easy to use, it is the ideal portable companion for quick reference.About the...

This is the first of three volumes in a major series supplementing the acclaimed Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Each volume contains 3,000 new words and meanings presented in the style of the OED. representing a variety of...