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Books : Reference : Language : Slang & Jargon
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This best-selling dictionary contains over 4,200 clear and concise entries on all aspects of English law. The new edition includes the very latest legislation and features recommended entry-level web links. Authoritative and comprehensive, it is an invaluable A-Z for students, professionals, and anyone wanting a clear guide to legal terminology.
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Did you know that the letters of DIRTY ROOM can be rearranged to make DORMITORY? Or that an ASTRONOMER is a MOON STARER in disguise?
This book helps you solve such anagrams, whether you need it for cracking cryptic crossword puzzles, playing Scrabble®, or doing other word games.
The Crossword Man Book of Anagrams includes over 250,000 solutions to anagrams. Two levels of indexing take you right to the answer you're looking for.
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The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms provides clear, concise, and witty definitions of even the most complex literary terms from abjection to zeugma. An essential reference tool for students of literature in any language. New recommended entry-level web links updated via the Dictionary of Literary Terms companion website.
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New Masons quickly learn that many unfamiliar words and phrases are employed in our symbolic teachings. Our words are not haphazardly selected, but have deep symbolic and historic significance.
Masonic Word and Phrases is a wonderful collection of the most often used words and phrases in Masonry. Presented in an easy to read and understandable format, this work provides any student of Masonry with a clear understanding of the meaning of our many phrases and words so seldom used outside of Masonry.
This work is valuable to the experienced Mason as a quick and handy reference guide. For the new Mason, however, it is an indispensable work and one that should augment any Masonic education program.
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A reference for advertising, sales, and marketing professionals looking for the right word to clinch the deal. It lists high-powered words, phrases, and slogans, arranged in categories ranging from 'snappy transitions' to 'knocking the competition', from 'grabbers' to 'clinchers.'
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Written by David Leeming, one of the world's most trusted voices on mythology, The Oxford Companion to World Mythology is a lively, non-pedantic yet intellectually sound book that engages the reader and reveals the extraordinary depth and beauty of the world of myth.
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The most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of sociology available. Compiled by an expert team of sociologists this new edition has been fully updated and revised to include entry-level weblinks. It is both an ideal introduction to the subject, and an invaluable reference work for more advanced students and teachers.
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This leading dictionary contains over 3,000 clear and concise entries updated in line with curriculum and degree requirements. It covers pure and applied mathematics and statistics, features entry-level web links, and includes detailed appendices. Authoritative and comprehensive, this A-Z is invaluable for students and teachers of mathematics.
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The largest single-volume slang dictionary available
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7,000 authoritative entries cover all aspects of business and management including marketing, accounting, organizational behaviour, global finance, law, and business strategy. Fully revised and updated, it remains an essential book for business students, teachers, and professionals, and ideal for those needing a guide to business terminology.
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Contains 52 chapters, each presenting new words with easy-to-use techniques for understanding and retention, so that working only 15 minutes a day, readers will add 1500 words to their vocabulary. This book offers four new words for every day of focused, vocabulary building.
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An accessible, lively A-Z of over 3,000 words and their origins, drawn from Oxford's unrivalled dictionary research and language monitoring. Ideal for language lovers and students alike, the Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins relates the fascinating stories behind many of our most curious words and expressions.
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Drawing on the collective wisdom of over 154 languages, this book is arranged by theme to help you compare attitudes all over the world to such subjects as food, the human body and the battle of the sexes. It also includes a discussion of how many Eskimo' terms there are for snow, and an array of information exploring the strange world of words.
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![Roget's Thesaurus [Illustrated]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518yMOUOLhL._SL160_.jpg)
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This unique and authoritative collection contains over 1,100 of the most widely-used proverbs in English with research drawing on the Oxford English Corpus, the world's largest language databank. Lively and compelling, this book is filled with favourites - old and new - and with the fascinating history of each proverb through the ages.
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The most up-to-date and authoritative dictionary of zoology available. It contains over 5,250 entries covering all aspects of the subject, from behavioural ecology and conservation biology to cytology and taxonomy. Fully revised and updated, this A-Z is an essential source of reference for students and teachers of zoology as well as naturalists.
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Have you always wanted to learn Spanish but don't have the time to dedicate to attending classes or spending hours with books? The Coffee Break Spanish course will help you learn the language where and when it suits you. Based on the popular podcast series, used by millions of learners around the world since 2006, Coffee Break Spanish for the Kindle will help you learn Spanish in easy steps.
The series features eighty lessons, and this ebook provides lessons 1-5 of the course. In addition to the comprehensive lesson notes provided, the course features download links for the accompanying audio lessons. Each lesson lasts around 15 minutes and is presented by teacher Mark, working alongside student Kara, so you can learn with Kara and perfect your Spanish.
In lessons 1-5 you will learn to greet people, introduce yourself and others, talk about your family and you will start to understand how the Spanish language works. In later lessons you'll learn to cope with a variety of situations encountered while travelling in a Spanish-speaking area, and to recognise the patterns of the language, allowing you to say what you want to say.
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Recommended for upper beginners and lower intermediates of Japanese.
Please Email the author for FREE MP3s of the stories read by a native Japanese speaker. Listen while reading.
Read--in Japanese--how the wise and young Hikoichi shows his smarts with this two short stories in Japanese.
The first story has the lord of the castle testing Hikoichi in a Solomonesque question--which young lord is the true young lord?
The second story shows chosing the first and most favorable isn't always best. In the end, only Hikoichi can enjoy the cherry blossoms.
While beginners to Japanese can get a lot from this, hiragana knowledge is required.
* All kanji have furigana
* All vocabulary is listed with English under each paragraph
* The full story just in Japanese is also provided so you can practice reading without interruption
* After each story, we also provide an English summary. We recommend avoiding this until after tackling the Japanese, but if you need a little help, this summary should give you a hint.
Please note: All Japanese characters are shown as images. Even though the latest generation of Kindle can handle Japanese fonts, the upload utility Amazon provides does not allow Japanese yet. Of course as soon as it is possible, we will update the books with real Japanese fonts. We've tested th