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Paperback. Drawing on research in Russian archives, this work examines how Alexandra Tolstoy, the youngest daughter of Russian writer Lev (Leo) Tolstoy, sought to preserve the work of her father after the Bolshevik Revolution in October 1917. It combines Alexandra's life with events in Soviet history and illuminates Lev Tolstoy's legacy in the Soviet period. Series: Donald W. Treadgold Studies on Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; C; HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 156.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295988771
- ISBN
- 9780295988771
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.37
€ 37.37
Hardcover. Documents the linguistic properties of lesser-known varieties of English, showing their relevance for language spread and change. Editor(s): Trudgill, Peter; Schneider, Edgar W.; Schreier, Daniel; Williams, Jeffrey P. Series: Studies in English Language. Num Pages: 386 pages, 1 b/w illus. 25 tables. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 235 x 22. Weight in Grams: 736.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 386
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521883962
- ISBN
- 9780521883962
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.60
€ 95.60
Paperback. The Letter and the Cosmos is a sharp and entertaining examination of how languages, letterforms, orthography, and writing tools have reflected our hidden obsession with the alphabet, Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: CBX; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442628533
- ISBN
- 9781442628533
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.75
€ 31.99
€ 28.75
Paperback. Based on the analysis of community records in a Peruvian village, The Lettered Mountain tells how Andean peasants thought to be illiterate appropriated the Roman alphabet long ago. Num Pages: 392 pages, 72 illustrations, 7 tables, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; CFC; HBTB; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 568.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822350446
- ISBN
- 9780822350446
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.42
€ 41.99
€ 37.42
Paperback. From the time they first met as undergraduates at Columbia College in New York City in the mid-1930s, the noted editor Robert Giroux (1914-2008) and the Trappist monk and writer Thomas Merton (1915-1968) became friends. The Letters of Robert Giroux and Thomas Merton captures their personal and professional relationship. Editor(s): Samway, Patrick. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: CBW; HRCC7; HRCM; HRLK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 525.
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268017866
- ISBN
- 9780268017866
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.71
€ 31.99
€ 28.71
Paperback. A biography of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature. Editor(s): Womersley, David. Num Pages: 1312 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; CFM; DSBD; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 135 x 57. Weight in Grams: 1022.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 1312
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140436624
- ISBN
- 9780140436624
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 23.03
€ 33.99
€ 23.03
Paperback. This book traces the development of English slang from the earliest records to the latest tweet and explores why and how slang is used. Based on inside information from real live slang users as well as the best scholarly sources, this book is guaranteed to teach you some new words that you shouldn't use in polite company. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFFD; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 136 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199679171
- ISBN
- 9780199679171
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.53
€ 30.53
Hardback. A powerful critique of the revolutionary mentality and sexual aggression represented in the works of authors including D. H. Lawrence, Georges Bataille, Henry Miller, and Norman Mailer. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; C; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822349921
- ISBN
- 9780822349921
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 171.11
€ 171.11
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253208699
- ISBN
- 9780253208699
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 78.19
€ 78.19
Hardback. This book presents a sociolinguistic ethnography of the linguistic landscape of Chinatown in Washington, DC. The book sheds new light on the impact of urban development on traditionally ethnic neighbourhoods and discusses the various historical, social and cultural factors that contribute to this area's shifting linguistic landscape. Series: Encounters. Num Pages: 168 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFC; CFB; CFDM; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 219 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Publisher
- Channel View Publications Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783095629
- ISBN
- 9781783095629
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 169.23
€ 169.23
Paperback. Editor(s): Rorty, Richard. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFA; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226725697
- ISBN
- 9780226725697
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.26
€ 40.99
€ 31.26
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 322
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521637183
- ISBN
- 9780521637183
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.97
€ 59.97
Paperback. Brings thinking about semantics to bear on the question of how, and how much, language corresponds to thought. This title argues that lying is a function not of words but of sentences; it belongs to the semantic aspect of language. It forges links between linguistic and literary categories on the one hand and ethics and good manners on the other. Translator(s): Churchill, Larry R.; Brown, Jane K.; Brown, Marshall. Series: Literary Conjugations. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: CFG; DSA; GTE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 4522 x 3226 x 10. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Edition
- Translation
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295985497
- ISBN
- 9780295985497
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.87
€ 32.99
€ 29.87
Paperback. Mark Turner makes the revolutionary claim that the basic issue for cognitive science is the nature of literary thinking. Using tools of modern linguistics, the recent work of neuroscientists, and literary masterpieces from Shakespeare, Homer, and Dante, Turner explains how story and projection are fundamental to everyday thought. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CFA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 137 x 12. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 198
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195126679
- ISBN
- 9780195126679
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.02
€ 33.02
Num Pages: 608 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Pearson
- Edition
- 9th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780321986504
- ISBN
- 9780321986504
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 104.57
€ 104.57
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Pearson Education Limited
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 13th Global ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781292099477
- ISBN
- 9781292099477
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 83.78
€ 83.78
The Logic of Our Language. An Introduction to Symbolic Logic.
Jackson, Rodger L.; McLeod, Melanie L.
Paperback. A book that lays bare the underlying logic of the English language. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; HPL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 185 x 19. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781554811847
- ISBN
- 9781554811847
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.27€ 45.20
€ 58.27
€ 45.20
Hardback. This work engages on a theoretical level with issues in semiotics generally, taking Peirce's writings as a case study through which to investigate the adequacy of a theory of signs to account for the way "talk" works. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 352 pages, 5 tables. BIC Classification: CFG; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 581.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804747394
- ISBN
- 9780804747394
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 193.85
€ 193.85
Paperback. The twentieth century was the magazine century in many ways. Between 1900 and 2000, the number of magazines grew from about 3,000 to 17,815 - a 593 percent increase, which exceeded population growth by 95 percent. This book shows how the growth of advertising enabled the cost of magazines to steadily decline. Series: Mediating American History. Num Pages: 242 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CBWJ; GTC; HB; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 225 x 18. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Publisher
- Peter Lang Publishing Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- First printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781433104930
- ISBN
- 9781433104930
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.28
€ 53.28
Hardcover. The completely revised and updated edition contains more than 8,000 terms relating to food ingredients, cooking styles, preparation techniques, utensils, and types of culinary service. Clear and concise definitions, word origins, and simple phonetic pronunciations make this an invaluable resource for food and beverage professionals. Num Pages: 464 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 31. Weight in Grams: 802.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471287568
- ISBN
- 9780471287568
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.42€ 75.68
€ 90.42
€ 75.68