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Hardback. Selfie, slacker, groovy, teenager-these are some of the words that have emerged from the different generations in American history. This book tells the stories of these and dozens of other words that identify and characterize the generations, from skedaddle, dude, and sexy, to rock and roll, streaking, and friends with benefits. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: CB; CBX; CFFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 186 x 25. Weight in Grams: 292. Clean copy with some shelf wear, minor nicks and bumps on dustwrapper but otherwise clean
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KSS0005240
- ISBN
- 9780199927128
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; CBX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 6th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415655965
- ISBN
- 9780415655965
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.76
€ 61.76
Paperback. In the century since its birth, the crossword has evolved into the world's most popular intellectual pastime: a unique form of wordplay, the codes and conventions of which are open to anyone masochistic enough to get addicted. This book celebrates the wit, ingenuity and frustration of setting and solving puzzles. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: CBX; JFCX; WDKC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141977102
- ISBN
- 9780141977102
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.03
€ 16.99
€ 13.03
Paperback. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Number of pages
- 800
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141028392
- ISBN
- 9780141028392
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.55
€ 25.99
€ 19.55
Paperback. This documents how Oscar Wilde was appropriated as a fictional character by no less than thirty-two of his contemporaries, including such celebrated writers as Joseph Conrad, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, George Bernard Shaw and Bram Stoker. Num Pages: 318 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349369645
- ISBN
- 9781349369645
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
Paperback. Editor(s): Wright, T.; Beaumont, M. Num Pages: 326 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; CJ; JNMT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349323180
- ISBN
- 9781349323180
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 149.59
€ 149.59
Paperback. Editor(s): Watson, G.; Zyngier, Sonia. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; CFC; CFG; CJ; JNMT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 217
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349541836
- ISBN
- 9781349541836
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.82
€ 126.82
Paperback. This book brings together the theory, structure and practice of legal semiotics in an accessible style. It introduces the concepts of legal semiotics and offers an insight in contemporary and future directions which the semiotics of law is going to take. Editor(s): Wagner, Ms. Anne, PhD; Broekman, Jan M. Num Pages: 244 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; HPL; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400739857
- ISBN
- 9789400739857
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.88
€ 127.88
Paperback. Editor(s): Starc, Sonja; Jones, C.; Maiorani, Arianna. Num Pages: 318 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; CFB; CFP; CJ; GTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349502110
- ISBN
- 9781349502110
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.64
€ 66.64
Paperback. Editor(s): Soria, Belen; Romero, Esther. Series: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language & Cognition. Num Pages: 305 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; CFA; CFGA; GTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2010
- Number of pages
- 305
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349360994
- ISBN
- 9781349360994
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Paperback. Editor(s): Sebeok, Thomas A.; Umiker-Sebeok, Jean. Series: Topics in Contemporary Semiotics. Num Pages: 676 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; DSB; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1244.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986
- Number of pages
- 676
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781475702071
- ISBN
- 9781475702071
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 133.01
€ 133.01
Paperback. Editor(s): Scanlon, M.; Engbers, Chad. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; CFA; CFG; DSA; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 205
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349486342
- ISBN
- 9781349486342
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.80
€ 65.80
Paperback. All humans can interpret sentences of their native language quickly and without effort. Working from the perspective of generative grammar, the contributors to this volume investigate three mental mechanisms, widely assumed to underlie this ability: compositional semantics, implicature computation and presupposition computation. Editor(s): Sauerland, Uli; Stateva, Penka. Series: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language & Cognition. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; CFG; HPL; HPM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349282067
- ISBN
- 9781349282067
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.25
€ 127.25
Paperback. Editor(s): Santos, Diana; Linden, Krister; Nganga, Wanjiku. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; CFX; UYQL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 397.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642432514
- ISBN
- 9783642432514
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.61
€ 66.61
Pacific Rim Objective Measurement Symposium (PROMS) 2012 Conference Pr...
. Ed(S): Quan, Zhang Shi; Yang, Hong
Paperback. Editor(s): Quan, Zhang Shi; Yang, Hong. Num Pages: 358 pages, 37 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1QRP; CBX; JNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 575.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Number of pages
- 358
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642375910
- ISBN
- 9783642375910
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 194.53
€ 194.53
paperback. "In this book, linguists and philosophers combine to offer a unique insight not only into Grice's contribution to philosophy of language, but on his theories of natural and non-natural meaning, implicatures and the semantic-pragmatic distinction"-- Editor(s): Petrus, Klaus; Sauerland, Uli; Breheny, Richard. Series: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language & Cognition. Num Pages: 348 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; CFA; CFG; HPM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 170 x 19. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2010
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349367733
- ISBN
- 9781349367733
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 73.61
€ 73.61
Sprache statt Politik?: Politikwissenschaftliche Semantik- und Rhetori...
. Ed(S): Opp de Hipt, Manfred; Latniak, Erich
perfect. Editor(s): Opp De Hipt, Manfred; Latniak, Erich. Num Pages: 279 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: CBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 381.
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften Germany
- Edition
- 1991st Edition
- Number of pages
- 279
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783531122397
- ISBN
- 9783531122397
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 83.31
€ 83.31
Paperback. This anthology of the research findings of dozens of speaker recognition experts from around the world provides a multidimensional view of the complex science involved in determining whether a suspect's voice truly matches forensic speech samples. Editor(s): Neustein, Amy; Patil, Hemant Arjun. Num Pages: 561 pages, 100 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; TTBM; UYQL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 854.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 561
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781489996039
- ISBN
- 9781489996039
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 252.07
€ 252.07
Paperback. Editor(s): Levi, Judith N.; Walker, Anne Graffam. Series: Law, Society & Policy. Num Pages: 404 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; DSB; JKV; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 623.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990
- Number of pages
- 404
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781489937216
- ISBN
- 9781489937216
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 195.25
€ 195.25
Paperback. Wie Mehrsprachigkeit in der Schulklasse kreativ genutzt werden kann, dazu liefert das Buch Anregungen und Hintergrundwissen: zur Geschichte und Sprachsituation der haufigsten auslandischen Muttersprachen sowie zu typischen Sprachproblemen mit dem Deutschen. Editor(s): Krifka, Manfred; Blaszczak, Joanna; Lemollmann, Annette; Meinunger, Andre; Stiebels, Barbara; Tracy, Rosemarie; Truckenbrodt, Hubert. BIC Classification: CBX. Dimension: 240 x 168. Weight in Grams: 839.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642343148
- ISBN
- 9783642343148
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.77
€ 50.77