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| By Hook or By Crook: A Journey in Search of English
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David Crystal.
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| Publisher: Overlook. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781590200612. Daedalus Item Code: 93645 |
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| The author of The Stories of English and How Language Works, David Crystal has been described by London's Times Higher Education Supplement as a "latter-day Samuel Johnson." Here ... (Read More)
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| Dictionary of Modern Strategy and Tactics
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Michael Keane.
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| Publisher: Naval Institute. Format: no jacket.
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| ISBN: 9781591144298. Daedalus Item Code: 23694 |
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| Defining such terms as "axis of evil," "CNN effect," and "military operations other than war," this book offers a profile on modern military strategy and tactics through concise yet thorough ... (Read More)
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| A Hausa-English Dictionary
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Paul Newman.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: laminated cover.
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| ISBN: 9780300122466. Daedalus Item Code: 12768 |
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| This up-to-date volume, the first Hausa-English dictionary published in a quarter of a century, is written with language learners and practical users in mind. With over 10,000 entries, it primarily ... (Read More)
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| The Little Red Book of New York Wisdom
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Ed Koch. Gregg Stebben & Jason Katzman, eds.
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| Publisher: Skyhorse. Format: laminated cover.
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| ISBN: 9781616083724. Daedalus Item Code: 30825 |
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| "I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them," former New York mayor Ed Koch famously quipped, and here he pilots a book full of such Big Apple chutzpah, refreshingly blunt observations, and eloquent ... (Read More)
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| The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English
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Mark Abley.
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| Publisher: Houghton Mifflin. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780618571222. Daedalus Item Code: 92002 |
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| The author of Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages (a New York Times Notable Book and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year) here takes a look at the wild, ... (Read More)
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| There's a Word for It: The Explosion of the American Language Since 1900
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Sol Steinmetz.
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| Publisher: Harmony. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780375426179. Daedalus Item Code: 21093 |
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| From the turn of the 20th century to today, our language has grown by some 500,000 new words—at least, that's today's best guesstimate (1936). What accounts for this quantum leap ... (Read More)
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| The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law
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Roger K. Newman, ed.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780300113006. Daedalus Item Code: 22119 |
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| Named one of the best reference books of 2009 by the Library Journal, this single-volume encyclopedia presents succinct entries devoted to more than 700 subjects selected for their significant ... (Read More)
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