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Arabic Poems

Marle Hammond · Everyman's Library; Bilingual edition
Format: Hardcover

A bilingual anthology of poems from the sixth century to the present, Arabic Poems is a one-of-a-kind showcase of a fascinating literary tradition. The Arabic poetic legacy is as vast as it is deep, spanning a period of fifteen centuries in regions from Morocco to Iraq. Themes of love,...
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Practice Makes Perfect Advanced English Grammar for ESL Learners

Mark Lester · McGraw-Hill; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Get control over those difficult areas of English grammar Practice Makes Perfect: Advanced English Grammar for ESL Learners is focused on those grammar topics that might pose special problems for you, especially if English is not your first language. Because it targets advanced topics,...
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Japanese Kanji & Kana: A Complete Guide to the Japanese Writing System

Wolfgang Hadamitzky · Tuttle Publishing; Revised, Revised edition
Format: Paperback

This comprehensive book helps you learn the 92 basic Kana characters and 2,136 standard Kanji characters.Looking to learn Japanese and improve your Japanese language abilities? Complete, compact and authoritative—this book provides all the information needed to learn kanji and kana,...
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Latin Demystified: A Self Teaching Guide

Richard Prior · McGraw-Hill; 1 edition
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

Become a bona fide master of LatinEnglish vocabulary owes a great debt to Latin, ergo you already know many Latin words and phrases. Now you can move beyond the status quo and learn this classical language. With Latin Demystified, nihil obstat (nothing stands in the way).Beginning with...
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Breathturn into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry: A Bilingual Edition

Pierre Joris · Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Bilingual edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Paul Celan, one of the greatest German-language poets of the twentieth century, created an oeuvre that stands as testimony to the horrors of his times and as an attempt to chart a topography for a new, uncontaminated language and world. Breathturn into Timestead The Collected Later Poetry...
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Instructions Within

Ashraf Fayadh · Operating System
Pages: 310
Format: Print book

Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. Art. Translated from the Arabic by Mona Kareem, with Mona Zaki, and Jonathan Wright; and with Ammiel Alcalay, Pierre Joris and Lynne DeSilva-Johnson assisting/editing. The Operating System is honored to publish the first Arabic-English full translation of Ashraf...
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English Made Easy Volume Two: A New ESL Approach: Learning English Through Pictures

Jonathan Crichton · Tuttle Publishing
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

This is a fun and user-friendly way to learn EnglishEnglish Made Easy is a breakthrough in English language learning - imaginatively exploiting how pictures and text can work together to create understanding and help learners learn more productively. It gives beginner English learners easy...
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Berlitz Hebrew Phrase Book & Dictionary

Berlitz Publishing · Berlitz Publishing; Third Edition edition
Format: Paperback

This brand new Hebrew edition features a fresh, crisp design with vivid color photography, eye-catching color-coding, and user-generated content, making it the phrase book created by the people for the people! Sections such as “Food and Drink” and “In an Emergency”...
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Bilingual By Choice: Raising Kids in Two

Virginie Raguenaud · Nicholas Brealey
Pages: 201
Format: Paperback

More and more people-hundreds of millions around the world-are living in bilingual homes. In the U.S. alone, more than 54 million people over the age of 5 speak a language other than English at home. Yet once children enter school, the pull toward one language becomes stronger and maintaining...
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Malanga Chasing Vallejo: Selected Poems: César Vallejo: New Translations and Notes: Gerard Malanga

César Vallejo · Three Rooms Press; Bilingual edition edition
Format: Book

In the forceful, staggering poetry of César Vallejo, poet and photographer Gerard Malanga discovered a kindred spirit. Driven by a deep sense of spiritual kinship and with the encouragement of Vallejo's widow, Malanga's translations reveal a profound perspective on Vallejo's...
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