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The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate

Martin Puchner - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Tracking an underground language and the outcasts who depended on it for their survival.Centuries ago in middle Europe, a coded language appeared, scrawled in graffiti and spoken only by people who were "wiz" (in the know) . This hybrid language, dubbed Rotwelsch, facilitated...
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Collins Portuguese Concise Dictionary, 7th Edition

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. - Collins Reference
Format: Paperback

The revised and updated seventh edition of the Collins Portuguese Concise Dictionary offers comprehensive coverage of the lanuage and is the most complete guide to grammar offered in a Portuguese dictionary. This updated seventh edition provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of all the words...
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Practice Makes Perfect Intermediate English Grammar for ESL Learners

Robin Torres-Gouzerh - McGraw-Hill Education; 2 edition
Format: Print book

Master English grammar through hands-on exercises and practice, practice, practice Now with digital support! Continuing the success of the bestselling Practice Makes Perfect series, Practice Makes Perfect: Intermediate English Grammar for ESL Learners embraces all aspects of English...
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Practice Makes Perfect English Sentence Builder

Ed Swick - McGraw-Hill; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Practice Makes Perfect helps you put your English vocabulary and grammar skills together! You may have all the vocabulary down pat and every grammar point nailed--but without the skill of knowing how to put these elements together, communicating in your second language would be nearly impossible....
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Barron's Visual Dictionary: Italian: For Home, Business, and Travel

PONS Editorial Team - Barron's Educational Series; Bilingual edition
Format: Paperback

Travelers, students, and lovers of language will find this little visual dictionary to be indispensable. Small enough to slip into a purse or satchel, it includes thousands of common words identified by pictures and defined bilingually. Barron's Visual Dictionary: Italian features approximately...
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French - English Illustrated Dictionary: A Bilingual Visual Guide to Over 10,000 French Words and Phrases

DK - DK
Format: Paperback

Learn more than 10,000 of the most useful words and phrases in French with this beautifully illustrated dictionary for French-language students. . Building on the success of the English for Everyone course books and the Bilingual Visual Dictionary series, the French English Illustrated...
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The Ultimate Phrasal Verb Book: For ESL and EFL Students

Carl W Hart - Barron's Educational Series
Format: Print book

Updated to reflect questions found on the most recent ESL tests, this book presents 400 common phrasal verbs as they are used in everyday English. Phrasal verbs are verbs combined with prepositions or adverbs. Familiarity with phrasal verbs and understanding their use as nouns (breakup,...
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Arabic for Beginners: Mastering Conversational Arabic

Sarah Risha
Format: Paperback

Arabic for Beginners is an ideal introductory textbook - quickly teaching you everything you need to get started learning this beautiful language. Spoken by over 400 million people, Arabic is the world's 5th most spoken language.This book teaches language students Modern Standard Arabic...
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Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

Gretchen McCulloch - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language.Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are structured...
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Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern

Jing Tsu - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world's most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind. In Kingdom of Characters,...
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