Cracking the TOEFL iBT with Audio CD, 2018 Edition
By Review, Princeton
THE PRINCETON REVIEW GETS RESULTS. Get all the prep you need to ace the Test of English as a Foreign Language with a full-length simulated TOEFL iBT test, an MP3 CD with accompanying audio sections, thorough reviews of core topics, and proven strategies for tackling tough questions.Techniques That Actually Work.* Step-by-step strategies for every section of the exam* Lessons on how to identify the main ideas of a passage or lecture* Tips on how to effectively organize your ideasEverything You Need to Know for a High Score.* Grammar review to brush up on the basics* Expert subject reviews for the core concepts of the TOEFL* Comprehensive guidance on how to write a high-scoring essayPractice Your Way to Perfection.* 1 full-length simulated TOEFL iBT with accompanying audio sections (available both on included CD and as streaming files online) * Practice drills for the Speaking, Listening, Reading, and Writing sections* Detailed answer explanations for the practice test and drills
Princeton Review
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9781524757847
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Paperback
Let's Learn Spanish
By Aurora, Cacciapuoti,
CHRONICLE BOOKS
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9781452166261
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Thinking Inside the Box
By Adrienne, Raphel,
A delightful, erudite, and immersive exploration of the crossword puzzle and its fascinating history from a brilliant young writer
The crossword is a feature of the modern world, inspiring daily devotion and obsession from not just everyday citizens looking to pass the time but icons of American life, such as Bill Clinton, Yo-Yo Ma, and Martha Stewart. It was invented in 1913, almost by accident, when a newspaper editor at the New York World was casting around for something to fill some empty column space for that year's Christmas edition. Practically overnight, it became a roaring commercial success, and ever since then has been an essential ingredient of any newspaper worth its salt. Indeed, paradoxically, its popularity has never been greater, even as the world of media and newspapers, its natural habitat, has undergone a perilous digital transformation. But why, exactly, are its satisfactions so sweet that over the decades has it become a fixture of breakfast tables, nightstands, and commutes, and even given rise to competitive crossword tournaments? Blending first-person reporting from the world of crosswords with a delightful telling of its rich literary history, Adrienne Raphel dives into the secrets of this classic pastime. At the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, she rubs shoulders with elite solvers of the world, doing her level best to hold her own; aboard a crossword themed cruise, she picks the brains of the enthusiasts whose idea of a good time is a week on the high seas with nothing but crosswords to do; and, visiting the home and office of Will Shortz, New York Times crossword puzzle editor and NPR's official "Puzzlemaster," she goes behind the scenes to see for herself how the world's gold standard of puzzles is made. Equal parts ingenious and fun, Thinking Inside the Box is a love letter to the infinite joys and playful possibilities of language, and will be a treat for die-hard cruciverbalists and first-time solvers alike.
PENGUIN PR
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9780525522089
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The Crime Without a Name
By Pitner, Barrett Holmes
In this incisive blend of personal narrative and philosophical inquiry, journalist and activist Barrett Holmes Pitner seeks a new way to talk about racism in America. Ethnocide, first coined in 1944 by Jewish exile Raphael Lemkin (who also coined the term genocide) , describes the systemic erasure of a people's ancestral culture. Dating back to the transatlantic slave trade and reaching new resonance in a post-Trump world, Black Americans have endured this atrocity for generations. The Crime Without a Name guides readers through: In this incisive blend of personal narrative and philosophical inquiry, journalist and activist Barrett Holmes Pitner seeks a new way to talk about racism in America. Ethnocide, first coined in 1944 by Jewish exile Raphael Lemkin (who also coined the term genocide) , describes the systemic erasure of a people's ancestral culture.
Counterpoint
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9781640094840
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Hardcover
Canto hondo / Deep Song
By AlarcoÌn, Francisco X
Canto hondo / Deep Song honors the Andalusian deep lyric, or canto hondo, poetry of famed Spanish writer Federico Garca Lorca through rich and expressive poems. Francisco X. Alarcn deftly places Spanish and English side-by-side in this bilingual collection that is a modern meditation on love, self, loss, and universal truths. In this new collection, Alarcn creates poetry with roots in Gypsy songs clapped out in the distinctively short rhythms of flamenco music. Each page lifts the heart and stirs the soul by delving deep into the struggle for self and sexual identity.Canto hondo / Deep Song includes 106 poems divided into four sections that articulate struggle, otherness, and the meaning of the poetic landscape. Like Lorca, Alarcn seeks out the fault lines where the lyric and the political bleed productively and proactively into one another.
The University of Arizona Press
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9780816531288
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Print book
Merriam-Webster's Arabic-English Dictionary
By Merriam-webster,
This bilingual, bidirectional dictionary uses Arabic vocabulary (as it is spoken in the Arabic world) with English words and phrases that reflect American English. Great for language learners, teachers, travelers, and translators.
Merriam-Webster Mass Market; Bilingual edition
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9780877798606
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Print book
The Greatest Invention
By Ferrara, Silvia
Silvia Ferrara's The Greatest Invention is a code-cracking tour around the globe, sifting through our cultural and social behavior in search of the origins of our greatest invention -- writing.The L where a tabletop meets the legs, the T between double doors, the D of an armchair's oval backrest -- all around us is an alphabet in things. But how did these shapes make it onto the page, never mind form such complex structures as this sentence? In The Greatest Invention, Silvia Ferrara takes a profound look at how -- and how many times -- human beings have managed to produce the miracle of written language, taking us back in time to Mesopotamia, Crete, China, Egypt, Central America, Easter Island, and beyond.With Ferrara as our guide, we examine the enigmas of undeciphered scripts, including famous cases like the Phaistos disk and the Voynich Manuscript; we touch the knotted, colored strings of the Incan khipu; we study the turtle shells and ox scapulae that bear the earliest Chinese inscriptions; we watch in awe as Sequoyah invents a script all on his own; and we venture to the cutting edge of decipherment, where high-powered laser scanners bring tears to an engineer's eye.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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9780374601621
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Hardcover
The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary
By Nelson, Andrew N.
"Unexcelled as a dictionary of basic Sino-Japanese characters. Extremely easy to use." - Japan Society This is the utmost classic and well regarded standard Japanese Kanji Dictionary available today.The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary is a complete revision of The Original Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary, published by Charles E. Tuttle Company in 1962. Long the foremost Japanese-English character dictionary, adopted by Japanese-study programs around the world and used at all levels of Japanese language study, the Nelson, as it is familiarly called, has been enhanced in this edition with several fundamental changes. The Universal Radical Index, an significant advance on the traditional character indices, has been created as a handy appendix that enables users to search for any main-entry character's reference number in Morohashi's Dai Kanwa Jiten.
Tuttle Publishing
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9780804820363
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Hardcover
A Myriad of Tongues
By Everett, Caleb
A sweeping exploration of the relationship between the language we speak and our perception of such fundamentals of experience as time, space, color, and smells.. We tend to assume that all languages categorize ideas and objects similarly, reflecting our common human experience. But this isn't the case. When we look closely, we find that many basic concepts are not universal, and that speakers of different languages literally see and think about the world differently.. Caleb Everett takes readers around the globe, explaining what linguistic diversity tells us about human culture, overturning conventional wisdom along the way. For instance, though it may seem that everybody refers to time in spatial terms -- in English, for example, we speak of time "passing us by" -- speakers of the Amazonian language Tupi Kawahib never do.
Harvard University Press
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9780674976580
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Hardcover
The Dictionary People
By Ogilvie, Sarah
A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, word by word. The Oxford English Dictionary is one of mankind's greatest achievements, and yet, curiously, its creators are almost never considered. Who were the people behind this unprecedented book? As Sarah Ogilvie reveals, they include three murderers, a collector of pornography, the daughter of Karl Marx, a president of Yale, a radical suffragette, a vicar who was later found dead in the cupboard of his chapel, an inventor of the first American subway, a female anti-slavery activist in Philadelphia . . . and thousands of others. . Of deep transgenerational and broad appeal, a thrilling literary detective story that, for the first time, unravels the mystery of the endlessly fascinating contributors the world over who, for over seventy years, helped to codify the way we read and write and speak.
Cracking the TOEFL iBT with Audio CD, 2018 Edition
By Review, Princeton
THE PRINCETON REVIEW GETS RESULTS. Get all the prep you need to ace the Test of English as a Foreign Language with a full-length simulated TOEFL iBT test, an MP3 CD with accompanying audio sections, thorough reviews of core topics, and proven strategies for tackling tough questions.Techniques That Actually Work.* Step-by-step strategies for every section of the exam* Lessons on how to identify the main ideas of a passage or lecture* Tips on how to effectively organize your ideasEverything You Need to Know for a High Score.* Grammar review to brush up on the basics* Expert subject reviews for the core concepts of the TOEFL* Comprehensive guidance on how to write a high-scoring essay Practice Your Way to Perfection.* 1 full-length simulated TOEFL iBT with accompanying audio sections (available both on included CD and as streaming files online) * Practice drills for the Speaking, Listening, Reading, and Writing sections* Detailed answer explanations for the practice test and drills
Let's Learn Spanish
By Aurora, Cacciapuoti,
Thinking Inside the Box
By Adrienne, Raphel,
A delightful, erudite, and immersive exploration of the crossword puzzle and its fascinating history from a brilliant young writer
The crossword is a feature of the modern world, inspiring daily devotion and obsession from not just everyday citizens looking to pass the time but icons of American life, such as Bill Clinton, Yo-Yo Ma, and Martha Stewart. It was invented in 1913, almost by accident, when a newspaper editor at the New York World was casting around for something to fill some empty column space for that year's Christmas edition. Practically overnight, it became a roaring commercial success, and ever since then has been an essential ingredient of any newspaper worth its salt. Indeed, paradoxically, its popularity has never been greater, even as the world of media and newspapers, its natural habitat, has undergone a perilous digital transformation. But why, exactly, are its satisfactions so sweet that over the decades has it become a fixture of breakfast tables, nightstands, and commutes, and even given rise to competitive crossword tournaments? Blending first-person reporting from the world of crosswords with a delightful telling of its rich literary history, Adrienne Raphel dives into the secrets of this classic pastime. At the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, she rubs shoulders with elite solvers of the world, doing her level best to hold her own; aboard a crossword themed cruise, she picks the brains of the enthusiasts whose idea of a good time is a week on the high seas with nothing but crosswords to do; and, visiting the home and office of Will Shortz, New York Times crossword puzzle editor and NPR's official "Puzzlemaster," she goes behind the scenes to see for herself how the world's gold standard of puzzles is made. Equal parts ingenious and fun, Thinking Inside the Box is a love letter to the infinite joys and playful possibilities of language, and will be a treat for die-hard cruciverbalists and first-time solvers alike.The Crime Without a Name
By Pitner, Barrett Holmes
In this incisive blend of personal narrative and philosophical inquiry, journalist and activist Barrett Holmes Pitner seeks a new way to talk about racism in America. Ethnocide, first coined in 1944 by Jewish exile Raphael Lemkin (who also coined the term genocide) , describes the systemic erasure of a people's ancestral culture. Dating back to the transatlantic slave trade and reaching new resonance in a post-Trump world, Black Americans have endured this atrocity for generations. The Crime Without a Name guides readers through: In this incisive blend of personal narrative and philosophical inquiry, journalist and activist Barrett Holmes Pitner seeks a new way to talk about racism in America. Ethnocide, first coined in 1944 by Jewish exile Raphael Lemkin (who also coined the term genocide) , describes the systemic erasure of a people's ancestral culture.
Canto hondo / Deep Song
By AlarcoÌn, Francisco X
Canto hondo / Deep Song honors the Andalusian deep lyric, or canto hondo, poetry of famed Spanish writer Federico Garca Lorca through rich and expressive poems. Francisco X. Alarcn deftly places Spanish and English side-by-side in this bilingual collection that is a modern meditation on love, self, loss, and universal truths. In this new collection, Alarcn creates poetry with roots in Gypsy songs clapped out in the distinctively short rhythms of flamenco music. Each page lifts the heart and stirs the soul by delving deep into the struggle for self and sexual identity.Canto hondo / Deep Song includes 106 poems divided into four sections that articulate struggle, otherness, and the meaning of the poetic landscape. Like Lorca, Alarcn seeks out the fault lines where the lyric and the political bleed productively and proactively into one another.
Merriam-Webster's Arabic-English Dictionary
By Merriam-webster,
This bilingual, bidirectional dictionary uses Arabic vocabulary (as it is spoken in the Arabic world) with English words and phrases that reflect American English. Great for language learners, teachers, travelers, and translators.
The Greatest Invention
By Ferrara, Silvia
Silvia Ferrara's The Greatest Invention is a code-cracking tour around the globe, sifting through our cultural and social behavior in search of the origins of our greatest invention -- writing.The L where a tabletop meets the legs, the T between double doors, the D of an armchair's oval backrest -- all around us is an alphabet in things. But how did these shapes make it onto the page, never mind form such complex structures as this sentence? In The Greatest Invention, Silvia Ferrara takes a profound look at how -- and how many times -- human beings have managed to produce the miracle of written language, taking us back in time to Mesopotamia, Crete, China, Egypt, Central America, Easter Island, and beyond.With Ferrara as our guide, we examine the enigmas of undeciphered scripts, including famous cases like the Phaistos disk and the Voynich Manuscript; we touch the knotted, colored strings of the Incan khipu; we study the turtle shells and ox scapulae that bear the earliest Chinese inscriptions; we watch in awe as Sequoyah invents a script all on his own; and we venture to the cutting edge of decipherment, where high-powered laser scanners bring tears to an engineer's eye.
The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary
By Nelson, Andrew N.
"Unexcelled as a dictionary of basic Sino-Japanese characters. Extremely easy to use." - Japan Society This is the utmost classic and well regarded standard Japanese Kanji Dictionary available today.The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary is a complete revision of The Original Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary, published by Charles E. Tuttle Company in 1962. Long the foremost Japanese-English character dictionary, adopted by Japanese-study programs around the world and used at all levels of Japanese language study, the Nelson, as it is familiarly called, has been enhanced in this edition with several fundamental changes. The Universal Radical Index, an significant advance on the traditional character indices, has been created as a handy appendix that enables users to search for any main-entry character's reference number in Morohashi's Dai Kanwa Jiten.
A Myriad of Tongues
By Everett, Caleb
A sweeping exploration of the relationship between the language we speak and our perception of such fundamentals of experience as time, space, color, and smells.. We tend to assume that all languages categorize ideas and objects similarly, reflecting our common human experience. But this isn't the case. When we look closely, we find that many basic concepts are not universal, and that speakers of different languages literally see and think about the world differently.. Caleb Everett takes readers around the globe, explaining what linguistic diversity tells us about human culture, overturning conventional wisdom along the way. For instance, though it may seem that everybody refers to time in spatial terms -- in English, for example, we speak of time "passing us by" -- speakers of the Amazonian language Tupi Kawahib never do.
The Dictionary People
By Ogilvie, Sarah
A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, word by word. The Oxford English Dictionary is one of mankind's greatest achievements, and yet, curiously, its creators are almost never considered. Who were the people behind this unprecedented book? As Sarah Ogilvie reveals, they include three murderers, a collector of pornography, the daughter of Karl Marx, a president of Yale, a radical suffragette, a vicar who was later found dead in the cupboard of his chapel, an inventor of the first American subway, a female anti-slavery activist in Philadelphia . . . and thousands of others. . Of deep transgenerational and broad appeal, a thrilling literary detective story that, for the first time, unravels the mystery of the endlessly fascinating contributors the world over who, for over seventy years, helped to codify the way we read and write and speak.