Dong-A's Junior English-Korean Dictionary
Korea: Dong-A Publishing & Printing Co., 1993. First Edition, Later Printing. Softcover. Rare. More
Language/Linguistics
Balderdash & Piffle: One Sandwich Short of a Dog's Dinner
London: BBC Books, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. More
Japanese For Busy People I (Kana Version)
Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd, 1995. Second Printing. Softcover. More
Modern Chinese: Beginner's Course, Volumes 1 & 2
Beijing: Beijing Language and Culture University Press / Sinolingua, 2001. Second Edition. Softcover. More
Oddities and Curiosities of Words and Literature (Gleanings for the Curious)
New York: Dover Publications, Inc, 1961. Menten Inc. (cover design). Reprint. Revised with a new introduction. Softcover. This 1961 edition is a verbatim reprint of the first 310 pages and chapters of Refractory and Conformity of Sense to Sound of Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-Fields of Literature, third..... More
Usborne Round the World in Italian with Easy Pronunciation Guide
London: Usborne Publishing, 1980. Paperback (Outsized). More
Sky Mr Allgood! : Parlons francais avec Monsieur Toubon
Editions Mille et une Nuit, 1994. Clab. Paperback. More
The Gift of the Gab: How Eloquence Work
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. First Printing. Paperback. A many-faceted exploration of spoken eloquence: how it works, how it has evolved, and how to tap its remarkable power We all know eloquence when we hear it. But what exactly is it? And how might we gain more of..... More
Contemporary Japanese Workbook: An Introductory Workbook for Students of Japanese Volume 2 (with Audio CD)
Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2007. First Edition. Paperback (Outsized). Contemporary Japanese Workbook, Volume 2 was created as a supplementary material for Contemporary Japanese: An Introductory Textbook for College Students. A workbook which is best used for reviewing and reinforcing the concepts and learning materials introduced in the textbook, it is also..... More
Beginner's Translation Handbook
Hong Kong: The Commercial Press, Ltd, 1973. Reprint. Softcover. More
Teach Yourself Turkish
London: The English Universities Press Ltd, 1959. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. Teach Yourself Books series. More
Devious Derivations: Popular Misconceptions - and More Than 1,000 True Origins of Common Words and Phrases
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1994. First Edition (stated). First Printing. Hardcover. More
Essential Yugoslav for Travellers: Useful Phrases and Words in Serbo-Croat
London: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1965. Third Edition. Hardcover. More
Language in Hong Kong at Century's End
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1998. First Edition, Second Printing. Softcover. This volume offers a view of the linguistic situation in Hong Kong in the final years of the twentieth century, as it enters the post-colonial era. In the chapters of this book, scholars from Hong Kong and around..... More
Say It In Russian
New York: Dover Publications, Inc, 1982. Revised and enlarged edition. Softcover. More
Let's Parler Franglais Again!
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980. Merrily Harpur. Paperback. More
A Translation of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching and Wang Pi's commentary
Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1992. First edition, reprint. Softcover. Michigan Monogram in Chinese Studies, No. 30. This translation was begun in 1968 as research in an area of personal interest of the author. As a Chinese with an undergraduate major in Western Literature and..... More
Language and Social Context
Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1972. Omnific/Martin Causer (cover design). Fourth Printing. Paperback. Part of the Penguin Modern Sociology Readings series. A collection of essays that concentrate on three sociological areas where sociolinguistics has a particular contribution to make: the analysis of face-to-face interaction, the relationship between social and..... More
Woman and Chinese Modernity
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991. First Edition. Softcover. Volume 75 in the Theory and History of Literature series Examines the relationship of "woman" to issues of non-Western culture: ethnic spectatorship, popular literature, the construction of literary history, and the revolutionary production and emotional reception of national literature. More
The Bride of Anguished English: A Bonus of Bloopers, Blunders, Botches, and Boo-Boos
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. Jiom McLean. First Edition. Hardcover. More
The Literary Speech Act
Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1983. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. In this bold yet subtle meditation on promising, Shosana Felman contemplates the seductive promise of speech and the seductive promise of love. Translated by Catherine Porter. More
The Usborne First Thousand Words in Spanish
London: Usborne Publishing, 1989. Reprint. Paperback (Outsized). More
The Wall (Heinemann Guided Readers: Beginner Level)
Oxford: Heinemann English Language Teaching, 1993. First Edition. Paperback. This is a Beginner Level story in a series of ELT readers comprising a wide range of titles - some original and some simplified - from modern and classic novels, and designed to appeal to all age-groups, tastes and cultures. The..... More
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human nature
New York: Viking, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Bestselling author Steven Pinker possesses that rare combination of scientific aptitude and verbal eloquence that enables him to provide lucid explanations of deep and powerful ideas. His previous books - including the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Blank Slate - have catapulted him into..... More
Hindi/Urdu Phrasebook
Hawthorn: Lonely Planet Publications, 1988. First Edition. Paperback. A useful guide for travellers in north India or Pakistan with both Hindi and Urdu vocabularies. More
