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By Hook or by Crook
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David Crystal |
David Crystal has been described by The Times Higher Education Supplement as a "latter-day Samuel Johnson." Now in a delightfully decisive journey through the groves and thickets of the English langu… |
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Chromosomes of the California Liliaceae
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Marion Stilwell Cave |
58 p. 26 cm |
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Mapping human history
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Steve Olson |
Mapping Human History is a comprehensive guide to the evolution of humans. The book is carefully chaptered into specific sections which focus on explaining both the geographical causes of human evolu… |
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Darwin's children
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Greg Bear,Scott Brick,Jean-Daniel Brèque |
Greg Bear's Nebula Award--winning novel, Darwin's Radio, painted a chilling portrait of humankind on the threshold of a radical leap in evolution--one that would alter our species forever. Now Bear c… |
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Second dialect acquisition
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Jeff Siegel |
"What is involved in acquiring a new dialect - for example, when Canadian English speakers move to England or African American English-speaking children go to school? How is such learning different f… |
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Social and linguistic change in French
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Nigel Armstrong |
"Looking at language variation in French using linguistic data that has emerged in recent years from France, Belgium and Switzerland, and comparing it to other European countries, this comparative st… |
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Linguistics, theoretical and applied
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Ruqaiya Hasan |
Contributed articles. |
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Standard language in the Slavic world
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Volkmar Lehmann,Peter M. Hill |
161 p. : 21 cm |
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Dialectology
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J. K. Chambers |
Dialectology is the study of language variation. Traditionally, this has largely been the province of dialect geographers, who concentrated on the speech of the linguistically conservative rural popu… |
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Estuary English
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Altendorf, Ulrike. |
Sample chapter available at: <http://www.ph-karlsruhe.de/cms/index.php?id=1324#c2137> |
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Benny
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Barbara Cohen |
A German refugee's unhappiness affords Benny Rifkind a chance to show his family that he has concerns other than baseball and the 1939 World's Fair. |
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The donkey's story
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Barbara Cohen |
A somewhat humorous retelling, featuring Balaam's donkey, of the Bible story in which Balak, king of Moab, calls upon Balaam, the prophet, to curse the Israelites, but he blesses them instead. |
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