Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
By Hook or by Crook By Hook or by Crook 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… OL114326W
Chromosomes of the California Liliaceae Chromosomes of the California Liliaceae Marion Stilwell Cave 58 p. 26 cm OL1175774W
Mapping human history Mapping human history 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… OL15831919W
Darwin's children Darwin's children 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… OL16497W
Second dialect acquisition Second dialect acquisition 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… OL16981404W
Social and linguistic change in French Social and linguistic change in French 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… OL17775032W
Linguistics, theoretical and applied Linguistics, theoretical and applied Ruqaiya Hasan Contributed articles. OL18274386W
Standard language in the Slavic world Standard language in the Slavic world Volkmar Lehmann,Peter M. Hill 161 p. : 21 cm OL19198338W
Dialectology Dialectology 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… OL1921818W
Estuary English Estuary English Altendorf, Ulrike. Sample chapter available at: <http://www.ph-karlsruhe.de/cms/index.php?id=1324#c2137> OL6083707W
Benny Benny 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. OL645997W
The donkey's story The donkey's story 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. OL646008W