Arthur Quinn

Barney R. Quinn

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Maine

English

60 Ways to Turn a Phrase

Writing is not like chemical engineering. The figures of speech should not be learned the same way as the periodic table of elements. This is because figures of speech are not about hypothetical structures in things, but about real potentialities within language and within ourselves. The "figurings" of speech reveal the apparently limitless plasticity of language itself. We are inescapably confronted with the intoxicating possibility that we can make language do for us almost anything we want. Or at least a Shakespeare can. The figures of speech help to see how he does it, and how we might.

Therefore, in the chapters presented in this volume, the quotations from Shakespeare, the Bible, and other sources are not presented to exemplify the definitions. Rather, the definitions are presented to lead to the quotations. And the quotations are there to show us how to do with language what we have not done before. They are there for imitation.


Figures of Speech

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This handy book is in excellent condition, with no signs of wear on pages, binding, or spine. Some very light scuffing on the edges of the pages. Printed in 2000.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Minnesota

Professional wordsmiths, students, and general readers of every kind will find their questions about correct writing, however complicated, clearly answered in this major new reference work. From Abide and Abide By to Lay and Lie, it illuminates common pitfalls and traps, boldly distinguishing between right and wrong and permissible alternatives. More than 1,000 major entries distill lessons from over 2,000 examples of media misusage and questionable style. Highly readable and completely authoritative, this is both an overdue antidote to laissez-faire lexicography and anything-goes grammar and a true reflection of English "as she is spoken"--and should be spoken.

The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Essential English vocabulary plus a wealth of useful facts and figures. More than 60,000 entries. Over 175 illustrations and tables. Special section on common English names.

Merriam-Webster's Desk Dictionary

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Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff

Spine, pages, and book cover are in excellent condition. 

Texas

A travel phrasebook for anyone planning a trip to a French-speaking country, this pocket-sized paperback includes all the essential words and phrases for every traveler. Even experienced speakers will benefit from the detailed travel-specific knowledge, and first-time speakers will find it easy to pick up the key words and phrases they need to get by. Easy to browse and easy to carry, it will travel with you wherever you go and give you language help at your fingertips. 

Part of the DK Eyewitness Travel Guides Phrase Book series. These pocket dictionaries give business and vacation travelers everything they need for a smooth, successful trip. Organized by subject, they help the traveler quickly find the vocabulary relevant to any situation, whether transportation, hotels, meals, shopping, post offices and banks, sports, or health care, and the phrasebook and glossary are accompanied by a pronunciation guide. At the end of each guide book is a 2,000-word mini-dictionary.

Eyewitness Travel Guides - French

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Patricia T. O'Conner

There are 3 pages that have highlights. The rest of the book is clean and crisp!

Utah

The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English (Fourth Edition)

A revised and updated edition of the iconic grammar guide for the 21st century. In this expanded and updated edition of Woe Is I, former editor at The New York Times Book Review Patricia T. O'Conner unties the knottiest grammar tangles with the same insight and humor that have charmed and enlightened readers of previous editions for years. With fresh insights into the rights, wrongs, and maybes of English grammar and usage, O'Conner offers in Woe Is I down-to-earth explanations and plain-English solutions to the language mysteries that bedevil all of us. "Books about English grammar and usage are... never content with the status quo," O'Conner writes. "That's because English is not a stay-put language. It's always changing--expanding here, shrinking there, trying on new things, casting off old ones... Time doesn't stand still and neither does language." In this fourth edition, O'Conner explains how the usage of an array of words has evolved. For example, the once-shunned "they," "them," and "their" for an unknown somebody is now acceptable. And the battle between "who" and "whom" has just about been won, O'Conner says (hint: It wasn't by "whom"). Then there's the use of "taller than me" in simple comparisons, instead of the ramrod-stiff "taller than I." "May" and "might," "use to" and "used to," abbreviations that use periods and those that don't, and the evolving definition of "unique" are all explained here by O'Conner. The result is an engaging, up-to-date and jargon-free guide to every reader's questions about grammar, style, and usage for the 21st century.

Woe Is I

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Georgia

Star Wars: Galactic Phrase Book & Travel Guide 

Christopher Kendris

Crease in front cover and some shelf wear, but book is in great condition.

Iowa

Verb forms of all the tenses are arranged on individual pages to supplement an audio-lingual approach to learning French.

501 French Verbs

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David Fontana

Illinois

A Visual Key to Symbols Their Meanings

This credible, highly readable, and vividly illustrated encyclopedic volume traces the origins and evolution of hundreds of symbols and symbol systems that have impacted human culture, history, art, and psychology since the dawn of time. From the I Ching and the Chakras to the Tarot and the Zodiac; from mythical beasts and magical numbers to heraldic shields and geometric shapes, author and psychologist David Fontana identifies symbols from around the world and draws upon his experience with dream workshops and meditation to help readers deepen their understanding and appreciation of these intriguing icons. Relevant, compelling, and visually appealing, The Secret Language of Symbols is a unique and practical reference tool, as well as an inspiring guide to the images that give meaning to our everyday lives.

The Secret Language of Symbols

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Scott Rutherford

William Matsuzaki

Massachusetts

Useful Phrases + Travel Tips + Etiquette + Manga

This travel-sized 4 x 7 inch book is a combination Japanese phrasebook, Japanese travel guide and Japanese etiquette guide.

Packed with expressions and information for every travel situation, Japanese for Travelers Phrasebook & Dictionary helps you to get around and communicate more effectively during your time in Japan. This book includes hundreds of tips and phrases for the following situations:
 * Meeting people
 * Asking directions
 * Shopping and asking about prices
 * Ordering food and drinks
 * Getting connected to the Internet
 * Taking a subway, bus or taxi
 * Asking for help
 * Daily conversations

Helpful illustrations demystify Japan's complicated rail system and provide handy information on ferry travel as well. The text offers tips on where to look for a cheap, comfortable night's sleep (you'd be surprised), to whom not to stand behind when in line at customs, as well as essential things to purchase for your Japan trip before you leave your home country and how to say you do not eat fugu (poisonous pufferfish!).

About this new, updated edition:
 * New manga illustrations
 * New phrases for technology, checking in for a flight, baggage claim and more!
 * Japanese script and Romaji have been added for all phrases
 * Suggestions for downloading useful apps to make travel around Japan easier

Japanese for Travelers Phrasebook and Dictionary

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Rebecca S. Elliott

Introduces the dos and don'ts of English grammar--ranging from punctuation to spelling and sentence construction--using humorous, down-to earth examples.

Painless Grammar

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Latin book 2 language, literature and life

Tennessee

World Languages

Latin book 2

Language literature and life Latin book 2

Henry Louis Gates

A classic of cultural criticism, "Race," Writing, and Difference provides a broad introduction to the idea of "race" as a meaningful category in the study of literature and the shaping of critical theory. This collection demonstrates the variety of critical approaches through which one may discuss the complexities of racial "otherness" in various modes of discourse. Now, fifteen years after their first publication, these essays have managed to escape the cliches associated with the race-class-gender trinity of '80s criticism, and remain a provocative overview of the complex interplay between race, writing, and difference.

"Race," Writing, and Difference

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Berlitz Guides Staff

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

North Carolina

This book contains 101 of the hottest French expressions, including fun illustrations and easy-to-read pronunciation. Inside you'll find:

 * cool ways to say hi and bye
 * love lingo: pick-up lines, pet names, pillow talk
 * language for fashionistas
 * partying French style
 * tech talk:email, IM, text messages, and more

 

Hide This French Book 101

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Steven Pinker

Pennsylvania

The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

"Pinker has a lot of ideas and sometimes controversial opinions about writing and in this entertaining and instructive book he rethinks the usage guide for the 21st century. Don't blame the internet, he says, good writing has always been hard. It requires imagination, taking pleasure in reading, overcoming the difficult we all have in imaging what it's like to not know something we do know."--Publisher information.

The Sense of Style

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Terry Breverton

Mutinies, and jokes. Here's where to learn what a "ratcastle" is, how female pirates escaped execution, and how exactly to get ready for that extreme makeover known as the "pegleg." Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

The Pirate Dictionary

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Louisiana

Chang-mo 창모

Jean Kwok

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

South Carolina

Emigrating with her mother from Hong Kong to Brooklyn, Kimberly Chang begins a secret double life as an exceptional schoolgirl during the day and sweatshop worker at night, an existence also marked by a first crush and the pressure to save her family from poverty. A first novel.

Girl in Translation

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Muriel Feelings

Colorado

Swahili Alphabet Book

A companion to the Caldecott Honor Book Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book 

Jambo Means Hello introduces children to the Swahili alphabet with helpful pronunciation keys, while presenting East African culture and lifestyles through an easy-to-understand narrative and vivid illustrations.  

A Caldecott Honor Book

* "A lyrical song of Swahili life."--School Library Journal, starred review

Jambo Means Hello

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Cover has discoloration, stains, creases, tares and shelf life wear. The inside of this book has discoloration and stains.

Michigan

Getting along in Italian 

Spme pages have folds, highlighting and notes. Book cover has bumping and wear. However, book is is totally readable and suitable for someone not too concerned with condition.

New York

Science

Aphasia and Related Neurogenic Language Disorders

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Arkansas

Reaching Helen Keller

At age twenty-one, partially-blind, lonely but spirited Annie Sullivan travels from Massachusetts to Alabama to try and teach six-year-old Helen Keller, deaf and blind since age two, self-discipline and communication skills. Includes historical notes andtimeline.

Miss Spitfire

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The Stuff of Thought

Learn in Just 12 Weeks

The ideal French language course for beginners, the 15-Minute language series will teach you how to speak a new language in just 12 weeks!

This is the perfect book for anyone who wants to learn French fast. 12 themed chapters are broken down into 15-minute daily lessons, spanning a range of practical themes, from socializing to doing business. Each lesson combines French vocabulary and grammar essentials with full-color photographs for a user-friendly, accessible language guide. 

This course in a handy-sized book comes with a free downloadable audio app for Apple and Android phones, enabling you to hear words and phrases spoken by native French speakers. The book also includes a menu guide and a two-language dictionary for quick reference when you're out and about.

Each lesson is broken down into easy-to-follow stages, including a warm-up box to reinforce what you've already learned and "words to remember" lists that you can hide with the book's front cover flap to hide, remember, and check again. 

Become a confident speaker in topics such as introductions, food and drink, travel, work, health, and much more.




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Arthur Quinn; Barney R. Quinn

Figures of Speech

Paul Lovinger

The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style

Merriam-Webster, Inc. (Created by)

Merriam-Webster's Desk Dictionary

Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff

Eyewitness Travel Guides - French

Patricia T. O'Conner

Woe Is I

Ben Burtt

Star Wars: Galactic Phrase Book & Travel Guide

Christopher Kendris

501 French Verbs

David Fontana

The Secret Language of Symbols

Scott Rutherford; William Matsuzaki

Japanese for Travelers Phrasebook and Dictionary

Rebecca S. Elliott

Painless Grammar

Scott, Sanford and Gummere

Language literature and life Latin book 2

Henry Louis Gates

"Race," Writing, and Difference

Berlitz Guides Staff

Hide This French Book 101

Steven Pinker

The Sense of Style

Terry Breverton

The Pirate Dictionary

Da-young Woo

Chang-mo 창모

Jean Kwok

Girl in Translation

Muriel Feelings

Jambo Means Hello

Mario Pei

Getting along in Italian

Leonard L. LaPointe

Aphasia and Related Neurogenic Language Disorders

Sarah Miller

Miss Spitfire

Steven Pinker

The Stuff of Thought

DK

15-Minute French

Lynne Truss

Eats, Shoots and Leaves