books about: dictionary-makers

books about: dictionary-makers

books:

Dictionary-makers

A-Z of Cult Films and Film-Makers
Steven Paul Davies

Batsford, 2003

A celebration of maverick directors and the offbeat, quirky, innovative, enigmatic, and outrageous movies we call cult films. From films like Young Einstein to Annie Hall to Vampyros Lesbos , and including such directors as Woody Allen, Tim Burton, and David Zucker, this compelling compendium features more than 300 of the greatest triumphs of ...

Murder Maker Level 6 (Cambridge English Readers)
Margaret Johnson

Cambridge University Press, 2003

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. After being jilted by her lover, Carla is devastated and intends to seek revenge. She joins a self-help group for people in similar situations and there she meets three women who have been betrayed or abandoned by their husbands. Carla decides to rehearse her revenge on these men and starts ...

The Rough Guide to Film 1 (Rough Guide Reference)
Rough Guides

Rough Guides, 2007

The Rough Guide to Film is a bold new guide to cinema. Arranged by director, it covers the top moguls, mavericks and studio stalwarts of every era, genre and region, in addition to lots of lesser-known names. With each film placed in the context of its director?s career, the guide reviews thousands of the greatest movies ever made, with lists ...

Murder Maker Level 6 Advanced Book with Audio CDs (3) Pack (Cambridge English Readers)
Margaret Johnson

Cambridge University Press, 2006

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. After being jilted by her lover, Carla is devastated and intends to seek revenge. She joins a self-help group for people in similar situations and there she meets three women who have been betrayed or abandoned by their husbands. Carla decides to rehearse her revenge on these men and starts ...

Old-Time Makers of Medicine, 2008

Great physicians in early Christian times -- Great Jewish physicians -- Maimonides -- Great Arabian physicians -- The medical school at Salerno -- Constantine Africanus -- Medieval women physicians -- Mondino and the medical school of Bologna -- Great surgeons of the medieval universities -- Guy de Chauliac -- Medieval dentistry: Giovanni of ...

Chasing the Sun: Dictionary-Makers and the Dictionaries They Made

Jonathon Green

Henry Holt & Co, 1996

Lexicographers as priests -- and people
On the surface, dictionary-making seems like an unlikely subject for a history intended for anyone other than specialists to read. Yet Jonathon Green succeeds in leading the reader to appreciate, first, that dictionary-makers serve an important role as arbiters of the ...