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First Spanish Reader: A Beginner's Dual-Language Book (Beginners' Guides)
Dover Publications, 1988
Entertaining as well as instructional
This "First Spanish Reader" is well structured and contains stories that are lively and entertaining in their own right for the student who wants to move up from beginner toward intermediate Spanish. The text starts out with indicative and slowly introduces preterite ...
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Merriam-Webster's Spanish-English Dictionary
Merriam-Webster, 2002
5 Star Espanol
Dictionary is helpful. It lets you know if words are masculine/feminine in the Spanish language and easy to read.
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English-Russian, Russian-English Dictionary
Kenneth Katzner
Wiley, 1994
THE standard in foreign language dictionaries
Ideal for translating everything from "The Tale of Igor's Campaign" to contemporary colloquial Russian.
Unlike other dictionaries, Katzner's identifies literary obsolete, colloquial, and even vulgar words thus sparing the student of potentially embarrassing ...
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The Myth of Multitasking: How "Doing It All" Gets Nothing Done
Dave Crenshaw
Jossey-Bass, 2008
It works!!!
This is a fabulous book that everyone should read at least once. It takes an hour or two at the most.
It's written in story form (like "E-Myth" or "The One Minute Manager"). "Phil" is a business coach who is helping "Helen" regain control and organization in ...
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Spanish for Dummies
Susana Wald
For Dummies, 1999
Spanish for Dummies
I purchased this book because my four year old grandson is taking Spanish in his pre-nursery school class and while I had basic Spanish in high school (many many years ago) and can say a "few things to get by" I wanted reference material I could refer to in order to ...
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An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned but Probably Didn't
Judy Jones, William Wilson
Ballantine Books, 2006
A great gift item
I purchased one for my husband who loved it. It is a general overview of many topics and is as much fun as it is educational.
I will be purchasing 3 more as Christmas gifts for those on my list who "have everything."
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Larousse Concise Dictionary: French-English/English-French (BookEdition 001)
Larousse, 2004
You can't beat LAROUSSE
Now I have papa bear, momma bear, and baby bear. The three sizes of Larousse dictionaries. They are all superb. You can't lug the large Larousse around with you everywhere and the baby larousse won't cut it at times on a difficult translation. So, this is right in the ...
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Arabic-English Dictionary: The Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic
Hans Wehr
Spoken Language Services, 1993
A Great Arabic language learning tool to help you stay on course, as well as translation instrument
This dictionary is monumental in several ways. first, it is invaluable in that it seeks to provide the learner with the means to easily see how more complex words are built from the basic consonantal roots. second, the number and quality of the entries is excellent ...
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The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
A. J. Jacobs
Simon & Schuster, 2005
Thoroughly enjoyable
One of my favorite books this year. I fully expected to enjoy it after reading the entertaining account of the author's latest "humble quest" to follow the bible as literally as possible (also highly recommended!). And I was right - I loved the book, and when I ...
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Webster's New World Italian Dictionary: Italian/English, English/Italian
Webster's New World, 1992
Un bel salto nella lingua!
Bellissima! Non potevo lasciarlo senza leggere ogni pagine! Sono ancora desideroso per un altro leggiamento.
Dopo avere comprato questo libro, ho fatto un viaggio in Italia e li sono rimaste tre anni! Incredibile! Usando il Webster's New World Italian Dictionary ...
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Everything You Pretend to Know And Are Afraid Someone Will Ask
Lynette Padwa
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1996
Now you really know what you're talking about!
When I picked up this little tome;I didn't really expect it to amount to much. As usual,I read the customer reviews,and was really left wondering.Quite a spread of opinions!
After reading,I have to say that I fully agree with those who gave it top marks.
I didn't ...
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Arabic Practical Dictionary: Arabic-English English-Arabic (Hippocrene Practical Dictionaries)
Nicholas Awde, K. Smith
Hippocrene Books, 2004
Very useful and practical
A most helpful dictionary for both the expert and the beginners.
It is extensive and includes around 17,900 entries, with original transliterations
phonetics and dialects sounds.
It is practical, and easy to follow.
Most suitable for people visiting the Arab ...
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Rick Steves' French Phrase Book and Dictionary
Rick Steves
Avalon Travel Publishing, 2003
A Little Book That Helped A Lot!!
Great book! Highly recommended. Easy to use, easy to find the topics you need when you need them. The phonetic words are easy to understand, and are spot on with the real corresponding word (with some other phrase books I have tried, the phonetics were not quite ...
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The Pirate Primer: Mastering the Language of Swashbucklers & Rogues
George Choundas
Writers Digest Books, 2007
Any writer involved in pirate representation needs thorough knowledge of the lingo
THE PIRATE PRIMER: MASTERING THE LANGUAGE OF SWASHBUCKLERS AND ROGUES represents the only general reference to examine the language of pirates, offering up a pirate vocabulary complete with pronunciation and grammar. Three centuries of distinctive terms and usages from ...
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Creating Characters with Personality: For Film, TV, Animation, Video Games, and Graphic Novels
Tom Bancroft
Watson-Guptill, 2006
Now I Know Why
I've read several how to draw books. So far the the most instruction I've ever gotten was "do this, then do that." The books never explained why. This book explains why. The reason why you start out with simple shapes was probably the biggest "Oh yeah! OK!" moment for ...
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