Based on Bernard Comrie's much praised The World's Major Languages, this is a key guide to an important language family. The areas covered include Chi..
Based on Bernard Comrie's much praised The World's Major Languages, this is a key guide to an important language family. The areas covered include Chi..
This classic dictionary explains the origins of over 16,000 names in current English use. It will be a source of fascination to everyone with an inter..
Based on Comrie's much-praised The World's Major Languages, this is the first comprehensive guide in paperback to descibe in detail the language famil..
Based on the much-praised The World's Major Languages, this is the first comprehensive guide in paperback to describe the development, grammar sound a..
This work is full of things better left unsaid: hackneyed phrases, idioms battered into senselessness, infuriating Gallicisms, once-familiar quotation..
An abridged version of Eric Partridge's Dictionary of Catch Phrases, concentrating on those phrases in current use in the English-speaking world. The ..
Norwegian: An Essential Grammar is a reference guide to the most important aspects of contemporary Norwegian as used by native speakers. This is the i..
Written by a team of international specialists, this unique reference work provides an up-to-date and comprehensive survey of twelve Germanic language..
The German Technical Dictionary has established itself as the definitive resource for anyone who needs to translate technical documents between German..