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After more than a decade of independence from the Soviet Union,
this Baltic country of 4 million inhabitants is hoping to join both
the European Union and NATO in the near future. A compact grammar
section and a pronunciation guide are included, along with a
phrasebook designed for travelers, businesspersons, students, and
diplomats. The bilingual dictionary designates part of speech and
case declension, and gives crucial everyday vocabulary.
This edition of Collins Mini English Dictionary, is fully
up-to-date, including the most popular new words to enter the
English language. The ideal portable companion for all. The handy
little dictionary gives you practical, applied knowledge in your
pocket. It contains clear definitions for all the words you need on
a daily basis and provides tips on spelling, and help with
difficult pronunciations. The clear layout makes the content easily
accessible and suitable for immediate use. Includes a brand new
supplement tackling problems of style and etiquette in everything
from letters to emails to social media sites.
A bilingual dictionary and phrasebook of Bengali, an official
language of Bangladesh and India. It contains the essential
language that a traveller to Bangladesh or West Bengal needs to
communicate. It provides many key words, covering topics including
introductions, travel, accommodations, and sight-seeing.
Berlitz Phrasebook and Dictionary French: a convenient,
contemporary travel companion from Berlitz's trusted language
experts * With its emphasis on conversational usage, and up-to-date
language on social media, leisure, business - and more - this is
the only phrase book you'll need when exploring France * Includes
3000-word bilingual dictionary * Visually appealing colour-coding
system means you can find what you want, when you want, and fast *
The simplified Berlitz pronunciation system will ensure you're
clearly understood * Stunning colour photography enhances the
expert content, and makes this series the most visually attractive
phrase book on the market About Berlitz: Berlitz draws on years of
travel and language expertise to bring you a wide range of travel
and language products, including travel guides, maps, phrase books,
language-learning courses, dictionaries and kids' language
products.
Hausa is the Chadic (branch of the Afroasiatic language family)
language of the Hausa people, one of the largest ethnic groups in
Central Africa. Hausa is spoken as a first language by over 27
million people and as a second language by nearly 20 million more.
Commonly spoken throughout southern Niger and northern Nigeria,
Hausa has developed as a lingua franca throughout much of West
Africa for purposes of trade. This unique, two-part resource
provides travelers to West Africa with the tools they need for
daily interaction. The bilingual dictionary has a concise
vocabulary for everyday use, and the phrasebook allows instant
communication on a variety of topics. Ideal for businesspeople,
travelers, students, and aid workers, this guide includes 4,000
dictionary entries; phonetics that are intuitive for English
speakers; essential phrases on topics such as transportation,
dining out, and business; and concise grammar and pronunciation
sections.
Use this single source to uncover the origin and development of the
thesaurus The Thesaurus: Review, Renaissance, and Revision examines
the historical development of the thesaurus and the standards
employed for thesaurus construction. This book provides both the
history of thesauri and tutorials on usage to increase your
understanding of thesaurus creation, use, and evaluation. This
reference tool offers essential information on thesauri in the
digital environment, including Web sites, databases, and software.
For 50 years, the thesaurus has been a core reference book; The
Thesaurus: Review, Renaissance, and Revision celebrates this
history and speculates on the future of vocabulary-switching tools.
This book will familiarize you with contemporary and emerging
functions of thesauri, including international and multilingual
developments. The Thesaurus: Review, Renaissance, and Revision
provides information and library professionals including indexers,
abstractors, subject catalogers, classifiers, and reference
librarians a historical overview of the thesaurus and its past as
well as recent developments. This book also gives patrons, readers,
and researchers more effective techniques in vocabulary management
and offers insight on how thesauri are devised and compiled. This
book addresses: changing definitions, characteristics, functions,
and applications of thesauri the value of standards, evaluation,
use and review of software, and role and work of consultants during
thesauri construction and maintenance multicultural issues that
affect thesauri creation, such as mapping and interoperability
education and training The Thesaurus: Review, Renaissance, and
Revision also provides you with extensive bibliographies related to
issues and problems in thesaurus construction and design, such as
developing standards in support of electronic thesauri.
The home of trusted full-colour visual dictionaries for everyday
use. A photographic guide to the key words and phrases in Chinese.
This attractive pocket-sized book is a perfect travel companion and
provides a practical guide to China and Chinese language and
culture. Everyday words are arranged in themes with carefully
selected up-to-date images to illustrate key words and phrases, and
an English and Chinese index help you to find words quickly as you
learn. 3,000 essential words and phrases for modern life in China
are at your fingertips with topics covering food and drink, home
life, work and school, shopping, sport and leisure, transport,
technology, and the environment. Great care has been given to
represent modern Chinese culture and enhance your experience of
China and its people, including customs, celebrations, and
festivals. Plus, download your free audio to hear native speakers
pronounce the word for each image and get your pronunciation pitch
perfect, available from collinsdictionary.com/resources#visual
Collins and Quizlet have teamed up to bring you expert-created
digital learning resources like pre-made flashcards, quizzes and
games to help you master the vocabulary shown in Collins Mandarin
Chinese Visual Dictionary. Quickly learn the vocabulary with one of
Quizlet's seven different study modes. Visit
quizlet.info/collins-mandarin to see why 50 million students and
teachers use Quizlet each month.
Now in its 13th printing, this bestselling practical dictionary is
revised with larger type and contains: Over 35,000 word-to-word
entries for students and travelers, a phonetic guide to
pronunciation in both languages, a handy glossary of menu terms and
bilingual lists of irregular verbs, abbreviations.
Zulu is spoken by approximately 16 million people worldwide. Over
10 million of these speakers are in South Africa, where the Zulu
are the largest cultural subgroup in the country. This unique,
two-part resource provides travelers to South Africa with the tools
they need for daily interaction. The bilingual dictionary has a
concise vocabulary for everyday use, and the phrasebook allows
instant communication on a variety of topics. Ideal for
businesspeople, travelers, students, and aid workers, this guide
includes 4,000 dictionary entries; phonetics that are intuitive for
English speakers; essential phrases on topics such as
transportation, dining out, and business; and concise grammar and
pronunciation sections.
There are about 88 million native Punjabi speakers world-wide,
making it the 10th most spoken language in the world. Punjabi is
also the official language for Sikh religious ceremonies. This
dictionary and phrasebook features the Punjabi language as spoken
in India, using the Gurmukhi script.
The Unitarian Universalist religious movement is small in numbers,
but has a long history as a radical, reforming movement within
Protestantism, coupled with a larger, liberal social witness to the
world. Both Unitarianism and Universalism began as Christian
denominations, but rejected doctrinal constraints to embrace a
human views of Jesus, an openness to continuing revelation, and a
loving God who, they believed, wanted to be reconciled with all
people. In the twentieth century Unitarian Universalism developed
beyond Christianity and theism to embrace other religious
perspectives, becoming more inclusive and multi-faith. Efforts to
achieve justice and equality included civil rights for
African-Americans, women and gays and lesbians, along with strident
support for abortion rights, environmentalism and peace. Today the
Unitarian Universalist movement is a world-wide faith that has
expanded into several new countries in Africa, continued to develop
in the Philippines and India, while maintaining historic footholds
in Romania, Hungary, England, and especially the United States and
Canada. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Unitarian
Universalism contains a chronology, an introduction, an appendix,
and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400
cross-referenced entries on people, places, events and trends in
the history of the Unitarian and Universalist faiths including
American leaders and luminaries, important writers and social
reformers. This book is an excellent resource for students,
researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Unitarian
Universalism.
Tuttle's Mini Burmese Dictionary is the most up-to-date Burmese
dictionary available and is ideal for any application where a
handy, portable dictionary is required. This powerful pocket
reference contains the following special features: Bidirectional
Burmese-English and English-Burmese sections. 4,000 to 5,000
entries in each direction. Headwords printed in bold for quick and
easy reference. Romanized forms and Burmese script for all Burmese
words. A guide to pronunciation helps the user to pronounce Burmese
words correctly. Latest computer, Internet, mobile phone and social
media vocabulary. The ideal dictionary for business, study and
travel. May be used for all U.S. ESL standardized testing.
The second edition of the Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus is the
perfect language resource, combining a dictionary and thesaurus
text. This means that you only have to reach for one book when you
need language help. In this edition the dictionary and thesaurus
texts are integrated so that the thesaurus entry for a word follows
the dictionary entry directly. This is based on market research
into user preferences making the dictionary accessible, clear, and
easy to use. New to this edition is a centre section for crossword
enthusiasts and puzzle solvers, containing hundreds of thematic
word lists. With 300,000 definitions, synonyms, and antonyms, this
really is the ultimate tool for anyone who loves language-based
quizzes and puzzles. The Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus also
features usage notes to help you deal with tricky vocabulary and
improve your writing style. The ultimate reference tool for your
shelf - but not designed to stay there!
This dictionary and phrasebook includes a dictionary of over 4,000
entries, plus an introduction to basic grammar and helpful
phrasebook chapters covering subjects such as etiquette, the
office, government, and food and drink. It is written entirely in
the Roman alphabet. This unique language guides for getting around
and communicating easily in everyday situations will be equally
useful for tourists, business people and aid workers.
Established in the aftermath of World War II, UNESCO succinctly
states its peace mission as well as its peaceful resolution to
peace in its Constitution-constructing the "defenses of peace" in
the minds of peoples on the "intellectual and moral" grounds. For
more than seven decades, UNESCO has been consistently positioning
peace as its unwavering core and ultimate goal through promoting
international understanding and cooperation in and across its five
major sectors of competence in education, natural sciences,
communication and Information, and social and human Sciences.
Historical Dictionary of the United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Second Edition contains a
chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The
dictionary section has more than 700 cross-referenced entries on
UNESCO's initiatives, programs, projects, normative instruments,
and partners over the past 76 years. This book is an excellent
resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more
about UNESCO.
The founder of the Rosemary House, a Pennsylvania herb and spice
shop, provides readers will all the necessary information for
transforming an herb hobby into a successful herb business, and
shares her secrets for developing and designing herbal products and
packaging them effectively. Illustrations; resource list.
This is the essential reference companion for all who use Spanish for business communication. Containing over 5000 words, this handy two-way A-Z glossary covers the most commonly used terms in business. It will help you to communicate with confidence in a wide variety of business situations, and is of equal value to the relative beginner or the fluent speaker. Written by an experienced native and non-speaker team working in business language education, this unique glossary is an indispensable reference guide for all students and professionals studying or working in business where Spanish is used.
The first thematically arranged collection of Hume's political
writings, this new work brings together substantive selections from
A Treatise on Human Nature , An Enquiry Concerning the Principles
of Morals , and Essays: Moral, Political and Literary , with an
interpretive introduction placing Hume in the context of
contemporary debates between liberalism and its critics and between
contextual and universal approaches.
This guide is a simple means of sharing the Chechen language and
culture with speakers of English. It makes no claim to be a
linguistic research tool, but is provided as a practical aid for
the first steps in communication with an intentionally easy-to-use
pronunciation system. This is the first time Chechen has been
presented in such a way, a venture not without its obstacles since
the language is still sadly without a truly developed analysis of
its structure. An attempt has been made to provide phrases and
scenes from everyday life, as well as items of practical background
information, although their relevance clearly will depend on the
actual situation in Chechnya, and whether the war is in fact over
or just postponed.
This dictionary consists of some 100,000 terms and references in bith French and English, including 4,000 abbreviations. over 45 subject areas are covered, including: * Accountancy * Banking * Business Administration * Computing * Economics * Environment * Finance * General Commerce * Human Resource Management * Import/Export * Industry * Insurance * Law * Leisure * Management * Mathematics * Media * Patents * Politics * Property * Sales & Marketing * Stock Market * Taxation * Tourism * Transport * Welfare & Safety. Also included is a comprehensive up-to-date reference section on countries, business correspondence and situations, job titles, stock exchanges, economic indexes and numbers. KEY FEATURES Term Specialists - the terms list has been checked by over 100 sources including experts from Apple France * Association Française des Banques * Chartered Institute of Banking * France Telecom * Institute of European Trade and Technology * American Graduate School of Management * London School of Economics * Ecole supérieure de commerce de Lyon * Department of Trade and Industry * Law Society * University of Reading * Environment Council * University of Bath * Centre de Recherche et de Gestion * Manchester Business School * Ecole supérieure internationale de commerce and Ecole des hautes études commerciales de Montrial(HEC). Prestigous experts - include Prof. Chris Nobes, Prof. Michel Péron, Prof. Gordon Shenton, Dr. Van de Yeught and Prof. Peter Walton. Native Speakers - all stages of compilation have included native speakers of French as well as English and extensive coverage of US as well as UK terminology.
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