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Webster’s New World German Dictionary: German/English English/German (Paperback)

Webster's New World German Dictionary: German/English English/German

Compiled in collaboration with a team of expert linguists, the Webster’s New World concise bilingual dictionaries are the perfect choice for beginning students and advanced speakers as well.Comprehensive and authoritative, yet clear and concise, the dictionaries offer a full array of features, as well as wide-ranging coverage of current expressions. Long-standing favorites in hardcover, the dictionaries will continue to be standard references for years to come — especially now that they are available in unabridged paperback editions.More than 100,000 words, giving wide-ranging coverage of current terms and expressionsDetailed definitions so the user can understand and translate idiomaticallyExtensive examples of usage, showing how translations of words can vary according to contextVerb tables, including irregular verbsCross-references from every verb to the appropriate verb table

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New York Times Crosswords for Your Coffee Break: Light and Easy Puzzles (Paperback)

New York Times Crosswords for Your Coffee Break: Light and Easy Puzzles

Often the subtle pleasures in life are the most rewarding. And as any solver can tell you, a brisk morning, a hot cup of coffee, and a New York Times crossword puzzle can be one of those quietly perfect moments.From the pages of The New York Times comes this brand-new collection of light and easy puzzles, chosen from Monday and Tuesday editions of the newspaper. These solver-friendly puzzles allow you to sit back, relax, and lose yourself in a puzzle, all in the span of a coffee break.

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Moral Politics : How Liberals and Conservatives Think (Paperback)

Moral Politics : How Liberals and Conservatives Think

Review

“[An] unusual mix of judicious scholarship, tendentious journalism and inflammatory wake-up call.” – Editors’ Recommendation, San Francisco Chronicle; “Lakoff, the cognitive linguist, understands ‘how’ you understand. In Moral Politics, [he] deftly applies that seemingly arcane understanding to the heart of American politics…. His commitment is strong and deep, but his language is far from the rhetoric usually associated with political partisanship…. Even those who disagree with him will profit deeply from encountering his challenging ideas.” – Paul Rosenberg, Christian Science Monitor; “Lakoff’s stunning book opens a whole new understanding of public discourse in America. Both conservatives and liberals have much to learn from this work.” – Robert Bellah, University of California, Berkeley

George Lakoff’s book is a crucial key to understanding political opponents and achieving political victory. In this first full-scale application of (more…)