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|  | Czech-English Standard Dictionary by Ivan Poldauf
This dictionary is twice as large as any other existing Czech-English dictionary. It contains 70,000 entries, detailed explanations of the Czech grammatical and pronunciation systems, and appendices for proper nouns and abbreviations. AUTHOR: Ivan Poldauf
PUBLISHER: Hippocrene Books, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Reference 
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Expanding on the handsome & easy-to-use TravelWise books & cassettes, first introduced last season, Barron's now offers TravelWise in six new languages. All programs are available as a book-only, or as a sturdy, compact boxed package containing the book with a supplementary cassette & script booklet. The books are rich with full-color photos of the subject countries & feature color-coded page edges to help users find the correct section to meet their on-the-spot needs. The color-coded sections cover these topics: The essentials: everyday expressions, numbers, time & weather * Meeting & greeting people * Using transportation facilities * Making hotel arrangements * Ordering at restaurants * Cultural highlights & natural landmarks in the subject countries * Recreation & sports activities * Shopping & dealing with local currency * Using public facilities, including phones, post office, & help from police * Dealing with doctors, dentists & pharmacists & coping with health situations * Being understood in business situations. Books also contain grammar outlines & short dictionaries in both English to target language & target language to English. Extra features of special help to travelers include street & subway maps of some large cities. The cassette tapes present dialogues that simulate various typical travel situations. The tapes familiarize travelers with pronunciation, spontaneous idiomatic expressions & most important of all, general listening comprehension. Each cassette contains five separate dialogues. The additional 24-page tape booklet gives printed scripts for all dialogues & reviews vocabulary
PUBLISHER: Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated
FORMAT: Audio & Paperback
CATEGORY: Reference
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 | Norwegian in Ten Minutes a Day by Kristine K. Kershul
New and improved, this edition has adopted the new look of the redesigned series, and features expanded contents, original illustrations, and a take-along Pocket Pal phrase book. AUTHOR: Kristine K. Kershul
PUBLISHER: Bilingual Books, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Reference
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 | Bembo's Zoo by Roberto De Vicq de Cumptich
This book, with color illustrations, invites readers to learn the alphabet with lots of exotic animals, from antelopes to zebras, and features the Bembo typeface. AUTHOR: Roberto De Vicq de Cumptich
PUBLISHER: Holt, Henry & Company, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Reference
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 | News Is a Verb by Pete Hamill
LIBRARY OF CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT When screaming headlines turn out to be based on stories that dont support them, the tale of the boy who cried wolf gets new life. When the newspaper is filled with stupid features about celebrities at the expense of hard news, the reader feels patronized. In the process, the critical relationship of reader to newspaper is slowly undermined. --from NEWS IS A VERB NEWS IS A VERB Journalism at the End of the Twentieth Century With the usual honorable exceptions, newspapers are getting dumber. They are increasingly filled with sensation, rumor, press-agent flackery, and bloated trivialities at the expense of significant facts. The Lewinsky affair was just a magnified version of what has been going on for some time. Newspapers emphasize drama and conflict at the expense of analysis. They cover celebrities as if reporters were a bunch of waifs with their noses pressed enviously to the windows of the rich and famous. They are parochial, square, enslaved to the conventional pieties. The worst are becoming brainless printed junk food. All across the country, in large cities and small, even the better newspapers are predictable and boring. I once heard a movie director say of a certain screenwriter: He aspired to mediocrity, and he succeeded.' Many newspapers are succeeding in the same way. AUTHOR: Pete Hamill
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Reference
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 | Random House Latin American Spanish Dictionary by David L. Gold
Description not available.Includes more than ten thousand entries with vocabulary and usages unique to Latin America, Central America, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and Cuba, divided into two sections, Latin American Spanish-English and English-Latin American Spanish. Original. AUTHOR: David L. Gold
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Reference
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