Comprehensive Dictionary of Electrical Engineering, Second Edition
Added by: aresye | Karma: 28.05 | ESP, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias | 22 October 2009
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Succinct yet comprehensive coverage of the most important terms, acronyms, and definitions made the first edition of the Comprehensive Dictionary of Electrical Engineering a bestseller. Recent advances in many disciplines of this rapidly growing field have made necessary a new edition of this must-have reference. This authoritative lexicon includes more than 1500 additional terms, now supplying more than 11,000 total terms gathered by a stellar international panel of the world's leading experts, compiled from CRC's immensely popular and highly respected handbooks, and accompanied by more than 120 tables and illustrations.
It is a bilingual glossary: FRENCH TO ENGLISH and ENGLISH TO FRENCH. It contains fudamental words and phrases frequently used in the business context. A very helpful material for business english learners.
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The City in Slang: New York Life and Popular Speech
Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Linguistics, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias | 18 October 2009
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The American urban scene, and in particular New York's, has given us a rich cultural legacy of slang words and phrases, a bonanza of popular speech. Hot dog, rush hour, butter-and-egg man, gold digger, shyster, buttinsky, smart aleck, sidewalk superintendent, yellow journalism, breadline, straphanger, tar beach, the Tenderloin, the Great White Way, to do a Brodie--these are just a few of the hundreds of popular words and phrases that were born or took on new meaning in the streets of New York.
Словарь содержит около 76 000 терминов по всем областям современной физики, как классическим, так и новейшим. Словарь предназначен широкому кругу научных работников, инженеров, преподавателей, студентов и переводчиков. Он может использоваться как учебное и справочное пособие в университетах, институтах и колледжах для освоения учащимися английской научной терминологии