The New English-Polish and Polish-English Kosciuszko Foundation Dictionary
CD version!, first ever
bilingual dictionary of American English contains over 140.000 entries,
400.000 meanings and 100.000 idioms and fixed phrases; gives specific
British as well as Australian, Canadian, New Zealand and South-African
usage; contains abundant technical and specialized vocabulary in such
areas as law, economy, computers, the military, medicine, mass media,
sports, botany and zoology; provides literary and colloquial
expressions, slang, archaic words, idioms and fixed phrases; presents
use of words in context illustrated by a large number of original
sentences. The New Kosciuszko Foundation Dictionary on CD-ROM contains:
- all the entries from both the volumes; - grammatical information; -
phonetic transcription; lets the user: - select the language of
messages; - make word searches; - copy entries straight into documents;
- make extended full-text searches; - keep track of previuos searches;
- access the dictionary from within other applications; - add new
entries to the dictionary or delete the existing ones.
It seems as though every day brings a new pill or potion claiming to restore mental alertness or improve memory. While many of these claims are based on factual information, many others are not. This encyclopedia of foods and drugs that are believed to improve mental performance contains information on nearly 400 nutrients, herbs, and drugs, ranging from ancient plant compounds to the latest pharmaceuticals. Entries are arranged by type of substance, such as foods, vitamins, minerals, spices, and medical drugs. Each entry contains information such as alternate names and forms, sources, results, side effects, precautions, and recommended dosage. Although readers are encouraged to consult with their doctors before diagnosing and treating themselves, this book provides crucial, factual, and unbiased information on the "miracle drugs" that many people believe can solve health problems from fatigue to Alzheimer's. Readers can discover for themselves the properties of each substance. A complete index allows for easy reference and help with alternate names, food and drug interactions, and symptoms.
Conceived as part of the
author's wider interest in plant and tree lore and ethnobotanical studies, this fully revised edition of Elsevier's Dictionary of
Plant Names and Their Origins contains over 30,000 vernacular and literary English names of plants.
Middle English by Paul Strohm [Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature]
My object in proposing topics was to avoid settled areas of discussion and ‘bounded’ subjects. Hence, this collection contains no ‘major author’ essays—even though citations and analyses of writings by Chaucer, Gower, Langland, and Lydgate constantly recur. It contains some ‘genre’ chapters, but wilfully new ones that violate customary categorizations: ‘Vision, Image, Text’ (embracing both secular visions and religious revelations) and ‘Speculative Genealogies’ (embracing romances, chronicles, and other narrative forms). Although its central subject is Middle English literary texts, it frequently sallies into Old and Early Modern English for its illustrative instances, and extra- or apparently ‘non-literary’ writings (‘Learning to Live’, ‘The Poetics of Practicality’) receive generous—even repeated—attention.
Part of a series of Core Topic Guides providing a vast amount of essential, concise information on particular iBT TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) topics, this guide contains sixty passages designed to increase a student's background knowledge of social sciences, including basic economics, political science, psychology, sociology, and communications. Each passage contains footnotes to explain idiomatic language and references and reading comprehension questions complete with answer key.
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