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1. The Routledge Handbook of Scripts and Alphabets, 2nd Edition

   By Christopher Moseley, George L Campbell

   The Routledge Handbook of Scripts and Alphabets is a unique reference to the main scripts and alphabets of the world. The Handbook presents over 60 alphabets covering an enormous scope of languages; from Amharic and Chinese to Tahi and Cree. Full scripts tables are given for...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-56097-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Polish: A Comprehensive Grammar

   By Iwona Sadowska

   Polish: A Comprehensive Grammar is a complete reference guide to the grammar system for intermediate to advanced learners of Polish. It presents an accessible and systematic description of the language, focusing on real patterns of use in contemporary Polish. It is a comprehensive work and an...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-47541-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   The Routledge Dictionary of Cultural References in Modern French

   By MIchael Mould

   The Routledge Dictionary of Cultural References in Modern French reveals the hidden cultural dimension of contemporary French, as used in the press, going beyond the limited and purely lexical approach of the traditional bilingual dictionary. Even foreign learners of French who possess a...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-59794-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Korean: A Comprehensive Grammar

   By Jaehoon Yeon, Lucien Brown

   Korean: A Comprehensive Grammar is a complete reference guide to Korean grammar. It presents a thorough yet accessible overview of the language, concentrating on the real patterns of use in modern Korean. The book moves from the alphabet and pronunciation through morphology and word classes to...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-60385-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. The Routledge Spanish Bilingual Dictionary of Psychology and Psychiatry

   By Steven Kaplan

   The Routledge Spanish Bilingual Dictionary of Psychology and Psychiatry contains over 100,000 entries making this the most comprehensive and up-to-date dictionary of its kind. The Dictionary provides concise, comprehensive and current coverage of every word or phrase used in the study and...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-58774-7 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies, 2nd Edition

   Edited by Mona Baker, Gabriela Saldanha

   Praise for the previous edition of the Encyclopedia of Translation Studies: 'Translation has long deserved this sort of treatment. Appropriate for any college or university library supporting a program in linguistics, this is vital in those institutions that train students to become translators.'...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-60984-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   A Frequency Dictionary of Contemporary American English: Word Sketches, Collocates and Thematic Lists

   By Mark Davies, Dee Gardner

   A Frequency Dictionary of Contemporary American English: word sketches, collocates, and thematic lists is an invaluable tool for all learners of American English, providing a list of the 5,000 most frequently used words in the language. The dictionary is based on data from a 385-million-word...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-61795-6 | CD-ROM (Routledge)
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   A Frequency Dictionary of Czech: Core Vocabulary for Learners

   By František Cermák, Michal Kren

   A Frequency Dictionary of Czech is an invaluable tool for all learners of Czech, providing a list of the 5,000 most frequently used words in the language. Based on data from a 100 million word corpus and evenly balanced between spoken, fiction, non-fiction and newspaper texts, the dictionary...

   November 2010 | 978-0-415-57662-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   500 Common Chinese Idioms: An Annotated Frequency Dictionary

   By Liwei Jiao, Cornelius C. Kubler, Weiguo Zhang

   500 Common Chinese Idioms is the ideal tool for all intermediate to advanced learners of Chinese. Based on large corpora of authentic language data, it presents the 500 most commonly used Chinese idioms or chengyu, along with a variety of synonyms, antonyms and the most common structures, enabling...

   November 2010 | 978-0-415-77682-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    Concise Compendium of the World's Languages, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

    By George L. Campbell, Gareth King

    This second edition of The Concise Compendium of the World’s Languages has been completely revised to provide up-to-date and accurate descriptions of a wide cross-section of natural-language systems. All cultural and historical notes as well as statistical data for each language have been checked,...

    November 2010 | 978-0-415-47841-0 | Hardback (Routledge)