Look and learn to recall a wealth of everyday vocabulary in Chinese with this intuitive easy-to-use visual language dictionary. Whether it's for business or pleasure, pick up 6,000 key Chinese words and phrases on a range of subjects: from shopping and eating out, to sport and beyond quickly and easily. Find every word you need to know fast using the clearly labelled colour illustrated scenes from everyday life. Plus, find helpful features on key Chinese nouns, verbs and phrases to improve your understanding. It is pocket-sized so you can take it wherever your travels take you.
Need a rhyme but can’t spare the time? Want to make your jingles tingle or crack the code to the ode? The Penguin Pocket Rhyming Dictionary is an indispensable companion for anyone who writes verse—from professionals to amateurs. This clearly arranged and easy-to-use guide offers an astonishingly wide range of rhymes for words, no matter how common or obscure. Contains a list of rhymes for more than 34,000 words and provides concise explanations of unusual words Distinguishes between close rhymes and less exact ones Includes separate sections for one-, two-, or three-syllable rhymes
What's in a name? Rather more than you might at first suspect, for names are steeped in history and myth and have much to tell us about our past, our beliefs - even our personality traits. The Penguin Pocket Dictionary of Babies' Names takes a close look at 3500 names, explaining origins and meanings, showing how some have changed in popularity and use over time and providing all the diminutive and variant forms. Part of Penguin's major new series of reference titles ranging from Spanish and French dictionaries to books on spelling and quotations.
Completely revised in 1999, the Seventh Edition of Black's Law Dictionary is the premier legal reference resource. This edition contains over 24,000 definitions, 4,500 of which are completely new to the Seventh Edition. Helpful extras include a list of legal maxims, the U.S. Constitution, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a time chart of the United States Supreme Court, a Federal Circuit Map, and British Regnal Years.
This rebranded edition covers all the vocabulary of current issues, with evidence drawn from Collins' unique multi-million word databanks of contemporary German and English. This new edition of the Collins German Dictionary is the result of a new, exciting partnership between Collins and the market-leading German publisher, Langenscheidt. It has been extensively revised, updated and expanded to cover all the vocabulary of current issues. Thousands of new phrases and meanings have been added from evidence from Collins' unique multi-million word databases of contemporary English and German, giving the user the most complete and accurate picture of real language available today. The fifth edition includes the uniquely helpful "Language in Use" supplement, a guide to written and oral communication in German. The page layout has been further improved to make the text even more accessible and easy to use. Boasting all the features that make Collins dictionaries world bestsellers, the fifth edition of the Collins Ge
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American journalism is collapsing as newspapers andmagazines fail and scores of reporters are laid off across thecountry. Conventional wisdom says the Internet is to blame, butveteran journalists and media critics Robert W. McChesney and JohnNichols disagree. The crisis of American journalism predates theGreat Recession and digital media boom. What we are witnessing nowis the end of the commercial news model and the opportune momentfor the creation of a new system of independent journalism, onesubsidized by the public and capable of safeguarding ourdemocracy.
