Editors Mario Pei and Frank Gaynor bring together essential terms and concepts in the extensive Dictionary of Linguistics. With a carefully crafted headword list and plenty of cross-references and accessible explanations, this dictionary will keep readers coming back again and again. Dictionary of Linguistics is the perfect addition to any reader s reference library. Mario Pei was an American linguist and polyglot who specialized in Latin, Greek, and French. In addition to teaching at Columbia University, Pei wrote several books on language including The Story of English and All About...
Editors Mario Pei and Frank Gaynor bring together essential terms and concepts in the extensive Dictionary of Linguistics. With a carefully crafted he...
A collection of brief and concise definitions of hard-to-find and hard-to-define terms used in Religious Mysticism, Esoteric Philosophy, Occultism, Psychical Research, Spiritualism, Alchemy, Astrology, in the Oriental philosophies of Buddhism, Brahmanism, Sufism, Lamaism, Zoroastrianism, Theosophy, Kabbalism, Magic and Demonology and in all those philosophies, religions and doctrines which teach and recognize the influence of the superhuman and supernatural on man s everyday life and affairs. The book contains definitions of over 2200 terms hundreds of which appear now for the first time in...
A collection of brief and concise definitions of hard-to-find and hard-to-define terms used in Religious Mysticism, Esoteric Philosophy, Occultism, Ps...
