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The Columbia Guide to Standard American English provides the...

For years, Vine's Expository Dictionary has been the standard word study tool for pastors and laypeople, selling millions of copies. But sixty-plus years of scholarship have shed extensive new light on the use of biblical Greek and Hebrew, creating the need for a new, more accurate, more thorough dictionary of Bible words. William Mounce, whose Greek grammar has been used by more than 100,000 college and seminary students, is the editor of this new dictionary, which will become the layperson's gold standard for biblical word studies. Mounce's is ideal for the reader with limited or no...

From Geronimo to gesundheit to haminahamina to holy mackerel, and from abracadabra to zoinks, Mark Dunn and Sergio Aragones show you interjections like you've never seen them before.

Often thought of as unnecessary verbal fringe or simply linguistic decoration, interjections (ahem, howdy, mamma mia, pshaw, tally-ho, whoop-de-do) may well be the most overlooked part of speech in the English language. ZOUNDS A Browser's Dictionary of Interjections focuses the spotlight on this...

Casting a wide net, this volume provides personal and professional information on some 445 American and Canadian naturalists and environmentalists, who lived from the late 15th century to the late 20th century. It includes explorers who published works on the natural history of North America, conservationists, ecologists, environmentalists, wildlife management specialists, park planners, national park administrators, zoologists, botanists, natural historians, geographers, geologists, academics, museum scientists and administrators, military personnel, travellers, government officials,...

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A key to understanding how the media works is uncovering how media professionals talk to each other about their industry. Untangle the jargon and provide those studying or starting work in the media with the knowledge to participate. In this practical dictionary, the definitions are clear, uncomplicated, and easy to understand, even without prior experience, and cover a range of subjects including the specialist jargon found in a TV studio, the vocabulary of radio production, the terms used in multimedia, the specialist language of film production, job and skills definitions, and...