The North Carolina Gazetteer

The North Carolina Gazetteer
Author: William S. Powell
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780807833995

North Carolina Gazetteer, 2nd Ed: A Dictionary of Tar Heel Places and Their History

A Dictionary of Maqiao

A Dictionary of Maqiao
Author: Shaogong Han
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2003
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780231127448

A fictionalized account of the author's experiences growing up in a small village in rural China during the Cultural Revolution.

The American Heritage College Writer's Dictionary

The American Heritage College Writer's Dictionary
Author:
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780547857855

Presents a dictionary for college and advanced high school students which in addition to word definitions also includes a punctuation and style guide, notes on word origins, and a gazetteer of countries, states, and capitals.

Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature

Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature
Author: Jean Albert Bédé
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 932
Release: 1980
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780231037174

With more than 1800 critical entries on the writers and literatures of 33 languages, this work presents the entire range of modern European writing -- from the symbolist and modernist works rooted in the last decades of the nineteenth century; through the avant-garde and existentialist movement to Barthes, Blanchot, Breton, and continental thought pertinent today.

Merriam-Webster's Pocket Dictionary

Merriam-Webster's Pocket Dictionary
Author: Merriam-Webster, Inc
Publisher: Merriam-Webster Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780877795308

A perfect dictionary for quick, on-the-go language reference features 40,000 entries as well as clear, concise, definitions, variant spellings, and pronunciations. Includes a brief guide to punctuation.

The Oxford Dictionary of Difficult Words

The Oxford Dictionary of Difficult Words
Author: Archie Hobson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2004
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0195173287

"Features more than 10,000 entries that focus exclusively on words that, while outside most people's working vocabulary, are often encountered in literature, in technical writings such as computing or medical terminology, and in such diverse subject areas as law, philosophy, and art. Special attention is given to easily confused or closely related words. Usage notes are provided to ensure that readers know how to integrate these words into their vocabularies for more precision and power in speech and writing."--Back cover.