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Price: $25.95
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Sale: $17.12
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Erwin G. Gudde
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 917.940014
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Publication Date: 2004-05-10
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Reading Level: 495
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Description: Absco, a Southern Pacific station, was coined in the 1920s from the name of the American Beet Sugar Company, which had a factory in Oxnard.
Pochea is an Indian village site in Riverside County, said to mean "where the rabbit went in."
Siskiyou was the Chinook word for 'bobtailed horse,' originally taken over from the Cree language. From Abadi Creek to Zzyzyx Spring, thousands of discoveries await the reader of California Place Names. This is the fourth edition, extensively revised and expanded, of a classic work of Californiana. The curious traveler or resident, as well as the serious student, will find a wealth of description and history in these names, as rich and various as the California landscape itself.
Like its predecessors, this edition concentrates on the origins of the names currently used for the cities, towns, settlements, mountains, and streams of California, with engrossing accounts of the history of their usage. It has been updated to incorporate the latest research on California place names published by regional historians and to include new names that have been added to the California map since 1969. Readers will appreciate the local pronunciation of place names with unusual spellings; anyone curious about how to say La Jolla or Weitchpec can find the information here, in phonetic transcriptions. Finally, the many California place names of American Indian origin--such as Yreka, Shasta, Napa, Sonoma, Tamalpais, Yosemite, Lompoc, Mugu, Coachella, or Poway--receive particular attention from editor William Bright. The dictionary includes a Glossary and a Bibliography.
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $9.52
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Manufacturer: Simplex Publications
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Simplex Publications
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Edition: 4th
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Dewey Decimal Number: 495.12
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Publication Date: 2004-08-30
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Reading Level: 128
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Description: The reader will discover that it takes little effort and imagination to understand the most common and widely used characters. Ping-gam Go provides a full-color photo survey of San Francisco s Chinatown and a dictionary of 288 Chinese characters, each entry contains the Mandarin and Cantonese pronunciations, ancestral pictograph, traditional Chinese character and English definition. Dozens of practice exercises and flashcards are provided to assist in memorization of the meanings of the signs in Chinatown.
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Price: $64.00
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Sale: $3.74
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Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Spiral-bound
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Author: Muriel G. Harris
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Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Edition: 6th
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Dewey Decimal Number: 428.2
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Publication Date: 2005-03-04
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Reading Level: 640
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Description: For Freshman-level writing courses, such as Freshman Composition, English Composition, First-Year Writing, Expository Writing or any course where students need help with grammar, research and documentation. The easiest handbook to use. Muriel Harris was the director of the Purdue Writing Center where she worked elbow-to-elbow with students and for over twenty-five years. As she worked with students, she realized that they asked the same questions over and over. Based on her experience with thousands of students in the writing center, Muriel Harris authored this spiral-bound, tabbed and brief handbook. Her unique feature, "Compare and Correct," and "Question and Correct," allows students to find what they need to help themselves with their writing, without needing to know the terms of grammar. Muriel Harris' Prentice Hall Reference Guide is the easiest handbook for students and instructors to use.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $6.37
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Manufacturer: Sourcebooks, Inc.
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Barbara Ann Kipfer
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Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 422
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Publication Date: 2007-06-01
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Reading Level: 500
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Description: Are You a Word Nerd?
Did you know...
--Only a human (not an animal or thing) is “able” to do something
--The five on dice is called cinque
--“K” for strike-out in baseball comes from the last letter of “struck”
--To skice is to frisk about like squirrels in spring
For word lovers everywhere, Word Nerd is a rich-and fun-compendium of more than 17,000 fascinating facts about words. Bestselling author Barbara Anne Kipfer has spent years compiling little known tidbits about common-and not so common-words in the English language.
Filled with interesting information about words, sure to amaze and spark conversation, this incredible collection is perfect for the word nerd in each of us.
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $17.00
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Manufacturer: Harvest Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Samuel S. Vaughan::William F. Buckley Jr.
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Publisher: Harvest Books
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 422
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Publication Date: 1998-05-01
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Reading Level: 544
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Description: Buckley’s provocative observations on the use and abuse of English, gathered for the first time in a single volume - a “veritable cornucopia of language and logic that belongs in every library” (Library Journal). Edited by Samuel S. Vaughan.
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $6.40
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Manufacturer: Semiotext(e) (Foreign Agents)
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Michel Foucault
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Publisher: Semiotext(e) (Foreign Agents)
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Dewey Decimal Number: 194
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Publication Date: 2001-02-19
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Reading Level: 128
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Description: I would like to distinguish between the 'history of ideas' and the 'history of thought.' The history of ideas involves the analysis of a notion from its birth, through its development, and in the setting of other ideas, which constitute its context. The history of thought is the analysis of the way an unproblematic field of experience becomes a problem, raises discussions and debate, incites new reactions, and induces crisis in the previously silent behaviors, practices, and institutions. It is the history of the way people become anxious, for example, about madness, about crime, about themselves, or about truth.
Comprised of six lectures delivered, in English, by Michel Foucault while teaching at Berkeley in the Fall of 1983, Fearless Speech was edited by Joseph Pearson and published in 2001. Reviewed by the author, it is the last book Foucault wrote before his death in 1984 and can be read as his last testament. Here, he positions the philosopher as the only person able to confront power with the truth, a stance that boldly sums up Foucault's project as a philosopher.
Still unpublished in France, Fearless Speech concludes the genealogy of truth that Foucault pursued throughout his life, starting with his investigations in Madness and Civilization, into the question of power and its technology. The expression "fearless speech" is a rough translation of the Greek parrhesia, which designates those who take a risk to tell the truth; the citizen who has the moral qualities required to speak the truth, even if it differs from what the majority of people believe and faces danger for speaking it.
Parrhesia is a verbal activity in which a speaker expresses his personal relationship to truth through frankness instead of persuasion, truth instead of flattery, and moral duty instead of self-interest and moral apathy.
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $7.98
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 422.03
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Publication Date: 1993-07-29
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Reading Level: 576
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Description: Where did the words bungalow and assassin derive? What did nice mean in the Middle Ages? How were adder, anger, and umpire originally spelled? The answers can be found in this essential companion to any popular dictionary.
With over 17,000 entries, this is the most authoritative and comprehensive guide to word origins available in paperback. Based on The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, the principal authority on the origin and development of English words, it contains a wealth of information about our language and its history. For example, readers will learn that bungalow originally meant "belonging to Bengal," that assassin comes from the Arabic for "Hashish-eater," and that nice meant "foolish or stupid" in the thirteenth century, "coy or shy" in the fifteenth. And adder, anger, and umpire were originally spelled with an initial "n." These are but a few of the fascinating tidbits found in this dictionary, which is a must for anyone interested in the richness of the English language.
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Price: $39.95
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Sale: $32.84
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Manufacturer: Lexadyne Pub.
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Roger S. Crutchfield
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Publisher: Lexadyne Pub.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 428.1
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Publication Date: 1998-09
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Reading Level: 364
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Description: English Vocabulary Quick Reference takes an innovative approach to word roots. To start with, there's the "Primary Root Index"--a list of 260 essential word roots (including prefixes and suffixes), with definitions, language origin (Latin or Greek), and the dictionary page number where it's featured. It's a handy, easily accessible "a-" to "zyg-" list, but the unusual quality of the reference lies in its dictionary. Color-coded (red for common words such as are likely to appear on SATs, blue keywords to highlight succinct definitions), the dictionary presents more than 7,000 words based on those roots. From "abiogenesis" to "zygote," etymologies and definitions elucidate each word and encourage an understanding of the basic roots. This section is followed by a reverse dictionary of sorts--an alphabetical index of the keyword definitions. There's also an index of main entry words, and another index of 500 secondary roots that didn't make into the "Primary Root" list. Crutchfield's definitive book on word roots--geared toward educators, students of medicine, and students of English--is a superb classroom resource and a worthwhile home reference as well. --Stephanie Gold
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $14.40
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Manufacturer: University of Arizona Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Donald M. Ayers
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Publisher: University of Arizona Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 574.014
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Publication Date: 1972-04-01
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Reading Level: 325
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Description: "Lessons that develop a set of guides toward understanding 'new' scientific vocabulary through examination of stems and bases, suffixes etc. A help-yourself guide for 'unlocking' unfamiliar scientific words accompanied by many examples and exercises." —The National Science Teachers Association
"This new book is designed to self-teach the budding scientist the basics of the scientific language." —The Associated Press
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $19.95
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Manufacturer: Eks Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Joseph Lowin
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Publisher: Eks Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 492.42
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Publication Date: 2004-06
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Reading Level: 207
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Description: An exploration of Hebrew roots, shorashim, that draws from a a wide range of sources--biblical and Rabbinic texts, contemporary authors, and a diverse collection of Israeli Hebrew: newspapers, advertising slogans, slang and graffiti.
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