50 de mest populära böckerna i Sverige●Ordböcker och lexikon

Ordens ursprung (2007) är en modern och rolig ordbok som visar vilken ordskatt svenska språket rymmer. Det är en ordbok som leder oss tillbaka till ursprunget. Ordens ursprung tar upp över 2 000 enskilda ords och uttrycks historia, användning och betydelse. Den vänder sig till alla som har intresse för det svenska språket och är i sitt slag den omfångsrikaste etymologiska ordbok som getts ut i Sverige på tjugofem år. I Ordens ursprung beskriver Bo Bergman var orden uppstod, hur läng...

Releasedatum: 2012-11-29 79,00 kr

Engelsk-svensk och svensk-engelsk ordbok med fullständig uttalsbeteckning. Ordlista av amerikanska ord, fraser och förkortningar. English-Swedish and Swedish-English dictionary with full pronunciation guide. Glossary of American terms, phrases and abbreviations.

Releasedatum: 2016-04-02 45,00 kr

Quilombo, bombacha, boludo, un feca, cagar a palos, afanar, trucho... So you thought you spoke Spanish? Ah, but these words or phrases make no sense? Welcome to Argentina and its unique Spanish. Speaking Argento is the book that will help you understand Argentines. This light-hearted dictionary-style book includes the vocabulary (and some Lunfardo words) you need to know and were never taught in school. Over 1,300 words and phrases are explained in English. The book also includes short sections ...

Releasedatum: 2011-10-18 59,00 kr

Our pocket conversation guide make the perfect accompaniment for every traveler. This series of pocket guides have been issued for: German, English, Spanish, Turkish, Greek, French, Italian, Russian, Hungarian, Slovenian, Polish, Albanian, Chinese, as well as Serbian for foreigners. These guides offer extensive translations, phrases, pronunciation, tips and advice in over 4000 entries. The guide has been designed to allow you to start using a foreign language immediately, with every day words an...

Releasedatum: 2012-06-07 15,00 kr

This concise dictionary is a reference your eReader shouldn't be without. 500 words and definitions are included in this book.

Releasedatum: 2011-12-13 5,00 kr

Boken ger till skillnad från en vanlig ordbok samtliga böjningsformer av ca 1100 ryska verb. Det är lätt att hitta i ordboken. Verben är ordnade alfabetiskt och i slutet finns ett svensk-ryskt och ett rysk-svenskt register. Boken inleds med en kortfattad översikt över det ryska verbet och dess former.

Releasedatum: 2017-07-16 139,00 kr

This book is an accessible and authoritative A-Z that provides up-to-date definitions of over 1,600 current grammatical terms, with hundreds of useful example sentences and helpful quotations from the scholarly literature. An invaluable guide to all those interested in the English language.

Releasedatum: 2014-01-16 149,00 kr

Fowler's Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage is an invaluable quick-reference work, providing clear, practical and up-to-date guidance on questions of grammar, spelling, style, and word choice. Jeremy Butterfield has judiciously revised the text to reflect the English usage practices and concerns of the 21st century.

Releasedatum: 2016-03-10 149,00 kr

The Collins Rhyming Dictionary is the most accessible way to find the rhyme you need. Other rhyming dictionaries are characterised by the use of obscure words for padding, subsections for disyllabic and trisyllabic rhymes, and reverse phonetic order – but the Collins Rhyming Dictionary avoids such complications and, as a result, is the most practical rhyming book available. The Collins Rhyming Dictionary groups together the most satisfactory rhymes, taking stress and vowel assonance into accou...

Releasedatum: 2014-09-04 49,00 kr

Never before have 442 cosmic / universal laws ever been defined in one place. Have you ever wondered how many cosmic and universal laws exist? I bet you have no idea how many of these laws affect you every day, second-by-second. One of these laws states that the three points of a triangle are responsible for the manifestation of all things in the infinite plane. (Law of Triangle) Another law states that everything is as it should be. There are no accidents. Your energy, translated into thoughts,...

Releasedatum: 2011-09-20 29,00 kr

Johnson’s English Dictionary is the first dictionary ever written in English, the only one written by a single author, and, according to many experts, the greatest of all English dictionaries. Jane Austen, Thomas Jefferson, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens and Charlotte Brontë all used what was known for over a century as “the dictionary”, while Samuel Taylor Coleridge said he viewed with suspicion any man “who should speak of it without respect and gratitude”. Since its first publicat...

Releasedatum: 2011-06-15 99,00 kr

A reference book that belongs on every desk--one of the handiest, best-organized, and most reliable thesauruses available, newly updated to reflect the American language of today.

Releasedatum: 1987-07-21 129,00 kr

<p>The home of trusted English dictionaries and thesauruses for everyday language use.<br/> This ebook is part of the Collins Gem range – the world's best-selling mini dictionaries and thesauruses. This new edition is fully up-to-date, including the newest words to enter the English language and offering over 128,000 synonyms and antonyms. <i>Collins Gem English Thesaurus</i> is ideal for everyday use in home, school and office.</p> <p>The handy little t...

Releasedatum: 2020-12-16 35,00 kr

This lexicon was begun in the nineteenth century and ran through nine editions. It was based on the earlier Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache by the German lexicographer Franz Passow. It was edited by Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, Henry Stuart Jones and Roderick McKenzie, and published by the Oxford University Press. It is now conventionally referred to as Liddell and Scott, Liddell–Scott–Jones, or LSJ. Its three sizes are sometimes referred to as "The Little Liddell", "The Midd...

Releasedatum: 1889-01-01 29,00 kr

Dictionarul cuprinde peste 11 000 de expresii si locutiuni, punand la dispozitia elevilor un material lexical amplu, din toate palierele limbii, care ii va ajuta sa se exprime plastic, expresiv, corect si variat.

Releasedatum: 2018-07-11 35,00 kr

With more than 7,000 definitions, this book provides a definitive guide to the use of slang today. It deals with drugs, sport and contemporary society, as well as favourite slang topics such as sex and bodily functions. In this fully updated fourth edition of the highly acclaimed Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, language and culture expert Tony Thorne explores the ever-changing underworld of the English language, bringing back intriguing examples of eccentricity and irreverence from the linguis...

Releasedatum: 2014-02-27 189,00 kr

O Thesaurus Essencial (dicionário analógico) é uma ferramenta de enorme valia sobretudo para os que estão sempre produzindo textos escritos ou orientando o ensino da construção deles. Visa o Thesaurus, diferentemente do dicionário lexical, a agrupar palavras e expressões associadas por uma ideia fundamental comum. Daí ser hábito de chamá-las de palavras analógicas. Na verdade, na construção de um texto, é valiosa a consulta a este tipo de dicionário, quando se intenta, por exempl...

Releasedatum: 2019-03-15 55,00 kr

"As comprehensive as it gets" THE NEW YORK TIMES A tequila revolution is taking place, with more and more people learning to appreciate the rich culture, craft and flavour to be found in this unique spirit. The Tequila Dictionary is the drinker's guide to this wonderful world. With hundreds of entries on tequila and agave spirits covering everything from history, culture and ingredients to distilling techniques, cocktails and the many varieties of tequila, spirits expert Eric Zandona explores th...

Releasedatum: 2019-04-04 35,00 kr

A photographic guide to the key words and phrases in Chinese. This attractive ebook is a perfect travel companion and provides a practical guide to China and Chinese language and culture. Everyday words are arranged in themes with carefully selected up-to-date images to illustrate key words and phrases, and an English and Chinese index help you to find words quickly as you learn. 3,000 essential words and phrases for modern life in China are at your fingertips with topics covering food and drink...

Releasedatum: 2019-04-04 45,00 kr

Roget's Thesaurus is the simple, reliable way to find the perfect word for your needs. It features an easy-to-use dictionary format plus a revolutionary Concept Index that arranges words by idea, thus enhancing the user’s process of association and leading to scores of additional selections. The inclusion of a wide spectrum of words and phrases with each entry (from sophisticated choices to completely new vocabulary in the language (brings users an exceptional number of alternatives to fit any...

Releasedatum: 2018-08-23 29,00 kr

A photographic guide to the key words and phrases in Japanese. This attractive ebook is a perfect travel companion and provides a practical guide to Japan and Japanese language and culture. Everyday words are arranged in themes with carefully selected up-to-date images to illustrate key words and phrases, and an English and Japanese index help you to find words quickly as you learn. 3,000 essential words and phrases for modern life in Japan are at your fingertips with topics covering food and dr...

Releasedatum: 2019-04-04 45,00 kr

A photographic guide to the key words and phrases in Arabic. This attractive ebook is a perfect travel companion and provides a practical guide to the Arabic language, world and culture. Everyday words are arranged in themes with carefully selected up-to-date images to illustrate key words and phrases, and an English and Arabic index help you to find words quickly as you learn. 3,000 essential words and phrases for modern life in Arabic-speaking countries are at your fingertips with topics cover...

Releasedatum: 2019-05-02 45,00 kr

A new type of dictionary. An indispensable reference for language learners within the Indo-European language family, as well as for any who love words and want to deepen their understanding of English, or any of these other languages. This dictionary records words from 32 languages, covering eight of the nine living branches of the Indo-European language ‘tree’. These languages are English, Old English, Frisian, Dutch, German, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Norse, Welsh, Irish, Latin...

Releasedatum: 2018-03-30 85,00 kr

Découvrez lun florilège d'expressions cocasses tout droit venues de l'antiquité ! Qu'elles soient directement héritées de la langue latine, comme Alea jacta est , Carpe diem , ou qu'elles empruntent à la culture antique ses référénces et ses héros, comme être riche comme Crésus, vivre un amour platonique, les expressions latines et grecques peuplent encore nos conversations et contribuent à la richesse de la langue française. Entreprenez un passionnant voyage dans le temps avec Mar...

Releasedatum: 2017-11-16 79,00 kr

A classic encyclopedia of symbols by Catalan polymath Joan Cirlot that illuminates the symbolic underpinnings of myth, modern psychology, literature, and art. Juan Eduardo Cirlot’s A   Dictionary of Symbols is a feat of scholarship, an act of the imagination, and a tool for contemplation, as well as a work of literature, a reference book that is as indispensable as it is brilliant and learned. Cirlot was a composer, a poet, an art critic, and a champion of modern art whose interest in sur...

Releasedatum: 2020-09-22 189,00 kr

A Dictionary of Marketing is an accessible, practical, and internationally-focused A-Z guide to all areas of marketing. Covering traditional techniques and theories, as well as the latest terms and concepts in web, digital and social marketing, this is the ideal reference for students and practitioners of marketing worldwide.

Releasedatum: 2016-04-28 179,00 kr

This fascinating compendium explains the most unusual, obscure, and curious words and expressions from vintage blues music. Utilizing both documentary evidence and invaluable interviews with a number of now-deceased musicians from the 1920s and '30s, blues scholar Stephen Calt unravels the nuances of more than twelve hundred idioms and proper or place names found on oft-overlooked “race records” recorded between 1923 and 1949. From “aggravatin' papa” to “yas-yas-yas” and everything i...

Releasedatum: 2010-10-01 Genre:Uppslagsböcker 129,00 kr

“We think of English as a fortress to be defended, but a better analogy is to think of English as a child. We love and nurture it into being, and once it gains gross motor skills, it starts going exactly where we don’t want it to go: it heads right for the goddamned electrical sockets.”   With wit and irreverence, lexicographer Kory Stamper cracks open the obsessive world of dictionary writing, from the agonizing decisions about what to define and how to do it to the knotty questions ...

Releasedatum: 2017-03-14 109,00 kr

NOTA. — Le premier de ces numéros renvoie à la GRAMMAIRE SUPÉRIEURE, et le second à la GRAMMAIRE COMPLÈTE. Nous mettons en italique les mots sur le genre desquels on peut se tromper ; les corrélatifs sont au masculin ; l’élève corrigera, s’il y a lieu. Polyxène fût sacrifiée aux mânes plaintifs d’Achille. La manière dont agit ce remède est restée un arcane pour les savants. L’ orbite décrit par la planète Uranus est très-considérable. Fruit d’une sélection réalis...

Releasedatum: 2016-05-25 35,00 kr

Over 7,100 entries cover all aspects of business and management including marketing, accounting, organizational behaviour, business strategy, finance, law, and technology. Fully revised and updated, this new edition remains an essential book for business students, teachers, professionals, and anyone needing a guide to business terminology.

Releasedatum: 2016-02-25 169,00 kr

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Releasedatum: 2015-10-26 5,00 kr

A comprehensive Chinese-English dictionary of the most common words. An indispensable reference for any student of Mandarin Chinese, as well as professionals and translators.

Releasedatum: 2015-10-13 105,00 kr

This thesaurus is aimed chiefly at those who are taking their first steps in learning the English language or who are trying to improve a basic grasp of the language. Most of the words listed here are commonly used by English speakers, both in writing and in daily conversation.

Releasedatum: 2015-04-01 29,00 kr

Angla-Esperanto-Angla Vortaro: Find what you are looking for: Concise yet comprehensive, with coverage of all the words you need, including many technical terms. Both directions: Contains both Esperanto–English and English–Esperanto sections, with a total of over 30,000 entries. Keep up-to-date: Completely revised and rewritten, with a thorough coverage of contemporary English and Esperanto. Check how to write it and say it: With a grammatical introduction presenting a clear and authoritativ...

Releasedatum: 2015-01-05 75,00 kr

The classic reference work, in an edition first published before 1923.  Printed, this book would be over 19,000 pages long.  We have added over 6,000 links to help you navigate to the word you want.  (Searching for a word would take you to any instance of that word in definitions, not the word you want defined).  With this version, you click on the first letter, then the first two letters, then on the word that's closest to to the one you want (like the guide words at the hea...

Releasedatum: 2014-12-16 9,00 kr

Shape up your English with thousands of idioms Whether you are a learner of English who is having difficulty understanding expressions in everyday speech or a native speaker who wants to expand your written or spoken range, you need a comprehensive reference for idioms, common phrases, and sayings of American English. McGraw-Hill's American Idioms Dictionary shows you the ropes of English and helps you: Expand your English-speaking abilities with these 14,000-plus expressions, proverbs, and comm...

Releasedatum: 2006-12-04 189,00 kr

As a student of English, you may sometimes find it difficult to know which word to use in a particular context. Or you may have used a particular word several times already in what you are writing, and so you want to use a different expression. Most thesauruses or dictionaries of synonyms are not as helpful as they might first appear: to read a list of synonyms for a certain word is helpful only as far as it goes. This dictionary, however, goes beyond a mere listing of words with a similar meani...

Releasedatum: 2014-08-01 25,00 kr

A Dari / Pashto phrasebook for military personnel serving in Afghanistan. Contains 3512 English phrases, 2083 terms and 3031 individual word listings with their equivalents in Dari (red font) and Pashto (blue font). Intended for operations, training, basic conversation and everyday use. Includes 8 appendices and a map of Afghanistan.

Releasedatum: 2013-01-21 35,00 kr

Sparkling with insight and linguistic curiosity, this delightful compendium answers 101 of the most intriguing questions about the English language, from word origins and spelling to grammar and usage. Irresistible to anyone with an interest in the words around them.

Releasedatum: 2009-10-22 129,00 kr

Hobson-Jobson is a unique lexicon of British India. Part dictionary, part encyclopedia it shows how words of Indian origin entered the English language and offers insight into Victorian views of Asia and the way cultures transform one another. Quirky and entertaining, this selected edition includes a fascinating introduction and notes.

Releasedatum: 2013-06-13 119,00 kr

Available for the first time as an ebook, this acclaimed 180,000-word A-Z dictionary is a comprehensive and highly readable guide to witchcraft, revealing the historical reality beneath the popular stereotypes of old hags, broomsticks, and black cats. Complete with biographies of notorious witches and descriptions of their covens, familiars, spells and practices, it also contains colourful accounts of infamous trials and all the associated paraphernalia of witch-hunting, torture and persecution ...

Releasedatum: 2013-08-12 29,00 kr

Предлагаемое издание объединяет в себе англо-русский и русско-английский юридические словари, содержащие более 11 000 терминов в первой части и около 9 000 терминов во второй части по всем отраслям права. Данный словарь наряду с устоявшейся юридической терминологией содержит...

Releasedatum: 2013-03-22 45,00 kr

Proverbes, maximes et dictons des cinq continents Souvent métaphoriques ou figurés, parfois très drôles dans les images qu'ils dessinent, exprimant une vérité d'expérience ou un conseil sage et avisé, voici un florilège de proverbes, dictons et adages, originaires des quatre coins du monde. Un index par pays permettra aux lecteurs curieux d'en faire une lecture géographique. Un imbécile qui marche ira toujours plus loin que deux intellectuels assis . (Chine) L'eau prend toujours la fo...

Releasedatum: 2012-12-20 19,00 kr

150 Business Letters is a simple and useful method to help you express yourself best in English correspondence.  Search for the text that fits your needs, copy - paste, so simple!

Releasedatum: 2012-09-26 39,00 kr

A comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the superstitions, old and new, of the English-speaking world, complete with their origins, meanings and variant forms. It includes just about everything from touching wood, identifying future lovers and walking under ladders to folk remedies, spells and modern beliefs relating to the lottery, the computer and the mobile phone. A first-class source book for the historian, folklorist and casual reader alike, it also offers antidotes to some of the most fear...

Releasedatum: 2012-07-13 45,00 kr

Alfred Delvau, Dictionnaire Erotique Moderne 1864 Ce livre numérique présente Le Dictionnaire Erotique Moderne, de Alfred Delvau (1874) édité en texte intégral.

Releasedatum: 2012-07-12 25,00 kr

Speaking Boricua is the most in-depth, up-to-date source of Puerto Rican Spanish vocabulary available. This best-selling Puerto Rican Spanish book, Speaking Boricua, is a humorous guide to Puerto Rican Spanish vocabulary. With over 1,500 Puerto Rican words and phrases, you will quickly understand Puerto Rican vocabulary and slang. Cartoon photos illustrate a few of the words and phrases in an entertaining way. By using these words your Puerto Rican friends will understand you better. This book i...

Releasedatum: 2011-08-28 85,00 kr

There are hundreds of Astronomical terms which sound alien to you and you have to look for their definitions and meanings. To save you from the trouble, this concise dictionary has been composed. You can download it on your device and be ready for the astronomical terms which might confuse you. All the best!

Releasedatum: 2011-08-15 29,00 kr

Robert Hartwell Fiske aims to eliminate laxity in language today by way of this witty and engaging reference. Fiske rails against "laxicographers and ding-a-linguists" who, with their misguided thinking, actually promote the dissolution of the English language. He also illustrates why dictionaries don't always provide the correct meaning or usage of a word. With concise instruction and numerous examples of misused words, Fiske makes it easier than ever to learn from others' mistakes. This compre...

Releasedatum: 2011-11-01 179,00 kr

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, published in 1755, marked a milestone in a language in desperate need of standards. No English dictionary before it had devoted so much space to everyday words, been so thorough in its definitions, or illustrated usage by quoting from Shakespeare and other great writers. Johnson's was the dictionary used by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, Wordsworth and Coleridge, the Brontës and the Brownings, Thomas Hardy and Oscar Wilde. This new edition, edited by David Crystal...

Releasedatum: 2006-11-30 149,00 kr