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This book: "includes over 30,000 entries ; is a valuable resource for students of Arabic ; features an excellent selection of modern words and expressions ; the ideal tool for translating basic documents and conducting everyday conversations ; clear and comprehensive ; designed to enable students to read the average Arabic newspaper or book."--Back cover.
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This essential, portable Arabic-English resource is now updated & revised with new entries and terms! This Arabic Practical dictionary has been the go-to resource for students of Arabic and English alike for nearly two decades. It features the most up-to-date vocabulary in handy reference form. With more than 20,000 entries, it is especially useful in navigating the ever expanding global terminology of politics, telecommunications, technology, the...
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Arabic for Beginners is an ideal introductory textbook--quickly teaching you everything you need to get started learning this beautiful language. Spoken by over 400 million people, Arabic is the world's 5th most spoken language. This book teaches language students Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), which is understood by all native Arabic speakers. Though spoken dialects vary widely by region, MSA is taught at schools throughout all Arab countries and...
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"What is the Arabic term for "suicide bombing"? What phrase would be used to describe "peace-keeping forces" in the Arab media? Or "economic sanctions"?" "In light of recent developments in the Middle East, it is essential that scholars, journalists, government workers, military personnel, businesspeople, and diplomats familiarize themselves quickly with Arabic/English translations for many of these key words and phrases. Media Arabic - the language...
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If you've ever studied a foreign language, you know what happens when you first truly and clearly communicate with another person. As Zora O'Neill recalls, you feel like a magician. They say that Arabic takes seven years to learn and a lifetime to master. Steeped in grammar tomes and outdated textbooks, O'Neill faced an increasing certainty that she was not only failing to master Arabic, but also driving herself crazy. She took a decade-long hiatus,...
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The American poet and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson described the English language as "the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven." With more than 4,000 entries, this dictionary explains the meanings and origins of terms that have entered the English lexicon from foreign tongues. Drawn from the fields of language and literature, religion, law, politics and economics, music, entertainment, and cuisine, entries include a definition...
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"A dictionary, despite its heroic effort to pin down language, is destined for failure the moment a single word is printed; for language, with its eternal mutations, is forever uncontainable. In Dictionary Days, essayist Ilan Stavans explores our very human need to "seize upon the meaning of a word." Owner of hundreds of dictionaries, he follows a zigzagging history of lexicography across many languages, including English, French, Spanish, German,...
12) Leo Africanus
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Overview: "I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I am now called the African, but I am not from Africa, nor from Europe, nor from Arabia. I am also called the Granadan, the Fassi, the Zayyati, but I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road; my country is the caravan, my life the most unexpected of voyages." Thus wrote...
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A selection of writings of 34 authors from the 5th ed. of the 2-vol. Norton anthology of English literature, c1986. Includes Beowulf, Chaucer, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare, John Donne, Ben Jonson, Milton, John Dryden, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, William Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Tennyson, Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold,...
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