The Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary, Queen ...
Amazon.com Review: People love secrets, and ever since the first word was written, humans have written coded messages to each other. In The Code Book, Simon Singh, author of the bestselling Fermat's Enigma, offers a peek into the world of cryptography [... more]
$24.95
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Japanese, The Spoken Language: Part 2 (Yale Language ...
Disappointing: I can't say that I'm overly impressed with this textbook. If I weren't a Japanese major and didn't need to take the class that requires this book, I'd probably have thrown it away long before now. The use of romaji throughout the entire [... more]
$36.00
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Chicago Guide to Preparing Electronic Manuscripts ...
Author: The University of Chicago Press Binding: Plastic Comb Dewey Decimal Number: 070.50285 EAN: 9780226103938 ISBN: 0226103935 Number Of Pages: 151 Publication Date: 1991-01-11 [... more]
$13.00
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The Wiley Dictionary of Civil Engineering and ...
FRANKLY DISAPPOINTING: I am a professional translator, and frankly I found this particular dictionary to be not up to expectations, in particular since it is extremely expensive. There are many, many construction terms that are not included. Not only [... more]
$130.00
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt ...
Amazon.com Review: People love secrets. Ever since the first word was written, humans have sent coded messages to each other. In The Code Book, Simon Singh, author of the bestselling Fermat's Enigma, offers a peek into the world of cryptography and codes, [... more]
$15.95
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Speech Genres and Other Late Essays (University of Texas ...
Review of the Bildungsroman Book Fragment: This Book, like almost everything Bakhtin wrote is profound and food for thought. Unfortunately, and this is the drawback with some of the English Language translations and compilations, it is also quite uneven, [... more]
$22.95
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The Wall Jumper: A Berlin Story (Phoenix Fiction Series)
An engaging novel of Berlin before the fall of the Wall.: This completely frank, thought-provoking, and often wryly humorous account of life in Berlin before the fall of the Wall will go straight to your heart with its fascinating stories and tales from [... more]
$16.00
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The Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing ...
Not for book publishing: All major publishing houses use Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th ed., as their preferred spelling standard. There the noun is "copy editor": two words, not one as in the title of this book. Therefore, [... more]
$19.95
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The Atoms of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules of Grammar
Excellent book, but not for everyone: The Principle and Parameters approach in linguistics is one of Chomsky's most profound theoretical insights, and its elegance and depth in explaining linguistic phenomena across languages is one of the most [... more]
$28.00
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Reading Japanese (Yale Language Series)
horrible book!: This is a useless book for self-study. It uses an outdated romaji system ("iti" instead of "ichi"), but worse of all, it doesn't tell you how to properly read each kanji when placed in a compound! Since each kanji can [... more]
$35.00
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The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret ...
Amazon.com Review: "Few false ideas have more firmly gripped the minds of so many intelligent men than the one that, if they just tried, they could invent a cipher that no one could break," writes David Kahn in this massive (almost 1,200 pages) [... more]
$75.00
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Network-based Language Teaching: Concepts and Practice ...
Book Description: This text provides a critical collection of recent research in on-line communication for second language learning. Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 418.00285 EAN: 9780521667425 ISBN: 0521667429 Number Of Pages: 240 Publication [... more]
$34.00
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