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The Abraham Lincoln Quiz Book
Andrews UK 2013; US$ 2.99Inside this quiz book you will find 100 question on one of the most famous of all the Presidents of the United States. This book contains questions from his humble beginnings to the place he will always hold as one of histories most iconic figures. This book also has questions covering his family, his assassination and how it came about, the role he... more...
African-American Proverbs in Context
University Press of Mississippi 1996; US$ 25.00A groundbreaking study of proverbs in African-American speech from slave times to the present. more...
Allgemeines / Lautgeschichte
De Gruyter 1984; US$ 126.00Das Werk bringt eine umfassende Geschichte der englischen Sprache von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart einschließlich der außerbritischen Varianten und verbindet die Darstellung von externer Geschichte mit internen grammatischen Veränderungen. Der erste Band enthält eine ausführliche Darstellung der äußeren Geschichte, wobei vor allem die Einflüsse nicht-englischer... more...
Apophthegmata teutsch
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 392.00Julius Wilhelm Zincgref (1591?1635), the Heidelberg jurist, is considered in his century tohave beena master of the short literary form intended for edification purposes. The two-volume collection of his sayings, Der Teutschen scharpfsinnige kluge Sprüch [Wise and Witty German Sayings], published in 1626 and 1631, was particularly outstanding and influential.... more...
Apple a Day...
Michael O' Mara Books 2011; US$ 9.99Proverbs are short, well-known, pithy sayings that offer advice or words of encouragement and are used in everyday English without much thought ever being given to their meanings, or indeed, usefulness. This book explores the truth behind our favourite proverbs, their history and whether they offer any genuine help to the recipient. more...
BEVATON - Berliner Verfahren zur auditiven Tonhöhenanalyse
De Gruyter 1988; US$ 133.00BEVATON - Berliner Verfahren zur auditiven Tonhöhenanalyse more...
Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 331.00This concise edition of the definitive 3-volume Dictionary of European Proverbs constitutes a fascinating collection of proverbs in 29 languages. The entries are arranged alphabetically according to the English equivalent, allowing the reader to identify common trends easily and quickly. * All proverbs listed in original language * 29 European... more...
Dictionary of European Proverbs
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 943.00This Dictionary contains over 50,000 proverbs, in some 70 European languages and dialects, arranged in 2,500 sets. It is the fruits of over 40 years of collection and research, the only collection of proverbs on anything like this scale ever to be published anywhere in the world. Emanuel Strauss has trawled through innumerable collections of proverbs... more...
Freund - gewöhnen
De Gruyter 1997; US$ 224.00Thesaurus Proverbiorum Medii Aevi: Lexikon Der Sprichworter Des Romanisch-Germanischen Mittelalters (German Edition) more...
The Function of Proverbs in Discourse: The Case of a Mexican Transnational Social Network
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 147.00The book examines how thinking, speaking, and interacting influence the construction of meaning among interlocutors. Its revelatory analysis of the complex use of proverbs as discursive tools in the daily life of a social network of transnational families based in Chicago and Mexico makes it an important contribution to the fields of discourse studies,... more...









