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The Invisible Fran
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2013; US$ 4.99There?s nothing better than being a mad scientist?at least according to Franny. So she?s making it her mission to help her classmates discover their own inner mad scientists. All Franny needs for her latest experiment is a few volunteers, a half-completed two-headed robot, and an invisibility potion. Only this experiment just might prove to be Franny?s... more...
The Invisible Fran
Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers 2013; Not AvailableThere?s nothing better than being a mad scientist?at least according to Franny. So she?s making it her mission to help her classmates discover their own inner mad scientists. All Franny needs for her latest experiment is a few volunteers, a half-completed two-headed robot, and an invisibility potion. Only this experiment just might prove to be Franny?s... more...
The Invisible Fran
Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers 2013; Not AvailableThere?s nothing better than being a mad scientist?at least according to Franny. So she?s making it her mission to help her classmates discover their own inner mad scientists. All Franny needs for her latest experiment is a few volunteers, a half-completed two-headed robot, and an invisibility potion. Only this experiment just might prove to be Franny?s... more...
Reading the Oxford English Dictionary
Penguin Group Australia 2010; Not Available'I'm reading the OED so you don't have to. If you are interested in vocabulary that is both spectacularly useful and beautifully useless, read on...' Who among us does not know a wine-knight (a person who drinks valiantly), or someone who obaginates (to annoy by repeating over and over and over)? Who has not felt mumpish (sullenly angry) or appreciated... more...
The Book of the Heart
Simon Pulse 2004; US$ 11.99When I was six months old, I dropped from the sky -- the lone survivor of a deadly Japanese plane crash. The newspapers named me Heaven. I was adopted by a wealthy family in Tokyo, pampered, and protected. For nineteen years, I thought I was lucky. I'm learning how wrong I was. A Sheltered Life Life is good back in Japan where I'm safe and... more...
Words That Work
Hyperion 2007; US$ 15.99WORDS THAT WORK offers a behind-the-scenes look at how the tactical use of words and phrases and the power of language affects what we buy, who we vote for, and what we believe in. Frank Luntz, a leading national pollster who engineered both the Republican Contract with America victory in 1994 and various bestselling corporate campaigns shares his... more...
Out of Order
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 5.99Colt's perfect life crumbles when his girlfriend breaks up with him and looming academic ineligibility threatens his baseball career. For a guy who gets by on his good looks and talent with a bat, Colt knows that he could be facing his toughest challenge ever. Just as she did in her acclaimed novel Damage, author A. M. Jenkins strikes to the heart... more...
Posner, Roland; Robering, Klaus; Sebeok, Thomas A.: Semiotik / Semiotics. 1. Teilband
De Gruyter 1997; US$ 909.00This series of HANDBOOKS OF LINGUISTICS AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCE is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific languages, but also covers those more recent areas which have developed from the increasing body of research into the manifold forms of communicative action... more...
Neural Network Model of Lexical Organisation
Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 150.00This is an engaging study of the mental lexicon - the way in which the form and meaning of words is stored by speakers of specific languages. Fortescue attempts to narrow the gap between the results of experimental neurology and the concerns of theoretical linguistics in the area of lexical semantics. The prime goal as regards linguistic theory is... more...









