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9780712309738 | British Library Board, August 1, 2016, cover price $29.95
Product Description: This book examines language change and documentation during the First World War. With contributions from international academics, the chapters cover all aspects of communicating in a transnational war including languages at the front; interpretation, translation and parallels between languages; communication with the home front; propaganda and language manipulation; and recording language during the war...read more
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9781137550293 | Palgrave Macmillan, May 18, 2016, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: This book examines language change and documentation during the First World War.
Product Description: With several terms from the First World War still present in modern speech, Languages and the First World War presents over 30 essays by international academics investigating the linguistic aspects of the 1914-18 conflict. The first of the two volumes covers language change and documentation during the period of the war, while the second examines the representation and the memory of the war...read more
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9781137550354 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 1, 2016, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: With several terms from the First World War still present in modern speech, Languages and the First World War presents over 30 essays by international academics investigating the linguistic aspects of the 1914-18 conflict.
Product Description: "The quest for physical beauty is essentially as old as Woman herself," according to A Complete Guide to Personal Loveliness from 1937. This fascinating new book explores some of the materials and methods that womenâand menâhave used in the past to enhance or hold on to their looks...read more
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9780712357524 | British Library Board, December 15, 2014, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: "The quest for physical beauty is essentially as old as Woman herself," according to A Complete Guide to Personal Loveliness from 1937.
Product Description: Today we are used to reaching for a painkiller when we get a headache, we take anesthetics and antibiotics for granted, and we would not dream of making our own medicines. But until a century ago that was far from the case, and people had to seek their own remedies or depend on far-from-reliable doctors and apothecaries for everything from an ingrown toenail to amputation...read more
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9780712357012, titled "How to Cure the Plague & Other Curious Remedies: And Other Curious Remedies" | British Library Board, February 15, 2014, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Today we are used to reaching for a painkiller when we get a headache, we take anesthetics and antibiotics for granted, and we would not dream of making our own medicines.
Product Description: In 1987, seven people embarked on a three month charity expedition to drive an old red Dennis fire engine from the northern tip of Europe to the southernmost point of Africa. After almost five months, 37,000km, 21 countries, and a journey through rainforest, bush veldt, deserts and urban developments, the author was one of five who completed their odyssey...read more
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9781781486634 | Gardners Books, November 13, 2013, cover price $15.45 | About this edition: In 1987, seven people embarked on a three month charity expedition to drive an old red Dennis fire engine from the northern tip of Europe to the southernmost point of Africa.
Product Description: The First World War largely directed the course of the 20th century. Fought on three continents, the war saw 14 million killed and 34 million wounded. Its impact shaped the world we live in today, and the language of the trenches continues to live in the modern consciousness...read more
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9780752471549 | Spellmount Ltd Pub, January 1, 2013, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The First World War largely directed the course of the 20th century.
Product Description: Have you ever wondered why we talk about a handicap in sport, why boxing is so named, or whether a dumbbell ever rang? It was during the nineteenth century that hitherto local games with relaxed and varying rules were formalized. During this process terminologies developed to refer to these new standardized sports, borrowing, modifying and redefining words from all walks of life in sometimes strange and unexpected ways...read more
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9780747808343 | Shire Pubns, October 18, 2011, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Have you ever wondered why we talk about a handicap in sport, why boxing is so named, or whether a dumbbell ever rang?
Product Description: Throughout history, the English language has reflected social changes, trade routes, and waves of fashion. This book examines the histories of the names of foods, ingredients, utensils, drinks, cooking methods, and dishes to show how the vocabulary of English has reflected the ways speakers of the language have interacted with their tastes, their environment and other cultures...read more
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9780747807766 | Shire Pubns, May 25, 2010, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Throughout history, the English language has reflected social changes, trade routes, and waves of fashion.
Product Description: Pages: 8 Language: English Publisher: Osprey Publishing For 1500 years English has built new words or taken them from other languages ??and changed their form and often their meaning to make them the words we use today When we explore the journeys...read more
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9780747807490 | Original edition (Shire Pubns, October 20, 2009), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Pages: 8 Language: English Publisher: Osprey Publishing For 1500 years English has built new words or taken them from other languages ?
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