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Product Description: This set reissues important selected works by Eric Partridge, covering the period from 1933 to 1968. Together, the books look at many and diverse aspects of language, focusing in particular on English. Included in the collection are a variety of insightful dictionaries and reference works that showcase some of Partridge’s best work...read more

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9781138912373 | Revised edition (Routledge, May 21, 2015), cover price $1000.00 | About this edition: This set reissues important selected works by Eric Partridge, covering the period from 1933 to 1968.
9780415028110, titled "Dictionary of World Place-Names Derived from British Names" | Routledge, June 1, 1989, cover price $39.95 | also contains Dictionary of World Place-Names Derived from British Names

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Product Description: In this useful work, detailing more than 2,500 African placenames of all types, each entry identifies the country and, in most cases, geographical location within the country. An account of the name's origin and meaning follows, along with appropriate historical, topographical, and biological references...read more

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9780786495610 | 2 reprint edition (McFarland & Co Inc Pub, April 24, 2014), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In this useful work, detailing more than 2,500 African placenames of all types, each entry identifies the country and, in most cases, geographical location within the country.

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Product Description: This work gives the origins and meanings of geographical and political features of the former Soviet Union. All 15 countries that were once part of the U.S.S.R. are included. Each of the over 2,000 entries provides, first, the name of the feature along with its Cyrillic counterpart, followed by the country, and the geographical location within the country; an account of the name's origin and meaning then follows, with appropriate historical, topographical and biographical references...read more

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9780786493692 | Reprint edition (McFarland & Co Inc Pub, February 28, 2014), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: This work gives the origins and meanings of geographical and political features of the former Soviet Union.

Product Description: This work gives the origins and meanings of geographical and political features of the former Soviet Union. All 15 countries that were once part of the U.S.S.R. are included. Each of the over 2,000 entries provides, first, the name of the feature along with its Cyrillic counterpart, followed by the country, and the geographical location within the country; an account of the name's origin and meaning then follows, with appropriate historical, topographical and biographical references...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780786400423 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, May 1, 1996, cover price $58.50 | About this edition: This work gives the origins and meanings of geographical and political features of the former Soviet Union.

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Provides information on location, recent history, industries, and population for each of over eight thousand important and sizeable nations, cities, towns, regions and topographical features around the world

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9780312055974, titled "The Statesman's Year-Book World Gazetteer" | 4th edition (Palgrave Macmillan, June 1, 1991), cover price $49.95 | also contains Modern Art | About this edition: Provides information on location, recent history, industries, and population for each of over eight thousand important and sizeable nations, cities, towns, regions and topographical features around the world

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9781349213849, titled "The Statesman's Year-book World Gazetteer" | 4th edition (Palgrave Macmillan, January 14, 2014), cover price $99.00

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Provides information on location, recent history, industries, and population for each of over eight thousand important and sizeable nations, cities, towns, regions and topographical features around the world

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9780312055974, titled "The Statesman's Year-Book World Gazetteer" | 4th edition (Palgrave Macmillan, June 1, 1991), cover price $49.95 | also contains The Statesman''s Year-Book World Gazetteer | About this edition: Provides information on location, recent history, industries, and population for each of over eight thousand important and sizeable nations, cities, towns, regions and topographical features around the world

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9781566499910, titled "Modern Art: The Pocket Visual Encyclopedia of Art" | Mul edition (Welcome Rain, June 16, 2013), cover price $19.95

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Product Description: The American Indians have lost much of their land over the years, but their legacy is evident in the many places around the United States that have Indian names. Countless placenames have, however, been corrupted over time, and numerous placenames have similar spellings but different meanings because of the way they were interpreted by various authorities...read more

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9780786431885 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, November 30, 2004, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: This reference work consists of two volumes.

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9780786471676 | Alternate edition (McFarland & Co Inc Pub, May 24, 2012), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: The American Indians have lost much of their land over the years, but their legacy is evident in the many places around the United States that have Indian names.

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Product Description: From Smut Eye, Alabama, to Tie Siding, Wyoming, this pop-culture history offers a highly entertaining survey of America's most unusual place-names and their often-humorous origins. Frank K. Gallant traveled the country—meeting locals, eating in their restaurants, staying at their hotels—and recorded the best of the stories and legends he encountered...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Frank K. Gallant and Victoria Roberts (illustrator)

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9780877796190 | Merriam Webster, January 1, 1998, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: From Smut Eye, Alabama, to Tie Siding, Wyoming, this pop-culture history offers a highly entertaining survey of America's most unusual place-names and their often-humorous origins.

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By Prima Games (corporate author)

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9780192819000, titled "A Concise Dictionary of Modern Place-Names in Great Britain and Ireland" | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, April 1, 1988), cover price $7.95 | also contains A Concise Dictionary of Modern Place-Names in Great Britain and Ireland

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9780199566785 | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, May 2, 2010), cover price $19.95
9780198609575, titled "A Dictionary of London Place-Names" | Oxford Univ Pr, December 16, 2004, cover price $30.00
9780192801067 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 1, 2001, cover price $13.95

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By William Bright (contributor)

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9780520266193 | 40 enl rev edition (Univ of California Pr, February 10, 2010), cover price $32.95

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Product Description: From Arles, Bibliotheque Nationale and fontana to sanctus, Joinville-le-Pont and Notre-Dame-des-Champs, this work is an alphabetical dictionary of over 4000 placenames in both France and Corsica. Natural features such as rivers, mountains and islands; administrative regions such as historical provinces and modern departments; and inhabited centers such as cities, towns and villages are all listed here...read more

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9780786420520 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, September 1, 2004, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: From Arles, Bibliotheque Nationale and fontana to sanctus, Joinville-le-Pont and Notre-Damedes-Champs, this work is an alphabetical dictionary of over 4000 placenames in both France and Corsica.

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9780786445912 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, September 10, 2009, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: From Arles, Bibliotheque Nationale and fontana to sanctus, Joinville-le-Pont and Notre-Dame-des-Champs, this work is an alphabetical dictionary of over 4000 placenames in both France and Corsica.

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9780521460101 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 1, 1998, cover price $150.00

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9780521102636 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, March 12, 2009), cover price $34.99

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Product Description: In this extensively revised and enlarged edition of a work first published in 1994, many of the entries have been expanded or entirely rewritten, and the entries have increased in number from 2,000 to more than 2,500. Each placename's entry identifies the country and, in most cases, geographical location within the country...read more

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9780786435463 | 2 edition (McFarland & Co Inc Pub, June 30, 2008), cover price $55.00 | About this edition: In this extensively revised and enlarged edition of a work first published in 1994, many of the entries have been expanded or entirely rewritten, and the entries have increased in number from 2,000 to more than 2,500.

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9781590172735 | New York Review of Books, July 1, 2008, cover price $19.95
9780938530022 | Don''t Call It Frisco Pr, January 1, 1983, cover price $10.00

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Product Description: In tracing the roots of Indiana place names, Michael McCafferty focuses on those created and used by local Native Americans. Drawing from exciting new sources that include three Illinois dictionaries from the eighteenth century, the author documents the language used to describe landmarks essential to fur traders in Les Pays d’en Haut and settlers of the Old Northwest territory...read more

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9780252032684, titled "Native American Place-Names of Indiana" | Univ of Illinois Pr, March 6, 2008, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: In tracing the roots of Indiana place names, Michael McCafferty focuses on those created and used by local Native Americans.

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Identifies and provides background information on cities, towns, districts, territories, and nations around the world.

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9780816053445, titled "Encyclopedia of Historic Places" | Revised edition (Facts on File, September 1, 2007), cover price $300.00 | About this edition: Identifies and provides background information on cities, towns, districts, territories, and nations around the world.
9780871961266 | Facts on File, April 1, 1984, cover price $175.00 | About this edition: Identifies and provides background information on cities, towns, districts, territories, and nations around the world
9780871961259 | Facts on File, June 1, 1983, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Identifies and provides background information on cities, towns, districts, territories, and nations around the world

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Product Description: Authoritative, comprehensive, and fully up-to-date, this outstanding encyclopedia contains more than 10,000 detailed entries on Scotland’s cities, towns and villages, mountains, lochs and rivers, visitor attractions, monuments, and historic sites...read more

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9780004724669 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, October 30, 2006, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Authoritative, comprehensive, and fully up-to-date, this outstanding encyclopedia contains more than 10,000 detailed entries on Scotland’s cities, towns and villages, mountains, lochs and rivers, visitor attractions, monuments, and historic sites.

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An updated reference presents an alphabetical listing of terms for people residing in particular geographic locations, including both proper names and nicknames, as well as the history, etymology, and lore of each term. Original.

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9780060881641 | Harpercollins, August 31, 2006, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: An updated reference presents an alphabetical listing of terms for people residing in particular geographic locations, including both proper names and nicknames, as well as the history, etymology, and lore of each term.
9780877796169 | Merriam Webster, July 1, 1997, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Presents an alphabetical listing of terms for people residing in particular geographic locations, and includes the history and lore of each term

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'From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, this comprehensive reference work covers the monetary systems of 203 countries and four confederations. An introductory chapter explains the arrangement of the information and the conventions that are used for spelling, foreign diction and uncommon monetary symbols and abbreviations. The dictionary, provides historical and orthographical information for all monetary systems according to country'--Provided by publisher.

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9780786420803 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, December 30, 2005, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: 'From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, this comprehensive reference work covers the monetary systems of 203 countries and four confederations.

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9780786440429 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, October 24, 2008, cover price $45.00

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Product Description: Bring out the best in yourself, your colleagues, customers, direct reports, and bosses with PeopleSmart. The ten modules in this workbook lead you through numerous activities and exercises, both independently and in groups. These modules allow you to: assess skill levels for each of the eight PeopleSmart skills...read more

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9780080304038, titled "The Place Names of Upper Deeside" | Aberdeen Univ Pr, November 1, 1984, cover price $29.50 | also contains The Place Names of Upper Deeside

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9780787979553 | Workbook edition (Pfeiffer & Co, November 18, 2005), cover price $35.95 | About this edition: Bring out the best in yourself, your colleagues, customers, direct reports, and bosses with PeopleSmart.

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Product Description: The Concise Dictionary of World Place Names gives the history, meanings and origin of an enormous range of country, region, island, city, and town anmes from across the world, as well as the name of the local language. It includes key historical facts associated with many place names, selected former names, and, where appropriate, some historical detail to explain the transition...read more

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9780198605379 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 1, 2005, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The Concise Dictionary of World Place Names gives the history, meanings and origin of an enormous range of country, region, island, city, and town anmes from across the world, as well as the name of the local language.

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Product Description: In this book are the stories of how the names of features in Yosemite National Park came to be. Includes old names, Indian names, fanciful names, and names that won t be missed. The record of who named what and when; quotations from explorers, soldiers, tourists, and rangers; and the peculiar, humorous, or moving events that gave rise to the names on the maps today...read more

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9780944220191 | 2 edition (Great West Books, July 1, 2005), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: In this book are the stories of how the names of features in Yosemite National Park came to be.
9780944220009 | Great West Books, May 1, 1988, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: In this book are the stories of how the names of features in Yosemite National Park came to be.

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Product Description:     "Of all the states of the American union, none has a name that has been spelled in more ways, or interpreted more variously, than Wisconsin.  Among the spellings listed are Mesconsin, Meskousing, Mishkonsing, Ouisconsens, Ouisconsin, Ouisconsing, Ouiscousing, Ouiskonsin, Owisconsing, Quisconsing, Weeskonsan, Wisconsan, Wisconsin, Wishkonsing, and Wiskonsin...read more

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9780299129804 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, February 1, 1992, cover price $42.50 | About this edition:     "Of all the states of the American union, none has a name that has been spelled in more ways, or interpreted more variously, than Wisconsin.

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Product Description: The legacy of the American Indian is evident throughout the United States in the many places that have Indian names. Countless placenames have, however, been corrupted over time, and numerous placenames have similar spellings but different meanings because of the way they were interpreted by various authorities...read more

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9780786419838 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, November 30, 2004, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: The legacy of the American Indian is evident throughout the United States in the many places that have Indian names.

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