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Place and Identity in Classic Maya Narratives

By Alexandre Tokovinine

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9780884023920 | Dumbarton Oaks Pub Service, November 11, 2013, cover price $39.95

Placenames of the World: Origins And Meanings of the Names for 6,600 Countries, Cities, Territories, Natural Features And Historic Sites

'First published in 1997, the work in this new edition contains over 7,000 entries, including 1,000 new placenames from previously under-represented areas such as China and Japan. Entries cover natural features as well as manmade entities. Each entry includes the name of the feature; a brief description and its geographical location; and the origin of the name'--Provided by publisher.

By Adrian Room

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9780786422487 | 2 edition (McFarland & Co Inc Pub, December 30, 2005), cover price $85.00 | About this edition: 'First published in 1997, the work in this new edition contains over 7,000 entries, including 1,000 new placenames from previously under-represented areas such as China and Japan.

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9780786475254 | 2 edition (McFarland & Co Inc Pub, February 25, 2013), cover price $35.00

The Dictionary of City Names in American Slang

Product Description: This unique dictionary presents popular slang names for North American cities. These expressions are used instead of official names to convey additional information. They are semantically rich and culturally meaningful, telegraphically describing the characteristics of the cities to which they refer, explaining the motivations of their coiners, and revealing the attitudes of their users...read more

By Malgorzata Kowalczyk

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9783631607671 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, November 16, 2011, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: This unique dictionary presents popular slang names for North American cities.

Nicknames of Places: Origins and Meanings of the Alternate and Secondary Names, Sobriquets, Titles, Epithets and Slogans for 4600 Places Worldwide

Product Description: Many places in the world, from the smallest settlement to the largest expanse of land or water, have one or more secondary names--nicknames, titles, or slogans by which it is known in addition to its formal or usual name. Rarely if ever found on maps or in gazetteers, such names feature widely in popular use, travel guides, journalistic articles, and literature of all kinds...read more

By Adrian Room

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9780786424979 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, September 30, 2006, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: 'Many places in the world, from the smallest settlement to the largest expanse of land or water, have a secondary name.

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9780786466238 | Reprint edition (McFarland & Co Inc Pub, August 31, 2011), cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Many places in the world, from the smallest settlement to the largest expanse of land or water, have one or more secondary names--nicknames, titles, or slogans by which it is known in addition to its formal or usual name.

Labels for Locals: What to Call People from Abilene to Zimbabwe

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.

By Paul Dickson

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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

Geographical Origin of Language: The End of Place Name Mystery

Product Description: Geographical Origin of Language: The End of Place Name Mystery offers a detailed explanation of Geographical Alphabet and geographical generic semantics, affix, language, and grammar as a basis for understanding the significance of place names and their meanings...read more

By Muharem Cerabregu

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9780805971248 | Dorrance Pub Co, June 30, 2006, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Geographical Origin of Language: The End of Place Name Mystery offers a detailed explanation of Geographical Alphabet and geographical generic semantics, affix, language, and grammar as a basis for understanding the significance of place names and their meanings.

The Wonderful World of Geographic Names: The Writings of Meredith (Pete) F. Burrill (Toponymist Extraordinaire

By Randall Detro (editor) and H. J. Walker (editor)

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9780938909125 | Louisiana State Univ, February 1, 2004, cover price $22.01

Handbook of Geographical Nicknames

Product Description: New in Paper! Can you identify the 'Bride of the Adriatic'?, the 'Home of Bock Beer'?, the 'Eye of Greece'?, the 'Home of the Great Bed'?, the 'Sick Man of Europe'? These nicknames and many others-appellations of countries, cities, mountains, rivers, capes and places of historical interest- are identified in Harold Sharp's concise but thorough volume...read more

By Harold S. Sharp

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9780810812802 | Scarecrow Pr, March 1, 1980, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: An alphabetical listing, with extensive cross-references, of the names and nicknames of countries, cities, mountains, rivers, seas, deserts, and other geographical items of historical interest, excluding American cities, states, or counties

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9780810841611 | Scarecrow Pr, March 1, 2002, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: New in Paper!

Aberdeens Around the World

Product Description: The Scots have been adventurers for centuries, traveling to all corners of the world and taking the name of their home with them. Scottish place names can be found on every continent, and âAberdeenâ appears from the Deep South of America to the prairies of Canada; from the tropical islands of the Caribbean to the South America and Africa; from the Bay of Bengal and ancient China to a lush valley in Australia...read more

By Frederick Bull

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9781840170450 | Scottish Cultural Pr, November 1, 2001, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The Scots have been adventurers for centuries, traveling to all corners of the world and taking the name of their home with them.

Place Names: How They Define the World and More

Product Description: Geographic features are relatively stableâbut their names are not. This fact has been brought home with the advent of television, the Internet, and other technological advancements.Randall has drawn upon his global knowledge of geographic names accumulated by professional experiences in the fields of geography and cartography followed by a career with the U...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Richard R. Randall

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9780810839069 | Scarecrow Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $61.00 | About this edition: Geographic features are relatively stableâbut their names are not.

Toponymy: The Lore, Laws and Language of Geographical Names

Product Description: Book by Kadmon, Naftali (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Naftali Kadmon and Naitali Kadmon

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9780533135318 | Vantage Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Book by Kadmon, Naftali

Off the Map: The Curious Histories of Place-Names

Explores the origins of place names and the relationship between geography, cartography, and historical events

By Derek Nelson

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9781568361741 | Kodansha Amer Inc, November 1, 1997, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Explores the origins of place names and the relationship between geography, cartography, and historical events

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9781568362984 | Kodansha Amer Inc, November 1, 2000, cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Explores the origins of place names and the relationship between geography, cartography, and historical events

The Arthurian Name Dictionary

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By Christopher W. Bruce

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9780815328650 | Routledge, December 1, 1998, cover price $220.00

Placenames of the World: Origins and Meanings of the Names for over 5000 Natural Features, Countries, Capitals, Territories, Cities and Historic Sites

Presents the origins and meanings of place-names of more than five thousand countries, cities, regions, and other geographic features (view table of contents)

By Adrian Room

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9780786401727 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, March 1, 1997, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Presents the origins and meanings of place-names of more than five thousand countries, cities, regions, and other geographic features

What in the Word?: Origins of Words Dealing With People and Places

Describes the origins of words connected to names, from academy and alabaster to tuxedo and vaudeville, and lists the meaning of names and the origins of place names

By David Muschell

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9781881117148 | McGuinn & McGuire, April 1, 1996, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Describes the origins of words connected to names, from academy and alabaster to tuxedo and vaudeville, and lists the meaning of names and the origins of place names

Kierkegaard's Philosophy: Self-Deception and Cowardice in the Present Age

Product Description: Some philosophers we read to discover the nature of the universe. Others we read to discover the nature of ourselves. In the second group, Soren Kierkegaard stands alone as a towering figure, a man who revolutionized our concept of the human condition...read more

By John D. Mullen

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9780819198037 | Univ Pr of Amer, February 1, 1995, cover price $47.99 | About this edition: Some philosophers we read to discover the nature of the universe.

9780452010598 | Reprint edition (New Amer Library, April 1, 1988), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Explains the background of nicknames for wars, ships, planes, battles, constellations, cities, states, regions, countries

World Cartography

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9789211005080 | United Nations Pubns, November 1, 1993, cover price $20.00

9789211003178 | United Nations Pubns, November 1, 1987, cover price $9.00

9789211002843 | United Nations Pubns, March 1, 1986, cover price $8.50

Terminology Bulletin, No 342/Sales No. A/C/E/F/R/S.91.I.9.

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9789210020558 | United Nations Pubns, May 1, 1991, cover price $10.00

Toposaurus: A Humorous Treasury of Toponyms : An Entertaining Assortment of Familiar Words and Phrases Derived from Place Names--And Their Colorful O

Presents histories of the origins of more than three hundred common words and phrases, each derived from or pertaining to names of places

By John D. Jacobson

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9780471527725 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, November 1, 1990, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Presents histories of the origins of more than three hundred common words and phrases, each derived from or pertaining to names of places

How Places Got Their Names

Presents the stories behind the naming of seventy places all over the world, from Adelaide and Africa to Washington and Zimbabwe

By Graham Rickard

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9780944483343 | Garrett Educational Corp, July 1, 1989, cover price $17.26 | About this edition: Presents the stories behind the naming of seventy places all over the world, from Adelaide and Africa to Washington and Zimbabwe

Place-Names of the World

Explains the origins of the names of more than a thousand oceans, seas, rivers, lakes, mountains, islands, nations, states, territories, and provinces

By Adrian Room

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9780207155390 | Subsequent edition (Angus & Robertson, April 1, 1988), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Explains the origins of the names of more than a thousand oceans, seas, rivers, lakes, mountains, islands, nations, states, territories, and provinces

Names & Nicknames of Places & Things

Explains the background of nicknames for wars, ships, planes, battles, constellations, cities, states, regions, countries

By Laurence Urdang

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9780816187805 | G K Hall, January 1, 1987, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Book by

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9780452009073, titled "Names and Nicknames of Places and Things" | New Amer Library, March 1, 1988, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Explains the background of nicknames for wars, ships, planes, battles, constellations, cities, states, regions, countries

Terminology Bulletin: Names of Countries and Adjectives of Nationality No. 333

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9789210020466 | United Nations Pubns, December 1, 1985, cover price $7.00

Names of Countries: And Their Capital Cities Including Adjectives of Nationality and Current Units

By Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (corporate author)

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9789250020822 | Unipub, September 1, 1984, cover price $7.50

Old Names and New Places

Presents stories behind many place names in the United States and makes suggestions for going about such research.

By Robert I. Alotta

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9780664326470 | Westminster John Knox Pr, July 1, 1979, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Explores the origins of American place names, revealing how they were imported from other countries or used to commemorate people, events, or natural landmarks

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