Robert Collins Poche Anglais - Francais-Anglais/Anglais-Francais
$10.00 NZD
Category: Languages | Reading Level: very good
The Oxford Companion to the Year - An Exploration of Calendar Customs and Time-Reckoning by Bonnie Blackburn; Leofranc Holford-Strevens
$35.00 NZD
Category: Reference | Series: Oxford Companions Ser. | Reading Level: very good
What are the halcyon days? On what date do the dog days begin? What is Hansel Monday? How do Chinese, Muslim, Mesoamerican, Jewish, and Babylonian calendars differ from Christian calendars? The answers to these and hundreds of other intriguing questions about the way humans have marked and measured time ...Show more
The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar by Sylvia Chalker; Edward Weiner
$16.00 NZD
Category: Reference | Reading Level: very good
A Dictionary of Australian Underworld Slang by Gary Simes (Editor)
$16.00 NZD
Category: Reference | Reading Level: very good
Edited by Gary Simes, Australian Underworld Slang contains two previously unpublished glossaries of Australian prison and underworld slang compiled in the 1940s and 1950s. The first was compiled in 1944 by Ted Hartley, a conscientious objector imprisoned for his political beliefs. OnHartley's release, t ...Show more
The Godzone Dictionary of Favourite NZ Words and Phrases by Max Cryer
$10.00 NZD
Category: Reference | Reading Level: very good
The Godzone Dictionary is a concise A-Z of the words and phrases that make our New Zealand language and speech patterns so distinctive and individual, from Aotearoa and Avondale spiders to Zambuck and Zespri. Slang words and expressions feature heavily, while one of the unique features of this book is t ...Show more
Curious Kiwi Words by Max Cryer
$10.00 NZD
Category: Reference | Reading Level: very good
New Zealanders have their own lingo - favourite words and expressions which, although not always unique to this country, have been absorbed into our lives and become part of who we are. They include words that came with the early settlers or were coined by them in response to a new environment, words th ...Show more
In Other Words - A Dictionary of New Zealand Idiomatic Expressions by Gaylene A Devlin; Lynne E Grant
$12.00 NZD
Category: Reference | Reading Level: very good
A dictionary containing hundreds of idiomatic expressions used in everyday New Zealand speech.
The Collins Spanish Dictionary - Spanish-English/English-Spanish by Colin Smith
$20.00 NZD
Category: Reference | Reading Level: very good
Containing over 230,000 references and 440,000 translations, this third edition of the Collins Spanish Dictionary features new vocabulary from such diverse fields as business and politics, computing and medicine, reflecting language development since the second edition, while coverage of Latin-American ...Show more
Swearing - A Social History of Foul Language, Oaths and Profanity in English by Geoffrey Hughes
$15.00 NZD
Category: Reference | Series: The\Language Library
From the earliest times swearing has existed in many variegated forms, from the deadliest curse to the most trivial expletives of annoyance. Hedged about with all manner of complex pressures, personal, societal, religious, sexual and other forms of taboo, it remains a phenomenon only imperfectly underst ...Show more
Dr. Johnson's Dictionary - The Book that Defined the World
$8.00 NZD
Category: Reference
This is the story of the first great dictionary of the English language. It is also the story of an heroic ordeal. For Dr Johnson`s attempt to define each and every word was an extraordinary undertaking. In this brilliant book, Henry Hitchings describes Johnson`s adventure
Empires of the Word - A language history of the world by Nicholas Ostler
$20.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
An unusual and authoritative 'natural history of languages' that narrates the ways in which one language has superseded or outlasted another in the past, and what it is about -- say -- Greek, Sanskrit, Mandarin Chinese and English that has led to their supremacy at different times. / A lively, witty and ...Show more
The Royal Geographical Society's Universal Atlas of the World
$60.00 NZD
Category: Reference | Reading Level: very good
Positioned at the very top of the Philip's world atlas range, and published in association with the Royal Geographical Society, this is our most comprehensive edition, with 584 pages in total, including 290 pages of highly detailed world maps, over 100 city maps, a 54-page illustrated overview of world ...Show more