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The Oxford Starter Spanish Dictionary
This revolutionary and user-friendly new dictionary will help absolute beginners gain a clear understanding of Spanish grammar and usage.
Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary
Searchable Spanish to English and English to Spanish dictionaries, based on the Oxford Spanish dictionary. Databases contain 170,000 words and phrases and 240,000 translations.
Oxford Colour Spanish Dictionary Plus
This edition of the Oxford Colour Spanish Dictionary Plus has up-to-date coverage of essential Spanish, updated cultural notes, a new 'Words you must know' section, games, and grammar help - all in a portable, durable format.
El Diccionario Oxford Compact
This compact dictionary, brought up to date with recent vocabulary and idiom changes, makes an ideal companion for business travelers, vacationers, and students. It lists over 85,000 words and phrases and over 125,000 translations, and includes a correspondence assistance section.
The Oxford Spanish Dictionary and Grammar
This new edition of the Oxford Spanish Dictionary and Grammar offers: A major new edition of the dictionary with a new layout and design Over 100,000 words, phrases, and translations in the dictionary provide extensive coverage with up-to-the-minute vocabulary Frequently-used words, the building blocks to learning the language, are given a special layout with usage notes throughout the dictionary New warning symbols throughout make slang and informal words and expressions instantly identifiable Also includes tables of irregular Spanish verbs In addition, there is a comprehensive and easy-to-use guide to Spanish Grammar offering: clear explanations of modern Spanish usage and grammar, including coverage of Latin American Spanish; sections on word order, punctuation, and prepositions; extra help on translation problems and pronunciation traps; and an extensive glossary and full index This title replaces ISBN 0-19-860079-8 Contents List
Reference Sources for Small and Medium-sized Libraries, Eighth Edition
Focusing on new reference sources published since 2008 and reference titles that have retained their relevance, this new edition brings O’Gorman’s complete and authoritative guide to the best reference sources for small and medium-sized academic and public libraries fully up to date. About 40 percent of the content is new to this edition. Containing sources selected and annotated by a team of public and academic librarians, the works included have been chosen for value and expertise in specific subject areas. Equally useful for both library patrons and staff, this resource Covers more than a dozen key subject areas, including General Reference; Philosophy, Religion, and Ethics; Psycholog...
Art Song Composers of Spain
More than 90 composers are discussed in detail with biographies, examples of the song literature, and comprehensive listings of stage works, books and recordings, compositions in non-vocal genres, and vocal repertoire.
"Proverbs Speak Louder Than Words"
"This book presents a composite picture of the richness of proverbs as significant expressions of folk wisdom as is manifest from their appearance in art, culture, folklore, history, literature, and the mass media. The book draws attention to the fact that proverbs as metaphorical signs continue to play an important role in oral and written communication. Proverbs as so-called monumenta humana are omnipresent in all facets of life, and while they are neither sacrosanct nor saccharine, they usually offer much common sense or wisdom based on recurrent experiences and observations."--BOOK JACKET.
The Medieval Changeling
The first comprehensive study of medieval changelings and associated attitudes to the health and care of children in the period. The changeling - a monstrous creature swapped for a human child by malevolent powers - is an enduring image in the popular imagination; dubbing a child a changeling is traditionally understood as a way to justify the often-violent rejection of a disabled or ailing infant. Belief in the reality of changelings is famously attested in Stephen of Bourbon's disapproving thirteenth-century account of rites at the shrine of Saint Guinefort the Holy Greyhound, where sick children were brought to be cured. However, the focus on the St. Guinefort rituals has meant some schol...
Literary Translation
This volume of 'Angles on the English-Speaking World' discusses the intriguing inter-relatedness between the concepts and phenomena of world literature and translation. The term 'worlding', presented by Ástráður Eysteinsson in this collection, is coined by Sarah Lawell in her book Reading World Literature (1994) where it denotes the reader's pleasurable 'reading' of the meeting of 'worlds' in a literary translation -- i.e. the meeting of the different cultural environments embodied in a translation from one language into another. Through such reading, the reader in fact participates in creating true 'world literature'. This is a somewhat unorthodox conception of world literature, conventi...
