(Paperback)
By: Ken Watson
ISBN: 9781876757083
Readership/Audience: Primary and Secondary Educational
Publication Date: Dec 2001
Publisher: St Clair Press Pty Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Marco Sonzogni
ISBN: 9781988595092
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2021
Publisher: The Cuba Press
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This collection of essays is the first comprehensive discussion of Heaney as translator.
(Hardback)
By: Colin Murphy
ISBN: 9781847170699
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2009
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2009
Publisher: O'Brien Press Ltd
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Forget the boring stuff you learned in school. Heres the REAL skinny on Irish history.
(Paperback)
By: Roland Barthes
ISBN: 9780099437420
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2002
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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An ecstatic celebration of love and language Washington Post
The language we use when we are in love is not a language we speak.
(Paperback)
By: George A. Kennedy
ISBN: 9780691000596
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 1995
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Provides a comprehensive history of classical rhetoric. This work begins by identifying the rhetorical features of early Greek literature that anticipated the formulation of "metarhetoric," or a theory of rhetoric, in the fifth and fourth centuries and then traces the development of that theory through the Greco-Roman period.
(Hardback)
By: Judith Flanders
ISBN: 9781509881567
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2020
UK Publication Date: 6th February 2020
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A celebration of alphabetical order, from its humble beginnings to its pre-eminence as the organizing principle for the sum of the world's knowledge.
(Hardback)
By: Tim Brookes
ISBN: 9781529408249
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 29th August 2024
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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A global exploration of the many writing systems that are on the verge of vanishing, and the stories and cultures they carry with them.
(Paperback, 5th edition)
By: Koenraad Kuiper
ISBN: 9781350380127
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Jonathan J. Webster
ISBN: 9781350079847
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2018
UK Publication Date: 26th July 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Sarah Risha
ISBN: 9780804852586
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
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"A guide to modern standard Arabic"--Cover.
(Paperback)
By: Sarah Dawson
ISBN: 9780140286892
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 1999
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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A chirpy little A to Z pocket book of choice Australian slang words and expressions. Everyday Aussie speech is peppered with words and phrases whose arcane meanings are understood only by the initiated, and this book sets out to demystify these colourful colloquialisms for both local and overseas readers.
(Paperback)
By: R. M. W. Dixon
ISBN: 9781760875237
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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An introduction to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait languages that explains their distinctive features accessibly for readers who have no previous experience with learning another language, and shows how language reflects traditional culture.
(Paperback)
By: Anon
ISBN: 9780143009115
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2008
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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This dictionary brings together a colourful collection of colloquialisms from Down Under, including humorous rhyming slang, inventive insults and comical curses. Celebrating a distinctive and often irreverent language, Australian Slang is a ripper of a read that will delight visitors from OS, as well as true-blue Aussie blokes and sheilas.
(Hardback)
By: Dennis Duncan
ISBN: 9781851245093
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2019
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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This innovative and lavishly illustrated collection of essays shows how linguistic diversity has inspired people across time and cultures to embark on adventurous journeys through the translation of texts. From papyrus fragments to Asterix cartoons, it explores how ideas have travelled via the medium of translation.
(Paperback)
By: Mary Smith
ISBN: 9780760375747
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 15th November 2022
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
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An engaging and contemporary take on baby sign language from Mary Smith (@signngrow) with 100+ signs as well as various learning strategies, games, and tips to help ensure success.
(Paperback)
By: Emanuele Severino
ISBN: 9781350285248
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback, 2nd edition)
By: Dr Marcello Giovanelli
ISBN: 9781350355453
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Amanda Montell
ISBN: 9780063244689
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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(Hardback)
By: Amanda Montell
ISBN: 9780062993151
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2021
UK Publication Date: 22nd July 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonestown and Scientology to SoulCycle and social media gurus use language as the ultimate form of power.
What makes cults so intriguing and frightening
(Paperback, Main)
By: Anna Aslanyan
ISBN: 9781788162647
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 5th May 2022
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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Horizon-expanding tales of how translators altered the course of world events.
(Hardback)
By: Franois Caradec
ISBN: 9780262038492
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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An illustrated guide to more than 850 gestures and their meanings around the world, from a nod of the head to a click of the heels.
(Paperback)
By: Franois Caradec
ISBN: 9780262547994
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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Translation of: Dictionnaire des gestes: attitudes et mouvements expressifs en usage dans le monde entier.
(Paperback, 3rd edition)
By: Susan Butler
ISBN: 9781921351983
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2009
Publisher: Text Publishing
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This book describes the origins and usage of words ranging from Anzac to mulga, from kangaroo to sool. In covering the terrain from Georgian convict slang to contemporary Australian idioms the author describes the way we talk about food, sport, plants, animals, men, women and children.
(Paperback, 3rd edition)
By: Brian Paltridge
ISBN: 9781350093621
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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