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This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Polish Cinema fills the gap in film scholarship, presenting an extensive factual survey of Polish film. Through a chronology; an introductory essay; appendixes, a bibliography; and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on films, directors, actors,...

Hundreds of worlds in English language have been borrowed from Hindi, Urdu, and Sanskrit languages. Several of the Hindi and Urdu words have originally come from Sanskrit. These words got included in the English lexicon without being translated or altered, following almost the same sound and...

An irreverent lexicon of the seemingly infinite ways we call bullshit, written by a McSweeney's columnist and etymologist, illustrated by a New Yorker-contributing cartoonist. What's the difference between "balderdash" and "drivel"? Where did "mumbo-jumbo" come from? How should you use "meadow...

Ouverture et curiosité : le mot d'ordre de ce dictionnaire moderne de citations en tous genres ! Classées par thèmes, voici plus de 7 000 pensées choisies avec gourmandise par Jérôme Duhamel. Il y en a pour tous les goûts : extraits littéraires et poétiques, sorties politiques et historiques,...

From thousands of years rivers have been playing an important role in the lives of the human beings and this is the reason why many important towns and cities are located on the banks of the rivers. We love our rivers, we pray to them but we also pollute them. We use the river water for drinking,...

US Male Names 1.219 US male names by Pythagorean Logodynamics Names are sorted according of the state of origin in USA. Data of names are from the US census bureau. 

No-minute noodler: a kid who eats the two-minute noodles straight from the packet without even cooking them! Dinobore: a kid who can t talk about anything other than dinosaurs.Bumboozle: to confuse the issue of who it was that farted by blaming it all on the dog!A very funny book of words that should exist but don't!Includes a great do-it-yourself section for kids at the back.

There is an inner analysis with Pythagorean Logodynamics of the US Civil Wars. Names are sorted according of the date.

This new edition has been fully revised and updated to provide over 1,800 A-Z definitions of terms from the field of social care, concentrating on social work as a significant area within this field. Covering social work theories, methods, policies, organizations, and statutes, as well as key terms...

US Rivers 2.547 US Rivers by Pythagorean Logodynamics Names are sorted according of the state of origin in USA. Data of names are from the US census bureau. 

Consumer buying of Textile entails continual decision-making. Scarcely a day goes by that some sort of decision on selection, use, and care of clothing or household Textiles is not made. All of us are both present and potential consumers. We have needs and wants, and we are motivated by emotions and...

The ones who studied latin have idioms and phrases in mind that they would like to reuse without, at times, having a clear memory of them. The ones who, instead, couldn't study it often find quotes, because that is the language in which those thoughts were born. Here we have those concepts, useful...

As the world’s demand for electrical energy increases, it will be the ingenuity and skill of brilliant electrochemists that enable us to utilize the planet’s mineral reserves responsibly. This biographical dictionary profiles 95 electrochemists from 19 nations who during the past 270 years have...

Here is a wonderful Baedeker to down-and-dirty politics--more than six hundred slang terms straight from the smoke-filled rooms of American political speech. Hatchet Jobs and Hardball: The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang illuminates a rich and colorful segment of our language. Readers...