Simpson, J. A.
Summary: "What do you call the part of a dog's back it can't scratch? Can you drink a glass of balderdash? And if, serendipitously, you find yourself in Serendip, then where exactly are you? The answers to all of these questions can be found in the Oxford English Dictionary, the definitive record of the English language. And there is no better guide to the dictionary's many wonderments, its quirks,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SIMPSON, J. A.Parnwell, E. C.
Summary: Teaches English as a second language to Russian speakers through the use of pictures dealing with everyday topics such as the body, post office, law, travel, and family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 491.73 PARSummary: "Completely revised and updated, the fourth edition of this established dictionary offers entries on all aspects of the classical world. With reception and anthropology as new focus areas and numerous new entries, it is an essential reference work for students, scholars, and teachers of classics and for anyone with an interest in the classical era"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2012
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 938.003 OXFSummary: From the Publisher: As Oxford's flagship American dictionary, the New Oxford American Dictionary sets the standard of excellence for lexicography in this country. With more than 350,000 words, phrases, and senses, hundreds of explanatory notes, and more than a thousand illustrations, this dictionary provides the most comprehensive and accurate coverage of American English available. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2010
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 423 NEWWinchester, Simon.
Summary: Looks at the making of the Oxford English dictionary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Ogilvie, Sarah
Summary: For the first time ever, this thrilling literary detective story, doubling as a celebration of words, language, people and one of mankind's greatest achievements, unravels the mystery of the contributors from around the world who, for over seventy years, helped to codify the way we read, write and speak.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 423.0922 OGICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 423.0922 OGLEnglish, Charlie
Summary: The story of how a team of librarians and archivists joined forces to spirit tens of thousands of ancient manuscripts into hiding when al-Qaeda-linked jihadists surged across Mali in 2012, threatening the existence of these precious documents. Relying on extensive research and firsthand reporting, Charlie English expertly twines a fraught and fascinating account of one of the planet's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 966.2 ENGEnglish, Charlie
Summary: "This is a tragedy that begins in the halls of psychiatry and modern art and ends in the Nazis' first gas chambers. In the early 1920s, Hans Prinzhorn, a psychiatrist and aesthete, sought insight from the art of mental patients such as Franz Buhler. Buhler was a brilliant, well-known ironworker until his schizophrenia diagnosis, and his work was compared to that of Munch and Duhrer. Prinzhorn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700.943 ENGSummary: Defines more than seventy-five thousand words and phrases and includes biographical and geographical names, foreign phrases, and advice on grammar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Merriam-Webster 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 423 MEREnglish, Ashley
Summary: At home in spacious homesteads and simple backyards, chickens produce a wonderful source of sustainable, nutritious food and make wonderful pets. With generous doses of experience and humor, Ashley English shares the essential information you'll need to start and maintain your own flock.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lark Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.5 ENGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Animal EnglishEnglish, Ashley
Summary: Whether you want to make pickles from cucumbers grown in your own garden or turn those berries you scored at the farmers' market into delicious jam, here's the book that will make it fun and simple--even if you're a beginner. Ashley English offers clear information to help you get started, how-to steps, invaluable troubleshooting tips, tons of inspiration, plus profiles of home canners.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lark Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food Pre EnglishSummary: This program explores how America's rise as an economic power made it the driving force behind the spread of English in the 20th century. A world tour illustrates how English has mixed with other languages-from "Franglais" in France to "Singlish" in Singapore-and how the dollar's power, coupled with the lure of consumerism, has made English the international trade language. Bringing it full...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Butterworth, Rod R.
Summary: Provides more than 1,350 signs, with illustrations that show precise hand positions and exact movements.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Pub. Group 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 419 BUTGramer, Margot.
Summary: The Basic Oxford Picture Dictionary is developed to meet the needs of low-beginning level andult and young adult English as second language and English as foreign language students.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 463.21 GRAApelqvist, Eva.
Summary: "Readers will learn about the general requirements for permits, driver's tests, different kinds of licenses, learning to drive, dangerous behavior, and other areas related to driving"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.2 APEMiller, Michael
Summary: A step by step guide to composing music.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alpha 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The Scottish tongue is one of the oldest in Britain, a Northern variety of English that, but for the accidents of history, might have become a separate language. This classic PBS program deals with the influence of the Scots in spreading the language of their historic enemies-the Sassenachs of the South-around the world. The program begins in the 15th century, the golden age of the Scottish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Organized by such common subject categories as home, health, and work, a colorful, illustrated bilingual dictionary covers more than six thousand words and phrases.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 463 SPASummary: The discovery of cheese is a narrative at least 8,000 years old, dating back to the Neolithic era. Yet, after all of these thousands of years we are still finding new ways to combine the same four basic ingredients--milk, bacteria, salt, and enzymes--into new and exciting products with vastly different shapes, sizes, and colors, and equally complex and varied tastes, textures, and, yes, aromas....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 637 OXFSummary: This is a dictionary in Russian-English and English-Russian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Kelly, Casey.
Summary: Songwriting is an art, but fortunately it's an art you can learn. This guide is packed with everything a beginning songwriter needs to know to hit all the right notes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alpha 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 KELNoad, Frederick M.
Summary: Explains how to select a guitar, understand chords and melodies, how to read notes, explore different musical styles, and details how guitar music is written.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alpha 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 787.87 NOALay, Richard.
Summary: Teaches how to prepare soil for gardening, including choosing a site for a bed, building a frame, and creating a blanket of leaves or grass.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon 2013