#160 - P.H. Collin - Dictionary of Law

Author or Editor: P.H. Collin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2004
Pages: 320
Size: 6.69MB

This dictionary provides the user with the main vocabulary currently being used in British and American law. The areas covered include criminal, civil, commercial and international law, as well as interactions with the police and legal advisers, and the procedures of the courts and prisons. Common words used in reading or writing reports, articles or guidelines are also included.

Click here to download this book

#145 - David Robertson - The Routledge Dictionary of Politics

Author or Editor: David Robertson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004
Pages: 515
Size: 2.13MB

Abortion is a politically controversial issue in many Western countries, mainly because it clashes with some Christian teachings on the sanctity of life. In the past, by contrast, some communist societies had made abortion so easy that, in the Soviet Union, for example, it was close to being the main method of birth control. It is still extensively, and often compulsorily, practised in the People’s Republic of China.

Click here to download this book

#128 - Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor - Sex Slang

Author or Editor: Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Pages: 208
Size: 1.85MB

In the world of slang, sex slang is about as good as it gets. You can pretend to be appalled by this slang, if not the sexual practices described, but if you weren’t amused with the wit and creativity of unconventional vocabulary you wouldn’t be holding this book in your hands in the first place.
We are hard-wired for a linguistic resourcefulness that always matches, and usually surpasses, our physical and sexual invention. Most sexual slang represents practices as old as the ages – newly discovered, of course, by the next generation. New sexual activity is extremely rare but you will find there’s always a word for it in these pages.

Click here to download this book

#127 - Tony Thorne - Dictionary of Contemporary Slang

Author or Editor: Tony Thorne
Publisher: A & C Black
Published: 2007
Pages: 494
Size: 9.81MB

Slang derives much of its power from the fact that it is clandestine, forbidden or generally disapproved of. So what happens once it is accepted, even in some cases embraced and promoted by ‘mainstream’ society? Not long ago the Oxford English Dictionary characterised slang as ‘low and disreputable’; in the late 1970s the pioneering sociolinguist Michael Halliday used the phrase
‘anti-language’ in his study of the speech of criminals and marginals. For him, theirs was an interestingly ‘pathological’ form of language. The first description now sounds quaintly outmoded, while the second could be applied to street gangs – today’s posses, massives or sets – and their secret codes. Both, however, involve value judgements which are essentially social and not linguistic. Attitudes to the use of language have changed profoundly over the last three decades, and the perceived boundaries between ‘standard’ and ‘unorthodox’ are becoming increasingly ‘fuzzy’.

Click here to download this book

#88 - Jack C. Richards and Richard Schmidt - Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics

Author or Editor: Jack C. Richards and Richard Schmidt
Publisher: Pearson Education Limited
Published: 2002
Pages: 595

Language teaching and applied linguistics are fields which have their own core subject matter and which also draw on a number of complementary fields of study. Among the core subject matter disciplines are second language acquisition, methodology, testing, and syllabus design. The complementary fields of study include both the language based disciplines such as linguistics, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics, as well as the education based disciplines such as curriculum development, teacher education, and evaluation. The result is that students taking courses in language teaching and applied linguistics encounter a large number of specialized terms which frequently occur in articles, books and lectures. This dictionary attempts to clarify the meanings and uses of these terms.

Click here to download this book

#51 - Tom Dalzell - Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

Author or Editor: Tom Dalzell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Pages: 720

The Concise New Partridge presents, for the first time, all the slang terms from the New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English in a single volume.
With over 60,000 entries from around the English-speaking world, the Concise gives you the language of beats, hipsters, Teddy Boys, mods and rockers, hippies, pimps, druggies, whores, punks, skinheads, ravers, surfers, Valley girls, dudes, pill-popping truck drivers, hackers, rappers and more. The Concise New Partridge is a spectacular resource infused with humour and learning – it’s rude, it’s delightful, and it’s a prize for anyone with a love of language.

Click here to download this book

#24 - Elizabeth A.Martin - Oxford Dictionary of Law

Author or Editor: Elizabeth A.Martin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Pages: 551

This dictionary has been written by a distinguished team of academic and practicing lawyers. It is intended primarily for those without a qualification in law who nevertheless require some legal knowledge in the course of their work: chartered surveyors and accountants, civil servants and local-government officers, social workers and probation officers, as well as businessmen and legal secretaries are typical examples of those whose work often calls for a knowledge of the precise meaning (and spelling) of a legal term.

Click here to download this book

#9 - Stan Gibilisco - The Illustrated Dictionary of Electronics

Author or Editor: Stan Gibilisco
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 2001
Pages: 791

The Illustrated Dictionary of Electronics—8th Edition has been revised, clarified, and updated, reflecting technological advances of recent years. New definitions have been added in the fields of wireless technology, robotics, and artificial intelligence. Every effort has been made to be concise and accurate, without “talking down” to the reader.
Many definitions contain cross references (indicated in ALL CAPITALS); these provide recommended additional information or allow comparison with related terms. Expressions of special significance are printed in italics. Electronics abbreviations are included in the text; the full terms are stated as definitions.

Click here to download this book

#8 - Oxford Dictionary of Science

Author or Editor: Oxford University
Publisher: Oxgord University Press
Published: 2005 Fifth Edition
Pages: 888

This fifth edition of A Dictionary of Science, like its predecessors, aims to provide school and first-year university students with accurate explanations of any unfamiliar words they might come across in the course of their studies, in their own or adjacent disciplines. For example, students of the physical sciences will find all they are likely to need to know about the life sciences, and vice versa. The dictionary is also designed to provide non-scientists with a useful reference source to explain the scientific terms that they may encounter in their work or in their
general reading.

Click here to download this book