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The American Sign Language Phrase Book

Louie J. Fant

Provides thousands of everyday expressions in American Sign Language clearly illustrated with line drawings, organized by topic, and discusses ASL grammar.

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Berkeley High School Slang Dictionary

Contains a collection of slang words from African American, Chicano, Jewish, sports, movie, hip hop, and drug sub-culture as well as words from the 1960s beatniks generation to show how different cult

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The American Heritage College Dictionary

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that explain the meanings of thousands of English language words, including over seven thousand new words, with updated biographical and geographical listings,

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The American Heritage Abbreviations Dictionary

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that define 20,000 acronyms and abbreviations, including airport codes, colleges and university names, sports terminology, Internet chat room terms, and terms

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The Complete Dictionary of Symbols

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that explain the many and varied meanings of a wide range of traditional symbols, covering plants and animals, gods and goddesses, heroes, saints, and hundreds

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The American Heritage Desk Dictionary and Thesaurus

Presents a comprehensive desk dictionary and thesaurus featuring seventy thousand dictionary entries, twenty thousand thesaurus headwords and one hundred fifty thousand synonyms, pronunciation key, an

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Dictionary of French Slang and Colloquial Expressions

Henry Strutz

Presents definitions and usage examples for approximately 4,500 common French slang words and colloquial expressions.

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The Dictionary of Disagreeable English

Robert Hartwell Fiske

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about some of the most commonly misspelled or misused words in the English language.

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Baby Names Now

Linda Rosenkrantz

Presents thousands of alphabetically-arranged baby names for boys and girls along with origins and literal meanings, variant spellings, and foreign versions.

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The Harpercollins Illustrated Medical Dictionary

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide definitions of over 30,000 medical terms, and includes more than three thousand illustrations and charts.

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