Language

The Mayan family of languages is ancient and unique. With their distinctive relational nouns, positionals, and complex grammatical voices, they are...

Over the past two decades, the Arabian oil-rich Gulf countries have faced enormous social, political, economic, cultural, religious, ideological an...

This book provides students of all levels with essential and easy-to-follow guidance on how to plan, research, and write essays, dissertations, and...

Look up words quickly and easily with this travel-sized Vietnamese dictionary.Intended for use by tourists, students, and business people traveling...

Essential Chinese Grammar is a systematic overview of Chinese grammar, oriented toward self-study, English-speaking students.Through explanations o...

The method that has helped thousands—Read Japanese Kanji Today provides readers with a quick and simple way to learn kanji characters.Far from bein...

Like its predecessor, the third edition of Academic Writing for Graduate Students explains understanding the intended audience, the purpose of the ...

This travel-sized Mandarin dictionary is ideal for any application where a handy and portable dictionary is required.Proving that big things come i...

The Essential Essays gathers twenty-five of Adrienne Rich’s most renowned essays, demonstrating the lasting brilliance of her voice and her prophet...

Album provides an unparalleled look into Roland Barthes's life of letters. It presents a selection of correspondence, from his adolescence in the 1...

Chinese is a fascinating language that can seem impossibly difficult to learn at first but is relatively easy if you focus on the spoken language. ...

China's information war against the United States is clever technically, broadly applied and successful. The intelligence community in the U.S. ...

Writing and Enjoying Haiku shows how haiku can bring a centered, calming atmosphere into one's life, by focusing on the outer realities of life ins...