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Writers Bookcase
http://www.writersbookcase.com.au/
We hope you enjoy browsing through the great range of writing books on our website. We list how to write titles for all genres as well as reference books on editing, marketing and self-publishing. And if you need a style guide, dictionary or thesaurus check out our great range.

Almost 700 of the listed titles are in stock for dispatch within 24 hours. A further 2000 or so can be posted generally within 12–16 days (stated just above the 'Add this to my cart' button). We welcome orders from anywhere in the world.


Australian Dictionaries
http://www.bookworm.com.au/
The Australian Online Bookshop sells books of all types, both fiction and non-fiction on all subjects, but specializes in Australian books.

Welcome to our Australian bookshop. We hope that you find it a good place to shop. You can put books in a shopping basket and order a number of books at once.

Most books have at least a 15% discount. You may order any book that is in print whether it is listed or not. If you want a book that is not listed, send the details (author, title, ISBN or whatever you know about the book) to Bob Hoffman.


Dictionaries
http://www.japanese.ac.nz/
Japanese language resources - Dictionaries. Welcome to japanese.ac.nz. This is a web site for the promotion of Japanese language, and the provision of revision, extension and enrichment opportunities for New Zealand students.

Russian Language Learning Website
http://www.lse.ac.uk/
Learn the Russian language actively and enjoyably through an interactive multimedia study of the literary work of great Russian authors Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy and Blok. Critically explore their works, each presented in their historical context. Enjoy learning Russian literature and language through reading texts, listening to and repeating spoken Russian, watching video discussions and challenging yourself through interactive exercises.

The texts chosen are not necessarily those studied by the students in class, but we selected literary works with interesting themes or historical relevance that would complement the set texts and topics. The texts are of varying difficulty and use a variety of registers of language.


Rosetta Stone
http://www.rosettastone.co.uk/
Learn a new language with Rosetta Stone's award winning language software. Learning a foreign language has never been easier with Rosetta's great range of language CD's and online language courses. With over 30 languages to choose from, try Rosetta Stone today. We seek to make the language-learning experience fun, easy and most importantly, effective. Our goal is to empower learners to achieve language learning success.
Millions of people are unable to connect with the world around them because they cannot speak a particular language. Even completing the most regular, day-to-day activities can be very challenging when you don’t know the local language. At the same time, those who succeed in learning a new language find that their possibilities are transformed: they are able to gain new insights, engage with new cultures and make new friends. Learning a new language is life-changing. Our mission is to deliver the best technology-based solutions for learning languages.

Scottish Language Dictionaries
http://www.scotsdictionaries.org.uk/
Scottish Language Dictionaries is the nation's resource for the Scots language. We research Scots texts from all periods of history, and record and analyse the language as it is spoken and written throughout Scotland today.

From this research we compile and maintain authoritative dictionaries of Scots, including the great historical dictionaries, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue and the Scottish National Dictionary, the scholarly single volume Concise Scots Dictionary and the handy Essential Scots Dictionary. Scottish Language Dictionaries maintains an active outreach programme and enquiries about the Scots Language are always welcome.


Association for Language Learning
http://www.all-languages.org.uk/
Welcome to the web pages of the Association for Language Learning, the UK's major subject association for teachers of foreign languages. We hope that you will find up-to-date and useful information on this site. The Association is committed to the professional development of language teachers and membership of the Association brings a range of subject-specific support to the profession, enabling members to keep up-to-date on languages issues and policy through regular newsletters, journals and email information.

The Association actively promotes through its members the teaching and learning of foreign languages by: providing information and publications, organising professional development activities, acting as a public voice on behalf of members.


The Reference Shelf (Dictionaries) - from WebSerch
http://www.clubi.ie/
A selection of online versions of, or alternatives to, the standard works found on the reference shelves in your library, plus gateways to further resources. WebSerch, the Web Research Resource, is designed to aid librarians, information professionals and the search enthusiast in the evaluation and selection of information retrieval tools and information sources, and equip the information seeker for the search process.

This is a listing of online versions of some of the traditional references tools, and online-only resources which may stand comparison to the traditional print sources. The idea is to gauge how well the world wide web stacks up to the traditional reference print medium and how well the traditional print sources are transferring to the web.


Papa Kupu - Dictionaries - Korero Maori
http://www.korero.maori.nz/
A listing of available dictionaries and other books of Maori words and phrases. Korero Maori is for everyone who wants to speak the Maori language, or learn more about it.

You can find interactive conversations, language resources, and advice to help you increase your knowledge of reo Maori. Make yourself at home – and give it a go!


Penobscot School: Language Learning and Cultural Exchange
http://www.languagelearning.org/
Founded in 1986 as a non-profit language school and center for international exchange, Penobscot School is a unique community international school. Over the years, hundreds of people from the U.S. and from around the world have advanced their foreign language skills at Penobscot School and have learned more about the world in the process. You are invited to be a part of this experiment in language learning in the context of the exchange of ideas and knowledge.
Penobscot School’s primary mission is to offer effective courses of language study for adults. Courses are designed to allow you, the student, to learn in your own way and at your own pace and to enjoy yourself while learning. The goal is maximum language acquisition for meaningful, real-life communication.

WorldLII - Encyclopaedias & Dictionaries
http://www.worldlii.org/
World Legal Information Institute. Legal directory and search engine - legislation, case-law, journals, law reform, by country and subject. Free, independent and non-profit access to worldwide law.

OnLine English editing service - English dictionary, glossary and thesaurus
http://www.oleng.com.au/
OnLine English offers a first-class scientific and academic editing and proofreading service. If you need to have your research paper published, we will ensure that the English is right for whatever journal or publication you choose. Our international accreditation is your guarantee of superior service. We specialize in providing an English correction and improvement service for authors whose native language is not English.
In 1995, OnLine English became the first professional editing company on the Internet. As a client of OnLine English, you benefit from our many years of experience.

WordGenius Dictionary
http://www.wordgenius.com.au/
WordGenius gives you a 'simply better' access to Reference Titles. WordGenius products give you instant and easy access to Macquarie's latest Reference products… right on your PC desktop. This means no more wasted time with cluttered reference websites.
Simple - a single click for instant answers. Better - easy and intuitive to use… so you can learn and work faster. Updated - the latest versions of the best Dictionaries, Thesauri and Spellcheckers. Off-line Instant Access - Just one click away - No need to 'navigate and wait' for online answers. Flexible - ideal for solving cross-word puzzles and researching words and meanings in every way.

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
http://www.oxfordlanguagedictionaries.com/
At Oxford we know what it's like to learn, study, and use languages, and this site is designed to support you every step of the way. Oxford Language Dictionaries Online provides you with authoritative, up-to-date translations of all the words and phrases you need, plus a wealth of tools and resources to help you learn and use language more effectively.
Search Oxford's authoritative bilingual dictionaries to get accurate, up-to-date translations you can rely on. Choose the right word or phrase using contextual clues and examples. Use quick search box on every page to find translations fast. Use advanced search options to search the full text of the dictionary, or restrict a search to specific parts of speech, subject area, or language register, and perform Boolean searches. Browse the dictionary using alphabetical entry lists. Find a list of other entries that have your search term somewhere in them. Click from any word in an entry to look up that word in the dictionary.

Terminology Collection: Online Dictionaries
http://www.uwasa.fi/
WORD-ONLINE contains links to general language dictionaries that available free in the WWW or the Gopher. In WORD-ONLINE You will find monolingual dictionaries like the Webster's or bilingual like Finnish - English Dictionary or even multilingual dictionaries. Bi- or multilingual dictionaries are listed under each language with the exception of the English. You can find e.g. English - French dictionary only under French.
TERM-ONLINE contains links to glossaries from different fields, e.g. computing. They are classified primarily according to the field, and secondarily according to the language or languages of the glossary. These glossaries are often very highly specialized in a narrow field. If you are looking for everyday words, use WORD-ONLINE.

American Book Store
http://www.americanbookstore.com.au/
The American Bookstore is a 100% Queensland owned and operated family business. We began life in 1957 in a small shop in Edward Street, Brisbane City. Founded by an American gentleman, the store imported titles from the USA and Japan not commonly available in Australia.
We are no longer just an American Book store - we stock books, audio material, software, education resources and associated materials from around the world. Even with all this growth we have always felt it was important to maintain the atmosphere created by Maurice and Bertha Zavelsky (pictured above) all those years ago.

Second Hand Collectable Book Shop
http://www.collectablebooks.com.au/
Curiosity Bookshop is a small family business which is operated out of Australia in the Melbourne suburb of Spotswood. The business was founded in April 2001 and aims to provide a great selection of second hand collectable books, as well as a great online resource for readers of good books.

The Curiosity Bookshop provides a great range of book titles, many of which are rare or collectable. When shopping for that special title, you will see the difference in our prices to other second hand book sellers - our standard discount is 10% off the normal second hand price if not more.


Multilingual language books
http://www.europeanbookshop.com/
Welcome to our online bookshop! This site offers fully secure online shopping. Please note that we cannot guarantee to keep everything on our website in stock all year round.
Up-to-date details of availability and delivery times of every title are given on its title information page, which is accessible by clicking on the title code. Multilingual language books, self-study courses, multimedia courses, teacher training, Language Learning, vocabulary, methodology, politics, economics, institutions, music and song, cinema/photography, miscellaneous aids, electronic reference works, bilingual reference books, monolingual dictionaries, multilingual dictionaries.

Gomer Press - DICTIONARIES AND LANGUAGE BOOKS
http://www.gomer.co.uk/
Gomer Press is a printing and publishing company based in Llandysul, west Wales. The company was first established in 1892 and is owned by the same family to this day. Jonathan Lewis, the great grandson of the company's founder, is the current managing director. Gomer Press today is both a thriving printing company and the largest publishing house in Wales.

Every year, we publish over 120 titles, specializing in books which have a distinctive Welsh identity. We have four distinct lists: English books for adults, English books for children, Welsh books for children, Welsh books for adults.


Italian language books
http://www.italianbookshop.co.uk/
Welcome to our online bookshop! This site offers fully secure online shopping. Given the size of our catalogue we cannot guarantee to keep everything on our website in stock all year round. However, up-to-date details of availability and delivery times of every title are given on its title information page, which is accessible by clicking on the title code.

Italian language books, daily life, sport, politics, economics, institutions, philosophy, psychology, religion, the arts, topics, writing, electronic reference works, bilingual reference books, monolingual dictionaries.


Madras Cafe Books
http://www.madrascafebooks.co.nz/
Madras Cafe Books: Dictionaries. Madras Cafe Books (MCB) is a full-service, quality bookshop together with a relaxing cafe serving delicious home-made food, great coffee and plenty of other drinks, including wine & beer! We have a love of what we do, and aim to bring that to our customers and provide them with a pleasurable bookshop/cafe experience.

The bookshop has a wide-range of stock, as you'll see in the web-site, with an emphasis on the literary end of fiction, and books of scholarship in many other areas - history, politics, religion, health, art & design, science, New Zealand books, business, and so on. Plus some humour, and poetry and...well, heaps more.


Irish Language Courses and Dictionaries
http://www.spailpin.com/
Welcome to an Spailpín Fánach, the Gaeltacht store online. Specialising in Irish language and culturally related products, we offer you a wide range of unique designs in t-shirts and casualwear, Irish courses and educational aids, music, and quality Celtic gift items and crafts.
We cater for the Irish-speaking community at home and abroad, and also to everyone who has even a minor interest in Gaeltacht culture and the Irish (Gaelic) language. If you are looking for a unique gift, at a reasonable price, you've come to the right place.

Communication Books (Including Foreign Languages)
http://www.svb.com.au/
Books on communication, language, writing, books, bookselling, publishing, foreign languages. Secondhand, out-of-print, remaindered books in our bookshop bookstore in Sydney Australia.

World book- language learning
http://www.worldbook.com.au/
Since its inception, World Book has been an acknowledged leader in the development of exceptional reference materials for homes and schools. Our story began in 1917 with the publication of the very first World Book Encyclopedia. Since its early days, World Book has been relentless in the pursuit of educational excellence.

Over time, World Book has expanded its product line well beyond its renowned encyclopedia. We now offer a broad range of products tailored to the educational requirements of all age groups, including age-appropriate titles on nature, geography, the environment, different cultures, early learning, and science.


SRA/McGraw-Hill
https://www.sraonline.com/
SRA/McGraw-Hill has more than 60 years of experience in working to help every child learn. We publish preschool to 8th grade products for a diverse number of subjects. SRA/McGraw-Hill is a division of McGraw-Hill Education, the largest pre-K through 12 educational publisher in the nation, and a unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies.

Language for Learning helps develop strong language skills and give young children and ESL students a solid foundation for literacy. Not only do students learn language skills, they also learn to think. They learn to group objects in different ways, to see the logic behind rules and strategies, and to know how and when to apply these rules. Language for Learning provides practice in vocabulary, word and sentence variety, the development of precise word knowledge, and in hard to teach concepts such as some/all/none and same/different.


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