Compiled by expert teams of Spanish and English lexicographers, the Oxford Spanish Dictionary provides the richest, most contemporary coverage of Spanish from around the world. The result of thorough research using sophisticated computer programs to search for new terminology and ensure that all the latest vocabulary from Latin American Spanish and American English is covered, this brand new edition covers over 24 varieties of Spanish as it is written and spoken throughout the Spanish-speaking world--from Spain to Mexico, from Peru to the River Plate.

This groundbreaking edition of the Oxford Spanish Dictionary features 20,000 new entries (10,000 in each language), with the updating focused particularly on business, IT, and scientific terminology. Special entries on life and culture explain the differences between institutions, administrative systems, educational systems, and general life in the Spanish and English-speaking worlds, offering vital background to the language. 

Also, for a limited time only, all OSD's will be packaged with a free CD that contains cutting-edge text-to-speech software. This software enables users to type in any word, phrase, question, or date, and an audio version of the text will immediately pronounce it with appropriate inflection. No other Spanish dictionary offers this revolutionary software.

With a newly designed user-friendly format, the dictionary is more accessible than ever. Each entry is in color making it easy for the reader to distinguish between and search for words. With half of the entries in English and half in Spanish (including the frontmatter), the Oxford Spanish Dictionary is the ideal reference for native speakers of either language. Handy, easy-to-use, and now packaged with the groundbreaking text-to-speech software, this dictionary is also the essential tool for all students and teachers, as well as translators and language professionals. Jacket covers are also available in Spanish.

• Over 300,000 words and phrases and over 480,000 translations that provide comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of Spanish and English
  
• An extended guide to effective communication, including a wealth of model letters offering help with a wide range of topicsfrom compiling job applications to booking hotel rooms
• Up-to-the minute information on the cultures of the English and Spanish-speaking worlds, including a new section on the Euro
• In-text boxes that provide detailed guidance on grammar and usage
• American English throughout, with British English alternatives given where relevant

Over the past decade, the Oxford-Duden family of German-English dictionaries has established itself as a world leader, recommended for teachers, translators, and students. Backed up by the unique language databanks maintained and continuously expanded by Oxford University Press and the Dudenverlag (Germany's leading language reference publisher) for their celebrated monolingual dictionaries, every title in the range provides a more accurate, up-to-date, and complete picture of real language than has ever been possible before.

The Oxford-Duden German Dictionary is the flagship dictionary of the line, in a major new edition. Here one will find unmatched coverage of German worldwide (including Swiss and Italian German), incorporating the spelling changes ratified in 1996. Now, for a limited time only, this outstanding dictionary will include the cutting-edge Text-to-Speech CD-ROM which will pronounce any word in German--FREE with purchase of the dictionary.

Text-to-Speech (TTS) is a software application that translates words on the screen into spoken language. Just type your sentence in German, and the computer will read it back to you with perfect pronunciation. Cut and paste a letter from a friend and you can hear what your friend has to say. It will even recognize times and dates written in abbreviated form and will change intonation according to punctuation. This new software makes language come alive, providing a unique opportunity to practice pronunciation, as well as giving excellent guidance in pronouncing particularly difficult words. This innovative language technology is an ideal learning tool, and there is nothing else like it available in the marketplace.

Acclaimed by language professionals the world over-and now packaged with the free pronunciation CD, the unabridged Oxford-Duden is the most comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date dictionary of German and English.

1728 pages; 0-19-860743-1

Acclaimed by language professionals the world over, the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary leads the way in modern bilingual lexicography. The first ever French dictionary to be based entirely on the statistical evidence of vast electronic databanks of real language, both written and spoken, it is the most comprehensive, reliable, and up-to-date dictionary of French and English available today. Now, for a limited time only, this outstanding dictionary will include the cutting-edge Text-to-Speech CD-ROM which will pronounce any word in French--FREE with purchase of the dictionary!

Text-to-Speech (TTS) is a software application that translates words on the screen into spoken language. Just type your sentence in French, and the computer will read it back to you with perfect pronunciation. Cut and paste a letter from a friend and you can hear what your friend has to say. It will even recognize times and dates written in abbreviated form and will change intonation according to punctuation. This new software makes language come alive, providing a unique opportunity to practice pronunciation, as well as giving excellent guidance in pronouncing particularly difficult words. This innovative language technology is an ideal learning tool, and there is nothing else like it available in the marketplace.

With more words and phrases than any other single-volume French dictionary, plus the groundbreaking Text-to-Speech CD-ROM, the new edition of the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary remains the first choice in bilingual dictionaries.

1986 pages; 0-19-860744-X

For almost half a century, the Oxford Classical Dictionary has been the unrivaled one-volume reference work on the Greco-Roman world. Whether one is interested in literature or art, philosophy or law, mythology or science, intimate details of daily life or broad cultural and historical trends, the OCD is the first place to turn for clear, authoritative information on ancient culture.

This newly revised and completely up-to-date third edition of this historic reference adequately reflects the recent expansion in the scholarship and scope of classical studies. Here, in over six thousand entries ranging from long articles to brief identifications, readers can find information on virtually any topic of interestathletics, bee-keeping, botany, magic, Roman law, religious rites, postal service, slavery, navigation, and the reckoning of time. The Dictionary profiles every major figure of Greece and Rome-and lesser known figures not found in other references-from Homer and Virgil, to Plato and Aristotle, to Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great. Readers will find entries on mythological and legendary figures, on major cities, famous buildings, and important geographical landmarks, and on legal, rhetorical, literary, and political terms and concepts, as well as extensive thematic articles that offer superb coverage of topics of interest to both scholars and general readers, exploring everything from medicine and mathematics to music, law, and marriage.

With contributions and guidance from some of the finest classical scholars in the world, the Oxford Classical Dictionary has no equal in any language. It is the definitive summation of classical scholarship as it stands today.

The Dictionary covers:

• politics, government, economy--from political figures to systems, terms and practices, histories of major states and empires, economic theory, agriculture, artisans and industry, trade and markets
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1704 pages; 0-19-860641-9

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