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The New Penguin Encyclopedia is the one reference book that all families and offices need. It contains over 28,000 entries on the facts, events, issues, people, beliefs and achievements that make up the sum of human knowledge and experience. It is written in a clear, direct style that illuminates even the most intricate concept. The book is designed so that it is easy to locate the information you require quickly, and there are over 350 maps and diagrams to aid ...
We are living through the consequences of a linguistic revolution. Dramatic linguistic change has left us at the beginning of a new era in the evolution of human language, with repercussions for many individual languages. In this book, David Crystal, one of the world’s authorities on language, brings together for the first time the three major trends which he argues have fundamentally altered the world’s linguistic ecology: the emergence of English as the ...