The essential guide to the languages of the world, comprehensively detailing languages in a clear A-Z style.

Provides a specialist business vocabulary for translators, business people, secretaries, and students. Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of business: insurance, stock exchange, accounting, finance, and computing.

With coverage of today's English and French, with thousands of phrases and examples guiding the user to the most appropriate translation.

Wide-ranging coverage of contemporary Spanish and English, an ideal dictionary for advanced learners and professionals using Spanish.

Bilingual dictionary of legal terms featuring coverage of all aspects of law, with each entry including a translation and example sentences to show how the term is used in context.

A comprehensive Latin-English dictionary, containing translations of words and phrases.

Lists in one alphabetical sequence foreign phrases, proverbs, maxims and abbreviations frequently used in written and spoken English.

From angst to zydeco, the ultimate guide to foreign terms and phrases, this practical and browsable A-to-Z reference tells you all you need to know to understand, pronounce, and appreciate the nearly 2,000 foreign words and phrases commonly used by speakers and writers of English. Covering a wide variety of subject areas and includes loan-words from more than sixty languages around the world, such as: Latin (desideratum) * the romance languages (rapprochement, macho, imbroglio) * German (gestalt) * Russian (gulag) * Hebrew (shibboleth) * Yiddish (shtick) * Persian (tambura) * Hindi (purdah) * Arabic (loofah) * Hawaiian (kanaka) * Creole French (zydeco) * and Japanese (netsuke).