With the new entity accounting for 25% of English-language book sales, the merger is sure to get a long, hard look from anti-trust regulators.
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Max Heller used a German-English dictionary and phrase book (on display) to write a letter in awkward English to a non-Jewish woman, Mary Mills, whom he had met years before at a Vienna dance.
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Usmani has even published a book in English explaining how and why this is obligatory for all Shariah-faithful Muslims.
It recently announced a multiproject deal with Microsoft that will include publishing the Encarta World English Dictionary as a book and CD-ROM in August.
"If you're an Indian reading this book in English, it's probably because of Thomas Macaulay, " says the front cover blurb on a new biography of a man who foisted the Queen's language on India.
In the sixteenth century, the wide circulation of English Bible translations and the Book of Common Prayer brought a new degree of standardization.
Translated into English, the pocket-sized book became a source of inspiration for the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Originally written in 1368 by Islamic scholar Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri, the book was translated into English by Nuh Ha Mim Keller in 1991.
The Abbey event highlighted the book's impact on English language and culture throughout the world.
Pan recently published The Jews of Shanghai, the first book about the community in English and Chinese.
Mr Sinn's new work is a thoroughly updated English-language version of a German book that has gone through no fewer than 11 editions.
When I went to the bible of American English, Mencken's famous 1921 book The American Language, and looked up "quite", the master had written the very opposite definition.
The book, called Shorts in English and Cortos in Spanish, is a collection of one-to-three page essays about the advertising and communications business as well as musings on nationality, culture, values and human relationships.
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According to Syrian revolutionary thinker Said Hawwa in his influential book Min Ajl Khutwa (English: For the Sake of a Step), jihad may come in three flavors: by heart, by word, and by hand, a tripartite distinction derived from the hadith literature.
Indeed, as financial historian Niall Ferguson observed in his book The Ascent Of Money, English speaking peoples already have an obsession with property, with or without tax breaks.
His book exudes inexorable charm, capturing the English countryside in its most profoundly preindustrial days.
At that time, through this book, I learned a lot of English golf terminology.
Although this book is written in slightly mannered mandarin English, Sir David's practical knowledge, common sense and decency shine through.
Published in English, French and Spanish, this richly illustrated book, examines the legacy of the three authors and their messages from a comparatist perspective.
First, The Secret World of Arrietty was made in Japan by the famed Studio Ghibli and based on a book by Mary Norton, who was English.
This was pointed out as long ago as the 17th century by John Donne, an English poet and divine, who wrote an entire book on suicide.
With informative articles and webinars, a book that explains estate planning in plain English, and now client education brochures, Deborah L. Jacobs is doing a tremendous service for the estate planning community.
Author Edmund White called it "the best book on gay life yet written by an English author".
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Funny, how we never see any confusion over these pronouns in his book, which is written in largely impeccable English.
As the sort of people who are on a first-name basis with librarians, historians and English professors, historians are thrilled to hold a new book, to crack the binding and break it in like a new pair of shoes.
His book, Islam and Modernism, translated into English in 1999, obligates Muslims living in the West to either engage in violent Jihad to overthrow the infidel democracies or at the very least support Jihad with their money and other resources.
The majority (about 70%) of the book was composed in Spanish and the rest in English, depending on the topic.
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Their goal is to make available Espresso book machines throughout China and reprint Chinese books, English books, French books and others.
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