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Concise Oxford English Dictionary 11th edition
Price: $36.99Size: 13505 KB
Authoritative and up to date, this eleventh edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary contains over 240,000 words, phrases, and definitions, covering general and specialist words, literary, historical, and technical terms, and new words that have recently entered the language.
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Pocket Oxford English Dictionary
Price: $18Size: 3996 KB
This dictionary is ideal for everyone needing clear and accessible
information on today's English. With over 140,000 words, including
phrases, derivatives and idioms in more than 30,000 definitions, it provides a
comprehensive coverage of everyday English.
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Oxford
Paperback Thesaurus
Price: $14Size:
3053 KB
300,000 entries
This thesaurus covers
nearly one-third of a million alternative and opposite
words. The most useful alternative word is given first,
opposites and related terms are clearly marked, and
thousands of example sentences help users select the
right word. |
Oxford Concise
Dictionary of Quotations Price: $18
Size: 2131 KB
Over 9,000 entries from nearly 2,000 authors
Offering all the authority and accuracy of the
acclaimed Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, this
indispensable source of reference has extensive coverage
of literary and historical quotations.
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The Oxford Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations
Price: $18Size: 1393 KB
The Oxford Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations is a collection
of over 5,000 quotations drawn
from the electronic media as well as print, representing key voices and events of the last 100
years and the beginnings of the new century.
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Oxford
Dictionary of Idioms
Price: $16Size:
1014 KB
Includes more than 5,000 entries
This Dictionary covers metaphorical phrases, familiar
sayings and proverbs, and similes, providing
illustrative quotations from sources as varied as the
Bible, the Spectator, and Agatha Christie.
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Oxford Concise
Dictionary of Proverbs Price: $14
Size: 815 KB
Over 1,000 entries
This invaluable work includes the best-known proverbs
in the English language from around the world. The
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs provides the
fascinating history behind our proverbs.
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The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar Price: $16Size: 707 KB
1,000 entries
This accessible and comprehensive dictionary
comes to the aid of both the general reader and the student or teacher, offering
straightforward and immediate access to 1,000 grammatical terms and their
meanings.
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics
Price: $18Size: 678 KB
Over 3,000 entries
This invaluable work is the most authoritative and up-to-date dictionary of
linguistics available. It provides concise, informative entries across the whole
field of linguistics and is an ideal reference work for students
and anyone with an interest in language and its study.
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The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations
Price: $16Size: 1276 KB
20,000 entries
This is the most comprehensive dictionary of abbreviations available. Authoritative and up-to-date, it covers the most
important business, scientific, and technical abbreviations, as well as those in
everyday use.
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
Price: $20Size: 2071 KB
Over 17,000 entries
Based on The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, the principal
authority on the origin and development of English words, The Concise Oxford
Dictionary of Etymology contains a wealth of information about the English
language and its history.
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Oxford Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms
Price: $18Size: 407 KB
Over 1,000 entries
Containing over 1,000 of the most troublesome
literary terms encountered by students and general readers, this gem of a book
gives clear and often witty explanations to terms such as hypertext,
multi-accentuality, and postmodernism.
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Oxford Dictionary of First Names Price:
$18Size: 709 KB
Almost 7,000 names
We all have a first name, but how many of us really
know its origin and history? This comprehensive dictionary provides a
fascinating collection of linguistic, historical, and associated information
about some 7,000 names, making it ideal reference for linguists and family
historians. |
Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage Price: $20Size: 947 KB
Based primarily on Robert W. Burchfield's renowned
The New Fowler's Modern English Usage, this Pocket edition has been rewritten and updated with completely new topics such as American English, new words, and
gender-neutrality. |
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Electronic Pocket Oxford English-French Dictionary
Price : $9Size: 746 KB
With over 50,000 words, phrases, and translations this beginner-level
dictionary is the most up-to-date small dictionary of French available. Attractive easy-access layout helps you find the right words and
translations quickly and easily.
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Electronic Pocket Oxford French-English Dictionary
Price : $9Size: 746 KB
With over 50,000 words, phrases, and translations this beginner-level dictionary is the most up-to-date small dictionary of French available. Equally useful for French speakers working in English or English speakers working in French.
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Pocket Oxford
English-Spanish Dictionary
Price: $9
Size: 1989 KB
With over 45,000 words and phrases, and over 65,000 translations,
and derived from the universally acclaimed Oxford Spanish Dictionary, this dictionary meets the needs of students at intermediate level and beyond, or anyone needing a compact and practical dictionary in today's business environment.
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Pocket Oxford
Spanish-English Dictionary
Price: $9
Size: 1989 KB
With over 45,000 words and phrases, and over 65,000 translations,
and derived from the universally acclaimed Oxford Spanish Dictionary, this dictionary meets the needs of students at intermediate level and beyond, or anyone needing a compact and practical dictionary in today's business environment.
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Pocket Oxford-Duden
English-German Dictionary
Price: $9
Size: 1674KB
With over 45,000 words and phrases, and 50,000 translations, and
derived from the universally acclaimed Oxford-Duden German Dictionary, this dictionary is designed specifically to meet the needs of students at intermediate level and beyond, or anyone needing a compact and practical dictionary in today's business environment.
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Pocket Oxford-Duden
German-English Dictionary
Price: $9
Size: 1674KB
With over 45,000 words and phrases, and 50,000 translations, and
derived from the universally acclaimed Oxford-Duden German Dictionary, this dictionary is designed specifically to meet the needs of students at intermediate level and beyond, or anyone needing a compact and practical dictionary in today's business environment.
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Oxford Concise
Medical Dictionary Price: $20
Size: 6348 KB
Over 10,000 entries
This best-selling
dictionary is indispensable both as a home medical guide
and as an aid for all those working in the medical and
allied professions. The entries are clearly laid out and
jargon-free, making the book both accessible and
informative.
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A-Z of Medicinal Drugs Price: $18Size : 766 KB
5,000 entries
This dictionary is an ideal source of reference on the wide range of
medicines available today. Comprehensive information on side effects and interactions
with other medicines are given, and there are entries on conditions and the
medicines used to treat them.
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A Dictionary of Nursing Price: $16Size: 2641 KB
10,000 entries
Written by nursing and medical specialists, the dictionary provides
comprehensive and authoritative coverage of the ever-expanding vocabulary of the
nursing professions. Accident and emergency, trauma, public health medicine, and
theory and practice of nursing are all covered.
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Oxford
Dictionary of Food and Nutrition Price: $20
Size: 691 KB
With 6,000 entries on all aspects of food and
nutrition, this dictionary will be invaluable to consumers, cooks,
and a range of students and practitioners of catering,
home economics, food technology, and health
care.
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Food and
Fitness: A Dictionary of Diet and Exercise Price: $18
Size: 1448 KB
This dictionary covers all matters relating to diet and exercise
including diet methods, food supplements, sex and
exercise, sports injuries, anatomy, energy-related
terms, exercises for improving strength, flexibility,
stamina, weight control, training methods and
principles, calorie requirements of different
activities, and much more.
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A Dictionary of Psychology Price: $20Size: 2542 KB
10,500 entries
Written by a leading authority, with the assistance of a distinguished team
of advisory editors, this comprehensive dictionary is essential reading for
professional psychologists, psychiatrists, counsellors, and students of
psychology and related disciplines such as nursing, sociology, social work, and
education.
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Oxford
Dictionary of Business
Price: $18Size: 1107 KB
Over 6,000 entries
This dictionary is a
wide-ranging and informative guide to all aspects of
modern business, which will prove indispensable to both
students and professionals.
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Oxford
Dictionary of Accounting
Price: $18Size: 571 KB
Over 3,500 entries
This authoritative
dictionary provides straightforward definitions of the latest
financial jargon and includes
comprehensive coverage of financial accounting,
financial reporting, management accounting, direct and
indirect taxation. corporate finance, and auditing.
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Oxford
Dictionary of Finance and Banking
Price: $18Size: 692 KB
Fully revised for its second edition, this is the
most comprehensive dictionary of finance
available, with over 4,000 authoritative entries on every
aspect of the financial world.
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Oxford
Dictionary of Economics
Price: $18Size: 1151 KB
Over 2,500 fully-updated entries, including
73 additions, covering the most recent terms and
concepts such as e-commerce and the euro.
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Oxford
Dictionary of Computing
Price: $18Size: 1735 KB
6,000 entries
The wide range of topics
covered by this dictionary includes computer
applications in industry, the office, science,
education, and the home, the hardware, software, and
telecommunications behind these applications.
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Oxford
Dictionary of the Internet
Price: $18Size: 563 KB
4,000 entries
This dictionary provides
thousands of terms related to the Web, software
technology, jargon, e-commerce, security, and the
technical and organizational infrastructure of the
Internet.
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Oxford
Dictionary of Law
Price: $20Size: 842 KB
Over 4,000 entries defining and explaining
the major terms, concepts, processes, and organization
of the law, compiled by practising lawyers.
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Oxford
Dictionary of World History
Price: $20Size: 3557 KB
With more than 4,700 entries, and covering 4,000 years of history, this reference work provides generous and comprehensive coverage of all aspects of history, from prehistory right up to the present day.
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A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century World History
Price: $18Size: 2618 KB
Over 2,500 entries
This dictionary provides in-depth coverage of the major historical figures
and events from 1900 to the present day. Extensive surveys of every country are
included with detailed analytical entries covering political and military
leaders, political parties, international organizations, and acts of war.
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Who's Who in
the 20th Century Price: $18
Size: 1400 KB
From Albert Einstein to the
Marx Brothers, this authoritative reference book
provides biographies of men and women from different
countries and cultures who have contributed to the
thought as well as the action of the twentieth century.
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The Kings and
Queens of Britain Price: $18
Size: 595 KB
A brand new dictionary on the Kings and Queens of
Britain, from mythical and Romano-British rulers to
the House of Windsor.
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Who's Who in the Classical World Price:
$18Size: 961 KB
Focusing exclusively on real people, this is a dictionary of ancient
biography, covering Greek and Roman history and politics, literature,
philosophy, science, and art.
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Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology Price: $20Size: 1152 KB
Over 4,000 entries
From amphora to ziggurat, and Beaker Culture to
molluscan analysis, this comprehensive dictionary, covers the essential
vocabulary for archaeological work, including principles, theories, techniques,
artefacts, materials, people, places, monuments, equipment, and descriptive
terms.
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The Oxford Dictionary of Local and Family History
Price: $20Size: 368 KB
Includes over 1,500 entries
This dictionary provides both amateur and professional historians with quick
answers to questions of terminology that may arise in the course of research.
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Oxford
Dictionary of English Place Names
Price: $18Size: 937 KB
This is the most authoritative and up-to-date
dictionary of English place-names available in
paperback. From Abbas Combe to Zennor, it gives the
meaning and origin of over 12,000 place-names,
tracing their development from earliest times to the
present day.
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics Price: $18Size: 871 KB
Over 1,500 entries
Written by a team of leading political scientists, sociologists,
philosophers, and political economists, this is the most authoritative and
up-to-date dictionary of politics available.
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A Dictionary of Political Biography Price: $18Size: 976 KB
Over 1,000 entries
Compiled by an expert team of contributors, this dictionary covers all the
major figures in world politics of the twentieth century. Authoritative and
wide-ranging, it describes and assesses the lives of more than 1000 men and
women who have shaped political events across the world.
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Oxford
Dictionary of Physics
Price: $18Size: 1833 KB
Comprehensive and up to date, this fourth edition is
the ideal reference tool for students of physics, either
at school or at university.
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Oxford
Dictionary of Chemistry
Price: $18Size: 3104 KB
Fully revised and updated, this dictionary is the
ideal work of reference for students of chemistry,
either at school or at university.
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Oxford
Dictionary of Biology
Price: $18Size: 2587 KB
Fully revised and updated, this dictionary is the
perfect guide for those studying biology, either at
school or university.
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A Dictionary of Scientists Price: $18
Size: 1182 KB
Over 1,300 entries
From Archimedes and Copernicus to Stephen Hawking and Stephen Jay Gould, this
is the most authoritative and up-to-date biographical dictionary of scientists
currently available. |
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Dictionary of the Bible
Price: $18Size: 776 KB
2,000 entries
Authoritative, accessible, and up-to-date this dictionary provides
helpful information about the books of the Bible,
customs, religions and worship, history, and theology,
important places, and personalities.
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Oxford
Concise Dictionary of World Religions
Price: $20Size: 1789 KB
8200 entries
This Concise version contains
entries on all the major and many minor religions,
including Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism,
Islam, Jainism, Shinto, Sikhism, and Taoism.
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Price: $18Size: 1455 KB
6,000 entries
Based on the highly acclaimed Oxford Dictionary of the Christian
Church, this is an indispensable guide to every aspect of the Christian
religion and life, including theology, patristic scholarship, churches and
denominations, the church calendar and organization, and the Bible.
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Oxford
Dictionary of Philosophy Price: $18
Size: 876 KB
From Aristotle to Zen, this is the most
comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date dictionary
of philosophy available.
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Oxford
Dictionary of Sociology Price: $18
Size: 1276 KB
This second edition of the most comprehensive and authoritative
dictionary of sociology available in a single volume has been thoroughly revised and
expanded.
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Oxford Concise
Dictionary of Literary Terms Price: $18Size: 416 KB
Over 1,000 entries
Containing over 1,000
of the most troublesome literary terms encountered by
students and general readers, this gem of a book gives
clear and often witty explanations to terms such as
hypertext, multi-accentuality, and postmodernism. |
The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
Price: $20
Size : 1211 KB
Based on the highly praised Oxford Companion to Classical Literature,
this is the ideal reference book for anyone interested in the classical world
and its literary heritage.
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The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature
Price: $18Size: 824 KB
This comprehensive guide spans sixteen centuries of the literature and
literary culture of Ireland, providing a wealth of
information on writers and their works, movements, genres, topics, folklore, and
historical, religious, and cultural events.
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A Dictionary of ShakespearePrice:
$16Size: 335 KB
Compiled by one of the best-known authorities on the Bard's works, this
dictionary offers up-to-date information on all aspects of Shakespeare in his
own time and on his impact and influence on later ages.
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The Oxford Dictionary of Art Price:
$20Size: 447 KB
Over 3,000 entries
The Oxford
Dictionary of Art is the first place to turn for accurate information about
artists, schools, periods, techniques, critical terms, major museums, art
historians, philosophers, and much more.
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Oxford Dictionary of 20th-Century Art
Price: $20Size: 1359 KB
From Purism to Postmodernism, from Guerrilla Girls to David Hockney, this is
a highly useful and comprehensive work, encompassing all the major movements and styles of the
twentieth-century, and including entries on art schools, galleries, exhibitions,
prizes, terms, techniques, collectors, critics, dealers and patrons.
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms Our
Price : $16Size: 1478 KB
Over 1,800 entries
From Baroque to Postmodernism, batik to mezzotint, and canvas to porcelain,
the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms provides succinct and
accessible explanations of over 1,800 terms used in the wide variety of visual
media that makes up the art world.
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Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
Price: $16Size: 1167 KB
Over 2,500 entries
Based on the highly praised Oxford Dictionary of Art, this is an
authoritative and up-to-date guide to Western Art from ancient Greece to the
present day. Written in clear, lively prose, this invaluable reference maintains
a careful balance between fact and appraisal.
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Price: $20Size: 2992 KB
Over 10,000 entries
Derived from the highly praised The Oxford Dictionary of Music, this
concise edition is a mine of information for lovers of music of all periods and
styles.
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera
Price: $20Size: 1307 KB
Over 3,500 entries
Derived from the celebrated Oxford Dictionary of Opera, this concise
version designed to be accessible to all those who enjoy opera, whether at the
opera house or at home.
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Who's Who in Opera Price: $18
Size: 757 KB
Over 2,500 entries
Containing over 2,500 operatic characters, this guide gives plot synopses for
over 250 operas and operettas, and details full information on each operatic
role, including its creator and notable performers.
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The Oxford Dictionary of Dance Price:
$20Size: 1074 KB
The Oxford Dictionary of Dance, compiled by two leading authorities on
dance, offers wide coverage of dancers,
choreographers, teachers, composers, technical terms, major works, important
films, and organizations involved in the dance world.
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A Dictionary of English Folklore
Price:
$20
Size: 969 KB
Includes over 1,250 entries
An absorbing and entertaining guide to English folklore and an authoritative
reference source on such legendary characters as Cinderella, Jack the Giant
Killer, and Robin Hood.
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A Dictionary of Architecture Price:
$20Size: 5176 KB
Over 5,000 entries
Containing thousands of entries on architects, terms, periods, and styles,
this is a highly comprehensive and up-to-date dictionary covering all periods of
Western architectural history.
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A Dictionary of Geography Price: $16Size: 1949 KB
6,000 entries
This invaluable dictionary provides comprehensive coverage of words and terms
encountered in both human and physical geography. Each of the entries provides
an initial brief definition followed by a more in-depth explanation.
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A Dictionary of Ecology Price: $18
Size: 1491 KB
5,000 entries
From acid rain, CFCs, and the greenhouse effect to the food-chain and the
gene bank, Oxford's thoroughly up-to-date dictionary provides entries on all
aspects of ecology and the environmental sciences.
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Pocket Oxford English Language Collection Our
Price : $54,75Size: 10000 KB
Save 45% with The Pocket Oxford English Language
Collection, six Oxford Dictionaries of the English language in one special value
package.
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Pocket Oxford Multilingual Value Pack
Price: $33Size: 1989 KB
Save 40% on this Multilingual Value Pack.
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Pocket Oxford English+Spanish+German+French Value
Pack Price: $40,95Size: 3996 KB
Save 45% on this special Value Pack including The
Electronic Pocket Oxford English Dictionary, Electronic Pocket Oxford
French Dictionary, and Pocket Oxford Spanish and German Dictionaries.
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