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Kanji Pict-o-Graphix: Over 1,000 Japanese Kanji and Kana Mnemonics (Zzz)
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How does one learn kanji, the characters of written Japanese? The traditional approach is rote memorization. Japanese children write each kanji hundreds of times at their desks, and eventually they are acquired. Michael Rowley offers a different way, a mnemonic-association approach that provides a hook on which to hang the meaning and retrieve it easil... »
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Lonely Planet Farsi (Persian) Phrasebook
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This short book is packed with information and is unusually comprehensive for a travel phrasebook. After lamenting the lack of good Persian-English dictionaries on the market, the back pages of this offer a large range of words with both phonetic guides and Persian script. I was thrilled to see, as an astronomer, that there were two and a half pages of... »
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Cryptanalysis
A good book that reviews methods for pen-and-paper solution of simple substitution and transposition ciphers. Dating from before World War II, the main in... »
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The Translation Studies Reader
Excellent textbook that helps to explain many of the different theories of translation, but it doesn't go into much detail on any particular one. Good fi... »
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