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Judith Siefring

"The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms presents more than 5,000 idioms explaining the meaning and origin of metaphorical phrases, similes, sayings, and proverbs from throughout the English-speaking world. This dictionary is the perfect guide for everyone with an interest in this most colourful and quirky aspect of the English language." "Completely revised based on the evidence of Oxford's ongoing language research, it has: more than 350 new idioms and hundreds of new origin notes; thousands of real examples both modern and historical; easy to use, arranged alphabetically by key word, with an elegant new design; and thematic index groups idioms by topic or theme: from Death and Fate to Beauty and Love."--Jacket.

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Eleonore Schmid

Feeling different from the white sheep, a baby black sheep runs away to the forest where the animals are friendlier. When winter comes and the forest animals leave, the black sheep looks for his flock again.

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Jane Rule

AGAINST THE SEASON is a consciously old-fashioned, stylicized [sic] novel about cycles of birth, growth, and death ... An old woman comes to terms with her dead sister while reading her diaries, her pregnant housekeeper teaches her shy grandnephew a little courage; a middle-aged couple yearn to overcome loneliness, an elderly couple court in the face of public ridicule, and Dina Pyros, used furniture dealer and town butch, is courted, public and privately, by Rosemary Hopwood, social worker, nervous, aristocractic and very determined.

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Daniel Carey and Lynn Festa

Leading scholars bring together 18th-century studies and postcolonial theory to analyze the role and reputation of enlightenment in the context of early European colonial ambitions and postcolonial interrogations of Western imperial projects and aspirations.