Manser, Martin H

Includes coverage of thousands of words and phrases in both English and Chinese using simplified Chinese characters with orthodox variants.

Presents a guide to improving writing, providing information on pre-writing, editing, proofreading, revising, spelling, grammar, vocabulary, punctuation, and more.

Explores the origin, development, and uses of words and phrases in the English language and provides games, quizzes, and activities involving words.

A collection of more than 3,500 thematically arranged quotations from all books of the Old and New Testaments and key passages from the Apocrypha.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that explain the meaning and origins of approximately two thousand allusions found in the Bible, as well as in Greek, Roman, Norse, and other mythologies, and includes examples of usage and cross-references.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries which explain the meanings and origins of over 1,500 English language proverbs, each with examples of usage, variants or alternative forms, and a keyword index.

Provides English to Chinese and Chinese to English translations of ninety thousand words and phrases and includes pronunciations, a writing guide, and a CD-ROM with a talking dictionary and instant translator.