German for Reading Knowledge Winter 2001 USDA Graduate School Klapouchy

Dictionaries and [General] Bi-Lingual Readers:

Some Suggestions

General Desk Size: ($25-35)

Duden/Oxford German-English/English German Dictionary 1999

 

 

second choice but easily available and widely discounted: Collins German-English/English German Dictionary 1998    




 
General - Largest, 4 volumes $130-$150 @ volume

New Muret Sanders Encyclopedic Dictionary English - German 2 volumes, each 1,000 pages; German - English 2 volumes, each 1,000 pages (also available in a two volume abridged edition)

Eichborn: Wörterbuch für Wirtschaft- Recht- Verkehr- Verwaltungs- und Umgangssprache: Großer (German  > English) $215 c. 1200 pages, 80,000 entries   Großer (English>German) $225 Temporarily out of print 2001 May be appearing under the Cambridge imprint.

 The revised edition's volumes are appearing one at a time and will surpass/replace Muret Sanders, and be in same price range. One version is marketed as Die Sprache unserer Zeit, (1990) English>>German in two volumes at $435.  Temporarily out of print 2001
Specialized
Reading Knowledge in German for Art Historians and Archaeologists (Berlin:1984) DM 29.80 op Apelt, M. - German English Dictionary: Art History - Archaeology, 275 pp (Erich Schmidt: Berlin:1982) $47.95 op 2001
English German Dictionary: Art History - Archaeology, 253 pp (Erich Schmidt: Berlin:1987) $46.95 FLA is the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. This particular site belongs to the Section of Art Libraries. It contains lexicons for art-related words in several languages, not just German.
Herrmann, Karin Reading German History: A German Reading Course for Beginners, Hueber Verlag (München) (1988) $30.95

Brandi & Momenteau Lesekurs für Geisteswissenschaftler - Fortgeschrittene (advanced liberal arts reading) Klett (1992) $29.95

Ziefele, Helmut - Dictionary of Modern Theological German (also for philosophy) 354 pp (1992) $19.95. [Perhaps also available at http://www.lob.de/cgi-bin/work/outputexpert ]

 

Ziefele, Helmut - Modern Theological German: A Reader and Dictionary (Baker:1993) 283 pp $14.99 
Leserfibel [An introduction to Fraktur print]: Witter's German English Primer (reprint of 1881 edition) $6.00 through German Language Video Center Indianapolis
Bilingual readers

American Short Stories / Amerikanische Kurzgeschichten Volume 3   (Dtv) 1990 paperback. 211pp. ISBN: 342309222X $14.95


 

Come Together (Amerikanische Kurzgeschichten) (Dtv) 1995 paperback, 151pp. ISBN:3423093390 $12.95

 

 

Contemporary British Short Stories (Englische Kurzgeschichten)  (Dtv) 1997 paperback, 215pp. ISBN:3423093595 $14.95

 

 

Detective Stories / Englische Kriminalgeschichten (Dtv) 1961 paperback, 127pp. ISBN:3423090294 $9.95

 


 

22 Short Stories / 22 kurze Kurzgeschichten (Dtv) 1990 paperback, 206pp. ISBN:3423092084 $12.95

Five Great German Short Stories / Fünf deutsche Meistererzählungen  (Dover Publications) 1993 paperback, 267pp. Editor Stanley Appelbaum. ISBN:0486276198 $8.95

 

 

Classical American Stories (Klassische amerikanische Erzählungen) (Dtv) 1997 paperback, 240pp. ISBN: $14.95

 

Kafka, Franz: Best Short Stories (Die schönsten Erzählungen) (Dover Publications) 1997 paperback, 191pp. Editor Stanley Appelbaum ISBN:0486295613 $8.95

 
Great German Poems of the Romantic Era / Beruhmte Gedichte Der Deutschen Romantik : A Dual-Language Book Editor Stanley Appelbaum $8.95
Additionally, a selection of on-line specialized dictionaries can be found

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Possible sources: In Washington there are several possible sources but all are limited:
1. Reiter's Technical Books, 2021 K St NW 2. Franz Bader Books 1911 I (Eye) St. NW, (At 19th Street) 202-337-5440 [limited]
3. International News Room 1803 Connecticut Avenue NW (at S Street and Florida) 202-332-1489 mezzanine 4. Travel Books & Language Center 4437 Wisconsin Avenue NW (Tenleytown-Metro)  202-237-1322
5. Crown (only for discounted Collins and Oxford-Duden desk dictionary) 6. Library of Congress: particularly the specialized reading rooms, Music, Science & Technology, Geography & Maps, etc.
Outside Washington:
1. On the web there is a collection of sites that are likely to but not guaranteed to carry these dictionaries: http://www.pressroom.com/~communipaw/books.htm
2. Adler's Foreign Books Inc. 915 Foster Street; Evanston, Illinois 60201-3199
Tel.: (847) 864-0664 Fax: (847) 864-0804            info@afb-adlers.com              
3. New York: Continental Books is basically an importer and distributor (originally mostly for Langenscheidt), doing business by mail and web.
4. Boston: Schoenhof's Foreign Books 617-547-8855

 

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