The greatest name in foreign language dictionaries is Cassell, the preeminent publisher of dictionaries for over 120 years. For fast, easy reference and comprehensive coverage, Cassell's is unbeatable. With entries covering daily conversation as well as technical and professional terms, this handy pocket-sized dictionary is the only reference you need while traveling, studying, or working. Cassell's is portable, easy to read and full of helpful usage information that's simple to access. This invaluable volume, backed by the world's foremost language authority, is the best pocket guide available to the Spanish language.

With its unparalleled coverage of English slang of all types (from 18th-century cant to contemporary gay slang), and its uncluttered editorial apparatus, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang was warmly received when its first edition appeared in 1998. 'Brilliant.' said Mark Lawson on BBC2's The Late Review; 'This is a terrific piece of work - learned, entertaining, funny, stimulating' said Jonathan Meades in The Evening Standard.But now the world's best single-volume dictionary of English slang is about to get even better. Jonathon Green has spent the last seven years on a vast project: to research in depth the English slang vocabulary and to hunt down and record written instances of the use of as many slang words as possible. This has entailed trawling through more than 4000 books - plus song lyrics, TV and movie scripts, and many newspapers and magazines - for relevant material. The research has thrown up some fascinating results

Over fifty thousand entries provide French and English equivalents, and include technical, as well as, conversational words and phrases.

This is the thoroughly revised and updated edition of Cassell?s internationally known Spanish dictionary. Special features of this new edition include New socio-political, economic and colloquial Spanish vocabulary brought into use by recent changes. New comprehensive verb tables. New bibliography of Spanish and English dictionaries. Latin-American usage as well as Castilian and regional dialects of Spain. New-wave socio-political, economic and colloquial Spanish vocabulary brought into use by recent changes. New comprehensive verb tables, bibliography of Spanish and English dictionaries. Incorporates modern scientific, technical, political and industrial terms. Embodies Latin-American terms with local usages in South and Central America as well as the Castilian and regional dialects of Spain. Contains proper names, grammatical information and irregular plural forms.