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  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Speed Readingby Abby Marks Beale; Pam Mullan

    Penguin Group Inc. 2008; US$ 13.99

    On your marks, get set, read! Most adults today are working with antiquated skills and ingrained beliefs about their reading abilities, or lack thereof. But with the tips and examples offered in The Complete Idiot?s Guide® to Speed Reading, getting through a load of must-do reading doesn?t have to be an arduous or overwhelming chore. The strategies are surprisingly simple once revealed. With practice, readers will not only speed through and understand books, articles, and professional journals but will also build their personal reading confidence and competence. * Written by a reading specialist * Useful for students, business people, lawyers, doctors * Includes how-to strategies as well as practice timed readings * Tips for reading on... more...

  • The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuationby Jane Straus; Mignon Fogarty

    John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2008; US$ 14.95

    The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation is filled with easy-to-understand rules,real-world examples, dozens of reproducible exercises, and pre- and post-tests. This handy workbook is ideal for teachers, students in middle school through college, ESL students, homeschoolers, and professionals. Valuable for anyone who takes tests or writes reports, letters, Web pages, e-mails, or blogs, The Blue Book offers instant answers to everyday English usage questions. more...

  • The Nuts and Bolts of College Writingby Michael Harvey

    Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2009; US$ 6.95

    Engagingly written and illustrated with scores of telling examples, this plainspoken how-to book for college writers identifies those qualities that most typically distinguish good writing from bad and provides practical measures for avoiding pitfalls. more...

  • Emergency Murderby Janet McGiffin; Philip Prowse

    Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 6.00

    Modern, original fiction for learners of English. more...

  • Dolphin Musicby Antoinette Moses; Philip Prowse

    Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 6.00

    Modern, original fiction for learners of English. more...

  • Jungle Loveby Margaret Johnson; Philip Prowse

    Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 6.00

    Modern, original fiction for learners of English. more...

  • Eats, Shoots & Leavesby Lynne Truss

    Penguin Group Inc. 2004; US$ 11.99

    In Eats, Shoots & Leaves , former editor Truss dares to say, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are. This is a book for people who love punctuation and get upset when it is mishandled. From the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to George Orwell shunning the semicolon, this lively history makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with. more...

  • French Verbs For Dummiesby Erotopoulos

    John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2006; US$ 16.99

    Hands-on exercises help you boost your verb proficiency Get the hang of French verbs and get over verb hang-ups! French verbs can drive anyone crazy who's trying to keep track of all the regular and irregular types. Fortunately, this book is here to help you make sense of confusing rules and drill you on the exceptions. Each chapter is packed with examples, exercises, and conjugation charts - just what you need to master even the toughest French verbs. Discover how to Review regular verbs in the present tense Cope with common exceptions Conjugate all simple tenses, from present indicative to past subjunctive Tackle the trickiest irregular verbs Conjugate compound tenses more...

  • Designing Authenticity into Language Learning Materialsby Frieda Mishan

    Intellect 2004; US$ 10.00

    This book puts forward an authenticity-centred approach to the design of materials for language learning. The premise of the approach is that language learning should be based on authentic materials drawn from a variety of genres found in the target language culture, and that the learning tasks involving these materials should be correspondingly authentic, by entailing interactions that are consistent with the original communicative purpose of the authentic text. It provides both a theoretical grounding to the authenticity-centred approach, and demonstrates its practical application in a teaching task reference section. In outline, the book: ? Refines a definition of authenticity in the context of language pedagogy. ? Traces the historical... more...

  • Dead Coldby Sue Leather

    Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 6.00

    Modern, original fiction for learners of English. more...