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Practice Makes Perfect English Vocabulary for Beginning ESL Learners
McGraw-Hill Education 2011; US$ 14.00Master the words and phrases necessary for handling everyday situations. Practice Makes Perfect: English Vocabulary for Beginning ESL Learners helps you develop your vocabulary by providing practice in word-building and encouraging you to analyze new words for an ever-increasing vocabulary. Each chapter of this comprehensive book focuses on a theme,... more...
Teaching and Learning Terminology
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2011; US$ 128.00This volume, which was originally published in Terminology 15:1 (2009), presents and reflects on experiences dealing with terminology training, from a theoretical, practical and professional perspective. Terminology is part of the programmes of several (post)graduate courses, such as Translating and Interpreting, Applied Languages, Information Science... more...
U Cn Spl Btr
Kensington Publishing Corp. 2009; US$ 9.99"A quixotic stab at improving the nation's literacy. Hey, it can't hurt." -- Asbury Park Sunday Press. Did you just end your last memo to your boss "CU L8R?". Do mysterious voices tell you to use "their" and "there" interchangeably? Don't know the difference between "its" and "it's?"... more...
Word Fugitives
HarperCollins 2009; Not AvailableDespite the many thousands of dictionary words at our disposal, our language can be dismayingly inadequate. How many times have you searched for a word that means just what you want it to but failed to find anything suitable anywhere? Most of us, it turns out, lead lives rife with experiences, people, and things that have no names. At least, they... more...
Hot for Words
HarperCollins 2009; Not AvailableBrilliant philologist and sexy YouTube sensation Marina Orlova is Hot For Words ?and you will be too when you join her on a titillating journey through the origins and meanings of words and phrases. Combining fascinating philology and etymology with provocative, full-colored photos of the alluring author, Hot For Words makes intelligence almost... more...
I Is an Other
HarperCollins 2011; Not Available?Sherlock Holmes could glance at a bowler hat and tell that its owner's wife had ceased to love him. In this brilliant book about metaphor James Geary is no less astonishing, as he deciphers the subtle implications embedded in advertising slogans, familiar slang and government double-talk?. You'll scarf down every page of I Is an Other and then ask... more...
The Etymologicon
Penguin Group US 2012; US$ 9.99Do you know why? ?a mortgage is literally a death pledge? ?why guns have girls? names? ?why salt is related to soldier? You?re about to find out? The Etymologicon (e-t?-?mä-lä-ji-kän) is: *Witty (wi-te\): Full of clever humor *Erudite (er-?-dit): Showing knowledge *Ribald (ri-b?ld): Crude, offensive The Etymologicon is... more...
Collins Quite Brilliant: A celebration of British English
HarperCollins Publishers 2012; Not AvailableA jubilant celebration of British English?s most wonderful moments (and of the island nations that came up with them). more...
Collins Taak of the Toon: How to Speak Geordie
HarperCollins Publishers 2009; Not AvailableGain an insight into the English language, via one of the UK?s richest dialects: Geordie. more...
Perfect Phrases for ESL Conversation Skills
McGraw-Hill Companies,Inc. 2013; US$ 13.00Use just the right phrases and master the art of conversation like a native speaker of English. How do you share an experience from your home country? What should you say to start a conversation? How do you offer someone your advice? This handy reference will help you navigate social and business situations, withhundreds of ready-to-use English phrases... more...









