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Practice Makes Perfect English Pronouns and Prepositions, Second Edition
Practice Makes Perfect English Pronouns and Prepositions, Second Edition

Ed Swick · McGraw-Hill
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

An engaging presentation of pronoun and preposition usage in English, combined with extensive practice for beginning and intermediate ESL learners Practice Makes Perfect: English Pronouns and Prepositions offers a detailed examination of these two essential aspects of grammar, which language...
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Biblical Hebrew: A Compact Guide
Biblical Hebrew: A Compact Guide

Miles V. Van Pelt · Zondervan; Bilingual edition
Format: Print book

Biblical Hebrew: A Compact Guide offers a one-stop guide for those who have taken first-year Hebrew to refresh  the memory on language forms, grammar, and word meanings. Students who are in second-year Hebrew courses can use this reference resource to assist them in the identification...
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Gilgamesh's Snake and Other Poems
Gilgamesh's Snake and Other Poems

Gharīb Iskandar · Syracuse University Press
Pages: 103
Format: Print book

The Epic of Gilgamesh is perhaps the greatest surviving work of early Mesopotamian literature. According to legend, Gilgamesh built the city walls of Uruk, modern-day Iraq, to protect his people from external threats. Although the epic records events from more than four thousand years ago,...
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The Poetry of Rilke
The Poetry of Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke · North Point Press; Bilingual edition edition
Format: Paperback

For the past twenty-five years, North Point Press has been working with Edward Snow, “Rilke’s best contemporary translator” (Brian Phillips, The New Republic), to bring into English Rilke’s major poetic works. The Poetry of Rilke—the single most comprehensive...
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Practice Makes Perfect English Sentence Builder
Practice Makes Perfect English Sentence Builder

Ed Swick · McGraw-Hill; 1 edition
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

Practice Makes Perfect helps you put your English vocabulary and grammar skills together! You may have all the vocabulary down pat and every grammar point nailed--but without the skill of knowing how to put these elements together, communicating in your second language would be nearly impossible....
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Arabic Poems
Arabic Poems

Marle Hammond · Everyman's Library; Bilingual edition
Format: Hardcover

A bilingual anthology of poems from the sixth century to the present, Arabic Poems is a one-of-a-kind showcase of a fascinating literary tradition. The Arabic poetic legacy is as vast as it is deep, spanning a period of fifteen centuries in regions from Morocco to Iraq. Themes of love,...
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Homer
Homer

Barbara Graziosi · Oxford Univ Press
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

Homer's mythological tales of war and homecoming, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are considered to be two of the most influential works in the history of Western literature. Yet their author, 'the greatest poet that ever lived' is something of a mystery. By the 6th century BCE,...
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Barron's French-English Pocket Dictionary: 70,000 words, phrases & examples presented in two sections: American style English to French -- French to English
Barron's French-English Pocket Dictionary: 70,000 words, phrases & examples presented in two sections: American style English to French -- French to English

Majka Dischler · Barron's Educational Series; 2 edition
Format: Print book

This updated and revised bilingual dictionary is pocket-sized and easy to use. Students can slip it into backpacks and travelers can fit it in carry-on bags for air travel or satchels for use at their destinations. Abridged from Barrons comprehensive, full-size Bilingual Dictionary, this...
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