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The Ultimate Phrasal Verb Book: For ESL and EFL Students
Carl W Hart - Barron's Educational Series
Format: Print book
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Updated to reflect questions found on the most recent ESL tests, this book presents 400 common phrasal verbs as they are used in everyday English. Phrasal verbs are verbs combined with prepositions or adverbs. Familiarity with phrasal verbs and understanding their use as nouns (breakup,... |
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Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
Gretchen McCulloch - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language.Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are structured... |
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Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
Amanda Montell - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover
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A brash, enlightening, and wildly entertaining feminist look at gendered language and the way it shapes us, written with humor and playfulness that challenges words and phrases and how we use them."I get so jazzed about the future of feminism knowing that Amanda Montell's brilliance... |
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Barron's Visual Dictionary: Italian: For Home, Business, and Travel
PONS Editorial Team - Barron's Educational Series; Bilingual edition
Format: Paperback
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Travelers, students, and lovers of language will find this little visual dictionary to be indispensable. Small enough to slip into a purse or satchel, it includes thousands of common words identified by pictures and defined bilingually. Barron's Visual Dictionary: Italian features approximately... |
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Mastering the American Accent
Lisa Mojsin - Barron'S
Format: Print book
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This combination book and audio instructional program is designed to diminish the accents of men and women who speak English as their second language. It will help them speak standard American English with clarity, confidence, and accuracy. Specific exercises concentrate on vowel sounds,... |
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The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts
Silvia Ferrara - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Silvia Ferrara's The Greatest Invention is a code-cracking tour around the globe, sifting through our cultural and social behavior in search of the origins of our greatest invention -- writing.The L where a tabletop meets the legs, the T between double doors, the D of an armchair's... |
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