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English for Everyone: English Grammar Guide

Dk. - Dk Publishing
Format: Print book

A self-study English grammar guide using innovative visual learning methods to make even the trickiest points easy to understand, for the approximately 1 million adults in the United States learning English as a second language.Suitable for English-language learners of all levels, from...
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Canto hondo / Deep Song

Francisco X Alarcón - The University of Arizona Press
Format: Print book

Canto hondo / Deep Song honors the Andalusian deep lyric, or canto hondo, poetry of famed Spanish writer Federico Garca Lorca through rich and expressive poems. Francisco X. Alarcn deftly places Spanish and English side-by-side in this bilingual collection that is a modern meditation on love,...
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Chineasy: The New Way to Read Chinese

ShaoLan Hsueh - Harper Design
Format: Paperback

Learn to read and write Chinese with Chineasy - a groundbreaking approach that transforms key Chinese characters into pictograms for easy recall and comprehension.Chinese is one of the oldest written languages, and one of the most difficult to master, especially for Westerners. With Chineasy,...
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Japanese English Bilingual Visual Dictionary

Dorling Kindersley Inc. - Dk Publishing, 2016.
Format: Print book

Japanese-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary makes language learning accessible by using photographs to put the everyday vocabulary of the modern world into context.With a thematic organization of more than 10,000 fully illustrated terms labeled in both Japanese and English and comprehensive...
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Living with a Dead Language: My Romance with Latin

Ann Patty - Viking
Format: Print book

An entertaining exploration of the richness and relevance of the Latin language and literature, and an inspiring account of finding renewed purpose through learning something new and challenging After thirty-five years as a book editor in New York City, Ann Patty stopped working and moved...
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All Strangers Are Kin: Adventures in Arabic and the Arab World

Zora O'Neill - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Hardcover

"The shaddais the key difference between a pigeon (hamam) and a bathroom (hammam) . Be careful, our professor advised, in the first moment of outright humor in class, that you don't ask a waiter, 'Excuse me, where is the pigeon?' - or, conversely, order...
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Homer

Barbara Graziosi - Oxford Univ Press
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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LaFosse & Alexander's Essential Book of Origami: The Complete Guide for Everyone

Michael G Lafosse - Tuttle Publishing
Format: Print book

This comprehensive origami book contains 16 easy lessons - each revealing a different aspect of the paper folding magic that is origami!World-renowned origami artists Michael G. LaFosse and Richard L. Alexander share their wisdom and expertise in this complete introduction to the world...
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