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English Made Easy Volume One: A New ESL Approach: Learning English Through Pictures
Jonathan Crichton - Tuttle Publishing
Format: Paperback
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This is a fun and user-friendly way to learn EnglishEnglish Made Easy is a breakthrough in English language learning - imaginatively exploiting how pictures and text can work together to create understanding and help learners learn more productively. It gives beginner English learners... |
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The Hidden History of Coined Words
Ralph Keyes - Oxford University Press; 1st edition
Format: 1st Edition
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Successful word-coinages--those that stay in currency for a good long time--tend to conceal their beginnings. We take them at face value and rarely when and where they were first minted. Engaging, illuminating, and authoritative, Ralph Keyes's The Hidden History of Coined Words explores... |
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Top the TOEFL: Unlocking the Secrets of Ivy League Students
Kaiwen Leong - World Scientific Publishing Company
Format: Hardcover
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Top the TOEFL is a TOEFL book like no other. It recognizes an essential key to the problem: students who struggle with the TOEFL have problems mastering English. Hence, while other TOEFL books teach strategies with long wordy explanations that hardly make sense to the average student, Top the TOEFL... |
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The Art of Haiku: Its History through Poems and Paintings by Japanese Masters
Stephen Addiss - Shambhala
Format: Paperback
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In the past hundred years, haiku has gone far beyond its Japanese origins to become a worldwide phenomenon - with the classic poetic form growing and evolving as it has adapted to the needs of the whole range of languages and cultures that have embraced it. This proliferation of the joy of haiku... |
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25 Great Sentences and How They Got That Way
Geraldine Woods - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A guide to the artistry that lifts a sentence from good to great.We all know the basic structure of a sentence: a subject/verb pair expressing a complete thought and ending with proper punctuation. But that classroom definition doesn't begin to describe the ways in which these elements... |
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The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
Sarah Ogilvie - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, word by word. The Oxford English Dictionary is one of mankind's greatest achievements, and yet, curiously, its creators are almost never considered. Who were the people behind this unprecedented... |
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Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide
John Cleese - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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"Many people have written about creativity, but although they were very, very clever, they weren't actually creative. I like to think I'm writing about it from the inside." --John CleeseCreativity is usually regarded as a mysterious, rare gift that only a few possess.... |
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The Woman Inside: A Novel
M. T. Edvardsson - Celadon Books
Format: Hardcover
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A wealthy couple ends up murdered in the nicest part of town in this compulsively readable, page-turning thriller from M. T. Edvardsson, The Woman Inside. . Bill Olsson, recently widowed, is desperate to provide for his daughter, Sally. Struggling to pay rent, he welcomes a lodger into... |
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In Other Words
Jhumpa Lahiri - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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National Best SellerFrom the best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful nonfiction debut - an "honest, engaging, and very moving account of a writer searching for herself in words." - Kirkus Reviews (starred) In Other Words is a revelation. It is at heart... |
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