This work focuses on themes related to daily life, depicting the natural scenery along the banks of the Bian River, and the hustling and bustling life in the early twelfth-century city of Bianjing, then the capital of Northern Song Dynasty, as its citizens celebrate the Qingming Festival

Small enough to fit in purse or porket, this dictionary presents more than 2.500 American English idiomatic words and expressions with their meanings

A fully updated and revised edition of FOF's 1999 Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes, Revised Edition with 60 new entries, covers more than 200 American Indian tribes of North America. Includes 259 color illustrations (12 new to this edition), 11 color maps, cross-references, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index

The book is based on the principle that English lessons form an integral part of a young learner

ESL students, TOEFL and TOEIC test takers, and all others for whom English is a second language and who want to improve their pronunciation will find this book and compact disc combination especially instructive. The new second edition presents a significantly increased number of exercises, all of them providing practice in every sound that is specific to American-style English. Emphasis is on stress and intonation patterns in conversational English. Recognition of these patterns is essential to fluent speech and listening comprehension. Four compact discs replace the first edition's audiocassettes, and have been increased by 50 minutes in playing time to a total of 5 hours and 20 minutes

Богато иллюстрированная книга знакомит читателя с основными постулатами китайской философии

This book is an imaginative treasury of the spoken and written word for kids of all ages. It is meant to be a beginning, a starting point on a journey of discovery

This book provide definitions written in a simple, strictly-controlled defining vocabulary, pronunciations in the International Phonetic Alphabet, full information about grammar and the way words combine with each other, using a very simple system

It is a book that attempts to discuss and bring together research relevant to children and language learning and principles in classroom practice. This book is for experienced teachers with an interest in teaching English to children

This book is as much a tribute to the people living today who have so much to share about a time and a way of life, as it is to the man who helped record it in so much detail