Clichés: Over 1,500 Phrases Explored and Explained, lexicographer Betty Kirkpatrick presents a fascinating history of the classification of this linguistic category as well as of various aspects of language, illustrating its elasticity and ongoing evolution

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the field of English for Academic Purposes for teachers. It looks not only at study skills, but also at other central concerns of EAP, such as needs analysis, syllabus and course design, methdology and materials, learning styles and genre analysis

This is a practical guide for teachers on how to select, organise and teach vocabulary to all levels of students

Приводятся основные сведения о транскрипции и транслитерации инстранных слов, о написании на русском языке географических названий, наименований учреждений и организаций, газет и журналов. Представлены тексты на английском языке, взятые из лекций нобелевских лауреатов разных лет и из различных областей химии

Книга содержит профессионально ориентированные тексты, заимствованные из учебников по географии, страноведению и экологии на английском языке и других оригинальных источников

Пособие состоит из 8 глав, рассматривающих такие актуальные лексикологические проблемы, как "проблема определения слова", "стилистическая стратификация словарного запаса", "этимология", "значение слова", "словобразование" и многое другое

В книге рассматривается история Италии со времен падения Западной Римской империи до начала XIV века, представляющая собой, по мнению автора, летопись чужеземных вторжений и завоеваний

Here you will learn step-by-step, how to increase your language power with word "roots", find the words to sell your ideas, learn new words daily, check on your progress with 30 challenging tests

Fade Away by Harlan Coben is an entertaining novel featuring Myron Bolitar, a sports agent, hired by the New Jersey Dragons to find a missing basketball star. Myron and his team of associates, work together to puzzle out the disappearance of Greg Downing, drawing Myron into danger, both physical and emotional

The Berserker series is a series of space opera science fiction short stories and novels by Fred Saberhagen, in which robotic self-replicating machines intend to destroy all life. These Berserkers, named after the human berserker warriors of Norse legend, are doomsday weapons left over from an interstellar war between two races of extraterrestrials. They all have machine intelligence, and their sizes range from that of an asteroid, in the case of an automated repair and construction base, down to human size (and shape) or smaller. The Berserkers