Thursday, 28 February 2008

The Science of Laboratory Diagnosis, 2nd Edition

The Science of Laboratory Diagnosis, 2nd Edition
John Crocker, David Burnett
Wiley; 2 edition (Aug 2005)
ISBN-10: 0470859121 | ISBN-13: 978-0470859124
PDF | English | 14.6 MB | 564 pages

This fully revised and updated edition of The Science of Laboratory Diagnosis provides a concise description of all common laboratory tests available in medical practice with notes on their application, the accuracy of each test, the historical background to the adoption of various tests and their effectiveness in diagnosis.
* Well illustrated, with clear headings, tables, flow charts and pathology slides, most in full colour
* Provides an accessible reference book in which relevant information can be found easily
* Page design facilitates rapid assimilation of principles and key facts
* All the chapters have been updated and new material has been introduced to cover recently developed techniques, such as fluid-based cytology, telepathology and proteomics

The Science of Laboratory Diagnosis, Second Edition is an essential primary reference source for everyone working in a clinical laboratory. This book is essential reading for pathologists, biomedical scientists, medical laboratory scientific officers and all clinicians involved in laboratory research.

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A Communicative Grammar of English

A Communicative Grammar of English
Geoffrey Leech, Jan Svartvik
Addison Wesley Longman; 3rd edition
ISBN-10: 058208573X | ISBN-13: 978-0582085732
PDF | English | 13.6 MB | 304 pages

A Communicative Grammar of English by Geoffrey Leech and Jan Svartvik, first published in 1975, has established itself as a grammar innovative in approach, reliable in coverage, and clear in its explanations. It is one of the best books on grammar ever written and still provides an up-to-date and accessible resource for teachers, advanced learners and undergraduate students of English.
A Communicative Grammar of English employs a communicative rather than a structural approach to the learning of English grammar. This edition is divided into three parts. Part One: Varieties of English , looks at the way English grammar varies in different types of English, for example 'formal' and 'informal', 'spoken' and 'written'. Part Two: Intonation. Part Three: Grammar in use - the central and largest part of the book, presents grammar through the eyes of the communicator and focuses on the uses of grammar rather than on grammatical structure. Part Four: Grammatical Compendium - provides a useful and alphabetically arranged guide to English grammar.

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An Introduction to English Phonology

An Introduction to English Phonology
April McMahon | Oxford University Press, USA (March 2002)
ISBN-10: 0195218914 | ISBN-13: 978-0195218916
PDF | English | 1.9 MB | 159 pages

This is a short, lively, and accessible introduction to the sounds of modern English. Its emphasis on variation, with examples from British, American, New Zealand, and Singaporean English, make it suitable for both native and non-native speakers. McMahon focuses on the vowels and consonants, but also discusses syllables, stress, and the phonology of words and phrases. She introduces new tools and terminology gradually, and discusses the motivation for key concepts.

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Test Your Professional English - Business Intermediate

Test Your Professional English - Business Intermediate
BRIEGEN | Pearson ESL; New Edition (Aug 2002)
ISBN-10: 0582451493 | ISBN-13: 978-0582451490
PDF | English | 6.2 MB | 112 pages

Test Your Professional English: Business Intermediate is organized into eight sections and covers words and expressions in areas such as business strategy, project management, business jargon, meetings, presentations, the internet and business culture.
This practical series includes a number of specialist titles which help students communicate more effectively. Each book contains over 60 tests and over 500 key words and expressions. They are ideal for class use or self-study.

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An Introduction to International Varieties of English

An Introduction to International Varieties of English
Laurie Bauer | Edinburgh University Press (March 2003)
ISBN-10: 0748613374 | ISBN-13: 978-0748613373
PDF | English | 1.8 MB | 144 pages

Covering varieties of English spoken in Britain, the U.S.A., Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and the Falkland Islands, this book shows how the major national varieties of English have developed and why similar causes have given rise to different effects in different parts of the world.

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The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage

The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage
Pam Peters | Cambridge University Press; 2nd edition (May 2007)
ISBN-10: 0521702429 | ISBN-13: 978-0521702423
PDF | English | 3.4 MB | 926 pages

The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage is an up-to-date, evidence-based account of the variable points in Australian usage and style, in alphabetical format. Its description of Australian English uses a wealth of primary sources (linguistic corpora; the internet; public surveys of usage, conducted through Australian Style) as well as the latest editions of English dictionaries, style manuals and grammars. With all this input the Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage provides in-depth coverage of the currency of alternative usages in spelling, punctuation and word choice in Australia, while showing the influence of British and American English here as well. This book is designed for everyone who writes and edits documents and non-fiction texts, for print or electronic delivery. Tertiary students and staff will get plenty of help from it, as well as professional editors who work with manuscripts of many different authors and commissions from multiple publishers.

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Sunday, 24 February 2008

Grammar of the English Verb Phrase: Volume 1: The Grammar of the English Tense System

Grammar of the English Verb Phrase: Volume 1: The Grammar
of the English Tense System

Mouton de Gruyter (Aug 2006) | 857 pages
ISBN-10: 311018589X | ISBN-13: 978-3110185898
PDF | English | 5.1 MB

The Grammar of the English Tense System forms the first volume of a four-volume set, The Grammar of the English Verb Phrase. The other volumes, to appear over the next few years, will deal with mood and modality, aspect and voice.
The book aims to provide a grammar of tense which can be used both as an advanced reference grammar (for example by MA-level or postgraduate students of English or linguistics) and as a scientific study which can act as a basis for and stimulus to further research. It provides not only a wealth of data but also a unique framework for the study of the English tense system, which achieves great predictive and explanatory power on the basis of a limited number of relatively simple rules. The framework provided allows for an analysis of the semantics of individual tenses which reflects the role of tenses not only in locating situations in time relative to speech time but also in relating situations in time relative to one another to form temporally coherent discourse. Attention is paid to the relations between tenses. On the one hand, we can identify sets of tenses linked to particular temporal areas such as the past or the future. These sets of tenses provide for the expression of a system of temporal relations in a stretch of discourse in which all the situations are located within the same temporal area. On the other hand, there are many contexts in which speakers might in theory choose between two or more tenses to locate a situation (e.g., when we choose between the past tense and the present perfect to locate a situation before speech time), and the book examines the difference that a choice of one or the other tense may make within a discourse context.
The book moves from a detailed exploration of the meaning and use of individual tenses to a thorough analysis of the way in which tenses can be seen to function together as sets, and finally to a detailed examination of tenses in, and tenses interacting with, temporal adverbials.

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Language and Gender (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)

Language and Gender (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)
Penelope Eckert, Sally McConnell-Ginet
Cambridge University Press; 1st edition (Feb 2003)
ISBN-10: 0521654262 | ISBN-13: 978-0521654265
PDF | English | 3.6 MB | 379 pages

This is a new introduction to the study of the relation between gender and language use, written by two of the leading experts in the field. It covers the main topics, beginning with a clear discussion of gender and of the resources that the linguistic system offers for the construction of social meaning. The body of the book offers unprecedented breadth and depth in its coverage of the interaction between language and social life. It is the ideal textbook for students in language and gender courses in several disciplines, including linguistics, gender studies, women's studies, sociology, and anthropology.

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Longman Pocket Phrasal Verbs Dictionary (LPD)

Longman Pocket Phrasal Verbs Dictionary (LPD)
Longman Publishing Group (Nov 2005)
ISBN-10: 0582776422 | ISBN-13: 978-0582776425
PDF | English | 51.3 MB | 448 pages

This practical pocket-book illustrates examples of phrasal verbs in English showing the most common. Another good feature displays the main word, usually a verb, in capital letters. Then it shows common applications using that verb, accompanied now by a particle ( v.gr. HIT= hit it off, hit on/upon, hit back, etc.).
* Over 3000 phrasal verbs
* Clear and easy definitions
* Thousands of examples showing real usage
* Unique ActivatorA (R) section

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Crazy English: The Ultimate Joy Ride Through Our Language

Crazy English: The Ultimate Joy Ride Through Our Language
Richard Lederer | Tandem Library (June 1998)
ISBN-10: 1417616989 | ISBN-13: 978-1417616985
DjVu | English | 6.2 MB | 189 pages

One of the most unforgettable moments of my youth was learning the word pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. I was in third grade. So what if Richard Lederer has come up with a chemical compound that consists of 1,913 letters? Owning a word like pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is empowering at any age. If you have ever been completely wowed by the power you can have over language, or its power over you, Richard Lederer is your patron saint. His oft-reprinted introduction to Crazy English, which was originally published in 1989, claims that English is "the most loopy and wiggy of all tongues." And then he demonstrates: "In what other language do people drive in a parkway and park in a driveway? ... Why do they call them apartments when they're all together?" And so on. Lederer's pace is frenetic. He alights on oxymorons ("pretty ugly," "computer jock"), redundancies, confusing words (are you sure you know the meaning of enormity?), phobias, contronyms, heteronyms, retroactive terms (acoustic guitar, rotary phone), and a host of other linguistic delights.

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Basic English Grammar, Second Edition

Basic English Grammar, Second Edition
Betty Schrampfer Azar | Pearson ESL (Jan 1996)
ISBN-10: 0133683176 | ISBN-13: 978-0133683172
DjVu | English | 28 MB | 482 pages

Now in an all-new second edition, this worktext presents basic structures and vocabulary in a step-by-step building process, along with lots of opportunity for practice through varied exercises. Covers all basic English grammar structures and concepts through clear, concise charts and examples. For beginning-level ESL learners.

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Longman English Grammar Practice

Longman English Grammar Practice
L.G. Alexander | Longman Publishing Group (Jan 1990)
ISBN-10: 0582045002 | ISBN-13: 978-0582045002
PDF | English | 6 MB | 296 pages

This book deals entirely with English as a foreign language (EFL). It is for intermediate students who are working with a teacher or working on their own. It covers every important area of the English language. If you look at the Contents pages, you will find sixteen major areas which form the basis of English grammar. This book is based on the Longman English Grammar and the grammatical information in it is all drawn from this work. Longman English Grammar Practice has been designed to stand on its own. Students who require further grammatical information can refer to the Longman English Grammar.

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Macmillan Dictionary for Students

Macmillan Dictionary for Students
Ltd. Pan Macmillan
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing (June 1984)
ISBN-10: 002761560X | ISBN-13: 978-0027615609
PDF | English | 22.8 MB | 543 pages

From the publishers of the best-selling Macmillan Dictionary for Children, here is the Macmillan Dictionary for Students. Authoritative and easy to use, it is the most comprehensive dictionary geared specifically to the needs of junior-high and high-school students. It contains 90,000 entries, 120,000 definitions, and more than 1,900 illustrations to make meanings absolutely clear.
Phrases and sentences illustrate the various definitions of more than 90,000 entries in this student dictionary reflecting current American usage.

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Friday, 22 February 2008

Writing for Science and Engineering

Writing for Science and Engineering: Papers, Presentations and Reports
Heather Silyn-Roberts | Butterworth-Heinemann (Dec 2002)
ISBN-10: 0750646365 | ISBN-13: 978-0750646369
PDF | English | 11 MB | 286 pages

This is a book for a post-graduate student in Engineering, Science or Technology who needs to know how to:
Prepare abstracts, theses and journal papers
Present your work orally
Present a progress report to a funding body
This is a practical guide to all aspects of post-graduate documentation for Engineering, Science and Technology students, which will prove indispensable to readers.

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Write Better Essays in 20 Minutes a Day, 2nd Edition

Write Better Essays in 20 Minutes a Day, 2nd Edition
LearningExpress Editors | LearningExpress, LLC; (May 2006)
ISBN-10: 1576855465 | ISBN-13: 978-1576855461
PDF | English | 1 MB | 208 pages

Essay writing need not be daunting. Taking the reader step-by-step through the entire process, from the initial organization of ideas to the final stages of proofreading, Write Better Essays in Just 20 Minutes a Day covers all the essentials: how to understand essay questions, create a strong thesis, develop a captivating introduction, support ideas, and revise the work. Included are plenty of sample essays, strategies for planning and revising in-class essays, ways to overcome writer's block, and tips on achieving higher scores on essay exams.

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Thursday, 21 February 2008

Just Enough English Grammar Illustrated

Just Enough English Grammar Illustrated
Gabriele Stobbe | McGraw-Hill (Dec 2007)
ISBN: 0071492321 | 145 pages
PDF | English | 4.6 MB

To make grasping grammar easier--and more fun--Just Enough English Grammar uses colourful cartoons illustrate each important grammar point. You see the grammar concept in action, guaranteeing you will remember it next time you need to use it in writing or in conversation.

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Express Yourself by Linda Miracco

Express Yourself by Linda Miracco
LearningExpress, LLC; 1st edition (Feb 2002)
ISBN-10: 1576854035 | ISBN-13: 978-1576854037
PDF | English | 2.6 MB | 161 pages

Express Yourself is for those who want to become more effective at communicating their thoughts and ideas, specifically as writers. This book is organized around the four major kinds of writing experienced in high school and college-expository writing, writing for critical analysis, narrative writing, and writing in response to literature. Concepts for mastering these four types drive the bulk of this book's excellent instruction. Designed to help students and teachers alike, this book is a complete course in helping readers to best express themselves.

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Another Word A Day, Limited Gift Edition

Another Word A Day, Limited Gift Edition
Anu Garg | Wiley (Sept 2005) | 240 pages
ISBN-10: 0471778788 | ISBN-13: 978-0471778783
PDF | English | 2.1 MB

In this delightful encore to the national bestseller A Word A Day, Anu Garg, the founder of the wildly popular A Word A Day Web site (wordsmith.org), presents an all-new collection of unusual, intriguing words and real-life anecdotes that will thrill writers, scholars, and word buffs everywhere. Another Word A Day celebrates the English language in all its quirkiness, grandeur, and fun, and features new chapters ranging from "Words Formed Erroneously" and "Red-Herring Words" to "Kangaroo Words," "Discover the Theme," and "What Does That Company Name Mean?" In them, you'll find a treasure trove of curious and compelling words, including agelast, dragoman, mittimus, nyctalopia, quacksalver, scission, tattersall, and zugzwang. Each entry includes a concise definition, etymology, and usage example, interspersed with illuminating quotations.

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A University Course in English Grammar

A University Course in English Grammar
Angela Downing and Philip Locke | Routledge, 2nd ed. (Aug 2002)
ISBN-10: 041528810X | ISBN-13: 978-0415288101
PDF | English | 2.8 MB | 640 pages

This comprehensive up-to-date descriptive grammar is a complete course for first degree and post-graduate students of Applied Linguistics and English Language. It is also suitable as a background course for literature and discourse studies, since grammatical usage is illustrated with authentic texts, many of them from literary sources.
Originally published by Prentice Hall in 1992, this text is now readily available world-wide from Routledge.

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Wednesday, 20 February 2008

TIME Magazine January 28, 2008 Vol. 171 No. 4

TIME Magazine January 28, 2008 Vol. 171 No. 4
DOC (MS Word) + PDF + MP3 | English | 13 + 1.7 + 26.3 MB

COVER: The Science of Romance: Why We Love - Breeding is easy, but survival requires romance too. How our brains, bodies and senses help us find it
Why We Flirt - That smile! That glance! That rapt attention! We flirt even when we don't need to. And that can be good
• SCIENCE: A New Blueprint for Levittown - It was America's original suburb. Now it is aiming to become a model of environmental innovation
• PEOPLE: 10 Questions for Woody Allen - He's brilliant at portraying neurotics of all kinds. But the multitalented director, whose new movie is Cassandra's Dream, swears he's actually quite normal. Woody Allen will now take your questions

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The Language of Meetings by Malcolm Goodale

The Language of Meetings
Malcolm Goodale | Language Teaching Publications (Jan 1987)
ISBN-10: 0906717469 | ISBN-13: 978-0906717462
PDF | English | 8.4 MB | 122 pages

This book deals extremely comprehensively with all aspects of the Language of Meetings. It provides the language necessary to present an argument, ask/express and opinion, agree/disagree, interrupt, question, clarify, support, oppose and persuade.
The units are separated into a kind of introduction to see what language the students already know (great for the TTT approach). It then gives lists of language used for each function. Great at showing "lexical chunks" of language. Then there's a gapfill page to consolidate and help students learn and remember. A 'mini-task' puts the language into practice with dialogue chains, or mini-roleplays with topic suggestions. The end of the units consist of collocation matching exercises.
Great to dip into for use in more general classes, or use more methodically and work through each unit with students who reguarly have to attend meetings.

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The Language and Reality of Time

The Language and Reality of Time
Thomas Sattig | Oxford University Press, USA (June 2006)
ISBN-10: 0199279527 | ISBN-13: 978-0199279524
PDF | English | 2 MB | 233 pages

Thomas Sattig's book develops a comprehensive framework for doing philosophy of time. He brings together a variety of different perspectives, linking our ordinary conception of time with the physicist's conception, and linking questions about time addressed in metaphysics with questions addressed in the philosophy of language. Within this framework, Sattig explores the temporal dimension of the material world in relation to the temporal dimension of our ordinary discourse about the world. The discussion is centred around the dispute between three-dimensionalists and four-dimensionalists about whether the temporal profile of ordinary objects mirrors their spatial profile. Are ordinary objects extended in time in the same way in which they are extended in space? Do they have temporal as well as spatial parts? Four-dimensionalists say 'yes', three-dimensionalists say 'no'. Sattig develops an original three-dimensionalist picture of the material world, and argues that this picture is preferable to its four-dimensionalists rivals if ordinary thought and talk are taken seriously. Among the issues that Sattig discusses are the metaphysics of persistence, change, composition, location, coincidence, and relativity; the ontology of past, present, and future; and the semantics of predication, tense, temporal modifiers, and sortal terms.

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Language: A Biological Model by Ruth Garrett Millikan

Language: A Biological Model
Ruth Garrett Millikan | Oxford University Press, USA (Sept 2005)
ISBN-10: 0199284776 | ISBN-13: 978-0199284771
PDF | English | 2.5 MB | 239 pages

Ruth Millikan is well known for having developed a strikingly original way for philosophers to seek understanding of mind and language, which she sees as biological phenomena. She now draws together a series of groundbreaking essays which set out her approach to language. Guiding the work of most linguists and philosophers of language today is the assumption that language is governed by prescriptive normative rules. Millikan offers a fundamentally different way of viewing the partial regularities that language displays, comparing them to biological norms that emerge from natural selection. This yields novel and quite radical consequences for our understanding of the nature of public linguistic meaning, the process of language understanding, how children learn language, and the semantics/pragmatics distinction.

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Tuesday, 19 February 2008

The New Fowler's Modern English Usage

The New Fowler's Modern English Usage
(New Fowler's Modern English Usage, 3rd Ed.)
H. W. Fowler , R. W. Burchfield
Oxford University Press, USA 3rd edition (Apr 2000)
ISBN-10: 0198602634 | ISBN-13: 978-0198602637
DjVu | English | 12 MB | 899 pages

The New Fowler's Modern English Usage, the first revision in more than 30 years, has not arrived without controversy. Some language (and Fowler) purists complain that the book is too liberal at times, noting that usage is common as opposed to correct. Those points are debatable, and, indeed, they're what makes the book's nearly 900 pages so interesting to peruse. The currency of the new Fowler's extends to, in the entry on "Vogue Words," such novelties as "couch potato," "flavour of the month," "on a roll," and the notorious "parameter."

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American Idioms and Some Phrases Just for Fun

American Idioms and Some Phrases Just for Fun (ESL Series)
Edward Swick | Barron's Educational Series (Feb 1999)
ISBN-10: 0764108077 | ISBN-13: 978-0764108075
PDF | English | 2.7 MB | 181 pages

ESL students taking intermediate-level courses will find this book a helpful supplement to their classroom textbook. Just as important, they'll see it as a reliable guide to the intricacies of idiomatic American English. Why, after all, should a newcomer to the English language be expected to make sense out of such phrases as get on the ball...make a beeline...have a bone to pick? These and dozens more phrases are explained, "translated" into more formal English, and repeated in various contexts.

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The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition

The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
William Strunk Jr., E. B. White | Longman, 4th edition (Aug 1999)
ISBN-10: 020530902X | ISBN-13: 978-0205309023
PDF | English | 1 MB | 105 pages

Composition teachers throughout the English-speaking world have been pushing this book on their students since it was first published in 1957. Co-author White later revised it, and it remains the most compact and lucid handbook we have for matters of basic principles of composition, grammar, word usage and misusage, and writing style. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Super-Mini American Slang Dictionary

McGraw-Hill's Super-Mini American Slang Dictionary
Richard A. Spears | McGraw-Hill; 2nd edition (July 2007)
ISBN-10: 0071492283 | ISBN-13: 978-0071492287
PDF | English | 3.3 MB | 254 pages

This up-to-date dictionary presents you with 2,100 entries including colorful words and phrases from television and movies, as well as the streets and campuses.

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The Gregg Reference Manual, 10th edition (2004)

The Gregg Reference Manual, 10th edition (2004)
William A. Sabin | Career Education | Pages: 704
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0072936533 | ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780072936537
PDF | English | 22 MB

For more than 50 years, The Gregg Reference Manual has been recognized as the best style manual for business professionals and students. The basic rules that apply to the most frequent problems are covered as thoroughly as the fine points of the problems that occur less often. The colorful examples and illustrations offer easy-to-follow models to help resolve the difficulties encountered in everyday communications from e-mail messages to formal reports. New features include:
Up-to-date coverage on dealing with online source material and precautions to observe when citing electronic material
New searchable index: the website accompanying the book allows the reader immediate access to definitions and information on specific topics
Updated e-mail rules and expanded plagiarism coverage to meet the needs of changing technology

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Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs

McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
Richard A. Spears | McGraw-Hill, 1st edition (Jan 2006)
ISBN-10: 0071469346 | ISBN-13: 978-0071469340
PDF | English | 18.7 MB | 1098 pages

With more entries than any other reference of its kind, McGraw-Hill’s Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs shows you how American English is spoken today. You will find commonly used phrasal verbs, idiomatic expressions, proverbial expressions, and clichés. The dictionary contains more than 24,000 entries, each defined and followed by one or two example sentences. It also includes a Phrase-Finder Index with more than 60,000 entries.

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Monday, 18 February 2008

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition
Editors of The American Heritage Dictionaries
Houghton Mifflin (Aug 1992)
ISBN-10: 0395448956 | ISBN-13: 978-0395448953
PDF | English | 41.8 MB | 2140 pages

The third edition of the American Heritage Dictionary is a beauty--2,134 pages and 8.5 pounds--containing a lexicon of more than 200,000 entries, plus an appendix of Indo-European roots for etymology enthusiasts. The crisp white pages and sharp black print are easy on the eyes, the drawings and pictures (nearly 4,000 in all) are a delight, and along with the lucid, erudite definitions are 4,000-plus quoted illustrations of usage from the likes of Shakespeare, Melville, and Updike. Though it's the chosen reference of editors, it's more than a mere tool of the trade--it's a luxurious linguistic experience.

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Sunday, 17 February 2008

The Handbook of Pragmatics (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics)

The Handbook of Pragmatics (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics)
Laurence R. Horn, Gregory L. Ward
Blackwell Publishing, Incorporated (Jan 2004) | 864 pages
ISBN-10: 0631225471 | ISBN-13: 978-0631225478
PDF | English | 7 MB

The Handbook of Pragmatics is a collection of newly commissioned articles that provide an authoritative and accessible introduction to the field, including an overview of the foundations of pragmatic theory and a detailed examination of the rich and varied theoretical and empirical subdomains of pragmatics.
* Contains 32 newly commissioned articles that outline the central themes and challenges for current research in the field of linguistic pragmatics.
* Provides authoritative and accessible introduction to the field and a detailed examination of the varied theoretical and empirical subdomains of pragmatics.
* Includes extensive bibliography that serves as a research tool for those working in pragmatics and allied fields in linguistics, philosophy, and cognitive science.
* Valuable resource for both students and professional researchers investigating the properties of meaning, reference, and context in natural language.

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The Oxford Dictionary of New Words: Popular Guide to Words in the News

The Oxford Dictionary of New Words:
Popular Guide to Words in the News

Sara Tulloch | Oxford University Press; New Ed (Oct 1992)
ISBN-10: 0192830775 | ISBN-13: 978-0192830777
PDF | English | 1.2 MB | 743 pages

This is the first dictionary entirely devoted to new words and meanings to have been published by the Oxford University Press. It follows in the tradition of the Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary in attempting to record the history of some recent additions to the language, but,unlike the Supplement, it is necessarily very selective in the words,phrases, and meanings whose stories it sets out to tell and it stands as an independent work, unrelated (except in the resources it draws upon) to the Oxford English Dictionary.

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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Allusions

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Allusions
Elizabeth Webber, Mike Feinsilber | Merriam-Webster (Sept 1999)
ISBN-10: 0877796289 | ISBN-13: 978-0877796282
PDF | English | 11 MB | 609 pages

This is like a shorter, more accessible, and American version of Brewer's Dictionary, which this book does cite as a reference. Other differences are that this provides a pronunciation guide for certain words and that contextual examples are drawn mostly from periodicals pre-1999.
It includes allusions to poems ("snows of yesteryear" and "waste its sweetness on the desert air"), the Bible ("Sodom and Gomorrah"), 20th century novels ("Peyton Place" and the "Snopes family" in Faulkner's works), Latin usage ("ex cathedra") and TV ("Eddie Haskell" and "Ozzie and Harriet").
There are explanations of such terms as Daliesque, scorched earth, ignorant armies (forces blindly fighting with each other with no understanding of whom they are fighting or why), gnomes of Zurich, Walpurgis Night, zero-sum game, Mobius strip, Peter Principle, Heimlich maneuver, and non-denial denial.
Reading it, I also learned that the NSA was known as the "puzzle palace."

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English in the Southern United States (Studies in English Language)

English in the Southern United States (Studies in English Language)
Stephen J. Nagle, Sara L. Sanders
Cambridge University Press (Jan 2003)
ISBN-10: 0521822645 | ISBN-13: 978-0521822640
PDF | English | 1.3 MB | 259 pages

The English of the southern United States is possibly the most studied of any regional variety of any language because of its rich internal diversity, its distinctiveness among regional varieties in the United States, its significance as a marker of regional identity, and the general folkloric appeal of southern culture. However, most, if not all, books about Southern American English have been directed almost exclusively toward scholars already working in the field. This volume, written by a team of experts, many of them internationally known, provides a broad overview of the foundations of and current research on language variation in the southern United States designed to invite new inquiry and inquirers. It explores historical and cultural elements, iconic contemporary features, and current changes in progress. Central themes, issues and topics of scholarly investigation and debate figure prominently throughout the volume. The extensive bibliography will facilitate continued research.

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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

Eats, Shoots & Leaves:
The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

Lynne Truss | Gotham Books (April 2004) | 238 pages
ISBN-10: 1592400876 | ISBN-13: 978-1592400874
PDF | English | 2.2 MB

Everyone knows the basics of punctuation, surely? Aren't we all taught at school how to use full stops, commas and question marks? And yet we see ignorance and indifference everywhere. "Its Summer!" says a sign that cries out for an apostrophe. "ANTIQUE,S," says another, bizarrely. "Pansy's ready", we learn to our considerable interest ("Is she?"), as we browse among the bedding plants.

In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss dares to say that, with our system of punctuation patently endangered, it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them for the wonderful and necessary things they are. If there are only pedants left who care, then so be it. "Sticklers unite" is her rallying cry. "You have nothing to lose but your sense of proportion--and arguably you didn't have much of that to begin with."

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Saturday, 16 February 2008

American Accent Training (Book and Audio CD, 2nd Edition)

American Accent Training (Book and Audio CD, 2nd Edition)
Ann Cook | Barron's Educational Series (Sept 2000) | 208 pages
ISBN-10: 0764173693 | ISBN-13: 978-0764173691
PDF + MP3 | English | 13 MB + 5 x 60 MB

The second edition of the highly acclaimed American Accent Training, now on 5 audio CDs, is for foreign-born students and business people working, traveling or studying in the United States and Canada. Through extensive intonation and pronunciation exercises, students learn how to speak with a standard American Accent. At the same time, listening comprehension improves dramatically. Supplementary materials included detailed nationality guides for eight languages (Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Spanish, French, German, Russian and Korean), access to a comprehensive website, and referral to a qualified telephone analyst for an individual diagnostic speech analysis. Also included are colored markers for written exercises, and a mirror to practice accurate pronunciation.

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The Oxford Thesaurus of Synonyms by Laurence Urdang

The Oxford Thesaurus of Synonyms by Laurence Urdang
Clarendon Press; De Luxe Ed (Oct 1994) | 2062 pages
ISBN-10: 0191958018 | ISBN-13: 978-0191958014
PDF | English | 3.7 MB

First published in 1991, the very successful first edition of The Oxford Thesaurus has now sold over 126,000 copies. This new edition (NB new format), which for the first time includes antonyms in the main A-Z text, along with many additional new synonyms, broadens the book's appeal still further. The Oxford Thesaurus remains the most useful A-Z thesaurus available today, with more practical guidance for the user than any other competing title. Around 350,000 synonyms and antonyms, covering general English as well as thousands of regional and idiomatic words and expressions, are listed in A-Z form for ease of reference. Generous and detailed labelling shows how to use synonyms, and example sentences throughout make it even easier to select the correct synonym. The most useful synonyms (ie those that are closest in meaning to the headword) are listed first - a more helpful arrangement than a simple alphabetical listing under the headword. If the word for which you seek an alternative is not to be found as a headword, you can simply turn to the synonym index which lists 265,000 synonyms and shows you under which headword each synonym is located. In addition, all synonyms which also have their own headword entry (at which further related words may be found) are indicated by a simple cross-reference symbol.

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Writing for Quick Cash: Turn Your Way With Words into Real Money

Writing for Quick Cash:
Turn Your Way With Words into Real Money

by Loriann Hoff Oberlin
AMACOM/American Management Association (Nov 2003)
ISBN-10: 0814471994 | ISBN-13: 978-0814471999
PDF | English | 2 MB | 241 pages

Getting paid to write is every aspiring scribe's dream, but Writing for Quick Cash gives writers the tools and resources to make it reality. From researching potential clients to negotiating maximum pay rates, writers will learn every conceivable strategy for generating a steady flow of rewarding assignments that pay real money. Oberlin shows experienced and novice writers how to:
* Survey opportunities in business and technical writing, online content, periodicals, book projects, greeting cards, newsletters, and much more
* Market ideas and services to publishers, corporations, and others
* Work with clients and editors smoothly and professionally
* Create an efficient home office set-up for maximum productivity
* Write like a journalist -- without taking journalism classes
* Make the most of the latest and best writing software
* Augment income through teaching, speaking, and editing jobs

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Meeting Special Needs in English (Meeting SEN in the Curriculum)

Meeting Special Needs in English (Meeting SEN in the Curriculum)
Tim Hurst | David Fulton Publish.; 1st edition (Aug 2004) | 184 pages
ISBN-10: 1843121573 | ISBN-13: 978-1843121572
PDF | English | 1.0 MB

All teachers are meeting more pupils with special needs in mainstream classrooms. Although there are general issues to be aware of subject specialists will always want specific guidance and examples. This series combines SEN expertise with subject knowledge to produce practical and immediate support. Covers:
· Policy writing and how to do it
· Simply explanation of SEN labels
· Creating an inclusive classroom environment
· Working with TA's

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Improving Learning in Secondary English

Improving Learning in Secondary English
Geoff Dean | David Fulton Publish., 1st edition (Sept 2004) | 153 pages
ISBN-10: 1843121468 | ISBN-13: 978-1843121466
PDF English | 1.4 MB

Discussing ‘learning’ in English, as the two quotations above suggest, is an extremely difficult prospect. Yet, as the attention of the educational community is turning inexorably to a re-evaluation of and improvement in the quality of learning across the whole curriculum, English cannot expect to be excused from this examination. An attempt has to be made at this time to focus more clearly and ‘draw in the boundaries, to impose shape on what seems amorphous, rigour on what seems undisciplined’ if English is to be able to claim a full and valid place in the modern curriculum. Whilst the idea of regarding English as a‘process’, as one of the alternatives offered by the Bullock Report quotation above suggests, has been attractive in the past, the ‘learning landscape’ of which English forms a part has changed. More has been understood about the actual processes of learning, and research into the nature of English.

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English Sentence Structure (Intensive Course in English Series)

English Sentence Structure (Intensive Course in English Series)
Michigan English Language Institute
University of Michigan Press/ESL (April 1971) | 320 pages
ISBN-10: 0472083074 | ISBN-13: 978-0472083077
PDF | English | 24.3 MB

Part of the classic Michigan Rainbow series.
English Sentence Structure presents and clarifies all facets of the sentence for beginning and intermediate students. Oral drills, examples, and written exercises form a pattern of regular review and self-evaluation. Each lesson is coordinated with English Pattern Practices.

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