#130 - LYNN STAFFORD-YILMAZ and LAWRENCE J. ZWIER - 400 Must Have Words for the TOEFL

Author or Editor: LYNN STAFFORD-YILMAZ and LAWRENCE J. ZWIER
Publisher: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc
Published: 2005
Pages: 205
Size: 2.29MB

400 Must-Have Words for the TOEFL® will help you improve your score on the TOEFL test. In particular, this book will build your TOEFL vocabulary for the new Internet-based TOEFL of 2005.
This book is designed for ease of use as a self-study guide. Its chapters were written for easy completion in one sitting—about 25 minutes. 400 Must-Have Words is also highly effective in the TOEFL-prep classroom.

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#129 - Webster's New World Punctuation- Simplifed and Applied

Author or Editor: Geraldine Woods
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2006
Pages: 348
Size: 4.85MB

A popular French entertainer once explained that “a kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point.” This sort of “punctuation” easily attracts interest, but until recently many grammarians and copy editors assumed that their passion for a properly placed semicolon was rare. Yet a substantial number of people do care about punctuation and would indeed like to know, for example, when a comma is called for. Moreover, everyone should care because punctuation is the roadmap that tells the reader how to arrive at the writer’s meaning.

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#128 - Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor - Sex Slang

Author or Editor: Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Pages: 208
Size: 1.85MB

In the world of slang, sex slang is about as good as it gets. You can pretend to be appalled by this slang, if not the sexual practices described, but if you weren’t amused with the wit and creativity of unconventional vocabulary you wouldn’t be holding this book in your hands in the first place.
We are hard-wired for a linguistic resourcefulness that always matches, and usually surpasses, our physical and sexual invention. Most sexual slang represents practices as old as the ages – newly discovered, of course, by the next generation. New sexual activity is extremely rare but you will find there’s always a word for it in these pages.

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#127 - Tony Thorne - Dictionary of Contemporary Slang

Author or Editor: Tony Thorne
Publisher: A & C Black
Published: 2007
Pages: 494
Size: 9.81MB

Slang derives much of its power from the fact that it is clandestine, forbidden or generally disapproved of. So what happens once it is accepted, even in some cases embraced and promoted by ‘mainstream’ society? Not long ago the Oxford English Dictionary characterised slang as ‘low and disreputable’; in the late 1970s the pioneering sociolinguist Michael Halliday used the phrase
‘anti-language’ in his study of the speech of criminals and marginals. For him, theirs was an interestingly ‘pathological’ form of language. The first description now sounds quaintly outmoded, while the second could be applied to street gangs – today’s posses, massives or sets – and their secret codes. Both, however, involve value judgements which are essentially social and not linguistic. Attitudes to the use of language have changed profoundly over the last three decades, and the perceived boundaries between ‘standard’ and ‘unorthodox’ are becoming increasingly ‘fuzzy’.

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#126 - E.Ray Canterbery - A Brief History Of Economics

Author or Editor: E.Ray Canterbery
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co. Re. Ltd.
Published: 2001
Pages: 481
Size: 25.5MB

This book is not simply an annotated roster of the Society of Dead Economists. As living economists grapple with modern economic problems and begin to alter their views, more and more readers are discovering a need for transitional books, books that bridge the gap between what economics has been and what it is becoming. A Brief History of Economics: Artful Approaches to the Dismal Science reflects this desire for a bridge over sometimes troubled waters.
Because the old masters of economics imagined with a broad social brush and used lively real-world examples, they are easier to understand than many modern writers, so I believe that this book is fully accessible to beginning readers in economics. At the other extreme, readers who approach this volume with a sophisticated understanding of economic theory but little, if any, exposure to the history of thought can now become acquainted with some of the most fascinating personalities of the ages. An inquiring mind is the only prerequisite.

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#125 - Michael McCarthy and Felicity O'Dell - English Vocabulary in Use - Upper Int and Advanced

Author or Editor: Michael McCarthy and Felicity O'Dell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999
Pages: 296
Size: 3.93MB

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#124 - Helen Naylor and Raymond Murphy - Essential Grammar in Use Supplementary Exercises

Author or Editor: Helen Naylor and Raymond Murphy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001
Pages: 106
Size: 4.41MB

This new edition is thoroughly updated and revised to accompany the third edition of Essential Grammar in Use. The book contains 185 varied exercises to provide students with extra practice of the grammar they have studied.

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