Contains fun activities for your child to practice all their times tables up to 10x at home. This book features activities levelled for the 7-9 year old, in colour. It helps to boost children's confidence at school. Children can work their own way through the step-by-step activities, using simple in[...]

Did you know that 'flavour of the month' originated in a marketing campaign in American ice-cream parlours in the 1940s, when a particular flavour would be specially promoted for a month at a time? And did you know that 'off the cuff' refers to the rather messy practice of writing impromptu notes on[...]

English-medium institutions around the world face challenges in coping with the diverse language backgrounds of their students. This book focuses on strategies and procedures for assessing the academic language ability of incoming students so that those with significant needs can have opportunities [...]

Never before have so many electronic resources been available to support the teaching of English. From a wide variety of online corpora to specialized archives of speech and writing, teachers and students are faced with the challenge of understanding these resources and selecting those appropriate t[...]

Main Features: The standard Hebrew text, Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, with all necessary variant readings and major textual conjectures in footnotesThe New International Version (North American Edition) as the English parallel text, complete with special indentation and paragraphing, section head[...]

"A Brief History of English Literature" provides a lively introductory guide to English literature from "Beowulf" to the present day. The book is written in a lucid style to enable the reader to engage fully with the narrative and easily understand the texts in relation to the social, political and [...]

Hilton views the Peasant's Revolt of 1381 in the context of a general European pattern of class conflict. He reveals that the peasant movements that disturbed the Middle Ages were not unrelated outbreaks of violence but had roots in common economic and political conditions and in a recurring conflic[...]

The Practical English Handbook includes concise explanations, abundant examples and models, ample practice opportunity, and help with all stages of the writing process. A coding system breaks down topics and facilitates student use. The book's compact size allows it to fit comfortably in the hand, w[...]

Speakers of British and American English display some striking differences in their use of grammar. In this detailed survey, John Algeo considers questions such as: *Who lives on a street, and who lives in a street? *Who takes a bath, and who has a bath? *Who says Neither do I, and who says Nor do I[...]