The Student's Books progress incrementally from basic recycling exercises, where essential grammar and vocabulary relevant to each level will be reviewed, through thematic units, where word sets and related grammar will be consolidated, to test-type activities in the latter part of the book.[...]

Provides structured practice of the grammar, vocabulary and skills needed for the Cambridge ESOL Young Learners tests through tasks similar to those in the Starters, Movers and Flyers Tests. The Class CD provides audio support for the course.[...]

Provides structured practice of the grammar, vocabulary and skills needed for the Cambridge ESOL Young Learners tests through tasks similar to those in the Starters, Movers and Flyers Tests. The Class CD provides audio support for the course.[...]

-- Utne Reader

Mixing fiction, history, psychoanalysis, and personal fantasy, Teresa, My Love turns a past world into a modern marvel, following Sylvia Leclercq, a French psychoanalyst, academic, and incurable insomniac, as she falls for the sixteenth-century Saint Teresa of Avila and becomes consumed with chartin[...]

'Violette Leduc's novels are works of genius and also a bit peculiar' Deborah Levy, from the introductionAn old woman lives alone in a tiny attic flat in Paris, counting out coffee beans every morning beneath the roar of the overhead metro. Starving, she spends her days walking around the city, each[...]

Probabilistic robotics is a new and growing area in robotics, concerned with perception and control in the face of uncertainty. Building on the field of mathematical statistics, probabilistic robotics endows robots with a new level of robustness in real-world situations.This book introduces the read[...]

When the Fox Film Corporation merged with Twentieth Century Pictures in 1935, the company posed little threat to industry juggernauts such as Paramount and MGM. In the years that followed however, guided by executives Darryl F. Zanuck and Spyros Skouras, it soon emerged as one of the most important [...]

In 1904 a young Danish woman met a Sami wolf hunter on a train in Sweden. This chance encounter transformed the lives of artist Emilie Demant and the hunter, Johan Turi. In 1907--8 Demant went to live with Sami families in their tents and on migrations, later writing a lively account of her experien[...]

As we enter the new millennium, the search for wisdom is on, with no better place to look than the book of Proverbs. It transcends the ages with timeless wisdom:
-- "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge".
-- "For the Lord grants wisdom, at his behest come knowledge and good sens[...]

Nicholas Fox Weber, for thirty-four years head of the Albers Foundation, spent many years with Anni and Josef Albers, the only husband-and-wife artistic pair at the Bauhaus (she was a textile artist; he a professor and an artist, in glass, metal, wood, and photography). The Alberses told him their o[...]