Red Herrings and White Elephants: The Origins of the Phrases We Use Everyday (Inbunden)
avAlbert Jack, Ama Page
ISBN: 9780060843373 - UTGIVEN: 200511Mad hatter . . . pie in the sky . . . egg on your face. We use these phrases every day, yet how many of us know what they really mean or where they came from?From bringing home the bacon to leaving no stone unturned, the English language is peppered with hundreds of common idioms borrowed from ancie[...]
What Caesar Did for My Salad (Häftad)
avAlbert Jack
ISBN: 9780141043449 - UTGIVEN: 2012-08Did you know that the Cornish pasty was invented to protect tin miners from arsenic poisoning, or that the word 'salary' comes from Roman soldiers being paid their wages in salt? Why do we eat goose (or turkey) at Christmas? Is the Scotch egg actually from Scotland and what did some retired crusader[...]
The Small Book (Häftad)
avJack Trimpey, Albert Ellis
ISBN: 9780440507253 - UTGIVEN: 1995-12Offering an alternative to twelve-step programs, a supportive guide explains how to identify the impulse to use intoxicants, learn self-control, value sobriety, and replace addiction with self-supportive behaviors. Reprint.[...]
Learning With Computers I (Inbunden)
avH. Albert Napier, Ollie N. Rivers, Jack P. Hoggatt
ISBN: 9780538450706 - UTGIVEN: 2011-01-01In the new second edition LEARNING WITH COMPUTERS I (Level Green, Grade 7), users are introduced to the Explorer's Club where four young members of the club ? Luis, Ray, Julie, and Lin ? guide readers on Microsoft Office explorations. Along the way, each person keeps a personal journal about their e[...]
Learning With Computers II (Inbunden)
avH. Albert Napier, Ollie N. Rivers, Jack P. Hoggatt
ISBN: 9780538450713 - UTGIVEN: 2011-01-01In the new second edition LEARNING WITH COMPUTERS II, (Level Orange, Grade 8), users are introduced to the Explorer's Club where four young members of the club ? Luis, Ray, Julie, and Lin ? guide readers on virtual explorations. Along the way, each person keeps a personal journal about their explora[...]
