High Fidelity


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High Fidelity is Nick Hornby's hilarious and heart-breaking first novel bestseller Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups? Rob does. He keeps a list, in fact. But Laura isn't on it - even though she's just become his latest ex. He's got his life back, you see. He can just do what he wants when he wants: like listen to whatever music he likes, look up the girls that are on his list, and generally behave as if Laura never mattered. But Rob finds he can't move on. He's stuck in a really deep groove - and it's called Laura. Soon, he's asking himself some big questions: about love, about life - and about why we choose to share ours with the people we do. A million-copy bestseller, and adapted into a 2000 film starring John Cusack, High Fidelity explores the world of break-ups, make-ups and what it is to be in love. This astutely observed and wickedly funny book will be enjoyed by readers of David Nicholls and William Boyd, and by generations of readers to come. 'It will give enormous pleasure at the same time as expanding in a small but worthwhile way, the range of English literature' Independent on Sunday 'Leaves you believing not only in the redemptive power of music but above all the redemptive power of love. Funny and wise, sweet and true' Independent 'A triumphant first novel. True to life, very funny and moving' Financial Times




Americanize Your Language and Emotionalize Your Speech!


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Develop Responsive Skills in American English: Learn basic responsive conversational strategies to speed up the process of interaction in English in these digital times. Build up your emotional and social skills in American English. Develop Language Management Skills: Learn how to manage the language in you, and how to encode language information to better retrieve it at the right time. Develop Your Second Language Consciousness And Shape Your Second Language Personality: Learn how to boost your brainpower through conscious learning and in so doing shape your Second Language Personality. Language Management Rules: This book also demonstrates the author's commitment to provide English learners with essential language management rules on how the brain operates during language learning, and shows how a learner that focuses on developing his or her language habits and speech skills in synch with the emotional brain can develop a strong Second Language Consciousness.




Thanks for the Feedback


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The coauthors of the New York Times–bestselling Difficult Conversations take on the toughest topic of all: how we see ourselves Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen have spent the past fifteen years working with corporations, nonprofits, governments, and families to determine what helps us learn and what gets in our way. In Thanks for the Feedback, they explain why receiving feedback is so crucial yet so challenging, offering a simple framework and powerful tools to help us take on life’s blizzard of offhand comments, annual evaluations, and unsolicited input with curiosity and grace. They blend the latest insights from neuroscience and psychology with practical, hard-headed advice. Thanks for the Feedback is destined to become a classic in the fields of leadership, organizational behavior, and education.




Chances


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This unique story is about a Country girl living in the big city, decides to return to the farm Where she finds love & lust. At what lengths will she go to protect her daughter from the man - she cant seem to get out of her life. Hoping her new love and her family Never find out about her past Oh yes, to what lengths will she go? A readers point of view: Retired school teacher, Chicago, IL When I was asked to read this bookI did not know what to expect. As I read I couldnt put the book down. I wanted to know more, what was going to happen next? I Loved It. A great mystery, suspense with breathtaking romance. You will enjoy! Knowing the writer personally, but not knowing the talent of her writing, I was flabbergasted with her gift. What a heartwarming story of a mother who just wanted to protect her family at whatever the cost. One of those books you just want more! Another reader/editor: Retired School Teacher, St. Paul, MI writes: Suspense, mystery, romance Enough Interest to entice you to keep turning the pages. I could not put it down. I wanted to know more What secrets was Mary trying to keep? Would Erik ever get his first loves heart? A Mans point of view: Retired Police Force, Baltimore, MD Wow! What a story. I could not put it down, for me Im into the blood, guns & guts. But I must say it really kept my interest. Great job with the story and capturing my interest.




Touchstone Level 1 Full Contact


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Touchstone, together with Viewpoint, is a six-level English program, based on research from the Cambridge English Corpus. Touchstone Second Edition Full Contact with DVD, Level 1 includes four key components of the Touchstone Second Edition series: Student's Book, Level 1; Workbook, Level 1; Level 1 Video Activity Pages; and Video on DVD.




Conversational Routines in English


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It is surprising how much of everyday conversation consists of repetitive expressions such as 'thank you', 'sorry', would you mind?' and their many variants. However commonplace they may be, they do have important functions in communication. This thorough study draws upon original data from the London-Lund Corpus of Spoken English to provide a discoursal and pragmatic account of the more common expressions found in conversational routines, such as apologising, thanking, requesting and offering. The routines studied in this book range from conventionalized or idiomatized phrases to those which can be generated by grammar. Examples have been taken from face-to-face conversations, radio discussions and telephone conversations, and transcription has been based upon the prosodic system of Crystal (1989). An extensive introduction provides the theory and methodology for the book and discusses the criteria for fixedness, grammatical analysis, and pragmatic functions of conversational routines which are later applied to the phrases. Following chapters deal specifically with phrases for thanking, apologising, indirect requests, and discourse-organising markers for conversational routines, on the basis of empirical investigation of the data from the London-Lund Corpus of Spoken English.




Naked '76


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London, 1976: A summer of creation, destruction, and blistering heat. Lili Garcia stands at the edge of London's growing punk scene, playing bass with one of city's wildest bands. The group's success has only strained things between Lili and Curtis Ray, her cool, rebellious boyfriend and bandmate. Lili soon meets William Bonney—a guitarist from Northern Ireland. William is as reserved as Curtis Ray is loud, haunted by the life he left behind, but every bit as brilliant a musician. William's quiet confidence moves Lili to search for what she really wants. But the secrets of William's past could mean danger for both of them . . .




Modern Brazilian Portuguese Grammar


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Modern Brazilian Portuguese Grammar: A Practical Guide is an innovative reference guide to Brazilian Portuguese, combining traditional and function-based grammar in a single volume. The Grammar is divided into two parts. Part A covers traditional grammatical categories such as agreement, nouns, verbs and adjectives. Part B is carefully organized around language functions covering all major communication situations such as establishing identity, making contact and expressing likes, dislikes and preferences. With a strong emphasis on contemporary usage, all grammar points and functions are richly illustrated with examples. Building on the success of the first edition, this second edition also includes: • An introduction to the history and current status of Brazilian Portuguese • Notes for Spanish speakers pointing out the main grammatical differences between the two languages • Additional explanation and exemplification of areas of particular difficulty for learners. A combination of reference grammar and practical usage manual, Modern Brazilian Portuguese Grammar is the ideal source for learners of Brazilian Portuguese at all levels, from beginner to advanced.




A Usual Lunacy


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It makes people positively ache with happiness. It puts the roses back in their cheeks and the itch back in their blood. "It" is the Scholes Virus - proper medical term for what used to be called, out of mawkish ignorance but with uncanny prescience, the "love bug". Professor Trevor Scholes has discovered, isolated and classified every variety of the infection that now bears his name. One variety, B79/K, is so rare that the odds are fifty thousand to one against two compatible carriers meeting. So of course Giles Cranston and Tamsin McGillivray meet . . .




Learn English - Level 2: Absolute Beginner


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Listen to audio lessons, while you read along! Buy or sample now! Interactive. Effective. And FUN! Start speaking English in minutes, and learn key vocabulary, phrases, and grammar in just minutes more with Absolute Beginner English - a completely new way to learn English with ease! Absolute Beginner English will arm you with English and cultural insight to utterly shock and amaze your English friends and family, teachers, and colleagues. What you get in Absolute Beginner English: - 200+ pages of English learning material - 25 English lessons: dialog transcripts with translation, vocabulary, sample sentences and a grammar section - 25 Audio Lesson Tracks (over 5 hours of English lessons) - 5 Audio Review Tracks (practice new words and phrases) - 5 Audio Dialog Tracks (read along while you listen) This book is the most powerful way to learn English. Guaranteed. You get the two most powerful components of our language learning system: the audio lessons and lesson notes. Why are the audio lessons so effective? - 25 powerful and to the point lessons - syllable-by-syllable breakdown of each word and phrase so that you can say every word and phrase instantly - repeat after the professional teacher to practice proper pronunciation - cultural insight and insider-only tips from our teachers in each lesson - fun and relaxed approach to learning - effortlessly learn from native hosts as they guide you through the pitfalls and pleasures of USA and English. Why are the lesson notes so effective? - improve listening comprehension and reading comprehension by reading the dialog transcript while listening to the conversation - grasp the exact meaning of phrases and expressions with natural translations - expand your word and phrase usage with the expansion section - master and learn to use English grammar with the grammar section Interactive. Effective. And FUN! Discover or rediscover how fun learning a language can be with the future of language learning.