Talk Greek Enhanced eBook (with audio) - Learn Greek with BBC Active


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Talk Greek Enhanced eBook (with audio) - Learn Greek with BBC Active The bestselling way to make learning Greek easy "Determined to learn the language but no time for nightschool? Try the BBC Talk short courses." The Guardian Learn even faster and smarter with the flexibility, speed and convenience of this enhanced eBook. Everything you need is just where you need it: navigate the book with ease, practise your listening and speaking skills, test your progress and access valuable language notes all with one touch from the page you're on. Talk Greek has already inspired thousands of people to learn Greek from scratch and find the confidence to give it a go. It is a bestselling course, widely used both in the classroom and by independent learners. Make fast progress right from the start using the successful, proven Talk method - with specially designed activities, interactive audio and clear, jargon-free grammar explanations. Develop your language skills with tips and strategies to help you learn. Express yourself more confidently through taking part in real Greek conversations. Whether you're learning for business, travel or just for fun, this straightforward, step-by-step approach will ensure you're soon able to speak Greek in a range of everyday situations. Learner reviews of the book/CD version of Talk Greek: "Talk Greek is a must if you want to learn the basics." "Clear and easy to use. Really recommend!" "Lots of interactive exercises to help practise the things the book teaches. Simple, clear scenarios that will not confuse. Excellent." Also available in Arabic, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.




Talk Italian 2 Enhanced eBook (with audio) - Learn Italian with BBC Active


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Learn a language for less – get this bestselling Enhanced eBook for HALF PRICE - only £6.99. For a limited time only. Learn even faster and smarter with the flexibility, speed and convenience of this enhanced eBook. Everything you need is just where you need it: navigate the book with ease, practise your listening and speaking skills, test your progress and access valuable language notes all with one touch from the page you’re on. TALK Italian 2 has already helped thousands of people to improve their Italian.Whether you’re returning to the language and don’t want to start from scratch or you’ve completed an introductory course, Talk Italian 2 is the ideal way to take your Italian to the next level – fast. With its clear and effective approach, you’ll soon be able to engage in increasingly sophisticated conversations and express opinions on a wide range of subjects from food to property, as well as get to know people and cope confidently in everyday situations. Learn faster and smarter using the successful, proven Talk method. Develop your language skills with a wealth of activities to help you learn. Express yourself more confidently by taking part in real Italian conversations. Want to improve your grammar? Get quickly up to speed with our bestselling Talk Italian Grammar eBook. Easy to follow and specially written to work with this course, it’ll help you easily demystify and unlock the key structures of Italian grammar and boost your understanding, speaking and listening skills. Search now for ‘Talk Italian Grammar’. Learner reviews of the book/CD version of Talk Italian 2: ‘Excellent course, good CD to help with pronunciation. Interesting and relevant. Worthwhile buy if you already have some Italian.’ ‘Very good. Great extension after book one. These books are the best I have tried.’ ‘Excellent in every way.’ ‘My teacher (who is Italian) uses this as part of her teaching, so I think that says a lot. The two discs are accompanied by an excellent and comprehensive book.’ Also available: Talk Spanish Enhanced eBook, Talk Spanish 2 Enhanced eBook, Talk French Enhanced eBook, Talk French 2 Enhanced eBook, Talk German Enhanced eBook, Talk German 2 Enhanced eBook, Talk Italian Enhanced eBook; Talk Spanish Grammar eBook, Talk French Grammar eBook, Talk Italian Grammar eBook and Talk German Grammar eBook




Talk French


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This is the ideal French course for absolute beginners - designed for adults learning at home or in a class. Talk French provides you with a clear, simple and successful way of learning French. Featuring introductions, ordering and talking about food and drink, finding your way around, buying things, finding somewhere to stay and getting around, it gives you the best possible grounding in the basics of French. Whether you're learning for work, for a first qualification or just for fun, Talk French is the simplest way to start speaking the language in no time!




Talk Russian Enhanced eBook (with audio) - Learn Russian with BBC Active


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Talk Russian Enhanced eBook (with audio) - Learn Russian with BBC Active The bestselling way to make learning Russian easy "Determined to learn the language but no time for nightschool? Try the BBC Talk short courses." The Guardian Learn even faster and smarter with the flexibility, speed and convenience of this enhanced eBook. Everything you need is just where you need it: navigate the book with ease, practise your listening and speaking skills, test your progress and access valuable language notes all with one touch from the page you're on. Talk Russian has already inspired thousands of people to learn Russian from scratch and find the confidence to give it a go. It is a bestselling course, widely used both in the classroom and by independent learners. Make fast progress right from the start using the successful, proven Talk method - with specially designed activities, interactive audio and clear, jargon-free grammar explanations. Develop your language skills with tips and strategies to help you learn. Express yourself more confidently through taking part in real Russian conversations. Whether you're learning for business, travel or just for fun, this straightforward, step-by-step approach will ensure you're soon able to speak Russian in a range of everyday situations. Learner reviews of the book/CD version of Talk Russian: "The best "teach yourself" course I have ever used." "Super for everyone, even those who struggle with languages." "Found this item very useful in my Russian language course. It was highly recommended by my tutor and easy to see why." Also available in Arabic, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese and Spanish .




Talk Arabic Enhanced eBook (with audio) - Learn Arabic with BBC Active


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Talk Arabic Enhanced eBook (with audio) - Learn Arabic with BBC Active The bestselling way to make learning Arabic easy "Determined to learn the language but no time for nightschool? Try the BBC Talk short courses."The Guardian Learn even faster and smarter with the flexibility, speed and convenience of this enhanced eBook. Everything you need is just where you need it: navigate the book with ease, practise your listening and speaking skills, test your progress and access valuable language notes all with one touch from the page you're on. Talk Arabic has already inspired thousands of people to learn Arabic from scratch and find the confidence to give it a go. It is a bestselling course, widely used both in the classroom and by independent learners. Make fast progress right from the start using the successful, proven Talk method - with specially designed activities, interactive audio and clear, jargon-free grammar explanations. Develop your language skills with tips and strategies to help you learn. Express yourself more confidently through taking part in real Arabic conversations. Whether you're learning for business, travel or just for fun, this straightforward, step-by-step approach will ensure you're soon able to speak Arabic in a range of everyday situations. Learner reviews of the book/CD version of Talk Arabic: "A very good and well organised course. I have been struggling with Arabic classes for two years and this has given me the confidence to speak up at last. I recommend it." "Perfect starter pack for beginners: Highly recommended." "Excellent course. Very clear and easy to follow." Talk Arabic focusses on the Arabic of the Levant, spoken in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Palestine and widely understood elsewhere. Also available in French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.




Talk Japanese Enhanced eBook (with audio) - Learn Japanese with BBC Active


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Talk Japanese Enhanced eBook (with audio) - Learn Japanese with BBC Active The bestselling way to make learning Japanese easy "Determined to learn the language but no time for nightschool? Try the BBC Talk short courses." The Guardian Learn even faster and smarter with the flexibility, speed and convenience of this enhanced eBook. Everything you need is just where you need it: navigate the book with ease, practise your listening and speaking skills, test your progress and access valuable language notes all with one touch from the page you're on. Talk Japanese has already inspired thousands of people to learn Japanese from scratch and find the confidence to give it a go. It is a bestselling course, widely used both in the classroom and by independent learners. Make fast progress right from the start using the successful, proven Talk method - with specially designed activities, interactive audio and clear, jargon-free grammar explanations. Develop your language skills with tips and strategies to help you learn. Express yourself more confidently through taking part in real Japanese conversations. Whether you're learning for business, travel or just for fun, this straightforward, step-by-step approach will ensure you're soon able to speak Japanese in a range of everyday situations. Learner reviews of the book/CD version of Talk Japanese: "Overall, this is probably the best pack you could buy to learn. It is thorough, easy to learn, contains activities and includes how to write in Japanese also. Buy Buy Buy!" "Excellent Package! A simple, step-by-step, practical approach to learning Japanese." "This is an excellent book for someone who is trying to learn Japanese from scratch." Also available in Arabic, French, German, Greek, Italian, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.




Talk Greek


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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome


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New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Foreign Affairs, and Kirkus Reviews Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) Shortlisted for the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History) A San Francisco Chronicle Holiday Gift Guide Selection A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection A sweeping, "magisterial" history of the Roman Empire from one of our foremost classicists shows why Rome remains "relevant to people many centuries later" (Atlantic). In SPQR, an instant classic, Mary Beard narrates the history of Rome "with passion and without technical jargon" and demonstrates how "a slightly shabby Iron Age village" rose to become the "undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean" (Wall Street Journal). Hailed by critics as animating "the grand sweep and the intimate details that bring the distant past vividly to life" (Economist) in a way that makes "your hair stand on end" (Christian Science Monitor) and spanning nearly a thousand years of history, this "highly informative, highly readable" (Dallas Morning News) work examines not just how we think of ancient Rome but challenges the comfortable historical perspectives that have existed for centuries. With its nuanced attention to class, democratic struggles, and the lives of entire groups of people omitted from the historical narrative for centuries, SPQR will to shape our view of Roman history for decades to come.




English as a Global Language


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Written in a detailed and fascinating manner, this book is ideal for general readers interested in the English language.




Talking to Strangers


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Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers and why they often go wrong—now with a new afterword by the author. A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Press How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn’t true? Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland—throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t know. And because we don’t know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In his first book since his #1 bestseller David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times.