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In this popular textbook for learners of classical Chinese, Chiang offers a systematic and clear analysis of classical Chinese (wenyan) grammar, using 20 readings from texts of the Spring and Autumn,
One of my theories is that men love with their eyes;Women love with their ears.Men are taught to apologize for their weakness,Women for their strengths.男人說：「我們是用眼睛去愛，女人卻是用耳朵！」女人說：「男人可以為他們的弱點道歉，而我們卻得為自
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Marcus Didius Falco is ready to make new contacts and start a new career, and a dinner for the Society of Olive Oil Producers of Baetica seems like the perfect opportunity. But when two dinner guests
Further Ahead is a Business English course at lower-intermediate level. To meet the demand for BEC Preliminary Exam we have added a CD-ROM to the Learner's Book that provides a walk and talk through t
Interspersed among the wide assortment of month-by-month recipes (the vodka penne is outstanding), are poems, memories, and thoughts to ponder while waiting for the water to boil. Young, author of eig
Cat's Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces abo
Collection of quirky papers from the second Society for Interdisciplinary Studies Catastrophists' Convention held in Cambridge in 1997. The papers bring together thoughts from a wide range of discipli
Virginia Woolf's biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel was what she called 'a little escapade', begun 'to ease my brain' in the wake of The Waves (1931).For all its fun and frivolity, Flus
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Further Ahead is a Business English course at lower-intermediate level. To meet the demand for BEC Preliminary Exam we have added a CD-ROM to the Learner's Book that provides a walk and talk through t
Ever since a Native American prepared a paper "charte" of the lower Colorado River for the Spaniard Hernando de Alarcón in 1540, Native Americans have been making maps in the course of encounte
Cambridge English for Schools offers: ‧ an approach centred around the whole educational context of learning English at school ‧ links across the school curriculum to other subject areas throughout th
English for International Negotiations is built around the case-study method, and covers a variety of negotiation situations set in more than twenty countries around the world. The Student's Book addr
Trick or Treat! Glowing jack-o'-lanterns. Haunted houses. Scary monsters and spooky shadows. What is more fun than Halloween? This collection of twelve lively poems, perfect for reading aloud, is a d
This is a reissue of a classic originally published in 1970, with a new preface and some additional problems. Acton deals with a commonsense approach to numerical algorithms for the solution of equati
Always packed with unrelieved tension and constant surprises, a new novel from Patricia Cornwell is cause for celebration. Virginia's chief medical examiner, Kay Scarpetta, is called in to examine the
Working for an ambitious defense attorney, Hastings has a ringside seat at a juicy murder case plus $200 a day to investigate the accused's ironclad alibi. But the more Stanley investigates the alibi
This book by one of Europe's foremost contemporary philosophers is a concise and lucidly argued account of the meaning of hermeneutics for philosophy today. Vattimo argues that hermeneutics, und
For centuries Chinese ceramics have been the objects most coveted in the West by collectors with an interest in the arts of Asia. The extraordinary innovations of Chinese potters court among the most
Designed especially for beginning readers and readers of English as a second language, a classroom-tested reference provides clearly understood explanations of six thousand of the most frequently used
A reprint of Salaman's classic reference, out of print for ten years, describing and illustrating in b&w virtually every tool used in the leatherworking trades in Great Britain from about 1700 nea
Economic Policy is written for all those with an informed interest in economic policy problems. All articles are submitted to rigorous scrutiny by a panel of distinguished economists from around the w
This management pack encompasses initial assessment, regular reviews, support for both client and carer and the possibility of individual or group therapy. The programme is designed to give a framew
This account of one of the Sudan's remotest provinces, at the end of 1930, provides the historical context for the early classics of British social anthropology. It contains descriptions of local life
A book/CD-ROM package for nonprogrammers desiring to create virtual reality environments and 3D graphics on the Internet. Coverage includes OpenGL Graphics Standards and VRML standards, with discussio
Bathing in antiquity elevates a prosaic function to the level of a civic institution for which there is no counterpart in contemporary culture. Enriched by over 500 illustrations, many of them by the
