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This is the first French grammar designed specifically for adults with limited learning time who wish to acquire a knowledge of simple, everyday spoken French, and who have no need of all the archaic, highly literary, and seldom used forms that must be covered in a conventional grammar. It is not a simplified study, but a selective grammar that points out many time-saving short cuts.Constantly drawing comparisons with English construction, it covers all of the important points in French grammar...
| Автор | Seymour Resnick |
"To buy books would be a good thing," observed Arthur Schopenhauer, «if we also could buy the time to read them.» All devoted readers long for more time to spend with their books, and the next best thing to buying time is making the most of the available moments. Great Short Short Stories: Quick Reads by Great Writers offers that opportunity. An outstanding collection of 30 brilliant short stories, each just six or fewer pages in length, it provides the chance to absorb an entire story (or...
| Автор | Paul Negri |
This English grammar has been specially designed for readers with limited learning time, who wish to gain command of all the important points of grammar needed for everyday speech and comprehension, yet who do not wish to be unnecessarily burdened with archaic, highly literary, or seldom used forms. Summarizing all the major constructions, principles, and basic terminology, this book will provide readers with a firm foundation in essential English grammar.The text proceeds in easy, natural...
| Автор | Philip Gucker |
The stories of Renate Yates are admired for their exploration of the foibles, frailties and expectations of people. They are beautifully crafted and perceptive.<br /> <br />Renate Yates is also the author of three novels and the translation of an account written by her father Ernst Raubitschek of his journey to and imprisonment in the Dachau Concentration camp: By Train To Dachau.<br /> <br />Her short stories have been published in many literary journals and...
| Автор | Renate Yates |
The best of Brien Cole's work is the story of Morning Parrot Trees. And it is superb. The concreteness and fantasy of Fisher's search for the parrot flower are perfectly poised. This is imaginative writing of a high order. The technique is to take the reader inside the action and never let go. His skill lies in knowing what matters. Perhaps his most impressive characteristic is that he does know what matters and resists wasting words on unnecessary explanations. The best of these...
| Автор | Brien Cole |
If public speaking is on your bucket list, wish list, or even top fears list, this pocketbook – literally designed to slip into your back pocket before you get on stage – will provide you with doses of inspiration to build your public speaking toolkit.<br /> <br />This bite-size book is made up of 21 easy-to-apply and entertaining steps you can implement over a 3-week period to grow and develop your presentation skills.<br /> <br />Designed to help you kick-start your...
| Автор | Jordana Borensztajn |
AS SEEN IN USA TODAY THE STORYTELLING CODE HAS BEEN CRACKED. Are you a storyteller, writer, screenwriter or filmmaker? Are you looking for new ways to improve your craft? Some believe there are no original plots left in the world. The truth is we have barely scratched the surface when it comes to the creative storytelling that can be achieved. Original Plots: The Unified Field Theory of Storytelling introduces innovative techniques for designing stories from start to finish that are...
| Автор | Bryan O'Neill |
In 1944 the Australian literary world was rocked by a hoax which was to become a worldwide scandal. Ern Malley, deceased motor mechanic and poet, was the invention of two Sydney poets, James McAuley and Harold Stewart, who were intent on proving that modern poetry was a sham. The work of Malley comprised lines and words selected randomly, everywhere from Shakespeare to an American report on the drainage of the breeding grounds of mosquitoes.<br /> <br />Max Harris published the...
| Автор | Ern Malley |
No artist creates his works in a vacuum. Beyond the conscious influence of books read, artwork seen, minds probed (through conversation or exchange of letters), writers are in no small part products of everything that surrounds them–people, places, things, events. MILTON'S CENTURY is designed to place one particular genius–John Milton, arguably the finest poet the English nation (perhaps even Western civilization) has produced–in the context of his time. And what a remarkable time it was–a...
| Автор | Michael R. Collings |
