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"This handy reference will help you navigate social and business situations, with hundreds of ready-to-use English phrases and example dialogues for conversing with friends, collaborating with coworkers, and engaging those around you. And the new edition of this bestselling guide includes a new chapter on tele- and video conferencing, as well as audio recordings, available via app, of typical conversations and key phrase clusters throughout the book"...
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Millions of people around the world communicate better thanks to Mignon Fogarty, aka Grammar Girl, whose top-rated weekly grammar podcast has been downloaded more than 40 million times. Now she's turning her attention to improving our vocabulary-one smart word at a time-with Grammar Girl's 101 Words to Sound Smart.
Are you often stumped for the perfect way to say or write something? Do you find yourself using the same words over and over? Grammar...
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There's no escaping problematic personalities. Learn to build positive, productive relationships with everyone in your workplace. This trouble-shooting guide is organized for quick look up, helping you identify situations that push your emotional buttons, and offering tools for defusing potentially explosive situations.
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Discover a troop of kangaroos, an ambush of tigers, a rafter of turkeys, and a flotilla of swordfish in this glorious introduction to the animal kingdom. A lion yawns lazily in the grass. Curious giraffes crane their long necks. Step into this rich world of animals from an illustrator whose work influenced generations of younger artists. Each animal's essence is strikingly captured, from the playfulness of otters to a noisy gathering of parrots, while...
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"From the author of the New York Times bestseller, Lost in Translation, come this collection of 52 artistic renderings of sayings from around the world that illuminate the whimsical nature of language. Ella Frances Sanders's first book, Lost in Translation, captured the imagination of readers with its charmingly illustrated words that have no direct English translation. Now, the New York Times-bestselling author is back with an illustrated collection...
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The video promotes early speech and vocabulary, including getting children to speak in complete sentences. Colorful animation and fun characters help keep young learners focused. Developed with speech pathologists, an on-screen mouth shows how to form sounds and encourages imitation and proper articulation. The program addresses concerns when a child does not talk as much as peers and also provides a tool to ease frustration from not being able to...
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"This beautifully illustrated vocabulary book for younger children introduces your child to the essentials of English vocabulary. Each day from Monday to Thursday, English for Everyone Junior: 5 Words a Day presents your child with five new words to learn and practice, using the English for Everyone visual methodology. Over the course of a year, your child will build up a vocabulary of 1,000 of the most commonly used English words"--
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An alphabetical listing of common figures of speech, along with their definitions and origins. Cat got your tongue? Penny for your thoughts? Come again? Every day, idioms bring color to our speech. Since they don't really mean what they say, idioms can stump even the native English-speaker. Marvin Terban makes understanding idioms "as easy as pie" with the revised Scholastic Dictionary Of Idioms. Explanations for, and origins of, more than 700 everyday...
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An in-depth, self-study course in Business English using visual learning, practice exercises, and free audio to make English business language and vocabulary easy to learn. The book is divided into two levels. The levels are broadly aligned to the CEFR, the international standard for language learning.
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One of America's top recruiters, who has helped nearly 10,000 people successfully find positions, tells you exactly what interviewers want to hear. Each of his 400 ready-to-use phrases sends a subtle but memorable message that you are the right person for the job - competent, likable, a good fit. From initial email contact through face-to-face interview and follow-up conversations, these perfect phrases help you highlight your skills, strengths, and...
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A clearly structured and beautifully illustrated workbook for children aged 6-9, which offers extra practice for those beginning their journey of learning English as a foreign language. Following the same unit-by-unit structure as English for Everyone Junior: Beginner's Course, this workbook provides your child with all the support they need to build their confidence when using the language skills they have learned in the course book. Featuring hundreds...
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Springing from writer and journalist Mark Forsyth's hugely popular blog The Inky Fool and including word-connection parlour games perfect for any word-lovers get-together, The Etymologicon is a brilliant map of the secret labyrinth that lurks beneath the English language.There's always a connection. Sometimes, it's obvious: an actor's role was once written on a roll of parchment, and cappuccinos are the same colour as the robes of a Capuchin monk....