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  • Expressions of Agency in Ancient Greek by George, Coulter H.
    Coulter H. George

    Expressions of Agency in Ancient Greek

    Ancient Greek expressed the agents of passive verbs by a variety of means, and this work explores the language's development of prepositions which marked the agents of passive verbs. After an initial look at the pragmatics of agent constructions, it turns to this central...
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  • Martial's Rome: Empire and the Ideology of Epigram by Rimell, Victoria E.
    Victoria Rimell

    Martial's Rome: Empire and the Ideology of Epigram

    This provocative book is a major contribution to our understanding of Martial's poetics, his vision of the relationship between art and reality, and his role in formulating modern perceptions of Rome. The study shows how on every scale from the microscopic to the cosmic,...
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  • The Germanic Languages by Harbert, Wayne
    Wayne Harbert

    The Germanic Languages

    Germanic - one of the largest sub-groups of the Indo-European language family - comprises 37 languages with an estimated 470 million speakers worldwide. This book presents a comparative linguistic survey of the full range of Germanic languages, both ancient and modern, including major world...
    $143.00
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  • Language, Discourse and Power in African American Culture by Morgan, Marcyliena
    Marcyliena Morgan

    Language, Discourse and Power in African American Culture

    African American language is central to the teaching of linguistics and language in the United States, and this book covers the entire field--grammar, speech, and verbal genres. It also reveals the various historical strands that must be identified in order to understand the development...
    $83.00
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  • The Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript Books: From the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century by Derolez, Albert
    Albert Derolez

    The Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript Books: From the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century

    Albert Derolez has developed new terminology for describing the different scripts in this detailed study of handwriting in manuscript books produced in western and central Europe from c.1100 to c.1530. This makes Derolez's survey unique and an ideal tool for all interested in late-medieval...
    $185.00
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  • The Derveni Papyrus: Cosmology, Theology and Interpretation by Betegh, Gábor
    Gabor Betegh

    The Derveni Papyrus: Cosmology, Theology and Interpretation

    G bor Betegh presents the first systematic reconstruction and examination of the Derveni papyrus and analyzes its role in the intellectual milieu of its age. Found in 1962 near Thessaloniki among the remains of a funeral pyre, it is one of the earliest surviving...
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  • Staying Together Level 4 by Wilson, Judith
    Judith Wilson

    Staying Together Level 4

    Cambridge English Readers is an award-winning series of original fiction readers for learners of English, offering exciting reading from Starter to Advanced levels. Ikuko goes to England to study English, promising her boyfriend Hiroshi she will return to Japan to marry him. However, in...
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  • Deadly Harvest Level 6 by Walker, Carolyn
    Carolyn Walker

    Deadly Harvest Level 6

    Cambridge English Readers is an award-winning series of original fiction readers for learners of English, offering exciting reading from Starter to Advanced levels. Chief Inspector Jane Honeywell is a city detective who wonders why she has moved to a sleepy country town - nothing...
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  • Longus: Daphnis and Chloe by Longus
    Longus

    Longus: Daphnis and Chloe

    Longus' Daphnis and Chloe is arguably our finest surviving Greek novel. Written under the Roman Empire and engaging with romantic, pastoral and rhetorical themes, the story and characterisation have captured the imaginations of artists over the centuries. Despite a growing interest in ancient novels...
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  • The House by the Sea Level 3 by Aspinall, Patricia
    Patricia Aspinall

    The House by the Sea Level 3

    Cambridge English Readers is an award-winning series of original fiction readers for learners of English, offering exciting reading from Starter to Advanced levels. Carl begins to worry when his wife Linda does not arrive for the weekend at their seaside house in the east...
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  • Apollo's Gold Level 2 by Moses, Antoinette
    Antoinette Moses

    Apollo's Gold Level 2

    Cambridge English Readers is an award-winning series of original fiction readers for learners of English, offering exciting reading from Starter to Advanced levels. Liz teaches archaeology in Athens. She works too hard and her doctor tells her she needs to take a holiday. So...
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  • The Lahti File Level 3 by MacAndrew, Richard
    Richard MacAndrew

    The Lahti File Level 3

    Cambridge English Readers is an award-winning series of original fiction readers for learners of English, offering exciting reading from Starter to Advanced levels. Hundreds of dead fish, some unexplained deaths and a birdless town. Three newspaper reports from Finland attract interest from the British...
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  • Examining Fce and Cae: Key Issues and Recurring Themes in Developing the First Certificate in English and Certificate in Advanced English Exa by Hawkey, Roger
    Roger Hawkey

    Examining Fce and Cae: Key Issues and Recurring Themes in Developing the First Certificate in English and Certificate in Advanced English Exa

    This critical history covers 70 years of two major UCLES / Cambridge ESOL international exams: the First Certificate in English (FCE) and the Certificate in Advanced English (CAE). The story begins with the development and first sitting of the FCE (then called the Lower...
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  • Examining Reading: Research and Practice in Assessing Second Language Reading by Khalifa, Hanan
    Hanan Khalifa

    Examining Reading: Research and Practice in Assessing Second Language Reading

    This publication highlights the need for test developers to provide clear explanations of the ability constructs which underpin tests offered in the public domain. An explanation is increasingly required or if the validity of test score interpretation and use are to be supported both...
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  • The Lady in White Level 4 by Campbell, Colin
    Colin Campbell

    The Lady in White Level 4

    Cambridge English Readers is an award-winning series of original fiction readers for learners of English, offering exciting reading from Starter to Advanced levels. Is it coincidence or is he losing his mind? While researching a new programme, John, a successful television producer, comes across...
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  • Hotel Casanova Level 1 by Leather, Sue
    Sue Leather

    Hotel Casanova Level 1

    Cambridge English Readers is an award-winning series of original fiction readers for learners of English, offering exciting reading from Starter to Advanced levels. Life and death in Venice. A young man and a beautiful woman meet and fall in love in the most romantic...
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  • Greek Lyric: A Selection by Budelmann, Felix
    Felix Budelmann

    Greek Lyric

    The corpus of Greek lyric holds a twofold attraction. It provides glimpses of the song culture of early Greece in which lyric performance had a central place, and it presents us with some captivating and memorable poetry which has been admired since antiquity. This...
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  • Circle Games Level 2 by Brennan, Frank
    Frank Brennan

    Circle Games Level 2

    Cambridge English Readers is an award-winning series of original fiction readers for learners of English, offering exciting reading from Starter to Advanced levels. United by the theme of the circle, these stories are set in the UK, the USA and Singapore. From the discovery...
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  • Lessons from Nothing: Activities for Language Teaching with Limited Time and Resources by Marsland, Bruce
    Bruce Marsland

    Lessons from Nothing: Activities for Language Teaching with Limited Time and Resources

    This book is an invaluable resource for busy teachers everywhere who are looking for easy-to-use activities that do not require extensive facilities or preparation. It is a practical source of around 70 language teaching activities that encourage interaction and co-operation in the classroom. The...
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  • Plato: Phaedrus by Plato
    Plato

    Plato: Phaedrus

    Ostensibly a discussion about love, the debate in the Phaedrus also encompasses the art of rhetoric and how it should be practised. This new edition contains an introductory essay outlining the argument of the dialogue as a whole and Plato's arguments about rhetoric and...
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  • The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Literature by Emerson, Caryl
    Caryl Emerson

    The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Literature

    Russian literature arrived late on the European scene. Within several generations, its great novelists had shocked - and then conquered - the world. In this introduction to the rich and vibrant Russian tradition, Caryl Emerson weaves a narrative of recurring themes and fascinations across...
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  • The Argonautica of Apollonius by Hunter, R. L.
    R. L. Hunter

    The Argonautica of Apollonius

    In recent years the subtlety and complexity of Apollonius' Argonautica have been better appreciated, but in Dr Hunter's view the purposes and aesthetic of the epic are still not readily understood and much basic analysis remains to be done. The present book seeks to...
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  • Developments in English for Specific Purposes: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach by Dudley-Evans, Tony
    Tony Dudley-Evans

    Developments in English for Specific Purposes

    English for Specific Purposes (ESP) is an important and distinctive part of English Language Teaching. Since the late 1980's ESP has changed in two very significant respects. Firstly, English for Business Purposes has become an increasingly important, even dominant, area of ESP. Secondly, the...
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  • Xenophon on Government by Xenophon
    Xenophon

    Xenophon on Government

    Xenophon of Athens was a pupil of Socrates and a philosopher in his own right. He wrote two of the texts included in this volume, the Hiero (On Tyranny) and the Constitution of the Spartans. The third, the Constitution of the Athenians, is found...
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  • Seneca: de Otio; de Brevitate Vitae by Seneca
    Seneca

    Seneca: de Otio; de Brevitate Vitae

    This edition of Seneca's De otio and De brevitate vitae introduces undergraduates and more advanced students to Senecan philosophy. Both texts promote the benefits of living an inner existence insulated from everyday pressures. This edition emphasizes the relevance of the provocative Senecan message of...
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  • Text, Role and Context: Developing Academic Literacies by Johns, Ann M.
    Ann M. Johns

    Text, Role and Context

    This text explores fundamental issues relating to student literacies and instructor roles and practices within academic contexts. It offers a brief history of literacy theories and argues for "socioliterate" approaches to teaching and learning in which texts are viewed as primarily socially constructed. Central...
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  • Martial: Select Epigrams by Martial
    Martial

    Martial: Select Epigrams

    Ninety poems by Martial, the first-century a.d. epigrammatist, are presented, with commentary, in this edition. Selected on the basis of their thematic importance, these concise poems provide an unique opportunity to interpret a significantly neglected author. The book considers the sociocultural and historical matrix...
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  • The Lexicon by Pustejovsky, James
    James Pustejovsky

    The Lexicon

    What is the lexicon, what does it contain, and how is it structured? What principles determine the functioning of the lexicon as a component of natural language grammar? What role does lexical information play in linguistic theory? This accessible introduction aims to answer these...
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  • Research Genres: Explorations and Applications by Swales, John M.
    John M. Swales

    Research Genres: Explorations and Applications

    This book provides a rich and accessible account of genre studies by a world-renowned applied linguist. The hardback edition discusses today's research world, its various configurations of genres, and the role of English within the genres. Theoretical and methodological issues are explored, with a...
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  • The Literature of Al-Andalus by Menocal, María Rosa
    Mar? Rosa Menocal

    The Literature of Al-Andalus

    The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature: The Literature of Al-Andalus explores the culture of Iberia from the eighth to the thirteenth century, and to the centuries following the Christian conquest, when Arabic continued to be used. While the focus is on literature, the study...
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  • Seneca: Selected Letters by Seneca
    Seneca

    Seneca: Selected Letters

    The letters of Seneca are uniquely engaging among the works that have survived from antiquity. They offer an urgent guide to Stoic self-improvement but also cast light on Roman attitudes towards slavery, gladiatorial combat and suicide. This selection of letters conveys their range and...
    $122.00
    $122.00
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  • Functional English Grammar: An Introduction for Second Language Teachers by Lock, Graham
    Graham Lock

    Functional English Grammar: An Introduction for Second Language Teachers

    This book explores how English grammar enables speakers and writers to represent the world, to interact with one another, and to create coherent messages. This book provides second language teachers with a functional description of English grammar, in which grammar is viewed as a...
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  • Horace: Satires Book I by Horace
    Horace

    Horace: Satires Book I

    Horace's first book of Satires is his debut work, a document of one man's self-fashioning on the cusp between Republic and Empire and a pivotal text in the history of Roman satire. It wrestles with the problem of how to define and assimilate satire...
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  • Language, Memory, and Aging by Light, Leah L.
    Leah L. Light

    Language, Memory, and Aging

    This volume addresses both the research on language in old age relevant to memory, and memory research relevant to language in old age. In recent years, there has been an upsurge of interest in the aging process as it affects cognition. Most research attention...
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  • Redeeming the Text: Latin Poetry and the Hermeneutics of Reception by Martindale, Charles
    Charles Martindale

    Redeeming the Text: Latin Poetry and the Hermeneutics of Reception

    This book applies some of the procedures of modern critical theory to the interpretation of Latin poetry. The author argues for an approach that sees the meaning of a text as always and necessarily involved in the process of "reception," that is the way...
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  • Discourse and Language Education by Hatch, Evelyn
    Evelyn Hatch

    Discourse and Language Education

    Discourse and Language Education offers a practical, accessible discussion of discourse analysis. Discourse analysis describes how such communication is structured, so that it is socially appropriate and linguistically accurate. This book gives practical experience in analyzing discourse and the study of written language. The...
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  • Lucan: de Bello Civili Book II by Lucan
    Lucan

    Lucan: de Bello Civili Book II

    This edition offers the first full-scale commentary on the neglected second book of Lucan's epic poem on the civil war between Caesar and Pompey: De bello civili. It pays particular attention to Lucan's inheritance from Virgil's Augustan epic and response to its challenge. The...
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  • Euripides: Phoenissae by Euripides
    Euripides

    Euripides: Phoenissae

    This volume provides a thorough philological and dramatic commentary on Euripides' Phoenissae, the first detailed commentary in English since 1911. An introduction surveys the play, its possible date, features of the original production, the background of Theban myth, the general problem of interpolation, and...
    $236.00
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  • British or American English?: A Handbook of Word and Grammar Patterns by Algeo, John
    John Algeo

    British or American English?: A Handbook of Word and Grammar Patterns

    Speakers of British and American English display some striking differences in their use of grammar. In this detailed survey, John Algeo considers questions such as: -Who lives on a street, and who lives in a street? -Who takes a bath, and who has a...
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  • The Korean Language by Sohn, Ho-Min
    Ho-Min Sohn

    The Korean Language

    This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the linguistics of Korean. It presents essential facts about the language: its speakers, its relation to other languages of the world, historical development, dialects (including the differences between South and North Korean), writing systems, the composition and...
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  • The Theatre of Robert Wilson by Holmberg, Arthur
    Arthur Holmberg

    The Theatre of Robert Wilson

    Robert Wilson, the leading American avant-garde theatre director, revolutionised the stage by making visual communication more important than words. His productions cut across the boundaries that traditionally have defined theatre, dance, opera and the visual arts to create a total work of art. This...
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  • The Korean Language by Sohn, Ho-Min
    Ho-Min Sohn

    The Korean Language

    This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the linguistics of Korean. It presents essential facts about the language: its speakers, its relation to other languages of the world, historical development, dialects (including the differences between South and North Korean), writing systems, the composition and...
    $159.00
    $159.00
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  • The Learner-Centred Curriculum: A Study in Second Language Teaching by Nunan, David
    David Nunan

    The Learner-Centred Curriculum: A Study in Second Language Teaching

    Traditionally, the curriculum has been regarded as a statement of what should be done in a course of study. The Learner-Centred Curriculum takes as its starting point what is done by language teachers in their classes. Nunan develops a concept of the negotiated model...
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  • Plautus: Menaechmi by Plautus
    Plautus

    Plautus: Menaechmi

    Plautus' comedy Menaechmi was the main inspiration for Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors. In this edition Dr. Gratwick provides a newly constituted text, a commentary for students giving help with language and context, and an introduction that sheds new light on the interpretation of...
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  • Gabriel García Márquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Wood, Michael
    Michael Wood

    Gabriel Garc? M疵quez: One Hundred Years of Solitude

    One Hundred Years of Solitude is perhaps the most important landmark of the so-called 'Boom' in contemporary Latin American fiction. Published in 1967, the novel was an instant success, running to hundreds of editions, winning four international prizes, and being translated into 27 languages....
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  • Book of the Fourth World: Reading the Native Americas Through Their Literature by Brotherston, Gordon
    Gordon Brotherston

    Book of the Fourth World: Reading the Native Americas Through Their Literature

    The Book of the Fourth World offers detailed analyses of texts that range far back into the centuries of civilised life from what is now Latin- and Anglo-America. At the time of its 'discovery', the American continent was identified as the Fourth World of...
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  • Virgil: Aeneid Book XII by Virgil
    Virgil

    Virgil: Aeneid Book XII

    Book XII brings Virgil's Aeneid to a close, as the long-delayed single combat between Aeneas and Turnus ends with Turnus' death - a finale that many readers find more unsettling than triumphant. In this, the first detailed single-volume commentary on the book in any...
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  • Testing Spoken Language: A Handbook of Oral Testing Techniques by Underhill, Nic
    Nic Underhill

    Testing Spoken Language: A Handbook of Oral Testing Techniques

    This is a practical guide to designing and using oral tests of language ability. It is for teachers, testers, course designers and educational planners. The organisation follows the sequence of stages in which a new testing programme would logically be carried out. It takes...
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  • The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 6, Books 21-24 by Richardson, Nicholas
    Nicholas Richardson

    The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 6, Books 21-24

    This is the sixth and final volume of the major Commentary on Homer's Iliad now being prepared under the General Editorship of Professor G. S. Kirk. It discusses the last four books of the poem in detail, and its main purpose is to help...
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  • The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 5, Books 17-20 by Edwards, Mark W.
    Mark W. Edwards

    The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 5, Books 17-20

    This is Volume Five of the major six-volume Commentary on Homer's Iliad now being prepared under the general editorship of Professor G.S. Kirk. Volumes I and II, published in 1985 and 1990 respectively, were edited by Professor Kirk himself. Like its predecessors, the present...
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