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Check your English Vocabulary for Living in the UK
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Check your English Vocabulary for Living in the UKCheck Your Vocabulary workbooks are aimed at learners of English who want to build vocabulary in a specific area. Check Your Vocabulary for Life in Britain is a new title in the range which focuses on the everyday English vocabulary required for would-be British citizens and people for whom English is a second language who want to live, study and work in Britain. Like all titles in the Check Your Vocabulary range, Check Your Vocabulary for Life in Britain will comprise quizzes, word games and puzzles that help teach and build vocabulary in a stimulating way.
 
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Check Your English Vocabulary for Computers and Information Technology (3 Edition)
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Check Your English Vocabulary for Computers and Information Technology (3 Edition)This workbook is designed to help non-native English speakers improve their knowledge and understanding of core computing terminology.

Self-study exercises and practical classroom activities are included, making it easy to revise classroom knowledge at home. It uses a variety of engaging activities such as word games, crosswords, speaking exercises and group games, which make learning easy and fun!
 
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Plain English at Work: A Guide to Writing and Speaking
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Plain English at Work: A Guide to Writing and SpeakingEveryday we write countless memos, letters, and reports without a second thought. Likewise, we give presentations, both formal and informal. Often this writing and speaking gets criticized for being jargon-ridden, obscure, or long-winded--in short, for not being in "plain English."
But what is plain English, and how do we go about writing and speaking it? In Plain English at Work, Edward Bailey gives the answer, with down-to-earth tips and practical advice. Bailey, an expert in business communication, gives us a simple model for writing:

Style: write more the way you talk.

Organization: make your point easy to find.

Layout: use headings, lists, and other white space so readers can see the structure of your writing.
 
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Your Writing Coach: From Concept to Character, From Pitch to Publication
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Your Writing Coach: From Concept to Character, From Pitch to Publication“Your Writing Coach” is a 248-page book filled with a wealth of practical knowledge, industry insights, writing exercises, and coaching tips that will teach and encourage writers at all levels to write, persist, and sell better. It’s smartly divided into four parts with 18 chapters that covers a remarkable range of issues and topics all writers face somewhere along the spectrum.
 
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War, Peace, and Power: Diplomatic History of Europe, 1500–2000
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TTC -  War, Peace, and Power: Diplomatic History of Europe, 1500–2000
Taught by Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
 Course No. 8820
36 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture

For much of the past five centuries, the history of the European continent has been a history of chaos, its civilization thrown into turmoil by ferocious wars or bitter religious conflicts—sometimes in combination—that have made and remade borders, created and eliminated entire nations, and left a legacy that is still influencing our world.

 


 
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