ESSENTIAL WORDS FOR THE GRE. 2nd Edition

Test takers preparing to take the GRE (Graduate Record Exam) must command a high-level vocabulary to achieve a high score. This book is designed to teach the definitions of 800 words often appearing on the GRE while also familiarizing test takers with how the words are generally used in context. The book opens with a pretest that serves as a diagnostic, then presents the word list with extensive sentence-completion exercises. A following chapter discusses and analyzes essential word roots. The book concludes with a detailed post-test. Answers are given for all exercises and for all questions in the post-test.

First Certificate Organiser

Сборник упражнений для подготовки к вступительному экзамену по английскому языку в университеты Англии.

This exam preparation and revision text for the First Certificate exam employs a two-page format - the left-hand pages provide FCE practice and the right-hand pages organize the language just covered. This edition has been published to accompany the revised First Certificate Examination.

Daily Life through World History in Primary Documents: Volume 3, The Modern World

Who did the ancient Greeks describe as the world's best athlete? What does the Koran say about women's rights? How has the digital revolution changed life in the modern age? Bringing useful and engaging material into world history classrooms, this rich collection of historical documents and illustrations provides insight into major cultures from all continents.

Volume 3: The Modern World, covering the birth of modern democracy in the eighteenth century up through the present day, contains over 100 documents from various world cultures, including Turkey, West Africa, India, the United States, and Russia.

Daily Life through World History in Primary Documents: Volume 2, The Middle Ages and Renaissance

Who did the ancient Greeks describe as the world's best athlete? What does the Koran say about women's rights? How has the digital revolution changed life in the modern age? Bringing useful and engaging material into world history classrooms, this rich collection of historical documents and illustrations provides insight into major cultures from all continents.

Volume 2: The Middle Ages and Renaissance contains almost 130 documents from various European (e.g., Anglo-Saxon England, Renaissance Italy), Asian (e.g., Tang China, medieval Japan, Mogul India), Middle Eastern, and Latin America cultures spanning the period from the fifth to the seventeenth centuries.

Daily Life through World History in Primary Documents: Volume 1, The Ancient World

Who did the ancient Greeks describe as the world's best athlete? What does the Koran say about women's rights? How has the digital revolution changed life in the modern age?  Bringing useful and engaging material into world history classrooms, this rich collection of historical documents and illustrations provides insight into major cultures from all continents.

Volume 1: The Ancient World contains almost 300 documents from various ancient cultures, including those of Sumeria, Egypt, Israel, China, India, Greece, and Rome, with its primary focus being upon the daily life of Greece and Rome up to roughly the sack of Rome in the fifth century a.d.