The Complete Guide to Indoor Gardening

This enticing book depicts plants growing in decorative containers and in real-life settings in the home. The houseplant doctor section offers a key for diagnosing problems.

Writing on the job

A brief guide to tackling professional writing tasks, this book introduces writers to common business formats, providing more than 45 annotated examples, and giving advice on writing clearly, concisely and persuasively.

Who Cares About English Usage

This classic guide surveys the key controversies with wit, common sense, some entertaining quizzes and linguist's sharp insight into the ways we actually speak and write. He explores the dispute about the word "dispute" - is it pronounced "DIS-pute" or "dis-PUTE"? - the fate of the letter T in "often", and the best way of referring to the, er, bathroom. Language, he argues, should be a tool and not our master, and it is always profoundly marked by social trends such as changing gender roles. Hopefully (if that's the right word), we can all acquire greater linguistic sensitivity without imposing on ourselves a strait-jacket of rigid conformity. This book offers both reassurance and help.

Teaching Teenagers: Model Activity Sequences for Humanistic Language Learning

This book shows how teachers can motivate teenage language learners, encourage them to communicate in a real way and teach humanistically while following a predetermined school syllabus. It gives 9 sequences of activities which provide an account of the authors' experience of addressing these problems and the techniques which they used.

Recipe Book: Practical Ideas for the Language Classroom

This is a collection of language "recipes" from a number of different authors. The book aims to be a source of information for teachers looking for learner-centred activities. All the ideas have developed out of classroom experience and have been contributed by practising language teachers and deal with everything from vocabulary to visuals and testing.