A comprehensive course for CPE examination. Sixteen topic-based units, divided into 7 sections. A special introductory unit focuses on the requirements of proficiency and explains how the course prepares students for the exam. Special features on study skills and exam skills in each unit. Two proficiency-style progress tests for each unit.
In this gritty noir novel, John Rector weaves an intensely sinister tale. Dexter McCray is a farmer with a dark past that continues to haunt him. As a man struggling with alcoholism, he’s used to being looked at with pity and suspicion in his community. So, after waking from a blackout to discover the body of a teenage girl in the nearby cottonwood grove, he can't be entirely sure he's innocent. With no memory of the previous night, he sees no choice but to investigate the crime himself. Fortunately he’s not alone. He has some help…in the shape of the dead girl herself. In The Grove, readers are treated to more than a warped and imaginative mystery.
Buying into English; Language and Investment in the New Capitalist World
English has become the language of choice for global economic, political, and cultural exchange. Many developing countries (and, notably, many former Soviet bloc countries) have little choice but to “buy into English” as a path to ideological and material betterment. As the author reveals, however, investing in English has not always been easy and has often disappointed expectations.
Since Stacey's parents got divorced, it hasn't been easy. But now both of her parents are depending on Stacey. They each need her badly. And she can't be in Stoneybrook and New York at the same time. How will Stacey ever choose between her mom and her dad...again?
In harvest time of 1436, Joliffe's troupe leader falls, leaving his players to find what work they can while he recovers. Joliffe finds work in a hospital where he unfortunately has to deal with Mistress Cisily Thorncoffyn, a widow expecting to be endlessly waited on for her mostly imaginary ailments. When patients begin mysteriously dying, Mistress Thorncoffyn loudly insists that someone is trying to kill her. With so many suspects wishing her ill, if not outright dead, Joliffe has no choice but to find out whose anger has turned to murderous hatred and whether-having missed their target-they mean to try again...
