Reading the News contains a collection of high-interest articles taken from the International Herald Tribune_"The World's Daily Newspaper". Students not only improve their ability to read newspapers in English-they gain practice that will help prepare them for TOEFL®, TOEIC®, and IELTS® exams. Presenting 24 authentic articles on contemporary issues gleaned from the International Herald Tribune, Reading the News is an ideal way to encourage students to read English outside the classroom.
Words without Meaning (Contemporary Philosophical Monographs)
by Christopher Gauker (Author) "According to the received view of linguistic communication, the central function of language is to enable a speaker to reveal his or her thoughts to..."
Edited by: Colin Sumner "A cosmopolitan collection characterized by freshness of perspective. Critical sociological insight on crime at its best." John Braithwaite, Australian National University The Blackwell Companion to Criminology provides a contemporary and global resource to scholarship in both classical and topical areas of criminology.
Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Multimedia » Audio | 29 March 2008
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Delivered by Mark Steel, each scripted lecture presents persuasive, yet witty, arguments for a seemingly bizarre solution to a contemporary social problem by highlighting the flaws in the present system.
Review:
This book is absolutely the best about "slang" that I have ever seen. Every "slang" word that I can think of is in here.
If you need books for an interesting read or to help with teaching English then this is one of those you must have.