Castle: A History of the Buildings That Shaped Medieval Britain
Beginning with their introduction in the eleventh century, and ending with their widespread abandonment in the seventeenth, Marc Morris explores many of the country's most famous castles, as well as some spectacular lesser-known examples.
This English Grammar book is a good reference for the rules of English usage. There are 20 units presented fairly full of basic grammatical rules and clear explanations, simple language with examples and counter- examples. In addition, the book is beautifully designed and very attractive, suitable for English teachers and students in the choice of learning and teaching materials.
This unique new learning tool combines a collocations dictionary with a thesaurus ensuring learners chose the correct word and collocation every time. 75 000 most common collocations that occur in natural English examples of collocations used in a typical context notes on formality and grammar warning notes about common mistakes integrated thesaurus with over 7000 synonyms and antonyms full definitions and examples to illustrate their collocations
A mixture of how-to and history, this book sets out the rules of joke-making and joke-telling (with lots of hilarious examples) and explores our fascination with japes, jibes, jokes and jesters.