Review "Indispensable for anyone learning a foreign language"
Product Description Don't embark on your adventure in language learning without first listening to this expert on the subject. The program will greatly enhance your learning experience making it more effective and truly enjoyable. Graham Fuller shares his proven methods of language learning garnered from years of experience living around the world while with the Foreign Service. His humorous anecdotes and cultural insights will motivate even the most reticent student. Foreign Service traveler and language teacher Graham Fuller demonstrates a proven method of study that will help students of any age learn a second language. Includes Listening Guide for additional reference.
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Added by: lucius5 | Karma: 1660.85 | Non-Fiction, Other | 20 April 2009
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This work is a survey of a continent's under-development and the role of the foreign capital and national politics in that process. Rejecting straightforward chronology, the author traces Latin America's exploitation and impoverishment through the history of its principal commodities.
Meant for HR professionals, a student, or a foreign national, this book includes information on immigration rules and regulations. It covers topics as: the category of visa needed to suit the circumstances; facts about the UK Education System; housing, tax, and healthcare; what to do on getting there; and the information to live in the UK. Whether you are a HR professional responsible for bringing in staff from overseas, a student or a foreign national interested in coming to the UK, this book is for you.
When Archimedes - the world-famous technologist and erstwhile deviant - finds himself naked in the middle of town, he inadvertently breaks Winton's First Rule of Artful Diplomacy: "Do not talk to fishies." Now, with an ill-mannered, highly-dependent water-dweller in his care, Archimedes must navigate a complex world filled with admen, foreign soldiers and dubiously-accredited engineers! "Archimedes' Fish" is a SteamDuck picture-book for quick-witted adults and children who have already been emotionally scarred.
Organized by such common subjects as Home, Work, Eating Out, Transportation, Health and Sports, these bilingual visual dictionaries give students and business people quick access to foreign terms in the simplest and most intuitive way.