Basic English Words - Vocabulary Q & A Volume 1 (Audio Only)
This audio is great way to improve your basic english vocabulary quickly. A question is asked and almost immediately answer is given. In less than 1 hr around 700 questions are covered. Listen multiple times for maximum benefit. It's Audio only. This covers YLE & KET exams and is useful to understand the spoken and written language and to talk about basic everyday topics. Even if you know many of the words in this audio, you can challenge yourself by trying to guess the answer as soon as question is over and before answer is given. This will improve your ability to get the right word quickly and you are more likely use the words learned here in regular conversations.
A collection of crime stories, including one which features Chief Inspector Reg Wexford. The title story concerns a hideous bookmark given to a writer by his attractive cleaning lady. If only she had given herself, instead of the copper peacock, she might have lived.
The book includes chapters on forms of natural realism, theories of perceptual experience, representationalism, the argument from illusion, phenomenological senses, types of perceptual content, the representationalist/intentionalist thesis, and adverbialist accounts of perceptual experience. The ideas of Austin, Dretske, Heidegger, Millikan, Putnam, and Robinson are considered among others and the reader is given an invaluable philosophical framework within which to consider the issues.
It is a good catalog of plants. Lots of color photographs, usually right next to the descriptions of the plants. Information on the requirements of each plant is given.
Funds of Knowledge: Theorizing Practices in Households and Classrooms
The concept of "funds of knowledge" is based on a simple premise: people are competent and have knowledge, and their life experiences have given them that knowledge.
