This book presents and tests thirty essential grammatical structures. How to use the book: Teachers may use the book in class as a complement to other teaching materials either to check how well specific structures have been assimilated or as the basis of a short and stimulating group activity. Thus, one way to use it might be to have a student read a question, choosing the answer he considers correct; then to have the other members of the class, working individually or in teams, challenge or confirm the answer, with the teacher acting as referee and score-keeper.
Connecticut Valley Furniture by Eliphalet Chapin And His Contemporaries, 1750-1800
This book showcases the amazing variety of design and exceptional craftsmanship produced in the region in the decades before and after the American Revolution. This rich trove of early Americana is authoritatively discussed and depicted in nearly 200 catalog entries with 450 photographs and line drawings. Over half of the illustrations feature unpublished or little-known examples, in addition to Masterpieces from the Connecticut Historical Society Museum and other major collections. This book offers the first ever systematic framework for classifying Connecticut Valley case furniture.
English for Meetings teaches students the skills and language they need to participate in a meeting with confidence. The course gives students techniques and strategies to help them communicate in business meetings, using appropriate vocabulary, key expressions, and phrases. Each unit of English for Meetings addresses a different scenario which students may come across in a meeting. The course is suitable for those chairing the meeting, as well as for other participants. English for Meetings also covers other important topics surrounding the meeting itself, such as initial small talk, and how to follow-up on action points.
The number of native Britons, and their role, in Anglo-Saxon England has been hotly debated for generations; the English were seen as Germanic in the nineteenth century, but the twentieth saw a reinvention of the German `past'. Today, the scholarly community is as deeply divided as ever on the issue: place-name specialists have consistently preferred minimalist interpretations, privileging migration from Germany, while other disciplinary groups have been less united in their views, with many archaeologists and historians viewing the British presence, potentially at least, as numerically significant or even dominant.
One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, On Photography first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as “a progress of essays about the meaning and career of photographs.” It begins with the famous “In Plato’s Cave”essay, then offers five other prose meditations on this topic, and concludes with a fascinating and far-reaching “Brief Anthology of Quotations.”
