English Through Pictures, Book 2 and A Second Workbook of English (Updated Edition)
English Through Pictures Book II adapts the instructional design as in Book I of the series, employing all together about 750 highly useful words at work in the essential sentence patterns of the language. A pictorial commentary explains the sentences as they appear, arranged in a double-page display of sentences in situations to invite comparison with one another.
English Through Pictures, Book 1 And A First Workbook Of English (Updated Edition)
The three pocketbooks comprising the English Through Pictures series are the remarkable invention of I.A. Richards and Christine Gibson, who designed them to help the learner speak, read and write English in the quickest and clearest possible way - through pictures.
Book 1 contains a vocabulary of 250 such words, with an additional 500 developed in Book 2; these 750 words are then used in Book 3 to build a command of 1000 words which, by their defining power, hold the possibility of understanding as much as another 20,000 words of English.
Shakespeare, sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Hobbes and others – the greatest Englishmen who ever lived. John Aubrey gave the wittiest, amusing and moving miniature portraits ever written. Aubrey's Brief Lives has been loved for generations for its colorful gossipy tone and for the glimpses it provides of the unofficial sides of its subjects. Aubrey's use of informants and his eye for the unusual provides much more vivid pictures than a biography based on documents could. He is frank but never malicious. Read by Brian Cox
This is one of those books that absolutely must be read by anyone remotely interested in the biographical life of a major movie star. It was the first time I have read anything by Shawn Levy and I believe he is one of the best at his genre working today. The book, an unauthorized biography, is almost six hundred pages long and gives the reader not only the complete run of pictures of De Niro but also gives a fair amount of information regarding his three wives, children, and the many work projects around New York and many other locations for which he has an interest.
When a bar crowd turns into a murderous, racist mob, Kevin Shea tries to do the right thing. He fails, and an innocent black lawyer is lynched. The next day, TV pictures show Shea apparently trying to hang the lawyer and Shea suddenly finds himself a hunted, hated man.
