Welcome to Panama -- Physical geography -- Panama through time -- People and culture -- Political and economic geography -- Living in Panama today -- Panama looks ahead.
Introducing Iran -- The natural environment -- Early history -- Steps toward modern Iran -- People and culture -- Government and politics in Iran -- Economic patterns -- Life in Iran today -- Iran looks ahead.
English Today - Multimedia Course - Upper Intermediate
English Today is an innovative product for English language learning, designed to gain maximum advantage from the DVD format and aimed at the needs of the target consumer.
It represents a completely new approach: instead of the typical video-lesson structure, a teacher guides the student through a series of narrative episodes arranged as in a sit-com.
As a university prof teaching ESP (English for Specific Purposes) and EAP (English for Academic Purposes) courses at undergraduate level, I regularly use texts that offer authentic language (English, not designed for english teching) from various fields to design study material, mostly from the technology and business sectors.
The Origins of Criticism: Literary Culture and Poetic Theory in Classical Greece
By "literary criticism" we usually mean a self-conscious act involving the technical and aesthetic appraisal, by individuals, of autonomous works of art. Aristotle and Plato come to mind. The word "social" does not. Yet, as this book shows, it should-if, that is, we wish to understand where literary criticism as we think of it today came from.
