For & Against 1: Expressing Opinions and Exchanging Ideas is designed to help Korean students gain confidence in expressing opinions. Each of the fifteen units presents both sides of an interesting and controversial issue. The aim of the book is to encourage students to consider their position and develop skills to discuss each issue. It is hoped that students will continue to practice and apply these skills to their own discussions.
"Allen's Dictionary of English Phrases" is the most comprehensive survey of this area of the English language ever undertaken. Taking over 6000 phrases, it explains their meaning, explores their development and gives citations that range from the Venerable Bede to Will Self.
Designed for upper-intermediate and advanced English language learners, this course aims to enable students to use written sources wisely in their academic essays, reports and dissertations.
Experimental Nations Or, the Invention of the Maghreb
Jean-Paul Sartre's famous question, "For whom do we write?" strikes close to home for francophone writers from the Maghreb. Do these writers address their compatriots, many of whom are illiterate or read no French, or a broader audience beyond Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia? In Experimental Nations, Réda Bensmaïa argues powerfully against the tendency to view their works not as literary creations worth considering for their innovative style or language but as "ethnographic" texts and to appraise them only against the "French literary canon."
Edith Nesbit’s classic story, in which three children, pulled suddenly from their comfortable suburban life, move to the country with their mother, where they come to know and love the ways of the railways.
