World Link is a core series for young adult / adult learners of English from the low beginning to high intermediate level. Combining dynamic vocabulary with essential grammar and universal topics, World Link helps students to communicate fluently and confidently.
Reading T.S. Eliot: Four Quartets and the Journey toward Understanding
This book offers an exciting new approach to T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets through both a close reading and a comparison to Eliot's other works, notably the poems "The Waste Land", "The Hollow Men", and "Ash-Wednesday". G. Douglas Atkins reveals that in Four Quartets, incarnation is the universal, timeless pattern in Eliot's work.
Freedom - Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 6 February 2012
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Ranging from the surreal to the subtle, this sweeping anthology illustrates the tenets of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and features a contributor list that reads like a who's who of leading writers from across the globe, including David Mitchell, Joyce Carol Oates, Paulo Coelho, Mahmoud Saeed, Yann Martel, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 19 November 2011
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Rhinoceros and other Plays
In Rhinoceros, as in his earlier plays, Ionesco startles audiences with a world that invariably erupts in explosive laughter and nightmare anxiety. A rhinoceros suddenly appears in a small town, tramping through its peaceful streets. Soon there are two, then three, until the “movement” is universal: a transformation of average citizens into beasts, as they learn to move with the times. Finally, only one man remains. “I’m the last man left, and I’m staying that way until the end. I’m not capitulating!”
Is meaningful communication possible between two intelligent parties who share no common language or background? In this work, a theoretical framework is proposed in which it is possible to address when and to what extent such semantic communication is possible: such problems can be rigorously addressed by explicitly focusing on the goals of the communication. Under this framework, it is possible to show that for many goals, communication without any common language or background is possible using universal protocols.
