60 easy-to-use units cover all aspects of pronunciation, including individual sounds, word stress, connected speech and intonation. Each unit is supported by audio material in range of accents, available on audio CD or cassette. An additional reference section offers a glossary of specialized terms, help with the pronunciation of numbers and geographical names and fun exercises on phonemic symbols and minimal pairs.
Vladimir Kotlyakov, Anna Komarova, "Elsevier's Dictionary of Geography: in English, Russian, French, Spanish and German" Geography is a system of highly developed sciences about the environment. Geographical science embracing the study of the Earth's physical phenomena, people and their economic activities has always been in need of an extensive terminology. Geographical terms are related to the terms of natural sciences (physics, chemistry, biology, geology, etc.) and humanities (history, economics, sociology, etc.) since geography is based on these fundamental subjects.
Cultural geography as a style of thought is not, to be sure, a singular worldview (not one way of thinking about the world; not a fixed question and answer session, as if in the latest game show), but a place from which to ask valid and urgent questions of the world; one in which the geographical is seen as constitutive of how the world is ‘made up’. More than this, it is also a small ‘p’ politics of the object (of all possible objects of knowing and unknowing) and of geographical relationships. It intends to change our minds about how those geographies came about – and, thereby, about what possibilities there are for changing things in the present, and in the future. This may seem hopelessly naive, but it is a modest endeavour. The cultural has modified the geographical, making it possible to study more and more ‘things’, but also to bring more and more ‘things’ under critical scrutiny. In some small way, then, it is about democratizing understanding, about being able to look to the world for the different things that are going on there. And to learn lessons from it. It is therefore no accident that this book has sections that seem to belong to other books – on the economy, maybe, or on the social (and we even begin the book with these).
For anyone working and writing in a business environment and for business teachers and students, the Oxford Business Shelf provides quick and comprehensive guidance on business and legal terms, abbreviations, geographical information.
Quick and comprehensive guidance on business, legal terms, abbreviations, and geographical information
Geo-Data: World Geographical Encyclopedia (3rd Edition)
It achieves its purpose in an easy-to-use alphabetical
arrangement for all of the world's 207 countries and dependencies. Each entry
begins with the key facts about that country including longest rivers and
highest mountains and other key statistics. All place-names and geographical
features such as mountains and lakes have been listed in the most easily
recognized versions of their names.