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Test Yourself for Proficiency
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Test Yourself for Proficiency
Test Yourself for Proficiency
A totally new concept in Exam preparation. 10 sets in exam format provide intensive practice in vocabulary and grammar. Its study approach is the most appropriate. Answers and marking scheme are essential features of the book, allowing students to work independently and check their own progress.

 


 
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Tags: Proficiency, Yourself, essential, scheme, marking, Proficiency, features, Yourself
Foucault's Pendulum
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Foucault's Pendulum
From Library Journal
Student of philology in 1970s Milan, Casaubon is completing a thesis on the Templars, a monastic knighthood disbanded in the 1300s for questionable practices. At Pilades Bar, he meets up with Jacopo Belbo, an editor of obscure texts at Garamond Press. Together with Belbo's colleague Diotallevi, they scrutinize the fantastic theories of a prospective author, Colonel Ardenti, who claims that for seven centuries the Templars have been carrying out a complex scheme of revenge. When Ardenti disappears mysteriously, the three begin using their detailed knowledge of the occult sciences to construct a Plan for the Templars [...]
 
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Tags: Templars, novel, Umberto, everything, occult, Ardenti, Belbo, carrying, scheme