Focus is the BBC’s science and technology monthly magazine. Jargon-free and accessible, you don’t need a PhD in particle physics to enjoy reading it. All you need is a quizzical mind that wants to understand the world around you, and gain a fact or two to keep up your sleeve in a pub quiz emergency.
Focus is the BBC’s science and technology monthly magazine. Jargon-free and accessible, you don’t need a PhD in particle physics to enjoy reading it. All you need is a quizzical mind that wants to understand the world around you, and gain a fact or two to keep up your sleeve in a pub quiz emergency.
Once, a long time ago, there was a king whose wisdom was known throughout all the land. Nothing could be hidden from him. It seemed as if news of the most secret things came to him through the air. He had one strange custom. Every day when he was alone, a trusted servant brought him a magic dish. One day when the servant took away the magic dish, he tasted the left-over food on the dish. Eating the food gave the servant the power to understand animals. Follow the servant as he uses this new-found power to win the hand of a beautiful princess.
The Slangman Guide to Dirty English: Dangerous Expressions Americans Use Every Day
This humorous book will teach you the most popular dangerous words and expressions used in the English language. The Slangman Guide to DIRTY ENGLISH is easy to understand and fun to read, even for the beginning English learner. It contains over 1,000 dangerous expressions used every day in American conversations. We will even show you which American movies, TV shows, and songs use these kinds of words. In addition, you will find over 2,400 sentences written as Americans really speak! These phrases will help you communicate with Americans and understand our culture.
Literature suffers from appearing both deceptively easy and dauntingly difficult. We all like to think we can read a novel and understand what 'genre', 'style' and 'narrative' mean, but do we really understand them fully and how they can enrich our reading experience? How should we approach the works of great writers such as William Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, Charles Dickens and Jane Austen?
