15 Minute Mandarin Chinese: Learn in Just 12 Weeks by DK
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference
Introductory Mandarin Chinese language course, fully updated and refreshed, with a redesigned free audio app Teach yourself Mandarin Chinese in just 12 weeks with this fun, user-friendly, and uniquely visual language course. DK's 15 Minute Mandarin Chinese is the perfect course for busy people who want ...Show more
Always Take Notes: Advice from the world's greatest writers by Simon Akam
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference
Bestselling and award-winning authors share the secrets to their success, and the hard lessons they have learnt along the way. Where do the best ideas come from? How do you stay motivated? What does it take to become a published author? And how do you actually make money from your writing? For over five ...Show more
Great Books of China by Frances Wood
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference
Discover or rediscover the major achievements of Chinese culture and civilization. Great Books of China offers concise introductions each of them accompanied by generous quotation (in English) from the book in question to sixty-six works in the canon of Chinese literature. The books chosen reflect the c ...Show more
Italian Short Stories Parallel Texts #1 by RALEIGH TREVELYAN
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Series: Penguin Parallel Text Ser.
The eight stories in this collection, by Moravia, Pavese, Pratolini and other writers, have been selected as representative of twentieth-century Italian writing. The English translations provided are literal rather than literary, and there are notes to help the student of Italian. However, the volume ca ...Show more
Parallel Text 2 Italian by DIMITRI VITTORINI
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Series: Parallel Text, Penguin Ser.
Intends to exemplify the variety of Italian writing of the twentieth century. This volume includes discussions of the words and dialect expressions in the Italian text.
Spanish Short Stories: v. 1 by Jean Franco
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Series: Penguin Parallel Text Ser.
Excellent reading in either Spanish or English, the eight short stories in this collection by authors including Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Camilo Jose Cela have been chosen for their readability and literary merit. Seven are from "Spanish America", only one from Spain, an unsurprising ...Show more
Short Stories in Spanish for Intermediate Learners by Olly Richards
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Series: Foreign Language Graded Reader Ser.
An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners. "I love Olly's work - and you will too " - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for Numbers Short Stories in Spanish for Intermediate Learners has been written especial ...Show more
Short Stories in German for Intermediate Learners - Read for Pleasure at Your Level, Expand Your Vocabulary and Learn German the Fun Way! by Olly Richards
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Series: Foreign Language Graded Reader Ser.
An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young adult and adult intermediate learners of German.Olly's top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and cognitive psychology about how to learn effectively. ...Show more
PARALLEL TEXT GER 2 by David Constantine
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Series: Penguin Parallel Text | Reading Level: General Adult
The eight stories in this volume offer a varied and representative collection of twentieth century German authors from a range of political and cultural backgrounds. Styles include the non-fictional manner of Kluge's montage technique and the contrasting classical storytelling of Penzoldt. With read ...Show more
German Short Stories: Deutsche Kurzgeschichten: v. 1 by Richard Newnham
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Series: Penguin Parallel Text Ser.
Much maligned in pre-war Germany, the short story enjoyed a creative rebirth in 1945. Initially imported by the Allies, the form also matched perfectly the prevailing mood of irony, objectivity and mistrust of the didactic. With the original German text running alongside English translations, this colle ...Show more
Short Stories in Japanese for Intermediate Learners: Read for pleasure at your level, expand your vocabulary and learn Japanese the fun way! by Olly Richards
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Series: Foreign Language Graded Reader Ser.
An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners of Japanese."Olly's top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and cognitive psychology about how to learn effectively. I love his work ...Show more
Great Japanese Stories - 10 Parallel Texts by Jay Rubin (Editor)
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference
This hand-picked selection from The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories celebrates the best literature to emerge from Japan since the twentieth century.From a surreal fairy tale to a heart-rending evocation of the aftermath of the atomic bomb, this vibrant collection provides unique cultural insight ...Show more