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A comprehensive dictionary of idioms for intermediate learners of English. About 5,500 idioms are explained, nearly all illustrated with example sentences.

This A-Z provides 1001 words you need to know to make your writing and speaking effective, convincing, and expressive. With clear guidance on choosing the right word, this book is essential for anyone wanting to achieve greater success in written and spoken tasks including essays, interviews, CVs and application letters, reports, and more.

Filled with more than 180,000 synonyms and antonyms, this easy-to-use, A-to-Z reference guide helps readers build vocabulary by providing easy access to alternatives for words and phrases from across the broad range of the English language. Original.

Here's a handy guide for young students to find their way through the English language. This dictionary will serve as a helpful tool for young learners. An easy-to-understand reference book that explains meanings and functions of words the are likely to come across in their daily interactions with the world around them. With its vivid, colorful pictures, the dictionary will also provide visually appealing. Packed with 3000 words, pictures and definitions, this dictionary help as a helpful tool for young learners.

A compact, intermediate-level English-Chinese and Chinese-English dictionary covering over 90,000 words and phrases, and over 120,000 translations, including new words in each language. Pinyin romanization and Mandarin pronunciations are given throughout and characters are easily looked up either by pinyin or by radical index.

A dynamic collection of tools, techniques, and strategies for management success. This book includes four bestselling and proven Teach Yourself In a Week books in one great-value package.

The meetings secrets that experts and top professionals use.

A practical, useful little dictionary to carry around.

Offers a range of synonyms for a various words in A-Z order - ranging from the everyday to the comparatively obscure. This book is suitable for those who are stuck for precisely the right word or phrase, whatever the occasion.

With nearly 400,000 synonyms and antonyms, The Penguin Thesaurus is the most extensive, authoritative and modern wordfinder currently available. Its alphabetical arrangement of the headwords means that it is very easy to use.

Your fast track to successful project management Learn in a week, what the experts learn about managing projects in a lifetime. Written by Martin Manser, a business communications expert, Project Management In A Week quickly teaches you what you really need to know about running successful projects. Learn in a week, remember for a lifetime.

A guide to punctuation, pronunciation, spelling and grammar plus jargon and buzz words - showing when and how to use them. Over 1500 entries are listed alphabetically with extensive cross-referencing. The entries appear on two distinct levels - concise answer and more detailed explanation.

THE ULTIMATE PRODUCTIVITY BOOK gives you everything you need to succeed in business. It is a dynamic collection of essential skills covering the topics that will help you make a seismic impact upon your performance - faster than you ever thought possible.

This dictionary has been specially compiled to help writers and speakers of English. It provides instant answers to those looking for the more exact term, the livelier phrase or the clearer expression. The book contains 170,000 synonyms and antonyms arranged alphabetically.

A Dictionary of Contemporary Idioms (Pan reference)

The time management secrets that experts and top professionals use.

Suitable for those looking for a guide to the art of writing good English. Whether working on grammar for a business letter, striving to improve spelling for an essay or getting to grips with the rules of punctuation, this guide helps you to write correct and confident English whatever the situation.

If you want to be the best, you have to have the right skillset.From managing and motivating people and teams to performance management and appraisals, THE ULTIMATE MANAGEMENT BOOK is a dynamic collection of tools, techniques, and strategies for success.Discover the main themes, key ideas and tools you need and bring it all together with practical exercises.This is your complete course in modern management.ABOUT THE SERIESULTIMATE books are for managers, leaders, and business executives who want to succeed at work. From marketing and sales to management and finance, each title gives comprehensive coverage of the essential business skills you need to get ahead in your career. Written in straightforward English, each book is designed to help you quickly master the subject, with fun quizzes embedded so that you can check how you're doing.

An understanding of grammar is fundamental to the proper use of any language. This book is the ideal starter for people who missed out on learning the ground rules of English grammar, who are keen to take a refresher course or who are learning English as a foreign or second language.

本词典不但在旧版的基础上扩大了收词量,增加了三千个新词(包括词组),而且增补了旧版没有的美语拼法、发音和用法,此外,还标出了动词、名词、形容词同介词的搭配等。

This fully updated edition of the bestselling Good Word Guide offers information and advice on spelling, grammar, punctuation, pronunciation, confusables and the latest buzzwords, and provides clear, straightforward answers to everyday language problems.

Learn in a week, what the experts learn in a lifetime

Eponyms are words derived from the names of real, fictional, mythical or spurious characters. There are many eponyms in everyday use in English, and this work offers an insight into the heritage and development of the language.

The Penguin Writer's Manual is the essential companion for anyone who wants to master the art of writing good English. Whether you're composing an essay, sending a business letter or an email to a colleague, or firing off an angry letter to a newspaper, this guide will help you to brush up you communication skills and write correct and confident English.

A more-ishly browsable collection of words and phrases, linguistic quirks, lexical oddities and syntactic surprises.

The Global ELT dictionary of synonyms demonstrates the differences between similar words by providing a definition and an example for each word. The definitions are intended to show the various shades of meaning of the group of synonyms. The examples show the context in which a word is used and which other words typically occur with each synonym

本词典对旧版进行了修订,增补了许多新词新义。这些新词新义反映了当代社会政治、经济、科技、文化各个方面的最新发展变化。

A book of equivalents and alternatives. Meanings and levels of use are indicated and example sentences are given to show distinctions between words close in meaning. Key synonyms are given for words with several meanings to guide the user to the right word.

It's two books in one, with over 200,000 entries -- and that saves time and trouble! This combination of dictionary and thesaurus brings you right to the word you need. Because the synonyms are linked to definitions, it's less likely you'll choose one that doesn't convey exactly the right meaning. Of course, it also does everything you'd expect a regular dictionary to do -- detail grammar, highlight slang, suggest antonyms, and give pronunciation guidelines.

Written for those "on the outside", this book presents a biblical, conservative outline to the basics of the Christian message which has shaped much of Western culture and has changed millions of lives around the globe.

Focusing on essential leadership skills, this book provides a comprehensive toolkit for becoming an effective leader. It emphasizes practical strategies and insights designed to enhance performance and drive significant change quickly. By addressing key topics, it aims to empower readers to make a profound impact in their leadership roles.

This thesaurus has been designed to provide users with the most useful words first. It includes over 300 panels of thematically related words, with more than 160,000 alternative words in all.

This volume uses osteobiography and individual-level analyses of burials retrieved from the La Plata River Valley (New Mexico) to illustrate the variety of roles that Ancestral Pueblo women played in the past (circa AD 1100-1300).

Do you think the twelve apostles include Sneezy, Sleepy, and Dopey? Genesis is an English rock band? Bread and wine is the first course? You need Christianity for Blockheads---the user-friendly guide to making this mysterious faith called Christianity easier to understand. In witty Blockheads tradition, this latest book in the series unites a fun, clear, easy-reading style with a thorough introduction and exploration into Christian theology. Covering all the must-know teachings of the Christian faith and tying each one to key Bible passages, the concise, catchy, jargon-free style will appeal to a broad range of readers. You don't have to be a theologian to navigate the territory of Christian belief, but it helps to have a map. Here it is. Both Christians and curious non-Christians looking for clear and reliable explanations of the Christian faith will find them inside. Christianity for Blockheads helps you: * Make sense of key Bible passages * Discover what well-known scholars say about the main tenets of Christianity* Learn interesting facts and insights on particular biblical themes* Familiarize yourself with the Christian perspective on hot issues such as the end times, baptism, and speaking in tongues* Dig deeper into resources for further study* Walk the walk by demonstrating how the Christian message applies to contemporary living

Containing well over a third of a million full dictionary entries, this book provides all the necessary information on spelling, grammar, usage, and alternative and opposite words

This reference book is designed to be used by anyone working with words. It provides easy access to words which can be used as alternatives to improve and add variety to both speech and writing.

To be fluent in English, you have to be able to use phrasal verbs. This dictionary has been written for intermediate and advanced students who want an easy-to-use reference book that deals with this area of the language. The emphasis is on idiomatic phrasal verbs, whose meaning and use are especially difficult.

A compact guide to the hundreds of most commonly made errors in everyday English. All areas of doubt are covered in this book, including misspellings, confused phrases and commonly misused words. Other titles in this series include Spelling, Thesaurus, and Grammar.

Idioms are fairly fixed phrases that consist of more than one word, with a meaning that cannot be understood from putting together the meanings of the individual words. But this dictionary of approximately 2,000 idioms is different from other dictionaries of idioms. Such dictionaries often try to give a complete list of all idioms; in this book we have concentrated on phrases that are used in certain conversational situations. This book will be found useful by all speakers of English. Students learning English as a second or foreign language, especially, will find help here that is just not included in other reference books; so this dictionary will increase the under standing of what has been heard and will also develop a proficiency in using idioms. The index brings an additional by consulting the list of subjects, the user is referred to appropriate phrases. The inclusion of 200 of the most common Business Idioms also reflects the need for English language learners to be able to understand basic idiomatic language used in everyday business context.

This first full colour Junior Visual Dictionary is the ideal tool for expanding the vocabulary and knowledge of children between the ages of 8 and 12. By showing and naming the objects of the modern world, this unique dictionary gives new meaning to the phrase 'look it up'. This ultimate visual resource will capture every child's imagination and make every parent's and teacher's job easier.

Harmondsworth. 20 cm. 839 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Idioma Inglés. Martin H. Manser and Nigel D. Turton. Penguin reference books. Also issued online. Online Manser, Martin H. Penguin wordmaster dictionary. Harmondsworth, Middlesex ; New York, N. Y. , U. S. A. : Penguin Books, 1987 (OCoLC)573106761 .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. 014051161X

Obrazový sprievodca objasňuje vznik a význam najpredávanejšej knihy sveta. Poskytuje informácie o histórii a vplyve Biblie, o výpovednej hodnote pre dnešok, ponúka prehľad jednotlivých jej kníh spolu s príbehmi najznámejších biblických postáv.

Bible je nejprodávanější knihou na světě. Její význam v západní a celosvětové kultuře je nesrovnatelný. Avšak jak mohl tento navenek nesourodý soubor starých textů dosáhnout takové popularity? Malém biblickém kompendiu Martin Manser a Debra K. Reidová vysvětlují vznik, obsah a současnou hodnotu Písma svatého. Tato knížka je vynikajícím úvodem pro čtenáře, kteří přistupují k Bibli poprvé, stejně jako kvalitní pomůckou těm, kteří ji četli už mnohokrát. Nabízí kapitoly líčící svět Písma svatého, podává přehled Starého i Nového zákona a popisuje nejznámější postavy biblických příběhů v jednotlivých knihách Písma svatého.

Das Wort Thesaurus stammt aus dem 19. Jahrhundert und bezeichnet ein Lexikon für Synonyme. Der New Penguin Thesaurus bietet eine benutzerfreundliche alphabetische Anordnung und fast 400.000 Optionen, von formell bis umgangssprachlich. Nützliche Beispielsätze zeigen die Verwendung der Wörter. Die klare Gliederung der Einträge ist besonders lobenswert.

Von überschäumender Freude bis hin zu tiefer Niedergeschlagenheit: Es gibt wohl keine Lebenslage, in der wir uns nicht in Worten der Psalmen wiederfinden. Das Buch lädt ein, sie zu unseren eigenen Worten zu machen - wenn wir uns fürchten oder einsam fühlen, wenn wir eine Entscheidung treffen müssen, wenn wir überglücklich und dankbar sind ...