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This course offers an overview of the English language that is literary, historical, cultural, political, and scientific in its scope and designed to give you greater insight into the written and spoken word.The lectures provide a thorough understanding of the history of the English language - from its origins as a dialect of the Germanic-speaking peoples through the literary and cultural documents of its 1,500-year span to the state of American speech today.

Ever dream of writing a book, article, poem, or play that means something to you—and maybe to someone else as well? Do you have an idea you're ready to get down on paper? In Creative Writing For Dummies, you'll learn how to unleash your creative side and become a confident and productive writer.

All academics need to write, but many struggle to finish their dissertations, articles, books, or grant proposals. Writing is hard work and can be difficult to wedge into a frenetic academic schedule. How can we write it all while still having a life? In this second edition of his popular guidebook, Paul Silvia offers fresh advice to help you overcome barriers to writing and use your time more productively.

Writing the Cozy Mystery is a concise writing guide that describes step-by-step how to write a winning whodunit. Do you want to write a cozy mystery but don’t have a clue where to start? Or perhaps you’re already writing a series, and you need tips on how to keep your material fresh.

Writing a Romance Novel For Dummies is the only reference aspiring writers need to get their careers off to the right start. Fully updated to reflect the industry's latest trends and secrets, this book helps you understand what makes a great novel, so you can hone your craft and write books people want to read. We break down the romance subgenres, give you expert tips on plotting and pacing, and walk you through the process of finding an agent and getting published in today's competitive market—or self-publishing like many six-figure authors are doing.

Master the art of English grammar with this updated edition of the bestselling guide, The Only Grammar Book You’ll Ever Need, featuring fresh examples and quizzes to test your knowledge, making it an invaluable resource for business professionals, students, and anyone looking to improve their...

From Plato to present, the wisdom of the western world in writing is summarized. Oratory is also covered.

"Former New York Times Book Review editor and linguistic expert O'Conner...updates her bestselling guide to grammar, an invigorating and entertaining dissection of our ever-evolving language." - Publishers Weekly In this new edition of Woe Is I, Patricia T. O’Conner unties the knottiest...

American author, scholar, and satirist H.L. Mencken wrote The American Language in 1919, intending to defend American speech from prescriptivist critics. "America itself is unutterably vulgar. But vulgarity, after all, means no more than a yielding to natural impulses in the face of conventional inhibitions, and that yielding to natural impulses is at the heart of all healthy language-making."

There is no right or wrong way to write a novel, but Hinze shows you one way - her way - which has helped her write and publish award-winning, bestselling novels, time after time. In this book, she opens her personal toolbox of methods and guides that you can alter to fit your own process to get your novel started, written, tested, and submitted.

Learn to Speak Up! reúne en un solo audio 2,500 frases en castellano con traducción al inglés. Learn to Speak Up! repasa y consolida los temas y las habilidades más importantes del inglés: desde estructuras sintácticas hasta verbos imprescindibles, sin dejar de lado tipos de oraciones, tiempos verbales, palabras con usos similares o que generan confusión entre hablantes de castellano.

How is society being reshaped by the continued diffusion and increasing centrality of the internet in everyday life and work? Society and the Internet provides key information for students, scholars, and those interested in understanding the interactions of the Internet and society. This multidisciplinary collection of theoretically and empirically anchored chapters addresses the big questions about one of the most significant technological transformations of this century, through a diversity of data, methods, theories, and approaches.

¿Quién ha dicho que aprender un idioma es aburrido? Diviértete y desenvuélvete con el inglés en cualquier parte...en un restaurante, en el cine, en la farmacia, en la playa, en el baño ¡o donde sea! Alberto Alonso te presentará esas cosas que nadie te enseña y además con el estilo desenfado e incombustible que le caracteriza.

Everyday English 2 es la segunda parte de los programas más populares de Vaughan Radio. Presentado por Alberto Alonso, hace un repaso en inglés de situaciones cotidianas, como hablar de ropa o hablar un poco de informático o de cine y sus celebridades.

Series editor Andrew Leckey and guest editor Marshall Loeb have scoured the print media, consulted with the editors of major business and general interest publications, and surveyed journalism school deans in order to find the thirty best business stories from the past 12 months. Among those selected: Ken Auletta on Herb Allen's CEO retreat, from The New Yorker; Diane Brady on Martha Stewart, from Business Week; Steve Silberman on creating a borderless global cyber-marketplace, from Wired; and many others.

Baby English. Cómo conseguir que tu hijo sea bilingüe es un audio dirigido a los padres que saben lo importante que es ofrecer la oportunidad del bilingüismo a sus hijos y, sin embargo, no saben cómo o por dónde comenzar.

Descubre el audio de cabecera de los padres que quieren hablar en inglés con sus hijos. Nuestro Best Seller para niños de cero a nueve años. Contiene cuentos, poemas, vocabulario y frases de uso común que le ayudarán a los más pequeños a empezar a conocer el idioma y a familiarizarse con los sonidos anglófonos.

El audio contiene 500 frases de inglés-español. Se trata de expresiones reales que se utilizan a diario en cualquier departamento de administración. Conocer y aprender estas expresiones no sólo facilita el trabajo en un Dpto. de administración, sino que le permitirá desarrollarlo casi con la misma soltura que en castellano. Especialmente manejándose al teléfono en inglés.

El audio contiene 500 frases de inglés-español. Se trata de expresiones reales que se utilizan a diario en cualquier departamento de marketing. Conocer y aprender estas expresiones no sólo facilita el trabajo en un Dpto. de Marketing, sino que le permitirá desarrollarlo casi con la misma soltura que en castellano.

Los Translation Booklets son listas de traducción español-inglés ideadas meticulosamente para ir presentando contenidos gramaticales. Invitamos al alumno a traducirlas. Este ejercicio de traducción ayuda a fijar mentalmente estructuras y a asimilarlas.