Easy Spanish Reader, Premium Fourth Edition

Easy Spanish Reader, Premium Fourth Edition
Author: William T. Tardy
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2020-11-24
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1260463613

Start Reading in Spanish Immediately and Build Your Language Skills in No Time! Whether you’re a brand-new beginner or an advanced-beginning learner, the new editions of these popular titles enable you to dive into the language with engaging readings that progress in difficulty to match your growing reading skills. This process will allow you to rapidly build comprehension and confidence as you enjoy the stories and complete the post-reading exercises. EASY SPANISH READER is divided into three parts: Part I describes the adventures of two high-school seniors involved in their Spanish club. As you read about their experiences, you’ll discover the nuances of language and culture right along with the students. Part II describes episodes in the colorful history of Mexico, from the Conquistadors to the present, including vivid depictions of Cortés’s encounters with the Aztecs. Part III is comprised of an abridged adaptation of the classic story “Lazarillo de Tormes,” which allows you to practice your grammar and vocabulary skills on a great work of Spanish literature. The bonus app that accompanies this book provides: FLASHCARDS to aid memorization of all vocabulary terms AUDIO recordings of numerous reading passages RECORD-YOURSELF feature to improve your pronunciation AUTO-FILL GLOSSARY for quick reference

Encyclopedia of Microcomputers

Encyclopedia of Microcomputers
Author: Allen Kent
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 452
Release: 1987-10-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780824727000

"The Encyclopedia of Microcomputers serves as the ideal companion reference to the popular Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology. Now in its 10th year of publication, this timely reference work details the broad spectrum of microcomputer technology, including microcomputer history; explains and illustrates the use of microcomputers throughout academe, business, government, and society in general; and assesses the future impact of this rapidly changing technology."

English Place Names

English Place Names
Author: Kenneth Cameron
Publisher: B.T. Batsford
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1996
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Since this work on English place-names was first published in 1961, a great deal of research has been undertaken, and material has been published which is of importance to the interpretation of individual names and the understanding of the significance of groups of place-names. This revised and updated edition explains the technique of place-name study, examines the types of place-name formation, both ancient and modern, and includes a new chapter on modern place-names. It covers names of Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian and French origin, those with Christian and pagan signifance, those illustrating social and legal customs, and other associations.

Hidden Wonders

Hidden Wonders
Author: Etienne Guyon
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2021-02-23
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0262539896

The hidden elegance in everyday objects and physical mechanisms, from crumpled paper to sandcastles. Hidden Wonders focuses on the objects that populate our everyday life--crumpled paper, woven fabric, a sand pile--but looks at them with a physicist's eye, revealing a hidden elegance in mundane physical mechanisms. In six chapters--Builders, Creating Shapes, Building with Threads, From Sand to Glass, Matter in Motion, and Fractures--the authors present brief stories, set in locales ranging from the Eiffel Tower to a sandcastle, that illustrate the little wonders hidden in the ordinary. A simple experiment that readers can perform at home concludes each story. More than 200 illustrations bring the stories to life.

An Answer for Everything

An Answer for Everything
Author: Delayed Gratification
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2021-10-28
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1526645920

What's the best book ever written? What would happen if we all stopped eating meat? What's the secret to living past 110? And what actually is the best thing since sliced bread? In An Answer For Everything, 200 of the world's most intriguing questions are settled once and for all through beautiful and brilliant infographics. The results will leave you shocked, informed and thoroughly entertained. Created by the team behind the award-winning Delayed Gratification magazine, these compelling, darkly funny data visualisations will change the way you think about ... everything

Atlas of Hand Surgery

Atlas of Hand Surgery
Author: Sigurd Pechlaner
Publisher: Thieme
Total Pages: 1229
Release: 2020-09-22
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3132581089

This large and beautifully illustrated atlas describes all major procedures in hand surgery. Step by step, elaborate and clear original drawings of high artistic value depict the surgical approaches and methods. Following an introductory chapter on the anatomical basis of hand surgery, the clinical part of the book treats hand surgery in traumatology, plastic surgery and orthopedics. The great care that was given to the preparation of this surgical atlas is matched by the comprehensive treatment of the techniques.

Francophone Belgian Cinema

Francophone Belgian Cinema
Author: Jamie Steele
Publisher: Traditions in World Cinema
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2020-11-30
Genre: Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN: 9781474459631

Francophone Belgian Cinema offers an original critical analysis of filmmaking in an oft-neglected 'national' and regional cinema. The book draws key distinctions between the local, national, small national, regional and transnational frameworks in both representational and industrial terms. Alongside the Dardenne brothers, this book considers four promising Francophone Belgian filmmakers who have received limited critical attention in academic publications on contemporary European cinema: Joachim Lafosse, Olivier Masset-Depasse, Lucas Belvaux and Bouli Lanners. Exploring these filmmakers' themes of post-industrialism, paternalism, the fractured nuclear family and spatial dynamics, as well as their work in the more commercial road movie and polar genres, Jamie Steele analyses their stylistic continuities and filiation. This is complemented by an analysis of how the industrial aspects of film production, distribution and exhibition contribute to the creation of both a regional and transnational cinema.

Guinness World Records 2001

Guinness World Records 2001
Author:
Publisher: Bantam Books
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2001-05
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780553583755

Newly revised with all-new photos and features The must-have, fun-to-read guide to every amazing fact, figure, and feat for the new millennium From the world's largest teddy bear to the smallest handheld cell phone, from the biggest lottery jackpot to the youngest winner of the Nobel Prize, Guinness World Records is an indispensable compendium, filled with every vital statistic you'll ever need -- as well as the pictures to back them up! Did you know... * The world record for most body piercings belongs to a Scottish woman who sports a total of 462 -- including 192 on her head! * The world's most valuable bikini -- handsewn and encrusted with diamonds -- is worth nearly $200,000. * The world's longest human chain spanned 370 miles, when 2 million people in Latvia joined hands to celebrate the 50th anniversary of a peace treaty. Featuring over 1,000 extraordinary new records and 300 stunning photographs, the 2001 edition of Guinness World Records includes updated sections on computer games, the Internet, special effects, martial arts, dance music, the prehistoric world, and much more. It is the world's favorite family reference book -- the undisputed authority on world records for almost 50 years. Guinness World Records and the Star Figure Logo are trademarks of Guinness World Records Ltd., London. Used under license by Bantam Books, a division of Random House, Inc.

Chambers Paperback Thesaurus

Chambers Paperback Thesaurus
Author: Editors of Chambers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 662
Release: 2007
Genre: English language
ISBN:

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 180,000 alternative words in all.