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Being a reviewer means writing about something you love and getting paid for it. For a lot of people it's the number 1 dream job in the media. This book explains how to seize your readers' attention and how to be witty always, fascinating most of the time and bitchy when you need to be.

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Anne Frank wrote her diary. A yawn. Alex Haley wrote about his roots. A snooze. The Bible. What a bore! But what do all these have in common That's obvious. They're not funny and the people they wrote about aren't current. Where's Bieber Jolie Beyonce That's who people want to read about and laugh about. Celebrities! And not written by the cele

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For readers, travelers, and Anglophiles everywhere, this entertaining and authoritative resource is a cultural...

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This supplement to any language course or travel trip addresses the questions and frustrations that every Chinese-language learner struggles with, but that are often absent from textbooks and classes. Free MP3 web downloads complement the text. With Chinese 24/7, nothing is lost in translation.

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Features lessons that are relevant to everyday life: concentrated training of ear and tongue in the sound system of Chinese; a carefully sequenced character workbook embodying a new and effective approach to the learning of Chinese characters; and audiovisual reinforcement via a complete set of audiotapes and two videotapes and more.

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Uses techniques to put beginning learners of Mandarin Chinese on the path toward mastery. This book aims to lead students to adopt Chinese as one of their own languages and not to regard it as an object of study and translation. It features texts in traditional and simplified Chinese characters, and includes a Chinese introduction for teachers.

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Sixteen films selected for interesting viewing, key cultural information, and accessible language levels. Each chapter covers one film and includes exercises, readings and discussion questions to aid students in understanding the film in a broader cultural context.

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Covering twelve high-interest feature films from Germany, this text provides a springboard for student discussion and conversation with classroom activities covering German language, grammar, vocabulary and culture.

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Covering fourteen high-interest feature films from Portuguese-speaking countries, this text provides a springboard for student discussion and conversation with classroom activities and exercises covering Portuguese language, grammar, vocabulary and culture.

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Volume one of a two-volume series presenting seven Russian films in historical order (1936-1979). This text provides a springboard for student discussion and conversation with classroom activities and exercises covering Russian language, grammar, vocabulary and culture.

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Volume two of a two-volume series, presenting seven Russian films in historical order (1984-1999). This text provides a springboard for student discussion and conversation with classroom activities and exercises covering Russian language, grammar, vocabulary and culture.

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Aims to instruct, inform, and inspire students of Chinese by presenting selected historical texts and their annotations. Taken from the seminal works known as the Four Histories, the fourteen included texts offer insights into the political, social, economic, and cultural aspects of China over a long period of time.

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Offers an introduction to the grammar of classical Chinese and allows readers to acquire the necessary proficiency to read and enjoy traditional Chinese texts with ease. This title examines critical words, phrases, and idiomatic constructions in terms of their respective positions and functions in a classical Chinese sentence.

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A classical Latin text and workbook set.

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A streamlined revision of McKeown's Classical Latin (2008), offering an extensively field-tested text and workbook with web support for a two-semester introductory Latin sequence.