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Business English, Elizabeth Mckeigue
Business English, Elizabeth Mckeigue
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Produced in Canada at the University of Victoria, BC, Business English: Meetings makes effective use of audio, video, and text to demonstrate vocabulary, idioms, and cultural behaviors used to communicate in the typical North American business meeting. Students learn by following a fictitious company that is considering a merger with a larger one.
Wilson's Short Story Index (Review), Elizabeth Mckeigue
Wilson's Short Story Index (Review), Elizabeth Mckeigue
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Wilson's Short Story Index provides electronic access to the entire contents of me past three print volumes, covering stories published from 1984 through 1998. It also includes references to stories published in 1999. There are approximately 77,000 citations, compiled from 3610 short story collections and 155 periodicals listed in Humanities Index and Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature. In addition, 1350 of these provide a link to the full text. Access points are via author, title, and subject for stories from collections and anthologies, via author and title only for stories from periodicals.
North American Idioms: An Interactive English Language Learning Resource, Elizabeth Mckeigue
North American Idioms: An Interactive English Language Learning Resource, Elizabeth Mckeigue
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Try saying, "That exam was a piece of cake," to someone learning English and watch the look of confusion that comes from taking you literally. Fortunately for students of English-and their teachers-a CD-ROM product is now available to unlock the mysteries of the bizarre idioms we use. North American Idioms: An lnteractive English Language Learning Resource is true to its name-it is a fantastic interactive learning tool that is as engaging as it is instructional.
Whaley's Encyclopedic Dictionary Of Magic 1584-2000, Elizabeth Mckeigue
Whaley's Encyclopedic Dictionary Of Magic 1584-2000, Elizabeth Mckeigue
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Whaley's Encyclopedic Dictionary of Magic contains nearly 4000 terms and phrases used in the performance and study of magic from 1584 (the year the first English-language book by a magician was published) to the present day. The quality of the content appears to be accurate, reliable. and thorough. For comparison's sake. I consulted the printed Encyclopedia of Magic and Magicians, published by Facts On File in 1988. which defines the phruse "hocuspocus" as "a synonym for illusion created by trickery or deceit." Whaley's entry not only states three additional uses of this phrase but also cites the etymology from the …
Gutenberg Digital (Review), Elizabeth Mckeigue
Gutenberg Digital (Review), Elizabeth Mckeigue
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If you've never had the pleasure of seeing an actual printed Gutenberg Bible, here's the next best thing Gutenberg Digital Presented on two CD-ROMs are the fully digitized Goettingen Gutenberg Bible and other supplemental texts.
Information Literacy: Developing Partnerships Across Library Types, Jennifer E. Nutefall
Information Literacy: Developing Partnerships Across Library Types, Jennifer E. Nutefall
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This article describes a grant-funded project with the final goal of creating information literacy collaborative partnerships among academic, school, and public libraries. The objectives of the grant as well as an overall description of the project are stated. The emphasis of the article is on the process followed to create the collaborative partnerships and the partnerships created as a result of the grant.
Masterplots Complete 2000 Edition (Review), Elizabeth Mckeigue
Masterplots Complete 2000 Edition (Review), Elizabeth Mckeigue
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Updating the 1999 edition, Masterplots Complete CD-ROM 2000 Edition has two maior things going for it: it includes even more information (the entire contents of 21 sets of Masterplots reference books: that's 104 print volumes worth) and it's cheaper than the last version.