This user-friendly guide to the basics helps you learn how to speak Chinese quickly and easily by drawing parallels with something you already know--English. Chinese is a fascinating language that can seem impossibly difficult to learn at first, but is relatively easy if you focus on the spoken aspect. This revised edition contains new dialogues, cultural notes, IT and social media vocabulary, and

Maya Art\'s work explores themes of femininity, religious syncretism and cultural diversity. In 2017, she spent a year in the Afro-Mexican village of Costa Chica. Oaxaca, in the home of Juliana, a lawyer and her teenage daughter, Veronica. It was Juliana who introduced her to the women of the community - healers, midwives, widows, single mothers and mothers with many children. They live relatively

An outrageously funny story of pursuit, heartache and romance, from Wales to New Zealand, in the Swinging Sixties.Boyo is essentially a true love story, with real people, real places, and real events. It\'s a story that stretches across the world, across cultures.It\'s an engrossing discovery of the extraordinary lengths to which our young Welsh protagonist is prepared to go - up and down the entire

Learn the slang words, modern phrases, and curses they definitely never taught you in Spanish class with this super-handy and hilariously improper English-Spanish phrasebook. You already know enough Spanish to get by, but you want to be able to tell those inside jokes, greet your friends in a laid-back manner, and casually pick someone up at a bar. From \"What\'s up?\" to \"Wanna go home with me?\"

This book explores how the human mind works through the lens of psychological disorders, challenging many existing theoretical constructs, especially in the fields of psychology, psychiatry and philosophy of mind. Drawing on the expertise of leading academics, the book discusses how psychopathology can be used to inform our understanding of the human mind. The book argues that studying mental disorders

On the basis of over 25 years\' clinical experience and psychological research, Linda Blair reveals how your birth order position, as well as the spacing between you and your siblings and the sex of your siblings, impact your childhood, your adult life and your relationships. Packed with new research and written in a lively, personal style, Birth Order will inform and intrigue. By reading this unique

As heard on The Sean Hannity Radio Show Former US Navy SEAL and FBI Special Agent Jonathan T. Gilliam brings his unique professional perspective to teach you the art of awareness and attack avoidance by sharing unconventional warfare techniques and how to think like an attacker. Fight back, because we are sheep no more This personal safety and security book comes armed to the teeth with empowering

This revised translation of Fritz Graf\'s highly acclaimed introduction to Greek mythology offers a chronological account of the principal Greek myths that appear in the surviving literary and artistic sources and concurrently documents the history of interpretation of Greek mythology from the 17th century to the present. First surveying the various definitions of myth that have been advanced, Graf

Tensions run high in the explosive 8th book of 39 Clues, the #1 New York Times bestselling series.One belief has sustained fourteen-year-old Amy Cahill and her younger brother, Dan, on their hunt for the 39 Clues: They are the good guys. But then a shocking discovery about their parents shatters everything Amy and Dan think they know, dividing the two siblings for the first time ever. When Dan disappears

The definitive pilgrim\'s guide to the sites visited by St Paul on his missionary journeys. This new edition has been fully updated and redesigned with new maps and plans, and many new colour photographs. Expanded, with new sections on St John and his writing of the Book of Revelation on the island of Patmos, together with other Greek

*As featured in a BBC documentary*Born in Milan, Anna del Conte grew up in Italy in a gentler time. Her story is informed and enlivened by the food and memories of her native land - from lemon granita to wartime risotto with nettles, from vitello tonnato to horsemeat roll, from pastas to

Willkommen 2 Intermediate course is a brand new multimedia German adult learning programme for classroom and home use. The course includes a coursebook, activity book, CD and DVD set.Created in consultation with teachers and learners, it\'s the perfect follow-up to the Willkommen Beginner\'s course or any beginner German course. It can also be used as a starting point for study to review and build

Illustrated revision and practiseCovers Paper 3Over 200 marks worth of examination style questionsAnswers provided for all questions within the bookIllustrated topics to improve memory and recallSpecification references for every topicExamination tips and techniquesAbsolute clarity is the aim with a new generation of revision guide for the 2020s. This guide has been expertly compiled and edited by

The classic guide to self-sufficiency, with more than 200,000 copies sold--now fully updated Anyone who wants to learn basic living skills--the kind employed by our forefathers--and adapt them for a better life in the twenty-first century need look no further than this eminently useful, full-color guide. Countless readers have turned to Back to Basics for inspiration and instruction, escaping to an

Japan\'s avifauna is uniquely varied, owing to the remarkable mix of ecosystems and altitudes in this East Asian nation that stretches from the subarctic to the subtropics. Astounding migration spectacles throughout the year make for some of the most memorable experiences, as do encounters with iconic specialties like white-eyes, cranes, storks, needletails, and honeyeaters. Because birds are often

Written by an experienced tutor, Savoir-Faire Plus is specifically designed to meet the requirements of today\'s generation of language undergraduates. Focusing on the life of an Anglophone first year undergraduate studying French in the UK and sharing a house with four francophone students, this engaging textbook provides: a clear, logical structure a blend of communicative, research-based and

Looking for some jokes that will never go extinct? Look no further. . .101 Silly Dinosaur Jokes for Kids is filled with funny, delightful Jurassic-era puns, knock-knocks, and gut-busters that dinosaur-obsessed kids will love reading, sharing, and telling. This dino-mite joke book is filled to the brim with hilarious jokes, funny riddles, and side-splitting puns that are all about DINOSAURS! Whether