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A classroom tested English-course for adults and young adults, "Inside Out" has been designed to develop real-life communicative skills and powers of self-expression. Creative grammar work: learners organize and develop their knowledge of grammar. Easy-to-use exercises put rules into pratice - and are then recycled as speaking activities. All grammar work is backed up with clear summaries. Personalized speaking tasks: a series of challenging speaking tasks focuses on learners' own experiences and opinions. Choices within tasks encourage learners to take charge of interactions. Structured planning time is built into tasks, improving both fluency and accuracy. Contextualized lexis: lexical items are seen in context, showing how words and phrases function and how they collocate with each other. Focus exercises highlight and recycle lexis to help learners build a bigger and better active vocabulary. Realistic listening and reading: a rich selection of accessible and entertaining texts: cartoons, postcards, letters and extracts from newspapers, magazines and novels. Listenings include conversations, interviews and classic pop songs recorded by the original artists. ... Read more

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Poet Anna Wickham, a neglected figure in early 20th-century literature, is the subject of this biography. The book details her flight from her husband and sons to live with Natalie Clifford Barney in Paris, and her friendships with members of a literary c ... Read more

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What a biography should be!
Jennifer Vaughan Jones has written a compelling page-turner of a biography that is as gripping as a novel.The depth of her research and the connections she makes between people in the worlds of music and literature are commendable.While the book clearly tells the story of a woman who lived at a time when women were without rights and were the property of their husbands, Ms. Jones does not fall into the trap of making this story a hardline feminist rant.She maintains a realistic balance throughout, treating her "characters" fairly and perceptively.Even people who have never heard of Anna Wickham will find this book fascinating.Very highly recommneded

A simply fascinating biographical study
Anna Wickham: A Poet's Daring Life by Jennifer Vaughan Jones (Viterbo University) is an informed and informative biography of the trailblazing female poet Anna Wickham (1883-1947). When Anna's husband felt threatened by her poetry, he had her committed against her will to a mental hospital. Yet it was within those restrictive and alien confines that Anna was stimulated to write eighty moving poems, and find the strength to flourish as a literary creator. Anna eventually separated from her husband and found an (unfortunately unrequited) love for Natalie Clifford Barney, a lesbian American millionaire. Anna Wickham: A Poet's Daring Life is a simply fascinating biographical study and presentation enhanced with exclusive interviews with members of Anna Wickham's family and a newly discovered written correspondence. ... Read more

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This book addresses the question of how to measure financial risk associated with investments in the following infrastructure: electricity generation, power transmission, and water storage, treatment, and distribution systems. Integrating material from business, engineering, economics, demography, probability theory, computer simulation, and policy studies, Jones explores the application of risk analysis to construction projects, rate-setting and price effects, and customer characteristics. The clearly written study is organized around risk factors affecting costs and revenues, while the presentation supports a practical analysis with spreadsheet and simulation examples. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Roald Dahl, T. Llew Jones, Angharad Tomos, Kate Roberts, Griffith Griffith, Mary Vaughan Jones, Gwilym Edwards, John Ellis Williams, Thomas Gwynn Jones, Moelona, Urien Wiliam, Jac Jones, Eluned Morgan, Edward Tegla Davies. Excerpt:Angharad Tomos Angharad Tomos (born 19 July 1958) is a Welsh author and prominent language activist. Biography Tomos was born in Bangor , Gwynedd in 1958, and raised with her five sisters in Llanwnda near Caernarfon . She attended Ysgol Gynradd Bontnewydd and Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle . She began her higher education at Aberystwyth University , but left prior to completing her studies to go and work for Cymdeithas yr Iaith . She later graduated in Welsh and Sociology from Bangor University and went on to receive an MA. A relentless language activist and prominent author, Tomos has made a substantial contribution to Welsh-language children's literature. She won the crown at Eisteddfod yr Urdd with Hen Fyd Hurt in 1982. Tomos was also chairwoman of Cymdeithas yr Iaith from 1982 to 1984, during the launch of the campaigns for a Welsh Language Act and a body to develop Welsh medium education. Tomos writes and illustrates many children's books including her popular Rwdlan series, set in Gwlad y Rwla. Rala Rwdins was the first title in this series and was first published y Y Lolfa in 1983. In 1985 Tomos won a prize from the Academi Gymreig for her novel Yma o Hyd , about prison life, a life she herself experienced when she was imprisoned at Risley Prison for her actions whilst campaigning for the Welsh language. She has twice won the Prose Medal at the Welsh National Eisteddfod , and has also won the Tir na n-Og Award twice. On 24 September 2009, a ceramic sculpture of Tomos was unveiled at Parc Glynllifon , near Caernarfon , it is the third of a series of six... ... Read more