Fast, Easy Way to Learn a Language is essential reading foranyone studying a language at school, for business, travel or justfor pleasure. Well-known inspirational teacher Bill Handley speaks15 languages at various degrees of fluency. He is passionate aboutlearning languages and believes language learning should be anadventure. In this book he explains: how to have fun building your vocabulary in record time the easy way to get to grips with grammar why you should use more than one textbook how to use your 'lost time' to learn faster what to do when you feel like giving up how to write your own 'survival skills' course. Fast Easy Way to Learn a Language will have you speakingyour new language in no time. The book explores all the importanttopics: active and passive learning, mastering a differentalphabet, using recorded material, planning your own immersionprogram, making effective use of the internet and much more. Itincludes special advice for school and university students. This isthe fun way to learn a language.

A graphic novel offers the continuing adventures of Serena and her friends, who use the power of the moon and the planets, as the superhero Sailor Moon and her comrades, to battle the forces of evil.

Creative nonfiction is the fastest-growing segment in the writing market. Yet, the majority of writing guides are geared toward poetry and fiction writers. Tell It Slant fills the gap. Designed for aspiring nonfiction writers, this much-needed reference provides practical guidance, writing exercises, and a detailed discussion of the range of subcategories that make up the genre, including memoir, travel writing, investigative reporting, and more.

A group of carefully trained terrorists, masquerading as animal rights activists, along with an unknown source of unlimited funding, initiate a conspiracy to implant selected patient groups with a unique carcinogen. Why they are doing this is not clear, but it seems that their goal, ultimately, is financial gain. A disgraced former graduate student may be the only one who can stop their deadly scheme, but he too is drawn into their web of deception. With the help of a beautiful geneticist who is dangerously close to the source of the evil, he uncovers a plan that may change the science of oncology as we know it. But worse still, he discovers his own past may reveal the key players of this sinister game.

By following the techniques in this book, it is possible to write requirements and specifications that customers, testers, programmers and technical writers will actually read, understand and use. These pages provide precise, practical instructions on how to distinguish requirements from design to produce clear solutions.

A startling, terrifying novel about a troubled young street thief in the gritty Washington, DC, of the thirties and forties (Houston Post). At the park where the outcasts of Washington, DC, gather, everyone calls him Yogi. Although only a boy, he steals like a man, taking jewelry and money from wherever and whomever he can. When he s flush, Yogi spends like a prince, eating beef stew and wasting whole afternoons at the cinema. When he s broke, he looks for someone else to rob. At home, Yogi goes by his real name: George Brown. With their violent, alcoholic father absent for long periods of time and their mother too brittle to cope, George and his older brother learn to fend for themselves. Roland becomes a security guard while George turns to a life of crime. But to survive among the prostitutes, muggers, and extortionists who prowl the streets of the nation s capital, a young man must always have his wits about him, and Yogi/George is prone to schizophrenic hallucinations. When he is locked up in jail for a night and experiences his most vivid delusion yet, he fears that the line between sanity and insanity has become permanently blurred. Brilliantly fusing hard-edged realism and surrealistic flights of fantasy, The Bold Saboteurs is a highly original work of art from the groundbreaking author of Who Walk in Darkness.