A Mary Shelley Encyclopedia

March 10th, 2010

Mary Shelley is famous as, first, the author of Frankenstein and, second, as the wife of a famous poet and daughter of a famous novelist and philosopher. Due in no small part to Frankenstein’s place on high-school and college reading lists, her other works have been reprinted in recent years. This has resulted in a reassessment and an emergence of Shelley from the shadows of her great work and her family. Exploring these other works leaves one with a sense of an incredible life story and intellect that Frankenstein barely revealed.
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Linguistics Encyclopedia

March 10th, 2010

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Oxford Collocations Dictionary 2nd Edition 2009

March 3rd, 2010

Oxford Collocations Dictionary 2nd Edition 2009

Which words usually go together? This dictionary shows you the common word combinations (collocations) that are essential for natural-sounding British and American English.

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Handbook of Vocabulary Teaching Strategies

November 19th, 2009

This handbook is designed to serve as a basic guide to communicative strategies for vocabulary development.
Over 75 interactive, student-centered activities are presented, with examples based on the Word by Word Picture Dictionary. In addtition, a brief summary of approaches for introducing and practicing the vocabulary in Word by Word is presented.
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Encyclopedia of the World’s Endangered Languages (repost)

May 6th, 2009

C. Moseley, “Encyclopedia of the World’s Endangered Languages”
RoutledgeCurzon | 2007 | ISBN: 070071197X | 670 pages | PDF | 5 MB
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It can be said that most of the world’s languages are endangered, because an estimated 96 percent of them are spoken by only 4 percent of the world’s population. They are disappearing as the small groups of speakers are absorbed into larger cultures or die out without the children learning the language.

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L’Encyclopédie des origami, 3 volumes

May 6th, 2009

L’Encyclopédie des origami, 3 volumes : Pliages en papier pour petits et grands – Nouveaux pliages en papier pour petits et grands – Pliages en papier pour petits et grands
Fleurus | 2001| ISBN: 2215071362 | 270 pages | jpg | 39,3 MB
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Il faut reconnaître un avantage incontestable à cette encyclopédie : elle est très facile d’accès. Les explications sont claires, la difficulté progressive et les modèles nombreux et variés.

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