Category: Reference

By Robert Hendrickson

ISBN-10: 1620875977

ISBN-13: 9781620875971

The Queen’s English has no position around the pond, the place a protracted heritage of defiance, creativity, and originality has made its manner into the standard vocabulary of usa citizens coast-to-coast. God Bless America is an informative and enjoyable advisor to the which means and historical past underneath our uniquely American phrases and words. Robert Hendrickson makes it transparent that even if you’re ordering “fried chicken” or heading out to determine a “movie,” you're celebrating contributions to the English language made through americans, either recognized and forgotten. With huge learn and a fondness for language, Hendrickson furthers our knowing of the regularly occurring and introduces us to the extra vague artifacts of yank speech.

God Bless America provides the definitions and heritage for lots of uniquely American words and phrases, such as:

• Bald eagle
• Boston baked beans
• Five-and-ten
• supply ’em hell
• Lazy Susan
• Sho’ nuff
• Yankee Doodle
• And more!

A dictionary packed filled with old debts, etymological peculiarities, and inventive spirit, God Bless America represents not just the yankee language but additionally the yank humans. This e-book offers an indisputable source for tourists, patriots, and Anglophiles from all walks of existence.

By Habibullah Tegey

By American Association Of State Highway and Transportation Off

ISBN-10: 1560511567

ISBN-13: 9781560511564

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By Peter Morse

ISBN-10: 0671470698

ISBN-13: 9780671470692

By Ronald C. Eng

ISBN-10: 1594851387

ISBN-13: 9781594851384

Fiftieth ANNIVERSARY version OF THE popular BIBLE OF mountain climbing AND MOUNTAINEERING.

With greater than 600,000 copies offered, mountain climbing: the liberty of the Hills is the acclaimed bible for climbers world wide, and the hot version marks the fiftieth anniversary of this seminal identify.
Since the booklet of the 1st variation in 1960, Freedom, because the e-book is understood, has continued as a vintage hiking textual content. From deciding on apparatus to tying a hiking knot, and from easy rappelling options to making plans an excursion, it's all right here during this crucial hiking reference. A staff of greater than 40 specialists, all energetic climbers and mountain climbing educators, reviewed, revised, and up to date this compendium to mirror the newest evolutions in mountain climbing apparatus and methods. significant updates contain an important new bankruptcy on conditioning, plus unique and huge revisions to rescue and first-response, relief mountaineering, and waterfall and mountaineering.

By Eugenia M. W. Ng

ISBN-10: 160960153X

ISBN-13: 9781609601539

ISBN-10: 1609601556

ISBN-13: 9781609601553

Immeasurable advances in our tradition have resulted in a extra knowledge-based society in recent times. This has impacted person and organizational studying and the way it really is added and skilled. expertise performs a massive function in aiding studying via a variety of disciplines now and within the future.Dynamic developments in instructing and studying established applied sciences: New options explores the technical, social, cultural, organizational, human, cognitive, and advertisement impression of know-how. This interesting new booklet explores the influence of Web-based expertise at the layout, implementation and evaluate of the training and educating approach, in addition to the advance of latest actions, relationships, talents, and talents for a number of the actors implied in such methods. It expands at the total physique of information in terms of multi-dimensional features of Web-based applied sciences in brand new academic contexts.

By Stokes

By United States Marine Corps

ISBN-10: 1616081074

ISBN-13: 9781616081072

The reliable U.S. Marine advisor to surviving shut strive against encounters, now to be had to every person. There are presently greater than 200,000 active-duty U.S. Marines and one other 40,000 within the reserves. those Marines rely on the talents and strategies taught during this concise manual-and you can now, too! This absolutely illustrated consultant positive aspects the road (linear in-fighting neural-override engagement) procedure, that is designed to be discovered and memorized via repetition. as soon as the options are totally obtained, they need to be utilized instinctively. The U.S. Marine shut wrestle battling guide explains the tips on how to quick neutralize any attacker in shut quarters and teaches you ways to exploit any a part of the human physique as a weapon. It covers breaking a fall, protecting opposed to headlocks and chokes, conserving opposed to punches and kicks, surviving encounters with armed attackers, and extra. 330 black-and-white illustrations.

By Lesley M. M. Blume

ISBN-10: 1452124310

ISBN-13: 9781452124315

Too frequently, whilst suffering to discover simply the correct flip of word, exclamation of pleasure, or witty barb, it's effortless to put out of your mind that heritage is absolutely brimming with wealthy phrases deserving of rejuvenation. Lesley M. M. Blume gathers forgotten phrases, words, names, insults, and idioms, plus attention-grabbing and humorous anecdotes, etymologies, and events to be used. Let's convey again: The misplaced Language Edition takes readers on a philological trip via phrases from the not-too-distant earlier. From all-overish to zounds, the classic vernacular accrued the following will make any reader the cat's meow between neighbors, family, and associates.

By Martin Symonds, Tian Haohao

ISBN-10: 7561337744

ISBN-13: 9787561337745

Product Description What makes this booklet assorted from so much different chinese language textbooks released in China? 1) the content material of every lesson is extremely useful. now we have assumed that you`re residing in China and need to speak on daily themes as quick as attainable. So in basic terms invaluable vocabulary ,immediately proper for your daily wishes, is integrated. 2) we have now labored not easy at attempting to make the grammar factors as basic and transparent as attainable, averting complex linguistic terminology. three) every one lesson includes an job concerning the subject, which will get you utilizing the content material as fast as attainable. four) The analyzing & writing of chinese language Characters is brought at a attainable speed so that you shouldn t consider too crushed. content material of this booklet: Lesson 41-60 (Lesson forty-one, consuming at McDonalds ; forty two, Wandering round an evening marketplace ; forty three collage activities Day ?€¦?€¦)