Puzzled by signs warning you to “mind the gap” in the London Underground? Wondering what will be on your plate if you order “toad in the hole” in a London café? In Divided by a Common Language, Christopher Davies explains these expressions and discusses the many differences in pronunciation, spelling, and vocabulary between British and American English. He compares the customs, manners, and practical details of daily life in the United Kingdom and the United States, and American readers will enjoy his account of American culture as seen through an Englishman’s eyes.
American Headway is a multi-level series for adults and young adults who want to use American English both accurately and fluently. It includes grammar, vocabulary and dialogues. Grammar and vocabulary are taught and explained thoroughly, and all four language skills are developed systematically. AUDIO for STUDENT'S BOOK Thanks to sinedanat!
Dark Energy Does it really exist? Or does Earth occupy a very unusual place in the universe? Also in this issue: • Color Vision: Our Eyes Reflect Primate Evolution • Green Lasers: The Next Innovation in Chip-Based Beams • Soldiers' Stress: What Doctors Get Wrong about PTSD • Virus Watch: Preventing the Next Pandemic • Solving the Mystery of the Vanishing Bees
A digital edition of Radical America, a product of the campus-based New Left of the late 1960s, specifically the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), but the magazine long outlived its seedbed. Its trajectory illustrates the effort to place an intellectual stamp on the radical impulses of the late twentieth century.