After taking you on a walk through the woods, past the idyllic scenery of your holiday locations, across mountain streams filtering pure and refreshing water, two metaphoric stories will evoke a scene as you would experience it in a dream. They also reach out to your intuitive intelligence, spontaneity, self-confidence and the natural stress-relieving behaviour of certain animals. Gradually, like a pilot in charge of your own destiny, you will be flying your own small plane through the clouds of your existence.
Let's Talk About It is for adults and young adults and is designed to get false-beginners intermediate-level English learners talking about Japan and the world Let's Talk About It introduces high-interest topics through pictures′ then guides conversations through questions′ developlng fluency and building vocabulary
As the old guard of SF ages, we are getting more novels of nostalgia. Heinlein is less sentimental than many of his generation but his new book resembles both the latest Bradbury, in making the author the protagonist, and the latest Asimov, in returning to a popular series from early in his career (Future History). Like Heinlein, Richard Ames is an ex-military man turned writer who fancies himself a pundit.
Acclaimed, when it first appeared, as a seminal work – a groundbreaking book that was both informative and highly readable – Translators through History is being released in a new edition, substantially revised and expanded by Judith Woodsworth. Translators have played a key role in intellectual exchange through the ages and across borders. This account of how they have contributed to the development of languages, the emergence of literatures, the dissemination of knowledge and the spread of values tells the story of world culture itself.
