A new course that has been written by the author of the successful Open Doors series. In it he has combined the best in traditional and modern methodology to create a book which both teachers and students will find enjoyable and easy to use.
This reference source, which includes all one ever wanted to know about the undead, is a real find for devotees of the horror genre as well as readers enticed by the 1992 movie Bram Stoker's Dracula and current novels by Anne Rice and others. The alphabetic entries, which vary in length, relate to vampires in film, literature, folklore, poetry, art, medicine, religion, and comedy. All of this plus black-and-white photos from memorable movies and sets make for fascinating research and browsing.
This one is about plants & Botany. The table of contents is laid out like a map of the museum and you can use it to go to any page which is one of the museum's halls. IE Hall of Flowering Plants, Hall of Saltwater Plants, Ect. There's even a Museum giftshop at the end which gives facts about plants.
Rife with arcane references, unfamiliar expressions, and words of his own invention, Shakespeare's texts can intimidate even the most learned reader. "Shakespeare's Language, Second Edition" is a comprehensive and straightforward guide to the ornate and sometimes bewildering language that may be unfamiliar to today's readers of Shakespeare's plays and poetry.This revised and updated edition contains more than 17,000 definitions - more than 2,000 of which are new - from the adjective "chop-fallen" in "Hamlet" to the verb "beshrew" ...
