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Speak and write perfect English BBI teaches you how to combine
words with words to form phrases (so you can say mortgaged "to the
hilt"; I want something "badly" ). BBI also teaches you how to
combine words into structures to form clauses and sentences (so you
can say I want "you to go" = What I want is "for you to go" ). So
BBI helps you with both vocabulary and grammar. BBI shows you
important vocabulary and grammatical differences between American
and British English. BBI gives you plenty of examples that can
serve as models for your own use of English. Some of these examples
are authentic quotations from works of American and British
literature.This Third Edition of the "BBI Combinatory Dictionary of
English" is an expanded and updated version of the First Edition
(1986) and its Revised Edition (1997), both of which were favorably
received. In this third edition, the contents of the BBI have been
increased by over 20%.In the selection and presentation of new
material, many sources have been used, including: Internet
searches; The British National Corpus; Reading and listening to
English-language material; For Grammatical Patterns: "A
Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language" (Randolph Quirck et
al.); For Collocations: Lists of Lexical Functions (compiled by
Igor Mel cuk et al.).The BBI has been highly recommended by the
English-Speaking Union."Using the BBI: A workbook with exercises"
is now available online at: http:
//dx.doi.org/10.1075/z.bbi.workbook"
The theme of the `body and soul' relationship in medieval texts and
modern reworkings. The theme of the body-and-soul relationship in
medieval texts and in modern reworkings of medieval matter is
explored in the articles here, specifically the representation of
the body in romance; the relevance of bawdy tales to the cultural
experience of authors and readers in the middle ages; the function
of despair, or melancholy, in medieval and Renaissance literature;
and the political significance of late medieval representations of
`bodies' in the chroniclers' accounts of the Rising and in Gower's
poems. Two articles are devoted to modern retellings of medieval
themes: John Foxe's Acts and Monuments, seen in relation to the
traditional acta martyrum, and the medieval revival in Tory Britain
exemplified in Douglas Oliver's The Infant and the Pearl.
Contributors: PAMELA JOSEPH BENSON, NIGEL S. THOMPSON, JON WHITMAN,
JEROME MANDEL, BARBARA NOLAN, YASUNARI TAKADA, YVETTE MARCHAND,
ROBERT F. YEAGER, JOERG O. FICHTE, JOHN KERRIGAN
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Lourdes (Paperback)
The Perfect Library; Benson, Robert, Hugh
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R366
Discovery Miles 3 660
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Oddsfish (Paperback)
The Perfect Library; Benson, Robert, Hugh
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R589
Discovery Miles 5 890
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Dawn of All (Paperback)
The Perfect Library; Benson, Robert, Hugh
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R483
Discovery Miles 4 830
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This monograph examines the history and significance of women
serving in the United States Army from 1942 through 2007. The
author's thesis is that an organizational Revolution in Military
Affairs occurred in the US Army pertaining to the permanency,
increased scope and exponential expansion of the numbers of women
serving.1 .
Directorial debut of Bill Forsyth following four unemployed
Glaswegian teenagers in the 1970s. When Ronnie (Robert Buchanan)
discovers that stainless steel sinks are worth a lot of money, he
recruits friends Wal (Billy Greenlees), Alec (Allan Love) and Vic
(John Hughes) to help him steal 90 of them from a nearby warehouse.
The leader of the gang hatches a complex scheme that requires Vic
and Wal to dress up as girls and use a sleeping potion, concocted
by chemistry expert Bobby (Derek Millar), to borrow a bakery
delivery truck for their cunning getaway. With Ronnie at the helm,
can the friends pull off the heist and obtain their small fortune?
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An Average Man (Paperback)
Michael D Greaney, Robert Hugh Benson; Foreword by Robert Hugh Benson
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R599
Discovery Miles 5 990
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The fourth of Robert Hugh Benson's "mainstream" novels, "An Average
Man," first published in 1913, is a far from average production.
The novel may well be Benson's finest achievement, ripping to
shreds the assumptions on which Edwardian upper class society
believed civilization itself was built. Worldly success destroys
one "average man," while it presents another, afflicted with
seemingly endless and crushing defeats, with the opportunity of
practicing virtue of a heroic stature. This edition features a
foreword by Benson scholar Michael D. Greaney.
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Nadine Gordimer
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Discovery Miles 3 300
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