Students of English as a second language will value this book as an excellent self-instruction guide, or alternately, as a handy workbook to supplement their formal ESL course. Many ESL teachers will also value this volume as their preferred textbook or textbook supplement. Following a diagnostic pretest, the author guides students through the details of reading, writing, developing vocabulary and grammar, listening, speaking, and correct pronunciation of American style English. She devotes separate chapters to each of the parts of speech, as well as to sentence structure, punctuation, capitalization, word roots, homonyms and synonyms, idioms, rules for academic writing in English, and more. Each chapter contains a list of vocabulary...
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Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: август 2011
An extensive working vocabulary is a prerequisite for test-taking success on the GRE Graduate Record Exam. This revised and updated test preparation guide presents 800 college-graduate-level words with definitions that frequently appear on the exam, while also familiarizing test takers with how the words are generally used in various contexts. Additional features include a pretest that serves as a diagnostic, a lengthy word list with extensive sentence-completion exercises, and a chapter that discusses and analyzes essential word roots. The book concludes with a detailed posttest. Answers are provided for all exercises and for all questions in the posttest.
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Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: август 2011
For 70 years, Barron`s experts have been helping students surpass their expectations on standardized tests. This book will help you expand your English vocabulary and achieve a high score on the TOEFL.
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Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: август 2011
Updated and expanded, this book fills a double purpose as both a useful classroom text and a practical style manual for writers. It reviews English grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, and correct word usage, and advises on adapting writing style to different formats, including both classroom assignments, business documents, and electronic communication. Readers will also find detailed instruction on essay writing, starting with outlining a subject, and going on to writing a draft and then editing and polishing it into a finished composition. New in this edition is a sample research paper that uses online sources and follows the widely popular MLA style for footnotes.
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Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: август 2011
The authors offer guidance in understanding and analysing financial statements, the time-value of money, making capital budgeting decisions, and much more. Appendices include a list of online Internet resources and short descriptions of Excel financial and investment functions. New in this edition is up-to-date information on SEC reporting requirements, managing dependent-demand inventories, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and more. Titles in this series speak to men and women who are starting a company or managing an ongoing small-to-medium-size business. Emphasis is on daily operations and problem solving, with examples cited in these books based on true-to-life situation.
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Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: август 2011
Books in Barron`s Business Review Series make excellent supplements to college textbooks. They are also used by many instructors as main texts in adult education courses and business brush-up programs. You`ll find key business terms defined, important concepts reviewed, and examples of business transactions described. This updated sixth edition of Finance defines and explains key financial terms and discusses topics that include business types and taxation methods, the value of money over time, capital budgeting, investing and financing, dividend policy, investment decisions based on financial derivatives, financial analysis, managing working capital, analyzing financial statements, using financial software, and much more.
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Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: декабрь 2012
Books in Barron’s “Business Review Series” are intended mainly for classroom use. They make excellent supplements to main texts when included in college-level business courses. In adult education and business brush-up programs they can serve as main textbooks. All titles in this series include review questions with answers. This expanded, updated text explains plotting and understanding economic graphs, market equilibrium and the nature of the price system, macroeconomics, microeconomics, and the dynamics of international trade.
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Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: август 2011
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley`s famous Gothic novel is the story of Dr. Frankenstein, his experiments that sought to produce human life, and his creation of the legendary monster.
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Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
This concise summary of French grammar serves language students as a handy textbook supplement for classroom use, and is also valuable for translators whose first language is English. Topics covered include parts of speech, sentence structure, punctuation, idioms, and pronunciation advice. Small in size but packed with helpful instruction, this new edition is printed with headings and key phrases in a second color for fast, easy reference.
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Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: август 2011
Approximately 300 of the most frequently used French verbs are presented in the form of clear, easy-to-read conjugation tables. Arranged alphabetically by infinitive, one verb per page, each verb is defined in English. At the bottom of each page are sample sentences and related words and expressions. The book also includes thorough instruction in verb usage, as well as a listing of verbs that are conjugated like the main verb. Titles in Barron`s Verbs series are shorter versions of Barron`s 501 Verbs series. These smaller-format references make handy sources for language students, teachers, and translators.
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Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: август 2011
More than 2,000 German idioms are listed with their English language meanings in this updated edition. Each entry defines the idiom and presents an idiomatic phrase in a model sentence in both German and English. This pocket-size book makes a handy classroom supplement and a valuable traveller`s companion. The book`s clear vinyl jacket adds a measure of protection when it`s carried around in travel situations.
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Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Prospective graduate students preparing for the GRE`s newly revised general test will find intensive and carefully focused preparation for the exam`s verbal reasoning section in this brand-new book. The author discusses the purposes and structure of the new question types, providing more than 380 example questions with explanations that demonstrate how to arrive at correct answers. A diagnostic test precedes extensive practice and review chapters that cover all three general question types: sentence equivalence, text completion, and reading comprehension. The book concludes with two full-length practice tests followed by answers and explanations, and a concise GRE Dictionary - a vocabulary list with definitions that all successful GRE...
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Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
In this Graphic Classics version of a major eighteenth-century satiric novel, shipwrecked voyager Gulliver is cast ashore among the tiny Lilliputians, where he seems to be a giant, then among the giant Brobdingnags, where he seems as small as a mouse. His later visits to other kingdoms include the Country of the Houyhnhms.
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Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Shakespeare`s immortal drama is retold here in a graphic novel format. The prince of Denmark seeks to avenge his father`s death by exposing the king as his murderer. Barron`s popular and growing series of `Graphic Classics` titles introduce many of the world`s literary masterpieces to young readers. Elementary and secondary school teachers will value these books as a way to make great novels and plays accessible to their students especially to those students who resist reading. Presented in graphic novel format, each title tells an absorbing, fast-paced story dramatized with high-quality color illustrations. After delving into any of these stimulating titles, many boys and girls will feel encouraged to discover the joy of reading the...
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Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Updated and expanded to reflect the vocabulary and format of the most recent SATs` Critical Reading sections, "Hot Words for the SAT" presents and defines more than 365 words that appear most frequently on SAT exams. These are words that test takers need to know in order to achieve a high Critical Reading score. The book is divided into 37 lessons, each consisting of dozens of illustrative sentences and a thematic word cluster. Each cluster contains words having similar meanings or words that apply to similar circumstances. Also included are new pronunciation keys for each word, memory tips, expanded review exercises following every five lessons, and an alphabetical word index. Students who successfully complete the book`s exercises and...
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: август 2011
Updated to reflect uses of current word processing software and Internet communication, as well as to review standard business correspondence formats, this book instructs on how to write effective examples of every kind of business letter. It presents about 75 model letters in categories that include credit applications, letters of inquiry, orders of goods and services, formal business announcements, letters of recommendation, and sales promotional letters of the type used by direct marketers. This book also features examples of different letter formatting styles. The newly expanded chapter on e-mail correspondence includes discussion of effective presentation of Internet resumes.
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Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: август 2011
This edition of the TOEIC manual has been thoroughly revised and updated to prepare students for the newly structured Test of English for International Communication, which was introduced in 2006. Presented here are four full-length practice tests that are similar in format and question types to the new TOEIC. The author also provides students with an extensive review of reading comprehension skills. A passing grade on the TOEIC test is required by many businesses and institutions when they are selecting among job candidates whose first language is not English.
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Offers basic instructions in Windows Server 2008 and networking concepts. This book explains what servers do, how basic networking works (IP basics and DNS/WINS basics), and the fundamentals of the under-the-hood technologies that support staff must be familiar with, such as the Microsoft Management Console and the Registry. Presents a 12-step process for producing that perfect resume in various formats needed for a job search. This title also shows how to create a dynamic cover letter that stands out from the crowd.
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: июль 2011
This handbook for business managers and personnel or human resources specialists describes the function of human resources in today`s business environment and explains how a human resources department`s structure can vary, depending on company size and type. Topics discussed include explanations of employee wage and salary guidelines, job descriptions, employment policies, employee benefits, affirmative action and equal employment opportunity laws, and much more. Titles in Barron`s Business Library series speak especially to men and women who are starting a company or managing a small-to-medium size business, offering information and advice on management of various aspects of a business concern. Emphasis is placed on daily operations,...
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Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: август 2011
A world-famous classic novel is the basis for this brand-new, dramatically illustrated book. Transformed from Victor Hugo`s original text into a graphic novel, this, like other "Graphic Classics" editions, makes a good introduction for young readers to the imaginative riches of literature. These books contain many extra features, including brief biographies of their authors, a list of each author`s important works, a glossary, and an index. Suitable for classroom use as introductions to literature for junior and senior high school students, these graphic novels entertain young readers while introducing them to the works of renowned literary artists. Full-color illustrations throughout. Retold here is the tragic story of Quasimodo, the...
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Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: август 2011
Author Dorothy Fontaine shows how to apply the teaching theory of renowned educator Howard Gardner to the practice of building students word power for academic success. More than 20 years ago, Gardner first offered the education profession his now famous theory of Multiple Intelligences, or MI. Widely accepted today for its beneficial results, MI contends that every student is equipped with eight or more separate types of intelligence, but each student is stronger in some intelligence sources, weaker in others. Multiple Intelligences include logical-mathematical, musical, spatial, and contact with nature, among others. Gardner`s approach to learning starts by discovering each students several areas of intellectual strength, then...
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Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: июль 2011
This book, now in its revised second edition, was written primarily for ESL students. However, it`s also useful in remedial English courses presented on high school and college freshman levels. Students of English as a second language quickly discover that English is unlike their native tongue in the many ways it uses prepositions. The majority of other languages have relatively few prepositions, each of them serving many different communication purposes. English is different in that it has dozens of prepositions, none having exact equivalents in other languages. This book offers practical guidelines for correct preposition usage, and provides hundreds of examples that incorporate English prepositions into familiar contexts. The author...
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Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Books in Barron`s Verbs series present approximately 300 frequently-used verbs in easy-to-read verb conjugation tables, arranged alphabetically by infinitive, one verb per page. Each verb includes its English equivalent, sample sentences, and related words and expressions. These books also include general instruction in verb usage. Titles in Barron`s Verbs series are shorter versions of Barron`s 501 Verbs books. This smaller-format book is a handy reference sources for students taking Italian, as well as for Italian language teachers, and translators.
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: май 2012
Readers who want to teach themselves Italian at their own pace and outside a formal classroom setting will find this book an excellent source for getting started. Meanwhile, its many exercises and quick-check quizzes make it a fine textbook supplement for classroom use. The book opens with a discussion of Italian sounds, pronunciation, and spelling, with advice on stress and intonation in spoken Italian. Chapters that follow coach readers in greeting people, asking and answering basic question, polite expression, counting, making comparisons, expressing preferences, and carrying on everyday verbal transactions, for instance, at stores, banks, and restaurants. The updated text reflects current trends including use of communications...
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: август 2011