WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY MARGARET ATWOOD AND DAVID BRADSHAWFar in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free.

A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress... Huxley's ingenious fantasy of t...

Nederlandstalige sprekers van het Engels maken geregeld fouten in de Engelse grammatica.

Principles and Pitfalls of English Grammar gaat uit van het idee dat als je de overeenkomsten en verschillen tussen het Nederlands en het Engels beter kent, je de valkuilen makkelijker kunt vermijden.

Principles and Pitfalls biedt een duidelijke en gebruiksvriendelijke uitleg van de Engelse grammatica, die door oefeningen wordt ondersteund. Bovendien wordt de lezer attent gemaakt op verschillen tussen fo...

Beginning with the foundations of community development, An Introduction to Community Development offers a comprehensive and practical approach to planning for communities. Road-tested in the authors' own teaching, and through the training they provide for practicing planners, it enables students to begin making connections between academic study and practical know-how from both private and public sector contexts. An Introduction to Community Development shows how planners can utilize local e...

Now in its fifth edition, Teaching Today is a comprehensive and readable introduction to teaching. Focusing on practical methods, techniques and strategies, Teaching Today has been one of the best-selling teacher training textbooks for the past 20 years. Retaining its practical and user-friendly approach, the fifth edition includes chapters on differentiation, equality, inclusion and working with stake-holders.

The International Maritime Language Programme (IMLP) is a well structured, English-monolingual textbook with diversified texts, tasks and projects, complemented and supplemented by a CD-ROM and reflecting an up-to-date content based communicative methodology of language teaching and learning. The programme covers every aspect of the seafaring world: Maritime Communication,General Ship's Knowledge, Engineering, Navigation, Safety, Documents, Correspondence and Grammar. The course book and the ...

Few philosophers have been the subject of as much or as intense debate, yet almost everyone agrees on one thing: Jean-Jacques Rousseau is among the most important and influential thinkers in the history of political philosophy. This book brings together fresh translations of three of Rousseau's works.

This best-selling comprehensive descriptive grammar forms a complete course, ideal for all students studying English Language, whether on a course or for self-study. Broadly based on Hallidayan systemic-functional grammar but also drawing on cognitive linguistics and discourse analysis, English Grammar is accessible, avoiding overly theoretical or technical explanations. Divided into 12 self-contained chapters based around language functions, each chapter is divided into units of class-length...

Language Practice for First New Edition is an in-depth, detailed approach to English grammar and vocabulary, providing clear grammar explanations, plenty of practice and regular review units. The accompanying MPO provides extra practice. Perfect for students preparing for the First exam, can be used in class or for self-study.

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This book examines the distinctive evolution of the political and economic relationships of East Asia. It does this by placing East Asian development in the unique historical circumstances that have underpinned its rise to power over the last few decades. This detailed analysis provides the basis for an assessment of a unified East Asian region.

Designing a complete visualization system involves many subtle decisions. When designing a complex, real-world visualization system, such decisions involve many types of constraints, such as performance, platform (in)dependence, available programming languages and styles, user-interface toolkits, input/output data format constraints, integration with third-party code, and more. Focusing on those techniques and methods with the broadest applicability across fields, the second edition of Data V...