Practical Vocabulary: Impress Employers & Coworkers

The book details:

• Title: Practical Vocabulary: Impress Employers & Coworkers .
• Author(s): Judith N. Meyers.
• Publisher: LearningExpress.
• Language: American English.
• Size: 1.50 Mb.
• Format: .html .
• Date: 1998.
• Pages: 203.

 Practical Vocabulary was specially designed for students and busy adults who need to improve basic vocabulary skills quickly to move ahead at work and in the classroom. Through a self-contained program of 20 lessons that take just 20 minutes a day to complete, this book provides an easy route to vocabulary mastery. There are hundreds of practical vocabulary tips and easy to implement steps to success, plus real world examples that build real world skills.

Vocabulary & Spelling Success in 20 Minutes a Day

The book details:

• Title: Vocabulary & Spelling Success in 20 Minutes a Day, 4th Edition.
• Author(s): LearningExpress Editors.
• Publisher: LearningExpress.
• Language: American English.
•  Size: 1.30 Mb.
• Format: PDF.
• Date: 2006.
• Pages: 272.

A good vocabulary is essential to succeeding on tests, in class, or on the job. This self-paced tutorial consists of 20 lessons and numerous practice exercises created specifically to give readers a thorough grounding in every facet of a strong vocabulary, including pronunciation, spelling, context, definitions, word parts, denotation and connotation, synonyms, and antonyms. The book begins with a pretest to diagnose students' word knowledge and ends with a posttest that shows how much they've learned. A bonus appendix provides valuable study tips to help improve retention of new words.

Dictionary of Engineering

The book details:

• Title: Dictionary of Engineering, 2nd Editon.
• Author(s): McGraw-Hill Editors.
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill.
• Language: American English.
•  Size: 5.42 Mb.
• Format: PDF.
•  Date: 2003.
• Pages: 655.

 Derived from the world-renowned McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, Sixth Edition, [roman] this vital reference offers a wealth of essential information in a portable, convenient, quick-find format. Whether you’re a professional, a student, a writer, or a general reader with an interest in science, there is no better or more authoritative way to stay up-to-speed with the current language of the various branches of engineering or gain an understanding of their key ideas and concepts. Written in clear, simple language understandable to the general reader, yet in-depth enough for scientists, educators, and advanced students, The McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Engineering, Second Edition:

Phrasal Verbs and Idioms: Upper-Intermediate

The book details:

• Title: Phrasal Verbs and Idioms.
• Level: Upper-Intermediate.
• Author(s): Graham Workman.
• Publisher: Oxford.
• Language: American English.
•  Size: 4.68 Mb.
• Format: PDF.
•  Date: 1996.
• Pages: 99.

 Students of English realize very early on in their learning career that prepositions present a problem. They collocate with nouns, adjectives, past participles, and verbs, without rules or logic. Students simply have to learn that interested is followed by in, and good is followed by at. and go home has no preposition. This book will help students to unravel the complexity of multi-word verbs and idiomatic expressions.

An Asperger Dictionary of Everyday Expressions

The book details:

• Title: An Asperger Dictionary of Everyday Expressions.
• Author(s): Ian Stuart-Hamilton.
• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
• Language: British English.
•  Size: 1.42 Mb.
• Format: PDF.
•  Date: 2007, 2nd Edition.
• Pages: 257.

 This revised and expanded edition adds over 300 new expressions that help unlock the meaning of everyday expressions. Both informative and entertaining, the book addresses an important aspect of social communication for people with Asperger Syndrome, who use direct, precise language and 'take things literally'. This dictionary aims to dispel any confusion that arises from the misinterpretation of language.

It provides explanations of over 5000 idiomatic expressions and a useful guide to their politeness level. Each expression is accompanied by a clear explanation of its meaning and when and how it might be used. The expressions are taken from British and American English,

One-Letter Words, a Dictionary

The book details:

• Title: One-Letter Words, a Dictionary.
• Author(s): Craig Conley.
• Publisher: HarperCollins.
• Language: American English.
•  Size: 1.51 Mb.
• Format: PDF.
• Date: 2005.
• Pages: 267.

Merriam-Webster, move over! Until now, no English dictionary ever found the fun or the fascination in revealing the meanings of letters. "One-Letter Words, A Dictionary" illuminates the more than 800 surprising definitions associated with each letter in the English alphabet. For instance, Conley uncovers 69 different definitions for the letter X, the most versatile and printed letter in the English language.

Using facts, figures, quotations, and etymologies, the author provides a complete and enjoyable understanding of the one-letter word. With the letter B, Conley teaches us that its many different meanings span multiple subjects including science - B denotes a blood type and also is a symbol for the element Boron on the Periodic table - and history - in the Middle Ages, B was

Garner's Modern American Usage

The book details:

• Title: Garner's Modern American Usage.
• Author(s): Bryan A. Garner.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press.
• Language: American English.
•  Size: 28 Mb.
• Format: PDF.
•  Date: 2003, 2nd Edition.
• Pages: 933.

 The first edition of Garner's Modern American Usage established Bryan Garner as "an American equivalent of Fowler" (Library Journal). With more than 23,500 copies sold, this witty, accessible, and engaging book has become the new classic reference work praised by professional copyeditors as well as the general public looking for clear advice on how to write more effectively. In 1999, Choice magazine named it an Outstanding Academic Book and the American Library Association dubbed it an Outstanding Reference Source. With thousands of succinct entries, longer essays on key issues and problematic areas, and up-to-the-minute judgments on everything from trendy words to the debate over personal pronouns, GMAU is approachable yet authoritative.

A Dictionary of Contemporary American Usage

The book details:

• Title: A Dictionary of Contemporary American Usage.
• Author(s): Bergen Evans and Cornelia Evans.
• Publisher: Random House.
• Language: American English.
•  Size: 6.52 Mb.
• Format: PDF.
• Date: 2000 (1st Edition, 1957).
• Pages: 574 .

It is sad that "a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy" should be known to us only through such a threadbare quotation. Alas, indeed, poor Yorick! There is another line from Hamlet that should always be uttered after this one: "What, has this thing appear'd again tonight?" Or, if one perceives that it is about to be spoken, appeal to the speaker's better nature: "Refrain tonight, and that shall lend a kind of easiness to the next abstinence." And if he does forbear: "For this relief, much thanks."

The subject of cliches did not leave me until I encountered the lyrics of Bob Dylan. Initially I was underwhelmed and then amazed at how many cliches he could pack into any given song. And then at some point a light dawned on me and I realized that Dylan had invented a new poetic device: expression by cliche! Instead of using mere words in metaphorical and rhythmic ways, he used familiar phrases. Oh my, my, my what would the Evanses have thought?

The Illustrated Dictionary Of Electronics

The book details:

• Title: The Illustrated Dictionary Of Electronics.
• Editor(s): Stan Gibilisco.
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill.
• Language: American English.
•  Size: 4.88 Mb.
• Format: PDF.
•  Date: 2001, 8th Edition.
• Pages: 810.

 Continuing in the tradition of its best-selling predecessors, this updated dictionary of electronics terms covers a broader range of subjects in an easier-to-use format than any other source of its kind. No comparable reference offers such a vast range of definitions, abbreviations, acronyms, illustrations, schematics, diagrams, and conversion tables. More than 28,000 definitions--plus over 1,000 clear and functional illustrations--make the Eighth Edition the ultimate reference for technicians, hobbyists, and students.

Many new terms and illustrations from robotics, artificial intelligence, and personal computing as they relate to electronics are included. Definitions spelled out in plain English with minimal technical jargon make the Dictionary accessible to beginning, intermediate, and advanced

Quite Literally: Problem Words and How to Use Them

The book details:

• Title: Quite Literally: Problem Words and How to Use Them.
• Author(s): Wynford Hicks.
• Publisher: Routledge.
• Language: British and American English.
•  Size: 1.63 Mb.
• Format: PDF.
•  Date: 2004 .
• Pages: 355.

 

This is a guide to English usage for readers and writers, professional and amateur, established and aspiring, formal trainees and those trying to break in; students of English, both language and literature, and their teachers.
In Quite Literally, Wynford Hicks answers questions like:

• What's an alibi, a bete noire, a celibate, a dilemma?
• Should underway be two words?
• Is the word 'meretricious' worth using at all?
• How do you spell realise - with an s or a z - and should bete be bête?
• Should you split infinitives, end sentences with prepositions, start them with conjunctions?
• What about four-letter words, euphemisms, foreign words, Americanizms, clichés, slang, jargon?
• And does the Queen speak the Queen's English?

English Words: History and Structure

The book details:

• Title: English Words: History and Structure.
• Author(s): Robert Stockwell and Donka Minkova.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press.
• Language: American English.
• Size: 1.64 Mb.
• Format: PDF .
• Date: 2001.
• Pages: 221.

 This new edition is concerned primarily with the learned vocabulary of English - the words borrowed from the classical languages. It surveys the historical events that define the layers of vocabulary in English, introduces some of the basic principles of linguistic analysis, and is a helpful manual for vocabulary discernment and enrichment. The new edition has been updated with a discussion of the most recent trends of blending and shortening associated with texting and other forms of electronic communication and includes a new classification of the types of allomorphy.

Swearing in English: Bad language, purity and power from 1586 to the present

The book details:

• Title: Swearing in English: Bad language, purity and power from 1586 to the present.
• Author(s): Tony McEnery.
• Publisher: Routledge.
• Language: British English.
• Size: 1.11 Mb.
• Format: PDF .
• Date: 2004.
• Pages: 264.

 Do men use bad language more than women? How do social class and the use of bad language interact? Do young speakers use bad language more frequently than older speakers? Using the spoken section of the British National Corpus, Swearing in English explores questions such as these and considers at length the historical origins of modern attitudes to bad language.
Drawing on a variety of methodologies including historical research and corpus linguistics, and a range of data such as corpora, dramatic texts, early modern newsbooks and television, Tony McEnery takes a socio-historical approach to discourses about bad language in English.

Essential Idioms in English: Phrasal Verbs and Collocations

The book details:

• Title: Essential Idioms in English: Phrasal Verbs and Collocations.
• Author(s): Robert J. Dixson.
• Publisher: Longman University Press.
• Language: English.
•  Size: 1.19 Mb.
• Format: PDF.
• Date: 2003.
• Pages: 63 .

From catching a cold to landing on your feet, idiomatic expressions add color and style to the English language. The latest edition of Essential Idioms in English remains the resource of choice for mastering more than 500 common English idioms, phrasal verbs, and collocations.
Organized by level for beginning, intermediate, and advanced learners, Essential Idioms in English thoroughly defines and illustrates each idiom, then reinforces its meaning and usage with multiple-choice, true-false, fill-in-the-blank, and matching exercises.

The Language of Children

The book details:

• Title: The Language of Children.
• Author(s): Julia Gillen.
• Publisher: Routledge.
• Language: British English.
• Size: 2.40 Mb.
• Format: PDF .
• Date: 2003 .
• Pages: 112.

The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies. Working with Texts: A Core Introduction to Language Analysis (second edition, 2001) is the foundation text, which is complemented by a range of 'satellite' titles. These provide students with hands-on practical experience of textual analysis through special topics and can be used individually or in conjunction with Working with Texts.
The Language of Children:

• introduces the key theories of language acquisition and provides a historical overview of the subject

The Language of Websites

The book details:

• Title: The Language of Websites.
• Author(s): Mark Boardman.
• Publisher: Routledge.
• Language: British English.
• Size: 7.14 Mb.
• Format: PDF.
• Date: 2004 .
• Pages: 133.

The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies. Working with Texts: A Core Introduction to Language Analysis (second edition 2001) is the foundation text, which is complemented by a range of 'satellite' titles. These provide students with hands-on practical experience of textual analysis through special topics, and can be used individually or in conjunction with Working with Texts.
The Language of Websites:

• explores the ways in which websites use and present language
• covers many different types of web-based interaction, from buying online and auction sites, to search engines, email links and chatrooms

All Clear! Idioms in Context Book 2, 2nd Edition

The book details:

• Title: All Clear! Idioms in Context Book 2, 2nd Edition.
• Author(s): Helen Kalkstein Fragiadakis.
• Publisher: Heinle.
• Language: American English.
• Size: 8/6 Mb.
• Format: PDF + MP3 .
• Date: 1992.
• Pages: 178.

This book should be of interest to anyone in expanding their knowledge of American idioms. This intermediate level oral skills program teaches students to recognize and produce high-frequency idioms and expressions in a range of conversational situations.
For many years, Helen Kalkstein Fragiadakis jotted down high frequency expressions and idioms, and taped them to her fridge. As these slips of paper grew and grew, Helen arranged them into meaningful clusters, which became the basis for All Clear!

Encyclopaedia of Slang

The book details:

• Title: Encyclopaedia of Slang.
• Publisher: The Probert Encyclopaedia.
• Language: English.
• Size: 5.64 Mb.
• Format: PDF.
• Pages: 1191.

A comprehensive glossary of over 15,000 English language slang and dialect terms from around the worl, including: American slang, Australian slang, British slang, Canadian slang, South African slang, Cockney rhyming slang, Irish slang, Scottish slang, Jamican slang, theatre slang, bingo slang and Dorset slang.

Download here now

The 4000 Words Essential for an Educated Vocabulary

The book details:

• Title: The 4000 Words Essential for an Educated Vocabulary
• Author(s): Jeff Kolby.
• Publisher: Nova Press.
• Language: English.
• Size: 1.50 Mb.
• Format: PDF.
• Date: 2000.
• Pages: 159.

The 4000 Words Essential for an Educated Vocabulary. English offers perhaps the richest vocabulary of all languages, in part because its words are culled from so many languages. It is a shame that we do not tap this rich source more often in our daily conversation to express ourselves more clearly and precisely.
Many a vocabulary book lists esoteric words we quickly forget or feel self-conscious using. However, there is a bounty of choice words between the common and the esoteric that often seem be just on the tip of our tongue. Vocabulary 4000 brings these words to the fore.
All the words you need for success in business, school, and life!

Word Fugitives: In Pursuit of Wanted Words

The book details:

• Title: Word Fugitives: In Pursuit of Wanted Words .
• Author(s): Barbara Wall.
• Publisher: Harper.
• Language: American English.
• Size: 1.04 Mb.
• Format: PDF.
• Date: February 28, 2006.
• Pages: 207.

Despite the many thousands of dictionary words at our disposal, our language can be dismayingly inadequate. How many times have you searched for a word that means just what you want it to but failed to find anything suitable anywhere? Most of us, it turns out, lead lives rife with experiences, people, and things that have no names.

At least, they lacked names until now. Word Fugitives comes to the rescue, supplying hundreds of inspired words coined or redefined to meet everyday needs. For instance, wouldn't it be handy to have a word for the momentary confusion people experience when they hear a cell phone ringing and wonder whether it's theirs? (How about fauxcellarm, phonundrum, or pandephonium?)

Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear

The book details:

• Title: Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear .
• Author(s): Frank I. Luntz .
• Publisher: Hyperion.
• Language: American English.
• Size: 1.39 Mb.
• Format: PDF .
• Date: December 20, 2006.
• Pages: 360.

This book is masterful in its exploration of the use of language in American life, especially in business and politics. It was written by Dr. Frank Luntz, who calls himself a "linguistic geek." It's ideal for anyone, like me, who loves words and reading.

The subhead to the book is "It's not what you say, it's what people hear." The trick is to speak in a way to make people hear what you want them to hear. To be persuasive. As Luntz writes, "It's not enough to be correct or reasonable or even brilliant." People must first listen, and then understand.