Education/Academic

A handy and affordable English to Portuguese and Portuguese to English dictionary with short grammars of Portuguese and English. (read more)

A handy and affordable English to Portuguese and Portuguese to English dictionary with short grammars of Portuguese and English. The clear layout allows for fast and easy access when you need it. Ideal for use on the go, at home, in the office, classroom or on holiday.

More than 40,000 words and phrases and 60,000 translations. Designed for all those studying Brazilian and European Portuguese who need maximum information in a handy travel format. Offers comprehensive and up-to-the-minute coverage of Portuguese and English, with additional notes warning the user of those words which are easily confused. (hide)

Prepare yourself thoroughly for the IELTS exam By using Practice Tests for IELTS, you will: * Feel completely confident about how (read more)

Prepare yourself thoroughly for the IELTS exam By using Practice Tests for IELTS, you will: * Feel completely confident about how the IELTS exam works * Know what to expect on the day of the exam * Improve your score through realistic practice All you need for your ideal IELTS score: - Four complete Academic IELTS tests - PLUS Two complete General Reading and Writing papers - A clear guide to how the IELTS exam works - A whole section full of useful tips on how to do well in the exam - A CD (+ transcript) with accurate model Speaking and Listening papers - Answers and explanations for all four papers (including model answers for Speaking and Writing) You can trust Collins COBUILD Practice Tests for IELTS contains a mini-dictionary with definitions based on COBUILD content. The 4.5-billion-word Collins Corpus is the world's largest database of the English language. It is updated every month and has been at the heart of Collins COBUILD for over 20 years. (hide)

Children on the autism spectrum are often highly visual learners, making colour a powerful and motivating learning tool. This book (read more)

Children on the autism spectrum are often highly visual learners, making colour a powerful and motivating learning tool. This book explains how colour coding helps young people with autism to generalise lessons already learnt. For example, assigning the colour aqua to all personal care activities or the colour purple to timetabling and transitions establishes clear, visual categories.

This allows children to draw on learnt experiences, which creates a sense of order, reduces anxiety, and can aid communication, understanding emotions, organisation, coping with change and diversifying diet. A wealth of tried-and-tested printable resources to enable the practical application of colour coding in the classroom and at home are included on a CD-ROM. With colourful illustrations and resources, Colour Coding for Learners with Autism is an effective, must-have teaching tool for anyone involved in the education of young people with autism. (hide)

The Compact Oxford German Dictionary offers over 90,000 words and phrases, and 120,000 translations of contemporary German and English. (read more)

The Compact Oxford German Dictionary offers over 90,000 words and phrases, and 120,000 translations of contemporary German and English. It covers all the words you need for everday use, carefully selected from evidence from the Oxford Languages Tracker and the Oxford English Corpus. Also includes German cultural and grammar supplements to help you improve your German.

Includes 12 months' access to Oxford Language Dictionaries Online at oxfordlanguagedictionaries.com (hide)

Competent Crew covers both the shorebased and the practical aspects of the RYA Competent Crew course. It will prepare newcomers for (read more)

Competent Crew covers both the shorebased and the practical aspects of the RYA Competent Crew course. It will prepare newcomers for the first time afloat by explaining basic skills and boat handling including: sail trimming and sail handling; understanding the compass; sailing a course; anchoring and mooring; ropework; handling safety equipment; emergency procedures; simple collision rules; elementary meteorology. Ideal for the beginner, Competent Crew also includes a comprehensive glossary, clear explanatory diagrams and photos in full colour, the syllabus of the RYA Competent Crew course and self-testing questions and answers.

It will prove invaluable for novice sailors and those embarking on this first level RYA course. This new edition benefits from a lively new design and revised text. Fresh diagrams and photographs have updated the look, and the text has been completely revised, in line with RYA course guidelines. (hide)

Complete Cantonese is a comprehensive book and audio language course that takes you from beginner to intermediate level. The new (read more)

Complete Cantonese is a comprehensive book and audio language course that takes you from beginner to intermediate level. The new edition of this successful course has been fully revised and is packed with new learning features to give you the language, practice and skills to communicate with confidence. -Maps from A1 to B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) for languages -22 learning units plus four review sections and grammar summary -Discovery Method - figure out rules and patterns to make the language stick -Teaches the key skills - reading, listening and speaking -Learn to learn - tips and skills on how to be a better language learner -Culture notes - learn about the people and places of Hong Kong and Southern China -Outcomes-based learning - focus your studies with clear aims -Authentic listening activities - everyday conversations give you a flavour of real spoken Cantonese -Test Yourself - see and track your own progress In this pack you'll get a 448-page book and two CDs of audio learning material (160 minutes).
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Complete First provides thorough preparation for the revised 2015 Cambridge English: First (FCE) exam. It combines the very best (read more)

Complete First provides thorough preparation for the revised 2015 Cambridge English: First (FCE) exam. It combines the very best in contemporary classroom practice with first-hand knowledge of the challenges students face. This course provides comprehensive language development integrated with exam-task familiarisation.

There are exercises to help students avoid repeating the typical mistakes that real exam candidates make, as revealed by the Cambridge Learner Corpus. This topic-based course covers every part of Cambridge English: First in detail, ensuring that students are fully equipped to tackle each part of every paper. Exam information and Exam advice is offered throughout, culminating in Exam round-up sections which check that candidates know how to approach each paper. (hide)

Complete Mandarin Chinese Pack is the perfect starter kit for learning Mandarin Chinese fast - talk with confidence in just 12 weeks. (read more)

Complete Mandarin Chinese Pack is the perfect starter kit for learning Mandarin Chinese fast - talk with confidence in just 12 weeks. The Complete Language Pack Mandarin Chinese is an easy-to-follow, practical course that teaches you all the essentials in just 15 minutes a day, five days a week over three months. It's a complete starter pack for beginners and combines the bestselling 15-Minute Language Course and Visual Phrase Book with three accompanying CDs plus a pocket-sized guide for instant reference when you're out and about.

Learning is broken up into bite-sized chunks with simple conversations based on real-life situations and practice exercises giving you plenty of opportunities to test your newly acquired skills. The Complete Language Pack Mandarin Chinese teaches you what you need to know fast proving that learning a language need not be a linguistic challenge (hide)

Informed by the Cambridge Learner Corpus, and providing an official past exam paper, Complete PET is the most authentic exam preparation (read more)

Informed by the Cambridge Learner Corpus, and providing an official past exam paper, Complete PET is the most authentic exam preparation course available. Each unit of the Student's Book covers one part of each exam paper and provides thorough exam practice. Grammar and vocabulary exercises target areas that cause problems for candidates, based on data from the Cambridge Learner Corpus, taken from real exam scripts.

The CD-ROM provides additional exam-style practice (audio available separately or as part of the 'Student's Book Pack'). A Testbank access code for four online Cambridge English: Preliminary practice tests is included with this Student's Book.
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The idea of complex numbers dates back at least 300 years-to Gauss and Euler, among others. Today complex analysis is a central part (read more)

The idea of complex numbers dates back at least 300 years-to Gauss and Euler, among others. Today complex analysis is a central part of modern analytical thinking. It is used in engineering, physics, mathematics, astrophysics, and many other fields.

It provides powerful tools for doing mathematical analysis, and often yields pleasing and unanticipated answers. This book makes the subject of complex analysis accessible to a broad audience. The complex numbers are a somewhat mysterious number system that seems to come out of the blue. (hide)