Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases
- Author: Kleiser Grenville
- Genre: Education
"Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases: A Practical Handbook of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, and Oratorical Terms, for the Embellishment of Speech and Literature, and the Improvement of the Vocabulary of Those Persons Who Read, Write, and Speak English" written by Greenville Kleiser, may be the longest book title ever. The book contains lots of different methods that can be used to achieve a large vocabulary. If understood in a right way and applied correctly, this book will certainly increase your inventory of words. Also it will introduce you countless wealth of various words, which will become the reason for all your friends, listeners, or readers to envy you.
The book is a great source for writers or for students, who always have to write different essays and compositions. This book, downloaded to your iPod, PPC or even mobile phone will be an irreplaceable assistant at the moment of need to make a brilliant display of eloquence. Everybody needs something special and spicy in their speech, so this book would be just perfect for anyone. Reading "Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases: A Practical Handbook of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, and Oratorical Terms, for the Embellishment of Speech and Literature, and the Improvement of the Vocabulary of Those Persons Who Read, Write, and Speak English" will certainly help you to become the social mixer. If you are very shy or fell lack of words from time to time, "Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases" will make you more confident in what you are saying and when.
Also if you consider yourself to be a passionate lover of English language, this book full of bright, juicy and awesome quotations, phrases and word combinations is one of the best for you. If you understand the value and beauty of well-turned phrase, if you appreciate how much accurately chosen words and phrases can inspire and evoke new ideas and thoughts, this book is the very thing you need.
This book would be a great present not only for students, but for teachers as well. Teachers, probably, like no one else understand the importance and value of beautiful and correct speech. The book may be used as an additional material during language or literature lessons. Students will definitely like this full of witty and funny phrases book.
The book is very easy to navigate. It’s divided into various chapters in that way, so you will have no difficulties finding the very chapter you need. "Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases: A Practical Handbook of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, and Oratorical Terms, for the Embellishment of Speech and Literature, and the Improvement of the Vocabulary of Those Persons Who Read, Write, and Speak English" is written in a simple language, so you will not face strange and unknown words or terms. This book will make you feel confident and comfortable in any situation. You will forget about felling speechless or lost to say something. This is a really useful book that everyone should have.
The Golden Road
- Author: Montgomery Lucy Maud
- Genre: History
In her fascinating novel a Canadian author, Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874- 1942) narrates about adventurous childhood days of several friends. Children often played in the orchard of little heroine Beverly and her cousin Cecily and even created their own newspaper, called “Our Magazine”. Cecily died and never leave the “golden road” of childhood. This touching story still has a great success in many countries, as well as other Montgomery’s books.
O Pioneers!
- Author: Cather Willa Sibert
- Genre: General
O Pioneers! was written in 1913 by American novelist Willa Sibert Cather who tells us the course of life of the Bergsons who immigrated from Sweden to a fictional town Hanover, Nebraska at the beginning of the 20th century. The main hero Alexandra Bergson is a very strong-willed person. She inherits a farm after the death of her father and does everything to support this farm and turn it into a big and serious business while the other members of her family are not very interested in working on the farm. The slowly give up and move to big cities. Besides, the author focuses on the relationship between the main character Alexandra and the family friend Carl Linstrum as well as on the life story of he brother Emil and a married woman. The novel is divided into five parts each describing a special event from the Bergsons life.
The Souls of Black Folk
- Author: Du William Edward Burghardt
- Genre: Social Sciences
This book is the masterpiece of African-American thought. Published in 1903, this collection of essays written by DuBois quickly became a cornerstone for future black progressives who wanted to change American society since the days of the American Civil War. Every essay in this book is a perfect example of intellectual prowess, expressive and amazing language, and astonishing journey into the conditions of America's black population. Over and over, author calls it the way he sees it and there is no rage or hysterical claims in his words. DuBois's writings are the prototypes of consecutive, reasoned analysis. He aims not to divide but to reveal, not to create divisions but understanding. This is a ‘must-read’ for everyone interested in race relations and intellectual history. DuBois never saw the struggle for civil rights in the 1960's or its continuing legacy to modern days. This book explains the underpinnings of that movement. Through intellectual examination, excellent prose, and an steadfast belief in what is right and wrong, DuBois's contributions continue to resonate nowadays. Most of the problems, raised by DuBois are still important today, and this is a tribute to the man, not only as a scholar, but as someone who was continually adapting his views in the best image and interests of black people.
God and the State
- Author: Bakunin Mikhail
- Genre: Ethics & Morality
He is remembered as one of the originators of modern anarchy, a foe to Marx, and a radicalizer of youth through Russia and Europe in the 19th century. His name has been honored by pop culture of late in Tom Stoppard's trilogy of plays The Coast of Utopia, and on the philosophical playground of TV's Lost, which features characters named for-and often interpreted to represent the thinking of-famous philosophers through history. He is Russian revolutionary MIKHAIL ALEXANDROVICH BAKUNIN (1814-1876), and God and the State is his only published work. Unfinished at the time of his death and rambling and disjointed at best, this is nevertheless a provocative exploration of Bakunin's ideas on the enslavement of humanity by religion, its use by the state as a weapon against the people, and the necessity of throwing off the chains of God-worship. It remains a vital document of the anarchist movement, and is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the upheavals of 19th-century Russia.
Aaron's Rod
- Author: Lawrence David Herbert
- Genre: History
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III It is remarkable how many odd or extraordinary people there are in England. We hear continual complaints of the stodgy dullness of the English. It would be quite as just to complain of their freakish, unusual characters. Only en masse the metal is all Britannia. In an ugly little mining town we find the odd ones just as distinct as anywhere else. Only it happens that dull people invariably meet dull people, and odd individuals always come across odd individuals, no matter where they may be. So that to each kind society seems all of a piece. At one end of the dark tree-covered Shottle Lane stood the "Royal Oak" public house; and Mrs. Houseley was certainly an odd woman. At the other end of the lane was Shottle House, where the Bricknells lived; the Bricknells were odd, also. Alfred Bricknell, the old man, was one of the partners in the Colliery firm. His English was incorrect, his accent, broad Derbyshire, and he was not a gentleman in the snobbish sense of the word. Yet he was well-to-do, and very stuck-up. His wife was dead. Shottle House stood two hundred yards beyond New Brunswick Colliery. The colliery was imbedded in a plantation, whence its burning pit-hill glowed, fumed, and stank sulphur in the nostrils of the Bricknells. Even war-time efforts had not put out this refuse fire. Apart from this, Shottle House was a pleasant square house, rather old, with shrubberies and lawns. It ended the lane in a dead end. Only a field-path trekked away to the left. On this particular Christmas Eve Alfred Bricknell had only two of his children at home. Of the others, one daughter was unhappily married, and away in India weeping herself thinner;another was nursing her babies in Streatham. Jim, the hope of the house, and Julia, now married to Robert Cunningham, ha...
Sadhana, the Realisation of Life
- Author: Tagore Rabindranath
- Genre: History
"Sadhana: The Realisation of Life" is Rabindranath Tagore's excellent collection of essays on the subject of Indian spirituality. Tagore's objective in this work was to give the reader an understanding not only of the scripture but as to the practice, as he writes, "So in these papers, it may be hoped, western readers will have an opportunity of coming into touch with the ancient spirit of India as revealed in our sacred texts and manifested in the life of to-day." --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
- Author: Doyle Arthur Conan Sir
- Genre: General
The Adventure of the Cardboard Box is an amazing story which belongs to the pen of a recognized master of detective stories Arthur Conan Doyle. Everyone remembers his remarkable story devoted to the adventures of a British detective Sherlock Holmes. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box is a part of Sherlock Holmes series and it is definitely deserves attention from readers. As usual, the author invites readers to dive into amazing adventures. The novel contains some adultery which makes it more suitable for adults rather than for children.So due to this fact this story was not included to the first edition of Sherlock Holmes.