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 Jacques Boucher, "French. Learn the Easy Way" English | ISBN: 1492241938 | 2013 | 114 pages | MOBI | 199 KB Learning to speak French is not a daunting task. It should be a pleasurable effort and one that could bring you enormous rewards. One of the main reasons for which French is an easy language to learn is because it is well organised. This book is dedicated to help you construct the French language from building blocks that I will provide for you. It will also demonstrate how you can "train" your brain to speak French such as a toddler would, and how it is not necessary for you to attend any course to learn to speak the language. The most fun you will have with learning French is perhaps when you speak to yourself. In fact, I recommend that you do so, on a regular basis. Getting used to the pronunciation of every word is one of the most important things that you can do when learning this language. Besides which, your brain needs to familiarize itself with the sounds of the French language. This "training" is a type of immersion, but one that you can do easily at home in your own time. Therefore, this book will provide you with the guidelines and assistance that you will need to make your journey into the learning of the language a lot easier and much more effective. I have perfected and used this self-immersion training system for over 20 years while tutoring English students of various ages in Canada and abroad.  Joanna Palani, "Freedom Fighter: My War Against ISIS on the Frontlines of Syria" English | ISBN: 1786494353 | 2019 | 368 pages | MOBI | 702 KB A Kurdish woman's gripping account of fighting ISIS on the frontlines of Syria.  Jonathan Fenby, "France on the Brink: A Great Civilization in the New Century" English | ISBN: 1628723173 | 2014 | 448 pages | MOBI | 784 KB This completely revised and fully updated edition of the book Bill Bryson called superb" presents a sharply insightful, authoritative portrait of France today as it struggles to live up to its vision of itself amid storm clouds that won't go away.  Craig McLachlan, "Four Pairs of Boots: A 3,200 Kilometre Hike The Length of Japan" English | ISBN: 1492207853 | 2013 | 288 pages | MOBI | 2 MB Japan is a fascinating country! 125 million people in a country only slightly larger than New Zealand, and just as mountainous. We've all seen the TV footage - cramped housing, industrial haze and crowded trains - but what about 'the real Japan'? Spectacular mountains, twisting rivers, hidden harbours and rugged coastlines. This is the story of Craig McLachlan's 99 day walk from one end to the other in search of 'the real Japan'. 1993 - what a year to do it! The year of the endless rainy season! The year without a summer! The year of earhtquakes, tsunami and typhoons - and sore feet! This is one of five books available on Amazon about McLachlan's various adventures in Japan. He has also climbed Japan's 100 Famous Mountains in record time (78 days!), hiked the 88 Sacred Temples of Shikoku Pilgrimage, journeyed around the Saigoku 33 Temples of Kannon Pilgrimage, and trekked from the Sea of Japan to the Pacific Ocean climbing all Japan's 3,000-meter peaks along the way. Seewww.craigmclachlan.com.  Hali R. Keeler, "Foundations of Library Services: An Introduction for Support Staff " English | ISBN: 1538135663 | 2021 | 252 pages | AZW3 | 11 MB Trained library support staff play a critical role in assisting the user in locating and interpreting the resources available in libraries. To do so requires the knowledge and practice of library missions and roles in different types of libraries and the delivery of that information to an increasingly diverse clientele. The plethora of resources available today requires that support staff understand and implement the basic principles of information services as well as the responsibility and relationships among library departments and functional areas.  Kaspar Villadsen, "Foucault's Technologies: Another Way of Cutting Reality" English | ISBN: 0198819404 | 2025 | 352 pages | PDF | 6 MB Michel Foucault is rarely viewed as a philosopher of technology, yet academics and students routinely refer to his terms 'technologies of power', 'governmental technologies', and 'technologies of the self'. This book is a response to the contradiction between the paucity of research into Foucault's technological thought and the abundancy of technological vocabulary and metaphors in his own writings as well as in the commentary literature; it provides the most extensive examination of the role of technology in Foucault's work so far.  Stuart Elden, "Foucault's Last Decade" English | ISBN: 0745683924 | 2016 | 272 pages | MOBI | 572 KB On 26 August 1974, Michel Foucault completed work on Discipline and Punish, and on that very same day began writing the first volume of The History of Sexuality. A little under ten years later, on 25 June 1984, shortly after the second and third volumes were published, he was dead.  Andreas Buerki, "Formulaic Language and Linguistic Change: A Data-Led Approach" English | ISBN: 1108477461 | 2020 | 260 pages | PDF | 7 MB A substantial proportion of our everyday language is 'formulaic', that is, it consists of oft-repeated chunks. From pause fillers such as you know, to phrases such as Many thanks!, Is this seat taken? or strong tea, they form a phenomenon central in language. This important new book investigates formulaic language from the point of view of language change. Employing a novel quantitative and data-led approach, it traces and analyses change in phraseology across 20th Century German as used in Switzerland. Drawing on nearly 20 million words of textual evidence, it shows that social and cultural change in the speech community is the predominant motivator of change, though other factors are also at play. The book demonstrates a close link between language change and the culture of the speech community, arguing that this has repercussions for the study of language in general, as well as the study of society and history.  Bayly, "Forgotten Wars: Freedom and Revolution in Southeast Asia" English | ISBN: 0674057074 | 2010 | 704 pages | EPUB | 1405 KB In September 1945, after the fall of the atomic bomb-and with it, the Japanese empire-Asia was dominated by the British. Governing a vast crescent of land that stretched from India through Burma and down to Singapore, and with troops occupying the French and Dutch colonies in southern Vietnam and Indonesia, Britain's imperial might had never seemed stronger.  Jem Duducu, "Forgotten History: Unbelievable Moments from the past" English | ISBN: 1445656345 | 2016 | 304 pages | PDF | 17 MB Not all history is recorded in school textbooks or cast into towering monuments that shape city skylines. Quite often the most intriguing (and most bizarre) bits are forgotten and fall away into obscurity. In this fascinating book, Jem Duducu shines light on the almost forgotten, wonderfully strange, and often hilarious moments of history that would otherwise be lost forever. Forgotten History tells in delightful detail the stories of the hard-to-believe moments, people or inventions from history. Split into four main eras ancient, medieval, early modern and twentieth century this light-hearted and easy-to-read fact book is full to bursting with the bits from history that even a history enthusiast may otherwise have never known. Covering a wide variety of topics, from the time a Pope put his dead predecessor on trial all the way up to the awkward moment when the US Air Force accidentally dropped nuclear bombs on Spain, take a journey through time and discover the weird and wonderful history that you didn't learn about in school. |
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