Linda Grant Knihy

This compulsively readable novel recreates a lost time, when the future was more important than the past and anything seemed possible.

The brilliant new novel by Orange Prize winner, Linda Grant, about the legacies of history, longlisted for both the Orange Prize, 2008 and the Man Booker Prize, 2008

Focusing on essential pronunciation skills, this series targets students from beginner to advanced levels, emphasizing stress, rhythm, and intonation. It includes a structured course plan and over fifty pages of supplemental activities dedicated to consonant and vowel sounds. The intermediate to advanced level introduces crucial pronunciation features, while a free website offers access to the complete audio program for both teachers and students, enhancing the learning experience.

This volume was conceived as a "best practices" resource for pronunciation and speaking teachers in the way that Vocabulary Myths by Keith S. Folse is one for reading and vocabulary teachers. Like others in the Myths series, this book combines research with good pedagogical practices.The book opens with a Prologue by Linda Grant (author of the Well Said textbook series), which reviews the last four decades of pronunciation teaching, the differences between accent and intelligibility, the rudiments of the English sound system, and other factors related to the ways that pronunciation is learned and taught.The myths challenged in this book are:§  Once you’ve been speaking a second language for years, it’s too late to change your pronunciation. (Derwing and Munro)§  Pronunciation instruction is not appropriate for beginning-level learners. (Zielinski and Yates)§  Pronunciation teaching has to establish in the minds of language learners a set of distinct consonant and vowel sounds.  (Field)§  Intonation is hard to teach. (Gilbert)§  Students would make better progress if they just practiced more. (Grant)§  Accent reduction and pronunciation instruction are the same thing. (Thomson)§  Teacher training programs provide adequate preparation in how to teach pronunciation (Murphy).The book concludes with an Epilogue by Donna M. Brinton, who synthesizes some of the best practices explored in the volume.

Has there really been a sexual revolution? Sex is under siege - sex is fighting back - sex has always been dangerous, to societies as well as individuals. It has always been the stuff around which utopias have been woven. Charting the origins of sexual freedom in the anarcho-erotic sects of the English Civil War, through the hippie idealism of sixties counter-culture, to our present, postmodern bewilderment, Sexing the Millennium examines the intellectual, economic and technological movement that formed the sexual revolution, from sixties to the present day. In the age of AIDS, Madonna and Virtual Reality porn, the memory of the brief years when sex was free from the threats of both pregnancy and disease continues to shape our dreams. Sexing the Millennium affirms that the personal is still political. It calls for a new sexual revolution, which would at last liberate female desire from the thrall of male fantasy and allow women to pursue the passionate, erotic adventure of their own lives.

From the award-winning novelist, a vibrant imagining of the tumultuous world of early twentieth-century Europe through the eyes of Mina, a young girl whose adventures begin in a deep dark forest.

Irreverent archaeologist Dr Henry 'Indiana' Jones scours the furthest corners of the planet for priceless artifacts, hungry for knowledge about ancient civilizations. Though his quick wit, resourcefulness, and dashing good looks have gotten him this far, what happens when his Nazi foes attempt to wake the dead through sorcery?

The new novel by the acclaimed author of Upstairs at the Party and the Booker-shortlisted The Clothes on Their Backs.

This wonderfully gossipy novel whisks readers through the glamorous worlds of turn-of-the-century Vienna, Paris and London.

A brilliant novel about the London of today - a shifting, exciting, dangerous place where people search for the meaning of home. Peopled with wonderful characters and, as is usual for this author, a provocative story about our times.