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Alison Matthews

    Alison Matthews is a statistician whose career has spanned diverse industries, including oil, aviation, tourism, medicine, and software, as well as academic lecturing. She collaborates with her husband, Laurence Matthews, on several books, contributing her analytical expertise to their shared literary projects.

    Learning Chinese Characters
    The First 100 Chinese Characters. Simplified Character Edition
    Framespotting: Changing How You Look at Things Changes How You See Them
    Japanese Kanji Fast Finder
    The Second 100 Chinese Characters
    The First 100 Chinese Characters Traditional
    • The Second 100 Chinese Characters

      • 128 stránok
      • 5 hodin čítania

      This book offers a straightforward method for learning the second set of 100 essential Chinese characters, addressing the challenges faced by beginning students in memorizing and writing them. Following the foundational concepts presented in the first volume, it focuses on characters selected for efficient learning. Each character is accompanied by its English meaning, Hanyu Pinyin pronunciation, and any alternate forms, along with a stroke order guide and designated spaces for writing practice. The stroke order guides, printed with gray guidelines, allow students to trace the standard writing sequence. Additionally, related compounds and phrases are included to enhance vocabulary acquisition. Three indexes at the back facilitate character lookup by English meanings, Hanyu Pinyin pronunciations, or radicals. The book also provides extra practice sheets with blank boxes for further writing exercises. Key features include: the second 100 most common Chinese characters, standard Hanyu Pinyin romanizations, vocabulary-building compounds and phrases, step-by-step stroke order diagrams, and special grid-lined boxes for accurate writing practice. Sample sentences further aid in vocabulary development.

      The Second 100 Chinese Characters
    • Japanese Kanji Fast Finder

      • 144 stránok
      • 6 hodin čítania

      Anyone studying Kanji has wished for a reference that would enable them to look up a character by its shape alone. Now, Japanese Kanji Fast Finder delivers precisely that: A new study aid that lets users look up Japanese Kanji quickly and intuitively, without having to know their reading, radical or stroke count, and without having to learn yet another system

      Japanese Kanji Fast Finder
    • Framing influences our perception of reality, shaping our understanding of everything from everyday objects to complex societal issues. This engaging guide teaches readers to identify and analyze these frames, revealing hidden truths and fresh perspectives. By recognizing how framing affects our views, you can gain insight into manipulation and participate in a broader transition towards maturity. The book promises to change how you perceive the world, making even mundane topics more intriguing and thought-provoking.

      Framespotting: Changing How You Look at Things Changes How You See Them
    • This book is a quick and easy way to learn basic Chinese Characters. All beginning Chinese language learners struggle to memorize and learn to write Chinese characters. The First 100 Chinese Characters adopts a structural approach which helps students to quickly master the basic characters that are fundamental to this language. Intended for beginning Chinese students, this character book presents characters that have been carefully selected for rapid and effective learning. The English meanings, pronunciations in hanyu pinyin and alternate forms (if any) for each Chinese character are presented along with a stroke order guide and spaces for writing practice. Printed with gray guidelines, the stroke order guides are designed to be traced over to teach students the standard sequence of strokes used to write the character. Related compounds and phrases are given to assist in vocabulary building. Three indexes at the back allow the characters to be looked up by their English meanings, hanyu pinyin pronunciations, or radicals. Extra practice sheets are also provided. This Chinese character book contains: Step-by-step stroke order diagrams show you how to write each character. Special boxes with grid lines help you practice writing them correctly. Compounds and sample sentences provide easy vocabulary building. Hanyu pinyin romanizations identify and help you pronounce every word.

      The First 100 Chinese Characters. Simplified Character Edition
    • The Second 100 Chinese Characters: Traditional Character Edition

      The Quick and Easy Method to Learn the Second 100 Most Basic Chinese Characters

      • 128 stránok
      • 5 hodin čítania

      Focusing on the second set of 100 basic traditional Chinese characters, this book offers a straightforward approach to learning. It is designed for beginners and emphasizes ease of understanding, making it accessible for those looking to enhance their Chinese language skills quickly. Ideal for self-study, it provides clear explanations and practical exercises to reinforce character recognition and usage.

      The Second 100 Chinese Characters: Traditional Character Edition
    • Should I change careers? Is it time to end my relationship? Can I move halfway across the world? We have to make choices everyday, big and small, but it's the life-changing ones that often cause us to freeze or react too quickly, without thinking. What can we do differently? Laurence Alison and Neil Shortland have spent over 20 years helping soldiers, police officers, doctors and other professionals in high-stakes environments make tough decisions when lives are on the line. In Decision Time, they show us how those same decision-making techniques apply to everyday life, whether that's deciding to take a new job or change career later in life, end a relationship, move across the world or declaring your undying love for your best friend. With tips, studies, interviews and observations from their training with police officers together with role-play scenarios for you to try, this book will help you identify and fight off the common enemies of good decision-making - inertia, procrastination and indecision - and empower you to make the choices that matter the most. Highly accessible and interactive, Decision Time will guide you through each step of the decision-making process so next time you a find yourself at the crossroads, you'll be able to make your way with confidence.

      Decision Time
    • First 100 Chinese Characters

      • 128 stránok
      • 5 hodin čítania

      This book is an easy and effective way to learn basic Chinese Characters.

      First 100 Chinese Characters
    • Kanji Fast Finder

      • 144 stránok
      • 6 hodin čítania

      This Kanji reference book employs a revolutionary and user friendly new way to look up Japanese Kanji by appearance rather than radical.

      Kanji Fast Finder