Griffith Review 84: Attachment Styles
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Category: Languages | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
The attachments we form shape our experience of the world and our understanding of who we are. ‘Hell is other people', wrote Jean-Paul Sartre, his point being less about misanthropy and more about how entwined our self-perception is with the ways in which others perceive us. And alongside our personal r ...Show more
Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging by Cher Tan
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Category: Languages
There was something so captivating about always being on the edge, on that shaky precipice of promise — something new and something cool was just lurking around the corner and we’d arrive at it if we kick around long enough. Peripathetic is about shit jobs. About being who you are and who you aren’t o ...Show more
Colloquial Somali by Martin Orwin
$99.00 AUD
Category: Languages
Colloquial Somali Is specially written by an experienced teacher for self-study or class use, the course offers you a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Somali. No prior knowledge of the language is required. What makes ColloquialSomali your best choice in personal language learning? * interact ...Show more
Collins Mandarin Chinese Visual Dictionary by Collins Dictionaries
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Category: Languages | Series: Collins Visual Dictionaries Ser.
Use your senses to learn the most important words and phrases in Mandarin Chinese With colorful images and a free audio download, this attractive and practical guide to Chinese language and culture helps you find what you need quickly and easily. Also contains a Chinese-English and English-Chinese Index ...Show more
Japanese Folktales for Language Learners - Bilingual Stories in Japanese and English (Free Online Audio Recording) by Eriko Sato; Anna Sato (Illustrator)
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Category: Languages | Series: Stories for Language Learners Ser.
Learn about Japanese culture while improving your language skills!Japanese Folktales for Language Learners presents 22 traditional stories in parallel Japanese and English versions on facing pages, with detailed notes and exercises aimed at beginning to intermediate learners. This book can be used as a ...Show more
Teach Yourself Complete Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia) by Christopher Byrnes
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Category: Languages | Series: Teach Yourself Complete Courses | Reading Level: General Adult
The complete course for a fun and effective way to learn Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia). This best-selling course comprises a book and audio support which is easy to download to your MP3 player or iPod (components available separately).
Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present by Johanna Drucker
$65.95 AUD
Category: Languages
The first comprehensive intellectual history of alphabet studies. Inventing the Alphabet provides the first account of two-and-a-half millennia of scholarship on the alphabet. Drawing on decades of research, Johanna Drucker dives into sometimes obscure and esoteric references, dispelling myths and ident ...Show more
First Words - Japanese 100 Japanese Words to Learn by Lonely Planet
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Category: Languages | Series: Lonely Planet Kids Ser.
Bring the Japanese language to life with this beautifully illustrated children's book from Lonely Planet Kids, an imprint of Lonely Planet, the world's leading travel guide and phrasebook publisher. Perfect for the whole family, First Words Japanesefeatures 100 words to use while travelling, from food a ...Show more
Eats, Shoots And Leaves by Lynne Truss
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Category: Languages
Anxious about the apostrophe? Confused by the comma? Stumped by the semicolon? Join Lynne Truss on a hilarious tour through the rules of punctuation that is sure to sort the dashes from the hyphens. We all had the basic rules of punctuation drilled into us at school, but punctuation pedants have good re ...Show more
Essayism by Brian Dillon
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Category: Languages
A compelling ode to the essay form and the great essaysists themselves, from Montaigne to Woolf to Sontag. Essayism is a book about essays and essayists, a study of melancholy and depression, a love letter to belle-lettrists, and an account of the indispensable lifelines of reading and writing. Brian D ...Show more
Craig Shanahan: Cooking up a Storm (Big Visions - Braille) (HB) by John Dickson
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Category: Languages | Series: Big Visions Ser.
Meet Craig Shanahan, the blind chef with his own café. When kids would ask Craig what it was like having one eye, he’d ask them what it was like having two. That was all he knew. He grew up loving cooking and studied to be a chef. When Craig lost vision in his good eye, he didn’t let that hold him bac ...Show more