Название: It's ONLY Rocket Science: An Introduction in Plain English
Автор: Dr. Lucy Rogers (auth.)
Издательство: Springer-Verlag New York
Год: 2008
Формат: djvu
Страниц: 350
Размер: 3 MB
Язык: English

"Well, it’s not rocket science, is it?"How many times have you heard people use that expression when they mean something pretty simple? There are other areas of science and technology that are arguably more challenging than rocket science, but no other (perhaps apart from brain surgery) has entered mainstream English vocabulary as a byword for ‘difficult’.But ‘hard to understand’ isn’t the same as ‘impossible to understand’, as Dr Lucy Rogers – who is herself currently working as a rocket scientist – shows in this book. She describes, in everyday terms and entirely without complex math, just what is involved in launching something into space, to explore the universe beyond our small planet

Название: Homoeopathy: ''like cures like'': English rendering of lectures delivered on MTA Internetional
Автор: Ahmad H. M.
Издательство: Islam International Publications
Год: 2005
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 740
Размер: 2 MB
Язык: English

Hadhrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad, 4th head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community was also very well known around the globe for his excellent and unparallel expertise in the field of Homeopathy.This is basically collection of those homeopathy lectures by Hadhrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad, 4th head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community that are being broadcast on MTA (Muslim Television Ahmadiyya) and now are compiled in one book.

Название: Elsevier's Dictionary of Geography: in English, Russian, French, Spanish and German
Автор: Vladimir Kotlyakov, Anna Komarova
Издательство: North Holland
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 1073
Размер: 31 MB
Язык: English

Geography is a system of highly developed sciences about the environment. Geographical science embracing the study of the Earth's physical phenomena, people and their economic activities has always been in need of an extensive terminology. Geographical terms are related to the terms of natural sciences (physics, chemistry, biology, geology, etc

Название: Focus on Advanced English: Cae Grammar Practice: With Pull-out Key
Автор: Richard Walton
Издательство: Longman
Год: 2009
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 111
Размер: 2 MB
Язык: English

* The Grammar Practice Book includes study tips to help with common grammatical problems * Exam style exercises and progress tests keep students focussed on the demands of the CAE exam..

Название: Elsevier's economics dictionary: in English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and German
Автор: J.L. De Lucca
Издательство: Elsevier Science
Год: 2001
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 978
Размер: 57 MB
Язык: English

This dictionary contains terms covering the following fields and subfields: Business economics, economic development and growth, economic history, economic systems, economic thought, financial economics, general economics, industrial organization, international economics, labor and demographic economics, law and economics, macroeconomics and monetary economics, mathematical an quantitative methods, microeconomics, natural resource economics, public economics, social economics, urban, rural and regional economics, welfare. The dictionary is supplemented by an exhaustive list of abbreviations in several languages. It will be an essential reference tool for business people operating within a new economic world order, who wish to understand global trade relations

Название: Elsevier's dictionary of chemistry: including terms from biochemistry in English, French, Spanish, Italian, and German
Автор: A.F. Dorian
Издательство: Elsevier Science
Год: 1983
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 692
Размер: 32 MB
Язык: English

This dictionary covers the basic body of knowledge which constitutes chemistry and from which all scientific work in this field must proceed. Also included is a large number of terms specifically relating to biochemistry, thus providing a link between organic chemistry, physiology, genetics and medicine and greatly increasing the usefulness and range of this reference volume for research workers, scientists, students, translators and technical editors.

Название: NTC's super-mini English idioms dictionary
Автор: Richard Spears, Betty Kirkpatrick, Richard A. Spears PhD
Издательство: McGraw-Hill
Год: 2000
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 290
Размер: 2 MB
Язык: English

This includes more than 1,800 of the most frequently used idioms in contemporary British English, each with at least two example sentences. Compiled with non-native speakers in mind, the entire collection is compressed into a pocket-size edition.

Название: The words of mathematics: an etymological dictionary of mathematical terms used in English
Автор: Steven Schwartzman
Издательство: The Mathematical Association of America
Год: 1996
Формат: djvu
Страниц: 270
Размер: 3 MB
Язык: English

The Words of Mathematics explains the origins of over 1500 mathematical terms used in English. While other dictionaries of mathematics define technical terms, this book concentrates on where those terms come from and what their literal meanings are. This dictionary is easy to use

Название: St. Helenian English: origins, evolution and variation
Автор: Daniel Schreier
Издательство: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Год: 2008
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 331
Размер: 4 MB
Язык: English

This volume provides the first-ever sociolinguistic analysis of English on the island of St Helena, the oldest variety of English in the Southern Hemisphere

Название: One language, two grammars?: differences between British and American English
Автор: Gunter Rohdenburg, Julia Schl?ter
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 2009
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 487
Размер: 3 MB
Язык: English

It is well known that British and American English differ substantially in their pronunciation and vocabulary - but differences in their grammar have largely been underestimated. This volume focuses on British-American differences in the structure of words and sentences and supports them with computer-aided studies of large text collections. Present-day as well as earlier forms of the two varieties are included in the analyses