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Greek Language & People (BBC Active): David A. Hardy
Editorial Reviews
An ideal introduction to the language and culture of Greece, Greek Language and People is an integrated multi-media course for beginners. As well as teaching the skills necessary to communicate in and understand basic Greek, it provides an accessible introduction to the written language, and enables you to read Greek with ease. Language practice is mixed with fascinating insights into contemporary Greece and traditional Greek customs.Whether learning at home or in a class, Greek Language and People can help you to reach the equivalent level of a first qualification, such as GCSE. Course Book*Dialogues and language notes combine with cultural information, introducing new language in a relevant context *Exercises and activities, drawn mainly from authentic Greek sources, allow you to practise new language and reinforce learning 256-page course book
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Wicked Greek (Wicked Travel Series): Howard Tomb
Editorial Reviews
For the nine million Americans who visit Greece yearly, here is the phrase book that takes the chaos out of the land that invented it. There are motorbike survival tips. The Oracle of the Ferry Schedules. Pithy comments on retsina: “My wine tastes like a handful of pine needles.” And how to pursue romance with the natives: “Could you direct me to the Temple of Dionysus?”
Together the Wicked collection, 933,000 copies in print.
About the Author
Howard Tomb is the author of the Wicked Travel books. He also writes for the Sunday Travel Section of the New York Times.
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Greek In Your Pocket (Globetrotter In Your Pocket): D Coulbanis
Editorial Reviews
The highly successful Globetrotter In Your Pocket series includes a phrase book and two-way dictionary. It also provides help with pronunciation and gives information on etiquette. Languages featured include Italian, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Greek.
From the Back Cover
Inside this handy, pocket-size guide book you will find useful phrases for specific situations, from booking a hotel room to finding a hospital; a handy two-way dictionary that will help you understand as well as being understood.
The guide also includes basic grammar, pronunciation, etiquette and general information about different Greek-speaking countries.
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Live & Work in Britain (Live & Work - Vacation Work Publications): Nicola Taylor
Editorial Reviews
A comprehensive new title for everyone planning to go to Britain whether to work or study, stay for a short time or settle permanently. The book presents a complete guide to daily life in Britain from finding a home to the art of queuing, all illustrated with first hand accounts from people who have moved there to live and work. The section on working in Britain includes comprehensive information of how to find work, with special coverage of the industries where particular skills are needed. Essential background information on the people, culture, history, politics and geography.
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Redrawing the Class Map: Stratification and Institutions in Britain, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland: Daniel Oesch
Editorial Reviews
Have de-industrialization, expanding services and occupational upgrading put an end to class divisions? Drawing on extensive empirical research, this book adds new insights to the debate about the end of class and shows that Western European societies remain decidedly stratified with respect to material advantages and citizenship rights. Well grounded in theory, it offers a highly original account of today’s social stratification and presents novel findings about working conditions, political preferences and pension coverage of different classes in contemporary Britain, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland.
Book Description
This book provides new insights to the debate about the end of class and shows that Western European societies remain decidedly stratified with respect to material advantages and citizenship rights.
Live & Work in Germany, 3rd (Live & Work - Vacation Work Publications): Ian Collier
Editorial Reviews
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Vie de France: Sharing Food, Friendship, and a Kitchen in the Loire Valley: James Haller
Editorial Reviews
“To see and taste and smell all this wonderful food was so heartening to me, I felt I had arrived in heaven,” says James Haller in Vie de France. He’s referring to the marketplace in the Loire Valley town of Savennieres, but his response encapsulates his “food encounter” during a month-long vacation he and friends took to the small community, where they rented a charming 17th-century house. The diarylike book details the trip and, in daily menus, the food Haller cooked–delightful country dishes like Sausage and Red Wine Ragout, Sorrel and Spinach Salad, and Green Plum Custard Tart. Though not presented in recipe form, the meals nonetheless receive sufficient description to whet appetites and encourage cooking.
An ex-chef/restaurateur, Haller, in his early 60s, was looking for the next thing to do, and the house and his diary-keeping provided a necessary break that eventually led to a full-time writing commitment, of which this book is a result. His journey from fearfulness about the outcome of a spur-of-the-moment plan to relaxation and revelation in the French countryside is gratifying. Readers follow the process, joining Haller and company as they discover town butchers where meat is cut to order, supermarkets with multiple cheese aisles, local chateaux, and more while experiencing some of the predictable crosscultural contretemps. Though narratively thin, and lacking the exploration of self and others necessary to paint a penetrating picture, the book manages nonetheless to convey the culinary life and spirit of flower-saturated Savennieres. –Arthur Boehm
–This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
When award-winning chef James Haller and his closest friends toasted his sixtieth birthday, he thought that their dream of spending time together in a beautiful house in Europe would remain just a dream. But a year and a half later, they arrived at a charming 17th-century chateau in the Loire Valley that would be their home for the next month.
Haller swore not to cook, but the local abundance of fresh foods, herbs, and wines soon had him preparing all the group’s meals-and loving it. They breakfasted on oven-fresh croissants slathered with French butter, strolled endless fields of glorious sunflowers, feasted at delightful cafes, made day trips to Tours for antiques-and relished the spectacular dishes that Haller created from the simplest ingredients. Best of all, they made many new friends-while sharing priceless moments with old ones…
Featuring dozens of delicious recipes, Vie de France is a delightful testament to the joy of good friends, good food, and reaching for your wildest, most wonderful dreams.