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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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GREEK a language map® (Language Map Series): Kristine K. Kershul
Editorial Reviews
These unique Language Maps® are phrasebooks in a laminated, fold-out map format. That means they are durable. You can spill your Italian cappuccino on them, accidentally sit on them while riding the train through Europe, dribble soy sauce on them in Japan, and still use them. Each Language Map® contains over 1,000 of the most important words and phrases a traveler will need. When you are sitting in that charming French outdoor cafe and want to order but can’t decipher the menu, pull out your Language Map®. When you need a telephone, a post office or want to ask the price of a postcard and the words fail you, pull out your Language Map®.
About the Author
Kristine K Kershul
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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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Pocket Menu Reader Greece (Langenscheidt’s Pocket Menu Reader): Langenscheidt
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Each Pocket Menu Reader is an indispensable gastronomic dictionary, phrasebook, and guidebook. It includes more than 1,500 words with translations and pronunciations, comprehensive treatment of the country’s cuisine, an alphabetical list of dishes and culinary terms, plus a gourmet’s selection of recipes.
About the Author
Since 2000. Hammond, American Map, Langenscheidt Dictionaries, Insight Travel Guides, Delorme – the famous names in the Langenscheidt family. These represent the most authoritative, up-to-date, and extensive travel and reference products available. In January 2003, the renowned Berlitz Publishing became part of the Langenscheidt Group. The Langenscheidt Publishing Group, the premier group of map and travel companies, offers over 4,000 North American and international street maps, road maps, atlases, language-learning, bilingual dictionaries, and travel-related products covering countries, cities, and languages in every continent.
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Italian, It’s All Greek to Me: Everything You Don’t Know About Italian Language and Culture: Linda Falcone, Leo Cardini
Editorial Reviews
Language often reflects the psyche of a nation, this is especially true in Italy, where words are the most common music and gestures the most frequent dance.”Italian, It’s All Greek to Me” is an engaging and entertaining volume that takes readers on a leisurely roam through Italian culture, straight to the heart of its language - famed for its expression, stinging wit, and generous humour. Filled with amusing anecdotes and vignettes, it reveals a country where beauty is nourishment and food is art, and proves that laughter is a surefire antidote to culture shock and language is the most effective window through which to see the world.It provides a witty and insightful stroll through the delights of Italian culture and language.
About the Author
Linda Falcone comes from a bilingual family with an Italian mother and American father. She currently lives and teaches in Florence, Italy.
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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Greek Travel Pack (Hugo’s Travel Series): Konstantinos Kontopidi-Greveniotis, Antigoni Kamberou Miller, Robin Batchelor-Smith
Editorial Reviews
A Greek phrase book and audiocassette travel pack which offers a 2000 line mini-dictionary which supports Greek phrases and a pronunciation guide.
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Connemara: Listening to the Wind (Connemara Trilogy 1): Tim Robinson
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‘Many landscape writers have striven to give their prose the characteristics of the terrain they are describing. Few have succeeded as fully as Robinson.’ - Robert Macfarlane, Guardian
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“Should stand on the shelf beside Synge’s Aran Islands and Thoreau’s Walden.”
—The Irish Times
“Dazzling . . . an indubitable classic.”
—Condé Nast Traveller
“One of contemporary Ireland’s finest literary stylists . . . this book does justice, in every sense of the phrase, to the frequently betrayed people whose stories it incarnates, and to their strange and beautiful corner of the world.”
—The Guardian (London)
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Seamanship: A Voyage Along the Wild Coasts of the British Isles: Adam Nicolson
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
There’s much to like in the story of how Nicolson (God’s Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible) finds a sailing partner and a suitable boat and takes to the seas surrounding Ireland and Scotland. And his descriptions of the remote communities he encounters on the voyage are often engaging. Yet Nicolson’s narrative of this voyage—which was the basis for an eight-part National Geographic TV series—is saddled with an overabundance of superlatives: it’s one thing for a near fatal accident to be caused by “the biggest wave I have ever seen,” but Nicolson also encounters “the darkest night,” “the loneliest and most entrancing place” and so on. One wishes at times that Nicolson would turn his focus further inward; although he hints at personal tensions between himself and his sailing partner, as well as the strain placed on his marriage by his wanderlust, his slim volume doesn’t fully explore these conflicts, instead falling back on slightly more abstract reflections about humans’ relationship to the sea. Nicolson’s voluntary pilgrimage is a good story, made frustrating by falling just short of being a great story.
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From Booklist
Nicolson and a friend, George Fairhurst, sailed up the west coasts of Ireland and Scotland in 2003. The journey, in the 42-foot ketch Auk, took them to the Hebrides, Orkneys, and Faeroes. They were joined by a photographer, an archaeologist, and a film crew. Nicolson, the author of God’s Secretaries (2003) and Perch Hill (2000), observes that “the Atlantic-besieged cliffs of the St. Kildan islands, smashed and storm-swept up to 200 feet above the surface of the sea, provide as enormous and powerful a meeting of rock and ocean as you ever find in Britain.” Along the way, they saw puffins, gannets, shearwaters, seals, crabs, and a spectacular underwater cave. The book is filled with descriptive passages of the sea, cliffs, and the shoreline. There are passages revealing the anxiety and tedium that sometimes occurred, but Nicolson’s love for the sea and his fervor for travel and adventure is evident from the first page to the last. George Cohen
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Berlin Style: Scenes, Interiors, Details (Icons) (German Edition): Angelika Taschen, Eric Laignel
Editorial Reviews
With its tumultuous history, bustling international community, and cutting-edge art scene, Berlin is naturally home to a very diverse range of interiors which reflect the city’s mix of Eastern and Western influences. Traversing the city’s most eclectic and unique interiors, Berlin Style offers an inspiring view of Berlin and its inhabitants.
About the Author
Christiane Reiter, a freelance author based in Berlin and Switzerland, studied journalism at the University of Eichstatt and worked as a travel editor for Ringier Publishing in Munich and Zurich. She then established the travel section of the newly founded Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. Angelika Taschen studied art history and German literature in Heidelberg, gaining her doctorate in 1986, Working for TASCHEN since 1987, she has published numerous titles on the themes of architecture, photography, design, and contemporary art.