This handbook demonstrates how to turn comics & cartoons into meaningful & effective teaching resources in the ESL classroom. In addition to suggestions for using commercial comics, the book also features illustrations that can be used to illustrate hard-to-grasp language concepts. ...

Just thirty, with a well-paid job, no love life & a terrible attitude, this novel features an anti-hero who smokes four packs of cigarettes a day & writes weird animal stories in his spare time. A computer programmer by day, he is tolerably content, until he's packed off with a colleague
- the sexually-frustrated Raphael Tisser&.
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Presents a funny retelling of the Arabian Nights & a inspired exploration of the art of storytelling. This title reimagines how Sheherezade saved Baghdad's virgins & her own life through a heroic feat of storytelling
- one that kept the Persian king Sharyar hanging in agonizing narrative & erotic suspense for 1001 nights.
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Jane Hudson (Bette Davis) found fame as child star ' Baby Jane', only to be eclipsed by her sister Blanche (Joan Crawford) when the latter became a Hollywood glamour girl in the 1930s. Blanche's career was brought to an abrupt end by an accident for which Jane was seemingly responsible. Now the two ageing sisters live together in their Hollywood mansion, attended by their maid, Elvira. When Jane discovers that Blanche is planning to sell their home & have her put away, she begins a campaign of terror against her wheelchair-bound sibling. Old rivals Davis & Crawford allegedly continued their on-screen conflict after the cameras stopped rolling
- David kicked Crawford in the head during the recording of one scene, & Crawford retaliated by placing lead weights beneath her skirts for a sequence where Davis was required to drag her across the floor.
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A collection of 52 Italian recipes including classics like crostini, lasagne, polenta, stuffed peppers, veal piccata, risotto alla Milanese & ricotta pie. It also

Includes:: Woodman's pasta & Italian french fries & traditional, treasured dishes from the author's own family's kitchen, such as Nana's Strufoli & Grandma Caponigri's Ragu Sauce.

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Dozens of countries, cities & counties have changed their identity over the years. For example, whatever happened to Tanganyika? This book takes the reader on a journey through the place names that history left behind: the stories about where they came from, what happened to them & what they were replaced by. ...