This new 2008 edition of this popular course has been fully revised to support the new specifications. This Grammar Workbook & CD is ideal for improving students listening & speaking skills & contains a variety of authentic listening activities including interviews reports dialogues & discussions. ...

The debut novel from the award-winning screenwriter of Bhaji on the Beach. The story of nine-year-old Meena growing up in the only Punjabi family in the Black Country mining village of Tollington. It's 1972. Meena is nine years old & lives in the village of Tollington 'the jewel of the Black Country'. She is the daughter of Indian parents who have come to England to give her a better life. As one of the few Punjabi inhabitants of her village her daily struggle for independence is different from most. She wants fishfingers & chips not chapati & dhal; she wants an English Christmas not the usual interminable Punjabi festivities
- but more than anything she wants to roam the backyards of working-class Tollington with feisty Anita Rutter & her gang. Blonde cool aloof outrageous & sassy Anita is everything Meena thinks she wants to be. Meena wheedles her way into Anita's life but the arrival of a baby brother teenage hormones impending entrance exams for the posh grammar school & a motorcycling rebel without a future threaten to turn Anita's salad days sour. Anita & Me paints a comic poignant compassionate & colourful portrait of village life in the era of flares power cuts glam rock decimalisation & Ted Heath. It is a unique vision of a British childhood in the Seventies a childhood caught between two cultures each on the brink of change.
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Whether you want to lose weight or find a diet that chimes with your body type to bring you optimum health Anjums Ayurvedic Diet is for you. Its scarcely believable that Anjum Anand could ever have had a weight problem but in her early 20s she was overweight & a serial dieter. She eventually lost all the weight but it took a while to discover the diet she should follow both to lose & to maintain weight loss. Finally she found the solution not from modern Western science or diet experts but in the Indian system of Ayurveda
- the oldest & most holistic medical system on the planet. Translating as the science of living wisely & well Ayurveda teaches us how to maintain optimum health & harmony both within ourselves & with nature. It recognises three body types & once youve established your basic body type you can not only find the diet that will best suit you (and get your body back into shape) but also correct any imbalances to resolve eating & digestive disorders sleep problems & many other illnesses. In this groundbreaking new diet book Anjum shows how to work out your body type the foods you should eat (or avoid) & how to combine them into delicious recipes for every meal. Uniquely this Ayurvedic cookbook

Includes:: recipes from East & West as well as complete food charts stating which foods are best for each dosha. For anyone purely interested in healthy eating the 75 recipes are all low fat & healthy but each is labelled according to its suitability for each body type. Good eating hints & tips a range of meal plans & advice on recommended exercise & lifestyle for each body type complete the book.


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Following the huge success of Anjums television debut in BBCs Indian Food Made Easy" the same team has come together again for a new series & accompanying book this time focusing on regional Indian cooking. Based on the same principles
- light modern Indian food for todays busy cooks
- Anjum has now created a new collection of delicious dishes that are easy & often quick to put together & full of flavour. All the recipes from the television series are here as well as many more divided into chapters on Brunches & Light Meals Seafood Chicken Lamb Vegetables Beans & Lentils Bread & Rice Raitas & Chutneys. In addition Anjum gives tips for using core Indian ingredients & the book

Includes:: features on the cooking of different regions as well as suggestions for menus & entertaining."



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We should all be eating more vegetables & Anjum's plethora of scintillating flavours means even the most carnivorous among us will be happy to give meat a miss. As much of the subcontinent is vegetarian by religion Indian food provides the ideal cuisine in which to discover some seriously tasty new approaches to vegetables grains cheeses & pulses. Anjum adapts the true flavours of India with her trademark concern for healthy eating & a good diet to make dishes that are light bright modern & balanced providing all the protein & other nutrients we all need for perfect health. This book teaches us all how to eat vegetarian for life. Sandwiches grills salads snacks & appetizers & of course main dishes with their accompaniments are all included. Breakfasts brunches & barbecues supply unexpected treats such as mile-high chickpea pancakes with Indian violet coleslaw & Delhi-style chargrilled sweetcorn with a spicy lime rub. Many of Anjum's recipes are family favourites or based on the vibrant street food culture of India adapted to bring them bang up to date. ...

Though her short life was vividly presented in Mister God This is Anna its huge success led to Fynn being inundated to write more about his experiences with her. Anna & the Black Knight introduces us to Mister John a veteran of World War I & local schoolmaster who was to have a profound effect on Anna. Annas astonishing capacity for looking at things from fresh perspectives & her fascination with mathematics & Mister God stands her in good stead as her life is opened up to new things such as school priests & motor cars. This sequel also

Includes:: the full text of Annas Book reproductions of her own letters & writings. Her artless & transparent conversations speak to the heart & are recorded using her own unique & colourful spellings. The book is again illustrated throughout with Papass unequalled drawings.

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Cas Lowood is no ordinary guy
- he hunts dead people. People like Anna. Anna Dressed in Blood. A beautiful murderous ghost entangled
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This is a beautiful vibrant story with rich colours & words that sing right off the page. This is the first picture book featuring Anna Hibiscus & she is very happy in it! So happy in fact that she cant quite decide what to do with herself!! So she turns to her grandparents her aunties her cousins Chocolate Angel & Benz her uncle Tunde & her father who each offer her a way to express her boundless joy. But being around the people she loves so much only makes her happiness grow & grow; she is SO happy she is going to EXPLODE! It is her mother who finally helps her to channel her brimming happiness. Sitting in her mango tree Anna sings an amazing song. Amazing is Africa. Amazing is Anna Hibiscus. Anna Hibiscus world is brought to full colour for the first time in her very own picture book. This is a delightful story set against a bustling African community in the midst of a huge happy family. ...

Anna Karenin seems to have everything
- beauty wealth popularity & an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the
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Anna Karenina is one of the most loved & memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness & density. Tolstoy considered this book to be his first real attempt at a novel form & it addresses the very nature of society at all levels
- of destiny death human relationships & the irreconcilable contradictions of existence. It ends tragically & there is much that evokes despair yet set beside this is an abounding joy in life's many ephemeral pleasures & a profusion of comic relief.
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