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Small enough to fit in purse or pocket, this dictionary presents approximately 2,500 American-English idiomatic words and expressions with their meanings. “In one’s element” ... “nail down” ... “off base” and most other American idioms are composed of simple words that somehow take on brand-new meanings when they are combined. Here’s a handy reference guide to them all for ESL students, foreign travelers in North America, and anybody with an interest in language usage. Expressions are listed alphabetically, identified according to their part of speech, and categorized as formal, informal, slang, or literary. Each expression is defined and supplemented with an illustrative sentence.

Here’s a greatly expanded and updated quick-reference book covering sentence structure, punctuation, advice on essay and letter writing styles, and more. For many years, «Barron’s Pocket Guides» have served high school and college students, as well as business professionals and others, as reliable fast-reference books filled with easy-to-locate information pertaining to all practical aspects of language use. The new editions are attractively designed and printed in two-color type, and serve as especially useful books for the home, school, or business reference bookshelf.

Designed for use in middle school and high school classrooms, as well as at home, books in Barron’s Painless series transform subjects that are normally dreaded by many students into challenging fun activities. «Painless» books take light-hearted approaches to their subjects, while addressing topics that classroom texts never get to. Reading comprehension is a skill that all students must develop for academic and personal success, especially as they advance to college and beyond. This book — for junior and senior high school students — asks them meaningful questions about their reading preferences and difficulties. For example — — What kind of reader am I? — What can I do to “warm up” my brain before starting to read? — What can I do if I don’t understand what I’m reading? — How do I keep what I read in my head? All students can profit from this book, but reluctant readers will find it especially helpful. Guided by the author, who is an experienced teacher, they learn how to read with ease, and to comprehend what they are reading. Most important, they discover how to transform a once-arduous task into a pleasurable experience.

Written mainly for average consumers outside the business world, Barron's Business Keys take the mystery out of business practices and terminology and make doing business understandable to everyone. Updated to reflect current market trends, this book defines common stocks and mutual funds, describes stock markets, and explains market-related terms and practices, including price-earnings ratios, dividend reinvestment plans, financial leverage, market timing, and much more.

A quick-reference source for lawyers, law students, legal professionals, and the interested layperson, this book defines more than 3,000 legal terms in non-technical language, but without sacrificing legal accuracy. Terms apply to civil procedure, commercial and contract law, constitutional law, criminal law, property law, and torts. This title is also available in a smaller “mass market” edition.

This small but impressive book has been expanded to include hundreds more alphabetically arranged entries, each of them followed by an ample list of synonyms. The book’s size makes it an ideal fast-reference source for high school and college students preparing term papers or essays, and seeking out alternate words having similar meanings. In addition to synonyms, the author also lists antonyms for most entries.The type is set in two colors to facilitate quick and easy reference.

Updated to help readers cope with the unusual number of uncertainties that characterize today’s financial markets, this book is a financial primer that will be of special value to first-time investors, but also enlightening to everybody who currently has a personal investment portfolio. The author provides sound fundamental information in clear language that non-experts can understand. Separate chapters give practical advice on how to select a broker and open a brokerage account, and describe how the stock market operates. Readers learn how to cut through the jargon that fills annual reports and other financial statements. They will find clear explanations of mutual funds, stock options, an investor’s legal rights, the tax consequences of investing, market analysis, technical analysis, and much more. Here is information that every potential investor should have before opening an account.

A concise summary of Japanese grammar is presented for beginning students of the language. Topics include parts of speech, sentence structure, idioms, and pronunciation advice. All Japanese words are presented phonetically. Important points of grammar or vocabulary, as well as subject heads, are printed in a second color as a quick-reference aid for students. New to this edition is a Japanese-English vocabulary list.

Written primarily for high school seniors and college freshmen, this all-new Easy Way book points out the simple logic that underlies correct grammar and clear expression. The author covers all basics, including parts of speech, sentence types and correct sentence construction, parallel structure, methods of avoiding misplaced and dangling modifiers, agreement of subject and verb, agreement of pronoun and antecedent, and many other basic grammar topics. The book is filled with examples of the right and wrong way to construct sentences, and is supplemented with short quizzes that come with answers. This book truly helps to make mastery of English grammar easy, and prepares students for success in completing written assignments of every kind.

Information and advice on getting publicity for a business or its product, creating mailing lists, using electronic tools and internet resources, writing press releases, understanding the media, mastering the art of networking, coordinating publicity with sales, and much more. Titles in Barron's Business Library series are currently being revised and updated, and re-set in an attractive new paperback format. They are written especially for men and women starting a company or managing a small-to-medium-size business. Emphasis is on practical problem solving, and examples cited in these books are based on realistic business situations.

The Cocker is the smallest of the sporting dogs, but for years it has been just as popular as a house pet. Here is reliable advice on care and training.

This energetic dog makes a loyal and lovable house pet. Here, with a wealth of handsome photos is information on all aspects of Boxer care and training, from selecting a puppy to caring for a lifelong canine friend. Titles in Barron's popular Pet Handbooks series instruct pet owners on health care, proper feeding and housing, and other facts important to owners and their pets. All books in this series have high quality, full-color photos, instructive line drawings, and run to an average of approximately 140 pages.

Approximately 2000 Italian idiomatic expressions are presented, placed in model sentences, and supplied with their English meanings.

This volume is two books in one. The first part presents Russian idioms in Russian with their translations into English with a sample sentence. The second part presents American English idioms, and gives their meanings and sample sentences in Russian.

Books in Barron's pocket-sized Business Dictionaries series list thousands of specialized terms alphabetically and present concise definitions. The authors of all books in this series are recognized authorities in their special fields. Newly updated editions reflect new technologies and recent business trends. This volume defines more than 4,200 insurance terms that should be understood by agents, brokers, actuaries, underwriters, personnel professionals dealing with employee-benefit programs, and consumers who need to understand the insurance policies they plan to buy. Terminology covers life, health, property, and casualty insurance, as well as retirement plans. This new and heavily updated Fourth Edition has been expanded with approximately 200 new terms, and updatings of many other terms to reflect the current state of the insurance industry.

Books in Barron's pocket-sized Business Dictionaries series list thousands of specialized terms alphabetically and present concise definitions. The authors of all books in this series are recognized authorities in their special fields. Newly updated editions reflect new technologies and recent business trends. The new edition of this book presents more than 4,000 A-to-Z terms and definitions covering media analysis, target marketing, e-commerce, advertising art, copy, and production, radio and TV advertising and promotion, retailing, direct mail marketing, business-to-business promotion, and virtually all facets of sales and marketing operations. This new, expanded edition contains approximately 300 additional new and updated terms.

This thoroughly revised new edition translates the most frequently used Italian and English idioms and phrases in two separate bilingual lists. Phrases are alphabetized according to each one's key word for quick reference.

This volume uses both Roman and Cyrillic alphabets. It opens with a diagnostic self-test to help students determine what they already know of Russian and how to get best use from the book. Following chapters include a grammar brush-up covering all parts of speech, and special topics including Russian word formation, idioms, and much more.

The second edition of the highly acclaimed American Accent Training, now on 5 audio CDs, is for foreign-born students and business people working, traveling or studying in the United States and Canada. Through extensive intonation and pronunciation exercises, students learn how to speak with a standard American Accent. At the same time, listening comprehension improves dramatically. Supplementary materials included detailed nationality guides for eight languages (Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Spanish, French, German, Russian and Korean), access to a comprehensive website, and referral to a qualified telephone analyst for an individual diagnostic speech analysis. Also included are colored markers for written exercises, and a mirror to practice accurate pronunciation.

This book details the operations and production processes, considering such factors as costs, quality, speed of delivery, and flexibility of businesses. The authors also set up paradigms for managment decision-making, explain the detials of forecasting needs for goods and services, and much more.

Two separate alphabetical listings give definitions in German-to-English, and English-to-German. The definition of each idiom is followed by an illustrative sentence in both languages. Bilingual appendices touch on irregular verbs, standard abbreviations, and related language topics.

A bilingual dictionary of high-frequency Spanish and English idioms alphabetized according to their key words.

This concise handbook covers parts of speech, verbs, the Russian case system, the Cyrillic alphabet, spelling rules and pronunciation.

This vocabulary building program is specifically designed for ESL students preparing to take the TOEFL. The book presents an organized list of vocabulary words with definitions, sample sentences, and practice exercises for 500 need-to-know words. It also provides detailed advice on ways in which students can expand their English language vocabulary. Students can test their mastery of TOEFL vocabulary by taking the included practice test with answer key, which is designed to help students evaluate their progress, and increase confidence in their vocabulary skills.