Academic Language

ACADEMIC VOCABULARY & GRAMMAR: ESSENTIAL LANGUAGE FOR ACADEMIC WRITING Write more academic English with the right words and patterns. Build a reliable phrasebank, master common grammar frames, and learn how to sound precise and objective in essays, reports, and research projects. With answers for self-study. What you’ll learn • Academic phrases for introducing topics, describing data, comparing ideas, and drawing conclusions • Reporting and hedging (e.g., “studies suggest…”, “may lead to…”) to manage tone and claims • High-value collocations and grammar patterns that ...

The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Church History in Plain Language Audio Lectures include high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the...

Over 330,000 copies sold. This is the story of the church for today's listeners. Bruce Shelley's classic history of the church brings the story of global Christianity into the twenty-first century. Like a skilled screenwriter, Shelley begins each chapter with three elements: characters, setting...

ADVANCED ENGLISH is a short, no-nonsense, reader-friendly bank of academic "expressions" written for both graduate and undergraduate students who already know the basics of academic English but find difficulty using a higher level phrases or words. ADVANCED ENGLISH is a collection of the most common and essential idioms, phrasal verbs, vocabulary and phrases which are indispensable for every student in terms of using English effectively whether for speaking or writing purposes or taking academic tests such as Toefl, Ielts, Gre and the like. The book is designed in a very practical and ...

Students of biblical Greek will learn all New Testament Greek vocabulary words that occur ten times or more in the New Testament by interacting with this audio product. Jonathan Pennington speaks all New Testament Greek words in descending order of frequency. Different tracks enable students to...

What if everything you thought you knew about the Bible was only scratching the surface? Countless believers, pastors, and even scholars read Scripture faithfully yet miss the profound depth hidden within its languages, history, and divine design. The tragedy is not ignorance—it is settling for shallow interpretation when God invites us into oceans of meaning. The modern church is awash with quick answers, surface-level sermons, and fragmented interpretations. But when the Word of God is reduced to clichés or stripped of its historical and theological richness, it loses its ...

Basics of Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary Audio is a convenient and useful audio companion for students wanting to learn and reinforce Biblical Hebrew vocabulary. This audio product includes every term that occurs fifty times or more in the Hebrew Bible. Vocabulary is read in order of frequency and...

This book is a crash course in effective reasoning, meant to catapult you into a world where you start to see things how they really are, not how you think they are. The focus of this book is on logical fallacies, which loosely defined, are simply errors in reasoning. With the reading of each page, you can make significant improvements in the way you reason and make decisions.

When knowledge becomes an invitation to the abyss… Professor Alistair Ward has spent decades buried in dust-laden tomes and forgotten maps, chasing anomalies other scholars dismiss as myth. But when he uncovers a nameless, alien codex and a desperate journal filled with chilling warnings, his quiet world of study fractures. The whispers point to a place absent from modern charts but etched deep in ancient folklore: Valus Peak. Drawn to its desolate slopes by a compulsion he cannot resist, Ward abandons reason for obsession. Each step into the Adirondack wilderness leads him closer to ...

Follow this family of six on their passage - extraordinary, hilarious and heartbreakingly poignant-from Bright Lights (of New York City) to the Northern Lights (of Norway) to the City of Light (Paris) to the speed-of-light of the Autobahn (in Munich). Continue deep into the tropics of Southeast Asia (Singapore) and end your voyage in the heights of the Swiss Alps (Geneva).

This audio download contains all the Greek words found in the vocabulary sections of Basics of Biblical Greek by William D. Mounce, presented in the order of the lessons. Students can therefore listen to and learn their vocabulary words while they are working in the house, driving, walking, and...

As one of the world's leading voice coaches, Patsy Rodenburg describes practical ways to approach language, using Shakespeare, Romantic poetry, modern prose and a range of other texts to help each of us discover our own unique need for words. Drawing on Rodenburg's time spent coaching in the worlds of business and politics, this edition reflects on how the way we use words has changed since the book was first published.

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Improve your IELTS academic score by mastering new vocabulary words. You’ll see the words and expressions used in a dialogue, find out what they mean and then get an opportunity to practice what you’ve learned. It’s everything you need to improve your academic English vocabulary and score higher on the IELTS exam.

Haiku Anyone? Poetry Book, by author Reneé Drummond-Brown, covers natural occurrences in nature, animals and moments in time. Some common themes throughout the book focus on ethical impressions: love, loss and landscapes in poetic art form of “precept upon precept” capturing the haikus simplistic and direct expressions.

Do you know how your brain operates to store memories? Do you know how it works to recall them? Would you like to be able to improve your memory? The memory is a crucial function of the brain and is essential for many of the things we do on a daily basis. Without a memory we would be unable to recall names, places, favorite foods and a whole host of other things we take for granted. In his book, Strategic Memory: The Natural History of Learning and Forgetting, Dr. Chong Chen takes a look at memories, their functions and how they work in 5 parts; The process of memory The encoding and ...

The Future of Language distinguishes myth from reality and superstition from scientifically based prediction as it plots out the importance of language and raises questions about its future. From the rise of artificial intelligence and speaking robots, to brain implants and computer-facilitated telepathy, language and communications expert Philip Seargeant surveys the development of new digital ‘languages’ and investigates how conventions of spoken and written language are being modified by new trends in communication.

Aristotle wrote on everything from the shape of seashells to sterility, from speculations on the nature of the soul to meteorology, poetry, art, and even the interpretation of dreams. Apart from mathematics, he transformed every field of knowledge that he touched. Above all, Aristotle is credited with the founding of logic. When he first divided human knowledge into separate categories, he enabled our understanding of the world to develop in a systematic fashion.

Speaking My Soul is the honest story of linguist John R. Rickford's life from his early years as the youngest of ten children in Guyana to his status as Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Stanford, of the transformation of his identity from colored or mixed race in Guyana to black in the USA, and of his work championing Black Talk and its speakers. In this engaging memoir, Rickford recalls landmark events for his racial identity.

This comprehensive vocabulary builder transforms language learning through over 300 engaging non-fiction stories, teaching advanced vocabulary in context rather than through rote memorization. Whether exploring bioluminescent creatures in marine biology stories, learning about astronomical phenomena like black holes and supernovas, or discovering historical events like the Great Train Robbery, readers naturally acquire SAT-level, TOEFL or IELTS vocabulary while satisfying their curiosity about the world. The book's ESL-friendly approach introduces complex terms like "cryopreservation" ...