Academic English

Monica Nassif didn’t just build a brand—she bottled a legacy. I Bottled My Mother is the gritty, hilarious, heartfelt origin story behind Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day, the cult-favorite cleaning line inspired by Monica’s real-life mom, Thelma Meyer: a whip-smart, no-nonsense Midwesterner who raised nine children with little more than elbow grease, common sense, and a garden full of geraniums. Part startup manual, part memoir, this is the candid story of how one woman turned domestic skills into corporate strategy, and a small soap company into a household name.

Saint Francis of Assisi is one of the most influential men in the whole of human history. This acclaimed biography of Saint Francis examines the life of a pure artist, a man "whose whole life was a poem." Here is the Saint Francis who prayed and danced with pagan abandon, who talked to animals...

This guide is designed for professionals, academics, and advanced language learners who want to master high-level English expressions and apply them naturally in real-world contexts. Instead of just memorizing isolated definitions, you will explore how these phrases function within specific themes—ranging from managing corporate crises and evaluating business performance to navigating complex workplace relationships and strategic negotiations. Each section provides precise tracking, clear structural intent, and context-driven usage notes to show you exactly why and when to deploy these ...

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, Apologetics at the Cross: Audio Lectures includes high-quality live recordings of college-level lectures that cover the...

She's the rigid workaholic. He's the insufferable troublemaker. Cerise Thornheart has one goal: to become dean at the prestigious university where she teaches. When she's invited to join a team on an expedition to research wildlife in a remote jungle, she jumps at the chance. But when her...

Vanessa Sasson brings early Buddhist history to life in this captivating retelling of Ajatasattu, the Magadhan king infamous for having imprisoned his father to take the throne and who later confesses to the Buddha, hoping for some reprieve from his now ongoing nightmares and regret. Drawing on...

Master the essential vocabulary for OCR GCSE Citizenship Studies with this clear, focused revision guide. The OCR GCSE Citizenship Studies J270 Vocabulary Book is designed to help students understand, remember and confidently use the key terminology required throughout the course. Covering vocabulary from across the OCR J270 specification, each entry provides a clear student-friendly definition, a relevant example to put the term into context, and an exam tip to help students understand how their knowledge can be applied in assessments. Whether used alongside classroom learning, for ...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK The brand-new series from the bestselling author of Practical Magic, following two brilliant young women in 1950s Cambridge, Massachusetts, as they become immersed in a mysterious secret group of witches at Radcliffe known as...

The average American has thirteen jobs in a lifetime. Tom Bross has had at least forty. Don't worry—this is only Book One. You should know up front that this book is a pathetic, self-indulgent journey through a topic generally hated by everyone. Work. And he hopes you love it. He's been a pot-scrubber, a porter, a pizza guy, and a dancing genie. He's had a boss who fired him, a boss who mentored him, and a boss whose mixed-up metaphors drove him crazy. He sent out a résumé with a photo of himself bursting out of a walnut shell—caption: That's me in a nutshell—and somehow it worked.

Read by the author and father of young Jimmy and Stewart, Ten Thousand Jupiters, A Memoir, provides an intimate look at the world of childhood cancer in 1992. Diagnosed with what doctors at Texas Children's Hospital call, "the best childhood cancer," young Stewart pushes the envelope in cancer research by participating in a "conscious sedation" study that forever changes hospital protocols for young children during bone marrow tests and spinal taps.

This guide is specifically engineered to help you bridge the gap between intermediate fluency and high-level native proficiency, ensuring you excel in academic contexts like the TOEFL Reading section, demanding professional environments, or advanced Cambridge examinations (CPE/CAE). True mastery of a language does not come from memorizing isolated word lists. It comes from understanding the fine nuances of when, why, and how expressions are deployed. Across the 24 chapters in this book, you are introduced to structural frameworks that move you seamlessly from literal definitions to real-...

Sarah Hiscox’s deep self-esteem and addiction issues began in childhood when she was given powerful sleeping pills for her nightmares. Then, as a young woman, a toxic relationship with food morphed into a full-blown heroin dependency that neither a loving marriage nor a new baby could halt. After years of cycling through relapse and new starts, Sarah’s relationships were wrecked. In rehab she was confronted with herself and all that she’d lost. But it would take repeated attempts for her to understand even her worst day of abstinence was better than the days she relapsed.

Much of what separates competent academic writing from writing that feels underdeveloped is not the complexity of the ideas themselves, but the precision of the language used to express them. Many capable writers understand their subject well yet reach repeatedly for the same limited set of connectors, hedges, and stock phrases. The result is prose that feels flat and lacks control. This book solves that problem. Academic Vocabulary Toolkit for Researchers is a practical, carefully organised collection of the words and phrases that shape scholarly prose. It moves systematically through the ...

In this dark academia fantasy set in Oxford in 1830, London is a smoldering ruin, tension is rising between humans and fae, and a red star burns overhead . . . War has left the British empire broken and bleeding. The smoke of the Industrial Revolution has choked the forests and driven the elder...

Tired of the pace and noise of life near London and longing for a better place to raise their young children, Mary J. MacLeod and her husband, George, encountered their dream while vacationing on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides. Enthralled by its windswept beauty, they soon were the proud and startled owners of a near-derelict croft house - a farmer’s stone cottage - on “a small acre” of land. Mary assumed duties as the island’s district nurse.

Without John C. Houbolt, a mid-level engineer at NASA, Apollo 11 would never have made it to the moon. Top NASA engineers on the project, including Werner Von Braun, strongly advocated for a single, huge spacecraft to travel to the moon, land, and return to Earth. It's the scenario used in 1950s cartoons and horror movies about traveling to outer space. Houbolt had another idea: Lunar Orbit Rendezvous. LOR would link two spacecraft in orbit while the crafts were travelling at 3,600 miles an hour around the moon. His plan was ridiculed and considered unthinkable.

Heartwarming and gloriously eccentric, Dr Tom's stories capture the beauty of the Lowlands, the joys and sorrows of its inhabitants and the richly rewarding experiences of life as a Scottish country doctor.

In this final volume of her memoir trilogy, Dr. Erica Elliott begins her medical training as an enthusiastic, wide-eyed student but soon becomes a disillusioned doctor, sick from toxic chemicals at the clinic where she works. This health catastrophe, followed by a near-fatal accident and the harrowing, experimental brain surgery that saved her life, forces Erica off the path of mainstream medicine and onto a path that leads to her profound healing. More than a half-century after a Navajo grandmother offered a prophecy about her life, Erica fulfills it in ways she never could have imagined.

Mary J. Macleod and her husband left the London area for an idyllic place to raise their young children in the late '60s, and they found the island of Papavray in the Scottish Hebrides. There they bought a croft house on a "small acre" of land, and Mary J. (also known as Julia) became the district nurse.

From an ER physician and survivor of private violence comes a surprising, unflinching debut literary memoir that takes us behind the scenes of the emergency department—where her patients are wrestling with what feels unspeakable, and so is she. Told with dark humor and hard-won honesty, Dr. Anne Aspler brings listeners into the chaotic world of emergency medicine—and the quieter, messier work of healing her own past.