The Language of Meetings Goodale Malcolm National Geographic Society

The language of flowers is as old as language itself. In the earliest poetry familiar plants were used to represent simple emotions, ideas, or states of mind: love, hope, despair, fidelity, solitude, beauty, mortality. Over time these associations entwined with myth and legend, with religious symbolism, folk and herbal lore. By the early 19th century the 'Language of Flora' had become increasingly refined, especially in England and America, where sentimental flower books listing flower meanings and illustrating them with verse were perennial bestsellers • The Everyman Language of Flowers without sacrificing the charm of its Victorian predecessors aims to provide extended, updated and rather more robust floral anthology for the 21st century, presenting poetry from ancient Greece to contemporary Britain and America, and spanning the world from Cuba to Korea, Russia to Zimbabwe

The Language of Literature - Учебное пособие серии «Cambridge Topics in English Language» • Серия понятных вводных учебных пособий по основным научным темам в области английской лингвистики и стилистики, подходящих для студентов продвинутого уровня и выше • The Language of Literature - это общее введение в методы и принципы, лежащие в основе стилистики. В пособии используется подход, согласно которому лучший способ изучения художественных текстов - это пристальное внимание к языку • Серия знакомит студентов с основными современными проблемами и концепциями с помощью кратких упражнений, помогающих объяснить методы анализа, обобщая ключевые проблемы и современные находки, вдохновляя предложениями по исследованию, практическими вопросами и списками для дальнейшего чтения

The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh is a moving story of hope and forgiveness, and an international bestseller • The Victorians used flowers to express emotions: honeysuckle for devotion, azaleas for passion, and red roses for love. For Victoria Jones, flowers and their meanings are her only connection to the world - although for her, they are most useful in expressing feelings such as grief, mistrust and solitude • After a childhood in the foster care system, Victoria - now eighteen - has nowhere to go, and sleeps in a public park, where she plants a small garden of her own. When her talent is discovered by a local florist, she discovers her gift for helping others through the flowers she chooses for them. But it takes a meeting with a mysterious vendor at the flower market for her to realize what's been missing in her own life

The director of the Design Museum defines the greatest artefact of all time: the city • We live in a world that is now predominantly urban. So how do we define the city as it evolves in the twenty-first century? Drawing examples from across the globe, Deyan Sudjic decodes the underlying forces that shape our cities, such as resources and land, to the ideas that shape conscious elements of design, whether of buildings or of space. Erudite and entertaining, he considers the differences between capital cities and the rest to understand why it is that we often feel more comfortable in our identities as Londoners, Muscovites, or Mumbaikars than in our national identities

This innovative volume presents an in-depth study of the language used by participants in business meetings. The cutting-edge research draws on the Cambridge and Nottingham Business English Corpus (CANBEC), a unique resource which brings together meetings of different types both within and between companies, involving speakers whose roles and responsibilities vary, and who represent a range of nationalities and first languages. Keywords, concordance lines and discourse analysis provide thorough insights into aspects such as the structural stages of meetings, participants' discursive practices, interpersonal language and creativity, and power and constraint. The author concludes by making practical suggestions for using these findings to inform the teaching of business English

You've heard of the Horse Whisperer - now meet the woman who uses similar methods to train dogs • Jan Fennell's remarkable gifts have earned her the nickname "the dog listener". Her unique understanding of the canine world and its instinctive language has enabled her to bring even the most desperate and delinquent of dogs to heel • This easy-to-follow guide to understanding Jan's simple techniques draws on her countless case histories of problem dogs - from biters and barkers to bicycle chasers - to show how we can bridge the language barrier that separates man from his best friend • In The Dog Listener Jan shares her secrets, telling us how she grew determined to find a more compassionate alternative to standard "obedience" training techniques and ultimately how to communicate with canines

I felt that Mary was there, pulling at my sleeve, willing me to appreciate the artistry, wanting me to understand the dazzle of the material world that shaped her • At her execution Mary, Queen of Scots wore red. Widely known as the colour of strength and passion, it was in fact worn by Mary as the Catholic symbol of martyrdom • In sixteenth-century Europe women's voices were suppressed and silenced. Even for a queen like Mary, her prime duty was to bear sons. In an age when textiles expressed power, Mary exploited them to emphasise her female agency. From her lavishly embroidered gowns as the prospective wife of the French Dauphin to the fashion dolls she used to encourage a Marian style at the Scottish court and the subversive messages she embroidered in captivity for her supporters, Mary used textiles to advance her political agenda, affirm her royal lineage and tell her own story

Drawing on the infamous Lord Lucan affair, this compelling novel explores the roots of a shocking murder from a fresh perspective and brings to vivid life an era when women's voices all too often went unheard • In the summer of 1974, Mandy River arrives in London to make a fresh start and begins working as nanny to the children of one Lady Morven. She quickly finds herself in the midst of a bitter custody battle and the house under siege: Lord Morven is having his wife watched. According to Lady Morven, her estranged husband also has a violent streak, yet she doesn't seem the most reliable witness. Should Mandy believe her? • As Mandy edges towards her tragic fate, her friend Rosemary watches from the wings - an odd girl with her own painful past and a rare gift

"Язык генов" - первая книга Стива Джонса, получившая высокую оценку, дважды удостоенная премии и ставшая бестселлером, теперь полностью переработана, чтобы охватить все новые открытия в области генетики - от ГМО-продуктов питания до овечки Долли • Книга на английском языке • Steve Jones’s highly acclaimed, double prize-winning, bestselling first book is now fully revised to cover all the new genetic breakthroughs from GM food to Dolly the sheep • ’An essential sightseer’s guide to our own genetic terrain.’ Peter Tallack, Sunday Telegraph • ’Superb and stimulating…an exhilarating trip around the double spiral of DNA, a rush of gravity-defying concepts and wild swerves of the scientific imagination.’ J.G. Ballard, Daily Telegraph • ’Not so much divination as demystification… An attempt to bring genetics and evolution more into the public domain

Кристи Уотсон проработала медсестрой двадцать лет. "Язык доброты", который ведет нас от рождения к смерти и от реанимации до морга, - это поразительный рассказ о профессии, определяемой проявлениями заботы, сострадания и доброты • Мы наблюдаем за Кристи, когда она нянчит недоношенного ребенка, который чудом пережил эту ночь, мы стоим рядом с ней во время мучительной операции по пересадке сердца и легких ее пациенту, и мы задерживаем дыхание, когда она моет волосы ребенку, смертельно пострадавшему при пожаре, пытаясь избавиться от токсичного запаха дыма до того, как прибудет скорбящая семья • В наши самые экстремальные моменты, когда жизнь протекает наиболее интенсивно, Кристи с нами. Она - проводник, наставник и друг. И в эти мрачные дни разделения и изоляционизма она призывает всех нас протянуть руку помощи

The Complete Guide to IELTS deconstructs the IELTS test and works systematically through each paper, covering all task types, text types and skills. No stone is left unturned. The material can be used in class or by students working on the own • Features • Each lesson offers task analysis, sample questions, tips and tactics, and skills-building exercises • Separate vocabulary lessons deal with the common lexical features of the IELTS reading passage types and listening sections • Engaging and motivating National Geographic video lessons increase students’ familiarity with the listening task types • A Language Resource Bank provides a comprehensive grammar reference and practice exercises covering all the grammar needed for the test • Full practice test

The Complete Guide to IELTS deconstructs the IELTS test and works systematically through each paper, covering all task types, text types and skills. No stone is left unturned. The material can be used in class or by students working on the own • Features • Each lesson offers task analysis, sample questions, tips and tactics, and skills-building exercises • Separate vocabulary lessons deal with the common lexical features of the IELTS reading passage types and listening sections • Engaging and motivating National Geographic video lessons increase students’ familiarity with the listening task types • A Language Resource Bank provides a comprehensive grammar reference and practice exercises covering all the grammar needed for the test • Full practice test