Product Details 基本信息 ISBN-13 书号 9781607747109 Author 作者 Sanders, Ella Frances Pages Number 页数 112页 Publisher 出版社 Ten Speed Press Publication Date 出版日期 2014年09月16日 Product Dimensions 商品尺寸 16开 1.52 cms H x 17.60 cms L x 19.91 cms W Shipping Weight 商品重量 566g Language 语种 ENG Book Contents 内容简介 An artistic collection of more than 50 drawings featuring unique, funny, and poignant foreign words that have no direct translation into English. Did you know that the Japanese language has a word to express the way sunlight filters through the leaves of trees? Or that there's a Finnish word for the distance a reindeer can travel before needing to rest? "Lost in Translation" brings to life more than fifty words that don't have direct English translations with charming illustrations of their tender, poignant, and humorous definitions. Often these words provide insight into the cultures th
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With half a million copies in print, How to Read a Book is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader, completely rewritten and updated with new material. Originally published in 1940, this book is a rare phenomenon, a living classic that introduces and elucidates the various levels of reading and how to achieve them from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading. Readers will learn when and how to judge a book by its cover, and also how to X-ray it, read critically, and extract the author s message from the text. Also included is instruction in the different techniques that work best for reading particular genres, such as practical books, imaginative literature, plays, poetry, history, science and mathematics, philosophy and social science works. Finally, the authors offer a recommended reading list and supply reading tests you can use measure your own progress in reading skills, comprehension, and speed.,
ISBN:978-0300170825 出版社:Yale University Press; Reprint edition 出版日期:April 26 2011 页数:272 语种:英文 尺寸:13.7 x 2.5 x 21.3 cm 以上信息均为网络信息,仅供参考,具体以实物为准
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