Paragraph Writing When starting to write assignments in English, students need to be able to * find ideas for their writing and put them into sentences * logically organize their sentences into paragraphs * review and revise their paragraphs to make them even stronger Paragraph Writing provides students with * focus on particular aspects of paragraph writing, such as topi...(展开全部)

These, heard over the phone, were the last recorded words of successful celebrity-divorce lawyer Richard Pryce, found bludgeoned to death in his bachelor pad with a bottle of wine – a 1982 Chateau Lafite worth £3,000, to be precise. Odd, considering he didn’t drink. Why this bottle? And why those words? And why was a three-digit number painted on the wall by the killer? And, mo...(展开全部)

Blanchot's famous fictive recit, tr Lydia Davis

Blanchot's famous fictive recit, tr Lydia Davis

Funny and moving by turns, Deaf Sentence is a witty, original and absorbing account of one man’s effort to come to terms with deafness, ageing and mortality, and the comedy and tragedy of human lives. When the university merged his Department of English with Linguistics, Professor Desmond Bates took early retirement, but he is not enjoying it. He misses the routine of the acade...(展开全部)

Retired Professor of Linguistics Desmond Bates is going deaf. It's a bother for his wife who has an enviably successful new career and is too busy to be endlessly repeating herself. Roles are reversed with his aging father, who resents his son's attempts to help him. And then there's Alex, a student whom Desmond has agreed to help after a typical misunderstanding at a party. Bu...(展开全部)

Funny and moving by turns, Deaf Sentence is a witty, original and absorbing account of one man’s effort to come to terms with deafness, ageing and mortality, and the comedy and tragedy of human lives. When the university merged his Department of English with Linguistics, Professor Desmond Bates took early retirement, but he is not enjoying it. He misses the routine of the acade...(展开全部)

The China Society for People's Friendship Studies （PFS） in cooperation with the Foreign Languages Press （FLP） in Beijing has arranged for re-publication, in the series entitled Light on China, of some fifty books written in English between the 1860s and the founding years of the People's Republic, by journalistic and other sympathetic eyewitnesses of the revolutionary events de...(展开全部)

伊斯雷尔·爱泼斯坦（Israel Epstein），国际知名记者、作家。1915年出生在波兰华沙，1917年跟随父母移居中国。长年为美国合众社、《纽约时报》等报道中国。抗日战争期间，对正面战场和敌后战场均有深入报道。既奔赴南京、广州、武汉及山东台儿庄前线战场采访，也曾突破重重封锁访问延安。此外，他还应宋庆龄之邀，在香港参加“保卫中国同盟”，积极宣传中国的抗日斗争并争取国际援助。新中国成立之后，爱泼斯坦应宋庆龄的邀请返回中国，后来加入中国国籍。 爱泼斯坦亲身经历了中国从半殖民地到民族独立、从新中国成立到改革开放的历史巨变。他说：“中国实际上成为我写作的唯一主题。”他的七部主要作品包括： 以抗战为主题的“战争四部曲”：《人民之战》《我访问延安：1944年的通讯和家书》《中国未完成的革命》和《从鸦片战争到解放》。 《西藏的变迁》：这是作者1955—1976...(展开全部)