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Insight into IELTS Student's Book Updated edition: The Cambridge IELTS Course (Cambridge Ielts Course)

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Insight into IELTS Student's Book Updated edition: The Cambridge IELTS Course (Cambridge Ielts Course)
Vanessa Jakeman , and Clare McDowell
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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ASIN: 0521011485

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Insight into IELTS prepares candidates for the International English Language Testing System. The book is arranged by paper, so that teachers, or students working alone, can choose exactly which part of the exam they want to focus on.

Cambridge IELTS 4 Student's Book with Answers: Examination papers from University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations

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I quit good!!!!
excellent practice book

Cambridge IELTS 4 Student's Book with Answers: Examination papers from University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations
Cambridge ESOL
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge IELTS 5 Audio CDs

ASIN: 0521544629

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Cambridge IELTS 4 provides students with an excellent opportunity to familiarise themselves with IELTS and to practise examination techniques using authentic test material from Cambridge ESOL. This collection contains four complete tests for Academic candidates, plus extra Reading and Writing modules for General Training candidates. An introduction to these different modules is included in each book, together with an explanation of the scoring system used by Cambridge ESOL. A comprehensive section of answers and tapescripts makes the material ideal for students working partly or entirely on their own.

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I quit good!!!!.......2007-03-25

This book is quit good, however, there are few issues about "General training module".

I think this kind of books,Cambridge IETLS: Examination papers, they should have more "General training module".

excellent practice book.......2005-10-09

Cambridge IELTS-4 is an excellent book for a self-studying student. It will be better to have full exaplanation regarding answers on the reading test.

Wizard Study Guide My Name is Asher Lev (Cambridge Wizard English Student Guides)

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Wizard Study Guide My Name is Asher Lev (Cambridge Wizard English Student Guides)
Richard McRoberts
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My Name Is Asher Lev

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Cambridge Student Guide to Much Ado About Nothing (Cambridge Student Guides)

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Cambridge Student Guide to Much Ado About Nothing (Cambridge Student Guides)
Mike Clamp
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ASIN: 0521008247

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The Cambridge Student Guide to Much Ado About Nothing provides explanatory notes and guidance to help form the basis for the understanding of the play. It is part of a new series aimed at students from 16 years upwards in schools and colleges throughout the English-speaking world. Background information provides support and prompts inquiry for advanced level study by drawing out issues and themes related to the text. The content of each book in the series follows the pattern of an introduction; detailed running commentary on the text; insight into historical, social and cultural contexts; analysis of the language; an overview of critical approaches and different interpretations; essay-writing tips and lists of recommended resources.

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too wordy and tangential
Long on prose; short on plot
Keep on playing those mind games ...
Very good but would have liked more Bonnie and less Ian
Inspired but ultimately trite

Inspired Sleep: A Novel
Robert Cohen
Manufacturer: Vintage
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The HERE AND NOW

ASIN: 0375718877
Release Date: 2002-01-22

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These days, Bonnie Saks is lucky to gets four consecutive hours of shut-eye, what with her bed-wetting young son, her unfinished doctoral thesis, her meager teaching salary, and the fact that she’s pregnant by a lover about as reliable as her ex-husband.

Meanwhile, Ian Ogelvie, an ambitious young research scientist, is setting up a study of a promising new sleep aid. Their chance encounter forms the backdrop for this richly exuberant portrait of contemporary America, encompassing everything from the slippery evasions of love to the intricate network that binds together the pharmaceutical industry, managed care, and a shadow population of lost, sleepless souls. At once entertaining and philosophic, Inspired Sleep heralds a major voice in American fiction.

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too wordy and tangential.......2007-05-24

as another reviewer stated, i too had to force myself to finish this book.( i read about a book a day.) i never was able to discern a plot, and i basically did not like the characters. her kids were obnoxious, she allowed them to be and did not seem to make them accountable for their behavior. i had a touph time ascertaining if ian and his assistant had sex, what the shot was that he gave her, and her ex- being there had no effect on the book at all. very wordy, and cumbersome.

Long on prose; short on plot.......2003-10-09

I agree with all those who have stated that Robert Cohen is eloquent and his characters well explored, but that is where my admiration for this novel ends. It seems the prose and character exploration are done at the expense of, or in place of, plot. I noted another reader commented that Cohen should be next to Chabon in sales. Chabon uses his prose as a vehicle to move plot and action. Cohen uses it in a reflective way that doesn't move his novels along the way Chabon's do.

My issues with the plot in a nutshell are: We must read over 200 pages before the protagonist begins taking the drug and we see its effects. Foreshadowing abounds but there never is much follow-through on it. Issues foreshadowed include the dangerous nature of the drug, Howard Heflin's lack of forthrightness, Bonnie's lovers' deterioration, so on and so forth. They seem to add up to something sinister that never really quite surfaces.

In short,the subject of the book is rich. His prose is beautiful but not enough to make up for a poorly executed plot.

Keep on playing those mind games ..........2003-06-22

Extremely successful novel that takes the premise - whether prescribed mind drugs have any useful purpose - and explores it in a compelling fashion. Cohen writes in a way that gets under the characters' skins. Quite unusual in contemporary literature, this one is so well researched, so relevant, it was impossible to put down.

It did however leave me feeling as if I too had taken the drugs and experienced the highs and lows together with Bonnie and Eddie. By the end I was emotionally drained, wrung out, but in a good way!

Very good but would have liked more Bonnie and less Ian.......2001-07-24

First, I agree with all of the reviewers who commented on how well-written the book was. Cohen is simply an excellent writer who really can string words together beautifully. I was particularly impressed by little touches such as Cress' book report on Macbeth, where he has to write as a 15-year old like Cress might write, and the E-mail exchanges, and the E-Mail exchanges. The dialogue is great too. I really admire his talent. In addition, I don't necessarily agree with those who criticized the entire cast of characters in the book, as if to throw them all in a pot together. However, I did find all the chapters about Bonnie and her world (Larry Albeit, Cress, her kids etc.) to be much more interesting than the chapters about Ian and his world (Heflin, Marisa Chu, Erway, Eddie, etc.). And therein lies a problem: As the novel went on, while there is obviously some intersection between Bonnie's life and Ian's life, it seemed that Ian and his world took center stage more and more while Bonnie and her group got pushed to the sidelines. Not completely of course, but enough to annoy. I would have enjoyed more about Bonnie & Co. and less about Ian & Co. It also seemed to me as if, except for one twist, the ending seemed to fizzle out a little, as if the author lost some of his focused edge. Nevertheless, still a fine novel.

Inspired but ultimately trite.......2001-07-20

I had to push myself complete this book. The author is intelligent and has many keen observations and mind opening views -- however this doens't add up to a good novel. The plot (did I miss it?) went nowhere. The characters were one dimensional -- they never felt true to me. Instead they seemed only representative of a certain life situation. The one redeaming quality of this book is the "truth in advertising" nature of the title -- it did indeed inspire me to sleep.

Cambridge Student Guide to Twelfth Night (Cambridge Student Guides)

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Cambridge Student Guide to Twelfth Night (Cambridge Student Guides)
Rex Gibson
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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ASIN: 0521008204

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The Cambridge Student Guide to Twelfth Night provides explanatory notes and guidance to help form the basis for the understanding of the play. It is part of a new series aimed at students from 16 years upwards in schools and colleges throughout the English-speaking world. Background information provides support and prompts inquiry for advanced level study by drawing out issues and themes related to the text. The content of each book in the series follows the pattern of an introduction; detailed running commentary on the text; insight into historical, social and cultural contexts; analysis of the language; an overview of critical approaches and different interpretations; essay-writing tips and lists of recommended resources.

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Cambridge Student Guides: Shakespeare Pack of 12 (Cambridge Student Guides)

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Rex Gibson
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Cambridge Student Guides to Shakespeare provide explanatory notes and guidance to help form the basis for the understanding of each play. The series is aimed at students from 16 years upwards, in schools, colleges and universities throughout the world. Background information provides support and prompts inquiry for advanced level study by drawing out issues and themes related to the text. The content of each book in the series follows the pattern of an introduction; detailed running commentary on the text; insight into historical, social and cultural contexts; analysis of the language; an overview of critical approaches and different interpretations; essay-writing tips; and lists of recommended resources.

Cambridge Student Guide to Coriolanus (Cambridge Student Guides)

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Cambridge Student Guide to Coriolanus (Cambridge Student Guides)
Rex Gibson
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The Cambridge Student Guide to Coriolanus provides explanatory notes and guidance to help students understand the many different aspects of the play. It is part of a new series aimed at students from 16 years upwards in schools and colleges throughout the English-speaking world. ??Background information provides support and prompts inquiry for advanced level study by drawing out issues and themes related to the play text. The content of each book in the series follows the pattern of an introduction; detailed running commentary on the play; insight into historical, social and cultural contexts; analysis of the language; an overview of critical approaches and different interpretations; essay-writing tips and lists of recommended resources.

Cambridge Wizard Student Guide Girl with a Pearl Earring (Cambridge Wizard English Student Guides)

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Objective CAE Self-study Student's Book
Felicity O'Dell , and Annie Broadhead
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