Author: Michael Swan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: usage, english, practical
Number of Pages: 658
Published: 2005-11-17
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 019442099X
ISBN-13: 9780194420990

This is the world’s most trusted guide to problems in English - now in a new edition.

Author: Peter Michael Swan
Publisher: An American Philological Association Book
Keywords: books, history, american, classical, studies, roman, dio, succession, historical, commentary, cassius, augustan
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2004-06-17
List price: $164.99
ISBN-10: 0195167740
ISBN-13: 9780195167740

Written in the author’s maternal Greek, the Roman History of the third-century A.D. historian Cassius Dio is our fullest surviving historical source for the reign of the Emperor Augustus. In The Augustan Succession Peter Michael Swan provides an ample historical and historiographic commentary on Books 55-56 of the History. These books recount Augustus’s last twenty-three years (9 B.C.-A.D. 14), during which the aging monarch, amid dynastic tragedies and military setbacks, orchestrated the continuation of the constitutional and imperial system developed under his leadership, which e

Authors:Michael Swan, Catherine Walter,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: book, practice, grammar, works, english
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1997-11-06
List price: $21.75
ISBN-10: 0194314561
ISBN-13: 9780194314565

Combining rich illustrations and authentic exercises, How English Works makes the learning and practising of grammar both a pleasure and a challenge. The author’s imaginative and wholly original approach to the presentation and organisation of their text offers students a lively, purposeful package to give them a confident command of English forms and their uses. Designed for students working on their own, but also ideal for use in class, How English Works covers all the key elements in the standard EFL grammar syllabus, and many other topics which are often ignored.

Authors:Michael Swan, Bernard Smith,
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: cambridge, handbooks, language, teachers, problems, interference, english, teacher, guide, learner
Number of Pages: 378
Published: 2001-05-14
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0521779391
ISBN-13: 9780521779395

Learner English is a well-established and successful reference book for teachers of British English. This new edition builds on the success of the original book. It has been rewritten and extended to provide information on the typical problems and error patterns of a wide range of learners of English from particular language backgrounds. It compares the relevant features of the students’ own language with English, helping teachers to predict and understand the problems that students have. The new book has twenty-two chapters dealing with learners who speak Dutch-Flemish, Scandinavian lan

Authors:Michael Swan, Catherine Walter,
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: book, key, practice, course, cambridge, english, new
Number of Pages: 151
Published: 1991-02-21
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0521376610
ISBN-13: 9780521376617

The New Cambridge English Course, complete in four levels, provides teachers of adult and young adult learners with the most thorough and comprehensive modern course available, for beginner through to upper-intermediate level.Levels 1 and 2 have firmly established The New Cambridge English Course as the one course which provides the wide range of features needed for successful achievement and steady progress at the beginner and low-intermediate stages: - a multi-syllabus approach, systematically covering all aspects of language from grammar, notions and functions through to pronunciation, skil

Authors:Michael Swan, Catherine Walter,
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: practice, book, course, english, cambridge, new
Number of Pages: 119
Published: 1990-05-17
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0521376505
ISBN-13: 9780521376501

The New Cambridge English Course, complete in four levels, provides teachers of adult and young adult learners with the most thorough and comprehensive modern course available, for beginner through to upper-intermediate level.Levels 1 and 2 have firmly established The New Cambridge English Course as the one course which provides the wide range of features needed for successful achievement and steady progress at the beginner and low-intermediate stages: - a multi-syllabus approach, systematically covering all aspects of language from grammar, notions and functions through to pronunciation, skil

Authors:Michael Swan, Catherine Walter,
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: teacher, book, course, english, cambridge, new
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1990-03-01
List price: $36.00
ISBN-10: 0521376653
ISBN-13: 9780521376655

The New Cambridge English Course, complete in four levels, provides teachers of adult and young adult learners with the most thorough and comprehensive modern course available, for beginner through to upper-intermediate level.Levels 1 and 2 have firmly established The New Cambridge English Course as the one course which provides the wide range of features needed for successful achievement and steady progress at the beginner and low-intermediate stages: - a multi-syllabus approach, systematically covering all aspects of language from grammar, notions and functions through to pronunciation, skil