Robert Allen

A Global History of the British Industrial Revolution

James Regan

This mind-enhancing resource features 101 workouts and mental exercises that will help readers improve their memory, hone their reasoning skills, win at strategic games and make better decisions in everyday life.

Brain Training for the Idle Minded

How to Be a Genius

Word Puzzles for Kids

Things to Do Now That You're 50

Boost Your Creativity

The power of creativity is available to all of us. It is one human characteristic that everyone shares, though some are better at making use of it than others. The exercises and techniques in this book are designed to help you train yourself to ge the maximum benefit from your own creativity.

Exercises and Advice for Great Creative Thinking

Allen’s Dictionary of English Phrases is the most comprehensive survey of this area of the English language ever undertaken. Taking over 6000 phrases, it explains their meaning, explores their development and gives citations that range from the Venerable Bede to Will Self. Crisply and wittily written, the book is packed with memorable and surprising detail, whether showing that 'salad days' comes from Antony and Cleopatra, that 'flavour of the month' originates in 1940s American ice cream marketing, or even that we’ve been 'calling a spade a spade' since the sixteenth century. Allen’s Dictionary of English Phrases is part of the Penguin Reference Library and draws on over 70 years of experience in bringing reliable, useful and clear information to millions of readers around the world – making knowledge everybody’s property.

Allen's Dictionary of English Phrases

Oxford

Enrich children's language with this dictionary for primary school students.

Oxford Primary Dictionary

Chambers Encyclopedic English Dictionary

Updated with the use of the Oxford English Corpus, this edition contains over 4,000 entries that answer the most frequently asked questions about language and language use.

Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage

Allen�s Dictionary of English Phrases is the most comprehensive survey of this area of the English language ever undertaken. Taking over 6000 phrases, it explains their meaning, explores their development and gives citations that range from the Venerable Bede to Will Self. Crisply and wittily written, the book is packed with memorable and surprising detail, whether showing that 'salad days' comes from Antony and Cleopatra, that 'flavour of the month' originates in 1940s American ice cream marketing, or even that we�ve been 'calling a spade a spade' since the sixteenth century. Allen�s Dictionary of English Phrases is part of the Penguin Reference Library and draws on over 70 years of experience in bringing reliable, useful and clear information to millions of readers around the world � making knowledge everybody�s property.

The Amazing 1000 Puzzle Challenge 2

Thousands of General Knowledge Questions for All Ages

Mensa Quiz Book

"'C.L. Dellums: International President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Union and Civil Rights Leader' (interview by Joyce A. Henderson, Regional Oral History Office, Bancrot Library, University of California, 1973) cited in the text as 'Dellums Oral History' (DOH), is copyrighted by the Regents of the University of California, and extracts from it are used here by permission"--Colophon.

C. L. Dellums and the Fight for Fair Treatment and Civil Rights

The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

Lasara Firefox Allen

Nico Gamache-Kocol

Disjointed is a poetry collection authored by Lasara Firefox Allen, Robert Allen, and Nico Gamache-Kocol. Everything disjointed can heal.

Disjointed

Almost since writing was invented there has been a desire to hide some of what was written from prying eyes. State secrets, commercial information, love letters and much else have been considered too sensitive to be left around for others to read. The answer was to write the material in a code that was known only to those who were allowed to be in on the secret. Inevitably, as soon as codes were invented there was a demand for people who could break them and unlock potentially valuable secrets. Code-breaking calls for great reserves of ingenuity and guile. Have you got what it takes? This is where you find out. Pit your wits against some of the greatest code writers of all time and see whether you can penetrate their secrets.

The Cryptogram Challenge

Let's Start the Conversation

Self-Care

The Penguin Writers' Guides series provides authoritative, succinct and easy-to-follow guidance on specific aspects of written English. Whether you need to brush up your skills or get to grips with something for the first time, these invaluable Guides will help you find the best way to get your message across clearly and effectively. This essential guide covers the key rules - and pitfalls - of written and spoken grammar. It covers such areas as: the building blocks of language, common errors and misconceptions, choosing the right level of expression, differences between British and American English, and political correctness. It also discusses various uses of language, from creative writing, CVs and reports to verbal presentations, and business and personal letters, with many useful suggestions for accurate and fluent English.

How to Write Better English

Penguin Writers' Guides

No-one wants toxic waste dumped in their back yard. Dioxins and furans from incinerators, dangerous chemicals leaching from landfill sites and the apparently random dumping of nuclear waste are all clear threats to our health and lives. In fact any waste not properly dealt with can become dangerous - yet industry and state seem to collude recklessly in its production. Robert Allen describes the waste produced in Britain and Ireland and the woefully inadequate means of dealing with it. He looks, too, at governmental intransigence and dishonesty and at industry's refusal to consider the needs of local communities. He also gives an account of the available legislation governing toxic waste and the degree to which it will need radical change in the face of a rapidly growing problem. Waste dumping impinges on people's lives, and he examines some of the very successful campaigns against the many ill-considered dumping grounds. As governments only respond to pressure, there are valuable lessons to be learnt from these campaigns. This book sets out the nature of the problem and provides a basis on which to tackle it. Originally published in 1992

The Production and Dumping of Toxic Waste

Waste Not Want Not

Includes standard English as well s scientific and technical vocabulary, specialist terms, slang, and the English of earlier periods.

Robert Allen

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