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Learn Classical Greek with ease! Greek Key Words is a learning aid benefiting from computer analysis of the surviving corpus of classical Greek literature, comprising over 1,500,000 words. It consists of a list of the most common two thousand words in ancient Greek, with their meanings in English, arranged in decreasing order of frequency. The list is divided into a hundred units of twenty key words each, from which many more words can be derived, making this an easy way to learn classical Greek. These two thousand key words account for 85% of all word occurrences in Greek. Greek Key Words is the most efficient and logical way to acquire the basic vocabulary of ancient Greek. Most grammars and readers introduce words almost at random, so that a student can never be sure of mastering commonly-occurring words within a reasonable period. A frequency list such as Greek Key Words can create confidence and a sense of security in vocabulary building and, by dividing the list into manageable units, mastery can be achieved without undue strain. Greek Key Words is also weighted towards the authors who appear most often in examinations as set texts or as the basis for unseen translation. It is therefore of the maximum possible practical benefit for those working towards public examinations. Learn ancient Greek with confidence. Dr Jerry Toner has made sure that both adult beginners and schoolchildren alike will be introduced to all the most frequently-occurring words in classical Greek within their first year or two of study. English and Greek indexes allow the reader to trace each word in the lists and indicates by its position the relative frequency of that word. He is also the author of Latin Key Words (ISBN 978-0906672693).

Quickly Master Basic Latin by Building a Practical Vocabulary Fast!* New – Completely revised and updated* First 100 words provides 40% common usage* A simple, fast, proven way to learn Latin with ease* Easy units - your confidence grows as your vocabulary grows* Created by Cambridge University Classics Fellow Dr Jerry TonerLatin Key Words provides an easy route to mastering excellent basic Latin. Easy-to-learn Unit Structure gets you the words you need to know quickly and easily.One hundred easy-to-master units of 20 words each.Learn Latin quickly and simply.These words are the essential foundation stones on which you intuitively build your language framework:The first hundred words account for 40% of common usage and the first thousand for 68%. The full 2000 key words represent 75% of all Latin words in a corpus of nearly two million.Learn the vocabulary in Latin Key Words and you are three quarters of the way to mastering the entire corpus of Latin texts.Also provides an all-in-one basic Latin-English dictionary and an all-in-one basic English-Latin Dictionary.The perfect aid - to learn Latin by using the simplest, most logical way to pick up a vocabulary of ten thousand words from two thousand.Latin Key Words presents you with the 2,000 word basic vocabulary ordered by frequency of occurrence - in one hundred simple units.Ideal for Examinations and University study. Includes the major works of the following authors: Caesar, Catullus, Cicero, Horace, Livy, Ovid, Suetonius, Tacitus, and Virgil.A simple, fast, proven way to learn Latin with ease.Click to buy it now - you have free delivery with Amazon Prime.

FIVE CENTURIES OF SPIES FROM CAMBRIDGE “Spies, as Christopher Catherwood’s book shows, are a Cambridge tradition”What do the dramatist and Shakespeare contemporary Christopher Marlowe, the Elizabethan courtier Sir Francis Walsingham, and Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and John Cairncross all have in common?The answer is that they were all at Cambridge University and all of them were spies... This brilliant new book is the first to unite such a fascinating group of people, and to explore this extraordinary 500-year continuity provided by their place of education. This direct continuity is something of which Cambridge and its colleges are very aware, and which makes it such a unique place in the annals of espionage, treachery and intrigue.The murder of Christopher Marlowe in a tavern brawl is still a mystery, a subject upon which many books have been written, none with conclusive results. But there is one factor upon which they all agree – that his death was directly related to his activities as a spy. Some of those involved, such as Robert Poley, were also Cambridge graduates, and with the ideological war with Spain in the 16th century having strong parallels with the similar 20th-century struggle of the Cold War (not to mention the fight against fascism in the 1930s that recruited many Cambridge students to Marxism), the level of continuity is therefore remarkable yet again.The Cuckoos’ Nest examines and illustrates the common international themes of the times alongside the domestic political and social atmospheres prevalent and elegantly and fascinatingly weaves them into a spellbinding tale of treachery and treason.Reviews“Spies, as Christopher Catherwood's entertaining book shows, are a Cambridge tradition. Graduates from most British universities have joined the British intelligence services. Twentieth-century Cambridge, however, provided some of the best recruits for the KGB as well. The Cuckoos’ Nest brings their extraordinary careers vividly to life.” – Christopher Andrew, Official Historian of the Security Service (MI5)“As Christopher Catherwood points out in The Cuckoos’ Nest, spy stories – the real ones, that is – seem to have an endless fascination for us. When these stories have a connection with an ancient university and a charming city, then the fascination is all the greater. In this extraordinarily readable book, Catherwood explores the connection between place and intrigue, between a university committed to truth and people committed to dissemblance. The result is an extraordinarily rich narrative.” – Alexander McCall SmithScroll up and grab your copy now. About the AuthorChristopher Catherwood is a writer and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and lives with his wife Paueltte just outside Cambridge. He is attached to Churchill College and St Edmund's College at Cambridge and attends the Intelligence History Seminar run by the Official Historian of MI5, Professor Christopher Andrew. He is an expert on 20th century history in Europe and the Middle East, and has written many books in that area, and on Winston Churchill in particular. He also teaches 20th century and English Reformation history for the Tulane and Wake Forest Universities’ INSTEP Study Abroad programme in Cambridge and taught for many years at the University of Richmond in Virginia. He is currently writing on special operations and espionage in World War II for a series on secret intelligence history, and on Randolph Churchill and Evelyn Waugh as SOE agents in the Balkans.

They broke the law. They defied the authorities.They made the midnight skyline their playground.And they recorded it.A secret group, led by the mysterious ‘Butterfly Catcher’, scale the university buildings of this sleepy academic town in the darkest hours. Risking their lives, their freedom and their degrees, they evade police to climb the highest, most dangerous historic buildings, often without rope.Wanting to preserve their story and inspire others, they photographed everything – all the routes, the close shaves, the lucky escapes.In 1937, this was difficult, dangerous and foolhardy – but we now have a record of these feats. And a photographic guide to virtually all the climbs Cambridge can offer.To this day, the club still exists. The pinnacles above may be silent, but they’re not sleeping.If you like history, extreme sports – or both, you’ll soon understand why this has become such a cult classic around the world. Civil disobedience at its finest.Order now and start reading it on your Kindle in under a minute. The Sunday Times (London):“There is a secretive and reckless club that has existed for over 100 years. And when night falls in Cambridge, its members can be seen scrambling up the spires and flying buttresses of the university. It’s an adrenaline rush that could cost them everything.”The Times (London):“A near-legendary guide, The Night Climbers of Cambridge is a lot more than a guide for climbing the colleges”The Guardian (London):“Whipplesnaith's stories of death-defying derring-do in Cambridge say a lot. This book is also a wonderful evocation of a lost generation.”The Daily Telegraph (London):“What an endearing book is The Night Climbers of Cambridge. All the more reason then to applaud the derring do, if not foolhardiness, of the proto-Edmund Hillarys whose exploits are described with precision and relish.”UK Climbing:“Climbers have been climbing man-made structures since the 19th Century (if not before) and still are, even if your name isn't Alain Robert. The seminal volume about this art, was The Night Climbers of Cambridge.”Buildering.net:“Arguably the best, and certainly one of the earliest, buildering guidebooks to come out is the 1937: The Night Climbers of Cambridge, by Whipplesnaith”Slightly Foxed:“It is the climber’s ideal to leave ‘no trace where he has been’. What he does at night is to weave intangible anarchy.”THE CULT CLASSIC BIBLE OF EXTREME FREE CLIMBING SPORTS“As you pass round each pillar, the whole of your body except your hands and feet are over black emptiness. Your feet are on slabs of stone sloping downwards and outwards at an angle of about thirty-five degrees to the horizontal, your fingers and elbows making the most of a friction-hold against a vertical pillar, and the ground is precisely one hundred feet directly below you. If you slip, you will still have three seconds to live.”

Quickly Master Basic Latin by Building a Practical Vocabulary Fast!New – Completely revised and updatedBONUS: Includes complimentary PDF version for use on your mobile, tablet or PC.*A simple, fast, proven way to learn Latin with easeEasy units - your confidence grows as your vocabulary growsCreated by Cambridge University Classics Fellow Dr Jerry TonerLatin Key Words provides an easy route to mastering excellent basic Latin. Easy-to-learn Unit Structure gets you the words you need to know quickly and easily. One hundred easy-to-master units of 20 words each. Learn Latin quickly and simply. These words are the essential foundation stones on which you intuitively build your language framework: The first hundred words account for 40% of common usage and the first thousand for 68%. The full 2000 key words represent 75% of all Latin words in a corpus of nearly two million. Learn the vocabulary in Latin Key Words and you are three quarters of the way to mastering the entire corpus of Latin texts. Also provides an all-in-one basic Latin-English dictionary and an all-in-one basic English-Latin Dictionary. The perfect aid - to learn Latin by using the simplest, most logical way to pick up a vocabulary of ten thousand words from two thousand. Latin Key Words presents you with the 2,000 word basic vocabulary ordered by frequency of occurrence - in one hundred simple units. Ideal for Examinations and University study. Includes the major works of the following authors: Caesar, Catullus, Cicero, Horace, Livy, Ovid, Suetonius, Tacitus, and Virgil. A simple, fast, proven way to learn Latin with ease.Click to buy it now - you have free delivery with Amazon Prime.*Free pdf download instructions at oleanderpress.com

They broke the law. They defied the authorities.They made the midnight skyline their playground.And they recorded it.A secret group, led by the mysterious ‘Butterfly Catcher’, scale the university buildings of this sleepy academic town in the darkest hours.Risking their lives, their freedom and their degrees, they evade police to climb the highest, most dangerous historic buildings, often without rope.Wanting to preserve their story and inspire others, they photographed everything – all the routes, the close shaves, the lucky escapes.In 1937, this was difficult, dangerous and foolhardy – but we now have a record of these feats. And a photographic guide to virtually all the climbs Cambridge can offer.To this day, the club still exists. The pinnacles above may be silent, but they’re not sleeping.If you like history, extreme sports – or both, you’ll soon understand why this has become such a cult classic around the world. Civil disobedience at its finest.Grab your copy now and settle in for a brilliant read!The Sunday Times (London):“There is a secretive and reckless club that has existed for over 100 years. And when night falls in Cambridge, its members can be seen scrambling up the spires and flying buttresses of the university. It’s an adrenaline rush that could cost them everything.”The Times (London):“A near-legendary guide, The Night Climbers of Cambridge is a lot more than a guide for climbing the colleges”The Guardian (London):“Whipplesnaith's stories of death-defying derring-do in Cambridge say a lot. This book is also a wonderful evocation of a lost generation.”The Daily Telegraph (London):“What an endearing book is The Night Climbers of Cambridge. All the more reason then to applaud the derring do, if not foolhardiness, of the proto-Edmund Hillarys whose exploits are described with precision and relish.”UK Climbing:“Climbers have been climbing man-made structures since the 19th Century (if not before) and still are, even if your name isn't Alain Robert. The seminal volume about this art, was The Night Climbers of Cambridge.”Buildering.net:“Arguably the best, and certainly one of the earliest, buildering guidebooks to come out is the 1937: The Night Climbers of Cambridge, by Whipplesnaith”Slightly Foxed:“It is the climber’s ideal to leave ‘no trace where he has been’. What he does at night is to weave intangible anarchy.”THE CULT CLASSIC BIBLE OF EXTREME FREE CLIMBING SPORTS“As you pass round each pillar, the whole of your body except your hands and feet are over black emptiness. Your feet are on slabs of stone sloping downwards and outwards at an angle of about thirty-five degrees to the horizontal, your fingers and elbows making the most of a friction-hold against a vertical pillar, and the ground is precisely one hundred feet directly below you. If you slip, you will still have three seconds to live.”

Reddit LifeProTip: If you want to learn a new language, figure out the 100 most frequently used words and start with them. Those words make up about 50% of everyday speech, and knowing the very basics will be enough to get you by. * New for 2018 – Completely revised and updated * BONUS: includes PDF version for your mobile, tablet or PC* * A simple, fast, proven way to learn French with ease * First 500 words provides 75% common usage * Easy units - your confidence grows as your vocabulary grows French Key Words provides an easy route to mastering excellent basic French. Easy-to-learn Unit Structure gets you the words you need to know quickly and easily. One hundred easy-to-master units of 20 words each. Learn French quickly and simply. These words are the essential foundation stones on which you intuitively build your language framework: The first 500 words account for 75% of normal conversational usage. The full 2,000 words will equip you for nearly all word occurrences in modern French usage in speech, newspapers, books, television etc. Also provides an all-in-one basic French-English dictionary and an All-in-one basic English-French Dictionary. The perfect aid - to learn French by using the simplest, most logical way to pick up a vocabulary of ten thousand words from two thousand. French Key Words presents you with the 2,000 word basic vocabulary ordered by frequency of occurrence in modern usage - in one hundred simple units. The book is a learning aid benefiting from computer analysis of a million words and consists of a list of the commonest two thousand key words in French, with their meanings in English, arranged in decreasing order of frequency. The benefits of using Key Words: Enjoy French immediately: you'll rapidly start to understand text media such as newspapers, magazines and the internet alongside television and radio. Understand native French speakers: you'll quickly know the words most likely to be used around you. Keep your enthusiasm: you’ll discover motivation increases with each easily-learnt unit. Learn French effortlessly: you’ll learn bite-sized chunks that will remove the headache from learning a new language. Sound more natural in French: rapid recognition of words allows you to copy the perfect accent. A simple, fast, proven way to learn French with ease. * free PDF download details from oleanderpress.com

The easy, quick way to learn Italian. * New August 2019 – Completely revised and updated* BONUS: includes PDF version for your mobile, tablet or PC** A simple, fast, proven way to learn Italian with ease* First 500 words provides 75% common usage* Easy units - your confidence grows as your vocabulary growsItalian Key Words provides an easy route to mastering excellent basic Italian. Easy-to-learn Unit Structure gets you the words you need to know quickly and easily. One hundred easy-to-master units of 20 words each. Learn Italian quickly and simply.These words are the essential foundation stones on which you intuitively build your language framework:The first 500 words account for 75% of normal conversational usage. The full 2,000 words will equip you for nearly all word occurrences in modern Italian usage in speech, newspapers, books, television etc. Reddit LifeProTip: If you want to learn a new language, figure out the 100 most frequently used words and start with them. Those words make up about 50% of everyday speech, and knowing the very basics will be enough to get you by.Also provides an all-in-one basic Italian-English dictionary and an All-in-one basic English-Italian Dictionary.The perfect aid - to learn Italian by using the simplest, most logical way to pick up a vocabulary of ten thousand words from two thousand. Italian Key Words presents you with the 2,000 word basic vocabulary ordered by frequency of occurrence in modern usage - in one hundred simple units.The book is a learning aid benefiting from computer analysis of a million words and consists of a list of the commonest two thousand key words in Italian, with their meanings in English, arranged in decreasing order of frequency.The benefits of using Key Words:Enjoy Italian immediately: you'll rapidly start to understand text media such as newspapers, magazines and the internet alongside television and radio.Understand native Italian speakers: you'll quickly know the words most likely to be used around you.Keep your enthusiasm: you’ll discover motivation increases with each easily-learnt unit.Learn Italian effortlessly: you’ll learn bite-sized chunks that will remove the headache from learning a new language.Sound more natural in Italian: rapid recognition of words allows you to copy the perfect accent.A simple, fast, proven way to learn Italian with ease.* free PDF download details from oleanderpress.com

The easy, quick way to learn Italian. * New August 2019 – Completely revised and updated* BONUS: includes PDF version for your mobile, tablet or PC** A simple, fast, proven way to learn Italian with ease* First 500 words provides 75% common usage* Easy units - your confidence grows as your vocabulary growsItalian Key Words provides an easy route to mastering excellent basic Italian. Easy-to-learn Unit Structure gets you the words you need to know quickly and easily. One hundred easy-to-master units of 20 words each. Learn Italian quickly and simply.These words are the essential foundation stones on which you intuitively build your language framework:The first 500 words account for 75% of normal conversational usage. The full 2,000 words will equip you for nearly all word occurrences in modern Italian usage in speech, newspapers, books, television etc. Reddit LifeProTip: If you want to learn a new language, figure out the 100 most frequently used words and start with them. Those words make up about 50% of everyday speech, and knowing the very basics will be enough to get you by.Also provides an all-in-one basic Italian-English dictionary and an All-in-one basic English-Italian Dictionary.The perfect aid - to learn Italian by using the simplest, most logical way to pick up a vocabulary of ten thousand words from two thousand. Italian Key Words presents you with the 2,000 word basic vocabulary ordered by frequency of occurrence in modern usage - in one hundred simple units.The book is a learning aid benefiting from computer analysis of a million words and consists of a list of the commonest two thousand key words in Italian, with their meanings in English, arranged in decreasing order of frequency.The benefits of using Key Words:Enjoy Italian immediately: you'll rapidly start to understand text media such as newspapers, magazines and the internet alongside television and radio.Understand native Italian speakers: you'll quickly know the words most likely to be used around you.Keep your enthusiasm: you’ll discover motivation increases with each easily-learnt unit.Learn Italian effortlessly: you’ll learn bite-sized chunks that will remove the headache from learning a new language.Sound more natural in Italian: rapid recognition of words allows you to copy the perfect accent.A simple, fast, proven way to learn Italian with ease.* free PDF download details from oleanderpress.com

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In Two by Two Leanne retells the amazing story of Noah’s mission to save at least two of every living creature on Earth while God cleansed the world of wickedness with 40 days and nights of rain – all warmly and brightly illustrated by Marilyn McCullough in a colourful and appealing style that children will love to explore. “Many many years ago... The world was big and bad. God looked down from Heaven And his people made him sad. The world he’d made with light and love Grew darker with each day. He decided then to ‘clean it up’ And wash the bad away.”Two by Two is a children's Bible story by Leanne Kilpatrick. This classic tale is revitalised in rhyme adding lyrical atmosphere that makes the reading and hearing of it a joy. These stories are a great way to introduce children to reading as the tales themselves are fascinating, often colourful, and feature compelling characters in situations that young minds will marvel at. Leanne has used a cheerful, involving rhyme style to craft the pace and depth of the narratives to thrilling effect and as such they are sure to be a hit with youngsters when read with adults, and by new readers enjoying their first complete books. This edition does NOT feature stickersMake sure you get Leanne’s other book One Night on Earth - the beautiful story of Jesus’s birth. Search 9780906672822.