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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.

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