Our Miniature Editions TM collection continues to grow! Since 1989, when our first minis appeared, Running Press has offered an astonishing range of subjects, sure to find a place in any booklover's library! Visit the golf course for nine holes, head to the kitchen with the Silver Palate chefs, travel to the heavens above, or rediscover the wonders of nature in your own backyard. ...

Collins Gem English Dictionary, in colour, is the world's best-selling small dictionary. This new edition, in colour, is fully up-to-date, including the most popular new words to enter the English language. The 16th editions of the Gem English Dictionary is the ideal portable companion for all. The handy little dictionary gives you practical, applied knowledge in your pocket. It contains clear definitions for all the words you need on a daily basis & provides tips on spelling, & help with difficult pronunciations. The clear colour layout makes the content easily accessible & suitable for immediate use.

Includes:: a brand new supplement tackling problems of style & etiquette in everything from letters to emails to social media sites.

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Collins Gem English Dictionary, in colour, is the world's best-selling small dictionary. With its clear definitions, spelling & grammar tips, & a supplement of the latest new words, this handy little dictionary is the ideal portable companion for all. This new colour edition of the Gem English Dictionary gives you practical, applied knowledge in your pocket. It contains clear definitions for all the words you need on a daily basis & provides help with spelling & difficult pronunciation. The clear colour layout makes the content easily accessible & suitable for everyday use. & it's all rounded off with a fascinating supplement detailing many of the exciting new words struggling to make their way into the language. ...

Fairy tales are written both to entertain & to educate. Published in the shadow of the First World War, F. A. Steel`s retellings of forty-one English fairy tales form a classic collection of stories, ranging from the familiar
- ` Jack & the Beanstalk`, ` Little Red Riding-Hood` & ` The Three Little Pigs`
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- ` The Black Bull of Norroway`, ` Nix Nought Nothing` & ` The Red Ettin`. Originally published in 1918, it reflects the nationalistic concerns of the period. Steel takes the reader on a journey, from Cornwall to Bamburgh Castle via a palace by the sea, as well as high into the sky, where a giant lives. The magical tales in English Fairy Tales are brought to life by one of the best-known illustrators of the time, Arthur Rackham. Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector`s Library is a series of beautiful special gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector`s Library are books to love & treasure.


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Many people in England have little knowledge of genuine ` English` fairy tales. The stories that many of us grew up with are from overseas: for example Snow White is German, Cinderella is French & Aladdin is Arabian. But folk tales & legends are an intrinsic part of English national culture & the author has revived our best tales for a new generation of readers. This terrific collection of 12 classic tales is a great introduction to the different types of traditional story & their place in English oral & written heritage. They include tales of giants, dragons, fairies, beauty-&-the-beast, & Arthurian Romance. Each tale is linked with a specific place or county in England: ` The Dragon Castle` from Northumberl&, ` The Girl Snatched By Fairies` from County Durham, ` The Princess & the Fool` from Kent & ` The Dark Moon` from Lincolnshire. The book also

Includes:: notes on each story: the history & where it came from, its development & short summaries of many related or similar stories

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This collection is filled with songs that tell of the pleasures & pains of love, the patterns of the countryside & the lives of ordinary people. Here are unfaithful soldiers, ghostly lovers, whalers on stormy seas, cuckolds & tricksters. By turns funny, plain-speaking & melancholic, these songs evoke a lost world &, with their melodies provided, record a vital musical tradition. Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside
- but it has profoundly shaped us too. It has provoked a huge variety of responses from artists, writers, musicians & people who live & work on the land
- as well as those who are travelling through it. English Journeys celebrates this long tradition with a series of twenty books on all aspects of the countryside, from stargazey pie & country churches, to man's relationship with nature & songs celebrating the patterns of the countryside (as well as ghosts & love-struck soldiers).

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` My first English lesson was grammar with the terrifying Mrs Petrie. She spent the entire time marching up & down the classroom, thwacking various items of school furniture with a ruler while she banged on about the ING part of the verb. I sat there, vibrating with fear, desperately trying to figure out what on earth she could mean. Irregular Negative Gerund? Intransitive Nominative Genitive? It was only years later, when I was teaching English to foreign students, that I realised that English grammar wasn`t obscure & wilfully difficult but a fascinating subject which I was already brilliant at
- & this book will prove that you are too.` Forget the little you think you know about English grammar & start afresh with this highly entertaining & accessible guide. English for the Natives outlines the rules & structures of our language as they are taught to foreign students
- & have never before been explained to us. Harry Ritchie also examines the grammar of dialects as well as standard English & shows how non-standard forms are just as valid. With examples from a wide variety of sources, from Ali G to John Betjeman, Margaret Thatcher to Match of the Day, this essential book reveals some surprising truths about our language & teaches you all the things you didn`t know you knew about grammar.

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Meant for young English & EFL learners, this activity book contains puzzles & games, cutting, & sticking to practice essential first words & phrases saying hello, counting, family members, eating & drinking, shopping & expressing likes & dislikes. It

Includes:: colorful press-out characters with clothes to dress them.

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English Heritage champions our historic places
- from prehistoric sites to castles & country houses. This diary is illustrated
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English Heritage champions our historic places
- from prehistoric sites to castles & country houses. This diary is illustrated
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