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Instant Immersion Italian Levels 1,2 & 3

Instant Immersion uses natural image association techniques to help you learn as easily as you learned your first language. With Instant Immersion, you will have more fun, save money and reach your goals faster ¿ guaranteed! Whether you¿re learning a new language for school, work or your next vacation, Instant Immersion¿s fun and effective exercises, interactive activities and challenging quizzes will help you achieve language fluency in less time than other language systems. You will think, read and speak your new language with ease. Italian Levels 1, 2 & 3 includes six language learning CD-ROMS and three bonus discs: an interactive DVD, audio for an iPod or MP3 player and the Who is Oscar Lake? game.

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Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England (Material Texts)

In a recent sale catalog, one bookseller apologized for the condition of a sixteenth-century volume as “rather soiled by use.” When the book was displayed the next year, the exhibition catalogue described it as “well and piously used [with] marginal notations in an Elizabethan hand [that] bring to life an early and earnest owner”; and the book’s buyer, for his part, considered it to be “enlivened by the marginal notes and comments.” For this collector, as for an increasing number of cultural historians and historians of the book, a marked-up copy was more interesting than one in pristine condition.William H. Sherman recovers a culture that took the phrase “mark my words” quite literally. Books from the first two centuries of printing are full of marginalia and other signs of engagement and use, such as customized bindings, traces of food and drink, penmanship exercises, and doodles. These marks offer a vast archive of information about the lives of books and their place in the lives

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Algebra : An Elementary Text-Book (2 volume set)

In addition to the standard topics, this volume contains many topics not often found in an algebra book, such as inequalities, and the elements of substitution theory. Especially extensive is Chrystal’s treatment of the infinite series, infinite products, and (finite and infinite) continued fractions. The range of entries in the Subject Index is very wide. To mention a few out of many hundreds: Horner’s method, multinomial theorem, mortality table, arithmetico-geometric series, Pellian equation, Bernoulli numbers, irrationality of $e$, Gudermanian, Euler numbers, continuant, Stirling’s theorem, Riemann surface. This volume includes over 2,400 exercises with

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