This is one of the best books in English to come out of the Bosnian conflict so far.
His school, Christ's Hospital, had banned books in English about the classics, which were privileged territory, not for the masses.
Cheng, naturally, is a serial visitor to the cooking section, snapping up books in both English and Chinese.
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With hundreds of thousands of books being published in English every year, the variety and granularity is staggering.
Books are available in English, Arabic, Pashto, Farsi, Russian, and French.
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The tablet will come pre-loaded with 200 apps (100 in English and 100 in Spanish) and 200 books (also 100 English, 100 Spanish), including selections from content partners like Sesame Street and Oxford University Press.
Most of the books on Worldreader Mobile are in English, with a few in local languages like Swahili, French and Spanish, though the number of books overall is increasing.
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Translated into French in 1650 and retranslated into English in 1663, with expanded English versions in 1715 and 1720, Palladio's "Four Books of Architecture" became an essential part of every distinguished library, including that of Thomas Jefferson, who helped himself liberally to their examples.
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There were very few English-language books in my childhood home.
As a bevy of new books (some never before available in English) makes plain, no modern seer is worthy to touch so much as the hem of his diving suit.
Johnny Weissmuller, though, was hardly the Tarzan of the books, described as an English lord fluent in six languages.
The library, which is open to the public, now contains 3, 000 children's books and 5, 000 books for adults, in French, Arabic and English, a mix of fiction and nonfiction that focuses on the humanities.
Now instead of writing to that person you barely know in Beijing, you can listen to a whole Sinica podcast on the best English-language books on China as decreed by avid readers who live and work in Beijing.
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She is currently completing a degree in English literature studying, among other books, George Orwell's Animal Farm and William Golding's Lord of the Flies.
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Blyton, who wrote more than 700 books and died in 1968, was the best-selling English-language author of the 20th Century.
In the little world of gold standard advocacy in the English language, most of the books date from the 1960s and 1970s.
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Of all the translations of books done in a year, a staggering 75% are from English.
Ellick remembered another time when they were out shopping in Islamabad, having fun and hunting for English language books and DVDs.
Usmani is a prolific writer in Urdu, Arabic and English, having published dozens of books and countless articles.
This is good news for writers from the anglophone countries: 103, 000 of all the 132, 000 books translated in the last ten years into the seven major tongues were from English.
Most of the major publishers today are owned by international conglomerates who, at some point, will awaken to the realization that English majors in their employ are spending millions of dollars on books that no one wants to read.
Canadian independent authors and publishers can utilize the English- or French-language KDP website to make their books available in Canada and more than 175 countries worldwide.
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With this in mind, I do not see how The English Roses, and the four books to follow, can possibly fail.
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Some readers will be willing to make that trade-off, especially if Irex is able to add specialized stores in the future that offer, say, a large selection of non-English-language books.
Christie held his first auction in 1766, some 22 years after an English bookseller named Samuel Baker auctioned off the 457 books that had previously belonged to Sir John Stanley, founding what we know today as Sotheby's.
Bethan Marshall, a senior lecturer in English education at King's College London told the magazine the literary merit of picture books was often underestimated, comparing The Very Hungry Caterpillar favourably with another literary hit, Yann Martel's Life of Pi.
For example, in Japan most people just buy Japanese content, but a significant portion of people also buy English books.
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In addition, the books choose are in Arabic, moreover, we are aiming to expand this experience to cover both French and English.
Founded in 1975 by the American poet Ambar Past, the profit sharing collective prints Mayan language books and accompanying Spanish and English translations.
Neat stacks of medical text books, a sharply-designed carrier bag from a clothes store, an English novel and pairs of smart shoes in the draughty bedroom of the 23-year-old Delhi gang rape victim, tell the story of a woman determined to make the leap to a middle class lifestyle for her and her family.
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