Search Results: Authors starting with H from Infinity Books Japan

US: Macmillan Education, 2012. Paperback. Very Good. Every student needs top class listening and speaking skills to succeed at an academic level. 'Skillful' focuses on these two skills to give presentat ion, instant practice, and complete immersion in those language skills. It offers students the opportunity to develop language skills by presenting th em with ideas from today's world, while building critical thinking skills t hat are vital for academic success. This is taken even further with a focus on study skills, providing students with practical guidance and support, a nd building confidence for independent learning throughout their university career."--Editor.

US: Virgin Books, 1985. Paperback. Fair.

US: Rough Guides, 2004. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Dan Brown's thriller The Da Vinci Code has created an extraordinary Christian controversy, with its sub-plots of the feminine in religion, the bloodline of Christ, the legend of the Holy Grail, and the role of sects like Opus Dei within the church. This Rough Guide explores and explains the context of the novel, including: How the early Christian Church edited' The Bible, and adopted earlier religions. What art historians make of Leonardo Da Vinci's symbolism in the Last Supper and other works. The true history of the Holy Grail, the Priory of Sion, Opus Dei, and the debate on the bloodline of Christ. Location guides to Da Vinci Code sites in Paris, Rome, Jerusalem, New York, London and Edinburgh. Reviews of Da Vinci Code sources and a glossary of everything from the Templars to the Fibonaccci Sequence. Whatever… Read More

New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 2001. Near Fine. If you know you swell up after bee stings, you avoid bees. If you know a cl ose encounter with poison ivy will leave you itching and scratching for a w eek, you keep your eyes open for three-leafed plants. But, according to The False Fat Diet, many of us spend our entire lives eating foods that "don't agree with us," and as a result carry around extra pounds, put up with all ergies, and go through life looking older and feeling less energetic than w e should. Of course, the hook here is weight loss. If you eliminate the foo ds that make you gassy and bloated, you can probably drop pounds instantly- -up to 10 pounds of "false fat" in a week, Elson Haas says--and then keep d ropping weight in subsequent weeks and months, the real fat, all without fe eling hungry or deprived. Haas offers two ways to figure out if you've got food sensitivities: a medi cal blood test or an elimination diet, in which you cut out certain foods f or a while, then gradually… Read More

US: The Windsor Group, 2007. As New.

US: The Britto Press, 2003. As New.

US: The Windsor Group, 2010. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

US: Bristol Group Ltd, 2002. As New.

US: Souvenir Press, 1997. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Comprehensive and informative, this guide helps people with digestive problems to adapt their everyday eating pattern to the Hay diet.

US: Hachette Fle, 2006. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. ALTER ego 1 workbook serves as a complement to the student's book and is based on the same structure.It reinforces students' skills through a wide range of activities on: - vocabulary, - grammar, - communication skills, - written comprehension ans expression.The students can carry out the activities in the classroom or on their own.The portfolio at the end of the workbook is designed to help students reflect on and improve their language learning.ALTER ego 1 also includes: - a student's book with a CD, - a teacher's book, - three class audio CDs, - one video DVD.

Hachette Education, 2003. Very Good.

USA: The University of North Caro, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Fair.

US: Tuttle Publishing, 2012. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. "One of the best modern texts. Highly recommended." --The Japan Times Complete, compact and authoritative--this Japanese language book provides a ll the information needed to learn kanji and kana, including the 92 hiragan a and katakana phonetic symbols (known collectively as Japanese Kana) and t he 2,136 standard Joyo Kanji characters that every Japanese person learns i n school. This new and thoroughly revised edition reflects recent changes m ade to the official Joyo kanji list by the Japanese government. The kana and kanji are presented efficiently and systematically which helps you learn them quickly and retain what you have learned to improve your ma stery of the Japanese language. The ability to read Japanese and write Japa nese is an essential skill for any student and will build on their previous… Read More

Time Life Books, 1965. Hardback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged.

US: Other Press, LLC, 2016. Paperback. Near Fine. A debut novel that tells the story of Rasa, a young gay man coming of age i n the Middle East In excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlig hting. The spine remains undamaged. Set over the course of twenty-four hours, Guapa follows Rasa, a gay man living in an unnamed Arab country, as he tries to carve out a life for himself in the midst of political and social upheaval. Rasa spends his days translating for Western journalists and pining for the nights when he can sneak his lover, Taymour, into his room. One night Rasa's grandmother -- the woman who raised him -- catches them in bed together. The following day Rasa is consumed by the search for his best friend Maj, a fiery activist and drag queen star of the underground bar, Guapa, who has been arrested by the police. Ashamed to go home and face his grandmother, and reeling from the potential loss of the three most important people in his life, Rasa roams the city's… Read More

Simon & Schuster Books for Y., 2002. Very Good+. A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: At age 100, Melly and the other Riverside nursing home residents are injected with a drug to make them "unage" yet find that they cannot stop the process. "Haddix successfully shuttles readers between three different eras and builds up to a surprising final face-off," said PW. Ages 10-14.

Simon Pulse, 2004. Very Good+. A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: Grade 7-9-Dorry is lonely and insecure at a new high school until she's befriended by a seemingly wonderful group of students. She soon finds out that the group is a religious cult. Her involvement with the group and their ever-increasing demands on her lead to a startling conclusion.

New York: Berkley Books, 2008. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. "Sometimes being a vampire isn't all it's cracked up to be . . . Take it from me, Francesca Marinelli. I was trapped underground for more than two hundred years and unearthed during the renovation of a Victorian mansion in historic St. Augustine. Being something of a tourist attraction myself, I'm well suited for a job as a ghost tour guide. A vampire telling ghost stories. Is that a kick of what? Hey, I'm 227 years old. I want to learn things, do things, see things! With enough sunblock, I can have a new lease of afterlife. But . . . Getting used to being a vampire in the twenty-first century is tough. First, everything I learned about men is a little dated. Then a woman from my tour group turns up dead. Naturally, the police think I'm responsible, and it's not so easy to prove I didn't do it. To top it… Read More

US: Jonathan Cape, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A tight clean hardcover, no markings throughout: George Hall is an unobtrusive man. A little distant, perhaps, a little caut ious, not quite at ease with the emotional demands of fatherhood or of manl y bonhomie. "The secret of contentment, George felt, lay in ignoring many t hings completely." Some things in life can't be ignored, however: his tempe stuous daughter Katie's deeply inappropriate boyfriend Ray, for instance, o r the sudden appearance of a red circular rash on his hip. At 57, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed in his garden and enjoying the freedom to be alone when he wants. But then he runs into a spot of bother. That red circular rash on his hip: George c onvinces himself it's skin cancer. And the deeply inappropriate Ray? Katie announces he will become her second husband. The planning for these frowned -upon nuptials proves a great inconvenience to George's wife, Jean, who is… Read More

US: William Morrow & Company, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. The emblem of the Walt Disney World, that ample terrain if the Florida scru blands, portrays the planet Earth with Mickey Mouse ears. A telling enough device, and I had thought of beginning with my account of that magic (and n ow entirely computerised) kingdom. But, no. It is a journal, and should begin at the beginning. Not quite at t he beginning perhaps because it began on the periphery, and with details. M arshal Tito's Diner's Club card. A Playboy centre-fold tacked up among the oleographs of Krishna in a Malaysian kampong. A girl in Leningrad, whose We stern collection included two volumes of the Reader's Digest Condensed Book s. A Paramount Chief in Sierra Leone, one of whose ceremonial robes anticip ated a couture motif of 1972, by featuring a design of Coca-Cola… Read More