Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Languages and Literature

"Love, Travel, Study, Work, Friendship--whatever your reason for wanting to learn, Beginners' Greek will help you to: Communicate naturally in everyday situations; Build your confidence with easy-to-follow explanations and plenty of practice activities; Understand and pronounce Greek easily with ...

A step-by-step introduction to speaking Mandarin Chinese, featuring lessons that introduce phrases, vocabulary, and grammar for a variety of situations, such as greetings, introductions, shopping, directions, accommodations, and other everyday functions, and including dialogues and pronunciation ...

An introductory course in Spanish, including practice exercises and self-assessment tests.

Learn to speak, read, write and understand Thai! Love, Travel, Study, Work, Friendship-whatever your reason for wanting to learn, Beginners' Thai will help you to: Communicate naturally in everyday situations; Build your confidence with easy-to-follow explanations and plenty of practice activitie...

An inspiring assemblage of wit, wisdom and hard-won practical advice from some of the world's greatest authors musing on the art of writing and how they came to define themselves as writers.

Being Beautiful is an inspiring assemblage of writings on beauty - inner, outer and everything in between - from some of the world's most fascinating thinkers: Buddha, Francis Bacon, Maya Angelou, Immanuel Kant, Naomi Wolf and more.

An urgent challenge to the prevailing moral order from one of the freshest, most compelling voices in radical politics today Being Numerous shatters the mainstream consensus on politics, personhood, and truth, and offers in its place a bracing analysis of a perilous world and how we might live in...

Discover trailblazers and outliers from across the globe who have found radical new ways to live and reconnect to the Earth. Like many of us, award-winning poet and essayist Lisa Wells has spent years overwhelmed by news of apocalyptic-scale climate change and a coming sixth extinction. She did n...