The Slangman Guide to STREET SPEAK 1 takes you through the colorful and popular world of everyday American slang and idioms used by all native speakers of English in the US. It has been featured on CNN, BBC, Voice of America, and several other international TV broadcasts.

For ESL (English as a Second Language) students, this book equals years of living in the USA and will help you to quickly integrate into the American culture by learning not only the slang and idioms, but we'll also take you through the contractions and reductions used by everyone such as I dunno (I do not know) and D'jeet jet? (Did you eat yet?) and so many others.

Entertaining dialogues, activities and games will make sure you have a blast (have fun) and don't sweat it (get tense) as you get up to speed (become current) on all the typical slang and idioms used by virtually every native speaker So chill out (relax), kick back (get comfortable) as you learn the real language spoken by virtually all of us in the USA

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The Slangman Guide to STREET SPEAK 1 contains popular chapters on slang and idioms associated with:

• Parties
  
• Shopping
  
• Movies
  
• Airports
  
• Restaurants
  
• Health
  
• Markets
  
• At School
  
• Dating

David Burke uncovers the clandestine activities of Patrick Crinnion, a Garda intelligence officer who secretly served MI6 during the early years of the Troubles. As the Garda Síochána launched a manhunt for the Chief-of-Staff of the IRA, Crinnion found himself playing a crucial role in the effort to track him down.

Before his disappearance, Crinnion's actions exposed a web of secrets including those of another British spy in the Irish police, damaging intelligence leaks, gunrunning by Irish politicians, and a cover-up related to the murder of a Garda.

Burke reveals MI6's shady dealings, from attempts to smear Irish politicians to plans for using criminals as assassins and the secret surveillance of a key IRA member.

Crinnion fled into exile. The Puppet Masters not only reveals what became of him but also provides an insightful look into a turbulent period marked by covert operations, betrayal, and the power struggle that shaped modern Irish history.

The British government has taken steps to halt the prosecution of soldiers responsible for the deaths of civilians in Northern Ireland, most of whom had no connection to paramilitary activities. These killings were part of a ruthless dirty war that commenced in 1970 when Brigadier Frank Kitson, a counter-insurgency specialist, was sent to Northern Ireland.

Kitson had spent decades in Britain's colonies refining old, and developing new, techniques which he applied in Northern Ireland. He became the architect of a clandestine war, waged against Nationalists while ignoring Loyalist atrocities. Kitson and his colleagues were responsible for:

- The establishment of the clandestine Military Reaction Force (MRF) which carried out assassinations on the streets of Belfast of suspected IRA members;

- They unleashed the most violent elements of the Parachute Regiment [1 Para] to terrorise Nationalist communities which, they adjudged, were providing support for the Official and Provisional IRA;

- Spreading black propaganda designed to undermine Republican but not Loyalist paramilitary groups;

- Deployed psychological warfare techniques, involving the torture of internees;

- Sent Kitson's 'Private Army' - Support Company of 1 Para - to Derry where they perpetrated the Bloody Sunday massacre.

The British Widgery and Saville inquiries did not hold Kitson and his elite troops accountable for Bloody Sunday. Kitson's Irish War lays bare the evidence they discounted: Kitson's role in the events leading up to and surrounding that massacre; evidence from a deserter from 1 Para who joined the IRA; a deceitful MI5 agent; a courageous whistle blower whom the British state tried to discredit, and much more, all of which points to a motive for the attack on the Bogside.

This book unlocks the some of the key secrets of the Dirty War that the British government is still determined to cover-up.

The STREET SPEAK 1 Teacher's Guide will lead you through all sorts of creative and fun ways to use the Textbook and Workbook with one or more students! You'll find dozens of suggested mini-lessons all focusing on reading, writing, listening, and speaking using everyday idioms and slang!

The Teacher's Guide is packed with lots of fun, high-energy games and activities to get your students speaking and understanding like a native-born American in no time flat!

Inside the STREET SPEAK 1 Teacher's Guide, you'll find:

• Lesson Preps with variations
• Ways to help students create their own stories or songs using idioms and slang
• Questions that will get your students speaking right away
• Fun games to help students speak and understand Real Speak
• Lots of groups activities for reading, writing, listening and speaking
• Suggested Mini Lessons in each chapter
• Extra fun challenges to engage the students
• Written production, spoken production, and visual activities at the end of each chapter
• Post unit activity at the end of each chapter, using the weekly video, Slangman Fridays

...and that's just in the first 2 chapters!

The STREET SPEAK 1 eAssessments are a great way to help teachers gauge students' knowledge of the material from the Textbook.

The Assessments provide an opportunity for teachers to weigh student comprehension, and for students to demonstrate their acquisition. Complete with a Rubric and point system, the Assessments present a clear road map for evaluating ESL students' strengths and weaknesses in each of the basic competencies that good readers need to master.

The STREET SPEAK 1 eAssessments include 40 reproducible assessment tools. Purchasers may also get access to a web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials.

The Slangman Guide to STREET SPEAK 3 continues the book series with even more popular slang and idioms that will help you understand any American!

NOTE that this version has been updated, getting rid of many of the words in The Slangman Files section with new, more popular words now in use!

The 3rd book in the series introduces you to popular slang and idioms used in a variety of situations including dating - everything from the pick up (beginning of a relationship) to the break up (end of a relationship) and everything in between!

Once you learn all the slang used in dating, you'll definitely know if someone is either hitting on (flirting with) you or just not into (not interested in) you!

The Slangman Guide to STREET SPEAK 3 contains popular chapters on slang and idioms associated with:

• Dating & Relationships
• Emergency Situations
• Television & Entertainment
• Teens & Students (Jr. High through University)
• Being Politically Correct
• Sports (Popular Terms Used in Daily Conversations)
• Foreign Words that Americans Use Every Day
• Alliterations & Repeating Words
• The Slangman Files - a special section in each chapter with slang & idioms used in categories

The Slangman Guide to STREET SPEAK 2 teaches you more popular American slang and idioms that everyone uses every day!

NOTE that this version has been updated, getting rid of many of the words in The Slangman Files section with new, more popular words now in use!

If an American said to you, Could you please crack the window? you are NOT being asked to break the window which is indeed the literal meaning! You are simply being asked to Open the window a little.

Or if someone tells you to Knock it off! or Cut it out! - that just means Stop doing that!

he Slangman Guide to STREET SPEAK 2 contains popular chapters on slang and idioms associated with:

• The Workplace
• Shopping
• Houseguests
• Babysitting
• Birthday Parties
• The Subway
• Aches & Pains
• The Telephone
• The Slangman Files - a special section in each chapter with slang & idioms used in categories

Francesca ha una cotta per Giovanni! (trans.): Francesca has a crush on Giovanni! (lit.): Francesca has a baking for Giovanni! Ho mangeato in un ristorante caro, dove mi hanno spennato! (trans.): I ate at an expensive restaurant and got fleeced! (lit.): l ate at an expensive restaurant and got plucked! Mamma mia! Even after years of trying to learn Italian, you still have trouble conversing with a native speaker. Why? Because everyday Italian is filled with slang and colloquialisms. Street Italian 1 is the first in a series of slang/idiom books that teach you how to speak and understand the real language used daily on the street, in homes, offices, stores, and among family and friends. Entertaining dialogues, word games and drills, crossword puzzles, word searches, and inside tips will have you sounding like a native in no time at all.

You've mastered Spanish slang, conquered popular idioms, yet still feel like an outsider. The reason is simple. You haven't discovered the third piece to understanding everyday spanish: popular expletives and obscenities - those back-alley words and phrases constantly used in movies, books and coversations between native speakers.

STREET SPANISH 3 is the first step-by-step guide of its kind to explore the most comon curses, vulgarities, and obscenities used in many Spanish-speaking countries. Chapters include:
* Dating Slang
* Nonvulgar Insults & Putdowns
* Vulgar Insults & Name-Calling
* Body Parts in Slang
* Sexual Slang

* Bodily Functions, Sounds & Smells
* The Many Uses of Mierda
* The Many Uses of Cagar
* The Many Uses of Co?o
* The Many Uses of Chingar & Joder

* Being Obscene Unintentionally!

DAVID BURKE is also the author of STREET SPANISH 1: The Best of Spanish Slang; STREET SPANISH 2: The Best of Spanish Idioms; STREET FRENCH 1: The Best of French Slang; STREET FRENCH 2: The Best of French Idioms STREET FRENCH 3: The Best of Naughty French STREET FRENCH SLANG DICTIONARY & THESAURUS all available from Wiley; plus STREET SPEAK & BIZ SPEAK (American slang and idioms).

No City has attracted so much literary talent, launched so many illustrious careers, or produced such a wealth of enduring literature as Paris. From the fifteenth century through the twentieth, poets, novelists, and playwrights, famed for both their work and their lives, were shaped by this enchanting place. From the natives such as Moliere, Genet, and Anais Nin to expats like Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett, and Gertrude Stein, author David Burke follows hundreds of writers through Paris's labyrinthine streets, inviting readers on his grand tour. Unique in scope and approach, Writers in Paris crosses from the Right bank to the Left and on to the Ille de la Cit as it explores the alleyways and haunts frequented by the world's most storied writers. Burke focuses not only on their writing, but on their passions, ecstasies, obsessions, and betrayals. Equally appealing to Francophiles and serious readers, this engaging book includes maps and more than one hundred evocative photographs.

A story of wartime intelligence, super-power relations and spies and their handlers - seen through the experience of Melita Norwood.

On September 11th 1999 The Times newspaper carried the front page article Revealed: the quiet woman who betrayed Britain for 40 years. The spy who came in from the Co-op. Melita Norwood, the last of the atomic spies, hadfinally been run to ground, but at 87 she was deemed too old to prosecute. Her crime: the shortening of the Soviet Union's atomic bomb project by up to 5 years.
At a time when the world faces fresh dilemmas caused by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, this is the remarkable story of a much earlier drama. After the atomic bomb strikes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, British and American intelligence estimated the earliest date for the production of a Soviet bomb to be 1953. In fact, the Soviet Union went nuclear in 1948, and tested an atomic bomb in 1949. The Soviet Union's bomb coincided with the onset of The Cold War, and threatened humankind with extinction. Melita Norwood was a member of one of those communist spy networks in America and Britain, who by guaranteeing those weapons of mass destruction threw down a challenge to America as sole superpower in the post-Second World War era. This fascinating book sets her in the context of the times, and uses her as a prism and focus through which to investigate the whole milieu.

Dr DAVID BURKE is a Supervisor for the Rise of the Secret World: Governments and Intelligence Communities since 1900 at the University of Cambridge.

Long before there was a peace process in Ireland, Van Morrison unwittingly did his bit to unite a nation divided. Born in the heart of East Belfast in the North, he is revered as a Celtic soul hero in the South. His music, while rooted in jazz and blues and soul, has an Irish accent--a distinctly Protestant Irish accent. Morrison's songs form a map of this small island--a map of places, people, and cultures, too. They evoke a long-ago Belfast at a time before it became violently divided by sectarian conflict during the Troubles. They laud literary giants James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, and Oscar Wilde. They tell of the immigrant experience, the going away from the land that has long been Ireland's heartache. And they form a map of Morrison himself, revealing more than this notoriously difficult character ever would in interviews or conversations. A Sense Of Wonder is not a biography of Van Morrison. Rather, it is a journey through the Ireland depicted in his songs--a journey that begins in Hyndford Street, where we encounter the likes of John McCormack and The McPeake Family, and culminates in a unique picture of an idyllic, almost mythical Ireland where spirituality trumps organized religion, and art yields a stronger legacy than politics. Drawing on original research and interviews with a wide range of characters--from collaborators and associates of Morrison to Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson and actor Liam Neeson.

The story of a modernist building with a significant place in the history of Soviet espionage in Britain, where communist spies rubbed shoulders with British artists, sculptors and writers

The Isokon building, Lawn Road Flats, in Belsize Park on Hampstead's lower slopes, is a remarkable building. The first modernist building in Britain to use reinforced concrete in domestic architecture, its construction demanded new building techniques. But the building was as remarkable for those who took up residence there as for the application of revolutionary building techniques.
There were 32 Flats in all, and they became a haunt of some of the most prominent Soviet agents working against Britain in the 1930s and 40s, among them Arnold Deutsch, the controller of the group of Cambridge spies who came to be known as the Magnificent Five after the Western movie The Magnificent Seven; the photographer Edith Tudor-Hart; and Melita Norwood, the longest-serving Soviet spy in British espionage history.
However, it wasn't only spies who were attracted to the Lawn Road Flats, the Bauhaus exiles Walter Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy and Marcel Breuer; the pre-historian V. Gordon Childe; and the poet (and Bletchley Park intelligence officer) Charles Brasch all made their way there. A number of British artists, sculptors andwriters were also drawn to the Flats, among them the sculptor and painter Henry Moore; the novelist Nicholas Monsarrat; and the crime writer Agatha Christie, who wrote her only spy novel N or M? in the Flats. The Isokon buildingboasted its own restaurant and dining club, where many of the Flats' most famous residents rubbed shoulders with some of the most dangerous communist spies ever to operate in Britain. Agatha Christie often said that she invented her characters from what she observed going on around her. With the Kuczynskis - probably the most successful family of spies in the history of espionage - in residence, she would have had plenty of material.

DAVID BURKEis a historian of intelligence and international relations and author of The Spy Who Came In From the Co-op: Melita Norwood and the Ending of Cold War Espionage (The Boydell Press, 2009).

Francesca ha una cotta per Giovanni! (trans.): Francesca has a crush on Giovanni! (lit.): Francesca has a baking for Giovanni! Ho mangeato in un ristorante caro, dove mi hanno spennato! (trans.): I ate at an expensive restaurant and got fleeced! (lit.): l ate at an expensive restaurant and got plucked! Mamma mia! Even after years of trying to learn Italian, you still have trouble conversing with a native speaker. Why? Because everyday Italian is filled with slang and colloquialisms. Street Italian 1 is the first in a series of slang/idiom books that teach you how to speak and understand the real language used daily on the street, in homes, offices, stores, and among family and friends. Entertaining dialogues, word games and drills, crossword puzzles, word searches, and inside tips will have you sounding like a native in no time at all.

The story of a modernist building with a significant place in the history of Soviet espionage in Britain, where communist spies rubbed shoulders with British artists, sculptors and writers

The Isokon building, also know as Lawn Road Flats, in London was the haunt of some of the most prominent Soviet agents working against Britain in the 1930s and 40s, among them Arnold Deutsch, the controller of the group of Cambridge spies who came to be known as the Magnificent Five after the Western movie The Magnificent Seven; the photographer Edith Tudor-Hart; and Melita Norwood, the longest-serving Soviet spy in British espionage history (andinspiration for Judi Dench's character in Red Joan).
However, it wasn't only spies who were attracted to the Lawn Road Flats. The crime writer Agatha Christie wrote her only spy novel N or M? in the Flats, and anumber of other artists, architects and writers were also drawn there, among them the Bauhaus exiles Walter Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy and Marcel Breuer; the sculptors and painters Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth; the novelist Nicholas Monsarrat; the writer and founder of The Good Food Guide Raymond Postgate; and the poet (and Bletchley Park intelligence officer) Charles Brasch. The Isokon building boasted its own restaurant and dining club, wheremany of the Flats' most famous residents rubbed shoulders with some of the most dangerous communist spies ever to operate in Britain. Agatha Christie often said that she invented her characters from what she observed going on around her. With the Kuczynskis - probably the most successful family of spies in the history of espionage - in residence, she would have had plenty of material.

This book tells the story of a remarkable Modernist building and its even more extraordinary cast of characters.

DAVID BURKE is a historian of intelligence and international relations and author of The Spy Who Came In From the Co-op: Melita Norwood and the Ending of Cold War Espionage and Russia and the British Left: From the 1848 Revolutions to the General Strike.

How many times you tried a natural remedy to cure some illness
I bet, a lot! And not always with good results because of bad informations or prescriptions, but those that are effective seem to work like magic! And many of them can give you almost immediate relief from your symptoms.

Herbal remedies have carved their own niche in today's medical world because they have been found to be as effective as pharmaceutical remedies; probably even better. Moreover, herbal remedies are relatively affordable compared to pharmaceuticals. It is also good to know some of the best herbal remedies for common illnesses.

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After researching 1,000 natural cures and home remedies, spending months sifting through hundreds of reports and studies and testing my findings on real people in my natural healing clinic...

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This book discusses some of the best remedies on the market and describes how to prepare some of those remedies at home. Among the remedies discussed are ginkgo, garlic, ginseng and chamomile. There are more herbal remedies discussed in this book that would have been of great benefit to you. It also includes how to survive in the wild by knowing which plants are to be eaten.

In May of 1970, two government ministers were dismissed from Cabinet for allegedly purchasing guns for the IRA. The Taoiseach Jack Lynch disavowed any knowledge of the plot. Few believed him. Charles Haughey, Minister for Finance, a captain in Irish military intelligence along with two others were put on trial. All were acquitted. Haughey refused to talk about the crisis for the rest of his life. Fianna Fail endured decades of splits, turmoil and leadership heaves. Until now, no one has revealed the pivotal role of an IRA informer in the affair. The part he played became the best-kept State secret of the last half-century. The book also reveals a dirty tricks campaign by Britain's Foreign Office to conceal the ancillary role of a British agent called Capt. Markham-Randall in the murder of Garda Richard Fallon on the eve of the eruption of the Arms Crisis.

In the early 1970s, Sir Maurice Oldfield of the British Secret Service, MI6, embarked upon a decade-long campaign to derail the political career of Charles Haughey. The English spymaster believed Haughey was a Provisional IRA godfather, therefore, a threat to Britain. Oldfield was assisted by unscrupulous British agents and by a shadowy group of conspirators inside the Irish state's security apparatus, all sharing his distrust of Haughey. Escaping scrutiny for their actions until now, Enemy of the Crown examines more than a dozen instances of their activities.

Oldfield was conspiratorial by nature and lacked a moral compass. Involved in regime change plots and torture in the Middle East, in the Republic of Ireland he engaged with convicted criminals as agent provocateurs as well as the exploitation of pedophile rings in Northern Ireland. He and his spies engaged in dirty tricks as they ran vicious smear campaigns in Ireland, Britain and the US. MI6 and IRD intrigues were deployed to impede Haughey's bid to secure a position on Fianna Fáil's front bench and any return to respectability.

London's hateful drive against Haughey saw no let-up after Fianna Fáil's triumphal return to power in 1977 which saw them win a large majority of seats in the Dáil. When Haughey sought a place at Cabinet, Oldfield and his spies devised more dirty tricks to impede him. While Haughey was suspicious of MI6 interference, he had no inkling of the full extent of London's clandestine efforts to destroy him. By circulating lurid stories about him, they played a major part in trying to prevent him succeed Jack Lynch as Taoiseach in 1979. This book attempts to shed light on some of the anti-Haughey conspiracies which took place during the period of the late 1960s right through to the early 1980s.

The St Vincent's Hospital Handbook of Clinical Psychogeriatrics, edited by A/Prof David Burke and Ms Ayse Burke, is a thorough and practical guide to the multidisciplinary, integrated hospital and community care of older people with mental health problems and illnesses. The St Vincent's Hospital Psychogeriatric Mental Health Service has over the past 10 years developed an efficient and effective model of service delivery that is integrated, cooperative, multidisciplinary, and team-based. This approach facilitates seamless patient management in partnership with the patient's general practitioner, family, and other care providers. This handbook is a valuable tool for all healthcare professionals and students wanting to learn about the assessment and management of older people with mental health problems and illnesses. All health-related clinicians that are either training or already working with older people, in general practice or residential aged care, and in other branches of medicine, psychology, nursing, social work, or occupational therapy will appreciate the ordered and thorough approach to hospital and community psychogeriatric care presented in the handbook. The array of multidisciplinary backgrounds of the authors and the integrated model of care that centers on team management, collaboration and a holistic approach, make this a unique reference tool. The St Vincent's Hospital Handbook of Clinical Psychogeriatrics presents practical, evidence-based, best-practice advice and guidance (incorporating DSM-V) for psychogeriatric care across a wide range of relevant topics. The Handbook chapters are: 1. Multidisciplinary Team Management; 2. Clinical Emergencies; 3. Delirium; 4. Psychotic Disorders; 5. Mood Disorders; 6. Anxiety Disorders; 7. Cognitive Impairment and Dementia; 8. Neuroimaging; 9. Neuropsychological Assessment; 10. Capacity Assessment and Guardianship; 11. Psychopharmacology; 12. Psychotherapy; 13. Behaviour Management in Dementia; 14. Independent Living and Placement; 15. Healthy Ageing; 16. Family and Carer Stress; 17. Grief and Bereavement; 18. Squalor and Hoarding; and 19. Homelessness.

The Slangman Guide to BIZ SPEAK 1 is essential for anyone doing business with Americans

If you do business with Americans, the BIZ SPEAK series is for you

NOTE that this version has been updated, getting rid of many of the words in The Slangman Files section with new, more popular words now in use

If you don't know the essential American slang, idioms, and jargon used by all business professionals, you risk embarrassment, loss of respect, and loss of money

Entertaining dialogues, activities and games will quickly help put you on the inside track (shortest path to success) to becoming the top dog (boss) as you climb the corporate ladder (get promoted) and start to make big bucks (a lot of money) in your new cush (easy) job

NOTE: Audio CDs sold separately.

The Slangman Guide to BIZ SPEAK 1 contains popular chapters on slang and idioms associated with:

• The Workplace
• Computers
• The Internet
• E-Commerce
• Marketing
• Advertising
• Acronyms & Shortcuts
• Negotiations
• Meetings
• Popular Abbreviations Used in Business
• The Slangman Files - a special section in each chapter with slang & idioms used in categories