IELTS Topic Vocabulary: Essential Vocabulary for the Speaking and Writing Exams

This book is invaluable for all the students preparing for the IELTS exam. It contains essential topic-specific vocabulary for the exam, divided into 20 topics, as well as two separate sections on useful vocabulary for the writing exam, including collocations. There is also a section on idiomatic language that can be used in speaking exam. Exercises throughout the book reinforce the vocabulary so that it becomes active, enabling you to use it in the exam and boost your IELTS band score.

Knowledge, Power, Wealth and Wisdom

Knowledge involves true belief and the realization of one’s own ignorance is the precondition for its attainment.Power is similar to distilled liquor; it will intoxicate and dim the judgment of even the most scrupulous men.Wealth is frequently associated with spiritual poverty and the distribution of wealth in any society exposes its lack of justice.Wisdom is combined with the trinity of values, which are, the absolute truth, the spirit of beauty and complete goodness.The man who is neither good nor wise remains self-satisfied. He has no desire to acquire that to which he feels no need.Aristotle insisted that life is the activity of the mind. Plato insisted that life is a preparation for death.

Punctuation Matters!

Do you want to raise your grades? Is your lack of proofreading skills a­ffecting the quality of your work? Have you seen the charge per 1000 words of a professional proofreader? Are you unsure of the di­fference between a colon and a semicolon? Can you never remember which there/their/they’re to use or when you should use ‘practise’ or ‘practice’? Do you regularly find you have exceeded your word count but are not sure how you can prune it? Do you need help writing in a more academic style?

If you answer ‘yes’ to any of these questions, this book is definitely for you! It should turn you into a wizard at proofreading, grammar and punctuation, full stop. (Pardon the pun!)

Students who have used Clare’s book have invariably raised their grades and greatly improved their punctuation and grammar, not to mention their vocabulary, their ability to proofread their own work, and their overall confidence in academic writing. This guide aims to bring quality, grammatical accuracy and a degree of finesse to your work.

Mundane Insurance

Manufacturing industries are a common knowledge as are the likes of the motor car, television, foodstuffs and electrical goods that exist around us every day and are forcefully advertised. Banking too but it is only true to a lesser degree regarding insurance because if canvasing the average person in the street about insurance they would think only about their life insurance, health insurance, motor cover, house and contents, pet plan insurance and so on. Put like that, it is all very wearisome and therefore hardly a subject worth writing about, or is it? That was certainly the author’s impression of insurance even up to the point of moving into the financial sector from manufacturing industry.

Pursuing the subject a step further, hazarding a guess, if those very same people were quizzed regarding the types of people they imagined are employed in insurance they would probably describe their insurance broker or simply a voice at an insurance call centre. This account therefore will, in all probability, dispel the notion that all insurance dealings are routine and in the main, predictable as did an international group of young insurance delegates at a Middle East seminar, many of whom were totally unaware that the insurance industry’s activities were so diverse.

The Knowing and Caring Profession

Teaching has always struggled with its identity. Is it a profession? A vocation? Something that people who can’t do anything else fall into? A safety net or a career?

Is it a walk in the park? All those holidays. Something anyone can do, let’s face it, we all went to school.

Or is it a complex, challenging, somewhat maligned and misunderstood profession made up of exceptional and perhaps not so exceptional members. How would we know?

The Knowing and Caring Profession takes a look behind the rhetoric and rigmarole, to explore education and more specifically the education profession through a variety of lenses.

Phil Lambert’s approach to education, teaching and the broader profession is at times confronting, challenging and controversial. At its heart, it is an exploration of education by a teacher, a bureaucrat, an academic, a leader and a parent, all rolled in to one.

Phil brings a different perspective to many of the complex and challenging facets of education. From curriculum and class sizes to teacher education and student learning outcomes, Phil distils what can be polarising and emotive topics into easy to digest, fascinating and, at times, funny anecdotes and examples for non-educators.

Anyone who has even a passing interest or involvement with the education system will gain significant insight and understanding of what is truly at its very core, a knowing and caring profession.

The Agile Coach's Cookbook

“With this coach’s cookbook, Jon has managed to create a thing of both great simplicity and immense value. A must read for the coaching community, this is an easily referenceable guide to coaching excellence, full of handy hints, tips, tools and techniques. As a coach, no matter your experience, expertise and specialism, this is a resource you will all want in your back pocket.”

— Gustav Bjorkeroth, CEO at Radtac

“There are so many self-proclaimed-and-promoting agile experts, and best-selling agile authors. It’s challenging to decipher who’s right, who to engage with, or who to follow. Then there’s Jon Ward of Beneficial Consulting. Jon’s pragmatic and catalytic approach nullifies these challenges. Within the world of ‘agile transformation’, transitioning from ‘waterfall to agile’, Jon stands up and out providing practical advice based on successful recent experience. This book provides an essential read for agile coaches who wish to make a difference.”

— Alan Gedye, Head: People Change Management and Enablement, Absa Johannesburg

The Complete A-Z of German Verbs

I think I know which verb to use….but can I use it in this context….? I have a verb in my mind that I think should be used, yet is it the one used by German speakers themselves? How can I find out?!

Does this sound like you? As a fellow linguist and Translator, I completely empathise. This was the question I asked myself for many years. The world of languages can be a tricky one indeed. Countless days of learning verb tables and endings and running through verb after verb; this may seem like an impossible feat, yet is one commonly undertaken by dedicated linguists.

My book, The Complete A-Z of German Verbs, seeks to break down this confusing process, providing students with a guide to help understand the multiple uses of German verbs in different scenarios. Upon reading this book, you will gain an insight into morphological patterns that may have eluded you in the past and will guide you on your path to becoming a talented German linguist. Are you ready? 

The Graduate Book

“It’s a tough world out there for graduates—and students definitely

 know it. As a result, we’re seeing more and more that they’re preparing

 for post-graduation life early. The Student Book and The Graduate Book

 are invaluable resources, showing them exactly how to get ahead of

 the game whilst still at uni, and what to do if they’ve left their career

 planning until the very last minute! From a real-life success story, it offers

 crucial advice in an engaging and light-hearted way. An essential

 wherever you are in your university career or graduate job search!”

 Lucy Miller, Senior Editor – The National Student

 “We talk and interview with literally thousands of students every year

 and less than 5% of them really know what they need to do to land that

 vital first job. These books should be compulsory reading for every

 student and new graduate.

 We highly recommend it.”

 Jack Catherall, Managing Director Wiser Elite and Wiser Digital.

An Idiot's Love of Idioms 2

Ever wondered where the sayings we commonly use originate?Sometimes the things we say, if we really think about it, make absolutely no logical sense.Take what I’m saying as read but not with a pinch of salt, I think this book will be a sight for sore eyes and will warm the cockles of your heart.This book won’t cost you an arm and a leg and you won’t have to push the boat out to buy it and I’m not trying to pull the wool over your eyes as there are no smoke and mirrors here. If you like idioms it might be right up your alley and I’ll stick my neck out and say you’ll find it top drawer.Hang fire you say, well, this kind of book only comes once in a blue moon so keep your hair on, don’t flip your lid and remember every cloud has a silver lining even if it’s not cloud nine. So don’t drop a clanger and cut me some slack, buy this book and I guarantee you I’ll have you in stitches.

Practice Questions with answers in Pure Advanced Level Mathematics Book 1

This questions and answers test book contains work covered in several advanced level pure mathematics courses, including, the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (pure mathematics), The University of Cambridge Advanced Level Pure Mathematics (Papers 1,2 and 3) and The University of London Pure Advanced Level Mathematics Course. Book 2 will cover most, if not all, of the other topics found in the courses listed above. This book is intended for students studying and writing for the above courses. The questions and answers are of examination standard, and rather than having answers at the end of the book, they follow each exercise to make it easier for students to study particular topics rather than working their way through the book, and to aid in quickly finding the answers to questions.  

The Simple Truth

When it comes to supporting young people, Joanne Kirby knows her stuff. She is a mother of four and a qualified social worker who has years of experience working within education. She brings her knowledge together to provide an easy to understand, inclusive and educational resource which provides holistic teaching of all aspects of relationships. The Simple Truth equips the readers with the tools to navigate falling out with their friends; to understand why someone might not like them; how to deal with bullying, how to protect their mental health and how to love who they are. This book has been designed as a tool to help parents and professionals to safeguard young people by empowering them with the knowledge of what a healthy relationship looks like, teaching them to respect themselves and others and by giving them the full facts about all aspects of sex including how to masturbate, the realities of pornography and how to have healthy and enjoyable sex. The simple truth avoids making assumptions about what the reader’s life might look like and understands that each person’s home life; sexual identity, sexual preferences and/or ability to understand and process relationships is unique to each and every one of us; this is what truly makes The Simple Truth, truly inclusive. 

Your Career Marketing Plan

This book will guide you through the steps of both developing and implementing a career marketing plan. Hopefully, it is going to be a valuable journey for you and one in which you will learn a great deal about the person you are in life as well as in the workplace. More importantly, you will have a better understanding of the field in which you want to pursue your career and the type of employer to whom you want to offer your peerless expertise.

If you will take the time to complete the exercises at the end of each chapter, they will help you to analyse the information gathering you need to do to start building your own Career Marketing Plan. A Career Marketing Plan template is given at the end of the book for you to start entering your strategies, tactics and action steps for the implementation, control and feedback of your plan.

This book will hopefully change you and your self-perception in a very positive way and give you greater confidence as well as self-awareness. It will help you know who you are, what you want and how you are going to get it. There is nothing stopping you from having the career you want and, ultimately, the life you desire. You will realise that you have what it takes to control your career destiny.

Best of luck to you on your career path and best wishes for tremendous success with marketing not only your career but also marketing you!