The ELT Grammar Book, 2nd Edition offers a refreshingly human approach to understanding and teaching English grammar. Written specifically for teachers, this book moves beyond dry rules and dense charts to explain how English grammar actually works—and why learners struggle with it. Author Richard Firsten combines clear, teacher-friendly explanations with humor, comics, historical insights, and a conversational narrative style that makes complex grammar topics approachable and memorable. E...

The Word Combination Card is a powerful visual tool that helps English learners write with greater fluency, precision, and academic control. Designed for intermediate to advanced students, this full-color reference card presents the key sentence patterns and grammatical structures used in academic and professional writing. Clear visual sections guide students through constructing cause-and-effect sentences, comparisons and contrasts, examples, reports, topic sentences, and thesis ...

The Grammar You Need series (three levels) covers essential grammar for the purpose of writing in English in an academic setting. Each page provides clear, full-color visuals showing how the grammar structures work and how to apply them. Students can download free workbooks from ProLinguaLearning.com and can also take advantage of the powerful web application for this series at TheGrammarYouNeed.com.Level 3 of the series, Writing with Clarity and Accuracy, develops students' skills ...

Packed with original stories and visualisations, this is a must-buy resource for teachers, trainers and therapists who are looking for new approaches to group work, or are simply story-telling enthusiasts. " An essential part of our professional development library and widely consulted" Fiona Balloch, Principal, Oxford House College, London; This unique book combines the power of metaphor and the dynamics of story telling. Tracing techniques of story telling back to their original roots, i...

Movie magic, family drama, and the man who helped shape Hollywood.From humble roots as the son of Jewish immigrants, Pandro S. Berman rose to become one of Hollywood's most prolific producers. Alongside boyhood friends Irving Thalberg and David O. Selznick, Pandro helped transform early cinema into a cultural force, shaping not just the studio system, but the very essence of America's image at home and around the world. His films didn't just reflect the 20...

Collection of poems in cycles. The names of the cycles: "Love", "No what to do with that", "People", "I", "Moon, stars, night", "Rain", "Trees", "You know?". The poems in these cycles one way or another reflect the title/topic of the cycle.

Packed with original stories and visualisations, this is a must-buy resource for teachers, trainers and therapists who are looking for new approaches to group work, or are simply story-telling enthusiasts. " An essential part of our professional development library and widely consulted" Fiona Balloch, Principal, Oxford House College, London

A collection of stories and ballads that comprise a corpus of shamanic storytelling and praxis, as told by Michael Berman, a leading expert on storytelling as a tool and as an artform.Michael Berman BA, MPhil, PhD, works as a teacher and a writer. Publications include A Multiple Intelligences Road to an ELT Classroom and The Power of Metaphor for Crown House, and TheNature of Shamanism and the Shamanic Story for Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Shamanic Journeys through Daghe...

Michael P. Berman’s Merleau-Ponty and God: Hallowing the Hollow examines issues in the philosophy of religion through the phenomenological and existential writings of the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961). Merleau-Ponty addressed issues like the nature of faith, the problem of evil, and the love and judgment of God. Throughout the book Berman explains and critically interrogates the religious perspectives articulated in Merleau-Ponty’s thought. Merleau-Ponty cha...

Michael Berman has spent most of his sixty-plus years "living large." Though his weight has gone up and down dramatically a number of times, he estimates that he has gained and lost well over a thousand pounds. Yet even with a healthy and loving family and an accomplished career, Berman felt the humiliation and the sadness which often accompanies life for the overweight.

Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism explores a new mode of philosophizing through a comparative study of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology and philosophies of major Buddhist thinkers such as Nagarjuna, Chinul, Dogen, Shinran, and Nishida Kitaro. Challenging the dualistic paradigm of existing philosophical traditions, Merleau-Ponty proposes a philosophy in which the traditional opposites are encountered through mutual penetration. Likewise, a Buddhist worldview is articulated in the the...

A poignant, funny, and, above all, honest look at obesity from the inside out. Is it the goal of life to be thin? Or to be happy? In this inspiring story, those two elusive goals become one, as a fat man learns acceptance, loses the guilt, and gains the wisdom to manage his weight.You can hardly pick up a magazine or turn on the TV today without encountering a torrent of talk on weight. But all too rarely do we hear from overweight people themselves—especially men—about how life fe...