Gareth Carrol presents a collection of "modern idioms", which have become a part of our vocabulary in the past 50 years or so. In most cases, idioms such as "ra

The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description

Maybe you've been speaking English all your life, or maybe you learned it later on. But whether you use it just well enough to get your daily business done, or

Vocabulary in Use Pre-intermediate and Intermediate is a vocabulary book for intermediate learners of English, primarily designed as a self-study reference and

In this fascinating survey of everything from how sounds become speech to how names work, David Crystal answers every question you might ever have had about the