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McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Idoms and Phrasal Verbs (McGraw-Hill ESL References)
Table of contents IS NOT interactive. You must page through hundreds of pages to find anything.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Idoms and Phrasal Verbs (McGraw-Hill ESL References)
Nothing wrong with the product, but the Kindle search engines as found n a variety of products make the dictionary all but unusable. Buy the print version or do without.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Idoms and Phrasal Verbs (McGraw-Hill ESL References)
When I got this dictionary, I thought... This is one of the most important thinks that I have bought in Amazon: Cheap and Excellent Quality. I'm very pleased with this deal.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Idoms and Phrasal Verbs (McGraw-Hill ESL References)
If you are getting this to learn anything new, don't waste you're time. Everything in this book a small child probably already knows. The most basic of language is in this book. This book should be labeled very differently, I gave it the low score because its basically of no use to the majority of people that will buy it to use for writing. Its a good book if you don't know a lot of English, like someone who speaks Spanish and is trying to learn English. Remember, buyer beware.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Idoms and Phrasal Verbs (McGraw-Hill ESL References)
I don't know if this is the case for anyone else, but there are literally 20 or so pages absent from my copy of this book. (Pages 533-552) That in itself is disappointing, but on top of that, many of the other criticisms are spot on -- the book has 24,000 entries, but you have to page through hundreds of variations of the same phrase to find anything meaningful. If you are getting this reference tool for writing, search elsewhere.
Gothic Architecture & Scholasticism
This book is a sublime example of scholarship in its highest form. That being said it is not a book for the casual reader. Panofsky does not insult your intelligence but expects you to think. This book would be an excellent addition, indeed an mandatory one, for any library of history. I would also recommend this book to anyone studying the 12th-13th centuries. I have read and re-read this book again and again soaking up Panofsky's prose and relishing his intensity of thought regarding a shadowy period in our history. It is a mindopener to the mystery of why gothic architecture looks like it does.