Unique quiz book but short

Advantages: Works well
Disadvantages: Only 600 questions

...As something of a Quiz Addict, one of the areas I have tried to improve on in recent years is classical music. It always comes up in quizzes and I needed to improve my limited knowledge of the subject and after doing a lot of listening and reading around the subject I bought the Richard Baker's Classical Music Quiz Book by Richard Baker of course to test how much I had learned. This book was...

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Review of Richard Baker's Classical Music Quiz Book - Richard Baker

Introductory Linguistics

Advantages: covers many basic linguistic theories, includes activities and exercises to aid learning and development, very descriptive
Disadvantages: small font, can be hard to follow at times due to the bland-ish/ to-the-point factual information

...take over the conversation, interruptions and what they mean, etc. This is one of the better chapters especially for non linguists as it is more easily applied and viewed in light of our own language experiences. Chapter 7 is a more detailed summary of the whole book in the sense that it looks at both spoken and written language and defines the approaches used to study them both based...

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The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Recorder Music!

Advantages: fun, price, variety
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...a Little Lamb'. Over the last six months or so I've really been getting back into the woodwind instrument, and decided to buy a few more books for it. Onbe of these was 'The Sound of Music'. Sound of Music Now just in case you're a fan of the recorder but have not perhaps heard of The Sound of Music, I feel the need to briefly outline the hit Rogers and Hammerstein musical to you. In all...

Amy69 01.03.2011 08:30 · Read review
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