Give your brain a test. Give your eyes a rest.

Looking for a way to keep your brain on its toes? Well, there is nothing more mentally stimulating or fun than good old-fashioned brain teasers. And since everyday life doesn’t throw perplexing riddles at us very often, Brain Teasers for Adults offers a variety of tricky, yet “doable” puzzles to help build your logic, math, and wordplay.

The unique skills derived from solving brain teasers helps put you in a better position to resolve important problems from work to daily life. Go in order of difficulty or skip around—the decision is yours! Solve all 75 brain teasers and stand tall, knowing you have outsmarted the puzzle-maker himself.

Inside Brain Teasers for Adults, you’ll find:

• Choose your difficulty—Moving from simple Duck Soup Puzzles to Head Scratchers, engage your brain on different levels, with each riddle labeled by difficulty.
• 5 Categories—Filled with brain teasers categories such as Wordplay, Logic, Card puzzles, and more are meant to stimulate your thoughts in different ways.
• Clues to use—An optional clues section has been provided for each question in case a little extra help is needed!

Time to discover how fun and rewarding puzzle-solving can be with Brain Teasers for Adults!

Master conversation with this bestselling workbook for learners of Italian

Practice Makes Perfect: Italian Conversation is the go-to guide for expanding your conversational fluency. Organized into 10 units, it presents realistic everyday dialogues, followed by helpful instruction on correct syntax and word usage, as well as lots of conversation-ready phrases. Each dialogue is also followed by a variety of exercises that give the opportunity to put new concepts into action and encourage you to construct your own personalized conversations.

THIS BOOK WILL HELP YOU:

• Engage in dialogues that illustrate practical conversations

• Expand your vocabulary

• Understand new concepts with numerous realistic examples

• Build new conversation skills through extensive practice

THE BONUS APP THAT ACCCOMPANIES THIS BOOK PROVIDES:

• STREAMING AUDIO recordings of all 60 dialogues in the book

• SPEECH-BY-SPEECH presentation for clear understanding

• AUDIO ANSWER KEY for 30 dialogue-based exercises

• AUTO-FILL GLOSSARY for quick reference

Build up your Italian grammar skills and communicate with ease

The only way to boost your confidence in a second language is to practice, practice, practice. From the present tense of regular verbs to direct object pronouns, this comprehensive guide and workbook covers all aspects of Italian grammar that you need to master.Focusing on the practical aspects of Italian as it's really spoken, each unit features clear explanations, numerous realistic examples, and lots of engaging exercises.

Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian Grammar makes mastering grammar easy with:

• Clear, down-to-earth, easy-to-follow explanations that make even the most complex principles easy to understand



• Example sentences that illustrate and clarify each grammatical point



• Dozens of exercises in formats suited to every learning style



• Practical and high-frequency vocabulary used throughout



• A detailed answer key for quick, easy progress checks



• Supporting audio recordings, flashcards, and an auto-fill glossary online and via app

With help from this book, you can effortlessly use: Possessive adjectives • Relative pronouns • Gerunds • Expressions of time • The passive and the impersonal Si * The subjunctive mood * Question words

This is the first textbook on the linguistic relativity hypothesis, presenting it in user-friendly language, yet analyzing all its premises in systematic ways. The hypothesis claims that there is an intrinsic interconnection between thought, language, and society. All technical terms are explained and a glossary is provided at the back of the volume. The book looks at the history and different versions of the hypothesis over the centuries, including the research paradigms and critiques that it has generated. It also describes and analyzes the relevant research designed to test its validity in various domains of language structure and use, from grammar and discourse to artificial languages and in nonverbal semiotic systems as well. Overall, this book aims to present a comprehensive overview of the hypothesis and its supporting research in a textbook fashion, with pedagogical activities in each chapter, including questions for discussion and practical exercises on specific notions associated with the hypothesis. The book also discusses the hypothesis as a foundational notion for the establishment of linguistic anthropology as a major branch of linguistics. This essential course text inspires creative, informed dialogue and debate for students of anthropology,linguistics, cultural studies, cognitive science, and psychology.

Sharpen critical thinking skills and power your brain—for life

Think of your mind like a muscle. It must be exercised regularly to get stronger—and for you to get smarter. Master Your Mind will get your brain in shape by helping you cultivate the principles of critical thinking through perplexing puzzles, engaging exercises based on real-world scenarios, interesting case studies, and practical strategies.

This modern critical thinking workbook will teach you how to be on your toes mentally, filtering information, decoding it logically and with reason, and assessing it for validity. You’ll learn to think twice—perhaps three times—and become a better decision-maker and problem-solver.

Master Your Mind delivers:

• An effective approach—Get a concise look at critical thinking skills, including analysis, objectivity, evaluation, reasoning, deduction, problem-solving, and decision-making.
• Fun activities—Explore challenging, logic-based exercises that are based on real-world experiences, and learn to develop essential skills in your personal and professional life, especially in the digital age.
• Mental fitness for life—Learn best practices to incorporate critical thinking into your daily existence for the long term, always keep an open mind, and become a lifelong learner.

Train your brain so you can become smarter and more creative with this complete critical thinking workbook.

Dating back to antiquity, semiotics is both a "technique" and a "science" that aims to understand the nature of meaning. An academic discipline in its own right, semiotics uses signs, such as words and symbols, to think, communicate, reflect, transmit, and preserve knowledge.

Since the initial publication of The Quest for Meaning in 2007, the world has changed dramatically with the advent of online culture, new technologies, and new ways of making signs and symbols. Updated to reflect these many changes, the second edition includes a comprehensive chapter on the use of semiotics in the Internet age. Written in a student-friendly style, featuring examples from everyday life, the book explains what semiotics is all about and why it is so important for gaining insights into our elusive and mysterious human nature.

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  One verb per page conjugated in all tenses and moods
  
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  Synonyms, antonyms and idiomatic phrases for each verb
  
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  The 55 most essential Italian verbs highlighted and used in context
  
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  A pull-out reference card featuring the most essential verbs
  
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  An extensive index including many more regular verbs conjugated like the book's 501 model verbs
  
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  Passive and active voice formations
  
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  Even more entries in the English-Italian verb index covering impersonal verbs, weather expressions, and more
  
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  Online practice and exercises to reinforce verb conjugations and usage
  
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  Audio program to model native speaker rhythms and intonation
  
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  New pronoun chart on the inside front cover
  

• Ancient riddles
• Medieval riddles
• Riddles in the Renaissance
• Riddles as part of leisure culture
• Riddles in literature
• Riddles in popular culture
• Rebuses as visual riddles

This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to the scientific study of the relation between language and society, language and culture, language and mind. It integrates frameworks from sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology and emerging strands of research on language and new media, in order to demonstrate how language undergirds human thought and social behaviors. It is designed as an introductory textbook aimed at students with little to no background in linguistics. Each chapter covers the main aspects of a particular topic or area of study, while also presenting future avenues of study. This edition includes discussions on:

● social media and the creation of identity;

● gestural communication;

● emoji writing;

● multimodality;

● human-computer interaction.

Discussions are supported by a wealth of pedagogical features, including sidebars, as well as activities, assignments, and a glossary at the back. The overall aim is to demonstrate the dynamic connections between language, society, thought, and culture, and how they continue to evolve in today’s rapidly changing digital world. It is ideal for students in introductory courses in sociolinguistics, language and culture, and linguistic anthropology.