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The present Glossary is mainly dealing with fishing vessels and it also deals with all issues relating to the safety on board. It includes terminology on so many types of fishing vessels and considers passive ship safety (i.e. parts and structures of the vessel, different installations on board the ship, requirements related to the ship stability etc.) and active ship safety (i.e. lifesaving appliances, signaling equipment, pyrotechnics etc.).

The content of this dictionary was prepared with so valuable input from the leading European experts in the subject field. It shall be noted that the terms included by the authors in the book are highly specialized and therefore quite difficult to find elsewhere. The team of authors has also sought assistance from many prominent national experts, in order to provide maximum possible reliability.

Though most of the marine glossaries can only provide approximate translations of the specialized terms, in this publication the accent is made on the clarity of the translation. As a result, this book is one of the best available sources of technical terms related to the fishing vessels. It is indeed popular and may be recommended to anyone whose day-to-day work requires clear understanding and knowledge of such terms.

This book is the compendium of the most useful tips aiming to help all learners of English with the common grammatical problems. One of the best features of the present publication is the approach used by the authors when sorting the grammatical rules.

The book opens with the chapter titled "Use your head" dedicated to the dictionary skills - abbreviations and parts of speech plus tenses and dependent prepositions, phrasal verbs, word formation, error correction and word check, prefixes etc. The second chapter - "Severe weather" - address metaphors and idioms, collocations and prepositions, writing formal letters, contrast links.

Then, the other chapters deal with such aspects of grammar as register and style, cause and effect, relative clauses, comparatives and superlatives, emphasizes, degrees of comparison, cohesive devices, modal verbs, linking and logical devices, reported speech, discourse cloze, compound adjectives with character, lexical cloze, punctuation, expressing the future, quantifiers, structural cloze, word building and so many others. In short, the information provided in this book is very useful and practical, making this book so popular.

Let us introduce an excellent training pack developed by Ernest D'Acunto. It consists of the booklet and a set of audio files intended to help readers improve and control their pronunciation. The book itself has been divided into eleven chapters. The opening chapter of the booklet checks what is the English language for transport and logistics while the second chapter s dedicated to the knots and how to tie them properly.

The other chapters cover various fields of transport and logistics, including nomenclature of various parts of the vessel, including dimensions, hull materials, construction techniques, navigation etc. There is a separate chapter dealing with the various positioning tools, namely radars and GPS systems.

Moreover, there are chapters on the weather prediction tools, meteorology, intermodal freight transport, oil tankers, handling of goods and passengers, safety regulations, safety signs and legislation, and so many other aspects of transportation (note, however, that the terminology dealt with in the book is not limited to sea transportation). There is one additional file included in the pack, containing answer keys to all exercises and transcripts.

A nice and remarkably informative publication prepared and officially released by the specialists of Maritime Administration of the United States. The intention of the team of the authors was to provide everyone involved in the maritime industry with the good reference source that could be used when communicating, writing various letters, preparing formal technical documentation etc. related to shipping.

We do believe that is needless to say that the information included in this book will be very valuable for ship owners and crew members, ship agents, marine surveyors, insurance agents, port state control officers and other industry professionals. The authors have carefully checked myriads of marine terms to select the most relevant and important terms and to include them in the present Glossary.

It should definitely be mentioned that, apart from the glossary itself, this book contains detailed list of United States flag carriers supplemented with the addresses and telephone numbers. We would recommend this publication to anyone willing to improve their knowledge of the maritime terminology. This is the must-have publication that has to be readily available at any time for quick reference.

This is a practical and very comprehensive handbook of literary, oratorical and conversational terms, striking similes, pertinent expressions, for the embellishment of literature and speech - it will be very useful for all people who are trying to speak, read write and read in English.

The writer of this publication, Grenville Kleiser, was famous for his numerous works on inspiration and positive thinking - he is also the author of several exceptional guides on personal development and oratorical success. The title of the book is pretty self-explanatory. It presents a dynamic and very powerful method that may easily be used by all learners of English willing to attain a large vocabulary.

When applied in a correct way, the book will help readers to significantly increase their inventory of words. According to the customer reviews, the book shall be top rated because of the incredible work that has been performed by the author.

It is a very handy publication as it contains so many colourful phrases an will also be very useful for the public lecturers. Let us underline that this book will be a good choice for all lovers of the English language and prolific readers. We recommend this book to anyone working on the vocabulary and proper usage of words.

This is the revised and significantly updated release of the best-selling training set prepared for the students of English working on the improvement of their vocabulary book, prepared by Michael McCarthy, Felicity O'Dell, and Stuart Redman with the intention to assist readers in building their new vocabulary.

Note that this is a full set containing all four books of the series, fitting the students of the Elementary, Pre-Intermediate, Intermediate, and Advanced levels. There are thousands of the new words and expressions - they can be found on the left-hand page of each unit. Every new word or phrase is presented in in a sentence, has a picture, or is used in a conversation, or is provided with the description. And, on the right-hand page readers will find interesting aimed to help them practice using the newly learnt words. This book may be used either with or without a teacher.

There are keys to exercises provided at the end of the book. Regardless of whether the vocabulary is used in class or at home, it covers all words and phrases most of the users need at Elementary level in order to understand and to be understood. The book contains sixty units of vocabulary reference and practice; it is divided into nine chapters, namely learner training, everyday verbs, people, words and grammar, at home, the world, workplace and school, social issues and leisure.

As it is clear from the title of this book, it is mainly intended for mariners and other participants of the maritime industry who are willing to improve their maritime English skills. It is quite obvious that all people involved in any sort of shipping-related activities, such as maintenance and handling of vessels, ship management, marine surveys, port state control inspections, cargo handling, etc. - they all have to have a very good knowledge of the maritime English in order to perform their professional duties.

The training material provided in this book has been divided into major parts. The first part has been named "Merchant vessels" and it addresses the general info on the ships, their construction, machinery, outfitting, safe navigation issues, classification societies etc. The second part, "Safety at sea" deals with the safety of the crew, seaworthiness of the ship, lifesaving appliances, IMO and other maritime entities.

There is also a Glossary in the book, contained in its last third part and providing readers with various important forms of shipping documents, informative illustrations, instructions to be followed by the officers, recognized international standards and other information. This book will be useful to any merchant mariner or even a member of shore support team.

Here is the second, revised and updated, release of the waste and water management dictionary - the volume has been expanded by about ten per cent in comparison with the first edition, and includes more than a thousand revised or completely new entries.

This volume provides readers with much more comprehensive coverage of terminology relating to the storm water and flood management; the latest EU Directives in the environmental field have also been incorporated in this release of the dictionary and it now includes a number of extra entries concerning detection of the leaks, sewer  and pipeline rehabilitation.

The readers treat this dictionary as the important and timely one, recommended to all libraries supporting various waste and water management programs and other environment-related studies as well as hydrology. It is a good and very comprehensive reference covering waste and water treatment and management. This latest edition of the dictionary includes more than seven thousand entries and takes into consideration the most recent developments of the water/waste management and associated terminology.

This all makes the book a very handy reference source for the engineers, contractors and other professionals involved in the industry. The United States and British standards and legislation are referenced in the book.