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This nice collection of the most popular and frequently used maritime abbreviations and acronyms, prepared and released by the professionals of the Bangladesh IMA (International Maritime Academy), is perfect to be used together with this Maritime Glossary of Terms from the same team of pros.

The publication has been recognized worldwide and is in wide use by all people whose day-to-day job activities involve communicating in English on technical topics or preparing letters or preparation of any other technical documentation.

In addition, the booklet will be very useful to future professionals, i.e. students making their first steps. Needless to say that proper and thorough knowledge of the maritime acronyms is critically important to all participants of the maritime activities, i.e. ship builders, personnel of the shipping companies, crew members, port state control officials, classification society inspector.

It is definitely recommended to anyone who is not necessary the shipping industry professional but intends to improve his or her knowledge of the marine terminology, including the most used abbreviations/acronyms to read the documents, papers or technical publications.   

This course of technical English language has been primarily intended to aim the students of Mechanical/Electrical Engineering in technical schools, as well as colleges and universities; it will suit both professional engineers and technicians. This book can also be used for self-study.

The book comprises of thirty units each with authentic exercises from a very wide variety of sources. The topics selected to be included into this book have been chosen by the authors with intention to cover all areas of both Mechanical/Electrical Engineering. The technical contents of the publication includes general engineering matters, training courses, materials and mechanisms, automatic systems, engineering design aspects, robotics, electrical engineering and technology, mechanics - statics and dynamics, pneumatics, hydraulics and fluid mechanics, computer aided design (CAD) and others.

The starting unit of the book is dedicated to the general engineering, while the second unit shows the reader how to choose a course while the next one addresses engineering materials. Then, there are units on mechanisms, forces in engineering, electric motors, central heating, safety matters, latest technological developments etc. We do consider this book a recommended reference source for every engineer regardless of the field.​

Here is a very good reference source for anyone intending to work on the improvement of his/her knowledge of the maritime English terminology. The numerous exercises included to the book by the authors will be of great help to people trying to reach to the better marine English - the materials provided in the publication cover such the important aspects of general maritime knowledge as ship hull construction, marine engineering, including various ship hull systems, diesel engines, propulsion techniques, cargo gear - cranes, booms, loose gear, and other cargo handling equipment and arrangements, steering systems and equipment, anchoring and mooring arrangements of the vessel, HVAC systems, oily water separators, filtering equipment, tank cleaning systems and inert gas systems (IGS) on tanker vessels.

In addition to that, various aspects of the naval architecture have also been addressed, including load lines, freeboard marking, both intact and damage ship stability, deadweight, lightweight, freight carrying capacity, free surface effect on stability. Then, the navigation equipment has also been covered including the info on GMDSS. Moreover, various life-saving equipment and appliances have also been dealt with, including lifeboats, inflatable and rigid life rafts, rescue boats plus FRC, personal life-saving equipment etc. 

An excellent and classic textbook for those developing their grammar skills - it can be used as a reference book for both classroom training and self-study at home. This third edition of the book features same approach to the material contained in it, as it was the case with first two releases of the book.

The publication by Betty Azar contains many realistic communications, features numerous options for interactive work, so many error-analysis exercises, some fully revised and updated material. Teachers of English found this book very useful because of the way the tenses and other grammar aspects have been explained. There are also so many practical and useful charts on different grammar topics.

This publication is considered by the customers a good review tool for improving ESL grammar skills. In particular, this book would be very highly recommended for the oral practice of various point of English grammar. Note that while most of the grammar books are full of boring exercises, this one goes well beyond that and is therefore much more easy to use and interesting.

All explanations provided in the book are very clear, making the book one of the most popular of the ones available at the market today.

When I first told friends that I was embarking on a project collecting British dialect, their first thought was often that I would meet a lot of lonely people. I confess I feared they might be right. The speakers whose gems I was looking for were sure to be the last ones standing, bearers of vanishing vocabularies that would never be replaced. For the word 'dialect' has become synonymous with decline, just as English, we are told, is destined to become monolithic, bland, and peppered with universal lines absorbed from TV and Internet chat rooms.

It has been one of the nicest surprises of my career to learn just how wrong we were. That English is far from losing its edge I already knew — its golden age may even lie ahead of us still — but I accepted without question that it was different for dialect. Like most people I know; I believed that our local vocabularies are being ironed out at the same electric pace as new words are being coined, and for a much bigger audience than a particular neighbourhood. That what we now have is a general lexicon from which everyone, north and south, young and old, draws for expression. What I've discovered in the course of writing this book is that dialect is alive, well, and kicking hard. It's just doing so in new and different ways.

Of course, thousands of beautiful and unmistakably local words are dying out; many have already done so. They are just as surely to be missed as the new are to be celebrated. For the most part they belonged to a world now lost to us — one populated with horse-drawn ploughs, dockers and cotton workers, collieries and tin-mines. The lexicons of these and other industries are still there if you look hard enough, but as the need for them diminishes, so do the aural snapshots of the life they once so brilliantly described. Yet, over the 1,500 years of English's history, it was ever thus — words have come and gone (and often come back again) throughout, but the footprints they leave remain as telline as ever...

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.