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This ebook was written by a native speaker of English to help Poles avoid the typical mistakes they always tend to make when they speak English. The author collected these mistakes over a 20 year period of teaching English in Poland. The mistakes, a result of thinking in Polish, are presented in the context of light-hearted, humorous dialogues between Graham, an English guy visiting Poland, and the...

Personal adornments, modern and ancient, are often perceived as merely decorative objects used for embellishing body or robe. This book refutes this simplified opinion by showing that jewelry carries a load of information regarding the social and financial status, gender, ethnic affiliation and religious beliefs of its wearers. Investigations into the function and meaning of personal adornments have...