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Designed specifically for B1 Reading test preparation, this book offers a variety of practice exercises to enhance comprehension skills and familiarize readers with test formats. It includes sample texts, questions, and strategies tailored to boost confidence and performance. Ideal for learners aiming to improve their reading abilities, it provides essential tips and insights into effective test-taking techniques, ensuring a thorough understanding of the material.

Ten Use of English tests for the Cambridge B2 First exam: 40 texts, 300 individual assessments with answer keys, write-in answer sheets and a marking scheme.

"In the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, a fair number of Americans thought the idea was crazy. Now everyone, except a few die-hards, thinks it was. So what was going through the minds of the talented and experienced men and women who planned and initiated the war? What were their assumptions? Overreach aims to recover those presuppositions. Michael MacDonald examines the standard hypotheses for the decision to attack, showing them to be either wrong or of secondary importance: the personality of President George W. Bush, including his relationship with his father; Republican electoral considerations; the oil lobby; the Israeli lobby. He also undermines the argument that the war failed because of the Bush administration's incompetence. The more fundamental reasons for the Iraq War and its failure, MacDonald argues, are located in basic axioms of American foreign policy, which equate America's ideals with its interests (distorting both in the process) and project those ideals as universally applicable. Believing that democratic principles would bring order to Iraq naturally and spontaneously, regardless of the region's history and culture or what Iraqis themselves wanted, neoconservative thinkers, with support from many on the left, advocated breaking the back of state power under Saddam Hussein. They maintained that by bringing about radical regime change, the United States was promoting liberalism, capitalism, and democracy in Iraq. But what it did instead was unleash chaos." -- Provided by publisher

Tells the story of how the transition to democracy in South Africa enfranchised blacks politically but without raising most of them from poverty. This book shows how the continuing strength of the white establishment forces the leaders of the African National Congress (ANC) to compromise plans for full political and economic transformation.

Focusing on the social history of insanity in early seventeenth-century England, this book provides an in-depth analysis of Richard Napier's records. It delves into the perceptions and treatments of mental illness during that era, offering insights into the cultural and societal attitudes towards insanity. Through Napier's detailed accounts, the narrative uncovers the complexities surrounding mental health and its implications in historical context.