Academic Encounters is an academic preparation series that uses authentic materials and a sustained-content approach to teach students the skills they need to take academic courses in English. There are two books in the series for each content focus: an Academic Encounters title that teaches reading, study skills, and writing; and an Academic Listening Encounters title that concentrates on developing students' listening, note-taking, and discussion skills.

Cambridge Preparation for the TOEFL® Test, Fourth Edition helps students master the language skills they need to succeed on the TOEFL iBT and communicate effectively in an academic setting. Using an integrated-skills approach that mirrors the structure of the TOEFL iBT, this fully revised text is ideal for classroom use and self study.

Guidelines, Third Edition, is the latest addition to the Cambridge Academic Writing collection. Written by Ruth Spack, this classic reading and writing text teaches academic essay and research writing. Full of strategic information on how to write, Guidelines literally "guides" students through the writing process. The new edition represents a major revision and contains new readings, a new organization, and updated information.

The third edition of this writing text retains its defining characteristic-the use of non-native student writing to teach writing. This feature makes the text easily accessible to and popular with students.

Making Connections is a reading skills book aimed at the high-intermediate student who needs to prepare for academic reading tasks. The book has four high-interest thematic units, each with multiple readings on health, multicultural studies, language and the environment.

New Directions is a thematic reading-writing book aimed at the most advanced learners. It prepares students for the rigors of college-level writing by having them read long, challenging, authentic readings and applying critical thinking skills to them as a precursor to writing. This emphasis on multiple longer readings gives New Directions its distinctive character. Each of the five topic-based chapters contains three core readings and five additional readings. The readings come from a variety of genres and are accompanied by exercise material.

Write to be Read helps students develop their academic writing skills. Using thought-provoking reading selections, Write to be Read guides students through the process of reading, reflection, writing, and revision.

The fourth edition of this classic writing skills book contains many new features and new readings, and it has been fully revised and updated. In this reading-based writing book, the author has selected six new high-interest pieces and retained six favorites from the third edition.

Based on the world's largest corpus of written and spoken American English, written and edited by native speakers of American English, the new edition of the Cambridge Dictionary of American English includes more than 60,000 definitions and example sentences. It is available with and without a CD-ROM.

A dictionary that opens the door to American English idioms. Whether you want to plumb the depths of idiomatic phrases or just be tuned in to current phrases such as living large and walk the walk and talk the talk, this is the book that will spell it out for you.