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ESOL Resources: Academic Intros

This guide assists Massasoit ESOL students with the resources to advance English learning.

The Basics - Routledge

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The Basics series offers accessible guidebooks that overview the fundamental principles of a subject area in a simple language and format. Intended for students approaching a subject for the first time, the books both introduce the essentials of a subject and provide an ideal springboard for further study.

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Bookworms - Oxford University Press

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Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels with over 270 original and adapted texts to ensure a comfortable read at every level.

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MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series

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The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers accessible, concise, beautifully produced books on topics of current interest. Written by leading thinkers, the books in this series deliver expert overviews of subjects that range from the cultural and the historical to the scientific and the technical.

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Object Lessons - Bloomsbury

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Bloomsbury's Object Lessons is a series of concise, collectable, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. 

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Little Histories - Yale University Press

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Little Histories series explores the history of the world’s most remarkable people, events and ideas. With engaging personal insights, authors take you on a whistle-stop journey from ancient times to the present – exploring all of life’s big subjects from poetry to science.

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