Teach Yourself is currently an imprint of Hodder Education and formerly a series published by the English Universities Press (a subsidiary company of Hodder & Stoughton ) that specializes in self-instruction books. The series, which began in 1938, is most famous for its language education books, but its titles in mathematics (including algebra and calculus ) are also best sellers, and over its long history the series has covered a great many other subjects as well. "A Concise Guide to Teach Yourself", compiled by A R Taylor, was published in 1958 and listed all the titles up until then.
26-515: The Teach Yourself books were published from 1938 until 1966 under the imprint English Universities Press, owned by Hodder & Stoughton. Leonard Cutts (1904-1992) was overall editor from the start, and he remained the editor until 1964. Most titles published during the Second World War were aimed at helping the British nation survive as well as improving knowledge in the subjects that would advance
52-408: A black border as their primary logo in the 21st century. The earliest (EUP) volumes in the series were published in 1938 priced at two shillings and sixpence. The first five books to be published were adaptations from earlier works, but subsequently all were newly commissioned. The original numbering scheme reached to over 700. Notable early titles included: Subjects covered in the series ranged from
78-418: A common design for all of its books. Most older titles are covered with a distinctive yellow and blue, (formerly black), dust jacket, but over the years the publisher has changed the cover design several times, using an all-blue paperback format during the 1980s, a larger photographic or painted front cover with a black stripe containing the title in the 1990s, and recently adopting a yellow rounded rectangle with
104-485: A particular emphasis on languages. The Teach Yourself Languages range is available in over 65 languages and is available at four different levels. The Teach Yourself Languages range grade the four levels used against the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). In their 2012 range, Teach Yourself introduced a feature called Discovery Method . After each conversation has been practised,
130-617: A short period. Get Started In is a more comprehensive course tackling all four skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking). Complete... Series : The third strand is the Complete course, which is again aimed at absolute beginners, but is longer and covers a greater range of material. The Complete range offers the broadest range of products in the Teach Yourself Languages series as it covers all 65 languages available from Teach Yourself . The Complete range includes many of
156-504: A specific enlisted rank. An airman can also be referred to as a soldier in other definitions. As a military rank designation, the male form of address also applies to women. In civilian aviation usage, the term airman is analogous to the term " sailor " in nautical usage. In the American Federal Aviation Administration usage, an airman is any holder of an airman's certificate , male or female. This certificate
182-582: Is independent evidence that he worked in MI5’s press department, later acting briefly as its director. In 1938 he wrote Teach Yourself to Fly , a book designed to help flying students with the basics before entering an aeroplane. The book - the first of the Teach Yourself series - was sufficiently well-regarded that it became recommended by the British Air Ministry for pilots in the run up to and during
208-749: Is issued to those who qualify for it by the Federal Aviation Administration Airmen Certification Branch. "Airman" was a former general term used to describe any service members of the Royal New Zealand Air Force . Following the Royal Air Force , the RNZAF now refers to its personnel as “aviators.” "Airman" and "airwoman" were formerly general terms used to describe members of the Royal Air Force , particularly other ranks . In 2021 those terms were changed for
234-870: The Royal Navy , spending three years in the Mediterranean having graduated at the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth . He then left the Navy and devoted himself to learning to fly. He soon earned a Professional Pilot's 'B' Licence, the Navigator's Licence and the Air Ministry Instructor's Licence. After that he performed aerobatic demonstrations and worked as a flying instructor at the London Aeroplane Club. As
260-559: The Teach Yourself series have been published since 1966 by Hodder & Stoughton, who shifted the format of the books to trade paperbacks in 1973. For 2010, the books had a total redesign, and were printed in colour for the first time. Today they are available around the English-speaking world and cover numerous subjects, from language education to computers, games, and other crafts and hobbies. The company now specialises in self-instruction courses through books, audio and multimedia, with
286-520: The gender-neutral term "aviator". In the U.S. Air Force , "airman" is a general term which can refer to any member of the United States Air Force, regardless of rank, but is also a specific enlisted rank in the Air Force. The rank of airman (abbreviated "Amn") is the second enlisted rank from the bottom, just above the rank of Airman Basic , and just below that of Airman First Class . Since
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#1733093898506312-481: The Air Force basic training graduation ceremony at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas . They also receive a retroactive pay increment that brings them up to the pay grade for an Airman upon their completion of basic training. (Thus, it is as if they have enlisted as Airmen on the first day, as far as their pay is concerned. However, if they do not complete basic training and are discharged, they do not receive
338-459: The Air Force was established in 1947, all of the various ranks of "airman" have always included women, and in this context, the word "man" means "human being". Former U.S. Air Force ranks included Airman Second Class and Airman Third Class. The current E-2 paygrade rank of Airman was called Airman Third Class from 1952 to 1967. A person with the rank of Airman Basic is typically promoted to the rank of Airman after six months of active duty service in
364-459: The Air Force, if that member had signed up for an enlistment period of at least four years of active duty. On the other hand, an enlistee could be promoted to the rank of Airman immediately after completing Air Force basic training (and thus paid somewhat more) given one of several additional qualifications: Those enlistees who have qualified for these early promotions to the rank of Airman are allowed to wear their single airman insignia stripe during
390-497: The Discovery Method provides further explanation through focusing on usage and practice rather than the focus on rules found in the traditional inductive method. Get Talking and Get Started Series : The first two strands, Get Talking (audio course) and Get Started , are aimed at absolute beginners and those who have not learnt a language since school. Get Talking is an all-audio course designed to teach basic speaking in
416-589: The Second World War, and Tangye was asked to train prospective RAF pilots. In later life he became a hotelier at Newquay . In later years he lived in Cornwall and died in Camborne , aged 79. There is a portrait of Tangye at the Tate gallery, that was painted by Wyndham Lewis in 1945. Airman An airman is a member of an air force or air arm of a nation's armed forces . In certain air forces, it can also refer to
442-407: The arts ( Teach Yourself to Compose Music ). One of the most extreme was Teach Yourself Jet Engines and Rocket Propulsion by Patrick Joseph McMahon, published in 1964. A Concise Guide to Teach Yourself was published in 1958, listing all the titles then available, although the official numbering only began in 1949, so the books published before them were assigned numbers posthumously. Books in
468-580: The aviation correspondent for the London Evening News , Tangye covered the Spanish Civil War . His 1937 account of the war, Red, White and Spain , provided a strongly pro-Nationalist viewpoint. However, Tangye later recorded that it had been ″written by the author as a cover to his assignment by MI5 as a secret agent in the Spanish War″ seeking information on German military involvement. There
494-448: The extra pay.) While at the rank of Airman, the duties of enlisted personnel include adjusting to the Air Force way of military life and becoming proficient in their Air Force duty specialties. Note that upon leaving basic training, all Airmen enter a period of many weeks or many months of training at Air Force schools in their duty specialties that they and the Air Force have selected for them depending on their aptitudes and interests, and
520-438: The figures of Teach Yourself Mathematics (by John Davidson, 1938) and Teach Yourself Trigonometry (by Percival Abbott, 1940) to nearly 50,000 apiece". Barely two months later the number had risen to 80,000 each. By the 50th anniversary in 1988 some 40 million copies of the Teach Yourself series had been sold, with the books generating a turnover of over £1 million. Like many similar series, Teach Yourself has always used
546-598: The language volumes earlier included in the Teach Yourself series before the Complete language sub-series was devised. Enjoy... Series : Enjoy is the fourth level, introducing further vocabulary and grammar. This series was formerly marketed as the "Perfect your..." series. The All That Matters series is a series of short introductions to various subjects, intended to allow readers to "quickly discover all that matters about" their subjects. As of December 2021, its titles include: Nigel Tangye Nigel Trevithick Tangye (24 April 1909 – 2 June 1988)
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#1733093898506572-410: The needs of the Air Force. For Airmen with high aptitudes, some of these training programs include more than one school and take a year or more to complete. Airmen are often nicknamed “ mosquito wings" due to the insignia's resemblance to a mosquito's small wings. In the U.S. Navy , Airman is the enlisted rank that corresponds to the pay grade of E-3 in the Navy's aviation field, but it is just below
598-461: The rank of Petty Officer Third Class , pay grade E-4. In the U.S. Coast Guard , the ranks are very similar or identical to the ones in the U.S. Navy, and a Coast Guard airman is identical in rank and pay to an Airman in the Navy. Coast Guard Airman is the enlisted rank that corresponds to the pay grade of E-3 in the Coast Guard's aviation field, and includes both men and women. Airman is just above
624-580: The vocational ( Teach Yourself Banking by John Burgess Parker) to practical home help ( Teach Yourself Bringing up Children , Teach Yourself Dressmaking , Teach Yourself Gas in the House , The Teach Yourself Letter Writer ), to hobbyist ( Teach Yourself Bee-Keeping , Teach Yourself Etching ), and language learning (with Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek and Hindustani among the earliest titles). The books even stretched to highly technical subjects ( Teach Yourself Chemistry , Teach Yourself Atomic Physics ) and to
650-546: The war effort. Teach Yourself to Fly by Nigel Tangye was published on the eve of the Second World War. It was immediately recommended by the Air Ministry to prospective RAF pilots. Teach Yourself Radio Communication and Teach Yourself Air Navigation were added to the list in 1941. There was a big demand for these books, especially as supplies were constrained by wartime paper shortages. In June 1941 The Times reported that "sailors, soldiers and airmen have helped to bring
676-593: Was a British airman , novelist , journalist and the writer of various books about Cornwall . He worked for MI5, and later claimed to have been an MI5 agent during the Spanish Civil War. He was the brother of the writer Derek Tangye . Their father was Richard Trevithick Gilbertstone Tangye [ Wikidata ] , in turn the son of the engineer Richard Tangye . He was married to the actress Ann Todd . Born in Kensington , Nigel Tangye started his career in
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