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Mates, Dates Guide To Life, Love, and Looking Luscious
By Cathy Hopkins. 2005
Time for a lifestyle makeover?The Mates, Dates girls will show you how!Four super-tight friends dish their secrets for dealing with…
life's little dilemmas. . . Like boys, for start: what they want, where to find them, how to be a great kisser -- you know, all the really important stuff. Once you snag that dreamy guy, the girls deliver the fashion 411 to keep you looking irresistible! But being a glamour goddess can sometimes get stressful, so there are plenty of tips on how torelax and hang out with your closest friends. From creating the perfect bedroom, to spicing up your own personal style -- here's an exclusive ticket to a more fabulous you! Just between mates. . .The Changing Nature of Happiness
By Sandie McHugh. 2017
This book shines a light on the meaning of happiness and how public perceptions of it have changed over time.…
A question that has engaged philosophers from the days of Aristotle, happiness is a subject of growing academic interest, and its recent integration into government policy is provoking increased debate into its definition and nature. Sandie McHugh and her associates build on the work of social anthropologist Tom Harrison's 'Worktown' Mass Observation study from 1938, repeating the original study today. Together these accounts show how perceptions of happiness have changed over the years for the people of Bolton, UK, and reveal major difference between its definition then and now. This unique study is a useful tool in the understanding and study of happiness, offering invaluable insights for scholars and practitioners working in the fields of social psychology, positive psychology, health psychology and wellbeing.Spanish For Dummies
By Susana Wald, Cecie Kraynak. 2011
Learn Latin American Spanish quickly and painlesslyThe job market for those who are bilingual is expanding rapidly. Businesses and government…
agencies are hiring translators; retailers and advertisers are concentrating more energy in targeting the Spanish-speaking ; and hospitals and agencies are seeking to overcome language barriers.Whether you're a student studying Spanish, a traveler gearing up for a trip to a Spanish-speaking country and need to learn the basics, or a upwardly mobile looking to get ahead of the pack in your career by learning a second language, Spanish For Dummies, 2nd edition is your hands-on guide to quickly and painlessly learn Latin American Spanish that includes:Expanded coverage of grammar, verb conjugations, and pronunciationsA refreshed and expanded mini-dictionary complete with even more essential vocabulary, exercises, and moreA revamped and expanded bonus CD-ROM that includes real-life dialogue to aid in your learningWhether you're looking to learn Spanish for use in the home, class, at the office, or on the go, Spanish For Dummies, 2nd edition has you covered!Teaching English, Language and Literacy
By Dominic Wyse, Russell Jones, Helen Bradford, Mary Anne Wolpert. 2013
'This book is comprehensive, up-to-date, critical and authoritative. It is also, above all, well written. It will undoubtedly become standard…
reading for the next generation of teachers in training and practising teachers will also learn a great deal from dipping into its contents.' - David Wray, Professor of Literacy Education, University of Warwick '[A] well organised and comprehensive guide to the teaching of English and the teaching of language' Margaret Mallett - Emeritus Fellow of The English Association Are you looking for one book that covers every aspect of the teaching of English at primary level? Now fully updated, this third edition of Teaching English, Language and Literacy includes brand new chapters on children's literature and reading comprehension. Rooted in research evidence and multidisciplinary theory, this book is an essential introduction for anyone learning to teach English from the early years to primary school level. The authors draw on their research, scholarship and practice to offer advice on: developing reading, including choosing texts, and phonics teaching improving writing, including grammar and punctuation language and speaking and listening planning and assessing working effectively with multilingual pupils understanding historical developments in the subject the latest thinking in educational policy and practice the use of multimedia maintaining good home-school links gender and the teaching of English language and literacy All the chapters include clear examples of practice, coverage of key issues, analysis of research, and reflections on national policy to encourage the best possible response to the demands of national curricula. Each chapter also has a glossary to explain terms and gives suggestions for further reading. This book is for all who want to improve teaching English, language and literacy. Designed to help inform the practice of students on teacher training courses, but also of great use to those teachers wanting to keep pace with the latest developments in their specialist subject, this book covers the theory and practice of teaching English, language and literacy.Nana D's Alpacas
By Denise Wasko. 2017
Ms. Emily and her preschool classroom take an adventurous trip to learn more about alpacas. Come along on the journey…
to discover how curiosity and investigation lead to a love of outdoor learning.Register Variation Online
By Douglas Biber, Jesse Egbert. 2018
While other books focus on special internet registers like tweets or texting no previous study describes the full…
range of everyday registers found on the searchable web These are the documents that readers encounter every time they do a Google search from registers like news reports product reviews travel blogs discussion forums FAQs etc Based on analysis of a large near-random corpus of web documents this monograph provides comprehensive situational lexical and grammatical descriptions of those registers Beginning with a coding of each document in the corpus the description identifies the registers that are especially common on the searchable web versus those that are less commonly found Multi-dimensional analysis is used to describe the overall patterns of linguistic variation among web registers while the second half of the book provides an in-depth description of each individual register including analyses of situational contexts and communicative purposes together with the typical lexical and grammatical characteristics associated with those contextsTwenty Years at Hull House
By Jane Addams.
The classic memoir of one of the Progressive Era s most important reformers and social activists …
If it is natural to feed the hungry it is certainly natural to give pleasure to the young comfort to the aged and to minister to the deep-seated craving for social intercourse that all men feel In 1889 Jane Addams and her partner Ellen Starr opened the first settlement house in the United States On Chicago s West Side Hull House was devoted to the city s poor and forgotten from immigrants and unwed mothers to the elderly homeless and hungry Its charter proclaimed its mission to provide a center for higher civic and social life to institute and maintain educational and philanthropic enterprises and to investigate and improve the conditions in the industrial districts of Chicago In Twenty Years at Hull House Addams chronicles her revolutionary work from its conception in the Gilded Age through the dawn of the Progressive Era A cofounder of the American Civil Liberties Union and the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize Addams devoted her life to realizing a more noble vision of democracy More than a personal memoir Twenty Years at Hull-House is a landmark document of social theory and political history This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devicesOklahoma State University (Campus History)
By Charles Leider. 2016
Oklahoma State University was founded in 1889--18 years before statehood--as Oklahoma A&M College (OAMC), under the Morrill Land Grant Acts…
that allowed for the creation of land grant colleges. By midcentury, OAMC had a statewide presence with five campuses and a public educational system established to improve the lives of people in Oklahoma, the nation, and the world by adhering to its land grant mission of high-quality teaching, research, and outreach. On July 1, 1957, Oklahoma A&M College became Oklahoma State University (OSU). With more than 350 undergraduate and graduate degrees, OSU and its nine different colleges provide an unmatched diversity of academic offerings. Today, OSU has students enrolled from all 50 states and nearly 120 nations. There are more than 200,000 OSU alumni throughout the world.The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain
By David Mckitterick. 2009
The years 1830-1914 witnessed a revolution in the manufacture and use of books as great as that in the fifteenth…
century. Using new technology in printing, paper-making and binding, publishers worked with authors and illustrators to meet ever-growing and more varied demands from a population seeking books at all price levels. The essays by leading book historians in this volume show how books became cheap, how publishers used the magazine and newspaper markets to extend their influence, and how book ownership became universal for the first time. The fullest account ever published of the nineteenth-century revolution in printing, publishing and bookselling, this volume brings the Cambridge History of the Book in Britain up to a point when the world of books took on a recognisably modern form.Critical Approaches to Comics: Theories and Methods
By Matthew J. Smith, Randy Duncan. 2012
Critical Approaches to Comics offers students a deeper understanding of the artistic and cultural significance of comic books and graphic…
novels by introducing key theories and critical methods for analyzing comics. Each chapter explains and then demonstrates a critical method or approach, which students can then apply to interrogate and critique the meanings and forms of comic books, graphic novels, and other sequential art. The authors introduce a wide range of critical perspectives on comics, including fandom, genre, intertextuality, adaptation, gender, narrative, formalism, visual culture, and much more. As the first comprehensive introduction to critical methods for studying comics, Critical Approaches to Comics is the ideal textbook for a variety of courses in comics studies. Contributors: Henry Jenkins, David Berona, Joseph Witek, Randy Duncan, Marc Singer, Pascal Lefevre, Andrei Molotiu, Jeff McLaughlin, Amy Kiste Nyberg, Christopher Murray, Mark Rogers, Ian Gordon, Stanford Carpenter, Matthew J. Smith, Brad J. Ricca, Peter Coogan, Leonard Rifas, Jennifer K. Stuller, Ana Merino, Mel Gibson, Jeffrey A. Brown, Brian SwaffordMotivation for Achievement: Possibilities for Teaching and Learning
By M. Kay Alderman. 2008
Understanding student and teacher motivation and developing strategies to foster motivation for students at all levels of performance are essential…
to effective teaching. This text is designed to help prospective and practicing teachers achieve these goals. Its premise is that current research and theory about motivation offer hope and possibilities for educators —teachers, parents, coaches, and administrators—to enhance motivation for achievement. The orientation draws primarily on social-cognitive perspectives that have generated much research relevant to classroom practice. Ideal for any course that is dedicated to, or includes coverage of, motivation and achievement, the text focuses on two key roles teachers play in supporting and cultivating motivation in the classroom: establishing the classroom structure and instruction that provides the environment for optimal motivation, engagement, and learning; and helping students develop the tools that will enable them to be self-regulated learners and develop their potential. Pedagogical features aid the understanding of concepts and the application to practice: Strategy boxes present guidelines and strategies for using the various concepts. Exhibit boxes include forms for different purposes (for example, goal setting), examples of teacher beliefs and practices, and samples of student work. Reflection boxes stimulate readers’ thinking about motivational issues inherent in the topics, their experiences, and their beliefs. A motivational toolbox at the end of each chapter helps readers identify important points to think about, lingering questions, strategies to use now, and strategies to develop in the future. NEW IN THE THIRD EDITION Updated research and new topics are added throughout as warranted by current inquiry in the field. Chapters are reorganized to provide more coherence and to account for new findings. New and updated material is included on issues of educational reform, standards for achievement, and high-stakes testing, and on achievement goal theory, especially regarding performance goals and the distinction between performance-approach and performance-avoidance goals as relevant to classroom practice.The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance During World War II
By Luis Alvarez. 2008
Providing a new history of youth culture based on rare, in-depth interviews with former zoot-suiters, Luis Alvarez explores race, region,…
and the politics of culture in urban America during World War II. He argues that Mexican American and African American youths, along with many nisei and white youths, used popular culture to oppose accepted modes of youthful behavior, the dominance of white middle-class norms, and expectations from within their own communities.Kill the Cowboy: A Battle of Mythology in the New West
By Sharman Apt Russell. 1993
Global Issues: An Introduction (4th Edition)
By John L. Seitz, Kristen A. Hite. 2012
Seitz (emeritus, government, Wolford College) and Hite (climate change program, Center for International Environmental Law, and international Environmental Law, U.…
of Maryland) provide a much-updated fourth edition of their book on the most critical environmental, political, economic, and social issues facing the world today. General topics include population, wealth and poverty, food, energy, the environment, and technology. The authors also offer discussions of alternative futures. The new edition includes a new section focusing on nuclear energy. It is well-illustrated and referenced, and includes numerous suggestions for further reading. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)Beijing Jeep: A Case Study of Western Business in China
By Jim Mann. 1997
In this updated version of Beijing Jeep, Jim Mann traces the history of the stormy romance between American business and…
Chinese communism through the experiences of American Motors and its operation in China, Beijing Jeep, a closely watched joint venture often visited by American politicians and Chinese leaders. He explains how some of the world's savviest executives completely misjudged the business climate and recounts how the Chinese, who acquired valuable new technology at virtually no expense to themselves, ultimately outcapitalized the capitalists.A proper understanding of intelligibility is at the heart of effective pronunciation teaching and with it successful teaching…
of speaking and listening Far from being an optional add-it-on-if-we-have-time language feature pronunciation is essential because of its tremendous impact on speech intelligibility Pronunciation dramatically affects the ability of language learners to make themselves understood and to understand the speech of others But not all elements of pronunciation are equally important Some affect intelligibility a great deal while others do not With a strong emphasis on classroom practice and how pronunciation teaching can be more effectively approached in different teaching contexts this book provides an important resource for pronunciation researchers with a distinctly practical focus It shows how intelligibility research informs pronunciation teaching within communicative classrooms enabling language teachers to incorporate intelligibility findings into their teaching Professionals interested in oral communication pronunciation and speech perception will find the book fascinatingMigra! A History of the U. S. Border Patrol
By Kelly Lytle Hernandez. 2010
This is the untold history of the United States Border Patrol from its beginnings in 1924 as a small peripheral…
outfit to its emergence as a large professional police force. To tell this story, Kelly Lytle dug through a gold mine of lost and unseen records stored in garages, closets, an abandoned factory, and in U.S. and Mexican archives.African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan
By Edward Coolbaugh Hoagland. 1979
Follow Hoagland's travels, from equatorial mountain forests to the Sahara desert; from small Sudanese towns in the south and west…
to short stays in the capital, Khartoum. Hoagland's eye for detail presents the reader with electrifying images of life in the Sudan - rotten diets, disease, coups and civil war, the traders, poachers, tribal headmen, and those who come to help.Revolution, Resistance, and Reform in Village China
By Edward Friedman, Mark Selden, Paul G. Pickowicz. 2005
Drawing on more than a quarter century of field and documentary research in rural North China, this book explores the…
contested relationship between village and state from the 1960s to the start of the twenty-first century. The authors provide a vivid portrait of how resilient villagers struggle to survive and prosper in the face of state power in two epochs of revolution and reform. Highlighting the importance of intra-rural resistance and rural-urban conflicts to Chinese politics and society in the Great Leap and Cultural Revolution, the authors go on to depict the dynamic changes that have transformed village China in the post-Mao era. This book continues the dramatic story in the authors' prizewinningChinese Village, Socialist State. Plumbing previously untapped sources, including interviews, archival materials, village records and unpublished memoirs, diaries and letters, the authors capture the struggles, pains and achievements of villagers across three generations of social upheaval.Going Nucular: Language, Politics, and Culture in Confrontational Times
By Geoffrey Nunberg. 2004
Nunberg (linguistics, Stanford U.) does not spend much time on the romance of words or decrying the state of the…
language, but more often takes language as a jumping off point to see what words can reveal about other things, among them culture, war, politics, symbols, media, business, and technology. Many of the 65 essays began life as articles or radio commentaries.