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Common Ground is accessible to teachers at all levels yet firmly rooted in current questions of second language acquisition (SLA). One of its primary strengths is the authors themselves, both of whom are accomplished language teachers who understand the challenges and opportunities in communication-focused language teaching.

Fed up with students who talk over you and ignore instructions? Drained and worn out by disruption, disobedience, and defiance? Does the thought of facing some groups fill you with utter dread? Drawing on 20+ years experience in special education and mainstream settings, teacher-trainer Rob Plevin explains a proven, step-by-step plan for successfully managing the most challenging individuals and groups in today’s toughest classrooms. Packed with powerful, fast-acting techniques - including a novel routine to get any class quiet in 15 seconds or less.

Alpha Class is back - and this time they’ve brought their four-legged friends! It’s the final term for Tina, Maxim, Yana, and Ron, along with many of the inaugural Etheric Academy class, and in true Alpha Class style, it doesn’t take long for a mission for justice to turn into a real-life episode of Star Journey.

Long considered the world's greatest thinker and writer on management, Peter Drucker's teachings continue to inspire leaders everywhere. From 1975 to 1979, author William Cohen studied under the Great Man and became the first graduate of his doctoral program. What Drucker taught him literally changed his life. In a matter of a few years, he was re-commissioned in the Air Force and rose to the rank of major general.

It's a great time to be a beer drinker, but also the most confusing, thanks to the dizzying array of available draft beers. Expert Joshua M. Bernstein comes to the rescue with The Complete Beer Course, demystifying brews and breaking down the elements that make beer's flavor spin into distinctively different and delicious directions. Structured around a series of easy-to-follow classes, his course hops from lagers and pilsners to hazy wheat beers, Belgian-style abbey and Trappist ales, aromatic pale ales and bitter IPAs, roasty stouts, and mouth-puckering sour ales.

The Widow and the Wild One A Gilded Passions Novel By Verity Ashbourne Lady Evelyn Greystoke has obeyed every rule—until her husband’s final will demands she break them all. Forced to abandon the glittering salons of London for a crumbling estate in the wilds of Yorkshire, she finds herself face-to-face with Rafe Blackmoor—the illegitimate son of a duke, a brooding recluse scarred by war and betrayal. Rafe wants nothing to do with the sharp-tongued widow invading his sanctuary. But when Evelyn unearths locked rooms, buried secrets, and whispers of a scandal that tie their fates ...

Learning is most effectively achieved through a harmonious blend of study and practice. As such, a question bank is essential for reinforcing and applying the knowledge acquired during study. It proves invaluable for students, learners, and examinees preparing for school and various competitive examinations while also serving as a significant time-saver for educators who regularly need to craft exam questions. In this way, a question bank is a powerful tool for both learners and teachers alike. Peter’s "Question Bank of English Grammar & Composition" offers an extensive collection of ...

First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. Paulo Freire's work has helped to empower countless people throughout the world and has taken on special urgency in the United States and Western Europe, where the creation of a permanent underclass among the underprivileged and minorities in cities and urban centers is ongoing. This 50th anniversary edition includes an updated introduction by Donaldo Macedo, a new afterword by Ira Shor, and many inspirational interviews.

The Fast Track to Your Extra Class Ham Radio License explains the reasoning and technology behind each correct answer on the exam so you'll understand and remember the subject matter. Created by an experienced ham and adult educator, it's like having your own, patient, experienced, good-humored mentor for the exam (one reason Michael is a frequent presenter at major ham conventions).

Chris Hedges examines the failure of the liberal class to confront the rise of the corporate state and the consequences of a liberalism that has become profoundly bankrupted. Hedges argues that there are five pillars of the liberal establishment and that each of these institutions has sold out the constituents it represented. In doing so, the liberal class has become irrelevant to society at large and ultimately the corporate power elite they once served.

BLACK CRACKER is a reflection by the author on prejudices from his experiences that include extensive travel and exposure to many different cultures. His autobiography provides the reader with the filter through which he sees the world. Share his sometimes happy, angry, sad, frightened, comical, confused or loving look at himself and others. Every person has a story, and this one is worth hearing.

In The Scrum Fieldbook, he draws on his firm’s extensive experience in the field to take leaders, managers, and employees deeper into the specific challenges and new opportunities organizations face in an Agile transformation. He shows how the Scrum framework can be successfully applied to any project in any industry, from automobile manufacturers in the US and Europe to nonprofits in Africa, from home renovation contractors in Minnesota to gas exploration companies in South America, from fighter plane builders in Sweden to US Navy Special Forces teams.

Becoming a nurse is a big responsibility. Patients will rely on you to provide them with excellent and professional care. You may be so focused on taking care of others that you forget to take care of yourself. Nursing professional-development specialist Beth Hawkes noticed this happening with recent nursing graduates. They may have been at the top of their class, but they neglected learning the skills needed to advocate for themselves during the job hunt. You may have an encyclopedic memory when it comes to medicine, but do you know how to write a catchy cover letter or ace an important ...

She was kind of ugly, but after drinking about an entire bottle of wine she looked a lot cuter to me.

Hello there! Welcome to J.C.’s newest series: “Nervous, Naked, and Naïve”! These stories of exploitation and humiliation take place at Pudendia Women’s Academy, an all-girl college where sweetness, innocence, and gorgeousness are the rule, not the exception. Here you will meet Headmaster Edwin Dankworth—dirty-minded disciplinarian extraordinaire. Edwin is chronically smitten with just about every cute and curvy female at Pudendia—student and teacher alike—and he uses his position of authority to find situations galore in order to get one unlucky lass after another out of her ...

Simple advice to help women who are stuck in relationship limbo or dealing with men who won’t commit. In this audiobook, you’ll listen to how confident, self-made, no BS kind of women handle the dating game and have the time of their life in the process. If insecurities and self-doubt bring out the worst in you, it is time retrain your way of thinking to attract love into your life. Whether going through a breakup, diving back into the dating pool, stuck in relationship limbo or trying to get your ex back after a break-up, this audiobook is for you.

HEGEMON IN THE MAKING is the first part of the account of the hegemons that shaped the Western World, a thousand-year story per se about ancient Rome and the nature of its world. This involves the empires it fought against, the lands and people it conquered, the “Barbarian” invasions it defeated and failed to stop, and the influence it exerted in Europe, Africa, and East Asia (The Middle East), making it the target of other powerful forces determined to bring it down while cherishing its civilization, the positive attributes that constitute the bedrock of Western civilization today ...

Bob Bowman, best known as the coach for the record-breaking run of Michael Phelps, is one of the most successful coaches in Olympic history. He is lauded for his intense personality, his incredible dedication to his athletes, and his ability to nurture talent in athletes who have the heart and drive to win. This is his motivational book about winning in all walks of life and what you have to do to get there. He presents 10 key concepts that all people should live by.

When the sixth Earl Fitzwilliam died in 1902, he left behind the second largest estate in 20th-century England, valued at more than three billion dollars in today's money - a lifeline to the tens of thousands of people who worked either in the family's coal mines or on their expansive estate. The earl also left behind four sons, and the family line seemed assured. But was it?

Haunted by the freak accident that killed their father when they were children, Jim and Bob Burgess escaped from their Maine hometown of Shirley Falls for New York City as soon as they possibly could. Jim, a sleek, successful corporate lawyer, has belittled his bighearted brother their whole lives, and Bob, a Legal Aid attorney who idolizes Jim, has always taken it in stride. But their long-standing dynamic is upended when their sister, Susan - the Burgess sibling who stayed behind - urgently calls them home.