With exercises, self-assessments, and action plans, this book teaches you how to break the pattern of passivity, become truly motivated, and act confidently based on feeling of competence and self-control. Once you learn to listen effectively and communicate, you will begin to build a bridge to a more effective partnership with your boss

This book is for children to exploring the city New York with fun pictures. Becky, a young New Yorker, takes the reader and a friend on a tour of her favorite places in the city

Modern Women explores how history might account for the women missing from the familar narrative of modernism; how women variously fit into, redefine or upend the usual categories of art and art-making; and the role of the Museum of Modern Art as a site of both patronage and protest. This book offers a lively discourse around gender and the production of meaning in art, one absolutely necessary for a more complex understanding of the art of our time

Beautifully illustrated with historic and full-color photos and filled with modern essays and fascinating historic extracts, this book is a wealth of information on a beloved national park and World Cultural Heritage Site

Born a slave, Frederick Douglass educated himself, escaped, and became on of the greatest social leaders in American History. Although usually identified with the monumental Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Douglass produced two additional autobiograthies, the second of which he called My Bondage and my Freedom

This expanded and thoroughly revised new edition is designed not only to add hundreds of useful new words to a student’s permanent working vocabulary but also to teach the most common and useful Greek and Latin word-building roots to help students understand and master additional vocabulary in the future. Example sentences and brief explanatory comments provide a rich context to bring the words to life, and quizzes are provided to encourage reuse and recall of words and to reinforce memory of them. All of these features combine to make this a valuable tool for students preparing for standardized tests or simply seeking to expand their English vocabulary

In a clinic on Manhattan's Upper West Side, a doctor has dedicated his life to eradicating a devastating disease. One by one, his patients are getting well. And one by one, they're being targeted by a serial killer. There's only one cure, but many ways to die...

This book is unique among current books on writing in two important ways. First, it presents cognitive strategies for writing: sequences of specific steps which make the writing process clearer and enable students to organize their thoughts about the writing task. The strategies help students know how to turn thoughts into writing products. This is especially important for students having difficulty producing acceptable writing products, but all students benefit from learning these procedures. Second, the authors focus on helping the student become a self-regulating writer -- aware and in control of the writing processes. The combination of composition and self-regulation strategies adds critically important dimensions to a whole language program because the strategies help students think about and organize writing products at the same time, while they learn to manage their writing

This popular textbook offers a comprehensive and practical introduction to central themes in the principles and practice of teaching English as a foreign/second language. It is written both for teachers and for those taking professional courses in English language teaching

The complete guide to problems of confused or disputed usage. Clear, concise usage articles; more than 2,300; over 20,000 illustrative quotations