A timeless classic, this workbook-style text celebrates holidays—and the ESL learner! Each of the 20 chapters targets a holiday via an informative three-page reading. Key vocabulary is bolded and recycled. For example, the Valentine’s Day unit embraces the words romance, affection, sweetheart, companion, feelings and others that are then reviewed in matching exercises, sentence completions, and Internet tasks. Black and white photos further add to the celebration. Special appendices extend learning with relevant holiday “documents” (The Pledge of Allegiance, MLK’s I Have a Dream speech, etc.), gift-giving customs, and traditional songs. An answer key is in the back. Holidays included aside from the most common: President’s Day, St. Patrick’s, Easter, Memorial Day, The 4th of July, Election Day, Veterans Day, Cinco de Mayo, Kwanzaa, Ramadan, and Yom Kippur

For solvers looking for puzzles they can enjoy throughout the weekend, here`s a fun, accessible collection of end-of-the-week New York Times crosswords in a spiral-bound format for easy solving, from legendary crossword editor Will Shortz

Elegant and accessible, this interactive handbook teaches crafters of all ages how to create kinetic paper art. The projects are complete with examples, formulas, and the essential instruction that allows them to be constructed directly from the book with simple materials on hand: paper, scissors, and glue. Pop-ups are grouped by type—box or triangle—and as the chapters progress, the techniques are combined and layered for more dramatic effects. With its thorough explanations and inspiring ideas, this book will bring color and motion to crafters’ cards, scrapbooks, and invitations

This memoir and autobiography of the legendary mountaineer Bradford Washburn is a great story and was completed before his death in 2007. He was one of the last great explorers and adventureers of the twentieth century. Drawing from decades of memories, journals, and an exquisite photographic collection, Washburn completes the self-portrait of a man drawn to altitude, from his first great climb of Mount Washington at age eleven, through numerous first ascents of peaks all over the world

The Sikh Heritage of Pakistan is a part of a series of coffee books on the cultural heritage of miniorities in Pakistan

The content of this book is a guide for research and study Islamic art. It has used a simple and digestible language in order to enlighten the characteristics of Islamic art considering all its aspects

Washington Then and Now presents a fascinating portrait of the evolution and history of the city since the dawn of photography, around 50 years after its founding. It provides a unique historical and architectural document of a city that changes either very little or dramatically

This book is an armchair view of Test cricket, describes the experience of living with a game in a country where the sport occupies mind space like nothing else can

There are 150 Sunday crosswords from The New York Times. It helps us to enlarge and develop our outlook