WorldView is designed to help students enjoy learning and become more independent learners. The first eight pages of each WorldView Workbook present 24 suggested learning strategies—new ways of improving students’ language skills

WorldView, a four-level English course for adults and young adults, covers a wide range of compelling topics from an international perspective. The Student Book contains 28 four-page units ; seven Review Units ; four World of Music Units. The Self-Study Audio CD includes tracks for all pronunciation and listening exercises in the Student Book

Sub-Saharan Africa is a critical development priority-it has some of the world's poorest countries and during the past two decades the number of poor in the Region has doubled, to 300 million-more than 40 percent of the Region's population. Africa remains behind on most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and is unlikely to reach them by 2015. With some of the world's poorest countries, Africa is a development priority for the donor community. A major drag on Africa's development is the underperformance of the critical agriculture sector, which has been neglected both by donors and governments over the past two decades

The book examines role of women in society : how women communicate in business, gender role development, managing work and family, networking and mentoring, trends in self-employment, women working abroad and presented collection of contributed chapters by experts to explore and issues to debate

This remarkable novel takes place in the real world but holds a fantastic puzzle at its heart. When You Reach me is an original, and brilliant and profound delight

The story is about a young girl named Minli, an adventurous girl from a poor village, buys a magical goldfish, and then joins a dragon who cannot fly on a quest to find the Old Man of the Moon in hopes of bringing life to Fruitless Mountain and freshness to Jade River

In this book, two eminent ecologists explain how the millions of species living on Earth-some microscopic, some obscure, many threatened-not only help keep us alive but also hold possibilities for previously unimagined products, medicines, and even industries

In What Price the Moral High Ground?, economist and social critic Robert Frank challenges the notion that doing well is accomplished only at the expense of doing good. Frank explores exciting new work in economics, psychology, and biology to argue that honest individuals often succeed, even in highly competitive environments, because their commitment to principle makes them more attractive as trading partners

Why not ? offers techniques that will help you take the things we all see, every day, and think about them in a new way. Great ideas are waiting. Why not be the one to discover them?

The book presents a glittering panorama in fiction, poetry, essays, journalism, and diaries by more than seventy writers