It's a strange story, but strangely compelling and lovely too. Louis Sachar uses poker-faced understatement to create a bizarre but believable landscape--a place where Major Major Major Major of Catch-22 would feel right at home. But while there is humor and absurdity here, there is also a deep understanding of friendship and a searing compassion for society's underdogs

Help students gain firsthand knowledge of how our government works with this easy-to-implement, weeklong simulation. After brainstorming real school issues, students form committees, write, present, and revise bills, then vote on them-following the actual steps Congress takes to enact a bill into law. Includes step-by-step directions, plus reproducible student worksheets, primary sources, and rubrics. For use with Grades 5 & Up

Forced to leave her family at thirteen and marry someone she has never met ... Koly's parents have arranged a marriage for their only daughter and now, like many girls her age in India, she will leave home forever. She yearns to flee, but tradition dictates that it's too late to turn back. On her wedding day, Koly's fate is sealed

Highway Engineering provides an introduction to highway engineering for students on degree and diploma courses in civil engineering

Книга посвящена культуре полевых растений (хлебные злаки, зернобобовые, картофель, сахарная свекла и другие корнеплоды, масличные, прядильные, табак и кормовые культуры). Особое внимание уделено зерновым культурам

Anglophone Koreaphiles have long been hurting for something substantial about Korean celadon (cheongja) and earthenware (togi). When the world think of Korean art, it is usually Goryeo and Joseon period celadon that comes to mind, and yet until now, non-academics have had little more than tourist pamphlets to guide them. The first in a five-volume series on Korean art, "Handbook of Korean Art: Earthenware and Celadon" answers this need. While certainly not exhaustive, it will not be surpassed for years to come. Complete with ample pictures as well as descriptions of techniques, kiln sites in the country, a glossary, pattern catalogue, and more.

Anglophone Koreaphiles have long been hurting for something substantial about Korean celadon (cheongja) and earthenware (togi). When the world think of Korean art, it is usually Goryeo and Joseon period celadon that comes to mind, and yet until now, non-academics have had little more than tourist pamphlets to guide them. The first in a five-volume series on Korean art, "Handbook of Korean Art: Earthenware and Celadon" answers this need. While certainly not exhaustive, it will not be surpassed for years to come. Complete with ample pictures as well as descriptions of techniques, kiln sites in the country, a glossary, pattern catalogue, and more.

Gives insights into the basic values and beliefs of people in South and Central Asia. Based on data from AsiaBarometer public surveys of 2005, it examines human values and beliefs of peoples in Asia. It presents country profiles and comparative analysis by well-informed scholars, reports of the entire questionnaires (both standard common English language questionnaire and local language questionnaires), the whole comparable tabulated figures by society, the sampling methods and sizes and fieldwork in the societies examined.

The tests in this book contain three reading passages, three conversations, and six lectures or five reading passages, two conversations, and four lectures because that is the standard length for an official TOEFL

In this book there is information about biodiversity, biodiversity researches, human infectious disease,ecosystem services, genetically modified foods and organic farming