This book is designed for both classroom use and self-study. Each of the 13 lessons opens with a dialogue about an everyday topic, followed by vocabulary lists, explanations of grammar, and exercises. Audio CDs accompany the lessons, providing correct pronunciation of the dialogues and vocabulary, with pauses for repetition by the student. Includes: an exercise key; Georgian-English and English-Georgian glossaries; and an introduction to Georgian language, culture, and history

The Beijing Olympics will be remembered as the largest, most expensive, and most widely watched event of the modern Olympic era. But did China present itself as a responsible host and an emergent international power, much like Japan during the 1964 Tokyo Games and South Korea during the 1988 Seoul Games? Or was Beijing in 2008 more like Berlin in 1936, when Germany took advantage of the global spotlight to promote its political ideology at home and abroad?

Between 1876 and 1945, thousands of Japanese civilians--merchants, traders, prostitutes, journalists, teachers, and adventurers-left their homeland for a new life on the Korean peninsula. Although most migrants were guided primarily by personal profit and only secondarily by national interest, their mundane lives and the state's ambitions were inextricably entwined in the rise of imperial Japan. Despite having formed one of the largest colonial communities in the twentieth century, these settlers and their empire-building activities have all but vanished from the public memory of Japan's presence in Korea

Valuable insights of the flying environment that earmarked this first war of extensive use of jet combat aircraft. --Col. Joe McCue, USAF (Ret.), Air Power History Action-packed memoir by an American pilot and squadron commander in the Korean War What it was like to fly the F-80 Shooting Star against MiGs and ground targets Author flew 112 combat missions in five major campaigns in 1950-51 "Bully Able Leader" was the author's radio call sign

The book published articles and publications of teachers of the United States, intended for instructors of English in elementary, junior, and senior high schools and colleges throughout the United States

Abrir um livro e empreender uma viagem para um novo mundo. Fazer descobertas, obter conhecimentos, estimular o imaginario

When nineteen-year-old Eddie drops out of college, he struggles to find a place for himself as a Mexican American living

The story of Anita de la Torre, a twelve-year-old girl living in the Dominican Republic in 1960

Janie was four years old when she nearly drowned due to her mother's neglect