When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs

School is an inconsistent documentary of the history of American public education. Using "a democratic experiment" as the theme running through the four episodes, producers Sarah Patton and Sarah Mondale fashion a standard liberal story of the rise and reform of public schooling. In some individual segments, they succeed in retelling important vignettes. Other segments are disappointing in either their sketchy, fragmented nature or in their restating misleading myths about the history of education

The Splendid Heritage catalog of American Indian artifacts represents the commitment of American collectors to share the beauty and significance of hundreds of ethnographic treasures with a worldwide audience

The remarkable courage and deep convictim of Martin Luther King Jr. live on this classic prothetic text, a veritable primer in the principles and practice of nonviolence

What does it mean to be a woman? What is the pathway to mature feminity? And what of the masculine components of a woman`s personality? Robert A. Johnson explores these questions in this new edition of She, updated to reflect the growth of his thinking on these subjects

This book will be of particular interest to those working in the areas of public financing, health and HIV/AIDS, education6 and public services infrastructure

Like several previous novels in the Barsoom series, Synthetic Men introduces a completely new character as its protagonist: Vor Daj, a warrior from Helium and a member of John Carter

Second language learning theories is an introduction to the field of second language learning for students without a substantial background in linguistics. Drawing on the expertise of both a specialist in the teaching of second language and a linguist specialising in second language acquisition, this textbook provides an up-to-date introductory survey of the most active and significant perspectives on the subject

Editors Sean Wilsey and Matt Weiland have turned to 50 of the finest, funniest, and foremost writers in America to create a state by state celebration of their country: Jonathan Franzen on New York, Louise Erdrich on North Dakota, Dave Eggers on Illinois, Ann Patchett on Tennessee, Jhumpa Lahiri on Rhode Island-the list goes on. At turns poignant and hysterical, and uniformly insightful, these fifty writers capture the beauty, the kitsch, the unexpected and the quintessential things that make America. There is something and someone in "State by State" for everyone. With a roster of bestsellers and award winners, from Ann Patchett to Rick Moody to Myla Goldberg, Wilsey and Weiland have culled the best of the best from the literary creme de la creme to write on something all Americans are interested in: our country

Levels: Beginner to Intermediate. Primary to Adult. 49 games for practicing specific grammar in the ESL or EFL classroom. With clear instructions for the games, there are 96 pages of photocopyable masters. The objective of these activities, aside from practicing the grammar, is natural student interaction and conversation. Students from 7th grade to 107 years will have fun working together playing the games while they pick up new vocabulary and use the grammar they