A guide to preparing for the ACT, based on the Princeton Review coaching course, offers advice on test-taking, specific suggestions for each section of the exam, and four full-length practice exams with answers and explanations

The Princeton Review realizes that acing the SAT Math Subject Tests is very different from earning straight A’s in school. We don’t try to teach you everything there is to know about math—only the techniques and information you’ll need to maximize your score. In Cracking the SAT Math 1 and 2 Subject Tests, we’ll teach you how to think like the test writers and ·Learn what subject matter will be tested so you can study more effectively ·Review key math vocabulary, basic functions, and equations ·Use proven techniques to solve complicated questions

In Parks and Plates, Robert J. Lillie explains the fascinating geological processes that have formed these dramatic volcanoes, shorelines, and landscapes. Structuring the text around major geological features, Lillie highlights geologic patterns across many different parks and uses over 100 park sites to illustrate plate tectonics visually. Lavishly illustrated with full-color photographs, diagrams, and maps, Parks and Plates is the ideal text to enrich undergraduates experience of our national parks

Приводятся основные сведения о транскрипции и транслитерации инстранных слов, о написании на русском языке географических названий, наименований учреждений и организаций, газет и журналов. Представлены тексты на английском языке, взятые из лекций нобелевских лауреатов разных лет и из различных областей химии

Книга содержит профессионально ориентированные тексты, заимствованные из учебников по географии, страноведению и экологии на английском языке и других оригинальных источников

This compact, easy-to-use format is the first product built on our cutting-edge cartographic database and offers the convenience of smaller scale without sacrificing clarity or detail. Identically scaled maps on a given continent enable readers to compare physical, political, and regional information simply and accurately. After a fascinating explanation of the latest technology, the atlas examines our world as a whole, presenting 25 global themes, from tectonics and the biosphere to population, health, literacy, and more, along with such timely topics as environmental stress and flash points for conflict and terror

This volume - Europe, North & South America - consists of three books. This book contains accounts of the journeys of Pehr Kalm, with detailed information on the cultural and natural history of both southeastern England and, above all, the eastern regions of North America

This volume - Europe, Southern Africa, East, Southern & Southeast Asia - contains Carl Peter Thunberg`s fact-filled journals from his various sojourns in Europe but principally his detailed descriptions from South Africa, Java, Sri Lanka and Japan. They provide an entertaining text with multidisciplinary observations of great value for cultural and natural history

The concluding volume eight, entitled encyclopedia, contains factual information presented in reference form (text and maps) under the following three headings: biographies with maps, index volumes one to seven and iLinnaeus.org. The index covering approximately 5,500 indexed printed pages, resulting in around 150,000 specific search terms and a considerable number of cross references or references to modern biological nomenclature. It is in volume eight that general facts and search facilities relating to all the volumes and www.iLinnaeus.org are to be found

Volume One contains twelve background chapters, divided between three sections that deal respectively with Sweden and the rest of the world in the 18th century, with Carl Linnaeus and his scholarly environment and with the technical aspects of 18th-century research in natural history