Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: MACMILLAN
ISBN: 9780230035218
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 9781551113920
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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It is in this, the second Holmes novel, that the great detective comes fully to life—not only as a melancholic and an inscrutable master of deduction, but also as an incurable drug addict. "Which is it today?" Watson asks Holmes matter-of-factly on the opening page of the novel, "morphine or cocaine?" "It is cocaine," Holmes famously replies. "A seven-per-cent solution. Would you like to try it?" Mary Morstan comes to Holmes in the hope that he will be able to solve a mystery. Ten years earlier her father, Captain Arthur Morstan, had returned to London on leave from his regiment in India where it is said that he and one Thadeus Sholto, "came into possession of a considerable treasure." By the time his daughter arrived at his hotel, he had vanished without a trace. The Sign of Four remains a small masterpiece of suspense, and the novel has enjoyed a steady readership ever since its first publication in 1890. In recent years, however, it has not been readily available except as a part of larger omnibus Holmes anthologies. This Broadview edition provides a reliable text at a very reasonable price. It contains textual notes but no appendices or introduction.

Author: Beverly Cleary
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061972150
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Newbery Medal Winner * Teachers’ Top 100 Books for Children * ALA Notable Children’s Book Beverly Cleary’s timeless Newbery Medal-winning book explores difficult topics like divorce, insecurity, and bullying through the thoughts and emotions of a sixth-grade boy as he writes to his favorite author, Boyd Henshaw. After his parents separate, Leigh Botts moves to a new town with his mother. Struggling to make friends and deal with his anger toward his absent father, Leigh loses himself in a class assignment in which he must write to his favorite author. When Mr. Henshaw responds, the two form an unexpected friendship that will change Leigh’s life forever. From the beloved author of the Henry Huggins, Ramona Quimby, and Ralph S. Mouse series comes an epistolary novel about how to navigate and heal from life’s growing pains.

Author: Lawrence J. Zwier
Publisher: University of Michigan Press ELT
ISBN: 9780472031801
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Four Point series is designed for English language learners whose primary goal is to succeed in an academic setting. The series covers the four academic skills of reading, writing, listening, and speaking while providing reinforcement and systematic recycling of key vocabulary and further exposure to grammar issues. In order to participate in academic settings, ELLs need focused activities to develop and then maintain their use of vocabulary and grammar. Each book in the series focuses heavily on vocabulary in particular, highlighting between 125-150 key vocabulary items including individual words, compound words, phrasal verbs, short phrases, idioms, metaphors, collocations, and longer set lexical phrases. Each unit in Reading-Writing 2, Advanced, includes two reading passages on the same topic within a field of academic study: Language, Sociology, Physiology, Geology, Economics, and Environmental Science. The exercises accompanying the readings are meant to strengthen a range of reading and writing skills like comprehending details, developing vocabulary, paraphrasing, summarizing, and synthesizing information. Students will read longer, more difficult readings on interesting academic topics that represent an array of classroom interests, and they will write both short and long assignments that can be organized around more traditional writing templates. By addressing the breadth and depth of reading and writing tasks required in academic settings instead of only reading for pleasure or writing for research projects, this volume truly prepares ELLs for the type of reading they will find in their course books and for the writing assignments they will receive in class. Interactive vocabulary activities are provided on the book's companion website.

Author: Noriko Iwasaki
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000408949
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 227

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The Routledge Intermediate to Advanced Japanese Reader: A Genre-Based Approach to Reading as a Social Practice is designed for intermediate to advanced learners of Japanese and presents twenty-five authentic texts taken from a wide range of media and literary sources, which promote a deeper understanding of Japan among readers. The book is divided into ten genre-based chapters, allowing the learner to focus on the textual features relevant to that genre. Key features include: Selected texts covering topics related to Japanese language, society and culture encountered in the Japanese media, from news reports to interviews, book reviews, short stories and editorials. Word lists for challenging vocabulary and kanji provided throughout to aid comprehension and learning. Pre-reading activities to enable familiarity with the topic, the text’s background and words to be encountered in the reading passages. Short grammar explanations of essential structures. Questions to help comprehension, raise awareness of genre features, promote critical reading, and to encourage the reader to think more deeply about the content. Opportunities to write passages, utilizing what has been learned by reading the text. Vocabulary and grammar lists at the back of the book. The Routledge Intermediate to Advanced Japanese Reader emphasizes reading as a purposeful social act, which requires readers to make meaning of the text by considering the authors’ choices in language (scripts, vocabulary, styles) in the text. The learners are guided to situate each text in society (for example, the author, target audience, social-cultural background related to the subject) in order to understand the social significance of reading and writing. This book aims to help learners develop the ability to critically read and write in Japanese for their own social purposes. It is suitable for both class use and independent study.

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Publisher:
ISBN: 9788177641998
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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Author: Edward Hughes (F.R.G.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 474

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Author: Sam Belyea
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1982277432
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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Advanced Foot Reading is a book that continues the study of extremity assessment through a consultation-based application of Reflexology knowledge. After discovering the physical and mental/emotional meanings of the reflexes present on the feet, hands, face, and ears, this text guides readers through deeper layers of discussion strategies to help clients achieve the most benefit from their sessions. Every topic present within Foot Reading is expanded upon, giving readers new maps, ideas, and exercises to further their understanding of the hidden meanings within our extremities

Author: University of Michigan. College of Engineering
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, College
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Also contains brochures, directories, manuals, and programs from various College of Engineering student organizations such as the Society of Women Engineers and Tau Beta Pi.

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ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 648

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