This popular three-level reading series features a variety of themes and issues, and high-interest dialogs and stories about ordinary people from around the world. Students can identify with the hopes, dreams, and fears of these real people, and will enjoy reading and discussing these stories and dialogs as they relate their own experiences to the class.
Each book features:
* Relevant high-interest story topics that relate to students' lives.
* Pre-reading and follow-up questions to check student comprehension and generate classroom conversation.
* Word banks that precede each dialog and story to build basic vocabulary.
* Reading skills and vocabulary activities.
Do you communicate ineffectively with some people and powerfully with others? The reason may be a difference in personalities and communication preferences. The Art of Speedreading People is a crash course in communication strategies, showing you how to observe behavioral clues to gain valuable insights into people's personalities and communication styles.
The result: you become a more effective and convincing communicator, and you are more likely to receive the response you want.
While it's always interesting to hear authors read their own work, this production is not likely to prompt a narrating career for Palahniuk (Fight Club) on par with his literary accomplishments. That's not to say, however, that his style doesn't work with this offbeat story of a sex-addicted medical school dropout whose gift is pretending to choke in restaurants and reaping the sympathy checks of the people who "save" him in order to pay for the care of his sick mother. Palahniuk reads with a husky, occasionally whiny voice that's rushed and intense. Reuploaded
As everybody knows, Microsoft released on the market Office 2007, Which I think is pretty good, in fact better then the previous Office. A book of this kind is always useful, especially for the ones who think they know too much about ....typing This book is dedicated to a variety of people, including the following:
"All the long-suffering victims forced to learn the arcane features of Microsoft Office, which seem to change with every version, not always for the best. Take heart. You’re not stupid — it’s the people who write, sell, and encourage the clumsy and complicated computer programs on the market who are the really stupid ones."
When psychologist - detective, Alex Delaware, is invited to a party for a Los Angeles sex therapist, thrown at an elaborate mansion, he ignores the invitation. But soon his curiosity gets the better of him. After all, it'll be nice to see how the other - rich - half lives. But soon, Alex runs into someone from his past, Sharon Ransom. Someone whom he was deeply in love with, but who left him without a moment's notice more than a decade earlier. Sharon now seems jumpy and nervous about something. What, Alex doesn't know. But he plans to find out, as he makes a lunch date with her. One that never happens, as she is found dead the next day. The cause, an apparent suicide. Alex knows better. Driven by his own guilt over Sharon's death, he decides to find out what really happened to her. His detective work takes him on a journey through some of California's richest areas, and most powerful people, and into the minds of many people, where childhood terror is still lurking.
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