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Adventures in Paleontology: 36 Classroom Fossil Activities
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Adventures in Paleontology: 36 Classroom Fossil ActivitiesAdventures in Paleontology: 36 Classroom Fossil Activities

Millions of years after vanishing from the Earth, dinosaurs still have the power to stir students' curiosity. Deepen that interest with Adventures in Paleontology, a series of lively hands-on activities especially for middle schoolers. This beautifully illustrated full color book features 36 activities that open students up to a variety of foundational sciences, including biology, geology, chemistry, physics, and astronomy.
 
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Chopin: The Man and His Music
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Chopin: The Man and His MusicChopin: The Man and His Music

This classic in music biography and criticism reflects the intimate, thorough knowledge of Chopin’s music Huneker acquired while studying to be a concert pianist and his unusually keen insight into the character of the composer. Part One deals with Chopin’s life; the second offers brilliant piece-by-piece analysis of the entire body of his music. Introduction and notes.
 
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Water and Life: The Unique Properties of H20
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Water and Life: The Unique Properties of H20Water and Life: The Unique Properties of H20

Reflecting a rich technical and interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, Water and Life: The Unique Properties of H20 focuses on the properties of water and its interaction with life. The book develops a variety of approaches that help to illuminate ways in which to address deeper questions with respect to the nature of the universe and our place within it.
 
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The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages
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The Syntax of Verb Initial LanguagesThe Syntax of Verb Initial Languages

This volume contains twelve chapters on the derivation of and the correlates to verb initial word order. The studies in this volume cover such widely divergent languages as Irish, Welsh, Scots Gaelic, Old Irish, Biblical Hebrew, Jakaltek, Mam, Lummi (Straits Salish), Niuean, Malagasy, Palauan, K'echi', and Zapotec, from a wide variety of theoretical perspectives, including Minimalism, information structure, and sentence processing.
 
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(Re-)Locating TESOL in an Age of Empire (Language and Globalization)
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(Re-)Locating TESOL in an Age of Empire (Language and Globalization)(Re-)Locating TESOL in an Age of Empire (Language and Globalization)

An international group of authors discuss the implications for TESOL professionals of the perception that English is once again becoming an imperial language.
 
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