Graphic novels have found their way into the classroom, as teachers are realizing their usefulness as literacy tools. After a study of graphic novels, researchers concluded that the average graphic novel introduced readers to twice as many words as the average children’s book. This realization has reinforced the idea that the comics format is a good way to impart information.
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This gripping history is the definitive account of the battle that shifted the tide of World War II.
Historians and reviewers worldwide have hailed Antony Beevor's magisterial Stalingrad
as the definitive account of World War II's most harrowing battle. In
August 1942, Hitler's huge Sixth Army reached the city that bore
Stalin's name. In the five month siege that followed, the Russians
fought to hold Stalingrad at any cost, then caught their Nazi enemy in
an astonishing reversal. As never before, Stalingrad conveys
the experience of soldiers on both sides as they fought in inhuman
conditions, and of civilians trapped on an urban battlefield. Antony
Beevor has interviewed survivors and discovered completely new material
in a wide range of German and Soviet archives, including reports of
prisoner interrogations, desertions, and executions. The battle of
Stalingrad was the psychological turning point of World War II; as
Beevor makes clear, it also changed the face of modern warfare. As a
story of cruelty, courage, and human suffering, Stalingrad is
unprecedented and unforgettable.
This textbook is the first step
for anyone who simply is curious as to how the human body
functions. Or they have in mind to pursue career in medical transcription health
professional or someone who thinks should be a doctor, however does not know if
themselves are suitable for it.
Whatever
your reason, this textbook will help you to be successful in your anatomy and
physiology course.The material is presented simply and concisely,
yet with accuracy and precision. The writing style is informal yet clear and
specific; it is intended to promote your comprehension and understanding.
"Practical Seamanship is the distilled knowledge, experience and research from a lifetime of offshore sailing and cruising. The Dashews' new book, complete in every detail, should be required reading for every skipper and every crew who aspires to safe passagemaking and happy landfalls on far and exotic lands." George Day, Editor, Bluewater Sailing.
Whether you are working your way through ice, piloting in coral, running a breaking bar, anchoring in a hurricane hole, or salvaging your boat after a hurricane, Practical Seamanship covers it all.
The
enigma of the Emergence of Natural Languages, coupled or not with the closely
related problem of their Evolution is perceived today as one of the most
important scientific problems. The purpose of the present study is actually to
outline such a solution to our problem which is epistemologically consonant
with the Big Bang solution of the problem of the Emergence of the Universe}. Such
an outline, however, becomes articulable, understandable, and workable only in
a drastically extended epistemic and scientific oecumene, where known and
habitual approaches to the problem, both theoretical and experimental, become
distant, isolated, even if to some degree still hospitable conceptual and
methodological islands. The guiding light of our inquiry will be Eugene Paul
Wigner's metaphor of ``the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in natural
sciences'', i.e., the steadily evolving before our eyes, since at least XVIIth
century, ``the miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics
for the formulation of the laws of physics''.
