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Strategies for Success: A Practical Guide to Learning English
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Strategies for Success: A Practical Guide to Learning EnglishStrategies for Success, by H. Douglas Brown, enables students and teachers to take a fresh look at the learning process. Its strategies-based instruction guides students to become aware of their learning styles and to develop strategies to make their language learning successful. It can be used to enhance any English language course.  The book's twelve chapters focus on concepts from self-awareness and affective styles to multiple intelligences and the cultural aspects of learning a language.

Features:

* Questionnaires in every chapter help learners assess their learning styles.
* Discussions encourage students to explore language-learning strategies, take risks, build self-confidence, and acquire successful test-taking strategies.
* End of chapter exercises help users practice all language skills as they develop learning strategies.
 
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The CIA World Factbook 2008
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The CIA World Factbook 2008Chock full of up-to-date coverage of countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, this fascinating reference—intended for use by government officials—should be on the shelf of every school, world traveler, and journalist. For each country, you’ll find: a thorough introduction with historical background; detailed geographical facts, including current environmental issues; and a full description of the people, with information on literacy rates, HIV prevalence, and major infectious diseases and much more!
 
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Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Interpersonal Processes
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Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Interpersonal Processes
This volume on interpersonal processes covers social cognition in interpersonal settings, social motivation, affect and emotion, social influence and comparison, the self, methods and data-analysis, and applications of the field to real-world issues and domains.


 
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Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Intergroup Processes
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Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Intergroup Processes
This volume will provide an authoritative, state of the art overview of the field of intergroup processes. The volume is divided into nine major sections on cognition, motivation, emotion, communication and social influence, changing intergroup relations, social comparison, self-identity, methods and applications.
Provides an authoritative, state of the art overview of the field of intergroup processes.
Divided into nine major sections on cognition, motivation, emotion, communication and social influence, changing intergroup relations, social comparison, self-identity, methods and applications.
Written by leading researchers in the field.
Referenced throughout and include post-chapter annotated bibliographies so readers can access original research articles in order to further their study.




 
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Forensic Dental Evidence: An Investigator's Handbook
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Forensic Dental Evidence: An Investigator's Handbook
A straightforward and specialized instructional text.

ATTENTION! THE TEXT CONTAINS EXPLICIT FORENSIC  IMAGES NOT SUITABLE FOR KIDS!!!

Forensic Dental Evidence: An Investigator's Handbook by forensic dental consultant C. Michael Bowers is a straightforward and specialized instructional text dedicated to teaching the foundations of dental investigation methodology to providing "need-to-know" information for law enforcement, coroners, crime scene personnel, investigators, and medical-legal personnel. Enhanced with more than 150 color photographs, Forensic Dental Evidence offers a straightforward basis of education concerning forensic odontology, as well as new advances and advice concerning digital comparison techniques which are now possible with Adobe Photoshop and other types of the latest computer and laboratory-based technologies. Forensic Dental Evidence is an expertly written and presented instructional that would form a core holding for any professional or academic Criminology or Forensic Science reference collection.
 
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