This three-book series takes a fresh approach to making reading both pleasurable and motivating! High-interest biographies focus on less-known facts about famous figures, rather than the chronology of events typical of most biogra
A fresh and original way to put the classic advice of Joy of Cooking to work -- illustrated and designed in a beautiful and easy-to-use new book. Organized by subject, including stocks and soups, salads, beans and tofu, pasta and grains, and more More than 100 of Joy's recipes, including Grilled Ratatouille Salad, Tuscan-Style Stuffed Artichokes, and Winter Root Vegetable Braise Invaluable tips and techniques for buying, storing, and preparing vegetables
Shakespeare in the Movies: From the Silent Era to Shakespeare in Love
Shakespeare is now enjoying perhaps his most glorious--certainly his most popular--filmic incarnation. Indeed, the Bard has been splashed across the big screen to great effect in recent adaptations of Hamlet, Henry V, Othello, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard II, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and of course in the hugely successful Shakespeare in Love.
Britain Explored takes a comprehensive look at the landscape, institutions and daily life of Great Britain. Each unit of the book presents a different aspect of the country, illustrated in full colour with helpful maps and charts. Comprehension Questions guide the students to examine the information closely and draw their own conclusions about key issues. At the end of each unit there is an interview, recorded on cassette, in which the speakers talk about their own varied experiences of life in Britain. They include a farmer. a Member of Parliament, a pensioner and a housewife.
Evidence and Evolution: The Logic Behind the Science
How should the concept of evidence be understood? And how does the concept of evidence apply to the controversy about creationism as well as to work in evolutionary biology about natural selection and common ancestry? In this rich and wide-ranging book, Elliott Sober investigates general questions about probability and evidence and shows how the answers he develops to those questions apply to the specifics of evolutionary biology.
