This study guide is divided into three sections: grammar, usage, and punctuation. Each section begins with an explanation of what you need to know about the topic. Then you are given some practice questions similar to questions you are likely to find on Civil Service exams. Answers and explanations are included in the back of the book.
Career Paths: Civil Aviation is a new educational resource for aviation professionals who want to improve their English communication in a work environment.
Career Paths: Civil Aviation addresses topics including parts of an aircraft, takeoff procedures, en route events, landing procedures and flight hazards.
This volume of original essays, featuring an all-star lineup of Civil War and Lincoln scholars, provides the most current interpretations of the period and the man thrust into its center. Perhaps no one who ever pledged to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and defend the Constitution faced such fundamental challenges. The contributors to this volume examine how Lincoln actively and consciously managed the war—diplomatically, militarily, and in the realm of what we might now call public relations—and in doing so, reshaped and redefined the fundamental role of the president.
Henry David Thoreau, one of America's most prominent environmental writers, supported himself as a land surveyor for much of his life, parceling land that would be sold off to loggers. In the only study of its kind, Patrick Chura analyzes this seeming contradiction to show how the best surveyor in Concord combined civil engineering with civil disobedience.
Published since 1987, America’s Civil War strives to deliver to our readers the best articles on the most formative and tumultuous period of American history — the Civil War. It contains thought-provoking essays on the way the war is remembered today as well as lengthy first-hand accounts of the war. Noted authors present the many battles, personalities and fascinating stories of the period.
