Outsiders - American Short Stories for students of ESL
The purpose of Outsiders is to help address this twofold obligation to nonnative English users in our colleges and universities by offering short stories carefully chosen for their quality, diversity, and appeal, so that they can provide a sound, structural basis for studying fiction as a literary genre in a college credit course. Since the "outsiders" theme, if left undiluted, could become somewhat intensive, an effort was made to intersperse the stories having more serious themes with lighter, more humorous pieces such as "The Loudest Voice," "Senor Payroll," "Mr. K*A*P*L*A*N and Vocabulary," and "Rope."
Using The Power of Positive Thinking To Start Investing In You!
Positive Thinking is a Bunch of Crap – and Crap Makes Great Fertilizer “A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.” Herm Albright
Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth
Despite promises of “fast and easy” results from slick marketers, real personal growth is neither fast nor easy. The truth is that hard work, courage, and self-discipline are required to achieve meaningful results—results that are not attained by those who cling to the fantasy of achievement without effort.
Busy Hands: Images of the Family in the Northern Civil War Effort
Focusing on middle-class women’s contributions to the northern Civil War effort, Patricia Richard shows how women utilized their power as moral agents to shape the way men survived the ravages of war. Busy Hands investigates the ways in which white and African American women used images of family and domestic life in their relief efforts to counter the effects of prostitution, gambling, profanity, and drinking, threatening men’s postwar civilian fitness.
In conducting a mathematical column in the Graham Dial over the past twenty-five years, the author found that the most stimulating experience and the greatest reward for his effort came from the "surprise attack" initiated by readers in solving many of the problems.
