Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics
Soft power is now used frequently by political leaders, editorial writers, and academics around the world. So what is soft power? It is soft power that will help us deal with critical global issues that require multilateral cooperation among states. That is why it is so essential that America better understands and applies our soft power. This book is our guide.
Magic Tree House Series 01 - Children Audio Book (1992) With an entertaining blend of fact, farce, and fantasy, Osborne tells the story of Jack and his sister, Annie, who take a trip in a magic tree house and land in a time 65 million years ago. They find dinosaurs and volcanoes and adventure. Veteran storyteller Osborne builds the power of reading into the story: it's the books in the tree house that give the kids the magic to travel and see far, far away."
Beep! Beep! Beep! Meet Blue. A muddy country road is no match for this little pick up - that is, until he gets stuck while pushing a dump truck out of the muck. Luckily, Blue has made a pack of farm animal friends along his route. And they're willing to do whatever it takes to get their pal back on the road. Filled with truck sounds and animals noises, here is a rollicking homage to the power of friendship and the rewards of helping others.
Developing Reading Power This unique supplemental series features high-interest stories from Highlights for Children magazine, followed by work sheets with proven strategies that match any curriculum and help develop the skills students need. Includes skills in recognizing the letters of the alphabet, word completion—using models; recognizing unknown words through pictures and/or context; rhyming words; how, where, when, who, and what; main idea through pictures.
Oral communication is different in spontaneity and communicative power from textual and visual communication. This book explores, from a cross-cultural perspective, the centrality of orality in the ideological processes that dominate public discourse, providing a counterbalance to the debates that foreground literacy and the power of written communication.
