Introduction Games and Puzzles Tic-tac-toe—The Illusion of the Tall Glass—Expansion of a Bridge—The Result Is Always—Problems with Liars—The Missing Dollar—A Geometric Fallacy—Pennies and Nickels—Tricks with Coins—A Bet You Can't Lose—Proving -1 = 1—The Principle of Indifference—Sum of Irrationals—Points on a Line—The Wheel Paradox—The Shadow Puzzle—Diagonals of Squares, Cubes, and Hypercubes—Are There Really Four Dimensions?—Time Travel
The series Brighter Grammer helps students understand the key points of English grammer, using only essential technical terms. Graded exercises allow teachers to monitor development, and lively illustrations enhance the text and retain the students' intrest. In this book special attention is paid to the grammar of the verb. Other points also dealt with are: Parts of speech - in fuller detail; Nouns, abstract, collective, countable and uncountable, irregular plurals; Adjectives, possessive, comparison of adjectives; Definite and Indefinite Article; Verbs, the simpler and more commonly used tenses, the Peculiars, negative and interrogative of verbs, finites and non-finites.
A follow-up to Sophie Kinsella’s Shopaholic series.
As in all previous Shopaholic books, Rebecca is loud and proud about her luxury-brand obsession and equally at ease being a flighty, sometimes annoying lead, though her well-meaning secret birthday mission scores her much-needed points in the sympathy department. Series fans know what to expect and will get it by the Birkin-load.
Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics Book - Teaching, More Practice, and Application (Grade 7) SB and Answer Key
Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics Book is a student workbook that contains 71 lessons in grammar, usage, and mechanics for grade 7. Each lesson takes up three pages, and each page has a particular function. Teaching is the first page in each lesson and teaches the main points of the lesson. It also contains a quick exercise. More Practice, the second page, contains exercises that reinforce the main points of the lesson. Application allows students to use the lesson they have just learned in sentences and paragraphs to improve writing skills.
A top Fortune 500 sales trainer shows how to transform the ugly truth into beautiful sales No Lie--Truth Is the Ultimate Sales Tool introduces salespeople to a powerful new approach to winning customers' trust instantly and selling more, more, more.
Drawing upon his years of experience training sales forces at Xerox, American Express, PepsiCo, Verizon, and other top shops worldwide, guru Barry Maher explains why the most effective salespeople know how to transform their product or service's negatives into positive selling points, or even bragging points. Using fascinating and instructive real-world examples, he describes six proven strategies.
