In 1453 the last emperor of Byzantium, Constantine XII, died fighting on the ramparts, bringing to a romantic end the glorious history of this legendary empire.
Byzantium survived for 800 years, yet its dominions and power fluctuated dramatically during that time.
Remember Everything You Read: The Evelyn Wood 7-Day Speed Reading & Learning Program
Now you can join the millions of people of all ages who have reaped the rewards of the famous Evelyn Wood Speed Reading and Learning Program. All the secrets of this amazing system are now available to you in this book. Find out how you can:
- Read 50% faster in only an hour
- Double your reading speed in a week
- Soar beyond -- to read an amazing 1,200 to 3,000 words per minute -- and remember everything you read!
DISCOVER THE SPEED-READING PATH TO POWER AND SUCCESS
In just a few lessons, the proven techniques of this dynamic learning system will unlock the natural power of your mind, opening the door to new realms of intellectual power and potential success.
Double Your Learning Power: Master the Techniques of Successful Memory and Recall
Do you have trouble remembering names, faces, telephone numbers or foreign words? This excellent guidebook provides short-cut techniques for essential memory skills: mnemonics, reading quickly while remembering more, tools for scoring well on examinations. Drawing on recent psychological research about the learning process, Dudley adapts these insights into a practical set of exercises that anyone can master.
Robin Lakoff gets to the heart of one of the most fascinating and pressing issues in American society today: who holds power and how they use it, keep it, or lose it. In a brilliant and vastly entertaining discussion of news events that have occupied an enormous amount of media space--political correctness, the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings, Hillary Rodham Clinton as First Lady, O. J. Simpson's murder trial, the Ebonics controversy, and the Clinton sex scandal--Lakoff shows that the struggle for power and status at the end of the century is being played out as a war over language. Controlling language is a basis for all power, she says, and therefore it is worth fighting for. As a result, newly emergent groups, especially blacks and women, are contending with middle- to upper-class white men for a share in "language rights."
Advanced Reading Power is unlike most other reading textbooks. First, the focus is different.This book directs students' attention to their own reading processes, while most other books focus primarily on the content. Second, Advanced Reading Power is organized in a different way. It contains four separate sections that correspond to four important aspects of proficient reading, and therefore it is like four books in one. Teachers should assign work
on all four parts of the book concurrently. The four parts of Advanced Reading Power are:
• Part 1: Extensive Reading
• Part 2: Vocabulary Building
• Part 3: Comprehension Skills
• Part 4: Reading Faster
