Houghton Mifflin Vocabulary Readers support the robust approach to vocabulary instruction in Houghton Mifflin Reading. The Vocabulary Readers provide accessible nonfiction text, engaging visual support, multiple encounters with key vocabulary, and opportunities to deepen and expand word knowledge.
An English company executive in India is dismissed after he tries to uncover corruption within his company. He returns to England where his life falls apart and his marriage breaks up. He then sets out on a one-man search for the truth behind his dismissal. He turns to the rich mystery and beauty of India and is finally forced to choose between love and revenge.
The book is somewhat polemical, but it's well-informed and occasionally laugh-out-loud funny. It's quite personal and not written like a stale academic text. Despite the targets of his argument, the book is *not* a right-wing screed; on the contrary, it is steeped in classical liberalism. The emphasis on legal examples may not serve some readers more interested in broader social trends, but they are interesting. It's definitely a good read for students of and citizens in modern multicultural societies.
These books attractively illustrated thrughout in four colours, provide lively and interesting reading for both classroom and individual use. Vocabulary and structures are graded, following the scheme developed by L.A Hill, and the readers are grouped in four stages at the 500, 750, 1000 and 1500 headwork levels.
From the first V-8 engine to NASA's giant crawler at Cape Canaveral, this work presents a celebration of the inventors and inventions that transformed the world during the age of technology. It acquaints young readers with the story and the mechanics behind each device.
He Knows Too Much ( Level 6)
