Conversation Pieces For Improving ESL Communication is a DVD designed to materially assist viewers in developing verbal language skills by focusing upon conversational flow; vocabulary development; informal expressions, idioms and contractions; and standard, regional, and foreign accent pronunciation. Nine topical scenes are presented with everyday words related to common situations. Each is then repeated with a scrolling text/audio for listening comprehension.
The legend of David Beckham - soccer god, global sex symbol, style icon - as only he can tell it. The international soccer star speaks candidly about the pressures of celebrity, goes behind the scenes of his most memorable career moments - and sets the record straight.
James Watson, of Watson and Crick fame. He and his co-author Andrew Berry have produced a clear and easygoing history of genetics, from Mendel through genome sequencing. Watson offers readers a sense of immediacy, a behind-the scenes familiarity with some of the most exciting developments in modern science.
In a tone that brings to mind bubbly teenage girls, Jessica Peers recounts five years at a National Autistic Society residential school in the United Kingdom. The back cover of this book suggests that the book will give insights into Asperger's syndrome. On that point, it seems to be wrong. However, it does give a lot of insight into institutional life.
Peers has a talent for wryly amusing caricature, whether in drawing (her cartoons appear throughout the book) or in sketching out people's character in words. Not everything in the book is amusing, though. There are some truly harrowing scenes of physical and emotional abuse by staff, as well as the usual detached brusqueness that crops up in places like that. The funny descriptions offset the often-heavy situations enough to make it readable to us without causing too much pain, and one almost wonders if the author had the same idea herself.
Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Non-Fiction | 15 July 2008
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The purpose of the book is to help you with the actual writing of your story.
In fact, this book is a goldmine of helpful information on writing fiction.
Kress's book tends to focus on the big picture
(namely, as her title says, "beginnings, middles, and ends"). She is
mainly concerned with structure, plot, and scenes.
Her examples are
rather good. Recommended.
Watson J. 
