Part of a primary-school ELT course based on stories in the pupil's books which are also represented in large poster form. Focusing on listening and speaking, the course brings together language and actions, and contains things to make and do. Big Red Bus is a complete four-level story-based course for primary school children. It focuses on stories, activities and the use of TPR (Total Physical Response) which sensitize children to English without teaching it in a formal way.
An informal and revealing introduction to the ideas of modern systems theory and self-organization as they apply to problems in the economic realm. David Batten interleaves anecdotes and stories with technical discussions, in order to provide the general reader with a good feel for how economies function and change.
When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man
Old chestnuts from this journey are lovingly, and often hilariously, burnished in Weintraub’s new memoir, When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead . . . The book, which is in no way a scandalous, showbiz tell-all, but a good-humored, and often self-deprecating romp of outrageous will and amazing fortune, also paints a picture of uncanny bliss.
