When and why did mankind begin to write? What did he write with? How did writing become a vital tool of learning, for everyday use and for storing information? When did it become an important factor in human cultural progress, being used on a bigger scale for literary, scientific, legal and administrative purposes? And finally, when did it become an efficient and powerful system of communication?
Added by: badaboom | Karma: 5364.29 | Fiction literature | 26 November 2010
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Perceval: The Story of the Grail
(An) excellent translation. (...) The most complete account of the Continuations in English, making the text usefully accessible to a wider audience. MEDIUM AEVUMAll serious students should have a copy.
The story of the Grail. Perceval progresses from a naive boyhood in rural seclusion to a position of high respect as a knight at King Arthur's court.
Dr. Will Durant and his wife Ariel have created the twentieth century's classic masterwork of history for the general reader. The Story of Civilization is brought to life in eleven volumes: (1) Our Oriental Heritage; (2) The Life of Greece; (3) Caesar and Christ; (4) The Age of Faith; (5) The Renaissance; (6) The Reformation; (7) The Age of Reason Begins; (8) The Age of Louis XIV; (9) The Age of Voltaire; (10) Rousseau & Revolution; and (11) The Age of Napoleon.
Stories in Action: Interactive Tales and Learning Activities to Promote Early Literacy
Added by: englishcology | Karma: 4552.52 | Kids, Only for teachers | 18 November 2010
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Stories in Action: Interactive Tales and Learning Activities to Promote Early Literacy
Promote the love of story, familiarize children with a variety of story forms and stimulate curiosity in diverse subjects while building basic literacy skills. In this guide, dozens of enchanting stories from around the world are accompanied by simple learning extensions for children (ages 4 through 8) that build such important literacy skills as print awareness, print motivation, vocabulary, phonological awareness, listening skills, and predicting and sequencing skills.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11524.33 | Fiction literature | 17 November 2010
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Reluctant Suitor
A lush and spellbinding story of passion and betrayal that grandly sweeps the reader into the magnificent ballrooms and intimate boudoirs of Regency England, The Reluctant Suitor is romance as only the incomparable Kathleen Woodiwiss can deliver it -- a love story that will dwell in the reader's heart and memory forever and stand proudly as one of the author's very best.
