Just how did a dialect spoken by a handful of shepherds in Northern Spain become the world's second most spoken language, the official language of twenty-one countries on two continents, and the unofficial second language of the United States? Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow, the husband-and-wife team who chronicled the history of the French language in The Story of French, now look at the roots and spread of modern Spanish. Full of surprises and honed in Nadeau and Barlow's trademark style, combining personal anecdote, reflections, and deep research...
STEM to Story: Enthralling and Effective Lesson Plans for Grades 5–8 inspires learning through fun, engaging, and meaningful lesson plans that fuse hands–on discovery in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) with creative writing. The workshop activities within the book are the innovative result of a partnership between 826 National′s proven creative writing model and Time Warner Cable′s Connect a Million Minds, an initiative dedicated to connecting young people to the wonders of STEM through hands–on learning.
This special edition of BBC History Magazine brings you the story of the First World War, examining the battles and personalities that changed the shape of the world. Plus, our expert writers discuss what it was like to live and fight through these years. Inside we examine why the war began, life in the trenches, Gallipoli, the Somme, the American impact, the crucial final year, the Armistice and so much more.
The Internet has had a huge impact on channels of communication and information, reaching across time and space to connect the world through globalisation. In this Internet-led world, story links to story, windows open on new stories and no overall authority establishes priority. This sense of globalisation has raised many questions for contemporary American Novelists, primarily the usefulness or redundancy of narrative and its potentially adaptive function.
Since Robert Hughes' The Fatal Shore, the fate of British convicts has burned brightly in the popular imagination. Incredibly, their larger story is even more dramatic--the saga of forgotten men and women scattered to the farthest corners of the British empire, driven by the winds of the American Revolution and the currents of the African slave trade. In A Merciless Place, Emma Christopher brilliantly captures this previously unknown story of poverty, punishment, and transportation.
