In her debut, Perkins-Valdez eloquently plunges into a dark period of American history, chronicling the lives of four slave women—Lizzie, Reenie, Sweet and Mawu—who are their masters' mistresses. The women meet when their owners vacation at the same summer resort in Ohio. There, they see free blacks for the first time and hear rumors of abolition, sparking their own desires to be free. For everyone but Lizzie, that is, who believes she is really in love with her master, and he with her. An extended flashback in the middle of the novel delves into Lizzie's life and vividly explores the complicated psychological dynamic between master and slave.
English for Banking&Finance is part of the Vocational English series. It is designed for students in vocational education and for company employees in training at work. Written by industry practitioners, it combiens a strong grammar syllabus with the specialist vocabulary and skills that learners need to succeed in their chosen field.
A student CD-ROM with interactive glossaries in both British and American English and full course book audio in MP3 format
This book is intended as an aid in self-study or as supplementary material in regular language classes. Its purpose is to review and codify for the intermediate to advanced student of English the main facts about English nouns - their form and their syntax. Nouns are one of the two most numerous classes of words in the English language, the other being verbs. Their main role, of course, is to name things - objects, people, animals, places, substances, and all the rest. As such, their number is as great as the number of such things that speakers want to talk about. Nouns, therefore are a very "productive" word class; new ones are readily coined, and old ones become obsolete and pass away.
Essentials For Successful English Language Teaching is about how we teach English Language Learners (ELLs) and how our ELLs learn. Farrell and Jacobs encourage those involved in teaching English to develop, maintain and rediscover the reasons that led them to take up the profession. They focus on the essentials in teaching the English language that teachers can implement in their instruction so that their students can excel in their learning: Encourage learner autonomy Emphasize the social nature of learning Develop curricular integration, focus on meaning Celebrate diversity Expand thinking skills Utilize alternative assessment...
In Wyoming for a medical conference, Boston medical examiner Maura Isles joins a group of friends on a spur-of-the-moment ski trip. But when their SUV stalls on a snow-choked mountain road, they’re stranded with no help in sight.
