In his latest, veteran traveler Troost embarks on an extended tour of "the new wild west," China. Troost travels from the megalopolis of Beijing to small, remote trails in the hinterlands, the fabled Shangri-La and all points in between, allowing for a substantive look at an incredibly complex culture. He does an admirable job of summing up the country's rich history, venturing to Nanjing to learn about China's deep-seated animosity toward Japan; he also visits the Forbidden City, and the tomb of Mao Zedong, still very much revered despite his horrific record of human rights abuses.
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Step by Step Toward Receptive Skills - Upper Intermediate
Welcome to Step by Step Toward Receptive Skills (based on TOEIC Bridge"). This series is designed to help beginning and intermediate students develop their listening and reading skills. Through practice of activities and problems modeled on the TOEIC Bridge Test, students can become better test takers while developing comprehension and communication skills in English.
The thematically organized, graded units within the series follow a three-step format: Warm-up, Exercise, and Test.
Step by Step Toward Receptive Skills (based on TOEIC Bridge*) can help students smoothly progress from the TOEIC Bridge Test to the TOEIC Test through strategic and organized practice at a comfortable level.
Here James O'Hara shows how the deceptive nature of prophecy in the Aeneid complicates assessment of the poem's attitude toward its hero's achievement and toward the future of Rome under Augustus Caesar. This close study of the language and rhetorical context of the prophecies reveals that they regularly suppress discouraging material: the gods send promising messages to Aeneas and others to spur them on in their struggles, but these struggles often lead to untimely deaths or other disasters only darkly hinted at by the prophecies.
To many academics, composition still represents typewritten texts on 8.5” x 11” pages that follow rote argumentative guidelines. In Toward a Composition Made Whole, Jody Shipka views composition as an act of communication that can be expressed through any number of media and as a path to meaning-making. Her study offers an in-depth examination of multimodality via the processes, values, structures, and semiotic practices people employ everyday to compose and communicate their thoughts.
