Mimic
real-life reading situations to help students find information quickly
Help students become fast, flexible readersHelp students vary their
reading rate according to their purposeHelp students find specific
information quickly What time is that movie on TV? What was the general
idea of that memo? What team is leading the division? Skimming and
Scanning helps students pick out specific information quickly, training
them to tailor their reading rate depending on their purpose. These
drills use real-life situations to provide the encouragement students
need to become flexible, independent readers.
Rod Walker didn't know where in the universe he had been sent ... he only knew he somehow had to survive. It was just a test. But something had gone wrong. Terribly wrong. What was to have been a standard ten-day survival test had suddenly become an indefinite life-or-death nightmare.
The Prospect Of Immortality is the book that began the cryonics movement.
First published in 1964, the book went on to become a best-selling
selection of the Book-Of-The-Month club as well as go on to numerous
foreign-language translations.
The author, mathematics and physics professor Robert C. W. Ettinger,
went on become the founder and first President of the Cryonics
Institute, one of the leading cryonics suspension service providers in
the world today.
The Prospect Of Immortality is arguably the single most important
text in the history of cryonics. It is the starting point for anyone
seriously interested in learning more about the subject.
Easily the shyest Wallflower, Evangeline Jenner stands to become the wealthiest, once her inheritance comes due. Because she must first escape the clutches of her unscrupulous relatives, Evie has approached the rake Viscount St. Vincent with a most outrageous proposition: marriage!
Sebastian's reputation is so dangerous that thirty seconds alone with him will ruin any maiden's good name. Still, this bewitching chit appeared, unchaperoned, on his doorstep to offer her hand. Certainly an aristocrat with a fine eye for beauty could do far worse.
But Evie's proposal comes with a condition: no lovemaking after ther wedding night. She will never become just another of the dashing libertine's callously discarded broken hearts -- which means Sebastian will simply have to work harder at his seductions...or perhaps surrender his own heart for the very first time in the name of true love.
Retold Shakespeare's tragedy. Macbeth is loyal and courageous, and is a friend of King Duncan’s. However, after a battle he encounters three witches who tell him that one day he will be King of Scotland. Soon his obsession to become king is reinforced by his wife’s cold-blooded ambition...
