This companion to the popular Hot Links by the same author provides informative annotations for an additional 300+ fiction and nonfiction books--contemporary and classic--that support and enhance the middle school curriculum. The selected titles represent top-quality literature that ties into all areas of the curriculum. The books were chosen for the quality of writing, interest level, appropriateness of illustrations, and current availability. Additionally, the book includes a chapter highlighting the best of newly published literature and a chapter featuring titles that are presented in a unique and creative manner.
The DK travel guide helps you to get the most out of your trip to China, providing expert recommendations as well as detailed practical information. The opening chapter Introducing China maps the country and sets it in its historical and cultural context.
From The Preface : Six of the nine essays published in this book were written between 1959 and 1971. "The Poetics of the Open Work" (Chapter 1) and "The Myth of Superman" (Chapter 4)written respectively in 1959 and in 1962, before I fully developed my semiotic approachrepresent two opposing aspects of my interest in the dialectic between 'open' and 'closed' texts. The introductory essay of this book makes clear what I mean today by such a categorial polarity and how I see it as a special case of a more general semiotic phenomenon: the cooperative role of the addressee in interpreting messages.
"Simple Nature" is an introductory physics textbook for engineering and physical science students. There is a new edition of this book as of May 2008, which includes two new chapters: a review chapter and a chapter on optics. The former chapter 12, on quantum mechanics, is now chapter 13.
This book discusses 88 terms. It’s meant to give readers an introduction to each of these ideas, providing more than a dictionary or glossary, but still something that can be read and understood quickly. The book is divided into chapters by topics, and a reader could profitably read the chapter from start to finish and get an overview of a key area in science education.
