Hot Topics is guaranteed to engage readers, stimulate thinking, and provoke conversation while developing vocabulary and reading skills. The controversial topics explored in the text all have more than one side to them, thus encouraging debate and classroom interaction.
Three readings per chapter explore the same hot topic from different points of view. The readings in each chapter vary by genre and increase in difficulty to support reading development. A focus on reading skills and reading comprehension through pre-reading questions, skimming and scanning activities, the use of context clues, vocabulary analysis, and the development of critical thinking skills helps students increase their reading fluency. Open-ended questions at the end of every chapter
Are you a student who dreads studying, has problems getting great
grades despite loads of studying, or just has a hard time memorizing
facts and formulas and concepts?
This book is of great value for
anyone trying to learn something, especially if you’re a student. Scott
has taken the process of learning and has hit upon the methods that
most quick learners use, breaking it down into easily understandable
and practical steps that any of us can implement
The book is split into three major parts:
Strategy
Techniques
Beyond Holistic Learning
The first section explains what holistic learning is, what the stages
of holistic learning are and how holistic learning looks at different
types of problems. The second section goes into detail explaining
how to apply holistic learning. There are over a dozen techniques split
into over ten chapters. The third section includes a chapter devoted to productivity and another chapter on self-education.
Synopsis "Academic Writing and Publishing" will show academics (mainly in the social sciences) how to write and publish research articles. Its aim is to supply examples and brief discussions of recent work in all aspects of the area in short, sharp chapters. It should serve as a handbook for postgraduates and lecturers new to publishing. The book is written in a readable and lively personal style. The advice given is direct and based on up to date research that goes beyond that given in current textbooks.
Magicians, ogres, dragons, genies and wizards show how to do the most popular logic puzzle types: elimination, crossing the river, measurement, probability, more.
This book provides a good brief introduction to logic puzzles. Readers
get to explore classic problems involving those who (always) tell the
truth and those who (always or sometimes) lie; how to cross rivers with
limited capacity boats, etc. Each chapter begins with simple riddles
that introduce the ideas of one particular type of logic problem.
Successive problems are more difficult. By the end of each chapter,
readers can solve very complicated problems.
This is an excellent introduction to logic problems. An entire chapter of hints can help those who are unsure of how to proceed.
