A biography of the president who saw America through the Cuban Missile Crisis, established the Peace Corps, and was assassinated during his first term.

The volume opens with an exploration of the trials and tribulations of strolling players in the colonial era, before shifting to a discussion of the ways plays were deployed for political ends during the Revolution, most notably by the patriot Mercy Otis Warren. The narrative extends to the post-Revolutionary period when plays were used as vehicles to promote republican virtue. Contributors also explore the vibrant drama to emerge during the nineteenth century, when blackface performers and stars such as Edwin Forrest, Charlotte Cushman, and Edwin Booth dominated the stage.

Move It! is a four-level American English course with a complete print and digital learning package. Multiple options for dynamic, personalized classes motivate today's 21st century teenagers, whatever their learning styles. The first course for teenagers, fully implementing 21st Century Learning & Teaching, prepares students to succeed in the contemporary world.

The photocopiable activities provide a variety of material to use during the school year, for use in class or for additional practice at home, and include:
• Grammar • Vocabulary  • Reading and Listening skills  • Writing  • Speaking

An answer key is also provided.

Romancing Treason addresses the scope and significance of the secular literary culture of the Wars of the Roses, and especially of the Middle English romances that were distinctively written in prose during this period. Megan Leitch argues that the pervasive textual presence of treason during the decades c.1437-c.1497 suggests a way of conceptualising the understudied space between the Lancastrian literary culture of the early fifteenth century and the Tudor literary cultures of the early and mid-sixteenth century.

Many teachers are increasingly concerned with how to best support the learning of the rising numbers of bilingual learners in schools - particularly those children who are new to English and therefore cannot yet communicate with the teacher or their peers in their first language - during the silent period.