DEVELOPING READING SKILLS is designed for reading courses at the intermediate and advanced level.As in past editions, this text continues to feature a wide range of interesting and diverse selections as well as a comprehensive teaching apparatus. Using practice prose similar to the kind they will encounter in the classroom, students are encouraged to analyze, interpret, question, and even challenge the words of the writer.
Good Prose is an inspiring book about writing—about the creation of good prose—and the record of a warm and productive literary friendship. The story begins in 1973, in the offices of The Atlantic Monthly, in Boston, where a young freelance writer named Tracy Kidder came looking for an assignment. Richard Todd was the editor who encouraged him. From that article grew a lifelong association. Before long, Kidder’s The Soul of a New Machine, the first book the two worked on together, had won the Pulitzer Prize.
Dany Alexander's skates sparkled as she spun on the glistening ice, tracing patterns in moonlight. Suddenly Anthony Malik appeared beside her, matching his gliding steps to her own. With a cool, driven passion he had shaped her talent, encouraged her dream of an Olympic gold to match his own. But not until now had he taken her in his arms and taught her the figures and forms of love.
Under the leadership of Chinggis Khan and his descendants in the 13th century, the Mongols quickly built an empire that stretched from Korea to eastern Europe - the largest continuous area of land ever controlled by one ruling family. The rise of the Mongols marked the last major clash between nomadic and sedentary cultures. They united Eurasia in a truly international trading system, encouraged new forms of communication, and demonstrated the value of religious tolerance at a time when religious differences often led to wars.
Pocoyo - вредный, любопытный, чудесно-восторженный маленький мальчик в синем. Рассказчик Стивен Фрай с юмором помогает Pocoyo познавать мир, изучать новые слова и назначение предметов. Pocoyo и его друзья, Элли, Лула, Пато и Сонная Птица, поощряют зрителя учиться через смех. Очень веселый и познавательный мультфильм для самых маленьких.
Pocoyo is a pre-school animated cartoon series about a young boy who dresses in blue and who is full of curiosity. Viewers are encouraged to recognise situations that Pocoyo is in, and things that are going on with or around him.
