To a teenage student, nothing is more motivating than learning. Every unit in What's up? has been carefully designed to pave the way for the achivement of learning goal. Simple grammar and vocabulary presentations, numerous practice opportunities, stimulating reading and listening materials, useful models for speaking and writing tasks, a clear and attractive layout - all ensure a smooth and successful learning process. Students will finish each What's up? unit with a sense of having fulfilled a goal, with the desired level, confidance and motivation to face the new challenges ahead.
As the first text of its kind, THE SPEAKER'S HANDBOOK has established itself as both an invaluable reference for the individual speaker and an excellent textbook for use in the public speaking course. Sprague and Stuart give careful consideration to key cultural, educational, and technology trends to provide not only exceptionally efficient blocks of text that reflect the most recent research, but also abundant examples-including a new collection of sample speeches.
The Circus Fire - A True Story of an American Tragedy
The acclaimed author of A Prayer for the Dying brings all his narrative gifts to bear on this gripping account of tragedy and heroism-the great Hartford circus fire of 1944. Brilliantly constructed and exceptionally moving, The Circus Fire is history at its most compelling.
The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
Suspenseful, witty, and thrillingly strange, The Billionaire’s Vinegar is the vintage tale of what could be the most elaborate con since the Hitler diaries. It is also the debut of an exceptionally powerful new voice in narrative non-fiction.
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An officer in His Majesty’s Secret Service during World War II, Fleming burst onto the literary scene in 1953 with the first in his series of spy novels, thrilling readers for over fifty years.
007 is the ultimate man of action, his high-stakes missions propelling him to exotic locales where he seduces exceptional (and exceptionally named) women. He bests some of literature’s most sinister masterminds and he does it all mixing glamour and grit, subterfuge and style.
