How to Make a Fortune from the Biggest Bailout in U.S. History

For those in the know, today's financial headlines don't spell disaster--they spell the sale of the century. But it takes a trustworthy veteran of the trading trenches to guide investors through these volatile times. Drawing on his two decades as a financial reporter, plus three recent years working on Wall Street, Ron Insana helps readers restore their depleted portfolios by showing them:

Nervous Reactions: Victorian Recollections of Romanticism

Nervous Reactions considers Victorian responses to Romanticism, particularly the way in which the Romantic period was frequently constructed in Victorian-era texts as a time of nervous or excitable authors (and readers) at odds with Victorian values of self-restraint, moderation, and stolidity.

Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award in 1945 for his "memory" play, "The Glass Menagerie"; it was his first success. His protagonist, Tom Wingfield, recalls events at his troubled home in St. Louis, where his suffocating mother, Amanda Wingfield, badgers him to locate a "gentleman caller" for his sister, Laura, a shy, lame girl who occupies herself with music and a collection of glass animals. Readers approaching this semi-autobiographical Southern Gothic drama will appreciate the quick-reference study helps offered here...

Finding Your Way in Academic Writing, Second Edition

Preface to the second edition

When we revised this book we were again using what we have learned from our students to advance our understanding of academic writing. We have used the book for three years in our teaching and have also received feedback from many readers.

Leveled Readers provide the right level of reading support in any classroom. Leveled 'on-level' for sixth-grade students, these fiction and nonfiction books help all learners build fluency, independence, and motivation for lifelong reading success.