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The Science of Reading: A Handbook brings together state-of-the-art reviews of reading research from leading names in the field, to create a highly authoritative, multidisciplinary overview of contemporary knowledge about reading and related skills.
* Provides comprehensive coverage of the subject, including theoretical approaches, reading processes, stage models of reading, cross-linguistic studies of reading, reading difficulties, the biology of reading, and reading instruction
* Divided into seven sections:Word Recognition Processes in Reading; Learning to Read and Spell; Reading Comprehension; Reading in Different Languages; Disorders of Reading and Spelling; Biological Bases of Reading; Teaching Reading
A promise made twenty-eight years ago calls seven adults to reunite in Derry, Maine, where as teenagers they battled an evil creature that preyed on the city's children. Unsure that their Losers Club had vanquished the creature all those years ago, the seven had vowed to return to Derry if IT should ever reappear. Now, children are being murdered again and their repressed memories of that summer return as they prepare to do battle with the monster lurking in Derry's sewers once more.
Seven Steps to a Successful Business Plan by Al Coke
Book Description
As the saying goes, "People don't plan to
fail--they fail to plan." In business, this failing is fatal--because
planning is essential to the well-being and success of any company. Seven Steps to a Successful Business Plan
cuts past the traditional planning problems, and provides readers with
a documented method of building a simplified business plan that works!
The
book helps managers find a sensible starting point, understand the
value of an integrated planning model, and finally write a logical
business plan. Four features make it all work:
1. A Seven-Step Planning Process--How you plan to integrate planning down to the lowest level.
2. Your Management Story--Defining what the company is "about," and asking yourself if it makes a good "story."
3. The Concept of backPlanning--Where do you want to be, and how do you work backward from there?
4. The 5-Page Business Plan--How can you create a concise, functional, and user-friendly plan--in just 5 pages?
The whole fascinating history of naval warfare—2,500 years and the seven seas. The history of naval warfare is the history of daring commanders, intrepid sailors, mighty ships, and oceans to conquer. From the ancient Greek galleys at Salamis to the American Sixth Fleet in the Persian Gulf, humanity has taken to the seven seas in search of wealth, power, and prestige.
The Seven Secrets of How to Think Like a Rocket Scientist Explains the methods that rocket scientists use—expressed in a way that could be applied in everyday life. The book illustrates the methods (the 7 secrets) with anecdotes, quotations and biographical sketches of famous scientists, ideas from sci-fi, personal stories and insights, and occasionally a bit of space history. The author reveals that rocket science is just common sense applied to the extraordinarily uncommon environment of outer space and that rocket scientists are people, too.
