Thomas L. Friedman’s no. 1 bestseller "The World Is Flat" has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now Friedman brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy—both of which could poison our world if we do not act quickly and collectively. His argument speaks to all of us who are concerned about the state of America in the global future.
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The Linguistics, Neurology, and Politics of Phonics: Silent "E" Speaks Out
This book explores the driving forces behind the current government-sponsored resurrection of phonics, and the arguments used to justify it. It examines the roles played by three key actors--corporate America, politicians, and state-supported reading researchers--in the formulation of what Strauss terms the neophonics political program. Essential for researchers, students, and teachers of literacy and reading, and for anyone seeking to understand what is happening in U.S. public schools today, Linguistics, Neurology, and the Politics of Phonics: Silent "E" Speaks Out: analyzes the political nature of the alleged literacy crisis in the United States, through an investigation of the political and corporate motives behind the renewed focus on phonics, and media complicity in promoting the neophonics political program as the solution to the so-called crisis; examines the scientific claims of neophonics, including methodology, linguistics, and neuroscience, and exposes the flaws in its reasoning and the weakness of its arguments; addresses the scientific, empirical investigation of letter-sound relationships in English (of phonics itself), and demonstrates the complexity of the system and its associated benefits and limitations in the theory and practice of reading; proposes actions to help make a return to politically undistorted science and to democratic classrooms a reality; and introduces, in a postscript, a formal analysis of the letter-sound system, using empirically based rules to convert one finite set of elements, the alphabet, into another, the phonemes of the spoken language.

Oprah Winfrey Speaks
Get Oprah's two cents on everything from rocky romance and overcoming fear to spiritual growth and setting goals.
Compiling from numerous sources, author Janet Lowe pulls together an impressive collage of quotes and anecdotes from one of the most influential women of the 20th century.
Whether you're looking for a nugget of wisdom on relationships or a spiritual insight, Oprah Winfrey Speaks is chock-full of snappy snippets and sage advice.