VOCABULARY IN CONTEXT was written especially for you. The program was designed to enrich your personal “word bank” with many hundreds of high-frequency and challenging words. There are six thematic books in the series—Everyday Living Words, Workplace and Career Words, Science and Technology Words, Media and Marketplace Words, History and Geography Words, and Music, Art, and Literature Words. Each worktext presents topic-related readings with key terms in context. Follow-up exercises provide a wide variety of practice activities to help you unlock the meanings of unfamiliar words. These strategies include the study of synonyms and antonyms; grammatical word forms; word roots, prefixes, and suffixes; connotations; and the efficient use of a dictionary and thesaurus. Thinking skills, such as drawing conclusions and completing analogies, are included as reinforcement.

An invaluable tool for students preparing to take the NEW SAT exam
More than 3 million SATs were administered in 2002. Beginning in March 2005, the SAT will undergo the most dramatic change in its 76-year history. The total score possible will increase from 1600 to 2400; analogies will be dropped from the format; and, most radical of all, a new SAT essay writing component will be added. SAT reading and writing scores play a crucial role in the college admissions process. The new writing exam places increased emphasis on these skills. SAT 2400! is designed to give students a jump-start on preparing for this critical test. The author, an award-winning English professor, provides students with clear and complete instructions for taking--and acing--the new exam.

Young childen can acquire essential math skills and have a good time in the process. Action Math contains great activities, superbly photographed, that are based on sound mathematical concepts. While providing hours of enjoyment, these projects put basic math concepts into action!

Making and playing bingo, dominoes, snakes and ladders, tic-tac-toe, and making a jigsaw puzzle - these are some of the fun to do activities young children will discover in this colorful book. All the games challenge children to use such mathematical concepts as recognizing patterns and shapes, matching, remembering, and mental computation. In the process, children will find that math does apply to "real life" and that it's part of the fun.

 

In the last decade, the notions of topic and focus have come to play an increasingly relevant role in theoretical linguistics. Although these notions are often taken for granted, they are still poorly understood. This study offers a detailed analysis of the precise definitions of these and related terms (theme, topic, background, given information, focus, contrast, etc.) as well as of their combination into information structures such as the topic-focus and background-focus articulations. It recommends pursuing a feature-based typology of topics and argues against a dual nature of focus (i.e. presentational vs. contrastive).

Underwater Adventures features colorful images and undersea life swimming with excitement. DJ, Vinko and pals take children on an entertaining underwater experience they'll enjoy over and over again. Tots will thoroughly delight in dolphins, sea lions, manta rays, and more as these ocean creatures move to enchanting classical music.