The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation is filled witheasy-to-understand rules,real-world examples, dozens ofreproducible exercises, and pre- and post-tests. This handy workbook is ideal for teachers, students in middleschool through college, ESL students, homeschoolers, andprofessionals. Valuable for anyone who takes tests or writesreports, letters, Web pages, e-mails, or blogs, The Blue Bookoffers instant answers to everyday English usage questions.

From her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her timeat Harvard, where she studied the Victorian ancestors of the form,and later as a writer and reviewer, Margaret Atwood has always beenfascinated with science fiction. Here she brings together threeEllmann lectures: 'Flying Rabbits' begins with her early rabbitsuperhero creations, and goes on to speculate about masks, capes,weakling alter egos and Things with Wings; 'Burning Bushes' travelsinto Victorian otherlands and beyond; and 'Dire Cartographies'investigates Utopias and Dystopias, including Atwood's own venturesinto those constructions. In further essays Atwood explores andcritiques the form, and elucidates the differences - as she seesthem - between 'science fiction' proper, and 'speculative fiction',not to mention 'sword and sorcery', 'fantasy' and 'slipstreamfiction'. In Other Worlds is a must.

A no-holds-barred assault on outdated teaching methods--withdramatic and practical proposals on how education can be maderelevant to today's world.

In this first full-scale history of Holocaust denial, Lipstadtshows how, despite tens of thousands of living witnesses and vastamounts of documentary evidence, this irrational idea has not onlycontinued to gain adherents but has become an internationallyorganized movement.

On March 23, 2003, in the city of An Nasiriyah, Iraq, membersof the 507th Maintenance Company came under attack from Iraqiforces who killed or wounded twenty-one soldiers and took sixprisoners, including Private Jessica Lynch. For the next week, AnNasiriyah rocked with battle as the marines of Task Force Tarawafought Saddam's fanatical followers, street by street and buildingto building, ultimately rescuing Private Lynch.

A Positive, Proven Approach to Single Parenting! As a single parent in our complex world, you face the challengeof doing alone a job that was meant for two people. In addition,self-doubt and guilt may dampen the joy you experience raising yourchild. What do you do? Over the years, millions of parents just like you have come totrust Jane Nelsen's classic POSITIVE DISCIPLINE series for itsconsistant, commonsense approach to child rearing. In thiscompletely revised and updated edition of Positive Discipline forSingle Parents you'll learn how to succeed as a single parent inthe most important job of your life: raising a child who isresponsible, respectful, and resourceful. Inside this reassuring book, you'll discover how to: ·Identify potential problems and develop skills to preventthem ·Budget time each week for family activities ·Create a respectful coparenting relationship with your formerspouse ·Use nonpunitive methods to help your children make wisedecisions abo

Now in paperback, the popular second volume in the What I KnowNow series offers wonderfully candid letters from women underforty, who give advice to the girls they once were. Readers willdiscover familiar names as well as new voices, including actressJessica Alba; singer/songwriter Natasha Bedingfield; author HopeEdelman; Olympic soccer gold medalist Julie Foudy;singer/songwriter Lisa Loeb; and actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley.Here are stories of young love; of daring to chart a new path wheneveryone tells you to play it safe; of realizing that perfection isa pipe dream. The ideal gift for any young woman in your life, thiscollection provides a boost of hope that todays turmoil can fostertomorrows growth, success, and happiness (Boston Globe).