This second edition of the popular math teaching resource bookMath Stories for Problem Solving Success offers updatedtrue-to-life situations designed to motivate teenagers to use mathskills for solving everyday problems. The book features intriguingshort stories followed by sets of problems related to the storiesthat are correlated to the standards of the National Council ofTeachers of Mathematics. Each of the easy-to-read stories is followed by threeincreasingly difficult groups of problem sets. This makes it simplefor teachers to select the appropriate problem set for students ofdifferent abilities and at different grade levels. To furtherenhance student involvement, the stories feature recurringcharacters and can be used either sequentially or out of order. Theproblems in the book cover many basic math topics, includingdecimals, fractions, and percents; measurement; geometry; data,statistics, and probability; algebra; and problem solving. In addition to having all the answers, an Answer

September 11th changed the face of America, but it alsorevealed the true face of heroism. The men of the New York FireDepartment fought with courage and endurance to save others. Thisis their story, told by a veteran firefighter. --This text refersto an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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.

Charles Freeman's The Greek Achievement traces the entirecourse of ancient Greek history across thousands of years--from theMycenaean and Minoan civilizations of the Bronze Age through theArchaic, Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman periods. This brilliantaccount celebrates the incredible range of Greek achievement: thearchitectural marvels of the Athenian Acropolis; the birth of dramaand the timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles;Homer's epics; the philosophical revolutions of Plato andAristotle; and the conquests of Alexander the Great. Lavishly illustrated with photographs and maps, The GreekAchievement paints a sweeping panorama of the ancient Greeks' worldand provides a rich, contemporary overview of their enduringcontribution to world civilization.

The "alarming and impassioned"* book on how the Internet isredefining constitutional law, now reissued as the first popularbook revised online by its readers (*New York Times) There's a common belief that cyberspace cannot beregulated-that it is, in its very essence, immune from thegovernment's (or anyone else's) control. Code, first published in2000, argues that this belief is wrong. It is not in the nature ofcyberspace to be unregulable; cyberspace has no "nature." It onlyhas code-the software and hardware that make cyberspace what it is.That code can create a place of freedom-as the originalarchitecture of the Net did-or a place of oppressive control. Underthe influence of commerce, cyberpsace is becoming a highlyregulable space, where behavior is much more tightly controlledthan in real space. But that's not inevitable either. We can-wemust-choose what kind of cyberspace we want and what freedoms wewill guarantee. These choices are all about architecture: aboutwhat kind of code will govern c

Fashion model, UN ambassador and courageous spirit, WarisDirie was born into a family of tribal desert nomads in Somalia.She told her story - enduring female circumcision at five yearsold; running away through the desert; being discovered by TerenceDonovan and becoming a top fashion model - in her book, theworldwide bestseller, DESERT FLOWER. In DESERT DAWN she wrote aboutbecoming a UN Special Ambassador against FGM (female genitalmutilation) and returning to her family in Somalia. DESERT CHILDRENtells us how she and the journalist Corinna Milborn haveinvestigated the practice of FGM in Europe - they estimate that upto 500,000 women and girls have undergone or are at risk of FGM. Atthe moment, France is the only European country in which offendersare convicted and no European country officially recognises thethreat of genital mutilation as a reason for asylum. Here are thevoices of women who have felt encouraged and emboldened by WarisDirie's courage. They speak out for the first time and move us toact

The best-selling First Year Teacher's Survival Kit gives newteachers a wide variety of tested strategies, activities, and toolsfor creating a positive and dynamic learning environment whilemeeting the challenges of each school day. Packed with valuabletips, the book helps new teachers with everything from becomingeffective team players and connecting with students to handlingbehavior problems and working within diverse classrooms. The new editionis fully revised and updated to cover changes inthe K-12 classroom over the past five years. Updates to the secondedition include: New ways teachers can meet the professional developmentrequirements of the No Child Left Behind Act Entirely new section on helping struggling readers, to addressthe declining literacy rate among today’s students Expanded coverage of helpful technology solutions for theclassroom Expanded information on teaching English Language Learners Greater coverage of the issues/challenges facing elementary

The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A.Caro’s life of Lyndon B. Johnson, continues. Master of theSenate takes Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkableperiods: his twelve years, from 1949 through 1960, in the UnitedStates Senate. Once the most august and revered body in politics,by the time Johnson arrived the Senate had become a parody ofitself and an obstacle that for decades had blocked desperatelyneeded liberal legislation. Caro shows how Johnson’s brilliance,charm, and ruthlessness enabled him to become the youngest and mostpowerful Majority Leader in history and how he used hisincomparable legislative genius--seducing both Northern liberalsand Southern conservatives--to pass the first Civil Rightslegislation since Reconstruction. Brilliantly weaving rich detailinto a gripping narrative, Caro gives us both a galvanizingportrait of Johnson himself and a definitive and revelatory studyof the workings of legislative power.

In his book, Smith fervently extolled the simple yet enlightened notion that individuals are fully capable of setting and regulating prices for their own goods and services. He argued passionately in favor of free trade, yet stood up for the little guy. The Wealth of Nations provided the first--and still the most eloquent--integrated de*ion of the workings of a market economy. The result of Smith’s efforts is a witty, highly readable work of genius filled with prescient theories that form the basis of a thriving capitalist system. This unabridged edition offers the modern reader a fresh look at a timeless and seminal work that revolutionized the way governments and individuals view the creation and dispersion of wealth--and that continues to influence our economy right up to the present day.

The dissenting opinions of Patrick Henry and others who sawthe Constitution as a threat to our hard-won rights andliberties. Edited and introduced by Ralph Ketcham.

This highly original book by William Zinsser, author of theclassic guide On Writing Well, tells you how to write about thepeople and places and events in your life that have been importantto you—whether you’re writing a memoir, a family history or just arecollection of experiences you’d like to preserve or more fullyunderstand. Zinsser’s method is to take you on a memoir of his own:13 chapters in which he recalls dramatic, amusing and ofteninspiring moments in his long and unusually varied life as awriter, editor, teacher and traveler. Along the way in these memoirs William Zinsser pauses to explainthe technical decisions he made as he wrote them. They are the samedecisions you’ll have to make as you write about your own life:matters of selection, condensation, focus, attitude, voice andtone. Written with elegance, warmth and humor, Writing About YourLife gives you the tools to organize and recover your past and theconfidence to believe in your life narrative. It also gives youpermission—t