Stephe Tchudi Evaluating a student's progress as a writer requires striking a delicate balance between the student's needs and the school's needs. This collection of essays offers several innovative options,...

John Searle John Searle's summation of earlier writings is not just an essential tie-up volume for existing readers; it is also a perfect introduction to the work of one of...

Dana R Ferris Treatment of Error in Second Language Student Writing is the book many writing teachers have long been looking for: a highly accessible and principled approach to the theory...

Jacquelyn Schachter, Susan M Gass  In an attempt to fill the gap left by the many published studies on classroom second language research, this book explores a variety of human,...

Simon Gieve ad Ines K Miller The starting point for this collection is a chapter by Dick Allwright on the language learning and teaching classroom experience entitled Six Promising Directions...

Madelie E Ehrman The insights, techniques and skills needed to understand why some adult students have difficulties with learning a second language are presented in this book. The author′s premise...

Shing-Tung Yau, Steve Nadis A Fields medalist recounts his lifelong transnational effort to uncover the geometric shape — the Calabi-Yau manifold — that may store the hidden dimensions of our...

Romy Clark and Roz Ivanic Writing it plays a key role in the circulation of ideas in society and has a direct impact on the development of democracy. But only...

Ib A Svendsen This book is intended as an introductory textbook for graduate students and as a reference book for engineers and scientists working in the field of coastal engineering....

Enid Blyton Darrell's off to her new school.But what has she packed?1. Tennis racket? Yes2. Pocket-money? Yes3. A lid for her temper? NoOh dear! Malory Towers has a whole trunkload...

Pavel Novak, AIB Moffat, C Nalluri Hydraulic Structures demonstrates to the advanced undergraduate student the design of hydraulic structures in practice. It does this by explaining dam engineering, the design...

Robert G Dean Robert A Dalrymple “Chapter on wave maker theory is new material, generally not found in text books. The authors pull together good stuff from various widely scattered...