Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel MicroworldsMitchel ResnickDoes every group have a leader? Does every pattern have a central cause? Most people tend to think so. Increasingly,...

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...

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...

Jim ZiolkowskiThe powerful, personal story of Jim Ziolkowski, the man behind the organization buildOn—which turns inner city teens into community leaders at home and abroad—and his inspiring mission to change...

Alice OutwaterAn environmental engineer turned ecology writer relates the history of our waterways and her own growing understanding of what needs to be done to save this essential natural resource.Water:...

Kristine C HarperWeather by the Numbers: The Genesis of Modern MeteorologyThe history of the growth and professionalization of American meteorology and its transformation into a physics- and mathematics-based scientific discipline.For...

What Every Parent Needs to Know: How to Help Your Child Get the Most Out of Primary SchoolToby Young and Miranda ThomasPublisher:PENGUIN Books, [Place of publication not identified], 2017

Nancy Polette Have you ever wandered through a museum, looked at an artifact, and wondered, What IS This Thing? So did Nancy Polette as she toured the Montgomery County Historical...

What's Left of Theory? New Work on the Politics of Literary Theory (Essays from the English Institute)Judith ButlerJohn GuilloryKendall Thomas"For several years," write the editors of What's Left of Theory,...

Paul Tough New York Times bestselling author Paul Tough's Whatever It Takes is "one of the best books ever written about how poverty influences learning, and vice versa" ( The...

Frederic M Wheelock and Richard A LaFleur This book contains:40 chapters with grammatical explanations and readings drawn from the works of Rome's major prose and verse writers;Self-tutorial exercises, each with...

Dr Sylvia RimmIt's one of the most common frustrations for parents: children who are capable, perhaps even gifted, students, yet do not perform up to their abilities. These children suffer...