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A Practical Guide to Assessing English Language Learners
For many teachers of English language learners, the field of assessment is foreign territory. Assessment has its own culture, traditions, and terminology. This training guide is intended to help classroom…
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Adventures in Composition
Adventures in Composition is designed to help students develop their academic and paragraph writing skills through the examination of short stories of some well-known writers. These stories will hold the…
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Andrew’s Journey to a New Life in America
Andrew is a Chinese man living in the United States, working hard, and trying to make a better life for himself and his fiancée, YaoLin. While adapting to a new…
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Chic Ironic Bitterness
A brilliant and timely reflection on irony in contemporary American culture“This book is a powerful and persuasive defense of sophisticated irony and subtle humor that contributes to the possibility of…
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Deep
“This project fits into the larger picture of excellence that we wish to accomplish in all dimensions of our health system: groundbreaking and dedicated research, compassionate clinical care, progressive education,…
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In Defense of Monopoly
In Defense of Monopoly offers an unconventional but empirically grounded argument in favor of market monopolies. Authors McKenzie and Lee claim that conventional, static models exaggerate the harm done by…
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Pigeon River Country
The long awaited new edition of a classic offers memories, myths, and meanings of the largest contiguous piece of wild land in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula.This updated edition explores more deeply…
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Present Shock in Late Fifth-Century Greece
Francis M. Dunn’s Present Shock in Late Fifth-Century Greece examines the widespread social and cultural disorientation experienced by Athenians in a period that witnessed the revolution of 411 B.C.E. and…
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Reading Themes and Skills
Reading Themes and Skills contains original engaging readings designed to help intermediate students develop stronger academic reading skills and build American cultural literacy. The textbook’s introduction reviews the parts of…
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Strategies for Legal Case Reading and Vocabulary Development
Many law students feel that they are learning a new language during their first year of law school. For those students who are not native English speakers this process can…
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Student Bodies
Student Bodies is the first book to link developments in college health with larger trends in American cultural and medical history. This comprehensive and engrossing study describes the origins and…
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The Disabled Child
When children are born with disabilities or become disabled in childhood, parents often experience bewilderment: they find themselves unexpectedly in another world, without a roadmap, without community, and without narratives…