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  The Book Whisperer - Awakening...

  Donalyn Miller

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  Donalyn Miller is a dedicated teacher who says she has yet to meet a child she couldn't turn into a reader. In The Book Whisperer, Miller takes us inside her sixth grade classroom to reveal the secrets of her powerful but unusual instructional approach. Rejecting book reports, comprehension worksheets, and other aspects of conventional instruction, Miller embraces giving students an individual choice in what they read, combined with a program for independent reading. She also focuses on building a classroom library of high-interest books, and above all on modeling appropriate and authentic reading behaviors. Her zeal for reading is infectious and inspiring, and the results speak for themselves. No matter how far behind Miller's students may be when they start out, they end up reading an average of forty books per year, achieving high scores on standardized tests, and internalizing a love for reading that lasts long after they've left her class.Travel alongside the author as she leads her students to discover the ample rewards of reading and literature. Brought to life with Miller's passionate voice, The Book Whisperer will help teachers support students of all levels on their path to reading success. This book also includes a dynamite list of recommended "kid lit" to help parents and teachers find the books that students really like to read.

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  Learn Spanish Phrases For...

  Authentic Language Books

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  If you are looking into learning Spanish in a fast, simple way without entering a classroom then you have chosen the perfect book. Learn Spanish Phrases for Beginners is a comprehensive and simple program for learning Spanish with fast, simple, and interactive lessons. Learn Spanish Phrases With Step By Step Spanish Conversations Quick And Easy In Your Car Lesson By Lesson to have native-level fluency in no time. 
  With this book you will learn Spanish phrases for beginners through lessons that will help you develop your vocabulary and teach you how to communicate and hold short conversations. You will also learn basic interactions in different, useful topics for travel. 
  The following book on conversational Spanish will give you the necessary tools for learning a new language in simple and quick lessons. It’s time to begin the adventure of learning Spanish, through simple and quick lessons you can listen to in your car.Inside You Will FindHow to ask where things are and understand directions so you can get to different places using Spanish with native-like fluency in no timeHow to use public transportation to be able to move around a Spanish-speaking city or help Spanish-speaking people navigate English-speaking citiesLearn quick Spanish, understand vocabulary and interactions, and learn correct pronunciation with these simple audio lessonsGet this book NOW and embrace these simple, yet effective language lessons that will have you speaking Spanish like a native in no time!

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  What Prohibition Has Done to...

  Fabian Franklin

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  In What Prohibition Has Done to America, Fabian Franklin presents a concise but forceful argument against the Eighteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.  Beginning in 1920, this Amendment prohibited the sale and manufacture of alcoholic beverages in the United States, until it was repealed in 1933.  Franklin contends that the Amendment "is not only a crime against the Constitution of the United States, and not only a crime against the whole spirit of our Federal system, but a crime against the first principles of rational government."  Writing only two years after Prohibition began, he correctly predicts many of its disastrous consequences, such as runaway bootlegging and organized crime.  The book is both a passionate defense of liberty, and a reminder to Americans of the perils of surrendering it.  (Summary by Leon Mire)

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  Black Death at the Golden Gate -...

  David K. Randall

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  A spine-chilling saga of virulent racism, human folly, and the ultimate triumph of scientific progress. 
   
  For Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King, surviving in San Francisco meant a life in the shadows. His passing on March 6, 1900, would have been unremarkable if a city health officer hadn't noticed a swollen black lymph node on his groin - a sign of bubonic plague. Empowered by racist pseudoscience, officials rushed to quarantine Chinatown while doctors examined Wong's tissue for telltale bacteria. If the devastating disease was not contained, San Francisco would become the American epicenter of an outbreak that had already claimed 10 million lives worldwide. 
   
  To local press, railroad barons, and elected officials, such a possibility was inconceivable - or inconvenient. As they mounted a cover-up to obscure the threat, it fell to federal health officer Rupert Blue to save a city that refused to be rescued. 
   
  In the tradition of Erik Larson and Steven Johnson, best-selling author David K. Randall spins a spellbinding account of Blue's race to understand the disease and contain its spread - the only hope of saving San Francisco, and the nation, from a gruesome fate.

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  The College Application Essay

  Sarah Mcginty

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  LOOK GOOD ON PAPER. Prepare, plan and press SUBMIT on an application essay that says, "Pick me!"  Former Harvard educator Sarah Myers McGinty offers the steps and samples you'll need to craft memorable and effective application essays that take admission officers beyond the numbers to show who you are, how you think, and what you will add to the in-coming class. Updated to reflect recent changes to the application format, this easy-to-follow guide provides the tools to deliver a successful and memorable essay.  
  Features:
  • Best approaches to all the essay and supplement questions
  • Insight into how admission personnel evaluate essays
  • Simple steps for successful drafts
  • Revision strategies
  • Quick fixes for procrastinators
  • The right role of parents in the process
  • Guidance for transfers, international students, veterans, and ex-pats
  • Best practices and common mistakes
  • Critiques of samples essays and supplement answers
  
  This is the 7th edition of McGinty's classic guide to the application essay process.  Her work in secondary education, admissions, and as a writing instructor at Harvard University give this guide unique breadth and depth of expertise.
  
  “Every senior needs two things for a successful college search: a dynamite essay and confidence. This book delivers both.”— Lindsay Grimm, Princeton graduate
  
  “If you’re worried about your application essay, grab this book.”— F. Sheppard Shanley, Senior Associate Director of Admission, Northwestern University
  
  “Sarah McGinty’s clear explanation of the role of the college essay in selective admission decisions is right on. Her insight about its impact on candidates is reassuring for students and parents alike.”— Audrey Smith, Associate Vice President for Enrollment, Smith College

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  On the Genealogy of Morality

  Friedrich Nietzsche

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  “Without music, life would be a mistake.”“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” ...“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”NietzscheIn 1887, with the view of amplifying and completing certain new doctrines which he had merely sketched in Beyond Good and Evil (see especially Aphorism 260), Nietzsche published The Genealogy of Morals. This work is perhaps the least aphoristic, in form, of all Nietzsche's productions. For analytical power, more especially in those parts where Nietzsche examines the ascetic ideal, The Genealogy of Morals is unequalled by any other of his works; and, in the light which it throws upon the attitude of the ecclesiast to the man of resentment and misfortune, it is one of the most valuable contributions to sacerdotal psychologyFriedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic and philologist whose work has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history. He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy.

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