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  How to Study Effectively: 7 Easy...

  Troye Bates

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  Struggling to be effective with your study skills? 
    
  No need to worry, this study guide will provide you with the necessary tools you need to be successful in studying! 
    
  Studying is one of the most important tasks in life because it helps you to understand and respect the rule of language. If you don’t understand the rule of language, it will be impossible for you to enjoy or even be successful in your studies. 
    
  Learning how to study helps you avoid anxiety, fatigue, and frustration when you are preparing for an examination. 
    
  YOU WILL LEARN: 
  • The 7 easy steps to study effectively. 
  • 32 tips on how to become a successful student. 
  • The art of notetaking. 
  • Exam preparation techniques that will result in better grades. 
  • How to be more productive no matter what you are trying to study. 
    
  Learning how to study is an important life skill. By being a dedicated student, you are likely to witness results and boost your confidence in the process. 
    
  So, stop dreaming and get started today!

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  Postmortem - What Survives the...

  Courtney Lund O'Neil

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  On a December night in 1978, Courtney Lund O'Neil's mother, teenaged Kim Byers, saw her friend Rob Piest alive for the last time. At the end of his shift at the pharmacy where they both worked, fifteen-year-old Rob went outside to speak to a contractor named John Wayne Gacy about a possible job. That night Rob became Gacy's final victim; his body was later found in the Des Plaines River. Kim's testimony, along with a receipt belonging to her found in Gacy's house, proving that Rob had been there, would be pivotal in convicting the serial killer who assaulted and killed over thirty young men and boys. 
   
   
   
  Though she grew up far from Des Plaines, Courtney has lived in the shadow of that nightmare, keenly aware of its impact on her mother. In search of deeper understanding and closure, Courtney and Kim travel back to Illinois. Postmortem transforms their personal journey into a powerful exploration of the ever-widening ripples generated by Gacy's crimes. From the 1970s to the present day, his shadow extends beyond the victims' families and friends—it encompasses the Des Plaines neighborhood forever marked by his horrific murders, generations of the victims' families and friends, those who helped arrest and convict him, and many others. Postmortem is a complex story of loss and violence, grief and guilt, and the legacy that remains long after a killer is caught.

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  Nine Lives - My Risky Road from...

  Claire Kahane

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  In this tell-all memoir, a woman in her eighties, born during the Great Depression to Jewish immigrants, unveils her intimate self-transformations in the course of nine decades. Determined at an early age to prove herself a free spirit in a male-dominated world, as a young adult Kahane went on the road, hitchhiking her way into and out of risky adventures and romantic affairs, ceaselessly chasing new experiences. But what started out as a “road book” takes a different turn in midlife when, influenced by the insights of psychoanalysis and feminism, she became a feminist professor, mother, and wife. In later life, her story changed tracks again when a visit to Auschwitz compelled her to confront her own family history of loss and renewal. The memoir ends with a surprising new twist that opens to a hopeful future. In this long and hard-earned coming-of-age story, readers will find a piece of themselves.

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  Arameans The: The History of the...

  Editors Charles River

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  When the Late Bronze Age system of the Near East collapsed around the year 1200 BCE, the empires and kingdoms that had ruled the region for hundreds of years were replaced by new dynasties and peoples. In some cases – such as in Egypt, Assyria, and Babylon – new dynasties came to power that followed the culture and styles of previous generations. However, alongside them new ethnic groups also came to power, some of whom took advantage of the general chaos following the Bronze Age collapse to migrate to the region. Some of these new waves of migrants entered the Near East from Europe via the Mediterranean Sea and Anatolia, while others came from Arabia. They all brought with them new weapons, ideas, and plenty of new people that eventually helped establish a new, early Iron Age order in the Near East. Among these new groups that came to prominence in the early Iron Age Near East, the Arameans were arguably the most important. 
  	The Arameans entered the historical record just after the collapse of the Bronze Age, and although they were once thought to be one of the factors in the Bronze Age collapse, most scholars now see them as taking advantage of the situation more than bringing it about. Once the Arameans entered the Levant and Mesopotamia, they influenced their new homes to varying degrees, ranging from having little influence in southern Mesopotamia to being a major geopolitical player in the inland Levant. An examination of Aramean history and culture reveals that the Arameans were a people who were not so easy to define, as they had no central leadership, and they often adopted the cultural attributes of their neighbors. With that said, historians, archaeologists, and philologists have identified a definite Aramean culture that at times played a major role in the wider cultural events of the Near East.

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  The Century - Poems

  Éireann Lorsung

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  A meticulously detailed catalogue of ordinary people performing acts of extraordinary violence, The Century charts an awakening to structures of dominance and violence. In the tradition of witness poetry, The Century tugs apart the quotidian horrors required to perpetuate acts of violence like the Holocaust, the deployment of nuclear weapons in Japan and Iraq, American slavery and its lingering aftermath. When Éireann Lorsung writes of death and dying, of “bodies in the fields becoming the fields,” it’s the simplicity that’s most haunting. After a fire, “some of their skin moved off of them as they ran, a very / simple melting…” But these poems don’t just witness; they also resist and serve as models for resistant lives. Pushing back against form and grammar, constructions of time and geography, Lorsung traces decades of technological, geopolitical, and cultural shifts through generations and across continents as networks of dominance continue to be stubbornly upheld.The Century is evasive but thorny, splintering in the mind. This collection is a reminder that the arrival of each new century, decade, or year brings with it an invitation to join ongoing movements of resistance, air pockets of hope in the waters that we all swim or drown in.  

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  My Blue Book of Grammar for Class 5

  Meigha Rawat

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  A Grammar Series That Uses the Functional Approach
  
  KEY FEATURES 
  - Functional approach to grammar teaching, using exemplars to illustrate the usage before defining the structure and rules
  - Vocabulary taught through language-in-use to build the learners’ vocabulary through use rather than memorisation of rules
  - Contemporary topics to inculcate 21-century skills amongst learners
  - Use of literature to help learners understand how grammar is used in text
  - A comprehension section comprising texts from different genres so that learners may relate grammar to different types of works produced in English
  - Phonics in Grades 1 and 2 to teach the very basis of language
  - Uniquely stylised illustrations
  - Activities such as puzzles, crosswords, word grids and games to aid the facilitator in using the concept of ‘flipped classroom’
  - Periodic tests to help the learners self-assess the acquisition of concepts
  - Digital component to cater to a technology-driven classroom
  
  DESCRIPTION: 
  My Blue Book of Grammar is a course that has been conceptualized and designed keeping in mind the increasingly dynamic role of the English language in today’s world. Especially in our country, where English serves as the lingua franca, a grammar course has to offer not only an exposition of the pedagogy but also the exhibition of the utility of that pedagogy. The aim of a grammar series should be to encourage the development of competency amongst learners, even though their proficiency levels may vary. While the level of exposure to English of all learners may be different, a grammar series should aid in the development of a certain level of confidence amongst the learners, with the end result being that they are able to converse without hesitation in English. 
  
  WHAT WILL YOU LEARN
  - Understand grammar concepts
  - Learn how to use different vocabulary concepts taught through language-in-use 
  - Learn 21-century skills 
  - Develop deeper understanding of and appreciation for literature
  - Have clearer pronunciation through a better understanding of phonics
  
  WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR: 
  School students of Grades 5
  
  TABLE OF CONTENTS
  GRAMMAR
  1. Gerunds, Infinitives and Participles 
  2. Coordinating and Subordinating Conjunctions 
  3. Sentences, Clauses and Phrases 24
  4. Correlative Conjunctions
  5. Present Perfect Form 
  6. Present Perfect Continuous Form 
  7. Past Perfect Form 
  8. Past Perfect Continuous Form 
  9. Auxiliaries and Modals 
  10. Adjectives versus Adverbs 
  11. Semicolon 
  Test Paper 1 
  VOCABULARY
  12. Adjective–Noun Collocations 
  13. Question Tags 
  14. Prefixes – mis–, dis–, un–, in–, im–, non– 
  15. Alliteration 
  16. Using Which and That in Restrictive and Non-Restrictive Clauses 
  17. Similes and Metaphors 
  18. Dictionary Entries 
  19. Idioms 
  20. Using since, for and from 
  21. Phrasal Verbs
  Test Paper 2 
  WRITING
  22. Autobiography 
  23. Essay 
  24. Book Review – Be a Critic 
  25. Article 
  26. Newspaper Report 
  27. Message 
  28. Writing a Postcard 
  29. Letter to the Editor 
  30. Narrative 
  31. Writing a Story with an Alternate Ending 
  Test Paper 3 
  COMPREHENSION
  32. The Old Man and the Sea
  33. Hercule Poirot: The Detective with a Big Moustache 
  34. The Raven 
  35. Madhubani Painting: The Art that Subverts 
  Orange Global Olympiad – English Sample Paper

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