Product Description: Shaniqua’s life got turned upside down when she got pregnant at seventeen. To make matters worse, her boyfriend and her baby daddy disowned the baby and left her holding the bag. But Shaniqua grew up fast and became a better player at the game than most people twice her age...read more

Their names bespeak a rich and varied past, belying their paucity of notice by historians. From the Norse Hjaltland comes the modern Shetland: islands nominally Scottish, steeped in Nordic culture, closer to the Arctic Circle than to London. Important Neolithic sites at Skara Brae and Maes Howe in the Orkneys wallow in anonymity next to Stonehenge. Holy Iona, island center of Celtic Christianity; the Isle of Man, former seat of rule over the Irish Sea; Anglesey and Islay, homes of forgotten Medieval courts at Aberffraw and Loch Finlaggan—these are just a few of the more than 6,000 islands that form the archipelago known as the British Isles. Inhabited for millennia and today home to half a million people, the offshore British Isles demonstrate that Great Britain is far more than just England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. This history of Britain’s other islands sheds light on a fundamental but neglected aspect of the past. Focusing on the eight islands or chains that have long supported substantial populations, it tells the stories of Shetland, Orkney, the Hebrides, Anglesey, the Channel Islands, the Scilly Isles, and the Isles of Man and Wight. From their earliest Neolithic settlement, to Roman, Norse and Norman occupation, to the struggle to maintain their unique identities in today’s world, the lives of these islands are a fascinating overlooked slice of European history. A chapter is devoted to each, and maps of the islands are included. Appendices provide geographical descriptions, population statistics, political and economic profiles. A select bibliography and index are included.

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A leading Gallup pollster charges Jeb Bush and Fox TV with colluding to win George W. Bush the presidency in 2000, arguing that the network's premature announcement about Bush's victory turned the tide in his favor when Al Gore was still in a position to win. Original.

Product Description: This book presents an evidence-based framework for understanding the literacy needs of adolescents. The premise is that educators and other critical stakeholders need to understand evidence-based principles in order to develop effective curriculum to meet the needs of diverse learners...read more

Presents classroom practices for teaching middle and high school students who struggle as readers and writers, providing advice on how to address the fundamentals of teaching adolescents.

How do you prepare students for the unfamiliar concepts, new terms, and unusual writing styles they will encounter during their study of subjects such as biology, history, or vocational arts? This book, an update to the bestselling second edition, offers you practical solutions to maximize adolescent students' learning in the content classroom. You'll find activities on asking and answering questions before reading, forecasting passages, understanding vocabulary, graphically representing information, and writing before reading. The book also provides updated research findings about prereading activities, and contains a new chapter that addresses the nuances of selecting, combining, and using prereading activities across lessons and units. The wealth of strategies and expanded reference list offered in this book will help you make printed materials in all content areas understandable and interesting to your students.

A history of polling and pollsters challenges the legitimacy of the methods and practices that may create an illusion of public opinion rather than measure it

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