Product Description: (ALWAYS LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER)..., as four sisters had to learn the hard way in this horror thriller. Their elderly mother, Hattie Lee Davis, tried to warn and tell her daughters, the sheriff's, the media, and their small knit community that it was extremely dangerous to cut the grass of her lawn...read more

Product Description: Rather than attempting to explain and predict how 'the Market' functions - a futile endeavor - this book focuses upon the rich teachings that the market offers us for dealing with ambiguities and unexpected and contradictory happenings...read more

Product Description: THIS study of oral tradition in African literature is borne from the awareness that African verbal arts still survive in works of discerning writers and in the conscious exploration of its tropes, perspectives, philosophy and consciousness, its complementary realism, and ontology, for the delineation of authentic African response to memory, history and other possible comparisons with modern existence such as witnessed in recent developments of the African novel...read more

Product Description: CROSSING Borders showcases intellectual attempts to commit the process of African interrogation of postcoloniality and postmodernity to the exploration of perspectives on black identities and interactions of contemporary cultural expressions beyond the borders of Africa and across the Atlantic...read more

Product Description: One of the recent threats to human mankind is the relatively new disease Swine influenza. Swine flu can be transmitted from pigs to human beings. It causes acute respiratory problem. . Swine Influenza is one virulent form of the recently modified and mutated infections, being caused by one of the many types of Swine Influenza Virus (SIV), which includes Influenza C and the sub-types of Influenza A commonly, H1N1, H1N2, H3N1 and H2N3...read more

Product Description: From the Author's PREFACE: TT is hoped that the following Solutions of the Examples in my Treatise on Conic Sections will be of use to teachers, many of whom can ill afford time to write out detailed solutions of the questions which prove too difficult for their pupils; and that it will also be of service to those students who read the subject without the assistance of a teacher...read more

Key Concepts in Educational Assessment provides expert definitions and interpretations of common terms within the policy and practice of educational assessment. Concepts such as validity, assessment for learning, measurement, comparability and differentiation are discussed, and there is broad coverage of UK and international terminology. Drawing on the considerable expertise of the authors, the entries provide: - clear definitions - accounts of the key issues - authoritative and reliable information - suggestions for further reading Created to support students of education on undergraduate and postgraduate courses, and established education professionals including those who are members of the Chartered Institute of Educational Assessors (CIEA), this book is an accessible guide for anyone engaged in educational assessment. Tina Isaacs is Director of the MA in Educational Assessment at the Institute of Education, London. Catherine Zara was most recently Director of the MA in Educational Assessment and Director of the BA (Hons) in Post Compulsory Education and Training at the University of Warwick. Graham Herbert was most recently Director of the CIEA. Steve J. Coombs is Head of Department for Continuing Professional Development at Bath Spa University, which offers an MA in Educational Assessment. Charles Smith is senior lecturer in economics and education at Swansea Metropolitan University of Wales Trinity Saint David.

Product Description: James was beginning to see the similarity to what was occurring on Earth. Now, from what Carolyn and Pierre were telling him he could see that those people concerned for the wellbeing of such creatures as Elephants, Lions and Tigers were signaling the start of a potentially huge problem for Earth's wildlife...read more

Product Description: Humor is something that has always been in Charles' life. It helped him cope as a child when he used to stutter. With humor he was able to get himself out of situations and not feel inferior to other kids. It became an important tool that he would use while teaching and coaching high school for thirty-three years...read more

Product Description: This collection of five award-winning plays by Charles Smith includes Jelly Belly, Free Man of Color, Pudd’nhead Wilson, Knock Me a Kiss, and The Gospel According to James. Powerful, provocative, and entertaining, these plays have been produced by professional theater companies across the country and abroad...read more

Product Description: A fun collection of large grid Sudoku puzzles.

Product Description: A fun collection of large grid Sudoku puzzles.

Product Description: A fun collection of large grid Sudoku puzzles.

Product Description: A fun collection of large grid Sudoku puzzles.

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Product Description: Armed with M1 rifles, bayonets, and a few hand grenades, young soldiers from different units, operating without command, come together as The Stragglers. Take a journey into the trenches in this fascinating true story of a group of misplaced soldiers fighting courageously as other American troops withdrew from the city of Chinju, South Korea...read more

Product Description: Gender Issues in African Literature examines the ways in which some protagonists of African fictions are made to counter and challenge intertwined Western discourses on gender, employment, sexuality, and health. Here the conflict between Tradition and Modernity is argues from the favourite premise of male supremacist ideology showing how women have ëunlearnedí these false concepts to build a sustained feminist movement and (re)learn the value of sisterhood...read more

Product Description: Post Colonial Identities revisits issues regarding the newer literature within the expansive African heritage of diverse regional and national groupings. It is poised at substantiating the uniformity of Africa in terms of literary and cultural movements, and lending some inter-disciplinary insights on the whole body of literature through twentieth century history...read more

Product Description: Africa in Narratives illuminates or proves, against the backdrop of attitudes toward nations deemed 'ethnic' or 'minorities', that literature in Africa can live up to the challenge of aesthetic imagination to form an active, refreshing part of world cultural discourse...read more