Product Description: This is a book of two parts. The first six chapters are relatively general. They describe something of the history of English spelling and the factors that have brought so many irregularities to our language. The author argues that the irregular spelling of English is one factor in the disgracefully high rate of illiteracy in the English speaking world, and he describes attempts to reform the spelling of other languages...read more

Product Description: Greatly expanded and updated, this guide to 24,000 often misspelled words includes easy-to-remember spelling rules, memory devices for avoiding misspellings, and a new section on homophones. For many years, Barron's Pocket Guides have served high school and college students, as well as business professionals and others, as reliable fast-reference books filled with easy-to-locate information pertaining to all practical aspects of language use...read more

A resource for teachers explains how to assess individual students' spelling knowledge while planning effectively for whole-class, small-group, and individualized instruction. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Convective heat transfer is the result of fluid flowing between objects of different temperatures. Thus it may be the objective of a process (as in refrigeration) or it may be an incidental aspect of other processes. This monograph reviews in a concise and unified manner recent contributions to the principles of convective heat transfer for singleand multi-phase systems: It summarizes the role of the fundamental mechanism, discusses the governing differential equations, describes approximation schemes and phenomenological models, and examines their solutions and applications...read more

Product Description: Brings together international, interdisciplinary research on spelling performance problems from cognitive and developmental psychology, linguistics, psycholinguistics, neuropsychology, computational approaches, connectionism and educational research...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This handbook decribes how to use the programme Dynamics to investigate dynamical systems. Co-author J.A. Yorke, while working with the Maryland Chaos Group, developed an array of tools to help visualize the properties of dynamical systems...read more