| 1071. About Teaching Mathematics: A K-8 Resource | |
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by: Marilyn Burns Amazon.com's Price: $34.50 Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Marilyn Burns' 23 years' experience teaching math is found in this great resource book. The first section is organized in NCTM strands: measurement, probability and statistics, geometry, logic, patterns and functions, and number. The second section (a little less than half the book) is about teaching arithmetic: number concepts, place value, addition and subtraction, mulitplication, division, fractions, decimals, and percents. Each concept has whole class lessons, independent activities (menu), and ... Read More  Read Reviews and Description
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| 1072. Appetites: Why Women Want | |
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by: Caroline Knapp List Price: $24.00 Amazon.com's Price: $16.80 You Save: $7.20 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Oh, Caroline Knapp will be missed. "Appetites" is a powerful and profound exploration of her battle with anorexia in her twenties. She weaves the stories of other female bulemics and anorexics throughout her own-and also of other women with deep obsessions and cravings that lead to such behaviors as promiscuity, alcoholism, spending wildly, and shop lifting. What are they really hunger for, she asks. Love, acceptance, security? She writes with grace and force. The reader confronts these issues with ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 1073. Collector's Encyclopedia of Depression Glass (Collectors Encyclopedia of Depression Glass, 16th Ed) | |
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by: Gene Florence, Cathy Florence List Price: $19.95 Amazon.com's Price: $13.97 You Save: $5.98 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Gene Florence's many pictorial guides to collectible antique glass are all wonderful and this beautiful fifteenth edition on Depression Glass is no exception. It contains hundreds of pieces of Depression Glass with details on the glass companies that made them, the history, the availability, individual pieces, price ranges, colors, patterns, etc. The photographs are all clear and very useful for identification purposes. Some vintage photos of advertisements show a few of the collections in their entirety. Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 1074. Working for Yourself: Law and Taxes for Independent Contractors, Freelancers and Consultants (Working for Yourself, 4th Ed) | |
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by: Stephen Fishman List Price: $39.99 Amazon.com's Price: $27.19 You Save: $12.80 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description A potential employer asked that I incorporate my freelancing business before they start sending me jobs. I wanted to do some research on the pros/cons of incorporating, what kind of start-ups costs this would entail, and what kind of corporation I should be. At first, the whole process of incorporating sounded like a huge money burden on my part--with filing fees and taxes--but this book has helped me sort out the issues and provided detailed information about the different ways to incorporate--sole proprietorship, ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 1075. Study Power Workbook: Exercises in Study Skills to Improve Your Learning and Your Grades | |
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by: William Luckie, Wood Smethurst, Sarabeth Huntley, Sara Beth Huntley List Price: $12.95 Amazon.com's Price: $10.36 You Save: $2.59 (20%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description I bought this workbook to go along with the Book Study Power: Study Skills to Improve Your Learning and Your Grades. This workbook has been extremely helpful in helping me study and definatly improving my comprehenstion of the materials I am learning in School. Not only does this workbook help you LEARN the study skills taught in Study Power the book, but I have also made many photocopies of their Checklist, Listening Evaluations(to be used after a class), and Comprehension Matrix to be used while/with my regular classes. ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 1076. Workshops That Work! (Scholastic Teaching Strategies) | |
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by: Kirsten Widmer, Sarah Buxton List Price: $17.99 Amazon.com's Price: $12.59 You Save: $5.40 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description I've read a lot of books for perfecting classroom practice but there are few that provide teachers with the actual "nuts and bolts" practicality that new teachers need. Literacy teachers who need a handle on the workshop model (both reading and writing) need look no further than "Workshops that Work". Having had the privilege to work alongside both these teachers and see them in action, I can tell you firsthand that they've managed to capture their classroom magic on the printed page- this is a tome that can stand proudly ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 1077. Chassis Engineering/Chassis Design, Building & Tuning for High Performance Handling | |
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by: Herb Adams List Price: $18.95 Amazon.com's Price: $13.27 You Save: $5.68 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Herb Adams' Chassis Engineering is a good introduction to chassis and suspension design for the general reader. The book is easy to read and well laid out with lots of photos and diagrams. A cursory reading will reveal many of the intricacies, interrelationships, and compromises involved in designing components and subsystems to engineer a chassis for a given purpose. Anyone with an interest in automotive design with high school reading skills can certainly gain some insight and appreciation for the complexities of chassis ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 1078. Thomas Paine : Collected Writings : Common Sense / The Crisis / Rights of Man / The Age of Reason / Pamphlets, Articles, and Letters (Library of America) | |
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by: Thomas Paine, Eric Foner List Price: $35.00 Amazon.com's Price: $23.80 You Save: $11.20 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description At the height of The Age of Reason, The United States of America was created by men such as Thomas Paine and many others who held Man above all other philosophies long enough to get the idea "Individual Rights" down on paper in the form of The Constitution of the United States of America. Paine's contribution to this end is well known. Paine noted in this book that "we have it in our power to make the world over again", and they did. Man has a right to his own life, and there is no law above this. No one has a right to another man's ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 1079. Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying | |
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by: Wolfgang Langewiesche List Price: $24.95 Amazon.com's Price: $16.97 You Save: $7.98 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Langewiesche writes a brilliant explanation of things that we have learned to take for granted in modern aviation. Stick and Rudder covers many important aspects of flight from an angle not available in modern texts. Stick and Rudder is tough reading and is only appropriate for those passionate about aviation who want to understand why things work, not just how they work. With that mindset, any pilot will be able to improve their skills after reading Langewiesche's explanation of all the fundamentals of flight. While ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 1080. The Story of the World: Activity Book One: Ancient Times, Second Edition | |
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by: Susan Wise Bauer Amazon.com's Price: $29.95 Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description I used this guide last year for my children. In addition to activities that help make history interesting, there are supplemental reading lists (both fiction and non-fiction) and review questions provided. Mapwork is included for each chapter as well as coloring pages and games. All three of my school-age children enjoyed Story of the World-from the first grader up to the sixth! We did not do all the activities, but mummifying a chicken was a highlight! My children decided that not many children in school were able to participate in ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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