A brand new edition of the finalist for the 2008 Casey Award, presented annually to the best baseball book, 101 Baseball Places to See Before You Strike Out profiles America's greatest baseball museums, shrines, sports bars, pop culture landmarks and ballpark sites. From sandlots and skyboxes to TV rooms and sports bars, America's love for ......
This best-of, quick reference thesaurus will ensure you find the perfect word faster than an internet search or 300 page book. In 6 laminated pages, the words handpicked by our wordsmith Erin Brenner (speaker, writer, and contributor to thesaurus and vocabulary-related websites) are selections based on twenty plus years of word-choice through her ......
Find yourself making faux pas with frequent malapropisms? Are you using the same banal terms, day in and day out? Have friends pointed out your overuse of platitudes or your plebeian vocabulary? Improve it and pick up a few neologisms along the way with 1,001 Words for Success, a myriad list of frequently looked-up words in BarCharts' handy ......
"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."-Groucho MarxAn insult can be offensive and infuriating, but it means nothing if you have a better comeback. 1001 Insults, Put-Downs, and Comebacks gathers together the very sharpest of these barbs from a wide variety of sources, with some of the wickedest put-downs from the literary, ......
The Internet is amazing, providing millions of pieces of information instantly. Retrieving specific information, however, sometimes takes hours. Teachers need immediate access to information relevant to their classrooms. 1001 Best Internet Sites for Educators delivers with a compendium of more than 1,000 Internet sites tailored to K-College educators. Organized by content area, this must-have resource includes Web sites covering: Art Language arts Math Music Science Technology, and more! Each Web site entry features a detailed description of the site and how it can be used in the classroom, and includes a content, presentation, and age group rating that helps teachers pinpoint the best sites. Paperback : 1575174405 List Price: $34.95 Add To Cart Publisher: Corwin Press Pages: 244 Subject Areas: -Technology in Education -Teacher Resources
Marc Waszkiewicz served three tours in Vietnam ('67-'69), first on a fire support base, then in the field. He made thousands of photos exploring the beauty, drudgery, hilarity, and horror of the experience. 1000 Yard Stare collects his best photos, offering an unvarnished, compassionate look at life in country and at the young men who served.
With the 100+ motif and border patterns in this book, it's easy to combine them to make your own personal cross-stitch designs. The 21 unique cross-stitch alphabets, made to coordinate with the motifs in a variety of styles-floral, lacy, Christmas and more-allow you to add words to complement your ideas. From flowers to cottages and houses, birds ......
What difference Russia's revolution makes to our freedom today
In our latest issue, we look at the impact of the Russia revolution of 1917 on the world today. From propaganda, film and literature as well as politics our correspondents report from all corners of the globe including Uzbekistan, China, Russia and Turkey. Writers for this issue include David Aaronovitch on film, Khrushchev's great grand daughter Nina Khrushcheva on living in the USA, and an interview with author Margaret Atwood on a free speech wall, science censorship and her childhood in the wilderness.
100 Years of Women's Suffrage commemorates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment by bringing together essential scholarship on the suffrage movement and women's voting previously published by the University of Illinois Press. With an original introduction by Nancy A. Hewitt, the selections illuminate the lives and work of key figures while ......
