This book offers students a tool to gain a basic grounding in the Manchu language. The reading selections provided in this volume represent various types of documents, ranging from examples of the very earliest Manchu writing (17th century) to samples of contemporary Sibe (Xibo), a language that may be considered a modern version of Manchu. Since…

Adopted at more than 1,000 colleges and universities worldwide, the market-leading text owes its success to the unique way in which it combines an academically robust account of the major theories and models of leadership with an accessible style and practical exercises that help students apply what they learn. Each chapter of Peter Northouse's…

The graduate of the Lather-Interior Systems Mechanic apprenticeship program is a certified journeyperson who will be able to: (1) know the characteristics and understand the actions and interactions of Lathing and Interior Systems Mechanic materials; (2) interpret plans and specifications and layout and develop projects accordingly; (3) calculate…

This valuable and entertaining compendium of Bill Robertson's popular "Science 101" columns, from NSTA member journal "Science and Children," proves you don't have to be a science geek to understand basic scientific concepts. The author of the best-selling "Stop Faking It!" series explains everything from quarks to photosynthesis, telescopes to…

This textbook provides the foundation for a geology course. A table of British fossils and more than 600 illustrations are included. Topics range from classes of rock, fossils, strata above the sea, classification of rocks to volcanic rocks, plutonic rocks, metamorphic rocks, and mineral veins.

This textbook is an illustrated geography reader. It contains 44 lessons, each followed by a list of study words. The book concludes with a "Summary of Chief Facts I Have Learned."

This manual is collection of examinations. The first part contains 150 examination papers, the questions for which have been selected mainly from the English, French, and German collections of problems. These papers may be divided into three groups. The first 50 papers are confined to the simple rules, fractions, and weights and measures; the next…

This textbook consists of specimen pages from "Harper's First," "Second," "Third," "Fourth," and "Fifth" readers. The books' main object and intent is to teach reading. The language lessons, notes, questions, etc., are placed at the end of each book, where they can be used by the teacher for…

This textbook is the third volume in a series of readers.

This textbook is the second volume in a series of readers. Word lists are included.

This textbook is a reader that seeks to stimulate the perceptive faculties of the pupil, store his mind with practical information, interest him in various arts and occupations by which hundreds of millions of persons earn their daily bread, and instill appreciation of the nobility of manual labor. In this book elocution is subordinated to…

Common myths of the Reconstruction Era perpetuated by textbooks are examined and positive information to counter these myths is provided. The presentation of Reconstruction in 12 secondary level U.S. history textbooks, published between 1979 and 1982, is analyzed. The myths that are examined include the following: blacks were helpless and confused…

This textbook is a young-adult adventure novel. It is the fifth in the series.

This book is intended for students who know the numbers from one to thirty thoroughly, who can count to one thousand, who know something of the multiplication tables of two, three, four, five, six, ten, and twelve, and who understand the simplest facts about ratio and fractions. The purpose of the textbook is to conform numbers in their facts and…

This textbook is for arithmetic students who can use numbers into the thousands in addition and subtraction, who know what ratio is and understand something about fractions, who know some facts of measures, and who have studied the multiplication tables. The book contains about a year's work, mostly in practice, partly in extension of knowledge.…