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…

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 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…

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.…

This textbook for beginners seeks to help pupils take an interest in the quality of their English and speak more correctly, more effectively and more agreeably, and to write with due regard for the essentials of good form. Until the language lesson is understood to be distinctively a lesson in craftsmanship, it will contribute little or nothing to…

This textbook can be used in astronomy courses for schools and academies. Explanations are based upon the real motions of the heavenly bodies. The mode of ascertaining the distances and magnitudes of the heavenly bodies is so simplified that any student who understands the rule of proportion can readily comprehend it. Scientific terms and…

This revised speller conforms in orthography, pronunciation, and syllabication to the latest edition of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. Exercises have been given on each of the distinctive marks used in the book, as seen by reference to Lessons 36-57. A number of lessons have been added in the department of prefixes and suffixes, and now nearly…