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English as a Second F*cking Language: How to Swear Effectively, Explained in Detail with Numerous Examples Taken from Everyday Life
by Sterling JohnsonIn the English language, swearing is essential to effective communication. In this hilarious and illuminating guide, you will learn just how to do it - no f*cking problem. Whether you want to succeed in business, school, or social circles, a strong command of vocabulary is absolutely necessary. Just imagine a stranger to our shores, trying to comprehend the following conversation: John: Mary, would you like to attend the opera this evening?Mary: F*cking-A. should I wear my black dress?John: Why the f*ck not?Mary: F*cked if I know-Oh, f*ck! I just remembered. It got f*cked up in the wash.John: Well, f*ck the opera. Let's stay home and f*ck.Mary: Good f*cking idea.English as a Second F*cking Language (ESF*L) is the perfect way for nonnative speakers to learn the basics of swearing. At the same time, it also offers native speakers a wide variety of twists and new refinements. Page after page, ESF*L provides a smorgasbord of swearing synonyms designed to boost your vocabulary-everything from the conventional d*mn and sh*t to a host of more inventive terms that would make any truck driver blush. And when you're finished reading, our Final F*cking Exam is the perfect test of your swearing skills. You'll be surprised by how much you've learned!“Great f*cking book!” —Stephen King
In the Shadow of Invisibility: Ralph Ellison and the Promise of American Democracy
by Sterling Lecater Bland Jr.With In the Shadow of Invisibility, Sterling Lecater Bland Jr. offers a long-overdue reconsideration of Ralph Ellison, examining the trajectory of his intellectual thought in relation to its resonances in twenty-first-century American culture. Bland charts Ellison’s evolving attitudes on several central topics including democracy, race, identity, social community, place, and political expression. This compelling new exploration of Ellison’s legacy stresses the perpetual need to reexamine the intersections of race, literature, and American culture, with particular attention to how the democratic principle has grown increasingly urgent in the nation’s ongoing, and often contentious, conversations about race. Arguing that Ellison saw racial and social identity as being inseparable from the nation’s past and its complicated history of racial anxiety, In the Shadow of Invisibility traces the growth and transformation of Ellison’s ideas across his life and work, from his early apprentice writing that culminated in his groundbreaking first novel, Invisible Man, through the posthumous publication of his unfinished second novel, Three Days before the Shooting . . . Focused on his mythic vision of the promise of America, this book firmly situates Ellison in the sociopolitical environments from which his ideas arose, with close consideration of his published writings, including his influential essays on literature and jazz, as well as his working notes and correspondence. Bland foregrounds Ellison’s thinking on the responsibilities of Black writers to examine democratic ideals, the legacies of slavery and Jim Crow, and the impacts of civil rights movements. Interweaving biography, history, and literary criticism, and drawing from extensive archival research, In the Shadow of Invisibility reveals the extent to which Ellison’s work exposes the contradictions inherent in American culture, arguing anew for the importance and immediacy of his writings in the broader context of American intellectual thought.
Best Minds: How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry from Madness
by Stevan M. WeineWINNER, 2024 BEAT STUDIES ASSOCIATION AWARDSA revelatory look at how poet Allen Ginsberg transformed experiences of mental illness and madness into some of the most powerful and widely read poems of the twentieth century.Allen Ginsberg’s 1956 poem “Howl” opens with one of the most resonant phrases in modern poetry: “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness.” Thirty years later, Ginsberg entrusted a Columbia University medical student with materials not shared with anyone else, including psychiatric records that documented how he and his mother, Naomi Ginsberg, struggled with mental illness.In Best Minds, psychiatrist, researcher, and scholar Stevan M. Weine, M.D., who was that medical student, examines how Allen Ginsberg took his visions and psychiatric hospitalization, his mother’s devastating illness, confinement, and lobotomy, and the social upheavals of the postwar world and imaginatively transformed them.Though madness is often linked with hardship and suffering, Ginsberg’s showed how it could also lead to profound and redemptive aesthetic, spiritual, and social changes. Through his revolutionary poetry and social advocacy, Ginsberg dedicated himself to leading others toward new ways of being human and easing pain. Throughout his celebrated career Ginsberg made us feel as though we knew everything there was to know about him. However, much has been left out about his experiences growing up with a mentally ill mother, his visions, and his psychiatric hospitalization.In Best Minds, with a forty-year career studying and addressing trauma, Weine provides a groundbreaking exploration of the poet and his creative process especially in relation to madness.Best Minds examines the complex relationships between mental illness, psychiatry, trauma, poetry, and prophecy—using the access Ginsberg generously shared to offer new, lively, and indispensable insights into an American icon. Weine also provides new understandings of the paternalism, treatment failures, ethical lapses, and limitations of American psychiatry in the 1940s and 1950s.In light of these new discoveries, the challenges Ginsberg faced appear starker and his achievements, both as a poet and an advocate, even more remarkable.
The Complete Guide To Writing Your Dissertation: Advice, techniques and insights to help you enhance your grades
by Steve BallIf you are studying at undergraduate or masters level it's likely that you will have to write a dissertation, critical essay or project report before you can graduate. Unfortunately, many good pieces of student research and inquiry are devalued - and sometimes even fail - because they are badly planned, structured or written. Make all that hard work count! This new guide looks directly at the processes, techniques and objectives of writing the dissertation itself. It covers longer term aspects - such as planning, scheduling, structuring - and more immediate ones - such as style, detail and managing the length. - Learn how to understand and decode the academic language of research questions, learning outcomes, objectives and assessment criteria, and translate them into the right form of words. - Discover how to maintain that essential focus on your objectives and research question or hypothesis, and their connection to your discussion and eventual conclusions. - Develop a schedule, identifying the tasks and milestones that will keep you on track, and update the plan as you go. - Find a style and structure that will help shape your writing to satisfy the examiners. - Manage the overall length and chapter lengths, and learn how to cut excess content and avoid repetition. - Master the technicalities of dissertation writing, such as methodologies, literature reviews, note systems, referencing...- Learn to how to transform an adequate dissertation into a good one by attending to fluency and detail - grammar, accuracy, consistency, punctuation - and the controlled use of aids such as spellcheckers and style checkers. - Avoid plagiarism and other evils. How can you avoid falling into cheating, either by accident or by carelessness under pressure? With examples and self-checking exercises to help you to stay on the right track, this essential guide will also serve as a valuable aid to all types of academic writing.
Six Concepts for the End of the World (Goldsmiths Press / Unidentified Fictional Objects)
by Steve BeardA navigational aid to the apocalypse.Steve Beard's Six Concepts for the End of the World mixes scientific research with experimental fiction to produce a manual for the apocalypse. The author examines six disciplines—technology, sociology, geography, psychology, theology and narratology—and for each one creates a fictional scenario that both reflects and energizes the research, all under the guiding light of the philosopher Paul Virilio's theories. This approach allows Beard to create one surprising idea after another: Hollywood viewed as a research and development lab for the end times, a first-person account of a UFO abduction, a blog on the disappearance of the Malaysian Airlines flight 370, a voice-over for an imaginary film by a doomsday cult member. Highly original in both form and content, the book surprises and delights in its scope. The approach is multidisciplinary and multidirectional, and Beard's exploration ranges over many areas and themes, always bringing distinctive insights to bear. Six Concepts for the End of the World is an expertly guided tour through the author's imagination, and toward the end of the world.
Troubleshooting Your Novel: Essential Techniques for Identifying and Solving Manuscript Problems
by Steve Berry Steven JamesTake your story to the next level of excellence! You've completed the first draft of your novel--now what? Chances are, it's not perfect...at least not yet. In order to increase your chances of getting a literary agent, selling your manuscript to a publisher, or garnering an audience for your self-published work, you need targeted, practical instruction on tackling the problem areas and weak spots in your story. You need Troubleshooting Your Novel. In this hand-on, easy-to-use guide, award-winning author Steven James provides helpful techniques and checklists, timesaving tricks of the trade, and hundreds of questions for manuscript analysis and revision. You'll learn how to:ADJUST elements of story progression, from causality, tension, and setbacks to plot twists, climaxes, and endings.DEVELOP authentic, riveting characters by exploring their attitudes, desires, beliefs, and more.LEARN narrative techniques for elements such as dialogue, flashbacks, suspense, voice, subtext, and flow.ENSURE reader engagement by aligning with their expectations, fulfilling promises, and instilling trust.CHECK issues with context and continuity.You owe your book more than just a polish and a proofread. Strengthen your story, prepare it for the marketplace, and make it the best it can be with Troubleshooting Your Novel.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Persuasion: Win People Over with Effective Communications Skills
by Steve Booth-ButterfieldGet your way . . . the smart way. Persuasion is the art of changing the way people think, feel, and act through the use of language. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Persuasion provides strategies for the readers to master the art of persuasion in a positive manner. By using time-honored tools of communication, body language, and psychology, readers can use persuasion to do good things like convince kids to eat their veggies, women to get annual mammograms, and couples to communicate without arguing.• A practical book based on sound academics to help communications and psychology majors as well as businesspeople, salespeople, performers, teachers, and parents• Tips and tactics for writers and public speakers
Using Comic Art to Improve Speaking, Reading and Writing
by Steve BowkettUsing Comic Art to Improve Speaking, Reading and Writing uses children’s interest in pictures, comics and graphic novels as a way of developing their creative writing abilities, reading skills and oracy. The book’s underpinning strategy is the use of comic art images as a visual analogue to help children generate, organise and refine their ideas when writing and talking about text. In reading comic books children are engaging with highly complex and structured narrative forms. Whether they realise it or not, their emergent visual literacy promotes thinking skills and develops wider metacognitive abilities. Using Comic Art not only motivates children to read more widely, but also enables them to enjoy a richer imagined world when reading comics, text based stories and their own written work. The book sets out a range of practical techniques and activities which focus on various aspects of narrative, including: using comic art as a visual organiser for planning writing openings and endings identifying with the reader, using different genres and developing characters creating pace, drama, tension and anticipation includes ‘Kapow!’ techniques to kick start lessons an afterword on the learning value of comics. The activities in Using Comic Art start from this baseline of confident and competent comic-book readers, and show how skills they already possess can be transferred to a range of writing tasks. For instance, the way the panels on a comic’s page are arranged can serve as a template for organising paragraphs in a written story or a piece of non-fiction writing. The visual conventions of a graphic novel – the shape of speech bubbles or the way the reader’s attention is directed – can inform children in the use of written dialogue and the inclusion of vivid and relevant details. A creative and essential resource for every primary classroom, Using Comic Art is ideal for primary and secondary school teachers and TAs, as well as primary PGCE students and BEd, BA Primary Undergraduates.
Tabloiding the Truth: It's the Pun Wot Won It
by Steve BuckledeeWhat skills do journalists exhibit in sensationalising, exaggerating and otherwise ‘tabloiding’ the truth, while usually stopping short of stating unambiguous falsehoods? Why has the tabloid news not collapsed as predicted, but thrived as a medium in an age of interaction and online commentary? This book is a comprehensive and accessible exploration of the British tabloid newspapers from the 1960s to the present day. Examining topics such as sex and the representation of women, national stereotypes and Britain’s relationship with Europe, war coverage, celebrities, investigative journalism and instances where the tabloids have misread the public mood, the author draws on Critical Discourse Analysis and Stylistics to take a language-led approach to the UK tabloids. With its interdisciplinary approach and readable prose style, this book will be of interest to a wide range of readers across language and linguistics, media and communication, journalism, political science and British cultural studies.
The Plea: His client is innocent. His wife is guilty. (Eddie Flynn Series)
by Steve CavanaghFraud. Blackmail. Murder. It's all in a day's work for Eddie Flynn.For years, major New York law firm Harland & Sinton has operated a massive global fraud. The FBI are on to them, but they need witnesses to secure their case. When a major client of the firm, David Child, is arrested for murder, the FBI ask con-artist-turned-lawyer Eddie Flynn to secure Child as his client and force him to testify against the firm.Eddie's not a man to be forced into representing a guilty client, but the FBI have incriminating files on Eddie's wife, Christine, and if Eddie won't play ball, she'll pay the price.When Eddie meets David Child he knows Child is innocent, despite the overwhelming evidence against him. With the FBI putting pressure on him to secure the plea, Eddie must find a way to prove Child's innocence while keeping his wife out of danger - not just from the FBI, but from the firm itself.(p) 2016 Isis Publishing Ltd
The Plea: His client is innocent. His wife is guilty. (Eddie Flynn Series)
by Steve CavanaghYour client is innocent. Your wife is guilty.Who would you fight for?*'Quite simply, THE PLEA is one of the most purely entertaining books you'll read this year' John Connolly'A gripping thriller' Ian Rankin*When David Child, a major client of a corrupt New York law firm, is arrested for murder, the FBI ask con artist-turned-lawyer Eddie Flynn to persuade him to testify against the firm.Eddie is not someone who is easily coerced, but when the FBI reveal that they have incriminating files on his wife, he knows he has no choice.But Eddie is convinced the man is innocent, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. With the FBI putting pressure on him to secure the deal, Eddie must find a way to prove his client's innocence.But the stakes are high - his wife is in danger. And not just from the FBI . . .*Praise for race-against-time legal thriller writer, Steve Cavanagh:'A fantastic thriller writer' Mark Billingham'Cavanagh stands head and shoulders above the competition, with his skilfully plotted, action-packed and big-hearted Eddie Flynn novels . . . highly intelligent, twist-laden and absolutely unputdownable' Eva Dolan, author of the critically acclaimed Tell No Tales'What a thriller! Breathlessly brilliant and fiendishly clever' Miranda Dickinson'A cleverly constructed legal thriller combined with a classic locked-room mystery. Eddie Flynn is fast becoming one of my favourite fictional heroes and Cavanagh one of my favourite thriller writers.' S.J.I. Holliday, author of Black Wood'Raymond Chandler could have created Eddie Flynn. THE PLEA is Phillip Marlowe and Michael Connolly's Mickey Haller combined, with a bit of Jim Thompson's THE GRIFTERS thrown in. A superb read with a main character destined to be one of the most talked about in crime fiction.' Howard Linskey, author of The Search*If you like John Grisham, Lee Child and Michael Connelly, you will LOVE the gripping and twisty Eddie Flynn series:1. The Defence2. The Plea3. The Liar4. Thirteen* Each Eddie Flynn thriller can be read as a standalone or in series order *
The Plea: His client is innocent. His wife is guilty. (Eddie Flynn Series)
by Steve CavanaghYour client is innocent. Your wife is guilty.Who would you fight for?*'Quite simply, THE PLEA is one of the most purely entertaining books you'll read this year' John Connolly'A gripping thriller' Ian Rankin*When David Child, a major client of a corrupt New York law firm, is arrested for murder, the FBI ask con artist-turned-lawyer Eddie Flynn to persuade him to testify against the firm.Eddie is not someone who is easily coerced, but when the FBI reveal that they have incriminating files on his wife, he knows he has no choice.But Eddie is convinced the man is innocent, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. With the FBI putting pressure on him to secure the deal, Eddie must find a way to prove his client's innocence.But the stakes are high - his wife is in danger. And not just from the FBI . . .*Praise for race-against-time legal thriller writer, Steve Cavanagh:'A fantastic thriller writer' Mark Billingham'Cavanagh stands head and shoulders above the competition, with his skilfully plotted, action-packed and big-hearted Eddie Flynn novels . . . highly intelligent, twist-laden and absolutely unputdownable' Eva Dolan, author of the critically acclaimed Tell No Tales'What a thriller! Breathlessly brilliant and fiendishly clever' Miranda Dickinson'A cleverly constructed legal thriller combined with a classic locked-room mystery. Eddie Flynn is fast becoming one of my favourite fictional heroes and Cavanagh one of my favourite thriller writers.' S.J.I. Holliday, author of Black Wood'Raymond Chandler could have created Eddie Flynn. THE PLEA is Phillip Marlowe and Michael Connolly's Mickey Haller combined, with a bit of Jim Thompson's THE GRIFTERS thrown in. A superb read with a main character destined to be one of the most talked about in crime fiction.' Howard Linskey, author of The Search*If you like John Grisham, Lee Child and Michael Connelly, you will LOVE the gripping and twisty Eddie Flynn series:1. The Defence2. The Plea3. The Liar4. Thirteen* Each Eddie Flynn thriller can be read as a standalone or in series order *
Como Ser Um Feminista: Um Guia Para Homens Lutarem Pelos Direitos e Igualdade das Mulheres
by Steve ChiabaUm guia para homens sobre o feminismo moderno. Você já foi vítima de violência, ódio, assédio ou sofrimento por causa do seu gênero? Ser feminista ou praticar ideais feministas significa lutar pelas coisas que importam. Coisas como sálários iguais, ser tratada com respeito, licença maternidade, direitos de reprodução, violência doméstica, entre outros. Se quiser aprender mais sobre lutar por seus direitos e ajudar na luta pelos direitos das mulheres em todo lugar, então este guia é para você. - Aprenda a ser feminista. - Aprenda a lutar por seus direitos. - Lute por igualdade e salários iguais. - E muito mais! Aprenda como estar no lado certo da história ajudando a humanidade onde ela mais precisa de você!
Devenir Féministe: un guide masculin pour la défense des droits de la femme et de l’égalité
by Steve ChiabaUn guide du féminisme moderne pour les hommes Avez-vous déjà été victime de violences, de haine, de harcèlement, ou de souffrances du fait de votre genre ? Être féministe ou pratiquer le féminisme implique de se battre pour des problématiques importantes, comme la parité salariale, le respect, les congés de maternité, les droits liés à la procréation, la violence domestique, etc. Si vous voulez en savoir plus sur la lutte pour vos droits et sur la lutte pour les droits des femmes partout dans le monde, alors ce guide est pour vous. - Apprenez à devenir féministe. - Apprenez à vous battre pour vos droits. - Luttez pour l’équité et la parité salariale. - Et bien plus encore ! Apprenez à être du bon côté de l'histoire en aidant l'humanité là où elle a le plus besoin de vous ! --> Retournez en haut de la page et cliquez sur Ajouter au panier pour le commander dès maintenant Avertissement : Cet auteur ou le(s) titulaire(s) des droits ne revendique, ne promet ni ne garantit l’exactitude, l’exhaustivité ou l’adéquation du contenu de ce livre, et décline expressément toute responsabilité pour les erreurs et omissions qui s’y trouveraient. Ce document est diffusé à titre purement informatif. Veuillez consulter un professionnel avant de prendre toute mesure sur le contenu de ce livre.
Essere femministi: guida per gli uomini che lottano per i diritti e per l’uguaglianza delle donne
by Steve ChiabaDescrizione del libro Guida per gli uomini al femminismo moderno. Siete mai stati vittime di violenza, odio, molestie o sofferenze a causa del vostro sesso? Essere femministi o mettere in pratica ideali femministi significa lottare per le cose che contano. Si parla di argomenti quali parità di retribuzione, maternità, diritti riproduttivi, violenza domestica, diritto a essere trattati con rispetto. Se volete sapere di più su come lottare per i propri diritti e come supportare la lotta per i diritti delle donne questa è la guida per voi. Apprendere ad essere femministi; Imparare a far valere i propri diritti; Battersi per l’uguaglianza e la pari retribuzione; Tanto altro ancora. Apprendere ad essere dalla parte giusta della storia dando il proprio contributo laddove è più necessario. Scorrete in cima alla pagina cliccando sulla voce ‘aggiungi al carrello’ per acquistare immediatamente.
Wie man Feministin wird
by Steve ChiabaA man's guide to modern-day feminism. Have you ever been a victim of violence, hatred, harassment, or suffering as a result of your gender? Being a feminist or practicing feminist ideals means fighting for things that matter. Things such as equal pay, being treated with respect, maternity leave, reproductive rights, domestic violence, among others.
Robinson Crusoe in Asia (Asia-Pacific and Literature in English)
by Steve Clark Yukari YoshiharaThis collection of essays expands the study of that immensely widely read and much-adapted novel, beyond the first book – The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (usually known simply as Robinson Crusoe) – to take in the far less well-known Farther Adventures and the almost unread Serious Reflections, beyond Defoe’s texts, to their re-writing and adaptation and beyond the Atlantic and South American context to an Asian and Pacific context. The essays consider both how Asia is represented in the books (in terms of politics, economics, religion), and how the book has been received, adapted, and taught, particularly in Asian contexts.
Sordid Images: The Poetry of Masculine Desire
by Steve ClarkIn this extraordinary and bold book, S.H. Clark explores and constructs a history of poetic misogyny. For the first time, a wide range of English poetry by men is examined for evidence of the articulation of heterosexual masculine desires. But Clark goes beyond a straightforward oppositional model of reading the male canon, to ask how we read this work 'after feminism', and whether it is possible to value these texts as misogynist texts in the light of feminist theory? Sordid Images is a challenging, controversial book. It will excite and unsettle its readers, and inspire many to look again at some of the cornerstone works of English literature.
Win the Crowd: Unlock the Secrets of Influence, Charisma, and Showmanship
by Steve Cohen“Explains how to use a magician’s tricks to make better, more winning presentations . . . This thoughtful and charming guide should win a crowd of readers.” —Publishers WeeklyWhen you strip away the sleight of hand tricks, magicians are essentially masters of attracting and holding attention and impressing audiences, exactly the psychological secrets you need to be successful in life and business. In this book, Steve Cohen, master magician and star of the long-running Chamber Magic show in New York City, reveals the secrets of all great showmen and magicians—how to persuade, influence, and charm—and how you too can use them to accomplish the things you’ve always wanted to do. Discover how to take over a room, read people, and build anticipation to a feverish pitch so people can’t wait to hear what you have to say. Win the Crowd will teach you:How to Create a Magic Moment: Capturing people’s imaginations and attention so they listen carefully to every wordHow to Command a Room: Showing everyone in the room that you are speaking right to them, making them all feel unique—and completely focused on youHow to Read People: Learning to sense what people are feeling and thinking as you speak, what they want from you, and how to make them feel like they are getting itMisdirection: The most important trick in all of magic—getting inside people’s heads, and directing what they are thinking at every minute
Reading Planet: Astro - Time Tours: Crash into History - Mars/Stars
by Steve Cole"Welcome aboard Time Tours - your first stop for holidays in history." History happens in the past, right? At least, that's what Ana and her brother Rocco used to think until a mysterious floating coach picks them up and whisks them away to the year 1838. The siblings suddenly find themselves surrounded by robot tour guides, wonder-onesies and Victorians! And if that wasn't enough, a case of mistaken identity links Ana and Rocco and their new friend Ifan with a plot to rob Buckingham Palace! Take a trip into the past with Time Tours! Time Tours: Crash into History is part of the Astro range from Rising Stars Reading Planet. Astro books are ideal for struggling and reluctant readers aged 7-11. Each book is dual-banded so that children can improve their fluency whilst enjoying exciting fiction and non-fiction relevant to their age. Reading Planet books have been carefully levelled to support children in becoming fluent and confident readers. Each book features useful notes and questions to support reading at home and develop comprehension skills. Interest age: 8-9 Reading age: 7-8 years
Reading Planet: Astro - Time Tours: Sky Smash - Supernova/earth
by Steve Cole"Welcome aboard Time Tours - your first stop for holidays in history." What's scarier: a scheming robot with a fearsome army of robo-drones, murderous dinosaurs with rows of razor-sharp teeth, or an enormous meteor that's about to wipe out all life on earth?! Well, it just so happens that Ana and Rocco have travelled 66 million years back in time and now face all three! This time they'll need all the help they can get in order to stop Miss Stumpkin, avoid being eaten alive and get back home to the 21st Century all in one piece! Time Tours: Sky Smash! is part of the Astro range from Rising Stars Reading Planet. Astro books are ideal for struggling and reluctant readers aged 7-11. Each book is dual-banded so that children can improve their fluency whilst enjoying exciting fiction and non-fiction relevant to their age. Reading Planet books have been carefully levelled to support children in becoming fluent and confident readers. Each book features useful notes and questions to support reading at home and develop comprehension skills. Interest age: 10-11 Reading age: 8 -9 years
Reading Planet: Astro - Time Tours: The Volcano Of Fear - Saturn/venus Band
by Steve Cole"Welcome aboard Time Tours - your first stop for holidays in history." Ana and her brother Rocco and their time travelling companions have landed near a beautiful Roman town, surrounded by mountains. Unfortunately, one of those mountains in Mount Vesuvius - the most deadly volcano in Europe, and it's about to blow! But something even more sinister is going on... futuristic rubbish is turning up on the edge of town. Surely, someone from the future isn't dumping their rubbish in the past? The four friends must find out who is behind this mess... and quickly! Time Tours: Volcano of Fear is part of the Astro range from Rising Stars Reading Planet. Astro books are ideal for struggling and reluctant readers aged 7-11. Each book is dual-banded so that children can improve their fluency whilst enjoying exciting fiction and non-fiction relevant to their age. Reading Planet books have been carefully levelled to support children in becoming fluent and confident readers. Each book features useful notes and questions to support reading at home and develop comprehension skills. Interest age: 10-11 Reading age: 7-8 years
Reading Planet: Astro – Time Tours: City of Doom – Jupiter/Mercury
by Steve Cole"Welcome aboard Time Tours - your first stop for holidays in history." After their adventure in Victorian England, Ana, Rocco, Ifan and robot-guide Tori are forced to make an emergency landing in ancient Mexico! The time pod's fuel rods are damaged, and it's a race against time to fix them before they explode, leaving them stranded! And as if things couldn't get any worse, the history books say that the city was attacked by fierce warriors ... which will be ... any minute now! Time Tours: City of Doom is part of the Astro range from Rising Stars Reading Planet. Astro books are ideal for struggling and reluctant readers aged 7-11. Each book is dual-banded so that children can improve their fluency whilst enjoying exciting fiction and non-fiction relevant to their age. Reading Planet books have been carefully levelled to support children in becoming fluent and confident readers. Each book features useful notes and questions to support reading at home and develop comprehension skills. Interest age: 9-10 Reading age: 7-8 years
Writing Brave and Free: Encouraging Words for People Who Want to Start Writing
by Ted Kooser Steve CoxSometimes setting pen to paper requires bravery, and writing well means breaking free of the rules learned in school. Liberating and emboldening the beginning writer are the goals of Ted Kooser and Steve Cox in this spirited book of practical wisdom that brings to bear decades of invaluable experience in writing, teaching, editing, and publishing. Unlike “how to write” books that dwell on the angst and the agony of the trade, Writing Brave and Free is upbeat and accessible. The focus here is the work itself: how to get started and how to keep going, and never is heard a discouraging word such as “no,” “not,” or “never.” Because of the wealth of their experience, the authors can offer the sort of practical publishing advice that novices need and yet rarely find. Organized in brief, user-friendly chapters—on everything from sensory details to a work environment, from creating suspense to revising and taking criticism—the book allows aspiring (and practicing) writers to dip in anywhere and find something of value.
The Global Freelancer: Telling and Selling Foreign News
by Steve DorseyIn The Global Freelancer, award-winning journalist Steve Dorsey draws on his own experiences, as well as those of fellow reporters and editors, to instruct aspiring freelancers on all aspects of becoming a foreign correspondent. Topics covered include: delivering successful story pitches, location scouting, navigating foreign work documentation and visa requirements, confronting press freedom restrictions, leveraging digital media opportunities, and the new challenges of reporting from conflict zones safely. As newspapers and networks are forced to close their overseas bureaus, news organizations are relying more than ever before on freelancers to fill the gap. This book offers the freelance foreign correspondents of tomorrow step-by-step guidance on how to seize these opportunities and make a name in this competitive field. Packed with practical guidance, tips, and anecdotes from working professionals, The Global Freelancer is your gateway to a career in foreign journalism.