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Grow Pests & Diseases: Essential Know-how And Expert Advice For Gardening Success (DK Grow)
by DKKeep your garden or container plants in the best of health - and pesky pests away.Before you&’re alarmed by a dying plant, find out how you can treat it. This gardening help book is filled with advice on reviving plants — and how to prevent common plant ailments and diseases. Maintaining a thriving garden is simple when you have the right garden pest book! Inside you&’ll find: • Jargon-free guidance on diagnosing and treating plant ailments • Common garden pests and diseases • How to spot an ailing plant • Climate control and encouraging beneficial wildlife • How to prevent and treat a wide range of plant pests, diseases, and disorders • A directory of pest, disease, and disorder symptoms grouped by main plant area affected — focusing on five main areas: leaves, flowers and buds, fruits and pods, roots, tubers, bulbs, and stems Ideal for first-time gardeners, this garden guide is packed with all you need to know about recognizing symptoms of dying plants, how to keep pests away — and encouraging beneficial wildlife and insects. Far more than a simple list of treatments, this gardening reference book shows you how to keep plants in top condition and decide whether or not intervention is needed. The fully illustrated ailment directory is organized by symptom and plant type for quick and easy identification.Grow Pest & Diseases brings joy to your gardening practice by understanding what plants need to thrive! Keep your plants, flowers, fruits and vegetables growing and happy by following the practical, jargon-free advice in this easy-to-use gardening book.Expand your home garden through the DK Grow Series. Each book is packed with insights about growing various plants, vegetables and fruit — and how to keep them flourishing. Add titles like Grow Easy Veg, Grow Eco-Gardening and Grow Bulbs to your book collection.
Grow Roses: Essential Know-how and Expert Advice for Gardening Success (DK Grow)
by Philip ClaytonDiscover the secret to successfully growing and nurturing beautiful roses.Ideal for first-time gardeners, Grow Roses contains everything you need to bring spectacular colors and gorgeous scents to your garden. Learn how to grow and care for a variety of roses with tips on selecting the right site, planting, and pruning. Discover the perfect roses for your own outdoor space with a handy directory of the best varieties for every situation, as well as the ideal plants to grow alongside them. With their ease of cultivation, tolerance to varied climates, and sublime beauty, roses are the perfect flower for the modern garden. Packed with practical, jargon-free know-how, this easy-to-use guide has everything you need to know to help your garden Grow.
Grow Shade Garden: Essential Know-how and Expert Advice for Gardening Success (DK Grow)
by Zia AllawayDiscover how to assess, grow, and maintain a shady garden.Ideal for first-time gardeners, Grow Shade Garden contains everything you need to create a flourishing garden full of color, texture, and scent in a shady space. Learn how to grow and care for various shade-loving plants with tips on selecting the right site and varieties. Once you understand different types of shade and have assessed your space, select the best plants for your garden with the help of handy directories that profile different shrubs, perennials, bulbs, and trees and provide key growing information. Projects on tree planting, container displays, and creating a fernery also get you started on planting techniques and ideas to make the most of a shaded space.Whether you are an avid gardener or want to create an easy-to-maintain garden, this book can guide you and answer important questions like how plants react to shade. And How do I check my soil and climate? With this book, you can find: -Fuss-free guide to designing, creating, and maintaining a garden, ideal for first-time gardeners-Detailed profiles on shade-loving plants and practical projects accompanying advice on how to assess, design, and maintain your shady space-Helpful tips on how to care for your garden to maintain it for longer- including Essential tools, Pruning tips, and clearing mossy paths and patios-Images and descriptions of issues that your garden may face and ways you can solve this Packed with practical, jargon-free know-how, this easy-to-use guide has everything you need to know to help your garden Grow. This useful guide contains images, facts, and information to help you grow a garden that suits your lifestyle. Grow Lawns is part of a series with GROW Houseplants, GROW Compost, GROW Herbs, and GROW Trees.
Grow Something Different to Eat: Weird and wonderful heirloom fruits and vegetables for your garden
by Matthew BiggsDiscover more than 50 out-of-the-ordinary edibles, from cucamelons to strawberry popcorn, in this seed-to-plate guide that inspires you to cultivate amazing new fruit and vegetable crops.Whether you're a beginner and determined to make the most of limited space with a truly unique and heirloom harvest, or a seasoned grower looking to spice up your cooking with gourmet flavors, the step-by-step instructions give you the confidence to grow some unusually tasty crops. Choose from fruiting vegetables such as orange eggplants and hyacinth beans, salad greens such as fiddlehead ferns and sushi hostas, grains such as quinoa and chia, and luscious fruits such as honeyberries and white strawberries. All plants can be started indoors and transplanted, grown outdoors in the garden, or kept as houseplants. With versatile gardening advice for growing in a variety of spaces and situations, plus cooking suggestions and preserving options, a weird and wonderful harvest is guaranteed.
Grow Your Own Tea: The Complete Guide to Cultivating, Harvesting, and Preparing
by Susan M. Walcott Christine Parks"Plant a tea plant and watch it grow! Grow Your Own Tea is truly a masterpiece how-to guide to cultivating and enjoying the sacred leaf. It will delight even the armchair gardener and casual tea lover." —James Norwood Pratt, author of James Norwood Pratt&’s Tea Dictionary Tea lovers, make a fresh pot, sit down with this delightful guide, and discover the joys of growing and processing your own tea at home. Tea farmer Christine Parks and enthusiast Susan Walcott cover it all from growing tea plants and harvesting leaves, to the distinct processes that create each tea&’s signature flavors. In this comprehensive handbook, you&’ll discover tea&’s ancient origins, learn about the single plant that produces white, green, oolong, and black teas, and discover step-by-step instructions for plucking, withering, and rolling. Simple recipes that highlight the flavor of tea and creative uses for around the home round out this must-read for tea fans.
Grow a Hummingbird Garden: Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-167 (Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin Ser.)
by Dale Evva GelfandSince 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.
Grow. Cook. Preserve.: The Complete Guide to Sustainable Food
by Helen Lynne CulpepperFresh, sustainable foods and delicious, handcrafted dishes--right at home!Vibrant, crisp greens. Juicy, vine-ripened tomatoes. Sweet, mouthwatering strawberries. With Grow. Cook. Preserve., you'll grow sustainable produce right in your own home. Whether you have a giant backyard or just a balcony, this book shows you how to build a thriving garden and feed your family nutritious, homegrown food all year long. From where to plant and what crops to sow to maintaining a balanced ecology, you'll learn everything you need to know about cultivating sustainable foods, including how to:Grow vegetables and fruits by seasonCreate the ideal composting environmentReduce your water usage • Preserve and can your harvestsCraft farm-to-table entrees, desserts, sauces, jellies, and more Whether you're looking to lower your carbon footprint or just want to serve your family fresh, organic meals, Grow. Cook. Preserve. will help you build a sustainable lifestyle from the ground up.
Growing All the Wiser: Wisdom Tips from the Book of Proverbs
by Kyna WilliamsIf experience is the best teacher, why are we often left wounded and discouraged by experiences? If you have been a victim of your experiences then it is time to part ways with this inadequate teacher and join forces with a Life Coach that guarantees positive results, Wisdom!The Wisdom found in the book of Proverbs are time tested life truths with a winning track record of consistently transforming fools into gurus. Wisdom exists to help you master your money, your relationships, your mouth, your temperament, and even your career path. Regardless the subject matter, Wisdom is available to guide your daily decisions toward wise life choices.Growing All the Wiser has digested the book of Proverbs into current, relevant, and relatable Wisdom Tips designed for practical application to everyday life situations. You will walk away each day with a new wisdom tool to apply to your decision-making repertoire until you find yourself moving out of the gray area of foolishness to the green pastures of safety that exist when Wisdom is the stabilizing force behind the decisions you make.Whosoever lacks wisdom and seeks to gain the wisdom necessary to guarantee the result of your life experiences, this book is for you. From teen to mature adults the Wisdom Tips found within this book will serve as an essential guide toward living your best and wisest life today.
Growing Industrial Clusters in Asia: Serendipity and Science
by Shahid Yusuf Kaoru Nabeshima Shoichi YamashitaIndustrial clusters in Silicon Valley, Hsinchu Park, and northern Italy, and in the vicinity of Cambridge, U.K., have captured the imagination of policymakers, researchers, city planners and business people. Where clusters take root, they can generate valuable spillovers, promote innovation, and create the critical industrial mass for sustained growth. For cities such as Kitakyushu, Japan, that are faced with the erosion of their traditional industrial base and are threatened by economic decline, creating a cluster that would reverse the downward trends is enormously attractive. Growing Industrial Clusters in Asia offers practical guidance on the nature of clusters and the likely efficacy of measures that could help build a cluster. It draws on the experience of both established dynamic clusters and newly emerging ones that show considerable promise. The insights that result from its analysis will be of particular interest to policy makers, urban planners, business people, and researchers.
Growing Medical Marijuana: Securely and Legally
by Dave DewittA beginner's guide to growing weed at home, featuring straightforward advice for designing indoor and outdoor cannabis gardens, choosing seed varieties, buying equipment, planting, pot harvesting, storage, stash security, troubleshooting, and more. This beginner's guide to growing cannabis at home features straightforward advice for designing both indoor and outdoor marijuana gardens, from choosing and obtaining the most potent and prolific seed varieties to buying the right equipment and setting up your grow room. Steering clear of unnecessary scientific and technical jargon, Growing Medical Marijuana offers step-by-step instructions, 125 helpful photographs, and detailed illustrations to help you plant, harvest, and store your crop, whether you're a novice pot gardener or an experienced grower who wants to go legit. Outlining the ins and outs of marijuana cultivation in the states in which it's legal, this guide also presents easy-to-master approaches to fertilizing, pruning, controlling pests, maximizing flower production, cloning, producing your own seeds, and more. And once your stash is trimmed, cured, and ready to enjoy, nearly thirty recipes--along with dosage instructions--provide a delicious alternative to smoking your healing herb.
Growing Remembrance: The Story of the National Memorial Arboretum
by David ChildsThe story of the inspiration for, establishment and evolution of the National Memorial Arboretum is a fascinating one. Sited at Alrewas, Staffordshire, the Arboretum has become the Nations all year round focus for remembering and paying tribute to all who have served their country in both peace and war not only in the armed forces and merchant navy but in the emergency services as well.Planting began in 1997 and was supported by hundreds of organizations both serving and retired. Among the early memorials was a life-size wooded polar bear, for 49th Division, a grove of Irish trees for the Royal Irish Regiment, an Avenue of Chestnuts for the Police and a Chapel of Peace and Forgiveness to mark the coming of the Millennium. Britains war-widows had a rose-garden planted for them while the Far East Prisoners of War managed to fund a small museum to stand alongside a length of railway track brought back from the notorious Burma Railway. In October 2007 H.M. the Queen confirmed the importance of the site when she opened the Armed Forces Memorial to commemorate all service personnel lost on active service since the end of the Second World War; this is especially poignant given the ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The importance of the National Memorial Arboretum is well demonstrated by the growing number of stands and the steady increase in visitor numbers.
Growing South African Indigenous Orchids
by Karsten WodrichProviding a guide to the cultivation of both the terrestrial and epihytic orchid species growing in South Africa, this volume includes numerous hints, illustrations and photographs to help simplify the process. Detailed growing notes are given for over 60 terrestrial and over 40 epiphytic species.
Growing Under Cover: Techniques for a More Productive, Weather-Resistant, Pest-Free Vegetable Garden
by Niki JabbourIncreasingly unpredictable weather patterns and pest infestations are challenging today&’s vegetable gardeners. But best-selling author Niki Jabbour has a solution: Growing Under Cover. In this in-depth guide, Jabbour shows how to use small solutions like cloches, row covers, shade cloth, cold frames, and hoophouses, as well as larger protective structures like greenhouses and polytunnels, to create controlled growing spaces for vegetables to thrive. Photographed in her own super-productive garden, Jabbour highlights the many benefits of using protective covers to plant earlier, eliminate pests, and harvest a healthier, heartier bounty year round. With enthusiasm, inventive techniques, and proven, firsthand knowledge, this book provides invaluable advice from a popular and widely respected gardening authority. This publication conforms to the EPUB Accessibility specification at WCAG 2.0 Level AA.
Growing Up Shared: How Parents Can Share Smarter on Social Media-and What You Can Do to Keep Your Family Safe in a No-Privacy World
by Stacey SteinbergIs it okay to share details about my child's life on social media?What kinds of pictures should I avoid posting?Am I taking away my kids' ownership over their future online footprint?It has never been easier to share our lives online—from meals to selfies and relationship statuses to locations, information about our daily activities flows freely. But what about our right to share our kids' lives? In today's age of "sharenting", striking the right balance between engaging in online communities and respecting a child's privacy and safety can be difficult. In Growing Up Shared, Stacey Steinberg, law professor, mother, and expert on the intersection of social media and parenting, shares her insights. From her years of research, Steinberg outlines what parents should and should not feel comfortable sharing, while providing suggestions and ideas for a wide range of approaches, including:How we can benefit from sharing, and how screens can connect usThe dangers of oversharingHow to model behavior onlineThe difference in how parents and kids view online sharingThe importance of educating kids about technologyEngaging, approachable, and with concrete takeaways for today's parents, Growing Up Shared investigates the benefits and risks of sharing our kids' lives on social media, and will help any parent decide on the right path for their family to follow in the online world.
Growing Your Family Tree: Tracing Your Roots and Discovering Who You Are
by Cherry GilchristThe process of exploring your family history and roots is a moving and meaningful quest. It affects heart and soul, as well as providing an intellectual challenge to piece all the information together. GROWING YOUR FAMILY TREE is the first book to promote the experiential aspects of family history. It gives sound, practical advice on researching your family history, but also promotes the emotional, spiritual and creative elements of the task, helping to lift genealogy out of its earlier dry an formal setting, into a more meaningful and accessible activity which can enrich a person's identity.Advice and information includes:* How to write up your family history* How to make a heritage corner or trail in your home* A consideration the nature of ancestry, family lines and our inner connection with our ancestors* How to organise your research and keep moving forward
Growing Your Vocabulary
by Shabo Magedah E.Students need to develop the skills to improve their vocabulary, not only because state standards require it, but because nothing will make students better readers and communicators than having the ability to understand new words. With over half a million of our vocabulary books in schools nationwide, Prestwick House has been well-known for years as the #1 source for the absolute best vocabulary programs. Now we're bringing our award-winning expertise to students in 4th-6th grade. The twenty lessons in each book are designed to get students actively thinking about how words are formed by using interesting notes on the vocabulary words' origins, definitions, and use in sentences. Each lesson has a full week's worth of activities and exercises that will help students not only remember the definitions of new words but also put what they have learned into practice through creative writing assignments and fun games. Every chapter also includes an exercise that will help students learn to experiment with language by building new words from known roots or breaking down unfamiliar words, giving them invaluable practice in using their newly acquired root word knowledge. Synonym and antonym usage is plentiful, and out hilarious cartoons will reinforce what students have learned. Recommended for sixth grade. This is a student classroom edition. Teacher's editions are available from the publisher but are only sold to teachers and schools.
Growth to Freedom: The Psychosocial Treatment of Delinquent Youth
by Derek MillerTavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press. Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1964 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.
Gruber's Complete ACT Guide 2019-2020: The Best Strategies For The Best Score
by Gary GruberThe ultimate guide to improving ACT scores with practical strategies and examples, comprehensive subject reviews, practice tests and explanations, and much more! Every college-bound student wants the best test scores possible. But with a wide variety of test-prep books available, how do you know you’re choosing the right one to help you most? Fortunately, that just happens to be Dr. Gary Gruber’s life’s work: rather than rote memorization of individual problem solutions, his Gruber Method teaches adaptive strategies to think about test problems as categories, allowing students to solve thousands of questions quickly and effectively. In Gruber’s Complete ACT Guide 2019-2020, you’ll find all the resources you need to develop the test-taking skills and critical-thinking strategies that are proven to increase your test score. With 33 essential strategies illustrated with examples, three complete practice tests, and much more, you’ll see how, for over thirty years, the Gruber Method has helped millions of students master the ability to solve any ACT problem—even the most difficult—easily and efficiently. So read Gruber’s Complete ACT Guide 2019-2020, study its lessons, and watch your ACT score increase and your future possibilities expand. Also included in Gruber’s Complete ACT Guide 2019-2020: The World’s Shortest Practice Test for the ACT® Exam: estimate your score in only 20 questions!The 101 most important math questions every student needs to be able to answerNineteen simple-to-learn math strategies for solving every type of question by breaking them down to their easiest formsMini Math Refresher + Complete Math RefresherNine Reading Comprehension Strategies for focus and clarityComplete Grammar and Usage RefresherA special section covering the ACT® Writing TestThree complete practice tests with explanatory answersExplanations of why you got questions wrong—plus how to get them rightExclusive four-hour study program for the week before the test
Gruber's Complete GRE Guide 2019-2020
by Gary GruberThe ultimate guide to improving GRE scores with practical strategies and examples, comprehensive subject reviews, practice tests and explanations, and much more! Every college-bound student wants the best test scores possible. But with a wide variety of test-prep books available, how do you know you’re choosing the right one to help you most? Fortunately, that just happens to be Dr. Gary Gruber’s life’s work: rather than rote memorization of individual problem solutions, his Gruber Method teaches adaptive strategies to think about test problems as categories, allowing students to solve thousands of questions quickly and effectively. In Gruber’s Complete GRE Guide 2019-2020, you’ll find all the resources you need to develop the test-taking skills and critical-thinking strategies that are proven to increase your test score. With essential strategies illustrated with examples, four practice tests, information on how GRE questions are created, and much more, you’ll see how, for over thirty years, the Gruber Method has helped millions of students master the ability to solve any problem—even the most difficult—easily and efficiently. So read Gruber’s Complete GRE Guide 2019-2020, study its lessons, and watch your GRE score increase and your future possibilities expand. Also included in Gruber’s Complete GRE Guide 2019-2020: The World’s Shortest Practice Test for the GRE® Exam: estimate your score in only 20 questions!A diagnostic test to reveal your strengths and weaknesses The 101 most important math questions every student needs to be able to answerNineteen simple-to-learn Math Strategies for solving every type of question by breaking them down to their easiest formsMini Math Refresher + Complete Math RefresherGuides to help you master the GRE® basics Four practice tests with explanatory answersExplanations of why you got questions wrong—plus how to get them rightExclusive four-hour study program for the week before the test
Gruber's Complete SAT Guide 2019-2020
by Gary GruberThe ultimate guide to improving SAT scores with practical strategies and examples, comprehensive subject reviews, practice tests and explanations, and much more! Every college-bound student wants the best test scores possible. But with a wide variety of test-prep books available, how do you know you’re choosing the right one to help you most? Fortunately, that just happens to be Dr. Gary Gruber’s life’s work: rather than rote memorization of individual problem solutions, his Gruber Method teaches adaptive strategies to think about test problems as categories, allowing students to solve thousands of questions quickly and effectively. In Gruber’s Complete SAT Guide 2019-2020, you’ll find all the resources you need to develop the test-taking skills and critical-thinking strategies that are proven to increase your test score by as much as 600 points. With 37 essential strategies illustrated with examples, two complete practice tests, and much more, you’ll see how, for over thirty years, the Gruber Method has helped millions of students master the ability to solve any SAT problem—even the most difficult—easily and efficiently So read Gruber’s Complete SAT Guide 2019-2020, study its lessons, and watch your SAT score increase and your future possibilities expand. Also included in Gruber’s Complete SAT Guide 2019-2020: The World's Shortest Practice Test for the SAT® Exam: estimate your score in only 20 questions!A diagnostic test to reveal your strengths and weaknesses The 101 most important math questions every student needs to be able to answer19 simple-to-learn math strategies for solving every type of question by breaking them down to their easiest formsMini Math Refresher + Complete Math Refresher13 Verbal Strategies to improve your reading skill and understandingThe Gruber Prefix-Root-Suffix List, which unlocks the meanings of more than 150,000 words100 Tests to Strengthen Your VocabularySubject-specific guides to help you master the SAT® basics Two complete practice tests with explanatory answers keyed to the acclaimed Gruber Strategies and Basic SkillsExplanations of why you got questions wrong—plus how to get them rightExclusive four-hour study program for the week before the test
Gruber's Essential Guide to Test Taking: The Best Strategies For The Best Score
by Gary GruberThe ultimate guide to helping your child succeed on tests both now and as they grow up, with practical strategies and examples, comprehensive subject reviews, practice exams and explanations, and much more! All parents want their children to be as successful as possible and to reach their fullest potential, and, in today&’s education climate, test-taking is more important to a student&’s success and growth than ever before. So how can you make sure your child is as well-prepared as possible? Fortunately, that just happens to be Dr. Gary Gruber&’s life&’s work. For over thirty years, his Gruber Method has taught millions of students the critical-thinking skills needed to succeed in the modern education system. Using adaptive strategies for thinking about test problems as categories, rather than rote memorization of individual answers, Dr. Gruber has unlocked the essential test-taking skills any child can use to succeed on any test, any time. For parents and teachers who want to help their children learn and understand the strategies needed in all test-taking areas, Gruber's Essential Guide to Test Taking: Grades 3-5 will help your child expand their knowledge, develop their test-taking confidence, and realize their true potential. Featured topics in Gruber's Essential Guide to Test Taking: Grades 3-5 include: Guides to how students can develop critical thinking skills that will last foreverUnique test on How Your Child will do on the upcoming SAT, ACT, and what strategies and thinking skills they need to internalize in this book to achieve their full potential.Information to help children prepare for specific tests, including the PSAT, SAT, ACT, and GRE by internalizing the thinking strategies in this bookClear, consistent methods for finding the correct answersKey mathematical laws, ideas, and secrets that students should knowEssential language and grammar skills, plus vocabulary-word listsTried-and-true reading-comprehension techniquesEasy, efficient methods for making children less nervous about testsPractical strategies for helping children achieve their fullest potential So pick up a copy of Gruber's Essential Guide to Test Taking: Grades 3-5, study its lessons with your child, and watch them grow and succeed.
Gruber's Essential Guide to Test Taking: The Best Strategies For The Best Score
by Gary GruberThe ultimate guide to helping your child succeed on tests both now and as they grow up, with practical strategies and examples, comprehensive subject reviews, practice exams and explanations, and much more! All parents want their children to be as successful as possible and to reach their fullest potential, and, in today&’s education climate, test-taking is more important to a student&’s success and growth than ever before. So how can you make sure your child is as well-prepared as possible? Fortunately, that just happens to be Dr. Gary Gruber&’s life&’s work. For over thirty years, his Gruber Method has taught millions of students the critical-thinking skills needed to succeed in the modern education system. Using adaptive strategies for thinking about test problems as categories, rather than rote memorization of individual answers, Dr. Gruber has unlocked the essential test-taking skills any child can use to succeed on any test, any time. For parents and teachers who want to help their children learn and understand the strategies needed in all test-taking areas, Gruber's Essential Guide to Test Taking: Grades 6-9 will help your child expand their knowledge, develop their test-taking confidence, and realize their true potential. Featured topics in Gruber's Essential Guide to Test Taking: Grades 6-9 include: Guides to how students can develop critical thinking skills that will last foreverUnique test on How Your Child will do on the upcoming SAT, ACT, and what strategies and thinking skills they need to internalize in this book to achieve their full potential.Information to help children prepare for specific tests, including the PSAT, SAT, ACT, and GRE by internalizing the thinking strategies in this bookClear, consistent methods for finding the correct answersKey mathematical laws, ideas, and secrets that students should knowEssential language and grammar skills, plus vocabulary-word listsTried-and-true reading-comprehension techniquesEasy, efficient methods for making children less nervous about testsPractical strategies for helping children achieve their fullest potential So pick up a copy of Gruber's Essential Guide to Test Taking: Grades 6-9, study its lessons with your child, and watch them grow and succeed.
Gruber's Word Master for Standardized Tests: The Most Effective Way to Learn the Most Important Vocabulary Words for the SAT, ACT, GRE, and More!
by Gary GruberThe ultimate guide to improving your vocabulary and all standardized test scores with comprehensive definition reviews and breakdowns, practical language strategies and examples, fifty practice tests and explanations, and much more! Every college-bound student wants the best test scores possible. Fortunately, that just happens to be Dr. Gary Gruber’s life’s work. For over thirty years, his Gruber Method has taught millions of students to expand their vocabulary and language skills and to improve their scores (for example, increasing SAT scores by as much as 600 points) through adaptive strategies for thinking about test problems as categories, rather than rote memorization of individual answers.Gruber’s Word Master for Standardized Tests is the most thorough vocabulary-improvement resource available today. In addition to including more tools and lists than the competition, the guide includes a wide range of useful information to help students hone and sharpen their vocabulary and language skills, such as: The most important words used on all standardized tests Prefixes and roots that denote the same meaning or feelingCommonly confused wordsThe 291 most frequent test words50 vocabulary tests with answersPrefixes and Roots that decode more that 200,000 words on testsThe Gruber Breakthrough Word StrategiesThe Gruber 2300 Vocabulary Word Review List So read Gruber’s Word Master for Standardized Tests, study its lessons, and watch your test scores increase and your future possibilities expand.
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
by Mary RoachA New York Times / National Bestseller "America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war.Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries—panic, exhaustion, heat, noise—and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Mary Roach dodges hostile fire with the U.S. Marine Corps Paintball Team as part of a study on hearing loss and survivability in combat. She visits the fashion design studio of U.S. Army Natick Labs and learns why a zipper is a problem for a sniper. She visits a repurposed movie studio where amputee actors help prepare Marine Corps medics for the shock and gore of combat wounds. At Camp Lemmonier, Djibouti, in east Africa, we learn how diarrhea can be a threat to national security. Roach samples caffeinated meat, sniffs an archival sample of a World War II stink bomb, and stays up all night with the crew tending the missiles on the nuclear submarine USS Tennessee. She answers questions not found in any other book on the military: Why is DARPA interested in ducks? How is a wedding gown like a bomb suit? Why are shrimp more dangerous to sailors than sharks? Take a tour of duty with Roach, and you’ll never see our nation’s defenders in the same way again.
Grupamento 24: Histórias de Incêndio - Livros I, II e III
by Joe Corso Raimundo Alves dos SantosGrupamento 24: Histórias de incêndio - Livros I, II e III de Joe Corso Histórias verdadeiras do Corpo de Bombeiros de Nova York que aconteceram entre 1963 e 1975. Agora, tudo em um único livro, Grupamento 24 por Joe Corso: As Histórias de Incêndio - Livros I, II, e III, incluindo as premiadas histórias de incêndio: Garagem 598! Grupamento 24: Histórias de incêndio - Livros I, II e III narram a carreira de Joe D' Albert, autor conhecido como Joe Corso, quando era bombeiro da cidade de Nova York. Nesta compilação emocionante de histórias de incêndio, Corso detalha os triunfos e as tragédias de seus camaradas de armas enquanto combatem bravamente alguns dos incêndios mais perigosos na história da cidade. Ele fala de heróis reais e das amizades para a toda vida que fez, bem como alguns dos tumultos que existiam na cidade de Nova York durante o tempo em que servia no departamento. Siga Corso pelos anos 1960 e 1970 até os dias de hoje, dos conflitos raciais ao 11 de setembro, quando as chamas reais da instabilidade foram extinguidas pelas pessoas mais bravas na história americana recente. Gênero: História / Historiografia Gênero Secundário: História / Referência Idioma: Português Palavras chave Número de palavras: 47.111 Informações de venda: Quando eu era um bombeiro, às vezes fazia anotações sobre os incêndios que combatia. Este livro é uma compilação dessas anotações. Um trailer deste livro pode ser visto no Youtube: Acesse o link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7COvCUgW8uE