This encyclopedia comes at a time when the topics it addresses--among them Bullying and victimization, Cooperative learning, Learning styles, No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, and Reading interventions and strategies-- are at the forefront of American educational thought. Arranged A-Z, it contains more than 250 articles by 175 of the more influential school psychology scholars at all levels, from elementary school through university. A "Readers Guide" organizes the entries into categories such as "Demographic Variables," "Family and Parenting," "Multicultural Issues," and "Technology." The volume is extensively indexed, and the index is accurate, with well-placed cross-referencing. Each entry includes a list of cross-references to other entries along with references and other readings related to the topic...
Kościuszko Foundation Dictionary
The second best Polish-English-Polish dictionary.
Huge lexical base: 140.000 entries with 400.000 meanings and 100.000 idioms; specialized vocabulary.
Useful not just for the speakers of Polish.
Description: This is the English language Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a multilingual, Web-based, free-content encyclopedia. It is written collaboratively by volunteers with wiki software, meaning articles can be added or changed by nearly anyone.
Oxford Dictionary of English Folklore (for Babylon)
Dragons to Mother Goose, May Day to Michaelmas, this reference work is an absorbing and entertaining guide to English folklore. It is also an authoritative reference source on such legendary characters as Cinderella, Jack the Giant Killer, and Robin Hood. It gives entertaining and informative explanations of a wide range of subjects in folklore: oral and performance genres such as cheese rolling, morris dancing, and rushbearing; superstitions such as crossing fingers and wishbones; beliefs like fairy rings and frog showers; and calendar customs from April Fool's Day to St. Valentine's Day.
Gerry's Vocabulary Teacher is a huge resource for teachers of English. The database contains more than 34,000 sentences illustrating over 2,500 headwords, with at least 10 sentences for each word. Using the database, you can quickly and easily create practice exercises or find example sentences for the vocabulary your students are working on right now.
Included among the headword is the vocabulary contained in the Academic Word List, as developed at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University of Wellington.
From Gerry's Vocabulary Database Help File. c
opyright Gerry Luton and Martin Holmes, Creative Technology 2002.
