Groovy Geometry: Games and Activities That Make Math Easy and Fun
By Lynette Long

Don't Just Learn Geometry...Master It!

Brimming with fun and educational games and activities, the Magical Math series provides everything you need to know to become a master of mathematics! In each of these books, Lynette Long uses her unique style to help you truly understand mathematical concepts as you use common objects such as playing cards, dice, coins, and every mathematician's basic tools: paper and pencil.

Inside Groovy Geometry, you'll find all the geometry basics, plus information on how to figure out the height of any object from its shadow, find distances "as the crow flies," estimate the area of any space, and much more. While you play the Name Game and Rectangle Race, you'll learn how to draw, measure, and identify different kinds of angles, triangles, and quadrilaterals. And with fun activities like Bull's Eye and Pizza Party, you'll practice plotting coordinate points on a graph and measuring the area and diameter of a circle. Most important, you'll have a great time doing it!

So why wait? Jump right in and find out how easy it is to become a mathematics master!

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Nolo's Everyday Law Book: Answers to Your Most Frequently Asked Questions (Nolo's Encyclopedia of Everyday Law: Answers to Your Most Frequently Asked Legal Questions), 4 edition
and Nolo's Legal Guide for Starting & Running a Small Business, 3 edition

School Phobia, Panic Attacks and Anxiety in Children

Many children are challenged by anxiety at some time in their school career. Bringing together knowledge from her years of teaching and parenting, Márianna Csóti shows how parents and professionals can help children aged five to sixteen move away from the negative thoughts and behaviour that contribute to school phobia.

This positive and practical book is packed with information and guidance for parents, carers, teachers and other child-support professionals, on dealing effectively with the difficulties of children whose lives are being adversely affected by this distressing and very real condition.

TIME Magazine
October 9, 2006 Vol. 168 No. 15

• What Makes Us Different? - Not very much, when you look at our DNA. But those few tiny changes made all the difference in the world
• Google's Growing Grasp - To fend off Microsoft and other foes, the search giant is bulking up on partnerships
• Is Coal Golden? - A Texas plan for coal-fired plants electrifies the carbon issue
• When Not Seeing Is Believing - Andrew Sullivan on the rise of fundamentalism and why embracing spiritual doubt is the key to defusing the tension between East and West
• Still Tuned In - Quirky and community minded, some independent radio stations have held off consolidation, ipods and satellite
• The G.O.P.'s Secret Weapon - You think the Republicans are sure to lose big in November? They aren't. Here's why things don't look so bad to them
• Saddam's Revenge - As the dictator faces judgment, his loyalists are targeting those who testified against him
• The French Exception - Ségolène Royal shuns party politics, extols law and order, and doesn't mind being seen in a bikini. Is this France's next President?

Contemporary English Language Literature
The following reading material is carried out in 2006-2007.
In this booklet a few extracts in the original are offered from outstanding books by contemporary English language fiction authors.
Each extract is preceded by a short introduction and followed by discussion questions and some vocabulary tasks. Among the authors there are best-selling ones, even "cult fiction" figures from the UK, the USA and Canada.
The collection is for upper-intermediate level of English.