The Edinburgh Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome
Added by: lucius5 | Karma: 1660.85 | Non-Fiction, Other | 7 September 2009
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The Edinburgh Companion is a gateway to the fascinating worlds of ancient Greece and Rome. Wide-ranging in its approach, expert contributors demonstrate the multifaceted nature of classic civilization by drawing together perspectives and methods of different disciplines, from philosophy to history, poetry to archaeology, art history to numismatics, and many more.
Bilingualism in Development describes research on the intellectual development of bilingual children, showing how it is different from that of monolingual children. The focus is on preschool children, examining how they learn language, how they acquire literacy skills, and how they develop problem-solving ability in different domains. It is unique in that it assembles a wide range of research on children's development and interprets it within an analysis of how bilingualism affects that development. It is the only book to interpret this large research from a single theoretical perspective, leading to coherent conclusions
The most exciting thing about anthropology is that it enables the student to become acquainted with people of different cultures. The Tapestry of Culture provides the student with the basic concepts necessary to understand these different cultures while showing that cultural variations occur within certain limits. Though the forces of globalization have caused cultures of the world around us to become more and more similar, the book shows that people nevertheless cling to ethnic identities, and their cultural distinctiveness.
Sebran's ABC is a freeware collection of 12 different activities for kids 4-9 years old. It includes counting games, a Hangman game, Memory games, typing games and much more. Sebran's ABC is multilingual and runs in 28 different languages.
Added by: goluboglazaya | Karma: 106.02 | Other | 15 August 2009
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All of the jigsaw readings in the following folders are in sets of three, i.e. there are 3 different texts. The common factor in all of them is that they are (usually murder) cases to be solved by the students in your class, who have been asked by an overworked Sherlock Holmes to help him out. Each of the texts in each set contains different information; when this information is shared, it is possible to work out what happened. As you will see, the texts take the form of letters to Sherlock Holmes or newspaper reports.