Spencer Books

After my business communications class ends, I will keep this book as a reference - a great reference for all types of business communications: resumes, memos, emails, letters, formal reports, and presentations. Includes handy sections on confusing words, difficult punctuation, proper formatting, and more. A well written and well organized text.

It is very rarely that one finds a book that satisfies several needs of its readers all in one text. This is what "Contemporary Issues, Science, Africa and More" has managed to accomplish. In one encompassing swoop, it provides solid arguments that enrich those interested in being great debaters; it simplifies technical and scientific knowledge for the science novice at the same time that it provides interests and insight for the higher level, senior in high school and the first-second year university reader. It embellishes, quite liberally, tact and prudence in the expositions of solid arguments.

"Contemporary Issues, Science, Africa and More" attends to very sensitive and contemporary issues pertaining to Biotechnology such as human cloning and Genetic Engineering. It also comprises such areas as Affirmative Action, one's right to abortion, one's right to sexual choice(s), questions relating to whether Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a hero or not and other similar but controversial issues. This is a MUST have text for schools, the philosophy departments of universities, the debating clubs of schools and those interested in general knowledge and science.

Fluctuating Life

Quest for a Dream: A Life Committed to Progress

Nothing's Impossible: Leadership Lessons from Inside and Outside the Classroom

Leading Under Pressure: Strategies to Maximize Peak Performance & Productivity while Maximizing Health & Wellbeing

This classic, best-selling book will show you how to get students to generate higher-level thinking on any topic. Students sharpen their thinking skills and dig deep into the content as they ask and answer higher-level thinking questions. Includes hundreds of activities for language arts, art, social studies, math, science, and literature; and ten detailed cooperative learning, higher-level thinking lesson plans across the curriculum, with blacklines.

Kagan offers so many suggestions, examples, and ideas that work even in the middle school classroom. This book is full of wonderful, practical opportunities for students to work together while actual learning takes place!

When students have the desire and ability to work together as a team, something magical happens--Together Everyone Achieves More! Students like working together, academic achievement goes up, and discipline problems become a thing of the past. Includes step-by-step instructions, hints, variations, over 100 teambuilding activities, and ready-to-use blackline masters for each of 14 favorite teambuilding structures like: Find-the-Fib, Team Interview, and Same-Different. Promote a positive class and team atmosphere in your classroom and watch as your students work together in harmony. 178 pages.

I am in my last yr at my college in a degree of education and this book is AWESOME! The only thing I do not like is that it has no glossary. But they words are italized and the chapter is basically spelled out for you.

Good hard-boiled detective work with a sense of humor. I read this book 20 years ago and have never forgotten it...one of my all-time favorites. I'm happy to see more books by this author and I plan to read them.

simple to follow directions, recipe food is delicious. the book itself is visually exciting, even picturing all the grains you can think of. a pleasure to use.

Of course, Dr Robert Ballard will forever remain the man who found the Titanic, but in this book he also provides the reader with an extremely well documented account of the loss of the Lusitania.

Mysteries are mysteries and whilst there are those experts which insist such and such happened, there will also be those who assert the opposite. I shouldn't say this I know, but it the way in which Bob Ballard takes such a thorough approach to his subject, it leaves one feeling that the only book you need to read on the entire subject of the loss of the Lusitania is this one.

Exploring the Lusitania - yet another four-funnelled passenger liner built before WW1, is a large coffee-table book approx. A4 size. Just a glance at the pictures throughout the richly illustrated pages (227 altogether) reveals the extent of the research to which the author has gone on behalf of the reader. There are many historic pictures of the ship itself - including when she was no more than a keel. Others include paintings of the day, newspaper cuttings and postcards showing internal and external views. Then there are the photographs of the tragedy itself and the effect it had upon the people of Ireland. Photographs of seemingly unimportant people at the booking office and individuals such as the Captain. Dr Ballard has been equally thorough when it comes to detailing the U-Boat which sank the Lusitania and we are treated to almost the same level of coverage of vessel and individuals and their trade of war.

Once again, however, the author has put together the most outstanding collection of artwork created by Ken Marschall. From thousands of photographic images taken from the wreckage itself, Bob Ballard created a complete montage (i.e. a big photograph made up of thousands of little photographs) of the various sections of the wreck so that Mr Marschall was able to provide us with the most accurate paintings of various sections and even the entire wreck. The one painting I had to look at again and again was the painting of the sinking across pages 96/97. For a moment there I thought the world's greatest photographer had been on hand to capture the event.

I congratulate Dr Ballard on another excellent and professional job of work. Another outstanding book and yet again 5 stars are not enough.

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This is a great picture book of some of the greatest stars of rock. The cover of Mick Jagger with a sword in his teeth is worth the price alone. This book has more pictures of the Stones in the early years, even has pics of Brian Jones. There are also pictures of the Beatles, U2, Alice Cooper, The Who, Elton John, Queen, Dylan and many others. Still almost half the book seems to be pictures of the Stones. I highly recommend it to the true rock fan.