Marjorie: 555 books

Lexical inferencing is a central process in both reading comprehension and word learning through reading. This volume presents a comprehensive research review on second language lexical inferencing (with Kirsten Haastrup) and a major new study of first and second language lexical inferencing by speakers of Persian, French and English, focusing on first language transfer effects.

Saunders Solutions in Veterinary Practice consists of a series of practical handbooks on selected medical topics on specific veterinary problems. Case-based, this series is aimed at the small animal veterinary practitioner who has qualified less than 10 years and needs quick access to information...

Addresses the most important theoretical and practical problems underlying public budgeting. This anthology is organized topically rather than historically, with an effort to delineate the issues needed to understand some of the controversies in the field. It describes what public budgeting is, where it comes from, and what it is for.

A Focus on Multiplication and Division is a groundbreaking effort to make mathematics education research readily accessible and understandable to pre- and in-service K–6 mathematics educators. Revealing students’ thought processes with extensive annotated samples of student work and vignettes...

This story is set in the late eighteen hundreds in Ontario, Canada. Collingwood today is a beautiful and prestigious resort area located north of Toronto on Georgian Bay. An exciting place in those days, it was hoped this bustling port would become the Chicago of the North. Here is the tale of three...

Young Rupert, with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge and experience, has been raised in complete isolation from the world by his enigmatic grandparents. His life takes an extraordinary turn when a violent storm uncovers a long-concealed treasure. In the aftermath of the storm, his grandparents...

Cataclysms on the Columbia tells two stories. One follows geological research that challenged the scientific paradigm of the early 20th century, and the other chronicles the result of that research: the discovery of powerful prehistoric floods that shaped the Pacific Northwest. The cataclysms at the...

Sir William Barnett is a man with no regrets. Or so he would have everyone believe. Orphaned and abandoned as a child, he finds his wit and his prowess with the ladies a convenient cover for his pain. Until he is asked to serve as guardian for Lady Prudence Marlow, a young hellcat whose sharp tongue...

When two brilliant scientists die together in a careless traffic accident, the Community, a fledgling human colony on an alien world, suffers a devastating blow. Joshua Scherrer and Andrew Caine might have loathed each other personally, but their collective knowledge was vital to humanity’s survival....

William Sinclair becomes Earl of Wellesbourne when he is eighteen following the deaths of his profligate father and brother. He marries then labors to restore the nearly bankrupted estate. Three years later, his wife dies in childbirth, leaving him emotionally scarred and determined to bury himself...

I won't have it! I won't have it! If they come, I'll run away and hide! shouted the child, wildly. That will be very rude. No one acts like that – no one except a barbarian, said Miss Wilder, calmly. I want to be a bar – – one of those things you said. You act like one most of the time.

Once upon a time in Manhattan . . . . . . there stood a pair of fine old brick townhouses on West Tenth Street. One had a blue door with a tarnished brass knocker in the shape of a dolphin. The other was empty. Behind the blue door lived Sadie, the widow of a famous British rocker who died...

Un ouvrage avec toutes les matières de la nouvelle 5e. Sur chaque point clé du programme, l’essentiel du cours, la méthode et des exercices. Idéal pour préparer les contrôles tout au long de l’année ou réviser pendant les vacances. Dans l’ouvrage destiné à votre enfant • Toutes...

Les grandes agglomérations font face à des objectifs environnementaux de taille et parfois contradictoires : imposer la densification pour lutter contre l’étalement urbain, maintenir la biodiversité, anticiper et limiter le changement climatique, réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre,...