The quality of your written English is your passport to both academic and career success. Whether you're a native speaker or learning English as a second language, it's very easy to get confused and make mistakes. This book is your essential guide to mastering the subtleties and becoming an expert communicator. Divided into three sections, 'The Right Word' first examines homophones, those tricky words that sound the same but are spelled differently. Entries are organised alphabetically, with meanings and examples (including colloquial ones) being given to facilitate correct use. The book then looks at words that often confuse -- childish vs. childlike, incredible vs. incredulous, for example -- before providing a list of the most commonly misspelled words. Keep this book by your desk as a ready reference providing instant access to superb English!
Taking the Florida Algebra 1 End-of-Course Exam? Then You Need REA’s Florida Algebra 1 End-of-Course Test Prep with Online Practice Exams! If you’re facing the Florida Algebra 1 End-of-Course exam this year and are concerned about your math score, don’t worry. REA’s test prep will help you sharpen your skills and pass this high-stakes exam! Completely aligned with the exam, REA’s Florida Algebra 1 End-of-Course test prep provides all the up-to-date instruction and practice you need to improve your math abilities. The comprehensive review features student-friendly, easy-to-follow examples that reinforce the concepts tested on the Algebra 1 End-of-Course exam. Our test prep is ideal for classroom, group, or individual study. Tutorials and targeted drills increase your comprehension while enhancing your math skills. Color icons and graphics throughout the book highlight important math concepts and tasks. REA’s test-taking tips and strategies give you the confidence you need on test day - so you can pass the exam and graduate! The book contains 2 full-length practice exams that let you test your knowledge while reinforcing what you’ve learned. Two unique practice tests are also available online for additional study. Each practice test comes complete with detailed explanations of answers, so you can focus on areas where you need extra review. This book is a must for any Florida student preparing for the Algebra 1 End-of-Course exam! About the Exam The Florida Algebra I End-of-Course exam measures middle and high school student achievement of the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards. All public school students are required to pass the exam in order to receive a high school diploma.
This fascinating volume explores an important fifteenth-century illustrated manuscript tradition that provides a revealing glimpse of how western Europeans conceptualized the world. From the classical encyclopedias of Pliny to famous tales such as The Travels of Marco Polo, historical travel writing has had a lasting impact, despite the fact that it was based on a curious mixture of truth, legend, and outright superstition. One foundational medieval source that expands on the ancient idea of the “wonders of the world” is the fifteenth-century French Book of the Marvels of the World, an illustrated guide to the globe filled with oddities, curiosities, and wonders—tales of fantasy and reality intended for the medieval armchair traveler. The fifty-six locales featured in the manuscript are presented in a manner that suggests authority and objectivity but are rife with stereotypes and mischaracterizations, meant to simultaneously instill a sense of wonder and fear in readers. In The Book of Marvels, the authors explore the tradition of encyclopedias and travel writing, examining the various sources for geographic knowledge in the Middle Ages. They look closely at the manuscript copies of the French text and its complex images, delving into their origins, style, content, and meaning. Ultimately, this volume seeks to unpack how medieval white Christian Europeans saw their world and how the fear of difference—so pervasive in society today—is part of a long tradition stretching back millennia.
Engines of Influence is a fifty-year history of Victoria's country newspapers, beginning with James Harrison's Geelong Advertiser in 1840 and ending in December 1890 when 166 papers were being published in 122 country towns. This significant book identifies all press sites and newspapers of the era, whether long-lasting or short-lived, and highlights the major part played by them in helping construct the machinery of government, lay the foundations of party politics and foster a sense of rural Victorian identity. The country press was an important agent of political change leading up to events such as the separation of the Port Phillip District from New South Wales in 1851, and the federation of the colony of Victoria with other British dependencies into a single nation at the end of the nineteenth century. Engines of Influence shows how country newspapers also exercised cultural authority, circulating ideas generated both within local communities and from the wider world. Towards the end of the fifty years examined, this rural press was becoming a close part of a unified political state, linked through the metropolitan press and agencies to a technologically-based global communications network.
In photographs and words, this beautifully presented book rekindles memories while providing glimpses of the 1960s in Australia: the Vietnam War and the conscription lottery; the Swinging Sixties, with its mini-skirts and changing fashions, the Beatles, Rolling Stones and the Australian group, The Seekers; the loss of a Prime Minister by drowning; the excitement of Kings Cross; the building of the iconic Opera House; the advent of decimal currency; Aboriginal recognition and the changing social patterns, including the arrival of immigrants from the UK and Europe; overseas working holidays for Australians; censorship; sporting successes and the new frontiers in Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland, with the mineral boom and new towns appearing in the desert. The kaleidoscopic images are in both colour and black-and-white and are juxtaposed to emphasise the differences that emerged during this exciting decade of change.
The Melbourne Age newspaper dominated the newspaper stage in Australia from the 1870s to the end of the colonial period. In the 1880s its circulation was far in excess of any other daily throughout all British colonial possessions and its proprietor, the driven, talented Scotsman David Syme, was acknowledged as the leader of the Australian press. For the influence that he and his newspapers exercised, he became a legend in his lifetime and for several generations after his death in 1908. Drawing on family and business records as well as newly digitised nineteenth-century newspaper archives, this biography of a powerful man of many parts seeks to go behind the legend and round out the story of the life -- primarily as press 'baron' but also as author and philosopher, financier, farmer, property developer and, not least, family man.
Over 2,000 years ago, two women in different seasons of life both exchanged a joyous pregnancy celebration! Mary and Elizabeth. Relatives...cousins? Aunt and niece? One young. One older. One married. One betrothed. One barren. One virgin. Multiple "Behold!" Moments. Both with unexpected pregnancies. Both in unpredictable situations. Both have babies destined by God and prophesied in the Hebrew Scriptures. Both humbly accept their future and their calling. Join us as we dive into Luke's first chapter of his Gospel on the Messiah. This 4 Week Study will draw you closer to God thru BEING present, BEHOLDING the Good News of our Savior, BELIEVING in the power of our God, and BECOMING Waymakers for the women around us.
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