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Reading: Traditions (Georgia Edition)

by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Reading GA edition is focused, organized, and easy to follow. The program shows the students how to read, write, and understand the unique language of vocabulary, so that they are prepared for every type of grammar quizzes, grammar enrichment, graphic organizers and more.

Readings For Sociology (Seventh Edition)

by Garth Massey

Readings for Sociology provides students with engaging selections that reveal the complexities of our social world and offer insights into sociological analysis. Garth Massey includes selections from popular and academic journals as well as lively book excerpts. All of the selections help students reach a new level of sociological understanding. While Readings for Sociology is comprehensive in its scope, offering a wide range of selections on the standard topics in the introductory course, its emphasis is particularly on social inequality and race, class, and gender.

Readings For Writers

by Anthony C. Winkler Jo Ray Mccuen

This best-selling rhetorical reader includes both essays and fiction and now offers a new chapter on combining the patterns of development, coverage of visual rhetoric, and more on the reading and writing process.

Readings In American Politics: Analysis and Perspectives (Fourth Edition)

by Ken Kollman

Introduces students to foundational works and recent scholarship that have shaped the way political scientists understand and analyze American government today.

Readings In Judaism, Christianity, And Islam

by Carlos M. N. Eire John Corrigan Martin S. Jaffee Frederick M. Denny

Composed mainly of primary source readings, but including important secondary sources well, Readings in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is designed to provide both chronological and topical coverage of each religion. The readings are grouped under six headings: Scripture and Tradition, Monotheism, Authority and Community, Worship and Ritual, Ethics, and Religion and Political Order. Readings for all three religions are arranged to allow for the identification of similarities and differences among the traditions. A brief introduction sets each reading in its time and place and, in many cases, provides commentary on the significance of the material. Readings in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is designed to supplement lectures and textbooks; is accessible to those just embarking on their study of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; provides a comprehensive basis for further study of all three religious traditions; and balances short, pointed excerpts with longer, detailed readings.

Readings In The Philosophy Of Social Science

by Michael Martin Lee C. Mcintyre

This is the first comprehensive anthology in the philosophy of social science to appear since the late 1960s. Covering all of the major areas in the discipline, it will serve as the standard source for scholarship in the field and could be used as the basis for an entire course. The anthology offers one complete, convenient, and well-chosen selection of readings, plus three specially commissioned articles that encompass the entire range of topics in the field and cover both sides of currently hot debates about explanation, methodological individualism, and the special sciences. The introductions to each section provide a map through the discipline. Michael Martin is Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. Lee C. McIntyre is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Colgate University. Sections cover: Explanation, Prediction, and Laws. Interpretation and Meaning. Rationality. Functional Explanation. Reductionism, Individualism, and Holism. Objectivity and Values. Problems of the Special Sciences. Commissioned articles: Taylor on Interpretation and the Sciences of Man Michael Martin. Microfoundations of Marxism, D. Little. Evidential Constraints: Pragmatic Empiricism in Archaeology, A. Wylie.

Readings for Writers

by Jo Ray McCuen-Metherell Anthony C. Winkler

This text offers some 100 readings from multiple genres, including poems, newspaper columns, diary entries, formal arguments, and instructional texts, as well as memoirs, speeches, and short stories. New chapters on critical reading and rhetorical modes as tools for inquiry are included, and examples of actual student writing are given in this 11th edition. McCuen is affiliated with Glendale College. Author information on Winkler is not given. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)

Readings for Writers

by Jo Ray McCuen-Metherell Anthony C. Winkler

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Readings from the Lu-Wang School of Neo-Confucianism

by Phillip J. Ivanhoe

This volume provides selected translations from the writings of Lu Xiangshan; Wang Yangming; and the Platform Sutra, a work which had profound influence on neo-Confucian thought. Each of these three sections is preceded by an introduction that sketches important features of the history, biography, and philosophy of the author and explores some of the main features and characteristics of his work. The range of genres represented--letters, recorded sayings, essays, meditations and poetry--provide the reader with insights into the philosophical and stylistic themes of this fascinating and influential branch of neo-Confucian thought.

Readings in American Government (5th Edition)

by Steffen W. Schmidt Mack C. Shelley Erica Merkley

This reader is updated to include the latest issues in American political debate. You will find numerous readings that deal with controversial issues, legal conflicts, and ethical judgment calls directly related to academia and students.

Readings in American Government (Ninth Edition)

by Mary P. Nichols David K. Nichols

A collection of important primary sources for the undergraduate to understand the connection between the principles of the American founding and contemporary politics.

Readings in Ancient Greek Philosophy from Thales to Aristotle, Fourth Edition

by C. D. C. Reeve Patricia Curd S. Marc Cohen

Soon after its publication, Readings in Ancient Greek Philosophy was hailed as the favorite to become the 'standard' text for survey courses in ancient philosophy. Nothing on the market touches it for comprehensiveness, accuracy, and readability. * (*APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy). Fifteen years on, that prediction has been borne out, and the volume's preeminence as the leading anthology for the teaching of ancient philosophy still stands. The Fourth Edition features a completely revamped and expanded unit on the Presocratics and Sophists that draws on the wealth of new scholarship published on these fascinating thinkers over the past decade or more. At the core of this unit, as ever, are the fragments themselves--but now in thoroughly revised and, in some cases, new translations by Richard McKirahan and Patricia Curd, among them those of the recently published Derveni Papyrus.

Readings in Ancient History: Thought and Experience from Gilgamesh to St. Augustine (7th edition)

by Nels M. Bailkey Richard Lim

This primary source reader covers the entire span of ancient history, providing helpful editorial material and carefully selected sources to promote learning.

Readings in Cognitive Psychology: Applications, Connections, and Individual Differences

by Greg L. Robinson-Riegler Bridget Robinson-Riegler

This reader offers articles that students can relate to several different facets of cognition, as well as other sub-disciplines of psychology. Topics such as the distinction between top-down and bottom-up processing, divided attention, proactive interference, language learnability, and expertise are presented in these up-to-date, highly informative, and interesting articles. This is a research reader students will find interesting, applicable, and extremely relevant to their course and lives. Students will get a good deal of exposure to the fundamental concepts that have helped define the field of cognitive psychology.

Readings in Comparative Politics: Political Challenges and Changing Agendas (2nd Edition)

by Mark Kesselman

With a collection drawn from a variety of published, unpublished, and electronic sources, the book offers students a good sample of the wide range of popular and scholarly views relevant to the major topics presented in introductory comparative courses. The book contains seven Chapters, viz., Introduction, States and Regimes, Governing the Economy, the Democratic Challenge, Collective Identity, Political Institutions and Political Challenges and Changing Agendas.

Readings in Database Systems (4th edition)

by Joseph M. Hellerstein Michael Stonebraker

This text provides both students and professionals with a grounding in database research and a technical context for understanding recent innovations in the field. The readings included treat the most important issues in the database area; the basic material for any DBMS professional.

Readings in Family Theory

by David L. Weis Thomas R. Chibucos Randall W. Leite

Readings in Family Theory provides undergraduate and graduate students with an excellent introduction to family theory.

Readings in Machine Translation

by Sergei Nirenburg Yorick Wilks Harold Somers

The field of machine translation (MT)--the automation of translation between human languages--has existed for more than fifty years. MT helped to usher in the field of computational linguistics and has influenced methods and applications in knowledge representation, information theory, and mathematical statistics. This valuable resource offers the most historically significant English-language articles on MT. The book is organized in three sections. The historical section contains articles from MT's beginnings through the late 1960s. The second section, on theoretical and methodological issues, covers sublanguage and controlled input, the role of humans in machine-aided translation, the impact of certain linguistic approaches, the transfer versus interlingua question, and the representation of meaning and knowledge. The third section, on system design, covers knowledge-based, statistical, and example-based approaches to multilevel analysis and representation, as well as computational issues.

Readings in Social Theory: The Classic Tradition to Post-Modernism, 4th edition

by James Farganis

This anthology of primary readings in sociological theory covers the major theorists and schools from classic to contemporary, modernist, and postmodernist, in a chronological organization. Its comprehensive coverage makes this book appealing as a main text for professors who want to encourage students to read and interpret original sources or as a supplement for those who use a traditional main text.

Readings in World Christian History: Earliest Christianity to 1453

by John Coakley Andrea Sterk

Through the advice of many scholars of Christian origins the selections here include texts that show students how Christianity developed and was lived in Asia, Africa, and the Mediterranean. These texts show Christian life beyond the confines of Byzantine and Western Christendom as Christians enter the Mongol and Chinese courts, struggle to cope with Islam, and continue to live in places such as Ethiopia and Egypt. <p><p>Designed for the classroom Readings in World Christian History highlights the variety of Christianities that grew out of the Palestinian Jesus Movement of the first century.

Readings in the Western Humanities (Volume II, Seventh Edition)

by Roy Matthews F. Dewitt Platt

Designed to accompany volume two of The Western Humanities, Seventh Edition, by Matthews et al. , this anthology offers students selections from the West's literary and philosophical heritage, helping them establish vital intellectual links to the achievements of the continually evolving Western tradition. Each reading is preceded by an introduction providing information about the author and historical context for the document. In addition, "Reading the Selections" sections provide more specific information to prepare students for reading the documents to follow. Selections are footnoted.

Ready Classroom Matematicas Grado 4 Volumen 2

by Curriculum Associates

Ready® Classroom Mathematics Grade 4 - Volume 2 covers Unit-4 and Unit-5. Unit-4 Fractions, Decimals, and Measurement Addition, Subtraction, and Multiplication contains Lesson-17 to Lesson-29. Unit-5 Geometry and Measurement Figures, Classification, and Symmetry contain Lesson 30 to Lesson 34. This book also has a Bilingual Glossary.

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by Curriculum Associates

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