Subject(s): English language -- Study and teaching Foreign speakers Textbooks | Language and languages -- Study and teaching | Multicultural education Summary: "This book examines the complexities of the multiple discourses, texts and voices that are embedded in teaching and learning materials from different language contexts. Each chapter

Subject(s): Witches -- Fiction | Drug addicts -- Fiction | Paranormal fiction Summary: "The world is not the way it was. The dead have risen, and the living are under attack. The powerful Church of real truth, in charge since the government fell, has sworn to reimburse citizens being harassed by the deceased. Enter Chess Putnam, a fully tat

Subject(s): Hyde, William -- Fiction | Elmet, Melissa (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Man-woman relationships -- Fiction | Elopement -- Fiction | Romance fiction Summary: Orphan William Hyde and professor's daughter Melissa Elmet fell passionately in love as teenagers at Oxford. But, after her family intervenes, their secret marriage is

Subject(s): Architectural drawing | Visual communication in art Summary: "Drawing is an important means to analyse information and develop rigorous arguments both conceptually and visually. Going beyond the how-to drawing manual, this book provides an instrumental approach to drawing, especially computer-generated drawings; it outlines how

Subject(s): Lebanon -- History Summary: Overview: In this impressive synthesis, William Harris narrates the history of the sectarian communities of Mount Lebanon and its vicinity. He offers a fresh perspective on the antecedents of modern multi-communal Lebanon, tracing the consolidation of Lebanon's Christian, Muslim, and Islamic derived s

Subject(s): Brain -- Popular works | Memory | Mental health Content advice: "We all understand the importance of daily exercise in keeping physically fit. But mental exercise is just as essential to our health and well-being--especially when it comes to defending against forgetfulness, memory loss, and even dementia. These and other age-as

Subject(s): Muslims -- United States | Citizenship -- United States Summary: "Since 2001, there has been a tremendous backlash against the very idea that it is possible to be both American and Muslim --the controversy over the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque" and the attempts to ban shari'a law are examples. Even within the Muslim

Subject(s): Cooking -- History | Food habits -- History | Food -- Social aspects Summary: Here the author tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of the world's great cuisines from the mastery of grain cooking some twenty thousand years ago, to the present. Probing beneath the apparent confusion of dozens of cuisines to reveal the u

Subject(s): Beirut (Lebanon) -- History Summary: Beirut is a tour de force that takes the reader from the ancient to the modern world, offering a dazzling panorama of the city's Seleucid, Roman, Arab, Ottoman, and French incarnations. Kassir vividly describes Beirut's spectacular growth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, concent

Subject(s): Architecture, Modern -- 20th century Summary: For nearly three decades, Eric Owen Moss Architects has been at work transforming the former industrial area of the Hayden Tract in Culver City, California into one of the most highly concentrated centres of architectural experimentation in the world. 'Eric Owen Moss Architects/3585&