Why do we do good things for one another? Do we still do good things if we get nothing in return? This reader explores the science, impulses, and reasons behind altruism in both humans and animals.
Provides contextualized reading practice students need to learn and retain new vocabulary. Before Reading, Reading Check, and After Reading activities review and reinforce vocabulary, ensure comprehension, and build critical thinking skills. Links to The Oxford Picture Dictionary provide a visual glossary for easy reference. Audio CDs include recorded versions of all the readers.
Mummies, coffins, tombs, elaborate funerals with fireworks...explore the many ways people deal with death. You will receive a code to access the online reader, complete with videos and interactive exercises. Word count: 2853. Lexile Reading Level: 890L.
Would you live in space? How about in a cave? Would you mind living below a volcano? Explore the many dangerous and unusual places people can live all over (and outside of!) the world. Use the unique code inside the book to access the online reader, complete with videos and interactive exercises. Word count: 2893. Lexile Reading Level: 960L
How do we decide where a country ends and begins? Come examine the ideas of borders and territory, on Earth and beyond. Use the unique code inside the book to access the online reader, complete with videos and interactive exercises. Word count: 2736. Lexile Reading Level: 780L
40 Years of Cycling Photography represents a lifetime's work for World famous cycling photographer Graham Watson. From Bernard Hinault in the 1970's through to Chris Froome in the 2010's, Watson's photography of the greatest champions and epic races is the most complete cycling archive ever captured by a single photographer.
What common culture is, what it offers, and how to generate it.
If you're a vegan who's missing your favorite drive-through, diner, or dive, look no further! In Vegan Fast Food, Brian Watson, AKA Thee Burger Dude, delivers vegan takes that are just as good as you remember-maybe even better.
Using a framework based on J. L. Austin’s understanding of performative speech and Angela Esterhammer’s work on how things are done with words in Milton’s and Blake’s poetry, this study provides an extended close reading of the speech acts of characters in Blake’s epic poem Milton.
Backstabbing, stalking, and illicit love; discover the Brontë family as they’ve never been seen before