Hopscotch is a six-level primary series that follows an accessible, traditional, easy-to-teach methodology with a speaking and listening focus in the early levels and reading and writing introduced explicitly from Level 3 onwards. ? Filled with engaging National Geographic photographs and content that captures the imagination of young learners, Hopscotch introduces language and skills through a fun and friendly cast of main characters - a boy, girl, crocodile, parrot and bear!

Wonderful World is an innovative six-level course for primary school children. It brings the world of English language learning to life through fun stories, breathtaking images and fascinating facts which will engage and entertain your learners, as they find out about the world around them. It incorporates: Stunning National Geographic photography Texts inspired by National Geographic content Authentic National Geographic DVD material

Wonderful World is an innovative six-level course for primary school children. It brings the world of English language learning to life through fun stories, breathtaking images and fascinating facts which will engage and entertain your learners, as they find out about the world around them. It incorporates: Stunning National Geographic photography Texts inspired by National Geographic content Authentic National Geographic DVD material

Hopscotch is a six-level primary series that follows an accessible, traditional, easy-to-teach methodology with a speaking and listening focus in the early levels and reading and writing introduced explicitly from Level 3 onwards. ? Filled with engaging National Geographic photographs and content that captures the imagination of young learners, Hopscotch introduces language and skills through a fun and friendly cast of main characters - a boy, girl, crocodile, parrot and bear!

Wonderful World is an innovative six-level course for primary school children. It brings the world of English language learning to life through fun stories, breathtaking images and fascinating facts which will engage and entertain your learners, as they find out about the world around them. It incorporates: Stunning National Geographic photography Texts inspired by National Geographic content Authentic National Geographic DVD material

Suitable for 9-11 year olds, this title features an adventure cartoon story for Levels 1 & 2.

This important volume fulfills one of Peter Brunt's (1917 - 2005) last wishes: a collection of his most important papers in the area of scholarship that had occupied him in his earliest years of research, and which largely absorbed his attention after his retirement from the Camden Chair of Roman History at Oxford University in 1982. Brunt was interested primarily in Stoicism in the Roman period, and his chief concern was the practical influence of its ethical teaching on political and social life. Although his investigations were historical, they required a complete mastery of the Stoic texts and doctrine. Basing his work almost entirely on the ancient sources, Brunt provides the most complete account and comparison available today not only of the ideas of the Roman Stoic moralists, but also of the political philosophy of the Greek founders of the Stoa. He believed that the ideas of the Stoics of the Roman period were essentially continuous with the thinking of the founders, and he did not accept that the concern with practical everyday morality in later Stoicism was a new development. Studies in Stoicism contains six unpublished and seven republished essays, the latter incorporating additions and changes which Brunt wished to be made. The papers have been integrated and arranged in roughly chronological order and by subject matter, with an accessible lecture to the Oxford Philological Society serving as Brunt's own introduction.

Harnessing the National Geographics photography and non-fiction texts World Wonders really takes young learners on an adventure through the wonders of the natural world and through different cultures and customs and teaches the students about the world beyond the classroom. A four level course taking students up to an intermediate/B1.

A concise, authoritative compilation of the essential information needed to diagnose and manage cardiovascular disease Current Diagnosis and Treatment Cardiology, Sixth Edition, covers the latest developments in the field with detailed, consistently structured chapters with sharp clinical images that aid comprehension. Presented in the popular LANGE format, each chapter discusses diagnostic techniques, prevention strategies, treatment, and prognosis. The detailed, uniform structure, and 200+ sharp clinical images, including ECGs, drawings, graphs, and charts aid reader comprehension. This sixth edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect revised guidelines and treatments. NEW content: Cardiac Conduction Disorders and Pacing and Tricuspid and Pulmonic Valve Disease NEW chapters: Cardio-Oncology and Dilated Cardiomyopathy Major revision of Myocarditis chapter covers Covid-19 Essential for board review: Cardiovascular disease is largest part of ABIM internal medicine certification exam NEW devices: Cardiac Conduction Disorders and Pacing and Tricuspid and Pulmonic Valve Disease Medication news: Endocrinology and the Heart, Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction Percutaneous repair and techniques: Aortic Stenosis, Mitral Regurgitation, and Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms and Dissections, and more

While the previous two volumes in this series were based upon methodol ogy, theory, and the relationship between ecology and population structure, this book can be viewed as an in-depth case study. The population genetics of a multitude of diverse groups geographically distributed throughout the world was examined in the first two volumes. In contrast, this volume focuses upon a single ethnic group, the Black Caribs (Garifuna) of Central America and St. Vincent Island, and explores the interrelationships among the ethnohistory, sociocultural characteristics, demography, morphology, and genetic structure of the group. This volume offers a broad and intensive treatment of the Black Caribs and their interactions with surrounding populations. My interest in the genetics of the Black Caribs was sparked by an accidental meeting in Amsterdam, Holland, in March 1975. A conversation with Nancie Gonzalez at the Applied Anthropology Meetings revealed the "truth-is-stranger than.fiction" history of the Black Carib peoples of the Caribbean. This was a popUlation with a small-sized founding group and a unique biological success story. Nancie Gonzalez was particularly interested in estimating the Carib Indian admixture in the contemporary Garifuna popUlation. Given my previous experi ence in estimating Spanish and African admixture in the Tlaxcaltecan population (whose gene pool consisted predominantly of Indian alleles), a group that appeared to be primarily African with some Indian admixture was of great interest. Aside from the ethnohistorical interest, I believe that such a population may add conSiderably to our understanding of the inheritance of complex morphological traits."

Between the Sack of Rome by the Gauls in 390 BC and the middle of the second century BC, a part-time army of Roman peasants, under the leadership of the ruling oligarchy, conquered first Italy and then the whole of the Mediterranean. The loyalty of these marrauding heroes, and of the Roman population as a whole, to their leaders was assured by a share in the rewards of victory, rewards which became steadily less accessible as the empire expanded - promoting a decline in loyalty of cataclysmic proportions. Wars, rural impoverishments, civil discord and slavery are a few of the subjects covered in this study.

Arnaldo Momigliano was convinced that all disciplines need to be aware of their own history. His famous lecture "Ancient History and the Antiquarian", delivered in 1949 at the Warburg Institute, and published in 1950 in the "Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes", has become a landmark. In it he showed how historiography had been changed by the recognition that what historians had left out of the record could be put back by the antiquarians. He argued that a comprehensive interest in the vestiges of ancient civilization, beginning in the Renaissance and refined and enlarged during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, made a rigid distinction between historical and antiquarian studies unjustifiable; furthermore, the standards set by the antiquarians in the understanding and interpretation of the past still have relevance. In December 1991, four years after Momigliano's death, an international colloquium was held at the Warburg Institute in his memory. The participants, from London, Berlin, Paris, Princeton and Rome, presented papers which both illustrated Momigliano's theme and assess his own contribution. This volume presents these papers, and borrows its title from Momigliano's original lecture.

Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab (1703-1792) aroused great controversy in his lifetime. More than two centuries after his death he still elicits strong views. For some he is the model of a pious religious activist who fought to establish a regime of Islamic godliness in the least promising of environments. For others, especially Muslims associated with mystic orders or who belong to the Shi'i branch of Islam, he is a hate figure. Few would contest that he shaped the Muslim world. For over two hundred and fifty years the Wahhabi religious movement has rested on the twin pillars of a clear, compelling credo and an indissoluble alliance with temporal power in Arabia. Absolutist, uncompromising theology and political and religious ambition combined to make it the dominant force there, turning its champions, the Al Sa'ud clan, from petty rulers of a middle-sized settlement with a talent for balancing interests, into the guardians of Islam's Holy Places, disposing of the earth's greatest identified oil reserves. This thought-provoking and incisive biography, which charts the relationship between religious doctrine, political power and events on the ground, is ideal for readers interested in uncovering the life and convictions of the man who founded the Wahhabi movement and a dynastic alliance between his clerical descendants and Saudi princes that has lasted to the present day.

Wonderful World is an innovative six-level course for primary school children. It brings the world of English language learning to life through fun stories, breathtaking images and fascinating facts which will engage and entertain your learners, as they find out about the world around them. It incorporates: Stunning National Geographic photography Texts inspired by National Geographic content Authentic National Geographic DVD material

If a scholar wishes to create a picture of a modern society in all its aspects, there is little of what he needs to know that he cannot know, although there may still be much that he cannot understand. For the history of Greece and Rome, there is a great deal which is simply unknowable. From the end of the archaic age of Greece, there is an unbroken sequence of works by Greek and, later, Roman historians down to the end of antiquity. But their vision and range of interest were often limited and much of what they did produce has been lost. Some help may be derived from the documentary material produced in antiquity, material which was the product of officials organising public activities, or heads of families organising their affairs, or individuals leaving their mark on the world. Beyond this, the evidence of archaeology and numismatics may also be helpful. The four essays in this book set out to characterise the nature of the ancient literary tradition, the inscriptional material, the archaeological and numismatic evidence and to explain how and for what purposes they may be used.

Giles Kirk, son of sharecroppers, rose to power and wealth through greed, guile, and manipulation. But his skillfully fabricated facade collapsed when Spoony Pitt stumbled back into his life. The caller was Giles Kirk, the town's lawyer, dressed, as always, like a Boston Banker. He wore paten leather boots in which were tucked fashionable brown trousers, a charcoal vest over a white shirt, his usual black string tie with silver tips, a dark blue vest and a black cotton coat with four sky blue buttons. On his head sat a broad brimmed leather hat, which he removed and handed to Joseph. His chin seemed to jut more than usual that morning. That and his furrowed brow suggested that he was in a bad mood. He was a forty year-old man of average height, and in demeanor he seemed to be sincere, honest, wealthy, powerful and happily married. But in truth, he was a deeply unhappy man who pretended to be what he wasn't, for he had weaknesses the opposite of what he projected -- dishonesty, miserliness, insecurity and sexual adventurousness. Polly was in her early forties and still a handsome woman. She had a short, lithe body topped with a nest of graying auburn hair. Her eyes were light green and quite attractive. Her face was almost circular and she had smooth, rounded cheeks, expressive lips and even, white teeth. In the shallow part of Giles' mind, he thought her face pretty, but not beautiful. But beneath his shallow thoughts, in the hidden part his mind, the part kept secret from his every-day thoughts, the part that never lied, the part that guided him, Polly's face was powerfully alluring. Geography dictated where he found himself, that bulbous bundle of pretense and misery that called itself Spoony Pitt. The coast was not a straight line between New Orleans and Acton. Ships and boats could sail in a straight line across the sea, but a man afoot, unless he could walk on water, would have to trace a near semicircle from New Orleans to Acton. At the moment, Spoony was sitting at the end of a wagon with his legs dangling down, sharing the wagon bed with lowing, pooping cows, lurching from side to side and fantasizing about his next meal. The soles of his shoes were holey, and the tops were filthy with mud, wagon grease and offal. His face was shaggy with a three day beard. The striped pants he wore, once of finely tailored wool, had holes in their knees, and the thighs bore stains of many foods and spices that never quite reached his cavernous mouth. The top three buttons of his trousers were unbuttoned, and a yards-long black belt held his pants to his massive waistline. He wore a once-white shirt that was gray from lack of washing, and streaked with stains of sauces too thin for a fork, and dribbles of chewing tobacco from his lazy lips. The black wool coat he wore had rumpled tails and was wildly unsuited for the hot, humid climate in which he lived. But to Spoony, it was 'gentleman's apparel, ' the sort that an Englishman would wear, and as Spoony fancied himself a gentleman, he dressed accordingly.

LILI'S STORY is a tale of love and betrayal, struggle and reward, greed and generosity. It opens in 1886, in a South still recovering from the Civil War. Among struggling neighbors, Frank Wallace has built a highly successful farm while failing in relations with his family. His only child, Hank, is a misfit whose need for affection and acceptance is exploited by a fast-talking townie, Deuce Shiflet. Deuce discovers Frank Wallace's secret shame and sets in motion a succession struggle as he seeks to embezzle the wealth of the Wallace Farm The story then moves to town, where Seth Cormier, eight years younger than Hank, idolizes Athena, his beautiful and intelligent cousin. He disgraces himself in college and, to regain his self-respect, leaves home to work as a farm laborer at the McLane Farm, where his uncle is Steward. As he climbs the ladder from laborer to foreman to his uncle's apprentice, he develops affection for Katy, whose love helps him forget Athena -- so he thinks. In 1920, the story returns to the Wallace Farm when Seth is hired as its Steward by Lili's dying mother. In accepting guardianship of 13- year-old Lili and her farm, he earns the hatred of her father Hank. Re-entering as Lili's teacher and mentor, Athena brings conflict to Seth as he struggles to honor his commitment to Katy, even as his love for Athena rekindles. Lili's love for neighbor Luke McClaren incites Hank's rage and reignites Deuce Shiflet's scheming. In the exciting conclusion, Lili, the youngest and most improbable of them all, cures Hank's waywardness and resolves the love triangle that ensnarls Seth and Athena.

By turns hilarious, revelatory and desperately sad, here is the autobiography of the man whose successes such as Hello Dolly!, Some Mothers Do `Ave 'Em and The Phantom of the Opera have made him a national institution. The story of the true identity of his father, which is behind this book's title, leads into an evocative depiction of his tender childhood years. Whilst all the men were away at war, he was surrounde d by loving women. For him this was an idyllic wartime childhood, but the return of the men in peacetime signalled darker times to come. Crawford's infectious enjoyment of stage work illumines his account of his early struggles to make a name for himself in the business, and his early failures with girls are lifted by his abiding sense of the absurd. Both in his private life and his work he begins a lifetime's habit of pratfalls that he would later turn to good use in the character of Frank Spencer in Some Mothers Do `Ave 'Em. His talent for mimicry makes the great personalities in his life come alive on the page; people he has worked with, including Benjamin Britten who taught him to sing, John Lennon - with whom he shared a villa - and Oliver Reed, Michael Winner, Barbra Steisand, Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra.