In this new edition, Reader's Choice continues its legacy of teaching skills for academic success. The brand new edition of the classic textbook teaches readers that the most important skill is selecting the best reading strategies for solving everyday reading challenges. The exercises and readings in Reader's Choice help students become independent, efficient readers.Reader's Choice provides 9 units that teach progressively more complex reading strategies. These units are accompanied by skills-focused activities as well as full reading passages. Units include readings and materials from respected news sites such as NPR, commonly used items like transit maps, excerpts from well-known literary works such as Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery," and much more. Together, these readings provide engaging, real world examples that allow students to strengthen the reading skills vital to academic and career success. In Reader's Choice, 6th Edition, students will: Learn key critical reading skills for prose, charts, graphs, and data, such as analyzing context clues, using prefixes and suffixes, and more Develop contextual reading skills through real life scenarios and practice exercises Engage with high-interest examples from popular news sources, contemporary literature, and scientific studies - Complete interactive online quizzes and exercises to supplement and measure student learning Reader's Choice, 6th Edition is accompanied by a companion website featuring student resources and by a set of teaching materials supporting classroom use. CEFR Levels: B1, B2, C1, C2

In a media age, wars are waged not only with bombs and planes but also with video and sound bites. War of Words is an incisive report from the linguistic battlefields, probing the tales told about September 11th to show how Americans created consensus in the face of terror. Capturing the campaigns for America's hearts, minds, wallets and votes, Silberstein traces the key cultural conflicts that surfaced after the attacks and beyond:

• the attacks on critical intellectuals for their perceived 'blame America first' attitude
• the symbiotic relationship between terrorists and the media
• (mis)representations of Al Qaeda and the Taliban used to justify military action
• the commercialisation of September 11th
• news as 'entertainment' when covering tragic events.

Now featuring a new chapter on the Second Anniversary and Beyond, including: the war in Iraq, the backlash against former 'heroes' and accusations of presidential mendacity.
A perceptive and disturbing account, War of Words reveals the role of the media in manufacturing events and illuminates the shifting sands of American collective identity in the post September 11th world.

The two volumes of "Choice Readings, International Edition," contain all the high-quality reading skills and strategies in the highly acclaimed first ed-ition of "Choice Readings," These separate and self-contained reading texts provide flexibility for classroom use while focusing on the skills intermediate-level ESL/EFL students of English need to develop and practice their reading skills:
stems and affixes
sentence study
paragraph reading
restatement and inference
dictionary use
contextual cues
composition
The "International Editions of Choice Readings" provide a wide range of authentic reading experiences:
Book 1
Maps
Newspaper articles
Magazine articles
Technical prose
Prose: fiction and mysteries
Book 2
Applications and questionnaires
Charts and graphs
Fables
Advice columns
Children's literature
Poetry
Both books contain valuable appendixes and answer keys.
For intermediate ESL/EFL students.