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Learning Vocabulary in Another Language provides a detailed survey of research and theory on the teaching and learning of vocabulary with the aim of providing pedagogical suggestions for both teachers and learners. It contains descriptions of numerous vocabulary learning strategies which are justified and supported by reference to experimental research, case studies, and teaching experience. It also describes what vocabulary learners need to know to be effective language users. Learning Vocabulary in Another Language shows that by taking a systematic approach to vocabulary learning, teachers can make the best use of class time and help learners get the best return for their learning effort. It will quickly establish itself as the point of reference for future vocabulary work.
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This book gets it done. . . .......2006-11-25
I can't agree more with the previous reviewer. This book is by far the best I've read on the subject--highly informed, highly practical, research-based, and comprehensive. If you're in doubt about whether to buy it, take a moment to look through the table of contents and the excerpts! After reading this book at a library, I can't imagine *not* buying a copy for my classroom.
Indispensable resource on vocabulary learning.......2004-01-03
This book was recommended to me by an English professor whose area of expertise is EFL vocabulary building. If you're an English teacher looking for a book which explains teaching vocabulary to ESL/EFL students in a crystal-clear manner, this is THE book.
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This is a third edition of this durable book...Placed in the hands of prospective teachers, this book will show how art serves as a communication in learning.
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Art: Another Language for Learning presents true stories about childhood development, with accompanying discussions about the role of the art processes as well as products. It helps teachers and parents understand what they see when they look at children's art-and how to respond so that they may extend communication and advance learning.
Authors Cohen and Gainer provide an ideal resource for anyone without previous art training now working with children. Moreover, they encourage teachers, students, and parents to embrace the myriad ways art can unlock doors, encourage expression, and enhance learning.
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1657. This work presents a universal character so that all nations may understand one another's conceptions, reading out of one common writing their own mother tongues. It is an invention of general use, the practice whereof may be attained in two hours' space, observing grammatical directions, which character is so contrived that it may be spoken as well as written. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty, faded or difficult to read. Old English text.
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From the supplier: Intellectual development theories offer a great deal of assistance to writing tutors and teachers in helping students become better writers, thinkers, and develop strategies to improve the overall writing process. Teachers in the US know that one way of improving intellectual development is to suggest alternative strategies that will exercise students' abilities to understand and overcome their problems.
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- Elegant Fantasy: The Jewelry of Arline Fisch
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Elegant Fantasy: The Jewelry of Arline Fisch.......2007-01-09
What a wonderful book! Arline Fisch is just the best when it comes to making elegant jewelry in a far from ordinary way. Her designs are spectacular. What an inspiration. This book will also look great on the coffee table.
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- Informative and the last word on the subject.
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Informative and the last word on the subject........2000-10-18
A book with interviews with american exploitation directors who worked during the 70's, 80's and 90's like Jim Wynorski, Fred Olen Ray, Paul Bartel, Sean Cunningham, Sam Raimi and Wes Craven. This book was written before the Scream trilogy so Craven isn't treated with that much respect, they claim that Sean Cunningham (Friday the 13th) have been more successful! Interesting look into the lowbudget direct-to-video business in the 80's. Some directors don't exactly seems to be proud over their work. Guess it must be hard for fans of a movie to hear that the director just did it for the money and that he himself unliked the film. I'm not exactly the biggest fan of these directors and their films so I guess those who are will find this book much better than me. But it's informative and the information about their work comes directly from the filmmakers themselves so I'll guess this book is the best source you can get on the subject.
And excellent follow-up.......1998-08-01
First came Re-Search's "Incredibly Strange Films". Then came this. It's an excellent book in it's own right, with interviews and overviews of cult movie directors. And it DOES continue where the first book left off, updating and presenting newer directors as well. A must-have for all genre movie enthusiasts!!
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Examine the solo concepts of the masters in this unique book/CD pack. You'll learn the signature techniques of Jimi Hendrix, Yngwie Malmsteen, Randy Rhoads, Steve Vai, Edward Van Halen and many others through phrase-by-phrase performance notes. Also covers long ascending and descending runs, two-handed guitar, rapid-fire repeating licks, sweep picking, building solos and more. The book includes standard notation and tab, and the CD features full demonstrations and rhythm-only tracks.
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Over my head.......2007-02-12
I'm a average guitar player and have purchased alot of instruction books on Amazon...
I found this one to be way over my head...
I'm not saying it's a bad book it's just not for your average or below player...
The instructor is playing riffs at warp speed...so unless you are a master shredder in which case if your good enough to play the leads in this book...You would be writing books not buying them to learn..Maybe you should pass on it... pass on it...
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This book/CD pack in the Signature Licks series gives lead guitarists transcriptions and detailed lessons for 15 famous solos, from hard rock heroes such as Ozzy, Van Halen, Tesla, Great White, Scorpions, Ratt and others. Includes: Addicted to That Rush * Fight the Good Fight * Flying High Again * I Don't Believe in Love * Ice Cream Man * Love Song * Man in the Box * Owner of a Lonely Heart * Paradise City * Paranoid * Rock Me * Rock You like a Hurricane * Round and Round * Wait * You Give Love a Bad Name.
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The Blackmar- Diemer Gambit KeyBook II byRev. Tim Sawyer The KeyBook II is here! Now the exciting Blackmar-Diemer Gambit is brought up-to-the-minute in this incredible volume, featuring the latest in computer-guided analysis (with unexpected results!), correspondence and e-mail tournaments, even high-rated blitz encounters from the Internet Chess Club! An unbelievable 2700+ games - many seen nowhere else - along with thousands of new analytical suggestions, makes the KeyBook II your complete "Play to Win" manual. Tim McGrew, a noted BDG expert, writes: "Tim Sawyers new KeyBook II brings together a staggering amount of fresh material, including recent games and unpublished analysis, in a well-organized format....it defines the state-of-the-art for this aggressive opening." And the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit is fun to play! White sacrifices one measly pawn in return for open lines, quick development, and early threats. For the pawn White gets dangerous attacking chances, and guarantees a lively and tension-filled struggle. In fact, this cut-throat opening wins a high percentage of games at every level, often in 20 moves or less! Not surprisingly, many Grandmasters have played the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, such as Tartakower, Velimirovic, Bellon, and Serper. Other Grandmasters have faced and lost to the BDG, including U.S. champion Joel Benjamin. At the club level the BDG is a deadly weapon, able to inspire fanatical devotion; here the BDG is a cult opening with its own magazines, websites and thematic tournaments. Years of careful research and testing have shaped the BDG into a powerful Kingside attacking machine - and now the KeyBook II propells this combative opening into the next millenium! "The Blackmar-Diemer Gambit is not a boxing jab; it is a knockout punch - and White gets to throw the first punch! Stop playing for the endgame; play to end the game! Be a winner. Play the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit!" -Tim Sawyer
Customer Reviews:
Great choice of opening to improve.......2003-11-23
If you are a begginer or intermediate player you can probably reap great benefits from playing this opening. When I started using it my USCF rating was 1500, and a few months later it was 1800. I have realized though that when you start facing stronger opponents (2000 and over) it is difficult to obtain enough compensation for the pawn.
I have had trouble mostly with the variation 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 e5!? and also with some lines of the Bogoljubov defense (5...g6 after accepting the gambit).
Since I also started playing more correspondence chess I had to slowly move away from this opening and nowadays I only use it with players under 1800 or when I play blitz. Nevertheless, I know that playing this opening for a while helped me improve my tactics and attacking chess greatly!
A bit of a rebuttal.......2003-10-28
I am a devotee of this opening. I have played it hundreds of times with excellent results. Two years ago I was a 1500 player who started studying tactics extensively and adopted an almost all gambit repertoire. Now my rating is usually 2000-2050. I owe a lot of the improvement to this opening.
First, let me say that the book is quite adequately reviewed by Electra 10, Zilbermints and Ichino. To the extent that they have minor disagreements, I agree with Electra 10. I am writing this review to point out what I believe are errors, both objective and subjective, by the Chessgeek review.
Chessgeek says the Teichman Defense (1 d4 d5 2 e4 dxe4 3 Nc3 Nf6 4 f3 exf3 5 Nxf3 Bg4) is best. The author's database statistics dispute that showing it scoring only 32% and a couple of the other defenses doing somewhat better. He then gives the continuation 6. h3 Bxf3 7. Qxf3 c6 8. Bd3 Qb6 with the idea of castling Queenside as a winning plan for Black. Unfortunately there is no such variation in this book, or anything close to it. The move 8. Bd3? is mentioned only once in a footnote (the "?" because it allows ...Qxd4). The mainline moves at move 8 are: Be3, g4, or Qf2. I thought maybe his 8. Bd3 was a typo and he meant the aforementioned "old" mainline move, 8. Be3, there are four 8. Be3 Qb6 move order games referred to in the book and White wins 3 of them and should have won the fourth as he blundered in a nearly won postion. His suggested line is not in my Blackmar-Diemer Gambit Mega CD that has about 15,000 BDG games. It is also not in the first Keybook either.
Then Chessgeek mentions that you can play 1. d4 d5 2. e4 dxe4 3. Nc3 e5 with "...easy equality." This is the so-called Lemberger Counter Gambit. In my BDG database White's "old" move 4. Nxe4 is scoring 61% with a +128 performance rating! Hardly "easy equality." Sawyer advocates the "new" move, i.e., 4 Nge2, which statistically is performing nearly as well as 4. Nxe4.
Moving on to the subjective, Chessgeek feels that White is under pressure and must play with great precision because he is a pawn down whereas Black can equalize and maybe win just by playing commonsense moves. As this author and other BDG authors have pointed out, the White position becomes so menacing that the pressure on Black is intense and often he has only one possible saving move (and often not a very obvious one at that)whereas White often has the luxury of several attacking plans. This mirrors my own experience playing this opening. Even though I know the system reasonably well, I have very few wins as Black.
This is one opening that you can truly reap benefits by studying the main systems and attacking motifs presented in this book since you will have the opportunity to play a BDG every time Black answers l d4 with d5 and most of the time when he responds Nf6. It can be a lot of fun and can greatly simplify your opening system.
The Best Blackmar-Diemer book ever.......2003-01-22
If you play the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit (BDG) or want to, you need this book. The main line BDG starts like this: 1. d4 d5 2. e4 dxe4 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. f3 exf3 5. Nxf3 or l. d4 Nf6 2. Nc3 d5 3.e4 dxe4 4. f3 exf3 5. Nxf3. One thing that is really great about this gambit is that you get to play it a very high percentage of the time. Attempts at the French or Caro-Kan can be forced into the BDG (1.d4 d5 2. e4 e6 3. Be3 dxe4 4. Nd2 Nf6 5. f3 exf3 6. Nxf3 and 1. d4 d5 2. e4 c6 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. f3 exf3 5.Nxf3). This gambit is fun to play and I have found it to produce great results. I have played this gambit countless times on the internet and have scored many wins in under 20 moves. It can be exciting.
This book contains over 2700 games in a well organized format. There is virtually everything you will need to play the BDG. All the normal defenses are covered as well as the attempts to avoid or decline the BDG. Sawyer has also produced the BDG gambit keybook in 1992 that has 700 games (100 games for each of 7 chapters). If you can find it, get it too.
I believe the other reviewers' criticizing the book for not showing how to play against the Benoni, French, Pirc and Caro-Kan are misplaced. The French is covered in game 6. The Caro-Kan is covered in games 45-49 and 8 and 24. I don't think there can be a Benoni position because white doesn't play c4. The Pirc completely avoids the BDG so I don't think the author should be charged with covering it anymore than he should have to cover 1...f5, the Dutch Defense or 1...b6, the English defense. This is, after all, a book on the BDG and not a complete repertoire for 1 d4.
Having said that though I do appreciate Reviewer Lev Zilbermints comments on Sawyer's treatment of the Zilbermints gambit. I have printed it out and put it in my book! Thanks.
If you decide to play the BDG I suggest you also purchase Sawyer's "Alapin French." It is a small book (86 pages) with 50 annotated games and 220 other fragments or whole games included in the text. While The BDG Keybook II includes 30 or so Alapin French games in the text of Game 6, it is worth having the extra games and information.
Kudos to Tim Sawyer for not including any of the games in his first BDG Keybook or his Alapin French (except for Game 6) in The BDG Keybook II.
Finally, playing this opening is an ideal way to improve your tactics and attacking skills. You'll get to use them a lot!
Blackmar-Diemer Keybook II.......2001-04-14
I bought the second edition of the Keybook. It has a lot of interesting games, but, like Mr. Ted Ichino of California wrote, its main problem is that it does not address the issue of playing against the Benoni, French, Pirc, or Caro-Kann (i.e. the BDG Avoided). For this reason I give this book four stars.
It has many of my games included, such as the Zilbermints Gambit in the Euwe Defense to the BDG (5...e6 6 Bg5 Be7 7 Bd3 Nc6 8 OO! Nxd4 9 Kh1!), and my recommendations against the Bogoljubow Defense.
I am disappointed, however, by the games Drueke-Sawyer and Sawyer-Just not being analysed deep enough. Both games are critical to understanding my gambit against the 7...Nc6 variation in the Euwe Defense. For example, in the Drueke-Sawyer game, 12 Bh4 instead of 12 Qh4?! would have been OK for White. And in the Sawyer-Just game, instead of 13 Ne5? , White should have played 13 Bb5!
But overall, even with typos, this is an excellent book. If you wish to learn the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, I strongly recommend you buy it.
Buy the first edition (1992) too -- it has some great stuff the second one does not -- and use both to learn the BDG. Good luck!!
Great opening for the attacking player.......2000-02-13
If you are a positional player who loves obscure maneuvering behind locked pawns, this book is not for you. If you are a GM or IM, you won't be reading this review. But for the rest of us class players, this is a great book. Chess is supposedly 99% tactics (Soltis would say 'calculation' rather than tactics) and the best and most fun way to learn how the pieces cooperate and coordinate is to play attacking chess. But you can spend months learning, say, the King's Gambit, and then never get a chance to play it in a world teeming with Sicilian, French, Caro-Kan and Modern defenses. By playing 1. e4, you are allowing Black to dictate which opening will be played. The beauty of the Blackmar-Diemer gambit is that (in my experience, at least) over 90% of the games are steered into a BDG or related system. If Black replies to 1. d4 with 1. ... d5, 2. e4 puts you directly into a BDG. If Black responds with 1 ... Nf6, you have a choice of transposing via the Veresov, 2. Nc3 or the Paleface Attack, 2. f3. Either approach will almost invariably land you in a BDG, so your study will not be wasted.
I was a B-player when I bought the first edition of this book. After I read it, the only tournament game (40/90; G/1) I lost with it was to a master, who I later defeated with another BDG (I got lucky). I beat two experts and drew a B-player. The first edition has a lot of stuff that the newer edition leaves out, such as how to play against a Benoni, Pirc, and French, but the second edition has some great traps. The very first game in the book has a fantastic trap which I have sprung on four opponents in a few months; this stuff is usable! The downside is that this is a complex opening and is difficult to learn. On the bright side, you never get bored, since every game has a different complexion. If you are bored with cat-and-mouse positional maneuvering and want to slug it out toe-to-toe in the center of the ring, this book will show you how. The BDG is the only attacking opening I have been able to steer opponents into playing. There is a psychological shock value to it too--your opponent does not expect a Queen's Pawn player to start slugging it out with him. By all means, buy the book! It's a bit pricey, but has lots of useful information. Then read the Introductions and the general approach to the opening (which is clearly spelled out) and go out and play some Blitz chess. When you lose, as you frequently will in the beginning, then it is time to look up the variation in the Keybook, and it will be burned into your memory. There's nothing like an abject defeat to get your attention! A final comment. I find that an early Bd3 keeps me out of many unpleasant variations. Lasker's dictum, "Knights before Bishops" should really have been phrased "Play the Obvious before the Optional" Since the White Bishop belongs on d3, why not put it there before fooling around with other moves (assuming that you aren't hanging the d-pawn by putting it on d3). Be bold. Throw this opening at any opponent, regardless of rating. I guarantee that you will not be bored!
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With more people than ever before applying for new loans and refinancing, an easy-to-understand guide has become a necessity for anyone confused by the complicated issues at stake. Mortgages 101 answers all the questions readers typically have, detailing all the latest changes in mortgage processes, and showing readers how to save money by:* understanding important terms like ARMs and Hybrids -- and what's in the fine print * improving their credit scores to increase their borrowing power* using technology to get the lowest interest rates* maximizing their return on investment, and cutting the cost of mortgage insuranceArranged in an easily accessible question-and-answer format, the book provides up-to-date lending formulas, as well as important information on lending requirements and application procedures. Mortgages 101 contains all the information readers need to know, in one must-have reference.
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So simple!.......2007-05-22
Breaks down industry terms into bite sized chunks. Concepts are clear and simple. Put this in your backpack when talking with lenders/brokers/agents.
Excellent Explanation of Basics.......2007-03-13
This book helped me understand the mortgage jargon. I feel more confident of certain terms and mortgage products which can confuse anyone that is unsuspecting of mortgage dealings. Great Book!!!!
Mortgages 101.......2007-01-23
Mortgages 101 is an excellent resource for current home-owners, and aspiring ones. It provides a smart, clear understanding of the topic, and is relevent and accessible to a broad range of people and experiences. The question/answer format is easy to flip through, and is quite thorough. There is some very practical and realistic information for low to moderate income homeowners that are at-risk for predatory lending and other threats that can lead to foreclosure. This book is being strongly considered for the Post Purchase Education Curriculum --geared toward recent Home Owners--at a Local, Non-profit Home-Ownership Center.
The best investment you can make before taking the most important decision of your life!.......2006-07-03
I would recommend this book to any first time homebuyers who are intimidated about the entire mortgage process. Reading this book will truly make you feel smart about shopping around for a mortgage and will ensure that you are ready before committing to the biggest loan of your life. The "answer-question" format featured in the different chapters makes this book an easy and fast read.
Must read!!.......2005-09-23
Simply put, this is a must read for anyone getting a mortgage. The book is easy to read, well laid out and very informative. It's shocking how much of the closing costs of BS fees. I saved $2,500 on my refinance directly due to this book. I only wish I read it sooner as I would have saved more from previous mortgages and refi's.
Buy this book, you won't regret it!
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