Author: Ellis Weiner
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Keywords: worry, joy
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2004-04-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0811841391
ISBN-13: 9780811841399

Stressed out? Wringing your hands? Great! You’re on the path to success, enlightenment, and happiness. Author Ellis Weiner and illustrator Roz Chast, experts in the field of fretting, reveal how to maximize worry, harness its power, and achieve personal goals -- wealth, great sex, safer driving, and world travel. Through focused worrying, dedicated practitioners not only lose weight, they even control exactly where they will shed the pounds. And if they’re pregnant, they can worry for two! Let us now abandon our quest for inner peace and embrace that gnawing tension!

Authors:Ellis Weiner, Barbara Davilman,
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Keywords: jane, dick, yiddish
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2004-09-13
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0316159727
ISBN-13: 9780316159722

Jane is in real estate.Today is Saturday.Jane has an open house.She must schlep the Open House signs to the car.See Jane schlep.Schlep, Jane. Schlep.Schlep, schlep, schlep.In text that captures the unque rhythms of the original Dick and Jane readers, and in 35 all-new illustrations, a story unfolds in which Dick and Jane--hero and heroine of the classic books for children that generations of Americans have used when learning to read--manage to express shades of feeling and nuances of meaning that ordinary English just can’t deliver. How? By speaking Yiddish, employing terms that convey a

Authors:Samuel Brownstein, Mitchel Weiner, Sharon Weiner Gre
Publisher: Barron’s Educational Series
Keywords: pocket, guides, barron, vocabulary, guide
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2004-07-01
List price: $8.99
ISBN-10: 0764126946
ISBN-13: 9780764126949

This fast-reference word finder and vocabulary guide alphabetically lists more than 3,000 words with definitions and sample sentences. For many years, Barron’s Pocket Guides have served high school and college students, as well as business professionals and others, as reliable fast-reference books filled with easy-to-locate information pertaining to all practical aspects of language use. The new editions are attractively designed and printed in two-color type, and serve as especially useful books for the home, school, or business reference bookshelf.

Authors:Sharon Weiner Green, Mitchel Weiner,
Publisher: Barron’s Educational Series
Keywords: workbook, reading, critical
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2006-02-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0764133810
ISBN-13: 9780764133817

Concentrating on the Critical Reading section of the newly structured SAT college entrance exam, this test-preparation workbook presents tips, questions, answers, and answer explanations for the section’s two main question types—sentence completion questions and reading comprehension questions—as well as extensive vocabulary review. Both the sentence completion and the reading comprehension exercises are organized according to level of difficulty and presented in three sections, labeled from A to C. Students who master Level C in both parts are well on the road to achieving a

Authors:Sharon Weiner Green, Mitchel Weiner,
Publisher: Barron’s Educational Serie
Keywords: workbook, reading, critical, barron
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2009-08-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0764141953
ISBN-13: 9780764141959

Updated to reflect the current SAT format and questions found on its most recent exams, this workbook concentrates on the SAT Critical Reading section with an extensive series of exercises. They reflect that section’s two question types: sentence completion and reading comprehension. The exercises for both question types are divided into three levels of increasing difficulty, labeled from A to C, with all questions answered and explained. Students who master level C of both sections will be prepared to excel on the actual exam. The author also presents test-taking tips and an extensive vocab

Authors:Sharon Weiner Green, Mitchel Weiner,
Publisher: Barron’s Educational Series
Keywords: workbook, verbal
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2001-03-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0764113828
ISBN-13: 9780764113826

This workbook in its current 10th Edition presents three complete verbal reasoning tests based on those in the SAT I, as it is being given in November and December 2004, as well as in January 2005. Students who plan to wait and take the all-new SAT in March 2005 or later should order Barron’s Verbal Workbook for the NEW SAT, 11th Edition, which will become available in early 2005. This current verbal workbook for the SAT I tests comes with all questions answered and explained. Additional features include an extensive vocabulary list with definitions, an additional high-frequency word list,

Authors:Hayden Ellis, Neil Macrae, Hadyn Ellis, Mai Madah,
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: psychology, current, perspectives, research, validation
Number of Pages: 191
Published: 2001-03-23
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0765806479
ISBN-13: 9780765806475

Why do we respond to others-both to their physical appearances and to their personalities? What are the social influences on face perception? Current research perspectives on physical appearance by distinguished behavioral scientists from around the world were brought together in a special issue of Current Psychology and are offered here in a useful compendium. Chapters and contributors include: "Assessing the State of Organizational Safety-Culture or Climate?" Kathryn J. Mearns and Rhona Flin; "Why Did It Happen to Me? Social Cognition Processes in Adjustment and Recovery from Criminal Vic