Authors:Emily Cox, Henry Rathvon, Henry Hook, Paul Sloane, Des
Publisher: Sterling
Keywords: spiral, bound, book, puzzle, challenge, mind
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2002-12-12
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1402704771
ISBN-13: 9781402704772

Think ordinary conundrums are just too humdrum? Do you finish crossword puzzles in ink and in no time flat? Then get ready for a serious test of your skills, with the ultimate in mental challenges. We’ve got crosswords of course; more than 50 tough, "regular" ones. But you’ll also enjoy dozens and dozens more of different varieties, including devilish "Crushwords" where you have to put more than one letter in each square, and mind-blowing math and logic teasers known as pixel puzzles, where if your answers are correct you’ll create a picture of success! And if that isn’

Authors:Emily Cox, Henry Rathvon,
Publisher: Sterling
Keywords: puzzle, book, mensa, official, crosswords, cryptic
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2005-10-01
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 1402721382
ISBN-13: 9781402721380

Join the millions getting hooked on cryptics. Think of these 65 "mindfields" as combining crosswords, logic puzzles, and acrostics, with clever puns as your reward for winning. New York Times puzzle experts serve up a feast of Double Definitions (words with two meanings), Hidden Answers (words inside other words or phrases), and Homophones (clues that only sound like the answers). Add to that puzzles featuring Charades (word clues that break into syllables), Reversals (clues spelled backwards), Deletions (clues where you lop off a letter), Complex Clues (clues that combine these other tricks),

Author: Natalie Rathvon PhD
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Keywords: strategies, improving, student, outcomes, based, evidence, school, interventions, second, effective
Number of Pages: 460
Published: 2008-08-14
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 1572309679
ISBN-13: 9781572309678

This highly practical resource and text presents 70 interventions that have been demonstrated to improve the classroom learning environment, academic achievement, and student behavior and social competence. Each intervention is presented in a brief, standardized format with step-by-step procedures that can easily be implemented by Pre-K-12 teachers and other school-based professionals. The volume includes best-practice guidelines for designing, implementing, and evaluating evidence-based school interventions, as well as strategies for combining multiple interventions to create a comprehensive

Author: Natalie Rathvon PhD
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Keywords: handbook, practitioner, assessment, reading
Number of Pages: 612
Published: 2004-03-18
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 1572309849
ISBN-13: 9781572309845

This indispensable resource offers a cutting-edge framework and practical tools for screening and assessing K-2 students at risk for reading problems. Provided are critical reviews of 42 specific measures, selected for optimal technical quality and presented in a clear, standardized format. Encapsulated are the scientific basis for each instrument; the components of reading acquisition measured; administration, scoring, and interpretation procedures; the instrument’s psychometric soundness and usability; linkages to intervention; source; and cost. Detailed case examples drawn from the au

Authors:Jack London, Henry James, Edgar Allan Poe, O. Henry, M
Publisher: Jaico Publishing House
Keywords: masters, american
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2005-05-30
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8179922189
ISBN-13: 9788179922187

Authors:Henry Adams,  Henry Cabot Lodge,
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: autobiography, adams, henry, education
Number of Pages: 532
Published: 2003-06-05
List price: $40.95
ISBN-10: 0766161447
ISBN-13: 9780766161443

Many great artists have had at least intermittent doubts about their own abilities. But The Education of Henry Adams is surely one of the few masterpieces to issue directly from a raging inferiority complex. The author, to be sure, had bigger shoes to fill than most of us. Both his grandfather and great-grandfather were U.S. presidents. His father, a relative underachiever, scraped by as a member of Congress and ambassador to the Court of St. James. But young Henry, born in Boston in 1838, was destined for a walk-on role in his nation’s history--and seemed alarmingly aware of the fact fr

Authors:Omer C. Stewart, Henry T. Lewis, Kat Anderson, Henry
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Keywords: transient, wilderness, americans, native, fires, forgotten
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2002-11
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0806134232
ISBN-13: 9780806134239

A common stereotype about American Indians is that for centuries they lived in static harmony with nature in a pristine wilderness that remained unchanged until European colonization. Omer C. Stewart was one of the first anthropologists to recognize that Native Americans made a significant impact across a wide range of environments. Most important, they regularly used fire to manage plant communities and associated animal species through varied and localized habitat burning. In Forgotten Fires, editors Henry T. Lewis and M. Kat Anderson present Stewart’s original research and insights,