Author: Mary Ellen Lepionka
Publisher: Atlantic Path Publishing
Keywords: textbook, education, higher, publishing, second, authorship, guide, developing, college, comprehensive, writing
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-01-01
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 097281647X
ISBN-13: 9780972816472

This is a revised and expanded edition of a popular professional guide for academic authors and editors on textbook writing and higher education publishing. The new edition contains two new chapters on recent industry developments in the Information Age and the uses of learning objectives in textbook package development. New topics include pricing solutions, market segmentation in scholarly publishing, academic self-publishing, digitization, open access, wiki-textbooks, and author-editor/ author-publisher relations. The second edition features many new examples, practical tools, and links to r

Author: Mary Ellen Ledbetter
Publisher: Jossey-Ba
Keywords: literature, integrating, writing, grammar, skills, lessons, daily, english, workshop, activities, grades, ready
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2005-03-25
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0787975559
ISBN-13: 9780787975555

This unique resource gives middle and secondary school English teachers 180 high-interest activities that build students proficiency in the three major areas of the English curriculum—reading/literature, writing, and grammar. All the activities have been classroom tested, can be used with students of varying ability, and are effective as individual, group, or whole-class activities.

Author: Mary Ellen Daki
Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English
Keywords: adults, shakespeare, reading
Number of Pages: 233
Published: 2009-06-15
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0814139043
ISBN-13: 9780814139042

Author: Mary Ellen Jone
Publisher: Greenwood Pre
Keywords: critical, contemporary, writers, popular, companion, jakes, john, companions
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1996-11-30
List price: $46.95
ISBN-10: 0313295301
ISBN-13: 9780313295300

John Jakes, often called "the people’s author" and "godfather of the historical novel," has made American history come to life in his series The Kent Family Chronicles and The North and South Trilogy. Through these novels, Jakes conveys the sweep of American history, both its glory and its grim scenes, from the American Revolution to the opening moments of the 20th century. Never glossing over the nation’s flaws (slavery, materialism, a double-edged Manifest Destiny), Jakes nevertheless affirms American values. This is the first full-length critical study of his work. It examines i

Author: Mary Ellen Bowden
Publisher: Chemical Heritage Foundation
Keywords: chemical, enterprise, american
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1994-01-01
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0941901130
ISBN-13: 9780941901130

This lively and profusely illustrated history of major developments in the American chemical industries focuses on the contributions made by winners of the Perkin and Chemical Industry Medals. An introductory section on the American Section of the Society of Chemical Industry is followed by chapters on electrochemicals; minerals and gases; synthetic organic chemicals; chemical education and industrial research; petrochemicals; nylon, rubber, and plastics; pharmaceuticals; communications and the environment; and the role of chemical industrialists. Appendices list chairmen of the American secti

Author: Mary Ellen Guffey
Publisher: South-Western Cengage Learning
Keywords: product, process, communication, business
Published: 2008
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0324578679
ISBN-13: 9780324578676

Author: Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: book, club, lit, pop, nora, roberts, reading
Number of Pages: 155
Published: 2009-12-14
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0313362939
ISBN-13: 9780313362934

Nora Roberts’s captivating biography and extensive canon are explored in this comprehensive reader’s guide, including coverage on her early works, critical successes, trilogies and quartets, short stories and novellas, futuristic mysteries written as J.D. Robb, and titles under other pseudonyms. Reading Nora Roberts shows how this remarkable author expands the limits of the genres in which she writes, exploring feminist ideas, Celtic and Western settings, psychological and religious themes, and Gothic and supernatural elements. The book also highlights RobertsÕs willingness to hav