Authors:Mary Dyer, Mary Dyer, Oscar Figueroa, Mary Morris, Bec
Publisher: Prufrock Press Inc.
Keywords: learners, talented, gifted, units, instructional
Number of Pages: 126
Published: 2004-07-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1593630174
ISBN-13: 9781593630171

This new offering from the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented contains sample units written, taught, and revised by a group of Texas teachers. Teachers from around the state submitted successful “tried and true” units for possible inclusion in an elementary curriculum publication. A committee selected 13 units for inclusion in the new publication, all of which have been aligned with the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS).Featuring ready-to-use instructional units aligned with national standards, this book is guaranteed to save you hours of planning time. From a simulati

Author: Mary Morris
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: stories, lifeguard
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1998-04-15
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0312186940
ISBN-13: 9780312186944

The Lifeguard combines Mary Morris’s consummate craft as a storyteller with her gift for dramatic travel writing. In the title story, a teenage lifeguard sees his mystique among the girls on the beach dissolve in a panicked moment when he cannot save a child. In "The Glass-Bottom Boat," a mother on her first trip abroad learns about trust from a solicitous stranger.The Lifeguard is a powerful collection of ten short stories that shows Morris’s great sensitivity to men and women at moments of turbulence, uncertainty, and crisis.

Author: Mary McGarry Morris
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: universe, hole
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2005-02-22
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0143034723
ISBN-13: 9780143034728

Readers and critics have been enchanted by Mary McGarry Morris’s unforgettable characters and masterly use of suspense in her four earlier novels, including the bestselling Songs in Ordinary Time. In her latest tour de force, Gordon Loomis returns to a changed world after twenty-five years in prison. His old neighborhood is blighted by drug dealers; his brother is eager to help but is too caught up in his own life; his loyal friend Delores makes him realize that he’s just as afraid of relationships as he is of going back to jail; and his inherent decency draws the attention o

Author: Mary McGarry Morris
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: range, fiona
Number of Pages: 418
Published: 2001-07-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0141001844
ISBN-13: 9780141001845

From "one of the most skillful authors at work in America today" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) comes a taut and suspenseful new novel crafted around her most poignant and unforgettable heroine to date.When Oprah Winfrey chose Mary McGarry Morris’s Songs in Ordinary Time for her book club, she brought more than a million new readers under the spell of a novelist whom the Boston Sunday Globe has called "brilliantly acute...remarkable", and USA Today "extraordinary . . . deeply satisfying." Critics have compared her to John Steinbeck and Carson McCullers, among others.Now, Morris r

Authors:Mary Morris Heiberger, Julia Miller Vick,
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Pre
Keywords: handbook, search, job, academic
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2001-07-15
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0812217780
ISBN-13: 9780812217780

The Academic Job Search Handbook provides specific advice on all aspects of job-seeking in an increasingly tight academic market, from the appropriate timetable for the application process, to illegal or odd interview questions, to negotiating offers, starting a new job, seeking tenure, and everything in between. New information in the third edition includes more examples and advice for candidates in scientific and technical fields, as well as more references for those applying for adjunct positions and to community colleges. A new chapter and some of the all-new sample written materials refle

Authors:April Vahle Hamel, Mary Morris Heiberger, Julia Mi
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Pre
Keywords: handbook, funding, school, graduate
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2002-05-21
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0812218108
ISBN-13: 9780812218107

The Graduate School Funding Handbook illuminates the competitive world of graduate school funding. Covering programs in the arts and sciences and engineering, it is an invaluable resource for undergraduate and graduate students who seek information about applying to graduate school in the United States or abroad, at the master’s, doctoral, and postdoctoral levels. The authors include detailed descriptions of the types of funding offered graduate students, ranging from tuition scholarships to assistantships, work-study opportunities, and university loan programs. In addition, the handbook

Authors:Alan F. Collins, Philip Levy, Peter E. Morris, Mary M
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: action, cognition
Number of Pages: 455
Published: 1994-08-01
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 0863773486
ISBN-13: 9780863773488

This revised textbook is designed for undergraduate courses in cognitive psychology. It approaches cognitive psychology by asking what it says about how people carry out everyday activities: how people organize and use their knowledge in order to behave appropriately in the world in which they live.; Each chapter of the book starts with an example and then uses this to introduce some aspect of the overall cognitive system. Through such examples of cognition in action, important components of the cognitive system are identified, and their interrelationships highlighted. Thus the text demonstrat