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I have worked with hundreds of books and materials teaching EFL/ESL in Asia and the U.S., and this book has the some best listening activities out of everything else that I have seen. One of my favorite features is the that the cassette uses a great variety of voices and accents.

This is one of the few books I have read that I found to be so captivating that I literally could not put it down. The book contains 10 word for word testimonies of 10 kids who have been through the horror of drug and alcohol abuse. This book is frank - I appreciated how Joel Engel *never* tried to "soften the edges" and make things sound not so blunt in order not to offend people. This is one of the few books, if not the only one, that truly shows just how much drugs can wreck your life.

This audio, taped live at a Common Boundary conference, gives the listener a different perspective of Addiction as a kind of spiritual crisis that, when met with understanding and grace, can lead to the most profound kind of spiritual and personal transformation. A great tape for people in recovery and the counselors who work with them.

I'M THE AUTHOR...AND UNFORTUNATELY AMAZON.COM PRINTED OUT OUR ONLY BAD REVIEW.

ANOTHER OPINION: "THERE'S NEVER BEEN A HOLLYWOOD MEMOIR QUITE LIKE THIS ONE--BUT THEN, THERE'S NEVER BEEN A MOVIE STAR QUITE LIKE DICK, DOG OF OAXACA. ONCE A HUMBLE MEXICAN DOG, HE WAS DISCOVERED UNDER A RESTAURANT TABLE AND HIS LEGENDARY CAREER WAS LAUNCHED.

"NOW DICK LOOKS BACK ON THE HEADY DAYS OF STARDOM, FROM HIS FIRST PART IN "ESCAPE TO INFINITY" TO HIS FINAL ROLE, IN THE INFAMOUS, NEVER-COMPLETED "DOG OF GOD." WHILE DICK STRUGGLES TO PERFECT HIS CRAFT AND PROTECT HIS BELOVED MISTRESS, STARLET WANDA SACKS, HE DIRECTORS, SPINELESS WRITERS AND SLIMY AGENTS, NOT TO MENTION THE GORGEOUS DUMB ACTOR WHOSE LINES ARE PAINTED ON A MOUNTAIN SO HE CAN READ THEM WITH A FARAWAY LOOK IN HIS EYES.

"THROUGH IT ALL, BEHIND HIS SIGNATURE SUNGLASSES, DICK WATCHES, LEARNS, AND LOVES AS ONLY A DOG CAN. THE RESULT IS A HILARIOUS, TOUCHING, THOROUGHLY UNIQUE NOVEL."

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ADIOS, HOLLYWOOD IS IN THE PROCESS OF BEING REPRINTED, AND IS THE SUBJECT OF A NEW MUSICAL COMEDY.

ROSE LEIMAN GOLDEMBERG

I teach grade 11 English and was introduced to Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the Classics by a colleague. It is just what any teacher who wants to create and foster authentic engagement in her or his students needs. There are so many great ideas for pairing contemporary literature with tried-and-true classics, you won't know where to begin. The book includes many lesson plan ideas that will refresh and enliven your teaching.Buy it!

Elsa Auerbach is the leading practitioner in the U.S. of the theories of Brazilian educator Paolo Freire. In this book she discusses an adult ESL/Literacy project in Boston that involved training immigrants, who had themselves learned English, to become tutors. According to Auerbach, and Freire, the goal of literacy education is more than just teaching students to read and write. Students must be empowered to control their own learning process and the direction of their lives. Only then can they become full participants in their community and in society. Auerbach is always inspiring.

I dug this book out of a chest recently where all my textbooks for my education in education were stored and had been stored for 4 years. It was like finding an unexpected gold mine. K. Patricia Cross has provided an indispensable book in the field of education for adults in, "Adults as Learners." I recommend it for all thinking about getting into the field of educating adults, already in the field, and those that are on the receiving end of the education. Life long learning enriches life. Like an onion peeled away to reveal new layers beneath or a more apt metaphor would be like a caterpillar continuously ducking into the cocoon, recreating, metamorphosing.

Cross explores all facets of bringing education to adults and bringing adults to education in plain simple and interesting language. She has incisive observations that go beyond a culling together of learning theory already out there. Listen to her sharp tongue and clear wit paving the way for the development of new education opportunities for adults, "There are explanations behind these apparent miscues, but the point is that only a dying and unimaginative industry would attempt to base its future on consumer demand. Consumers cannot respond beyond their experience; thus, responding to consumer demand usually means getting yesterday's answers to tomorrow's questions." This in response to adult education initiatives based only on consumer research feedback, she clearly hits the mark.

Though, the text was written in 1981 and is at risk of becoming somewhat dated in its empirical findings the observations and principles transcend time and are still relevant. I will be reading this book again in preparation for going back to school to up my education on education.

Incredible succinctness! A rigorous, straight forward, and incredibly dense text book -- the way every math book should be.

i am indian and after few months i will be there i mean america that's why i want to review TOEFL

In Advancing Sisterhood?: Interracial Friendships In Contemporary Southern Fiction, Sharon Monteith offers an original and enlightening survey of how prevalent specific relationships between black and white women in the south have emerged in the novels of Ellen Douglas, Kaye Gibbons, Connie Mae Fowler, Lane von Herzen, Ellen Gilchrist, Carol Dawson, and others. Monteith underscores that interracial friendships have become an accepted topic for white women writers. Highly recommended for students of American literature, race relations, and Southern cultural norms, Advancing Sisterhood? also explores childhood female relationships and considers recent ecocriticism and its role in charting the female southern landscape as depicted in contemporary literature.