ET Books

66 page paperback short story in French probably often used at schools.

Ce manuel repose sur le principe suivant : la qualité de tout apprentissage est améliorée si les apprenants sont impliqués activement dans leur apprentissage et éprouvent du plaisir à accomplir leurs tâches.

Ce manuel est un cours supérieur de français qui peut être utilisé en classe ou seul. Il met en jeu l'écrit en français sous la forme de lecture de contes et de rédaction d'exercices de plus en plus longs. L'oral est réservé aux échanges de vues entre pairs sur certains aspects précis du cours. Ce manuel introduit des concepts de narratologie qui permettront aux utilisateurs de se faire des idées personnelles sur des œuvres littéraires.

L'accent est mis sur le travail en commun dans un esprit de coopération.


[This course book is based on the following principle: the quality of learning is improved if the learners learn by doing something and have fun learning.

This book is an advanced French course book which can be used in class or in self-access mode. It involves reading and writing in French. Listening and speaking are dedicated to the exchange of points of views among peers. The course introduces critical theory concepts which will help the readers make their own mind on literary works.

The emphasis is placed on collaborative work in a spirit of cooperation.]

What a great book. Yeats-Brown is an upper-class officer in a colonial regiment in India, and his writing style is reminiscent of Sassoon, Manning and Fussell, although not quite on their level. However, his story of life in a colonial regiment is very familiar to those officers serving in England...the lifestyle (pre WWI) of polo, hunting and life at the mess is very consistent.
Where I found this book intriguing is Yeats-Brown's mobilization for WWI. The book takes interesting turns as he is sent to Europe, then back to Mesopotamia, but not as a Lancer but as an observer for the newly formed Royal Flying Corps.
I believe Yeats-Brown has written other books about his captivity with the Turks, but this book has a good narrative of his time as a prisoner in wartime Turkey.
THe book concludes with Yeats-Brown discovering the religions of India, and his eagerness to learn their secrets. Very interesting account of colonial India by someone who was a bit more observant of local customs than the average British officer.
Easy to read...highly recommended

Great book for an emergent reader. Kids need to learn about habitats and this is a great book to share.

This Rookie Readers are terrific! Try them and they will have an honored place in your classroom.

Lockdown Prison Heart is a series of essays written by men and women in Illinois prisons. We hear directly about the frustration, anger, change, hope of prisoners as they respnd to the question,"Who Am I, What Can I do to make things better?"

Like the samurai of old Japan, the medieval crusaders had a saying concerning their swords: "Draw me not without provocation, sheathe me not without honor." The image inevitably comes to mind upon encountering the pen of Frithjof Schuon. It arises not because of any misplaced nostalgia for the past but precisely because here and now Schuon's weapon cuts through the lukewarmness, the dead-ends of the modern "-ism's"-materialism, relativism, determinism--with astonishing clarity and suppleness.

We live in a universe where everything meets and interpenetrates: ideologically, culturally and even sensorially. We are inundated with information, with experiences, but sorely lacking the unifying principles by which to assimilate these data. How can we steer a course that avoids the untenable rigidity of literalistic dogmatism on the one hand and the shapeless abyss of a relativism that accepts everything on the other?

Every stroke of Schuon's pen is in some sense a recalling to first principles. The way to these primary and unifying principles has become obscured by a plethora of errors affecting not just our thinking, but also our sentiments. Schuon clears the path in a series of brilliant essays that restore meaning to words. His fundamental message has been characterized variously as the "religio perennis" or "perennial philosophy," as quintessential esoterism, as universal metaphysics. What all these descriptions point toward is a perspective of "the Truth, the whole Truth and nothing but the Truth." What Schuon goes on to demonstrate with such masterful adroitness is how this Truth-which is synonymous with ultimate Reality-radiates and reverberates in the world around us as well as the world within us.

For readers just discovering Schuon, this may not be the book to begin with. But perseverance will reap a rich harvest.

Besides having great photos and a wealth of information not easily available elsewhere, this book and the authors' L.A. Deco book are very well written. No color but that's OK in a small, inexpensive book like this.

The photos in this book are amazing! They tell a fair and balanced story, including the good and the bad. Plus, the captions give more than just the typical i.d. info -- they tell a bit of the story behind each image. There's also a well-written historical section at the beginning. Definitely one of the best histories of the LAPD ever.

This was the first paper model I made, a few years back, and while challenging, it wasn't frustrating. The working features add to the fun of a Khmer-like temple just waiting for Indiana Jones to show up. The outer band of trees is laid out as a maze.