Author: Mark Dittrick
Publisher:
ISBN: PSU:000056202878
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 109
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Sixty entries, enhanced by thirty line drawings, delineate the subtle differences between seemingly simple and familiar words, such as coast and shore, cooperative and condominium, sweet potato and yam, and meteor, meteorite, and meteoroidLANGUAGE ARTS No Uncertain terms is a boisterous and brilliant look at the oddities and foibles of our language . Not only a blast and a half , but wise , clever and illuminating , it is a book that Mencken would have loved and that ...
Author: William Safire
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743258126
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 384
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Examines and provides comments on language trends while tracing the origins of timely words and phrases that discuss such topics as technology, entertainment, and everyday life.A former member of the South African Parliament describes her friendship with Nelson Mandela, and how she withstood the badgering of racist ruling Nationalists to challenge apartheid
Author: Helen Suzman
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Incorporated
ISBN: UOM:39015032737432
Category: Apartheid
Page: 300
View: 655
A former member of the South African Parliament describes her friendship with Nelson Mandela, and how she withstood the badgering of racist ruling Nationalists to challenge apartheidPurpose Too often in closing mathematics lessons, the teacher and not the student does the “heavy lifting” of summariz- ing, denying the student that most important learning activity. No Uncertain Terms is a formative assessment tool ...
Author: Harvey F. Silver
Publisher: Corwin Press
ISBN: 9781452279831
Category: Education
Page: 272
View: 522
Teach to the Common Core, differentiate instruction, and keep students engaged—all at the same time! With new Common Core–aligned tools and strategies, this second edition of a bestseller is an all-in-one math classroom management resource. Covering everything from lesson design to math-specific learning styles, the book's 60+ tools will enable you to: Work in smarter, more efficient ways with all of your students, no matter the class size or make up Create standards-based lesson plans, tests, and formative assessments Reach every learner regardless of understanding level or learning style Integrate technology into class time for more engaging math lessonsThis is the annual "Dictionary Issue" of No Uncertain Terms, which generally is Number 5 of each year's volume.* This special issue contains information on foreign language dictionaries and other reference works which our translators and ...
Author: Jackie Murgida
Publisher:
ISBN: OCLC:45522748
Category:
Page: 81
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This is the annual "Dictionary Issue" of No Uncertain Terms, which generally is Number 5 of each year's volume. This special issue contains information on foreign language dictionaries and other reference works which our translators and language officers find essential in their work. It is not meant to be an exhaustive listing, but rather a guide to the basic, classic, and most useful works for a particular language or subject area. Works that are out of print are included when we believe they are useful, with the idea that they may be found in libraries or specialized bookstores. A section on "Booksellers" is included to help readers obtain rare and out-of-print books.IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS In a society which grows daily more complex as technological , Dinner , he warned members that ' If human beings are to scientific and sociological advancement make ever greater collaborate for any worthy end – and ...
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: UCLA:L0050770106
Category: Industrial management
Page:
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In August the user ' s lawyers received a call from the vendor ' s lawyers , expressing apologies at having been occupied on other matters for so long , but telling them in no uncertain terms that the vendor had never before accepted ...
Author: Lanny J. Davis
Publisher: Aspen Law & Business
ISBN: UCSC:32106006946815
Category: Law
Page: 619
View: 171
He rebuked current scholars in no uncertain terms, avowing that, ... this generation is doing nothing for the people that come. They keep themselves in a little intellectual ghetto and throw around big words like “sovereignty” and think ...
Author:
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ISBN: UCSC:32106018430840
Category: America
Page:
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