Real Skills with Readings

Real Skills with Readings
Author: Susan Anker
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
Total Pages: 724
Release: 2013-02-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1457639122

Real Skills with Readings offers practical, accessible coverage of basic sentence skills and step-by-step guidance on writing paragraphs. Like the other books in the Anker series, Real Skills motivates students with its message that writing is an essential and achievable skill. Real Skills connects engaging grammar and writing instruction with an emphasis on critical thinking and reading skills — the keys to successful writing. Real-world examples, assignments, and readings show students the relevance of writing to all aspects of their lives. Real Skills with Readings is now integrated with LearningCurve — online, adaptive quizzing activities that reinforce what students learn in the book.

A Little Life

A Little Life
Author: Hanya Yanagihara
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 833
Release: 2016-01-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0804172706

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.

MCAT Elite, 2nd Edition

MCAT Elite, 2nd Edition
Author: The Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2016-12-13
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 1101920610

THE TOUGHEST QUESTIONS FOR THE HIGHEST-SCORING STUDENTS. Prep to be the best of the best with The Princeton Review and this guidebook full of elite strategies, challenging practice questions, and 2 full-length online practice MCATs. Students trying to win admission to the most elite med schools know that every point on the MCAT matters. If you’ve mastered the exam basics, practicing only the test’s toughest questions can help take your score from “good” to “outstanding.” MCAT Elite, 2nd Edition provides everything you need to conquer the most challenging questions and get a top score on the MCAT. Advanced Techniques That Actually Work. • Targeted strategies for all facets of the exam: general, journal article analysis, and test analysis • Advanced strategies to power past problems that trap other elite students • Detailed coverage of every section of the exam to help push your study into the top tier • Section-specific pacing guidelines and advice for all parts: CARS and the sciences Practice Your Way to Excellence. • 2 full-length practice tests online • 6 full chapters’ worth of practice sections along with comprehensive explanations • A ton of practice drills designed to look and feel exactly like the toughest problems on the real MCAT MCAT Elite, 2nd Edition provides practice with the hardest questions on: • Atomic Structure • Periodic Trends and Bonding • Phases • Gases • Solutions • Kinetics • Equilibrium • Acids and Bases • Thermodynamics • Electrochemistry • Biochemistry and Cellular Respiration • Molecular Biology • Microbiology • Eukaryotic Cells • Genetics and Evolution • The Nervous and Endocrine Systems • The Circulatory, Lymphatic, and Immune Systems • The Excretory and Digestive Systems • The Muscular and Skeletal Systems

CIMA E2

CIMA E2
Author: BPP Learning Media
Publisher: BPP Learning Media
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2013-01-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 144539278X

The Enterprise Management Practice & Revision Kit allows you to apply your knowledge by putting theory in to practice. This is especially important for the E2 assessment because it is an integrated paper. Practicing exam standard questions will help you draw different areas of knowledge together. Two full mock exams allow you to apply your knowledge to both section A questions and longer section B questions. Through practice, you are equipped with the best techniques to face the exam and earn the maximum number of marks

Refugee

Refugee
Author: Alan Gratz
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2017-07-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545880874

The award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling novel from Alan Gratz tells the timely--and timeless--story of three different kids seeking refuge. A New York Times bestseller! JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world... ISABEL is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America... MAHMOUD is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and destruction, he and his family begin a long trek toward Europe... All three kids go on harrowing journeys in search of refuge. All will face unimaginable dangers -- from drownings to bombings to betrayals. But there is always the hope of tomorrow. And although Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud are separated by continents and decades, shocking connections will tie their stories together in the end. As powerful and poignant as it is action-packed and page-turning, this highly acclaimed novel has been on the New York Times bestseller list for more than four years and continues to change readers' lives with its meaningful takes on survival, courage, and the quest for home.