The purpose of this book is to communicate findings of a research synthesis investigating the bases of reading failure and the curricular and instructional basics to help guide the design and advancement of children's reading performance. The synthesis--completed by the National Center to Improve the Tools of Educators (NCITE) and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs--was conducted as part of NCI...
The Hand" is a short story about an unresolved severed-hand incident that occurred at a state campsite in the early '90s. This story is mostly true and entertaining, while encouraging young children to listen to their parents while camping, because if not, bad things could happen. The story challenges teenagers to take precautions and to ensure their safety when camping, and it teaches adults that unforeseen consequences can be deadly, as lear...
New Orleans settings, gangland murder, police corruption, and international drug operations are the backdrop for J.C. Simmons' sixth serial mystery. Simmons' famed Aviation Consultant/Investigator, Jay Leicester, is drawn into a worldwide drug manufacturing operation when an old family friend's grandson is brutally murdered and nailed to a French Quarter street in New Orleans, Louisiana. What begins as a simple visit to pay respects at a funer...
New Orleans settings, gangland murder, police corruption, and international drug operations are the backdrop for J.C. Simmons' sixth serial mystery. Simmons' famed Aviation Consultant/Investigator, Jay Leicester, is drawn into a worldwide drug manufacturing operation when an old family friend's grandson is brutally murdered and nailed to a French Quarter street in New Orleans, Louisiana. What begins as a simple visit to pay respects at a funer...
Covering the dangerous chemical properties of 5000 common building materials, this reference guide is similar to Sax's Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials, except that it is tailored to the building industry. Data is cross-referenced to uses in the building construction industry and organized according to the Construction Specification Institute's (CSI) sixteen division format of MASTERFORMAT. Virtually every project manual containing...
Excerpt from The Kingdom and Comings of Christ: Wherein Is Explained the Prophecies of Daniel, the Predictions of Jesus With Reference to the Destruction of Jerusalem, and the Book of Revelation
God established the Church of Jesus Christ in Eden immediately after the fall. Man showed his sorrow for sin by making aprons and hiding from God. When called to account, he confessed his sin, and God at once provided a Saviour - "the seed of the woma...
Excerpt from The Older Forest Plantations in MassachusettsWe are now entering once more upon a campaign for the reclamation of waste land. This is due not alone to the de crease in our supply of lumber, but also to the following facts.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses s...
Excerpt from The Welded Link, and Other Poems
At the risk of being deemed affected, but in all sincerity, I assure the readers of the following pages that I have not rushed unadvisedly before the public in the rôle of author. On the contrary, I do so with many misgivings as to my ability to afford that sort of mental pabulum and entertainment which is sought and enjoyed by the intelligent and the refined in feeling and thought (and it is the ...
Excerpt from The Maniac's Confession: A Fragment of a Tale
The Exile's Return, the Author's first production, having been passed "sub silentio" by the critics, for reasons best known among themselves, he cannot be supposed again to publish, in consequence of any literary patronage, which has been extended him, but simply, because he prefers a clear type to an obscure manuscript. The numberless typographical errors to be met with in the above-...
Excerpt from An Inquiry Into the Moral Character of Lord Byron
Page 7, line 24, for which men, read such men. 26, line 18, for very mere, read the mere.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the...
Excerpt from The Higher Education a Public Duty: An Address Delivered at the Commencement of the College of the City of New York, June 21st, 1888
Gentlemen of the Graduating Class:
I wish the resources of our language could furnish me some new form of cordial salutation with which to address you on the occasion which has brought us within these walls - an occasion which can only be regarded by each of you personally as a most important event...
According to his father, life is predictable, clear cut, and easy to navigate. Misfit and misunderstood Dagoric finds life anything but predictable after saving a strange girl from death against his father's wishes. His determination to prove his worth leads him to the remote parts of a mountaintop, and into the mists of time itself. Lost in his new surroundings, his only thought is for his true love-but what happened to her? Returning home on...