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A student striving to be an effective writer needs practice putting his thoughts on paper. Whether in letters, journal entries, reports, compositions, or essays -he will hone his skills over time, learning by doing. To undergird his progress, however, he should know the fundamentals of English: its structure, grammar, syntax, usage, and idiosyncrasies. To avoid pitfalls that can drag him down and to make his work sharper and stronger, the aspi...

A student striving to be an effective writer needs practice putting his thoughts on paper. Whether in letters, journal entries, reports, compositions, or essays -he will hone his skills over time, learning by doing. To undergird his progress, however, he should know the fundamentals of English: its structure, grammar, syntax, usage, and idiosyncrasies. To avoid pitfalls that can drag him down and to make his work sharper and stronger, the aspi...

The Building English Vocabulary series guides a student through classical prefixes and roots that underlie challenging vocabulary. While Images Books I through III take the student through the Roman past, and Images Book IV the Greek, Images, the Introduction, starts the journey with etymology from the Latin, the origins of that half of the English language that appeals to the intellect and sets a foundation for understanding great literature....

At a time when most couples are planning retirements filled with golf games and cruises. Meg and Steve Lanphear joined the farm-to-table movement and took up farming fulltime. In this warm and lively memoir, informative and downright funny, they chronicle a retirement filled with new experiences, laughter, frustrations and just plain hard work.

Told in the first person by Lisa, The Memory Box is a gentle story to help challenged adults understand death. The 42-page book is illustrated with soft, four-color drawings.

Images Book I of the Building English Vocabulary series guides students through Latin prefixes, the alphabetical gamut from ab - and - ad - to - tri - unus - and vice, the building blocks of words from abhor and admonish - to triumvirate, unison, and viceroy. A student will discover that from just one prefix spring a variety of new words that in time yield an exponential growth in his knowledge of English. From cumulative review tests througho...

Images Book IV of the Building English Vocabulary series guides students through Greek prefixes and roots, the alphabetical gamut from an - and - arch - to - syn - and - tom, the building blocks of words from anarchy and archangel - to synthetic and lobotomy. A student will discover that from just one root spring a variety of new words that in time yield an exponential growth in his knowledge of English. From cumulative review tests throughout...

Images Book III of the Building English Vocabulary series guides students halfway through Latin roots, the alphabetical gamut from mon - and - mut - to - viv - and - volv, the building blocks of words from admonish and permutation - to convivial and devolve. A student will discover that from just one root spring a variety of new words that in time yield an exponential growth in his knowledge of English. From cumulative review tests throughout ...

Images Book II of the Building English Vocabulary series guides students through Latin roots, the alphabetical gamut from ac - and - alti - to miss - and - mob, the building blocks of words from acerbity and altitude - to emissary and mobilize. A student will discover that from just one root spring a variety of new words that in time yield an exponential growth in his knowledge of English. From cumulative review tests throughout the book, a st...

Prentice and Arabella Eton, an elderly couple deeply-committed to their philanthropic interests, want to leave a legacy to their great-grandchildren that is more than financial. The Etons want the heirs to understand their family roots and heritage and to appreciate the stewardship that their inherited wealth will demand. The couple hires ghostwriter Nell Bane to write a double memoir that tells the individual and joint stories of husband and ...

TOM GREELEY knows too well how insidious alcoholism can be. He has experienced how the disease entraps not only the drinking person, but the entire family. He writes about the incredible isolation, the credit card debt, and the anguish over his children's safety. In Tentacles..The Entanglement of Alcoholism, he narrates the journey of the long attempt to rescue an alcoholic spouse and save his family from the spiral of destruction ordained by ...

This book teaches the rules of grammar, syntax, and writing in a clear and systematic way. It also serves a workbook, with plenty of exercises to help students identify and remedy their weak points. In the short term, this book will help middle and high school students perform better on standardized admissions tests, such as the SSAT and SAT. More importantly, it provides a strong foundation that will improve students' communication skills thr...

The enlightened notion of displaying the decomposed elements of a sentence pictorially has had a long history in the U.S. The pedagogical idea was developed by Stephen Watkins Clark in his 1847 book with the mouthful-of-a-title A Practical Grammar: In Which Words, Phrases & Sentences are Classified According to Their Offices and Their Various Relationships to Each Another ? a true sentence diagramming challenge! Clark?s scheme of deploying the...

H.H. Willoughby is a forger by profession, and he wants to write his memoir. To do this, he needs a ghostwriter so he engages Nell Bane. Willoughby is an endearing fellow-charming and engaging-but their partnership carries Nell to the limits of the law and causes her to wonder if she is aiding and abetting a criminal. Furthermore, the ominous presence of Willoughby's accomplice, Woodford Stone, haunts Nell and foreshadows trouble as the novel'...

The word anthology comes to us from the Classical Greek anthos meaning flowers, and logia meaning collection. In time this collection came to be a selection of poems, wise sayings, stories, essays, and chronicles from history. Thus the armchair traveler can learn from the ideas expressed by Socrates in ancient Greece to those of Einstein in modern America. At his fingertips, the reader discovers if his interpretations yield a proper understand...

In her new poetry collection, poet, memoirist and musician Nancy Bailey Miller takes the reader with her into the tricky waters she navigates like the gifted verbal sailor she is: dreams, memory, family history, shifting relationships, the familiar seen as with the fresh eyes of the traveler, the unfamiliar tamed and rendered ours, new places and situations explored by a mind blessed by restlessness and keen powers of observation. Like the mus...

Etymology is the study of word origins and development. It provides one of the easiest and most effective ways to build vocabulary, because knowledge of some common roots and prefixes makes possible the figuring out of new word meanings. English is compounded of several languages, primarily Anglo-Saxon (Germanic) and Latin. Historically, the Angles and Saxon tribes occupied Britain after expelling the Celts to Ireland. Beginning in the first c...

This first book in a series, English Structure, covers the different parts of speech and their roles in sentences. Students will learn how to diagram sentences, a task which graphically makes evident common errors such as writing sentence fragments, confusing the pronouns "I" and "me", and using adjectives when adverbs are appropriate. Not all students will need this volume. Those who have read widely and well, or who already achieved a good g...

The word anthology comes to us from the Classical Greek anthos meaning flowers, and logia meaning collection. In time this collection came to be a selection of poems, wise sayings, stories, essays, and chronicles from history. Today as a selection of such writings, Perusals, edited by John Willard, invites the reader of all ages to explore short examples of the works of the great and eloquent thinkers from over the centuries. Thus the armchair...

These practice tests target abusage: the most common errors in English usage as defined by grammar - the rules for forming correct sentences - and by syntax - the conventions for making sensible sentences. The exercises are intended to issue warnings of prose missteps, to aid in recognizing abusage and offer preventive practice, and to promote, with mastery of usage, a confident writer.