Helps you to evaluate your young teen literature collection and to create thematic and genre-oriented reading lists for curriculum-related and recreational reading.
Covering some 12,000 titles published mainly from late 1999 through 2003, most of which have been recommended in at least two sources, this thematic work offers you a state of the art reading guide and selection tool for young teen reading material, both fiction and non-fiction. For Reading levels 12+.
First published in 1998, John Gillespie's brilliant primer Population Genetics: A Concise Guide has been updated with new topics that have emerged . Keeping the concise format that made the book such a popular success, new sections have been added on molecular evolution, genetic drift, the stationary distribution, two-locus dynamics, and the ...
Librarians who need to know about the latest quality books for children will want to have the 7th edition of Best Books at their fingertips. This indispensable selection guide covering nearly 9000 new titles provides expert recommendations on the most recently published books for young readers preschool through grade 6. John Gillespie, renowned ...
This work provides a unified theory that addresses the important problem of the origin and maintenance of genetic variation in natural populations. With modern molecular techniques, variation is found in all species, sometimes at astonishingly high levels. Yet the forces that maintain variation within and between species have been difficult ...
This work highlights the books that have been awarded the annual prize for children's literature in the United States. Arranged chronologically from 1922 to 1996, entries provide bibliographic and background data, other recommended titles, and plot summaries.
Contains information about Newbery award winners and honour books. The volume includes plot summaries, booktalks, updated information about the winning titles and authors, suggestions for read-alikes, and ideas for introducing the books to young readers. Entries are from 1922 to 2000.
Designed to assist librarians with collection development, this work identifies, describes, and evaluates more than 800 biographies of children's and young adult materials. Emphasis is on print and nonprint works published from 1986 until 1996.
This new edition of this classic guide to children's books includes more than 25,000 in-print titles recommended for children in grades K-6. More than 5,000 entries are new to this volume, which updates both "Best Books for Children, 7th Edition" (2002), and the Supplement to that volume (2003). The thematic organization, concise annotations, and ...
Presents the best resources on children's and young adult literature. The author, a respected authority in this field, has carefully evaluated English-language print and nonprint materials and compiled a reference that will be useful for research, collection development, and as a selection guide.
Remote Sensing of Landscapes with Spectral Images describes how to process and interpret spectral images using physical models to bridge the gap between the engineering and theoretical sides of remote-sensing and the world that we encounter when we venture outdoors. The emphasis is on the practical use of images rather than on theory and ...
This highly affordable and authoritative guide enables librarians to thoroughly evaluate their teen literature collection and to create thematic and genre-oriented reading lists for curriculum-related and recreational reading. The entries provide annotations with lively, succinct plot summaries and indications of ISBNs, price, reading level, and ...
Presents summaries of eighty fiction and nonfiction titles for readers, ages twelve to sixteen, with suggestions to use in motivating them to read for pleasure.
Detailed entries for 80 contemporary fiction and nonfiction books are arranged by genre and provide: plot summary with all important incidents and characters thematic material covering primary and secondary themes book talk material: suggested passages to begin discussion additional selections of over 500 related books listings of biographic ...
-- Information-packed volumes provide comprehensive overviews of each nation's people, geography, history, government, economy, and culture -- Abundant full-color illustrations guide the reader on a voyage of discovery -- Maps reflect current political boundaries Few African countries have had such a long and troubled history as Ethiopia.
Use this popular selection guide to enrich the classroom experience . . . develop thematic lessons. . .encourage children in their recreational reading . . . prepare general and specific reading lists . . . and get the most value for your book-buying budget.
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Piano Roles: A New History of the Piano
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James Parakilas, E Douglas Bomberger, Martha Dennis Burns
