Schools in 45 states now administer annual standardized tests, designed to gauge children's proficiency in reading, and, in many cases, to determine who gets promoted and who doesn't. These latest volumes in the critically-acclaimed Get Ready For Standardized Tests series arm parents with proven tools and techniques to help assess their children's basic reading skill levels; pinpoint their specific problem areas; reinforce their proficiency; gauge their progress; and instill them with the confidence and test-taking know-how needed to shine on virtually any standardized test.

Get Ready! For Standardized Tests : Reading Grade 3

Education & Teaching

BAKER, Joanne

Turkington,Carol

Schools & Teaching

McGraw=Hill

Oxford Basics are short, easy-to-use books based on communicative methodology. They provide ideas for teachers and guidance on how to handle everyday classroom situations.

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Reference

Westrup, Heather

English as a Second Language

Oxford University Press

50 Quantum Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know (50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series) by Baker, Joanne (2013) Hardcover

In a series of 50 accessible essays, Joanne Baker introduces and explains the fundamental physical concepts and laws that govern the inners workings of our universe. From Newton's law of gravitation to black holes, Schrödinger's cat to chaos theory,&nbsp;50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know&nbsp;is a complete introduction to the most important physics concepts in history.

50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know

Science & Math

Physics

Mobius

In a series of 50 accessible essays, Joanne Baker introduces and explains the fundamental physical concepts and laws that govern the inner workings of our universe. From Schrodinger's cat to Einstein's theory of relativity, energy conservation to speed of light, 50 Quantum Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know is a complete introduction to the most important quantum physics concepts in history.

50 Quantum Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know

50 Universe Ideas You Really Need to Know

In a series of 50 accessible essays, Jo Baker introduces and explains all of the essential concepts, major discoveries and the very latest thinking in astrophysics. From heliocentrism to Newton's theory of optics, the theory of relativity to supermassive black holes, 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know: Universe is a complete introduction to the most important concepts about our universe.

Explaining the crucial concepts of 21st-century science. This book simplifies and explains 100 key concepts in modern science in language easily understood by general readers. The authors use everyday examples and instructive diagrams -- for example, the genome, Sudoku and crossing time zones -- to describe scientific principles, hypotheses, theorems and laws. The ideas range from the simple to the subtle to the sophisticated and include: <ul>
<li>Chaos theory</li> <li>Genetic diseases</li> <li>String theory</li> <li>Gene therapy</li> <li>Fractals</li> <li>Superconductivity</li> <li>Cloning</li> <li>Game theory.</li>
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Each idea is presented in two to four pages that include illustrations and text boxes. To put the discoveries in context, there are timelines that show how the idea originated and when it was developed. Short biographies of iconic scientists, entertaining quotations and anecdotes and a range of other features make this book most refreshing to read.

100 Most Important Science Ideas: Key Concepts from Genetics, Physics and Mathematics

HENDERSON, MARK

Crilly, Tony

Evolution

Firefly Books

"Highly recommended for high school, college, or university libraries. And since readers with no scientific background would also find the information fascinating, the book would be a great addition to the circulating collections in public libraries." -- Library Journal 
 100 Most Important Science Ideas presents a selection of 100 key concepts in science in a series of concise and accessible essays that are understandable to the layperson. The authors explain the answers to the most exciting and important scientific questions, which have had a profound influence on our way of life. Helpful diagrams, everyday examples and enlightening quotations highlight the straightforward text. 
 All the big ideas that readers would expect to find are present, and each is discussed over two to four pages. The authors use concrete applications to describe many of the abstract ideas, and some entries have a timeline along the bottom showing when the idea originated and its development. 
 Examples are: 
<ul>
<li>What can DNA reveal about the history of human evolution? </li>
<li>Why does the moon orbit the Earth while the Earth orbits the sun? </li>
<li>How will genetic medicine revolutionize healthcare? </li>
<li>How did chaos theory become so ordered? </li> </ul>
 100 Most Important Science Ideas also includes brief biographies of iconic scientists and entertaining anecdotes from the world of scientific discovery. It is an indispensable overview of science for anyone who wants to understand the world around them.

100 Most Important Science Ideas: Key Concepts in Genetics, Physics and Mathematics

This is a true story about a mother's losing battle with her drug- addicted son and their many ups and downs through life. His story begins as a hyperactive child and progresses to a troubled, drug-addicted teenager. The book describes the forces that drove him to take drugs. It talks about society, his genetic inheritance, and his parents’ failure. Eric was raised like a child in the fifties, his parents not realizing how dangerous the world had become by the eighties. Eric gave up drugs and alcohol for a year at a time, and everyone thought he would be fine. However, the temptation would never go away! His poor judgment, due to being slightly slow, always added to his problems. His family always gave him more credit than they should have. Perhaps it is hard for parents to face reality. They always want to believe their children are doing fine. His parents encouraged Eric to make his own decisions, but this led to many frightening situations; still no one thought his life would end the way it did. They always thought that some day he would find himself.

Eric, My Son

Biographies & Memoirs

Aeon Pub Inc

In this, the second volume in an important new series presenting core concepts across a range of critical areas of human knowledge, author Joanne Baker unravels the complexities of 20th-century scientific theory for a general readership. She explains ideas at the cutting-edge of scientific enquiry, making them comprehensible and accessible to the layperson.

Astronomy & Space Science

Quercus

As well as outlining and explaining such historic breakthroughs in human understanding of the physical world as Kepler’s law of planetary motion and Newton’s law of gravitation, Joanne Baker unravels the sometimes baffling complexities of modern scientific theory from Planck’s law to Pauli’s exclusion principle and from Schrondinger’s cat to string theory. The essays are accompanied by a range of useful editorial features, including biographies of iconic physicists, timelines of related ideas, explanatory diagrams and display quotations.

50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know (50 Ideas)

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Books by BAKER, Joanne

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50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know

50 Quantum Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know

50 Universe Ideas You Really Need to Know

100 Most Important Science Ideas: Key Concepts from Genetics, Physics and Mathematics

100 Most Important Science Ideas: Key Concepts in Genetics, Physics and Mathematics

Eric, My Son

50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know

50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know (50 Ideas)