The former editor of Adirondack Life provides a profound and entertaining account of his odyssey by canoe along the Usumacinta River and its tributaries along the border of Guatemala and Mexico, a little-known region that once spawned the ancient Olmec and Maya civilizations of Mesoamerica.

Sacred Monkey River: A Canoe Trip with the Gods

Shaw, Christopher

Sports & Outdoors

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

At the border of Mexico and Guetamala lies the Usumacinta river. The river and its tributaries form the region that once supported the achievements of the Maya. Shaw has travelled these rivers by canoe, his story brings together the thrill of adventure travel and the acute eye of the naturalist.

Sacred Monkey River

History

Americas

W.W.Norton&Company

This practical introduction to central themes in the principle and practice of English Language Teaching is written both for teachers and for those taking professional courses in ELT. The first part, focussed on the principles on which methods and materials are based, explores such topics as the educational framework; the communicative approach; post-communicative trends in syllabus and materials design and the evaluation and adaptation of materials. Part Two relates these principles to individual language skills. It shows how theories concerned with the development of reading, speaking, listening and writing have affected the design and use of teaching materials. The final part of the book examines different methods available to teachers for organizing and managing the ELT classroom, discussing group and pair work; individualization; and classroom observation and the teacher's role in the contemporary ELT context. The book should be of interest to students taking Certificate, Diploma or Masters courses in English Language Teaching or applied Linguistics, and to teachers of EFL/ESL.

Materials and Methods in Elt: A Teacher's Guide (Applied Language Studies)

Reference

McDonough, Jo

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Blackwell Pub.

This is a comprehensive and practical introduction to central themes in the principle and practice of Teaching English as a foreign/second Language. It is written both for teachers and for those taking professional courses in ELT. 
The first part, focused on the principles on which current methods and materials are based, explores such topics as educational frameworks: the communicative approach; post-communicative trends in syllabus and materials design and the evaluation and adaptation of materials. Part Two relates these principles to individual language skills. It shows how theories concerned with the development of reading, speaking, listening and writing have affected the design and use of teaching materials. The final part of the book examines different methods available to teachers for organizing and managing the ELT classroom, discussing group and pair work; individualization; classroom observation and the teacher's role in the contemporary ELT context.

Materials and Methods in ELT (Applied Language Studies)

Wiley/Blackwell

Materials and Methods in ELT, Second Edition offers a comprehensive and practical introduction to central themes in the principles and practice of Teaching English as a Foreign/Second Language.    Offers a comprehensive and practical introduction to central themes in the principles and practice of Teaching English as a Foreign/Second Language.  Features a number of new sections, including task-based learning, the use of the internet, and teacher-research, as well as new samples from current teaching materials.  Includes an appendix with a selected list of key websites for teachers and students.  This second edition has been completely revised and updated.

Materials and Methods in ELT: A Teacher's Guide (Applied Language Studies)

The Imagined Past: History and Nostalgia

Manchester Univ Pr

Issues in the Development of Multigrade Schools (World Bank Technical Paper)

Thomas,Christopher

World Bank

This challenging 366 day devotional for leaders points out the limitations and pitfalls of human solutions and exhorts leaders to look instead to the Source of help and guidance, Jesus Christ. Warmly and realistically, these daily meditations emphasize that only the indwelling Christ can produce the character necessary for fruitful service.

Lift Up Your Eyes

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Clc Pubns

The Two Degrees Dangerous Limit for Climate Change: Public Understanding and Decision Making (Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research)

This book is about the history, present and future of one the most important policy ideas of the modern era – that there is a single, global dangerous amount of climate change. That dangerous amount of climate change is imagined as two degrees centigrade of global warming above the pre-industrial average. Though the two degree idea is based on the value system of elite policy actors, it is been constructed in public discourses as scientific fact. This false representation of the concept undermines opportunities for positive public engagement with the climate policy debate, yet it is strong public engagement which is a recurring aspiration of climate policy discourses and is considered essential if climate mitigation strategies are to work. Alongside a critical analysis of how the idea of a single dangerous limit has shaped our understanding of what sort of problem climate change is, the book explains how the public have been kept out of that decision making process, the implications of this marginalisation for climate policy and why the dangerous limit idea is undermining our ability to mitigate climate change. The book concludes by exploring possibilities for a deliberation about the future of the two degree limit which allows for public participation in the decision making process. This book illustrates why, at this critical juncture in the climate policy debate, the two degree limit idea has failed to achieve any of the policy goals intended. This is the first book dedicated to questioning the issue of the two degree limit within a social science framework and should be of interest to students and scholars of environmental policy and politics, climate change communication, and science, technology and society studies.

Routledge

Liberalism and the Challenge of Climate Change

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