Make math learning both meaningful and fun by building on children's natural curiosity to help them grow into confident problem solvers and investigators of math concepts. Using five math-related questions children wonder about as a framework, this book helps you go deeper into everyday math with children by offering * A basic overview of math ideas behind matching and sorting, patterns, number sense, measuring, and spatial relationships * 20 activities appropriate for children in preschool and kindergarten based on new and classic children's books, games, and classroom routines * Suggestions for individualizing activities for diverse learners * Recommendations for more than 75 children's books that encourage math-rich thinking and investigation * Examples of intentional questions, comments, and conversations that stretch and focus children's understanding of math concepts Empower yourself with the guidance and ideas in this practical resource to use play and storytelling to challenge children to think more complexly about the math in everything they see, hear, and do.
The National Association for the Education of Young Children
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9781938113512
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Paperback
Websters New World Italian Dictionary, 2nd Edition
By Coll, Editors Of Websters New World
Now in its second edition, this Italian-English/English-Italian dictionary has been completely revised and updated. This bilingual dictionary combines comprehensive coverage of both English and Italian with outstanding clarity, simplicity, and economy. With a new, fresh, easy-to-read design, this reference includes pronunciation guides, comprehensive verb tables, and thousands of phrases that show word use in context. Emphasis is placed on contemporary usage, from colloquial to formal, making it ideal for home, school, or office.
Webster's New World
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9780544745537
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Paperback
Highly Irregular
By Okrent, Arika
Maybe you've been speaking English all your life, or maybe you learned it later on. But whether you use it just well enough to get your daily business done, or you're an expert with a red pen who never omits a comma or misplaces a modifier, you must have noticed that there are some thingsabout this language that are just weird.Perhaps you're reading a book and stop to puzzle over absurd spelling rules (Why are there so many ways to say '-gh'?) , or you hear someone talking and get stuck on an expression (Why do we say "How dare you" but not "How try you"?) , or your kid quizzes you on homework (Why is it "eleven and twelve"instead of "oneteen and twoteen"?) . Suddenly you ask yourself, "Wait, why do we do it this way?" You think about it, try to explain it, and keep running into walls.
Oxford University Press; 1st edition
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9780197539408
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Hardcover
Berlitz Hebrew Phrase Book & Dictionary
By Publishing, Berlitz
This brand new Hebrew edition features a fresh, crisp design with vivid color photography, eye-catching color-coding, and user-generated content, making it the phrase book created by the people for the people! Sections such as “Food and Drink” and “In an Emergency” provide words and phrases you’ll hear used in everyday situations throughout Israel, and there are snippets of information on etiquette, culture and travel. The handy bilingual dictionary at the back of the book contains over 3,000 useful words, and our new content includes essential phrases such as “What is the WiFi password?”, “I’ll put the pictures on Facebook”, and much more. You’ll never be lost for words with a Berlitz phrase book.
Berlitz Publishing; Third Edition edition
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9781780043906
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Paperback
Reading for Our Lives
By Smart, Maya Payne
An award-winning journalist and literacy advocate provides a clear, step-by-step guide to helping your child thrive as a reader and a learner.When her child went off to school, Maya Smart was shocked to discover that a good education in America is a long shot, in ways that few parents fully appreciate. Our current approach to literacy offers too little, too late, and attempting to play catch-up when our kids get to kindergarten can no longer be our default strategy. We have to start at the top. The brain architecture for reading develops rapidly during infancy, and early language experiences are critical to building it. That means parents' work as children's first teachers begins from day one too - and we need deeper knowledge to play our positions. Reading for Our Lives challenges the bath-book-bed mantra and the idea that reading aloud to our kids is enough to ensure school readiness.
Avery
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9780593332177
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Hardcover
First You Write a Sentence
By Moran, Joe
"Do you want to write clearer, livelier prose? This witty primer will help." - The New York Times Book Review
An exploration of how the most ordinary words can be turned into verbal constellations of extraordinary grace through the art of building sentences
The sentence is the common ground where every writer walks. A good sentence can be written (and read) by anyone if we simply give it the gift of our time, and it is as close as most of us will get to making something truly beautiful. Using minimal technical terms and sources ranging from the Bible and Shakespeare to George Orwell and Maggie Nelson, as well as scientific studies of what can best fire the readers mind, author Joe Moran shows how we can all write in a way that is clear, compelling and alive.
Whether dealing with finding the ideal word, building a sentence, or constructing a paragraph, First You Write a Sentence informs by light example: much richer than a style guide, it can be read not only for instruction but for pleasure and delight. And along the way, it shows how good writing can help us notice the world, make ourselves known to others, and live more meaningful lives. Its an elegant gem in praise of the English sentence. Read more Continue reading Read less REVIEW
"Do you want to write clearer, livelier prose? This witty primer will help. . . . Humane and witty . . . At the calm heart of Morans rhetorically affable book is an idea of adroit aplomb. . . . As a primer in generous and lively writing, First You Write a Sentence is blithe and convincing."
- The New York Times Book Review
"Thoughtful reflections on how to write well . . . Moran is a thoroughly sane, thoughtful commentator."
- The Guardian (Book of the Week)
"Joe Moran is a wonderfully sharp writer, calm, precise, and quietly comical. . . . Morans own sentences are perfect advertisements for the aims they espouse. . . . He writes with a playful clarity that makes First You Write a Sentence a joy to read."
- The Mail on Sunday (London)
"Splendid . . . Moran writes fluidly and elegantly, offering practical advice on giving ones writing texture and verve."
- Kirkus Reviews
"[An] elegant and winding book-length love letter . . . [First You Write a Sentence] is expansive, diving into myriad topics related to sentence composition and efficacy, and Morans infatuation endures through it all. Writers and linguists have much to gain from Morans manic and probing research, but its Morans enthusiasm for the vitality of language that will engage any and all readers."
- BOOKLIST
"Heartfelt . . . [Moran] provides many pieces of useful advice [and] makes persuasive arguments for the virtues of succinct, plain writing and for a more ornate style without definitively favoring either - the key is to be adept at whichever is chosen. . . . Anyone who has waxed poetic about good writing will enjoy parts of Morans book."
- Publishers Weekly
"It takes chutzpah to write a book about writing sentences. Between every full stop lies the potential to fail by your own standards, as countless style guide writers have done before. But Joe Moran has a perfect ear for English. First You Write a Sentenceis an edifying joy."
- Lynne Murphy, author of The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British English
"Thoughtful, engaging, and lively exposé of the quirks and beauties of the full sentence . . . Its a style guide by stealth: when youve read it, you realize youve changed your attitude to writing (and reading) ."
- John Simpson, former chief editor of theOxford English Dictionaryand author ofThe Word Detective
"What a lovely thing this is: a book that delights in the sheer textural joy of good sentences. Joe Moran has written a book about writing that is itself a collection of sentences to inspire, divert, and console. Any writer should read it, if only to be reminded how crazily hard it is to write words in such a way that they can be deciphered in your absence."
- Bee Wilson, author of Consider the Fork and First Bite ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Joe Moran is a professor of English and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University. EXCERPT. REPRINTED BY PERMISSION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
1.
A Pedants Apology
Or why I wrote this book
First I write a sentence. I get a tickle of an idea for how the words might come together, like an angler feeling a tug on the rods line. Then I sound out the sentence in my head. Then I tap it on my keyboard, trying to recall its shape. Then I look at it and say it aloud, to see if it sings. Then I tweak, rejig, shave off a syllable, swap a word for a phrase or a phrase for a word. Then I sit it next to other sentences to see how it behaves in company. And then I delete it all and start again.
If there were a pie chart that divided up my time on earth, the colored slice that covers writing sentences would be the biggest, apart from the one that covers the thing everyone does: sleeping. I dont count how much writing I have done each day, but if I did I wouldnt count words, Id count sentences. Sentences are my core output, the little widgets I make in my workshop of words. It helps to think of it like this, as just cranking out a daily quota of sentences, instead of being a writer, which feels like a claim that will need to be stamped and approved. I write maybe three and a half thousand sentences a year. Is this too many, or not enough, or about right? I have no idea. I write one sentence, then another, and repeat until done. I dont know when done is.
Some writers claim to have sentences in their heads hollering to get out. Flaubert wrote that he was "itching" with them. These writers just seem to have a knack for putting words into right-seeming order, as if it were a skill as randomly allotted as being able to wiggle ones ears. Not me. But I can spot a good tune when I hear it. I know what a good
Penguin Books
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9780143134343
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Paperback
Arabic-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary
By Kindersley, Inc Dorling
Now comes with a free companion audio app that allows readers to scan the pages to hear words spoken in both Arabic and English.Newly revised and updated, the Arabic-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary is a quick and intuitive way to learn and recall everyday words in Arabic.Introducing a range of useful current vocabulary in thematic order, this dictionary uses full-color photographs and artworks to display and label all the elements of everyday life - from the home and office to sport, music, nature, and the countries of the world - with panel features on key nouns, verbs, and useful phrases.The Arabic-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary features: * A quick and intuitive way to learn and remember thousands of words. * A complete range of illustrated objects and scenes from everyday life. * Fast and effective learning for any situation, from home and office to shopping and dining out. * Detailed index for instant reference. * Handy size ideal for travel. The illustrations provide a quick and intuitive route to learning the language, defining the words visually so it is easier to remember them and creating a colorful and stimulating learning resource for the foreign-language and EFL/ESL student.
Dk Publishing
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9781465459275
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Print book
The Dictionary People
By Ogilvie, Sarah
A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, word by word. The Oxford English Dictionary is one of mankind's greatest achievements, and yet, curiously, its creators are almost never considered. Who were the people behind this unprecedented book? As Sarah Ogilvie reveals, they include three murderers, a collector of pornography, the daughter of Karl Marx, a president of Yale, a radical suffragette, a vicar who was later found dead in the cupboard of his chapel, an inventor of the first American subway, a female anti-slavery activist in Philadelphia . . . and thousands of others. . Of deep transgenerational and broad appeal, a thrilling literary detective story that, for the first time, unravels the mystery of the endlessly fascinating contributors the world over who, for over seventy years, helped to codify the way we read and write and speak.
Knopf
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9780593536407
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Hardcover
The Telenovela Method, 2nd Edition
By Tracey, Andrew
After failing to learn a new language on five separate occasions, I taught myself to speak Spanish like a native in just six months by watching movies and TV shows, listening to music, and reading books and comics like Harry Potter and Garfield. This simple, easy-to-learn technique, that even the most linguistically-challenged can master literally overnight, is used by many of the most respected and skilled polyglots and language teachers in the world, and it's never really been laid out, explained, and demonstrated in full, point-by-point, step-by-step detail until now. When characters in a movie or TV show are speaking the dialogue, unless it's set in a previous period like the 1800s or something, they speak normal, everyday language. So if you wanted to learn Spanish, the type of normal everyday Spanish that native speakers use every day, aka "conversational Spanish" .
BookBaby
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9780997724615
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Paperback
Japanese Demystified, Premium 3rd Edition
By Sato, Eriko
Say sayonara to your fears of learning Japanese with the updated premium edition of this fast, painless guide The updated third edition of Japanese DeMYSTiFieD provides you with the comprehensive, step-by-step educational experience that has made the DeMYSTiFieD language series such a success. This established, unintimidating approach to speaking, reading, and writing a new language takes the mystery and menace out of the learning process, whether in class or at home. Hundreds of quiz and test questions, chapter-opening objectives, and specific recommendations for difficult subtopics and individual weaknesses help you learn basic grammar structures and verb tenses, pronunciation, essential vocabulary, and how to communicate with confidence. In addition to DeMYSTiFieD's time-tested strategies, this edition features 70 minutes of streaming audio recordings and chapter review quizzes via the unique McGraw-Hill Education Language Lab app, so you can enhance your study via mobile or online, at home, in class, or on the go.
Where's the Math?
By Hynes-berry, Mary
Make math learning both meaningful and fun by building on children's natural curiosity to help them grow into confident problem solvers and investigators of math concepts. Using five math-related questions children wonder about as a framework, this book helps you go deeper into everyday math with children by offering * A basic overview of math ideas behind matching and sorting, patterns, number sense, measuring, and spatial relationships * 20 activities appropriate for children in preschool and kindergarten based on new and classic children's books, games, and classroom routines * Suggestions for individualizing activities for diverse learners * Recommendations for more than 75 children's books that encourage math-rich thinking and investigation * Examples of intentional questions, comments, and conversations that stretch and focus children's understanding of math concepts Empower yourself with the guidance and ideas in this practical resource to use play and storytelling to challenge children to think more complexly about the math in everything they see, hear, and do.
Websters New World Italian Dictionary, 2nd Edition
By Coll, Editors Of Websters New World
Now in its second edition, this Italian-English/English-Italian dictionary has been completely revised and updated. This bilingual dictionary combines comprehensive coverage of both English and Italian with outstanding clarity, simplicity, and economy. With a new, fresh, easy-to-read design, this reference includes pronunciation guides, comprehensive verb tables, and thousands of phrases that show word use in context. Emphasis is placed on contemporary usage, from colloquial to formal, making it ideal for home, school, or office.
Highly Irregular
By Okrent, Arika
Maybe you've been speaking English all your life, or maybe you learned it later on. But whether you use it just well enough to get your daily business done, or you're an expert with a red pen who never omits a comma or misplaces a modifier, you must have noticed that there are some thingsabout this language that are just weird.Perhaps you're reading a book and stop to puzzle over absurd spelling rules (Why are there so many ways to say '-gh'?) , or you hear someone talking and get stuck on an expression (Why do we say "How dare you" but not "How try you"?) , or your kid quizzes you on homework (Why is it "eleven and twelve"instead of "oneteen and twoteen"?) . Suddenly you ask yourself, "Wait, why do we do it this way?" You think about it, try to explain it, and keep running into walls.
Berlitz Hebrew Phrase Book & Dictionary
By Publishing, Berlitz
This brand new Hebrew edition features a fresh, crisp design with vivid color photography, eye-catching color-coding, and user-generated content, making it the phrase book created by the people for the people! Sections such as “Food and Drink” and “In an Emergency” provide words and phrases you’ll hear used in everyday situations throughout Israel, and there are snippets of information on etiquette, culture and travel. The handy bilingual dictionary at the back of the book contains over 3,000 useful words, and our new content includes essential phrases such as “What is the WiFi password?”, “I’ll put the pictures on Facebook”, and much more. You’ll never be lost for words with a Berlitz phrase book.
Reading for Our Lives
By Smart, Maya Payne
An award-winning journalist and literacy advocate provides a clear, step-by-step guide to helping your child thrive as a reader and a learner.When her child went off to school, Maya Smart was shocked to discover that a good education in America is a long shot, in ways that few parents fully appreciate. Our current approach to literacy offers too little, too late, and attempting to play catch-up when our kids get to kindergarten can no longer be our default strategy. We have to start at the top. The brain architecture for reading develops rapidly during infancy, and early language experiences are critical to building it. That means parents' work as children's first teachers begins from day one too - and we need deeper knowledge to play our positions. Reading for Our Lives challenges the bath-book-bed mantra and the idea that reading aloud to our kids is enough to ensure school readiness.
First You Write a Sentence
By Moran, Joe
"Do you want to write clearer, livelier prose? This witty primer will help." - The New York Times Book Review An exploration of how the most ordinary words can be turned into verbal constellations of extraordinary grace through the art of building sentences The sentence is the common ground where every writer walks. A good sentence can be written (and read) by anyone if we simply give it the gift of our time, and it is as close as most of us will get to making something truly beautiful. Using minimal technical terms and sources ranging from the Bible and Shakespeare to George Orwell and Maggie Nelson, as well as scientific studies of what can best fire the readers mind, author Joe Moran shows how we can all write in a way that is clear, compelling and alive. Whether dealing with finding the ideal word, building a sentence, or constructing a paragraph, First You Write a Sentence informs by light example: much richer than a style guide, it can be read not only for instruction but for pleasure and delight. And along the way, it shows how good writing can help us notice the world, make ourselves known to others, and live more meaningful lives. Its an elegant gem in praise of the English sentence. Read more Continue reading Read less REVIEW "Do you want to write clearer, livelier prose? This witty primer will help. . . . Humane and witty . . . At the calm heart of Morans rhetorically affable book is an idea of adroit aplomb. . . . As a primer in generous and lively writing, First You Write a Sentence is blithe and convincing." - The New York Times Book Review "Thoughtful reflections on how to write well . . . Moran is a thoroughly sane, thoughtful commentator." - The Guardian (Book of the Week) "Joe Moran is a wonderfully sharp writer, calm, precise, and quietly comical. . . . Morans own sentences are perfect advertisements for the aims they espouse. . . . He writes with a playful clarity that makes First You Write a Sentence a joy to read." - The Mail on Sunday (London) "Splendid . . . Moran writes fluidly and elegantly, offering practical advice on giving ones writing texture and verve." - Kirkus Reviews "[An] elegant and winding book-length love letter . . . [First You Write a Sentence] is expansive, diving into myriad topics related to sentence composition and efficacy, and Morans infatuation endures through it all. Writers and linguists have much to gain from Morans manic and probing research, but its Morans enthusiasm for the vitality of language that will engage any and all readers." - BOOKLIST "Heartfelt . . . [Moran] provides many pieces of useful advice [and] makes persuasive arguments for the virtues of succinct, plain writing and for a more ornate style without definitively favoring either - the key is to be adept at whichever is chosen. . . . Anyone who has waxed poetic about good writing will enjoy parts of Morans book." - Publishers Weekly "It takes chutzpah to write a book about writing sentences. Between every full stop lies the potential to fail by your own standards, as countless style guide writers have done before. But Joe Moran has a perfect ear for English. First You Write a Sentenceis an edifying joy." - Lynne Murphy, author of The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British English "Thoughtful, engaging, and lively exposé of the quirks and beauties of the full sentence . . . Its a style guide by stealth: when youve read it, you realize youve changed your attitude to writing (and reading) ." - John Simpson, former chief editor of theOxford English Dictionaryand author ofThe Word Detective "What a lovely thing this is: a book that delights in the sheer textural joy of good sentences. Joe Moran has written a book about writing that is itself a collection of sentences to inspire, divert, and console. Any writer should read it, if only to be reminded how crazily hard it is to write words in such a way that they can be deciphered in your absence." - Bee Wilson, author of Consider the Fork and First Bite ABOUT THE AUTHOR Joe Moran is a professor of English and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University. EXCERPT. REPRINTED BY PERMISSION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 1. A Pedants Apology Or why I wrote this book First I write a sentence. I get a tickle of an idea for how the words might come together, like an angler feeling a tug on the rods line. Then I sound out the sentence in my head. Then I tap it on my keyboard, trying to recall its shape. Then I look at it and say it aloud, to see if it sings. Then I tweak, rejig, shave off a syllable, swap a word for a phrase or a phrase for a word. Then I sit it next to other sentences to see how it behaves in company. And then I delete it all and start again. If there were a pie chart that divided up my time on earth, the colored slice that covers writing sentences would be the biggest, apart from the one that covers the thing everyone does: sleeping. I dont count how much writing I have done each day, but if I did I wouldnt count words, Id count sentences. Sentences are my core output, the little widgets I make in my workshop of words. It helps to think of it like this, as just cranking out a daily quota of sentences, instead of being a writer, which feels like a claim that will need to be stamped and approved. I write maybe three and a half thousand sentences a year. Is this too many, or not enough, or about right? I have no idea. I write one sentence, then another, and repeat until done. I dont know when done is. Some writers claim to have sentences in their heads hollering to get out. Flaubert wrote that he was "itching" with them. These writers just seem to have a knack for putting words into right-seeming order, as if it were a skill as randomly allotted as being able to wiggle ones ears. Not me. But I can spot a good tune when I hear it. I know what a good
Arabic-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary
By Kindersley, Inc Dorling
Now comes with a free companion audio app that allows readers to scan the pages to hear words spoken in both Arabic and English.Newly revised and updated, the Arabic-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary is a quick and intuitive way to learn and recall everyday words in Arabic.Introducing a range of useful current vocabulary in thematic order, this dictionary uses full-color photographs and artworks to display and label all the elements of everyday life - from the home and office to sport, music, nature, and the countries of the world - with panel features on key nouns, verbs, and useful phrases.The Arabic-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary features: * A quick and intuitive way to learn and remember thousands of words. * A complete range of illustrated objects and scenes from everyday life. * Fast and effective learning for any situation, from home and office to shopping and dining out. * Detailed index for instant reference. * Handy size ideal for travel. The illustrations provide a quick and intuitive route to learning the language, defining the words visually so it is easier to remember them and creating a colorful and stimulating learning resource for the foreign-language and EFL/ESL student.
The Dictionary People
By Ogilvie, Sarah
A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, word by word. The Oxford English Dictionary is one of mankind's greatest achievements, and yet, curiously, its creators are almost never considered. Who were the people behind this unprecedented book? As Sarah Ogilvie reveals, they include three murderers, a collector of pornography, the daughter of Karl Marx, a president of Yale, a radical suffragette, a vicar who was later found dead in the cupboard of his chapel, an inventor of the first American subway, a female anti-slavery activist in Philadelphia . . . and thousands of others. . Of deep transgenerational and broad appeal, a thrilling literary detective story that, for the first time, unravels the mystery of the endlessly fascinating contributors the world over who, for over seventy years, helped to codify the way we read and write and speak.
The Telenovela Method, 2nd Edition
By Tracey, Andrew
After failing to learn a new language on five separate occasions, I taught myself to speak Spanish like a native in just six months by watching movies and TV shows, listening to music, and reading books and comics like Harry Potter and Garfield. This simple, easy-to-learn technique, that even the most linguistically-challenged can master literally overnight, is used by many of the most respected and skilled polyglots and language teachers in the world, and it's never really been laid out, explained, and demonstrated in full, point-by-point, step-by-step detail until now. When characters in a movie or TV show are speaking the dialogue, unless it's set in a previous period like the 1800s or something, they speak normal, everyday language. So if you wanted to learn Spanish, the type of normal everyday Spanish that native speakers use every day, aka "conversational Spanish" .
Japanese Demystified, Premium 3rd Edition
By Sato, Eriko
Say sayonara to your fears of learning Japanese with the updated premium edition of this fast, painless guide The updated third edition of Japanese DeMYSTiFieD provides you with the comprehensive, step-by-step educational experience that has made the DeMYSTiFieD language series such a success. This established, unintimidating approach to speaking, reading, and writing a new language takes the mystery and menace out of the learning process, whether in class or at home. Hundreds of quiz and test questions, chapter-opening objectives, and specific recommendations for difficult subtopics and individual weaknesses help you learn basic grammar structures and verb tenses, pronunciation, essential vocabulary, and how to communicate with confidence. In addition to DeMYSTiFieD's time-tested strategies, this edition features 70 minutes of streaming audio recordings and chapter review quizzes via the unique McGraw-Hill Education Language Lab app, so you can enhance your study via mobile or online, at home, in class, or on the go.