Blood Highways is the heart-wrenching account of the biggest product liability case in history: the Ford-Firestone fiasco. At the center of the story are two people: Tab Turner, a charismatic trial attorney from Arkansas, who has made a career out of forcing Ford and other automakers to own up to knowingly trade human lives for profits; and Donna Bailey, a single mother and outdoor enthusiast who fought back from the brink of death to confront those ultimately responsible for her accident. Weaving together harrowing depictions of the accidents and their consequences with the stories of the men and women who labor to police the auto industry and its reckless cost-cutting, Blood Highways will transform the way you view corporations, the government, the courts, and the media. Above all, this book shows the price the public pays in wrecked and mangled lives when companies focus more on shaving costs than making quality products.

Blood Highways: The True Story behind the Ford-Firestone Killing Machine

Engineering & Transportation

Penenberg, Adam L.

Automotive

Wayzgoose Press

Twenty-five essays on teaching English as a second language by renowned ELT materials writer and teacher trainer Dorothy Zemach. The wide variety of topics include classroom management, testing and assessment, teaching reading strategies, coping with cheating and plagiarism, teaching visual learners, culture shock, the value of a non-native teacher, and recognizing and overcoming teacher burnout. This volume contains the complete collection of her “From A to Z” columns originally published in TESOL’s Essential Teacher magazine (2003 – 2009).

Answers May Vary: Essays on Teaching English as a Second Language

Reference

Zemach, Dorothy

English as a Second Language

QuiTai, ruthless concubine of Levapur’s mysterious crime lord, the Devil, receives an unexpected invitation to cocktails with disgraced Thampurian Kyam Zul. She doesn’t trust Kyam enough to drink anything he pours, and won’t help him no matter how hard he begs – or threatens. But when QuiTai’s ex-lover is murdered, Kyam is the only one who knows the name of the killer, and he won’t tell QuiTai unless she helps him first. The torpid back alleyways of Levapur’s tropical colony hide more than lovers. There are things with claws, beings with venomous fangs, and spies lurking in the jungle. Most of them want to keep their secrets. One wants QuiTai dead.

The Devil's Concubine (The Devil of Ponong)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Braden, Jill

Fantasy

This interdisciplinary collection of articles, each followed by questions for critical reflection, advances debate over the impact of globalization on the current social world across geographic, political, ideological, cultural, and economic boundaries. Twenty-two authors from nine countries explore globalization in contexts of• power and powerlessness;• acquiescence and resistance;• environmental politics;• public education and the branding of knowledge;• civil rights and protections; and• privacy rights and state surveillance.This book will serve concerned citizens, students, activists, and researchers in communications, international relations, and post-colonial studies.

News from Somewhere: A Reader in Communication and Challenges to Globalization

Broudy, Daniel

History

This book is intended for classroom or individual study for students who need to clean up their grammar at the word level in preparation for university-level academic writing. It presents 60 words or phrases that are frequently problematic for advanced students of English, exposing the errors, explaining them, and providing examples of correct usage. The most important points are summarized as tips, and students have the opportunity to write their own sentences with the expressions.

Sixty Words or Phrases Commonly Misused by ESL/EFL Students Preparing for Universities

Cranker, Kenneth

MOOCs – Massive Open Online Courses – enable students around the world to take university courses online. This guide, by the instructors of edX’s most successful MOOC in 2013-2014, Principles of Written English (based on both enrollments and rate of completion), advises current and future students how to get the most out of their online study, covering areas such as what types of courses are offered and who offers them, what resources students need, how to register, how to work effectively with other students, how to interact with professors and staff, and how to handle assignments.  This book is suitable for both native and non-native speakers of English, and is applicable to MOOC classes on any subject (and indeed, for just about any type of online study).

How to Be a Successful MOOC Student

Education & Teaching

Sokolik, Maggie

Schools & Teaching

College Writing 2x is a popular online university-level academic writing course from edX.org, which has enrolled over 250,000 students since it opened in 2013.These supplementary workbooks, now available in one volume, provide support for the course, which is offered in three parts: How to Write an Essay, English Grammar and Essay Writing, and Academic and Business Writing. The materials can be used during the course or on their own for extra practice. They offer a summary of the material covered during the week as well as extra exercises and resources.These books are aimed primarily at non-native speakers of English, although native speakers will find the information and activities useful as well. You will find information on brainstorming and organizing essays, responding to literature, writing thesis statements, developing your vocabulary, crafting business correspondence, and more.

College Writing 2x: Workbook Series

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Ten strangers are lured to a remote Scottish island at the invitation of a reclusive industrialist.Stranded on Lord Black's wondrous estate, the disparate guests have more in common than they first realize.Accused by a mysterious letter of having committed crimes in their past, one by one they are hunted down. But who is the killer? Will any of them live to find out?

Countdown to Death

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

McChesney, Iain

Mystery

During the Golden Age of Aviation of the 1920s and 1930s, two great pilots stood above the rest: one-eyed Oklahoma farm boy Wiley Post, shy and awkward on the ground but a daredevil in the sky; and Jimmie Mattern, a handsome, charismatic Hollywood stunt pilot from Texas. The whole world followed their exploits through screaming newspaper headlines as they flew in planes made of little more than wood, canvas, and bailing wire, competing to be the first solo flier to circumnavigate the earth. Only one would succeed, though the other would become more famous than he could have ever imagined. And both would change the face of aviation forever. NOTE: An abridged version of some of this content was originally published by Atavist under the title Cloud Racers.

Sky Rivals: Two Men. Two Planes. An Epic Race Around the World.

Transportation

100 TESOL Activities is a teacher training manual and activity guide that has been used by teacher training groups from Korea, China, Japan, Iraq, Peru, Mexico and many other parts of the world as part of the popular TESOL Certificate Program: Teach English Now! from Coursera and Arizona State University. Designed to be practical, these techniques support the general need to communicate, interact, and make language come alive in the classroom.The manual is organized into 3 distinct parts.• The first section introduces teachers to some of the most common activities in English language teaching, followed by activities categorized by reading, writing, listening, and speaking.• The second section provides a unique model of lesson planning. This adaptable model helps teachers prepare organized routines to make classes more effective and easier to prepare.• The third section includes photocopiable worksheets for the activities described in the manual.

100 TESOL Activities: Practical ESL/EFL Activities for the Communicative Classroom

Dixon, Shane

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