ESL VIDEOS

The Standard Deviants: English Grammar, Part 1.

Humorous academic course review of English grammar. Breaks the subject into small, understandable steps. Covers parts of speech, verb tenses, and sentences.

93 min., col.

The Standard Deviants: English Grammar, Part 2

Covers the trickier rules of grammar, including how language changes, proper agreement, independent clauses, articles and split infinitives. This tape also covers the most common grammatical errors.

56 min., col.

NEW BOOKS

Medical Coding: What It Is and How It Works

Patricia Aalseth

"Medical Coding: What It Is and How It Works provides an overview of the evolution of medical coding and all the various coding systems, how they relate, and how they function. Coding is a very complicated process. There is ICD-9-CM, soon to be ICD-10-CM, HCPCS, CPT, and APCs. All are different depending on the setting and vary by specialty and by type of service." All health care managers need a basic knowledge of the process that funds their operations. This is the first book that presents the big picture for the non-coder in clear, practical language. For those contemplating a career in the coding field, this book is ideal as a basic orientation. (From the Publisher)

NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS

The FASB( Financial Accounting Standards Board) Report

The FASB Report is a monthly newsletter that includes developments in the standard-setting process and the status of technical projects.
 

Book of the Month

Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson.  Mitch Albom

As a student at Brandeis University in the late 1970s, Albom was especially drawn to his sociology professor, Morris Schwartz. On graduation he vowed to keep in touch with him, which he failed to do until 1994, when he saw a segment about Schwartz on the TV program Nightline, and learned that he had just been diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease. By then a sports columnist for the Detroit Free Press and author of six books, including Fab Five, Albom was idled by the newspaper strike in the Motor City and so had the opportunity to visit Schwartz in Boston every week until the older man died. Their dialogue is the subject of this moving book in which Schwartz discourses on life, self-pity, regrets, aging, love and death, offering aphorisms about each e.g., "After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left." Far from being awash in sentiment, the dying man retains a firm grasp on reality. An emotionally rich book and a deeply affecting memorial to a wise mentor, who was 79 when he died in 1995. (From Publishers Weekly)