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        April, 2008                                                                                                                                                                                                E-newsletter

New Books

Collins COBUILD School Dictionary of American English

With innovations such as Definitions PLUS and vocabulary builders, the Collins COBUILD School Dictionary of American English transforms the learner's dictionary from an occasional reference into the ultimate resource for language learners. The definitions have been created using a controlled vocabulary and have been reviewed by an experienced team of classroom teachers to ensure that they are appropriate for learners at the intermediate level.

(From publisher)

Center Stage: Level 1

by Irene Frankel, Sharon Seymour, MaryAnn Florez

Center Stage 1 is an integrated four-skills course that supports student learning and achievement. Practical language and timely topics motivate beginning students to master grammar along with speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills.

(From publisher)
 

Communicating for Success

by Janet Hyden, Mary Helen Steinauer, Ann Jordan

This book teaches communication skills for the workplace and provides guidance on effectively listening and responding, describing a process, filling out forms, writing messages, persuading an audience, applying for a job, and preparing reports. The CD-ROM contains additional practice activities. (From publisher)

Book Of the Month

The Age of American Unreason

by Susan Jacoby

Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon—one that is at odds with our heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular knowledge and science. With mordant wit, she surveys an anti-rationalist landscape extending from pop culture to a pseudo-intellectual universe of "junk thought." Disdain for logic and evidence defines a pervasive malaise fostered by the mass media, triumphalist religious fundamentalism, mediocre public education, a dearth of fair-minded public intellectuals on the right and the left, and, above all, a lazy and credulous public. (From publisher)

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Bookworms

The book for April is

The Pearl

by John Steinbeck

Suggested Reading

"SOME PEACE OF MIND"

Some peace of mind

I long to find            

                              To have some love and laughter

                              To give to me

                              What I long to see

                                               For now….and ever after.

                              Some day, you see

                              Your love for me

                              Will shine so gay and gladly

                             Or else in vain

                              You’ll seek my name

                                             Upon a stone….so sadly

by Diane Stipkovich
 

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