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Hooray For Inventors!

Candlewick, 2005

Hip, hip, hooray! Marcia Williams wields her witty comic-book style to applaud the creators of inventions that changed the world — and to inspire the inventor in us all. What are your eight favorite inventions, and who were the persevering minds behind them? In a style as vivacious and accessible as ever, Marcia Williams honors the fine folks who brought us the printing press, the steam condenser, the steam train, the electric light, all ...

The Iliad and the Odyssey

4 reviews
Marcia Williams

Walker Books Ltd, 2006

Hi
I would just like to say to the earlier review this book is not meant to be a school textbook. It is not supposed to be a wonderful introduction to the Iliad and the Odyssey. Marcia Williams books are just for fun, it is just a bonus that you children can get the basic story line of a classic. I would highly recommend any of Marcia Williams books.

More Tales from Shakespeare

1 review

Candlewick, 2005

Wonderful introduction for children! Aylin
My 7 year old son is familiar with Shakespeare stories because of this book and it's companion volume. He picked it up and read them all himself. It is engaging for those too young to sit down with the original works.

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

4 reviews

Candlewick, 2007

An unusual and perfect literary introduction for the lower grade levels.
Marcia Williams' CHAUCER'S CANTERBURY TALES uses a cartoon-book format and easier language to translate the Middle Ages to grades 3-5. Nine travelers take turns swapping stories in this lively retelling of classics from the Tales: an unusual and perfect literary introduction for the lower grade levels.

Bravo, Mr. William Shakespeare!

2 reviews
Marcia Williams

Walker Books Ltd, 2001

Bravo!
As the table of contents, disguised as a playbill, informs the reader, "The Globe Theatre is proud to present a new season of Mr. William Shakespeare's plays." So come one, come all and take your seats as author, Marcia Williams, presents seven famous plays, As You Like It, Antony and Cleopatra, Richard III, Twelfth Night, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice and Much Ado About Nothing, in comic ...

Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book:4th Edition 2005

70 reviews
Susan M. Love, Karen Lindsey

Da Capo Lifelong Books, 2005

Absolute must if you have questions about your breast
My husband and I both read Susan Love's outstanding book on breast cancer. It gave us answers in a language that we could understand and information we could not find anywhere else. An absolute must for any woman who has or thinks they have a problem with breast cancer.

Archie's War

Candlewick, 2007

Marcia Williams captures the Great War through a child’s eyes with a fascinating fictional scrapbook including real mementos of the day. Meet ten-year-old Archie, his family, and best friend in a scrapbook Archie has made himself, full of comic strips and plenty of other memorabilia. The year is 1914, and as the Great War begins, Archie’s scrapbook reflects the war’s impact on his life and on those who write back from the ...

The Little Brown Reader, 10th Edition

1 review
Marcia Stubbs, Sylvan Barnet, ...

Longman, 2005

boring to me, but might be nice for someone else
less colors, only bck and white. I read until dizzy. LOTS of storys. if you like to read , you might like it.

Little Brown Reader, The (11th Edition)
Marcia Stubbs, Sylvan Barnet, ...

Longman, 2008

The Little, Brown Reader, one of the best-known and most respected thematic readers available today, continues its tradition of excellence by bringing together contemporary and classic readings with extensive critical reading and writing instruction and numerous illustrations. The strength of The Little, Brown Reader has always been its distinctive collection of readings and its unmatched apparatus; the Tenth Edition enhances both ...

Tales from Shakespeare

5 reviews

Candlewick, 2004

Introduce your child to Shakespeare!
My eight-year old daughter and I delighted in reading these seven plays together! Marcia Williams has created a colorful, imaginative, fun way to present these wonderful plays so that the young reader gains an appreciation for Shakespeare's works and an insight into the historical period in which he presented them on stage. Each page contains whimsical illustrations, in strip style, wherein the ...

The Patient as Person, Second edition: Exploration in Medical Ethics
Paul Ramsey, Margaret Farley, ...

Yale University Press, 2002

As physicians are faced with new and wonderful options for saving lives, transplanting organs, and furthering research, they also must wrestle with new and troubling choices-who should receive scarce and vital treatment, how we determine when life ends, what limits should be placed on care for the dying, and more. This book by renowned theologian Paul Ramsey, first published thirty years ago, anticipated these moral and ethical issues and ...

Charles Dickens and Friends: Five Lively Retellings

Candlewick, 2006

"With small, teeming cartoon scenes so boisterous they frequently burst their borders, Williams catapults readers headlong through five of Dickens's best-known melodramas." — Kirkus Reviews "OLIVER TWIST, GREAT EXPECTATIONS, A TALE OF TWO CITIES, DAVID COPPERFIELD, and A CHRISTMAS CAROL are distilled into six- to ten-page stories that include the bare rudiments of each plot and droll illustrations featuring dialogue taken directly from ...

King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

Candlewick, 1997

Literature for Composition: Essays, Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (6th Edition)

5 reviews
Sylvan Barnet, William Burto, ...

Longman, 2002

compelling lit text ... a keeper
I have taught English 102 this semester (Fall 06) using this text and find it both professor and student friendly. I love the organization, the division of genres, critical thinking approaches, etc. The interspersing of photographs, art, and the culturally diverse offerings in terms of literary examples make for an experience that is memorable all around. It is a book that fosters independent ...

Greek Myths

1 review
Marcia Williams

Walker Books Ltd, 2006

Great Introduction to Greek Myths
My almost-[...] boys love to pore over the illustrations in this book and seem never to tire of it -- often bringing it along in the car with them. They love to hear the stories and giggle over the often humorous way they are portrayed. It is in comic book format, and though it often abbreviates the story, gets the children interested in and familiar with the Greek Myths. The reading level is ...

Student Workbook Contemporary Maternal-Newborn Nursing Care
Marcia L. London, Patricia Wieland Ladewig, ...

Prentice Hall Health, 2001

Discourses: Conversations about Postmodern Culture (Documentary Sources in Contemporary Art)

The MIT Press, 1992

Photographic Sketchbook by John Baldessari This anthology of interviews and discussions documents the polemical positions and strategies of contemporary critical thought in the making. Engaging nearly 100 artists, theorists, and critics from a variety of fields, these conversations focus on the most contested areas within contemporary critical debate: the relationship between theory and artistic production, the role of art in the ...

Children and Youth Assisted by Medical Technology in Educational Settings: Guidelines for Care

3 reviews

Brookes Publishing Company, 1997

Outstanding resource for school healh professionals
The Guidelines for Care Manual provides professional school nurses with theory and clinical data, examples, procedures, guide sheets, training for delegation and monitoring procedures performed by school personnel, diagams and much more. A MUST for working with special needs students.

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