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Common birds / by Ali, Salim

Common sense about Russia by Conquest, Robert

A progressive grammar of common Tamil by Arden, A. H.

On paper : the everything of its two-thousand-year history / by Basbanes, Nicholas A.

Table of Contents: “…Common bond -- Goddess by the stream -- Road trip -- Rags to riches -- Rolling on the river -- One and done -- Fiery consequences -- Papers, please -- Hard copy -- Metamorphosis -- Face value -- On paper -- Things unknown -- The drawing board -- Sleight of hand -- In the mold -- At the crossroads -- Elegy in fragments.…”

Text complexity : raising rigor in reading / by Fisher, Douglas

Table of Contents: “…Text complexity is the new black: -- Text complexity defined -- Revisiting how we match readers and texts -- Text complexity and the common core state standards -- The case for struggle -- Conclusion -- Quantitative measures of text complexity: -- Word-level analysis -- Sentence-level analysis --Conventional readability formulas -- Readability formulas that also measure readers -- Measuring coreference and cohesion -- Cautions and criticism of readability formulas -- Readability for early readers -- Conclusion -- Qualitative measures of text complexity: -- Considerate texts -- But not all texts are considerate -- Levels of meaning and purpose -- Structure -- Language conventionality and clarity -- Knowledge demands -- Returning to the hunger games, qualitatively -- Cautions and criticisms of qualitative analysis of text complexity -- Conclusion -- Matching readers to texts and tasks: -- Exploring the reader -- Exploring the task -- Exploring the question -- Shifting expectations -- Cautions and criticisms of matching readers with texts and tasks -- Conclusion -- A close reading of complex texts: Close reading -- Close reading up close in fourth grade : "post-it-notes" -- Close reading up close in ninth grade : "The road not taken" -- Conclusion.…”

Text complexity : raising rigor in reading / by Fisher, Douglas

Table of Contents: “…Text complexity is the new black: -- Text complexity defined -- Revisiting how we match readers and texts -- Text complexity and the common core state standards -- The case for struggle -- Conclusion -- Quantitative measures of text complexity: -- Word-level analysis -- Sentence-level analysis --Conventional readability formulas -- Readability formulas that also measure readers -- Measuring coreference and cohesion -- Cautions and criticism of readability formulas -- Readability for early readers -- Conclusion -- Qualitative measures of text complexity: -- Considerate texts -- But not all texts are considerate -- Levels of meaning and purpose -- Structure -- Language conventionality and clarity -- Knowledge demands -- Returning to the hunger games, qualitatively -- Cautions and criticisms of qualitative analysis of text complexity -- Conclusion -- Matching readers to texts and tasks: -- Exploring the reader -- Exploring the task -- Exploring the question -- Shifting expectations -- Cautions and criticisms of matching readers with texts and tasks -- Conclusion -- A close reading of complex texts: Close reading -- Close reading up close in fourth grade : "post-it-notes" -- Close reading up close in ninth grade : "The road not taken" -- Conclusion.…”

Dad is fat / by Gaffigan, Jim

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Contents -- Foreword -- Letter to My Children -- Who's Who in the Cast -- Rue the Day -- "Drinking the Kool-Aid" -- Family-Friendly -- Have Children: The Condition -- Anti-Family -- I Confess -- Happy Days Are Here Again -- The Pharaoh and the Slave -- Vice President -- My Dad, the Professional Wrestler -- The Narcissist's Guide to Babies and Toddlers -- When Women Get Lazy -- Oh My God, You're Pregnant? …”
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IPad : portable genius / by McFedries, Paul

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Presentations in action : 80 memorable presentation lessons from the masters / by Weissman, Jerry

Table of Contents: “…Syndrome -- ...and How to Avoid It -- 4.Beware of Jokes -- Dispelling a Common False Belief -- 5.Presentation Advice from Abraham Lincoln -- Clarity, Ownership, and Add Value -- 6.It Ain't What You Say, It's How You Say It -- Lessons in Structure from Jeffrey Toobin and Andrew Weil, M.D. -- 7.Presentation Advice from Mark Twain -- Brevity Takes Time -- 8.Presentation Advice from Mike Nichols -- How to Find Value in Your Story -- 9.Show versus Tell in Hollywood -- The Wrong and Right Way to Tell a Story -- 10.Slogan Power -- Why the U.S. …”