This is a concise guide to Mac Intyres most important book After Virtue" examining its arguments in detail & placing it within the broader context of Mac Intyres career. " After Virtue" is a watershed in Mac Intyres career. It follows his emergence from Marxism but draws on Marxist sources & arguments. It precedes his move to Thomism but already draws on Augustine & Aquinas. Because of its watershed nature it has gained a wide readership in various fields but it treats a variety of issues in ways that are unfamiliar either to Marxists schooled in the social sciences or to Thomists schooled in medieval metaphysics. " Reading Alasdair Mac Intyres After Virtue" provides a commentary that will be accessible to students valuable to scholars & useful to teachers. Students will find help to navigate the two main arguments of " After Virtue" to understand its interpretation of history & to engage its proposal for a form of ethics & politics that returns to the tradition of the virtues. Scholars will find the book useful as a general guide to Mac Intyres ethics. Teachers will find a book that can help to direct their students reading & keep classroom discussions focused on the books central concerns." ...

Superstar reward stickers finest top quality colour illustrations & a friendly animal character ensure that learning at home is easy & fun. Notes to parents explain the purpose of each activity & provide clear & helpful advice. The book ends with an informal test & a progress chart with space for stickers provides a useful skills checklist. Hodder Home Learning" helps parents support their childrens learning at home." ...

A lively new series that puts a collection of stimulating & entertaining reading comprehension exercises at your fingertips. Multiple-choice questions are followed by open-ended activities requiring either an imaginative or reflective response or independent research. The passages are illustrated & encompass a wide range of genres including:
- fiction
- poetry
- dialogue
- letters
- charts & tables
- recipes
- news reports
- Book One (1-85503-362-3) features a press report of a UFO sighting & a letter of complaint: exercises designed for children in Year 3. Book Two (1-85503-363-1) features fascinating & varied topics designed for children in year 4. * Supporting the National Literacy Strategy at Key Stage 2 the photocopiable exercises in each book are grouped & graded within four main skill areas: Getting the main idea
- Making inferences
- Noting & recalling details
- Using context clues
- * With teacher's notes & separate answer pages for easy checking this series shows the way to develop & hone crucial comprehension skills.











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This is a series of 25 comprehension exercises designed to give pupils practice in studying & understanding different forms of written passages & in solving questions raised from their reading. These exercises are intended as a continuation of the Reading Comprehension exercises for Key Stage 1. The passages provide a wide range of reading experience through extracts from children's fiction both classic & modern factual passages poetry newspapers television listings adverts menus & leaflets. The passages also introduce a variety of creative writing opportunities. They are arranged in the following categories: units 1- 10 are aimed at level 4 of the national curriculum units 11
- 18 are aimed at the top of level 4 moving into level 5 units 19
- 25 are aimed at level 5.

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This series of 10 comprehension exercises is designed to give pupils practice in reading & understanding a variety of written passages & in answering questions based on their reading. It aims to act as a bridge between the work done in the Reading Comprehension Key Stage 1 pack & the more advanced work in the Key Stage 2 pack. The passages offer a variety of reading experience from childrens fiction through poems to factual passages. The ten units are divided into three levels: units 1
- 6 are aimed at reading level 2 of the national curriculum units 7
- 9 are aimed at level 3a unit 10 is aimed at level 4.

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The six books in this series provide a range of worksheets display materials & teachers notes designed to help teachers deliver the reading element of the Literacy Strategy. They cover an extensive range of text genres ranging from Myths & fables to evaluating press releases! Each activity can be used for individual or shared reading & provides excellent practice for the National Tests. The exercises are differentiated allowing teachers to meet pupils individual needs. ...

First published in 1978 Reading Greek has become a best-selling one-year introductory course in ancient Greek for students & adults. It combines the best of modern & traditional language-learning techniques & is used widely in schools summer schools & universities across the world. It has also been translated into several foreign languages. This volume provides full grammatical support together with numerous exercises at different levels. For the second edition the presentations of grammar have been substantially revised to meet the needs of todays students & the volume has been completely redesigned with the use of colour. Greek-English & English-Greek vocabularies are provided as well as a substantial reference grammar & language surveys. The accompanying Text & Vocabulary volume contains a narrative adapted entirely from ancient authors in order to encourage students rapidly to develop their reading skills simultaneously receiving a good introduction to Greek culture. ...

A group of friends a few bottles of wine & a good book. What could be better? The women who form the Reading Group are as varied as the books they choose to read: Designer-clad Nicole has the perfect domestic set-up
- apart from a serially unfaithful husb&. Her best friend Harriets husband is perfect; but Harriet just doesnt love him any more. Clare is desperate for a baby
- & is wrecking her marriage in the process while Cressida is terrified shes pregnant. Susan is watching her mothers sad slow decline comforted by her family; Polly wants to marry again but will Jack cope with hers? Can they find the answers in the pages of a good book?

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This second edition of the landmark textbook Reading Images builds on its reputation as the first systematic & comprehensive account of the grammar of visual design. Drawing on an enormous range of examples from childrens drawings to textbook illustrations photo-journalism to fine art as well as three-dimensional forms such as sculpture & toys the authors examine the ways in which images communicate meaning. Features of this fully updated second edition include: new material on moving images & on colour a discussion of how images & their uses have changed through time websites & web-based images ideas on the future of visual communication. Reading Images focuses on the structures or grammar of visual design
- colour perspective framing & composition
- provides the reader with an invaluable tool-kit for reading images & makes it a must for anyone interested in communication the media & the arts.

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Opening at the Hay Festival & ending with the prospect of a spring wedding Sue Gees novel is a lively story of tangled relationships & the sustaining powers of good books loyal friends & conversation. Friends since university with busy working lives behind them Dido & Georgia have long been looking forward to carefree days of books & conversation when each finds herself caught up in unexpected domestic drama. Dido for the first time has cause to question her marriage; widowed Georgia feels certain her husband will return to her. Meanwhile an eccentric country cousin goes wildly off the rails children are unhappy in love & perfect health is all at once in question. ...