A Step 3 reader introducing trains of all shapes and sizes doing what they do best: hauling freight, carrying passengers, and zooming at speeds close to 400 miles per hour! Readers will encounter the Jacobite - a Scottish train that plays the Hogwarts......

Its tires are over five feet tall. It is as heavy as an elephant. And it can jump, race, and crush like a monster! It\"s a monster truck! Whether racing over ramps, plowing through mud, or crushing cars, monster trucks are the biggest and baddest......

Marc Chagall (1887-1985), one of the foremost modernists of the 20th century, created his unique style by blending richly coloured folk art with Cubism, Surrealism and imagery drawn from the Russian Christian icon tradition....

Shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution, Soviet Jewish theatres became catalysts for modernist experimentation. Working with avant-garde playwrights, actors and producers in a new political environment, artists such as Marc Chagall, Natan Altman,......

Management: Challenges for Tomorrow\'s Leaders, Fourth Edition, explains the function and role of management in todays organization, presenting current theory, trends, and influences on today\'s managers and organizations....

Book DescriptionPossibly the most influential figure in the history of American letters, William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was, among other things, a leading novelist in the realist tradition, a formative influence on many of America\'s finest writers, andan outspoken opponent of social injustice....

Book Description In Ellen Glasgow: A Biography , Susan Goodman vividly brings the famously secretive writer to life, penetrating the myths, half-truths, and lies that have swirled around Glasgow since the publication of her first novel, The Descendent , in 1896....

The rapid development of communications technology is transforming the manner in which people communicate across time and space. In English in a Postmodern World the contributors examine both the ways in which the English language has adapted to new media and the changing social relations of a global communications culture....