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In 2004, four Latino teenagers arrived at the Marine Advanced Technology Education Robotics Competition at the University of California, Santa Barbara. They were born in Mexico but raised in Phoenix, Arizona, where they attended an underfunded public high school. No one had ever suggested to Oscar, Cristian, Luis, or Lorenzo that they might amount to much—but two inspiring science teachers had convinced these impoverished, undocumented kids from the desert who had never even seen the ocean that they should try to build an underwater robot.

Things are scary right now. We’re all being swept along by a tidal wave of history, and it’s easy to feel helpless. But we’re not helpless: We have minds, and imaginations, and the ability to visualize other worlds and valiant struggles. And writing can be an act of resistance that reminds us that other futures and other ways of living are possible. Full of memoir, personal anecdote, and insight about how to flourish during the present emergency, Never Say You Can’t Survive is the perfect manual for creativity in unprecedented times.

Just say Nu is a practical guide to using Yiddish words and expressions in day-to-day situations. Along with enough grammar to enable listeners to put together a comprehensible sentence and avoid embarrassing mistakes, Wex also explains the five most useful Yiddish words–shoyn, nu, epes, takeh, and nebakh–what they mean, how and when to use them, and how they can be used to conduct an entire conversation without anybody ever suspecting that the listener doesn't have the vaguest idea of what anyone is actually saying.

Behind the Wheel Spanish 3 incorporates vocabulary, grammar, and sentence building from earlier levels as it refines and perfects your understanding of the Spanish language, focusing on listening comprehension and conversational interaction to take you to the next level of fluency.

People who craft know things. They know how to transform piles of yarn into sweaters and scarves. They know that some items, like woolen bikini tops, are better left unknit. They know that making a hat for a newborn baby isn't just about crafting something small but appreciating the beginnings of life, which sometimes helps make peace with the endings. They know that if you knit your boyfriend a sweater, your relationship will most likely be over before the last stitch.

In Listening Well, Heather will explore her extraordinary talents as a listener—a skill she employed when she first met Lale Sokolov, the tattooist at Auschwitz-Birkenau. It was this ability that led Lale to entrust Heather with his story, which she told in The Tattooist of Auschwitz. Now Heather shares the story behind her inspirational writing journey and the defining experiences of her life, including her profound friendship with Lale, and explores how she learned to really listen to the stories people told her—skills she believes we can all learn.

In the age of information and influence, the ability to authentically express yourself in words has become both a rite of passage and an essential skill for anyone who wants to make a difference—however modest or grand—in their family, community, workplace, or at the podium in front of thousands.

Over the past few years, a remarkable number of sexual harassment victims have come forward with their stories, demanding consequences for their assailants and broad societal change. Each prominent allegation, however, has also set off a wave of questions—some posed in good faith, some distinctly not—about the rights of the accused. The national conversation has grown polarized, inflamed by a public narrative that wrongly presents feminism and fair process as warring interests. Sexual Justice is an intervention, pointing the way to common ground.

What About the Baby?: Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction gathers the best-selling novelist Alice McDermott’s pithiest wisdom about her chosen art, acquired over a lifetime as an acclaimed writer and teacher of writing.

An urgent account of the revolution that has upended the news business, authored by one of the most accomplished journalists of our time.

Behind the Wheel Portuguese 1 covers beginning to intermediate level standard Portuguese, with an emphasis on Brazilian Portuguese. The course provides a flexible, solid and universal foundation in speaking, understanding, and creatively expressing yourself in Brazilian Portuguese and features an English speaking instructor to guide you through the lessons and a native speaker to aid with your pronunciation.

In Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips to Clean Up Your Writing, Mignon Fogarty, the woman behind the popular Grammar Girl podcast, tackles some of the most common mistakes people make while communicating. From "lay vs. lie" and "affect vs. effect" to split infinitives and run-on sentences, the Grammar Girl offers clear explanations and effective memory tricks to help listeners write (or say) it right.

Louis Freeh led the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1993 to 2001, through some of the most tumultuous times in its long history. This is the story of a life in law enforcement and of one man's determined struggle to strengthen and reform the FBI while ensuring its freedom from political interference.

This Behind the Wheel speed immersion system gets you speaking French faster than you ever thought possible. By combining simple sentence building techniques with the most commonly used vocabulary, you get the instruction and practice you need in the time you have. Includes a companion book to enhance your learning experience. Kick your French language learning into overdrive.

Effective communication is essential in business and in everyday life. The most powerful communicators reach not just our minds, but our hearts: They win our trust. You can learn to impress and persuade people by following Bert Decker's program in You've Got to Be Believed to Be Heard.

This Behind the Wheel speed immersion system gets you speaking Italian faster than you ever thought possible. By combining simple sentence building techniques with the most commonly used vocabulary, you get the instruction and practice youneed in the time you have. Includes a companion book to enhance your learning experience. Kick your Italian language learning into overdrive.

Behind the Wheel - Japanese Level 1 covers beginning to intermediate level Japanese, providing a strong, yet flexible foundation for speaking, understanding, and creatively expressing yourself in standard Japanese. The program features an English-speaking instructor to guide you through the lessons and a native Japanese speaker to aid with your pronunciation.

Behind the Wheel Italian Level 1 covers beginning to intermediate level Italian, providing a flexible, solid and universal foundation in speaking, understanding, and creatively expressing yourself in Italian. The program features an English speaking instructor to guide you through the lessons and a native Italian speaker to aid with your pronunciation. Includes a companion book to reinforce and enhance the audio experience.

At last - an Arabic audio course that requires no reading and that teaches you to actually speak universal Arabic with a minimum of time and effort. Designed by the experts at Language Dynamics, Behind The Wheel Arabic takes the learner from basic to intermediate level Arabic without the guesswork and pain usually associated with language learning.

Can teenagers be turned on to serious reading? What kind of teachers can do it, and what books? To find out, Denby sat in on a 10th-grade English class in a demanding New York public school for an entire academic year and made frequent visits to a troubled inner-city public school in New Haven and to a respected public school in Westchester County.