21st Century Reading 2. Students Book

21st Century Reading 2. Student's Book 21st Century Reading was created through a partnership between TED, a nonprofit dedicated to spreading ideas through short, powerful talks and National Geographic Learning. 21st Century Reading provides the ideal forum for learners of English to make connections with topics ranging from science to business to global issues. Using TED Talks as the springboard to share ideas, this new four-level reading series shows learners how to understand and respond to ideas and content in English.

21st Century Reading 2. Student's Book 21st Century Reading was created through a partnership between TED, a nonprofit dedicated to spreading ideas through short, powerful talks and National Geographic Learning. 21st Century Reading provides the ideal forum for learners of English to make connections with topics ranging from science to business to global issues. Using TED Talks as the springboard to share ideas, this new four-level reading series shows learners how to understand and respond to ideas and content in English.

21st Century Communication is a four-level series that uses powerful ideas from TED Talks to teach learners to think critically and communicate effectively. Through authentic models of effective communication, students build fluency in the listening and speaking skills needed to achieve academic and personal success. • TED Talks are used to develop essential 21st century skills, including critical thinking, collaboration, and visual literacy. • Speaking, pronunciation, and presentation skills, inspired by TED speakers, prepare learners to speak confidently in any situation. • Extended listening based on real-world situations and TED Talks provide listening and note-taking practice. • Online Workbooks include the entire audio and video program, and automatically graded language practice activities - ideal for both hybrid and blended courses.

21st Century Communication is a four-level series that uses powerful ideas from TED Talks to teach learners to think critically and communicate effectively. Through authentic models of effective communication, students build fluency in the listening and speaking skills needed to achieve academic and personal success. • TED Talks are used to develop essential 21st century skills, including critical thinking, collaboration, and visual literacy. • Speaking, pronunciation, and presentation skills, inspired by TED speakers, prepare learners to speak confidently in any situation. • Extended listening based on real-world situations and TED Talks provide listening and note-taking practice. • Online Workbooks include the entire audio and video program, and automatically graded language practice activities - ideal for both hybrid and blended courses.

21st Century Communication is a four-level series that uses powerful ideas from TED Talks to teach learners to think critically and communicate effectively. Through authentic models of effective communication, students build fluency in the listening and speaking skills needed to achieve academic and personal success.• TED Talks are used to develop essential 21st century skills, including critical thinking, collaboration, and visual literacy.• Speaking, pronunciation, and presentation skills, inspired by TED speakers, prepare learners to speak confidently in any situation.• Extended listening based on real-world situations and TED Talks provide listening and note-taking practice.• Online Workbooks include the entire audio and video program, and automatically graded language practice activities - ideal for both hybrid and blended courses.

21st Century Communication is a four-level series that uses powerful ideas from TED Talks to teach learners to think critically and communicate effectively. Through authentic models of effective communication, students build fluency in the listening and speaking skills needed to achieve academic and personal success. • TED Talks are used to develop essential 21st century skills, including critical thinking, collaboration, and visual literacy. • Speaking, pronunciation, and presentation skills, inspired by TED speakers, prepare learners to speak confidently in any situation. • Extended listening based on real-world situations and TED Talks provide listening and note-taking practice. • Online Workbooks include the entire audio and video program, and automatically graded language practice activities - ideal for both hybrid and blended courses.

21st Century Communication is a four-level series that uses powerful ideas from TED Talks to teach learners to think critically and communicate effectively. Through authentic models of effective communication, students build fluency in the listening and speaking skills needed to achieve academic and personal success.• TED Talks are used to develop essential 21st century skills, including critical thinking, collaboration, and visual literacy.• Speaking, pronunciation, and presentation skills, inspired by TED speakers, prepare learners to speak confidently in any situation.• Extended listening based on real-world situations and TED Talks provide listening and note-taking practice.• Online Workbooks include the entire audio and video program, and automatically graded language practice activities - ideal for both hybrid and blended courses.

Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry combines close readings of individual poems with a critical consideration of the historical context in which they were written. Informative and original, this book has been carefully designed to enable readers to understand, enjoy, and be inspired by sixteenth-century poetry. Close reading of a wide variety of sixteenth-century poems, canonical and non-canonical, by men and by women, from print and manuscript culture, across the major literary modes and genres Poems read within their historical context, with reference to five major cultural revolutions: Renaissance humanism, the Reformation, the modern nation-state, companionate marriage, and the scientific revolution Offers in-depth discussion of Skelton, Wyatt, Surrey, Isabella Whitney, Gascoigne, Philip Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Mary Sidney Herbert, Donne, and Shakespeare Presents a separate study of all five of Shakespeare’s major poems – Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, 'The Phoenix and Turtle,' the Sonnets, and A Lover's Complaint- in the context of his dramatic career Discusses major works of literary criticism by Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Longinus, Philip Sidney, George Puttenham, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Seamus Heaney, Adrienne Rich, and Helen Vendler

What does being a dad in the 21st Century really mean? Men today want to play an active role in the upbringing of their children; that means knowing how to cope with them, play with them, control them and love them. Becoming a father however, can be an extremely daunting prospect, after all it is completely uncharted territory. This wonderful book is not only for expectant and new fathers but covers the whole range of issues dads encounter from conception through to teenage traumas. Situations such as step-fatherhood and the changing relationship with partners are also discussed in a sensitive and informative style. The stresses imposed by modern lifestyles on fathers and kids are looked at as well as the problems and benefits encountered by the fact that kids today are often very sophisticated and clued-up. Chapters include: * I'm Going to be a Dad * Bonding for Fathers * Discipline * Learning to Play Again * Teenage Traumas Written in a light-hearted yet informative style, and including numerous interviews with fathers themselves, this book reflects the latest thinking and theories on how to be a good father.

Toward a 21st Century Health System is a collection of thoughtful analyses that explore a key element of the health care delivery system?physician group practices. Edited by policy experts Alain Enthoven and Laura Tollen, and written by a blue ribbon panel of health policy scholars and leaders including Stephen Shortell, Hal Luft, Donald Berwick, James Robinson, and Helen Darling, this resource addresses a variety of topics, including Organized delivery systems Quality of care in prepaid group practice versus other types of managed care The role of physician leadership and culture in group practice Prepaid group practice and the formation of national health policy This comprehensive resource also covers such topics as pharmacy benefit management, technology assessment, health services research, and employer purchasing of benefits– all as they relate to prepaid group practice.