Think On My Words: Exploring Shakespeare's Language

'You speak a language that I understand not.' Hermione's words to Leontes in The Winter's Tale are likely to ring true with many people reading or watching Shakespeare's plays today. For decades, people have been studying Shakespeare's life and times, and in recent years there has been a renewed surge of interest into aspects of his language. So how can we better understand Shakespeare? How did he manipulate language to produce such an unrivaled body of work, which has enthralled generations both as theater and as literature? David Crystal addresses these and many other questions in this lively and original introduction to Shakespeare's language.

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Exploring Introductory and Intermediate Algebra: A Graphing Approach

Intended for a one- or two-semester combined elementary and intermediate algebra course, Exploring Introductory and Intermediate Algebra: A Graphing Approach is designed to assist students in making connections between mathematics and its applications. Its goal is to develop a student's mathematical skills through appropriate use of applications and to use technology to establish links between abstract mathematical concepts and visual or concrete representations.

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Design for Diversity: Exploring Socially Mixed Neighbourhoods

The city is more than just a sum of its buildings; it is the sum of its communities. The most successful urban communities are very often those that are the most diverse - in terms of income, age, family structure and ethnicity - and yet poor urban design and planning can stifle the very diversity that makes communities successful.

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Exploring Spellcraft: How to Create and Cast Effective Spells

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Exploring Space - The Quest For Life

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Exploring Future Options

Offers teachers a curriculum that introduces middle school students to career development and teaches them the importance of planning for their future. In a series of 36 lesson plans that stress learning through activity, students gain self-knowledge, explore career and educational options, and begin basic career planning.

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KelbyTraining - Exploring Digital Photography

We are actually thinking of calling this class Rick Sammon Live because it is basically the slide presentation Rick gives around the country and around the world. It includes his best photographs and best tips and his best jokes! For each and every slide, you get a cool tip, either photography or Photoshop. See Rick in action from the comfort of your own home.

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Exploring Black Holes: Introduction to General Relativity

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Exploring the Internet

The Internet really hit the headlines in 1994. People started talking about it, newspapers started writing articles about it, and those weird-looking addresses full of dots and dashes started popping up at the end of TV shows and adverts. Ah yes, everyone said, knowingly. Hype. It’ll be something different next year.

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Exploring the Roots of Religion

Stonehenge. Machu Picchu. The Acropolis. The Great Pyramids at Giza. Sites such as these have captivated the world for centuries—even millennia—since their creation. They are works of great beauty whose construction required spectacular feats of engineering, involved the efforts of hundreds of thousands of individuals, and incurred a tremendous financial cost on the civilizations that created them. But why were these massive sites created? What impulse drove ancient cultures to devote such time and labor into these projects? Why are we so transfixed by their presence today? And what do these and other mysterious sites reveal about our ancestors—and about humanity as a whole?

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Photodex ProShow Producer and Gold v4.1.2712 with Training Workshop - Exploring Layer Keyframing

ProShow Producer - program for creating professional presentations from Photodex. The utility supports the work with layers and makes it possible to use an unlimited number of layers for each slide. The program supports transparency for files PSD, PNG, TIFF and GIF, makes it possible to use a mask layer, transition effects, gradient fills or fill color. Photos that make up the presentation, you can edit, and address them with tools such as improved clarity, change the contrast and color saturation. The presentation may contain signatures, including animation, background music. Finished project can be saved in one of 14 formats, including HD Video, Flash and QuickTime. This version is the most functional version of all three versions of this program, as well as fully suitable for use in business.

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Project Origami: Activities for Exploring Mathematics

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BBC - The Sky at Night Special: Exploring Mars (2009)

For centuries, astronomers, writers and philosophers have speculated about life on the planet Mars, but we have learned more about our near neighbour in the last 30 years than at any time in human history. Sir Patrick Moore and Chris Lintott explore the Red Planet.

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TTC- Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer's Craft

Great writing begins—and ends—with the sentence.

Whether two words ("Jesus wept.") or 1,287 words (a sentence in William Faulkner's Absalom! Absalom!), sentences have the power to captivate, entertain, motivate, educate, and, most importantly, delight.


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Exploring Maths: ActiveTeach Tier 7 (CD-ROM)

Inspiring ICT that transforms teaching. Interactive versions of the Teacher’s Book, Class Book and Home Book are all available at the touch of a button for hassle-free planning at home or in school.

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