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Cleo and Olive Go To School Synopsis

In the second book of the Cleo and Olive series, the puppies find themselves boarding a school bus with Little Girl as they head for their first day of school. Cleo and Olive share the same excitement for starting school as Little Girl, but for Olive, the excitement soon gives way to fear...the fear of meeting new puppies, the fear of learning new tricks, the fear of being different. Cleo quickly jumps in to help her best friend overcome her fears. The beautiful and colorful illustrations and entertaining story parallel the activities of...

A provocative reassessment of the rule of law in world politics

Conventionally understood as a set of limits on state behavior, the "rule of law" in world politics is widely assumed to serve as a progressive contribution to a just, stable, and predictable world. In How to Do Things with International Law, Ian Hurd challenges this received wisdom. Bringing the study of law and legality together with power, politics, and legitimation, he illustrates the complex politics of the international rule of law.

Hurd draws on a series of timely case studies involving recent...

Success with Languages is designed to help all students develop the skills they need to become an effective language learner and to make the most of language study.

Written by experienced language teachers at the Open University, this book offers undergraduates and postgraduates crucial and practical advice on important areas such as:

• choosing a language and study programme
• setting personal goals for language learning and monitoring progress
• using ICT to support language learning.

Each of the ten chapters features a number of...

Barbara Hurd continues to give nature writing a human dimension in this final volume of her trilogy that began with "Stirring the Mud" and "Entering the Stone." With prose both eloquent and wise, she examines what washes ashore, from the angel wing shells to broken oars. Even a merman appears in this brilliant collection that throws light on the mysterious and the overlooked.

Writing from beaches as far-flung as Morocco, St. Croix, or Alaska, and as familiar as California and Cape Cod, she helps us see beauty in the gruesome feeding process of the moon snail. She holds up an encrusted,...

Language learning strategies have been a topic of research for roughly three decades. Broadly speaking, that research has focused on classroom tuition, predominantly at secondary level. Increasingly, however, language learning occurs in independent settings, whether at distance, on Institution-Wide Language Programmes (IWLPs), or in virtual environments. Success in independent language learning is achieved by autonomous individuals with a capacity for self-regulation. Yet we still know relatively little about the specific means they use to learn effectively, whether in terms of the...