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Chandler's Ford: a leafy suburb in the middle of southern England, near Winchester Behind the hedges and net curtains, life throbs. Some who've recently moved to Chandler's Ford are getting the measure of their new community. Others are battling with marital issues, war, witchcraft, and the legacy of unrest. New love blossoms, older love struggles and dies. Beloved pets go missing. Shrieking disturbances are controlled. An interactive game conceals a cataclysmic terror for the youngsters. These are tales of Chandler's Ford. These are tales that could be set in any suburb, town, or village in...

The Dead Men and the Sea They say the sea has the longest memory. That she holds all tales deep within her, hidden, secret and silent. The stories of the world before the Fall, torn away like pages from a diary. That's a load of bull. In this wasted world, even the water is an unquiet grave. And on the wide Rum Coast, she's spilled the Full Dead; genteel monsters who know all of the secrets of the World that was... if only they could remember them. On her heaving waves, she ferries the Salt Wise, those who tried to leave the diseased land behind, and almost succeeded. And on the broad and...

Basic reading proficiency is key to success in all content areas, but attending to students' literacy development remains a challenge for many teachers, especially after the primary grades. Knowledge to Support the Teaching of Reading presents recommendations for the essential knowledge about the development, acquisition, and teaching of language and literacy skills that teachers need to master and use. This important book is one result of an initiative of the National Academy of Education's Committee on Teacher Education, whose members have been charged with the task of creating a...

In this book, four distinguished scholars level a powerful critique of the rapid expansion of the emerging American empire and its oppressive and destructive political, military, and economic policies. Arguing that a global Pax Americana is internationally disastrous, the authors demonstrate how America's imperialism inevitably leads to rampant irreversible ecological devastation, expanding military force for imperialistic purposes, and a grossly inequitable distribution of goods--all leading to the diminished well-being of human communities.