The Academic Encounters series uses a sustained content approach to teach skills necessary for taking academic courses in English. There are two books for each content area. The Teacher's Manual for this title contains general teaching guidelines for the course, task by task teaching suggestions, answers for all tasks, lecture quizzes and quiz answers, and the listening script for the audio program.

The Academic Encounters Second edition series uses a sustained content approach to teach skills necessary for taking academic courses in English. There are two books for each content area. Academic Encounters Level 2 Teacher's Manual Listening and Speaking: American Studies contains general teaching guidelines for the course, task by task teaching suggestions, answers for all tasks, audio and video scripts, and unit quizzes and quiz answers.

This book presents a history of the organized labor movement in Puerto Rico from US colonial domination in 1898 to the Great Depression in the 1930s. Despite the early influence of revolutionary ideologies, the organized workers' movement sought to create change through the organization of labor and participation in electoral politics.

Academic Encounters Second Edition is an academic preparation series that uses a sustained content approach. There are two books in the series for each content focus: an Academic Encounters title that teaches reading, study skills, and writing; and an Academic Listening Encounters title that concentrates on developing students' listening, note-taking, and discussion skills. The two books may be used independently, or they may be used together to form a complete integrated-skills course.