Patrick Moran Bücher

A one-of-a-kind picture dictionary, Lexicarry offers a fun, active, conversational approach to language learning. It is a book of wordless pictures designed to help learners build vocabulary and conversation skills in any second language using the American English word list in the book, a bilingual dictionary, one of the Lexicarry word lists, and/or someone who knows the language. There are 13 foreign language word lists available at ProLinguaLearning.com to use with this book for learners of languages other than English. The book has 142 pages of full-color drawings illustrating functional language and vocabulary in 190 situational and topical contexts. This amounts to over 4500 everyday words and expressions. The pictures make conversation and interactive learning easy. Although learners can use Lexicarry working on their own, they learn best by discussing the objects, places, and activities in the drawings, working together in pairs, as a class, or with a tutor or native speakers. The illustrations are not labeled, and this naturally challenges and excites students' imaginations and helps them retain the language. There are seven sections to the book: 1) Functions, 2) Sequences of Actions, 3) Related Actions, 4) Operations, 5) Topics (vocabulary items related to one theme), 6) Places (scenes/ rooms and the things we find and do there), and 7) Proverbs and Sayings.

This Element examines four key questions raised by the prospect of a fantasy canon: the way in which canon and genre influence each other; the overwhelming presence of Tolkien in any discussion of the classics of fantasy; the multi- media and transmedia nature of the field; and the push for a more inclusive and diverse canon.

Focusing on the integration of culture in educational settings, this work offers insightful classroom accounts and thorough analysis of teaching materials. It explores how cultural contexts influence pedagogy, providing a comprehensive understanding of the subject.

Patrick Moran's fourth collection, Reckonings, traces the poet's journey from a rural upbringing, marked by religious fervour, to a world of fraught intensities and troubled legacies. Having charted his progress through a diocesan boarding school, where he takes his first, tentative steps as a poet, Moran next focuses on early adulthood, a period of existential questing and drifting, when he struggles to find a voice in the classroom and on the page. While the last section opens on a buoyant note, with a group of marriage poems, echoes of earlier turbulence are still heard, notably in "Spectral" where nightmares disrupt his sleep and memories rip open/ (his) delicate/ stitching. Indeed, the past - its moulding, its affirmations, its shadowing - pervades Moran's reckonings in this section: whether in taking stock of his teaching career; in re-assessing his heritage; or brooding, characteristically, on blighted lives and might-have-beens. As RECKONINGS tries to keep faith with its formative influences, the poet bears witness, in these unsparingly honest lyrics, to his life and times: turning, as he observes in "Makings", his restless days into jottings, numbered pages: as if the unrecorded life were not worth living.

50 photocopiable faces provide inspiration for students to create and build characters. A Teacher's Guide at the back of the book provides ideas for role plays, improvised dramas, storytelling and short stories. This is a unique and flexible book for teachers looking for an engaging way to spur imagination, vocabulary acquisition, writing, speaking, and interaction.

The Soccer Advantage is a valuable tool for soccer coaches of all levels and ages. It contains sections on methodology, technique, tactics, club development, coach development, player development, the training environment and more. In addition to these methodology sections it contains detailed outlines for over 20 practice sessions complete with illustrations, coaching points and stage by stage progressions. A 'must have' for your coaching library.

Following the tragic death of her lover Bodie Bloom, Dusty Rhodes embarks on a journey through Venice and Asia Minor, grappling with her newfound wealth from a 40 million euro lottery win. As she navigates her grief and the complexities of her fortune, Dusty confronts the challenges of loss and the search for meaning in a world transformed by sudden wealth. This sequel to That Which Bends explores themes of love, loss, and resilience against a richly atmospheric backdrop.

The story follows fourteen-year-old Tyrone Clancy as he navigates a transformative journey during his father's participation in the Ironman Triathlon in Hawaii. After a tragic incident where a local eeler, Rice Cooked, saves Tyrone's sister but suffers fatal injuries, Tyrone is drawn into a quest for understanding and maturity. Accompanying the eeler's family to the City of Refuge to honor their father's memory, Tyrone learns about forgiveness and the shared struggles of loss, ultimately discovering a path to atonement and personal growth.

The story intertwines the plight of a gray whale and her calf stranded on an oil drilling platform with the ecological impact of an oil spill in Southern California. Their survival is linked to the migration of Monarch butterflies from Mexico and a poignant diary penned by a terminally ill 13-year-old girl thirty years prior. Themes of environmentalism, interconnection of species, and the power of memory drive this narrative, highlighting the delicate balance between nature and human activity.

Told from the perspective of a dog named Dinasaur, the story follows an unexpected journey after his master unknowingly acquires the Buddha's rice bowl. Their adventure begins in San Francisco during the Summer of Love and leads them to Tibet, where they must confront the dualities of life to restore the sacred dish. This unique tale blends humor and spirituality, exploring themes of companionship and the quest for balance in a world filled with contrasts.