Learning To Learn: Making Learning Work For All Students by Garry Burnett (Advanced Skills Teacher, Malet Lambert School, Hull, England) is an original and superbly organized resource designed especially for teachers of students age 11-14. Steps and sample exercises for overcoming psychological barriers, for discovering inspiration and emotional intelligence, as well as tips, tricks, and techniques for making better use of one's memory, and a great deal more are presented in a thoroughly "user friendly" format. Photocopiable exercises and a companion audio CD round out this very highly recommended treasure trove of ideas and methods for improving a student's scholarly skills.

Great book! Anyone who can should read this book. Frances Hodgson Burnett is an outstanding author. Another great book she wrote was the classic The Secret Garden. Kayla H.

When Mary Lenox (a spoilt, selfish and lazy child) is sent to live her uncle (an ugly hunchback) at an english country side, she finds herself exploring the gardens of her uncles great big house till one day she finds a key to a locked up garden which was used by her aunt who died. Follow the two classics A Little Princess and the Secret Garden- two stories about two orphans who have their lives turned upside down and find that it is not always easy to accept this way.

A classic, a favourite and a book you simply cannot put down.

Once I got super glue on my fingers and I tried EVERYTHING!! and I could'nt get it of so I got out the book and it gave me the soultion!

Every mother should read this book and gift this book to her daughter(s) and friends. The statistical evidence presented in this book has recently been confirmed in a new study outlined in 'National Review'.

Everyone who loves children and who understand the importance of babyhood will love this book!!

This is an incredible book. It does not tell you that you should move, or where to move. But it does take you through a step-by-step method to discuss/decide, with your entire family, where you want to live. The forms provided (and permission is given to photocopy them) help you to decide and prioritize what you want out of your town. The book goes on to suggest research methods to find possible towns that meet your expectations.

What a wonderful resource!!!

The book consists of six volumes, written between 1773 and 1792, and especially the first volume was very interesting to me, because it does not only describe how language originated and evolved, but it gives also a remarkable insight in how man was discussed and defined in the second half of the eighteenth century. The Scottish judge Lord Monboddo, also James Burnet(t), writes about the origin of society, of language, of ideas, the history of mankind as a species, the definition of man, using all kind of strange human creatures to proof his hypotheses. One of those creatures is the ouranutang, who Monboddo believes is a real man, but who is not yet fully developped.
This book is, to my humble opinion, an absolute must for people who are interested in eighteenth century anthropology, linguistics (the other volumes in which Monboddo discusses Greek and Latin authors), history and even metaphysics. Read also 'Antient metaphysics', written by Monboddo, and the unfortunately very rare second edition of the first volume of OPL(1774).

Although written over 15 years ago, Carol Burnett's
autobio is an amazing one. It covers just about all
(or seemingly so) of her early years in Texas,
her move to California, and at age 21, her move
to New York where she hit the 'big time'.

Carol obviously didn't have it easy. Her family
was impoverished and her mother and father were
absentee parents. Only because of her grandmother,
Nanny, did Carol pull through. Although neither
of Carol's parents survived to see her success,
Nanny did...and for that I'm sure she'll eternally
be grateful.

Unbeknownst to me before reading the book, her mother had
an illegitimate baby girl, Chrissy, which she kept...and this
was back in the 40's when such things were
scorned mercilessly. Luckily, just before
her mother died prematurely, Carol was able to take Chrissy
back to New York where she finished her formative years.

The coverage stops all too soon...Carol's narrative
is especially inviting. I was hoping that a few
bits about "The Carol Burnett Show" and Harvey, Tim,
Vicki, and Lyle would be included, but it's easy
to see why that element was left out.
Although the structure doesn't really take the
form of a letter, the book claims to be a letter
written for her three daughters. A unique format.
My only complaint is that the book contains tens of
pages of Carol's handwritten letters to a guy
named DeNootie (an old friend of hers). In the paperback
version, they are impossible to read because the
print is overpixelated. Ditto for the section of
photographs...the photos are all way underexposed.

A must-read for any Carol fan. Definitely among
the best bios I've ever read or will read.

One of the best celebrity memoirs ever. If anyone ever deserved the success in life that Carol Burnett received, it is she. This little girl, raised in poverty, in a one room apartment, literally steps away from the then- at- its- peak Hollywood Boulevard, a muckle mouthed little dreamer, tended by her cuckoo "Nanny", both parents tragic alcoholics, both of whom did not have a happy ending...This is a fabulous, humble, true success story, about one of the most talented, respected, classy ladies in the history of show-biz. Her telling of her ambition to achieve her dream, in the face of what would have been overwhelming odds to most, is not only incredibly touching, but a lesson in perseverence, and believing in yourself. I tend to write about movies, books, etc.., that are not necessarily "current", and I guess that's because the quality of the originals can't be duplicated, and Carol Burnett is truly one of the "originals." She had and has "the goods." A must read (and read again) about one teriffic lady.

This book proposes that there was a lively sense of the individual self in persons in the Hellenistic world of the urban centres in which Paul lived and ministered, whereby individualistic behaviour was not unknown and where individuals were not simply determined by their culture and the group of which they were a part. This is in contrast to many recent sociological approaches to the New Testament which emphasise the collective over the individual. Hence it is argued that the individual is a central feature of Paul's letter to the Romans.
This book challenges the very strong emphasis put upon the collective in recent approaches to Paul's letter to the Romans, especially by sociologically based NT research, but also within the wider body of Romans research. It suggests that it is possible to maintain that Paul was vitally interested in the salvation of the individual, without having to revert to traditional Lutheran interpretations of the text.