Basic Reading Power, Second Edition, by Beatrice S. Mikulecky and Linda Jeffries, is a student-centered reading skills textbook with a process... approach to reading improvement. Its unique structure, featuring four key sections used oncurrently, helps beginning-level students (with a vocabulary of 300 words) to become better readers in school, college, or business. Reading for Pleasure encourages students to master new reading strategies and broaden their vocabulary. Comprehension Skills emphasizes strategic reading skills, such as skimming, making inferences, recognizing topics, and understanding sentences. Vocabulary Building offers strategies for learning new words, including personalized vocabulary lists, using context clues, and expanding categories of words.  Thinking Skills provides targeted practice in inference and analytical skills. New to the Second Edition: A two-color design featuring index tabs for easy navigation An expanded Teacher's Guide with sample syllabus Updated content, additional readings, and a unit on identifying word parts Test booklets contain reproducible black line masters to be used as additional practice or to test reading skills presented in the student books.

Basic Reading Power 1 is a new and updated edition of the successful student-centered reading skills textbook Basic Reading Power. Its unique... structure, featuring four parts to be used concurrently, allows beginning-level students (with a 300-word vocabulary) to develop the multiple sills and strategies involved in the reading process.   Overview Extensive Reading helps students to build reading fluency, broaden knowledge of vocabulary and collocation, and gain confidence. Vocabulary Building offers strategies for independent vocabulary learning such as dictionary work, guessing meaning from context, and learning how words work in sentences. Comprehension Skills teaches reading skills such as recognizing words and phrases, scanning for information, and making inferences. Thinking Skills provides practice in recognizing sentence structure and following the logic of ideas. New to the Third Edition An updated Extensive Reading section with new fables and stories, more activities for evaluating student progress, and a revised suggested reading list Enhanced vocabulary features including new "Focus on Vocabulary" exercises and an expanded Vocabulary Building section There is also a Teacher Guide with Answer Key and a Test Booklet for Basic Reading Power 1.   The Reading Power series also includes: Reading Power 2 (4th Edition): Intermediate More Reading Power 3: High-Intermediate Advanced Reading Power 4: Advanced  

Systematically develop the concepts and tools that are vital to every mathematician, whether pure or applied, aspiring or established A comprehensive... treatment with a global view of the subject, emphasizing the connections between real analysis and other branches of mathematics Included throughout are many examples and hundreds of problems, and a separate 55-page section gives hints or complete solutions for most.

Ideal for the one-semester undergraduate course, Basic Real Analysis is intended for students who have recently completed a traditional calculus course... and proves the basic theorems of Single Variable Calculus in a simple and accessible manner. It gradually builds upon key material as to not overwhelm students beginning the course and becomes more rigorous as they progresses. Optional appendices on sets and functions, countable and uncountable sets, and point set topology are included for those instructors who wish include these topics in their course. The author includes hints throughout the text to help students solve challenging problems. An online instructor's solutions manual is also available

Basic Real Estate and Property Law for Paralegals provides a thorough yet easily accessible introduction to the law underlying complex real estate... transactions. In its third edition, this teachable text continues to explain the foundations of the law as well as to offer useful examples that clarify the paralegal's role. This popular text, which provides numerous examples that will resonate particularly well with paralegal students, offers an excellent choice for a comprehensive yet manageable introduction to the fundamentals of Real Estate and Property Law.

Basic Real Estate and Property Law for Paralegals provides a thorough yet easily accessible introduction to the law underlying complex real estate ... transactions. In its third edition, this teachable text continues to explain the foundations of the law as well as to offer useful examples that clarify the paralegal's role. Among the features that make this concise text an excellent teaching tool: thorough coverage of Estates in Land and Future Interests; Titles; Land Use; Conveyancing; Closing Procedures; Condos, Co-ops, and Commercial Property; and Landlord-Tenant law a rich chapter pedagogy includes key terms, practical tips, ethical points, chapter summaries, and extensive practice and review features with end-of-chapter review points, exercises, activities, and analytical situational analyses clear and descriptive examples help elucidate the material edited cases in each chapter give students practice reading and analyzing case decisions legal forms in each chapter provide examples and practice documents on a topic-by-topic basis a final chapter on personal property introduces students to essential concepts of tangible and intangible property Completely updated, the Third Edition includes: a timely new section in Chapter 4 discussing the subprime mortgage crisis in detail, including its effect on landlord/tenant law new cases and updated forms This popular text, which provides numerous examples that will resonate particularly well with paralegal students, offers an excellent choice for a comprehensive yet manageable introduction to the fundamentals of Real Estate and Property Law.

Learn the fundamentals of real estate appraisal from a professional. BASIC REAL ESTATE APPRAISAL, 7e makes it easy providing a clear overview of the... profession and basic appraisal techniques. Completely updated to meet the new 2008 qualifying education requirements, this popular real estate appraisal book provides a thorough outline of fundamental real estate appraisal theory and practice. Like so many previous users, you'll appreciate the clear step-by-step calculations with detailed explanations in addition to how simple and complex subjects are covered in easy-to-understand terms. Practical examples throughout illustrate real-life situations real estate appraisers will encounter in everyday practice. PLUS - you will gain valuable on-the-job experience completing applications using the popular "Clickforms" software used throughout the real estate appraisal industry. This book also references and explains the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP), introducing all of the appraisal related topics listed in new educational requirements for universal state licensing and certification.

This book provides a clear overview of the profession and basic appraisal techniques, providing a thorough outline of fundamental real estate appraisal... theory and practice. This edition highlights the new Uniform Appraisal Dataset (UAD) and gives an update on the Appraisal Reports section, USPAP Reporting Standards, and the URAR Form. Each book is accompanied by a CD that includes a student version of ClickFORMSâ„¢ along with important Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bulletins regarding requirements and standards.

This book was written in response to the needs for a growing number of schools that are teaching an integrated research methods/statistics course. Basic... Research Methods and Statistics has detailed, comprehensive and even-handed coverage of the fundamental issues in research design and data analysis, and is written in a conversational style that students can easily comprehend. The text is comprehensive in its coverage of basic and intermediate topics, however, the modular format allows professors to skip or rearrange the order of chapters without loss of continuity. Therefore, the text is appropriate for either a one-semester or two-semester course.

This book offers a comprehensive and rounded view of research as a tool for logical problem-solving. It is built on the philosophical-pragmatic... foundation that the value of knowledge and research methodologies lies in their usefulness in engaging with the real world. Synthesizing both positivist and non-positivist methodologies, this book is for students who are undertaking their first social science research course or their first research project. The techniques are basic ones, but many masters and doctoral research studies use them. From an experiential base, students would be able to build a more advanced conceptual and theoretical understanding of research through further reading and practice. 

Addressed to practicing librarians and other information professionals, as well as master's and doctoral students in LIS programs, Basic Research... Methods for Librarians, Fifth Edition specifically covers the research methodologies likely to be used by librarians, providing guidance on designing and conducting research and publishing research results. Like its predecessors, this fifth edition is exceptionally comprehensive. Content has been thoroughly updated and sections have been added on social networking and other web-based research methods and techniques. The book emphasizes quantitative research, including survey and experimental studies. It also gives attention to qualitative research, including historical research. A chapter is devoted to the statistical analysis of research results. Evaluation, writing, and publishing of research reports are considered as well. Coauthored by distinguished researchers in library and information science, the book also includes contributions from experts on qualitative research, domain assumptions of research, and sampling.