В пособии представлены контрольно-измерительные материалы (КИМы) по курсу «Алгебра» для 8 класса. Порядок тем соответствует учебнику Ю.Н. Макарычева, входящему в действующий федеральный перечень учебников. Структура КИМов аналогична структуре заданий ГИА (ОГЭ) и ЕГЭ по математике, что позволит подготовить учащихся к работе с подобным материалом. В конце издания предложены ответы ко всем тестам. Пособие адресовано учителям, учащимся средней школы и их родителям.
The first book in which people discuss their own spiritual emergencies and share what helped them through. Our authors are the experts of their own experience, and they share their wild journeys with courage, insight and poetry. There are fascinating parallels in their experiences, suggesting minds in extremis go to similar places. These are beautiful postcards from the edge of human consciousness, testaments to the soul's natural resilience. Our authors have returned from their descent...
The DHAMMAPADA is a collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form and one of the most widely read and best known Buddhist scriptures. The original version of the DHAMMAPADA is in the Khuddaka Nikaya, a division of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism. The Buddhist scholar and commentator Buddhaghosa explains that each saying recorded in the collection was made on a different occasion in response to a unique situation that had arisen in the life of the Buddha and his monastic community. His...
Hal, the hero of Give Your Heart a Break, thought he could be just as successful as Jack Benny or any of the other club acts gaining acclaim during the late 1940s, but comedy is a tough business and he really needed the support of the woman he loves, Nell. The ups and downs of an entertainer’s career are still a problem for the stars of today, just as it was for Hal and Nell. The arrival of their beautiful baby boy, Pete, drove Nell to the breaking point. Would she have the strength to...
This exciting collection of traditional African folk tales introduces you to a host of interesting people and unusual animals. Eighteen authentic fables, recorded as they were told by tribal members of Nigerian and other cultures, range from the imaginative «Story of a Farmer and Four Hyenas» to an entertaining account of «The Man with Seven Dogs.»In «The Magic Crocodile,» you'll meet a reptile with very strange powers, while «The Boy in the Drum» teaches a valuable lesson in the importance...
What is music? «God's best gift to man,» as Walter Savage Landor said? «The moonlight in the gloomy night of life,» as Jean Paul Richter put it? Or perhaps—as Carl Maria von Weber and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow agree —"the universal language of mankind"? Whatever it is, it certainly «hath charms to soothe the savage breast,» as William Congreve famously observed. And it «expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent» (Victor Hugo).These...
"Let blockheads read what blockheads write," suggested Lord Chesterfield. W. H. Auden once said, «Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.» And TV celebrity Jerry Seinfeld noted: «The big advantage of a book is that it's very easy to rewind. Close it and you're right back at the beginning.» Over 450 memorable quotes about books and reading fill these pages—with provocative declarations from Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, Andrew Carnegie,...
A special edition of Bengal Lights, Bangladesh's leading English language literary journal, guest-edited by the editors of the Unnamed Press and Phoneme Media. A liberal exploration of the concept of “the guest” featuring Etgar Keret, Mario Bellatin, Sesshu Foster, Ben Ehrenreich, Stacy Hardy, Douglas Kearney, Amjad Nasser, Rita Indiana, Pavel Šrut, Inongo-vi-Makomè, Angie Cruz, Antonella Anedda, Sharbari Z. Ahmed, Paul Holzman, Carly J. Hallman,...
"I know only two tunes," said Ulysses S. Grant. «One of them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.» Jimmy Carter observed: «Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.» And Warren Harding complained: «The White House is a prison. I can't get away from the men who dog my footsteps. I am in jail.»This entertaining, handy little book includes over 400 other memorable quotes, expressed by America's chief executives over the past two centuries, among...