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In 1991, Abraham Verghese moved west, bringing his wife and two young sons to the border town of El Paso, Texas. There he crossed paths with David Smith, a medical student who came to America from Australia on a tennis scholarship and played briefly on the pro tour before deciding to become a doctor. Recognizing some spark of commonality - perhaps just that of two strangers on the very edge of America - Verghese cajoled him into playing tennis again.On the wards, Verghese is teacher and mentor as he guides David through difficult and sometimes colorful clinical problems seen in a county hospital. He teaches him how to read the signs from the human body, to use his hands to percuss, and to use his mind to listen. On the tennis court, their roles are reversed: The clinician becomes the student - almost. David helps Verghese hone his strokes and sharpen his game. But Verghese, a compulsive collector since childhood of tennis lore and trivia, a compiler of notebooks on tennis heroes, ephem...

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This thorough yet brief text surveys the issues raised by teaching grammar in the context of writing and gives students practice in evaluating the grammar of student writing. Teaching Grammar promotes the idea that grammar is best taught in the context of student writing. In a jargon-free manner, Hagemann shows pre-service teachers how to teach grammar and evaluate student writing and how sociolinguistic and rhetorical theories can inform grammar pedagogy. In an era where language minority students are present in our classrooms, Hagemann demonstrates how they will benefit from special teaching strategies. Product details Format Paperback | 256 pages ...

Legions of self-help authors rightly urge personal development as the key to happiness, but they typically fail to focus on its most important objective: hardiness. Though that which doesn't kill us can make us stronger, as Nietzsche tells us, few authors today offer any insight into just how to springboard from adversity to strength. It doesn't just happen automatically, and it takes practice. New scientific research suggests that resilience isn't something with which only a fortunate few of us have been born, but rather something we can all take specific action to develop. To build strength out of adversity, we need a catalyst. What we need, according to Dr. Alex Lickerman, is wisdom--wisdom that adversity has the potential to teach us. Lickerman's underlying premise is that our ability to control what happens to us in life may be limited, but we have the ability to establish a life-state to surmount the suffering life brings us. The Undefeated Mind distills the wi...

Anything can happen in WHAT IF? - and this is the Omnibus to prove it! Imaginative creators line up to explore alternate possibilities in unexpected ways - featuring amazing, incredible and uncanny variants of all your favorite heroes! Ask yourself the important questions: What if the alien costume possessed Spider-Man? What if the new X-Men died on their first mission? What if the Fantastic Four all had the same power?! Plus: Professor X becomes the Juggernaut, Wolverine is an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., Daredevil kills the Kingpin and the Punisher's family survives! Captain America won't give up the shield, Iron Man loses the Armor Wars and the Vision destroys the Avengers! But when the Timekeepers step in, can the Multiverse survive a cosmic crossover between the many worlds the Watcher has witnessed? Collecting WHAT IF? (1988) #1, WHAT IF? (1989) #1-39 and QUASAR #30. Product details ...

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Expert advice on all aspects of breastfeeding, including how to begin, the importance of good positioning and how to avoid problems. Baby and you will be so well cared for with this engaging and helpful new guide to breastfeeding. Product details Format Paperback | 64 pages Dimensions 186 x 236 x 5mm | 236g ...

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