Archive for June, 2008

Easy French Storybook: Little Red Riding Hood (Book + Audio CD) (McGraw Hills Easy French Storybook) Easy French Storybook: Little Red Riding Hood (Book + Audio CD) (McGraw-Hill’s Easy French Storybook)

Jump start your kids’ education in French

Award-winning language-learning innovator Ana Lomba transforms “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” into a way to introduce kids ages two to seven to French. It includes vivid illustrations, a mini “pictionary,” and frequent dialogs that model everyday communication. Accompanying the book is a 45-minute audio CD that features a lively reading of the story, in French and English, helpful pronunciation basics, and fun games and activities.

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Biology: Concepts and Applications (with CD ROM, Cover Sheet, Audio Book PAC, Essential Study Skills, and BiologyNOW Personal Tutor with SMARTHINKING, InfoTrac   PAC) Biology: Concepts and Applications (with CD-ROM, Cover Sheet, Audio Book PAC, Essential Study Skills, and BiologyNOW-Personal Tutor with SMARTHINKING, InfoTrac PAC) Want an easy-to-understand non-majors biology textbook that will help you succeed in the course? A highly illustrated biology book that gives you the basics you need to understand many of the most pressing problems we face in the 21st century? Starr’s issues-oriented BIOLOGY: CONCEPTS AND APPLICATIONS helps you build a foundational understanding and shows you why it matters. Read essays on hot issues, research further, vote your position in an online poll, and then compare your votes to those of your classmates. Your textbook purchase includes student CD with short videos, as an online test prep tool, BiologyNOW, a live online tutoring service, the complete book in MP3 audio files, and instant access to an online university library.

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The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Book and Audio CD Set) (Book & CD) The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Book and Audio-CD Set) (Book & CD) To listen to an audio excerpt online in MP3 format, click here.

In this classic scripture of Tibetan Buddhism—traditionally read aloud to the dying to help them attain liberation—death and rebirth are seen as a process that provides an opportunity to recognize the true nature of mind.

This book-and-audio set offers a new way to encounter the profound meaning of this sacred text. The package contains a complete edition of The Tibetan Book of the Dead with an introduction by Francesca Fremantle and insightful commentary by Ch gyam Trungpa, written in clear concise language, that explains the text and offers a psychological perspective on its teachings.

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Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath (Book and 3 Audio CDs) Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath (Book and 3 Audio CDs) Poetry Speaks features the work of the most influential writers in modern poetry-written and performed-from 1892 to 1997. This book combines their most significant poems in print with the authors themselves reading their poetry on audio CD. Poets range from Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman, T.S. Eliot and Dorothy Parker to Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath and Gwendolyn Brooks.

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Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work From Tennyson to Plath (Book w/ Audio CD) Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work From Tennyson to Plath (Book w/ Audio CD) “By the time you’re done, your biggest problem may be that you wish there was more.”
WALL STREET JOURNAL

“The definitive anthology of poets reading their own work.”
– PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“This grand immersion in poetry follows the best-selling Poetry Speaks (2001) and includes a never-before-published and truly thrilling recording of James Joyce reading “Anna Livia Plurabelle” from Finnegans Wake. Book and CDs work beautifully together, kindling deeper appreciation for the transmuting power of poetry, a practice of discipline, skill, and magic.”
- BOOKLIST

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