front cover of Words for Students of English, Vol. 1
Words for Students of English, Vol. 1
A Vocabulary Series for ESL
Holly Deemer Rogerson, Betsy Davis, Suzanne T. Hershelman, and Carol Jasnow
University of Michigan Press, 1992

front cover of Words for Students of English, Vol. 2
Words for Students of English, Vol. 2
A Vocabulary Series for ESL
Holly Deemer Rogerson, Gary Esarey, Linda M. Schmandt, and Dorolyn A. Smith
University of Michigan Press, 1992

front cover of Words for Students of English, Vol. 3
Words for Students of English, Vol. 3
A Vocabulary Series for ESL
Holly Deemer Rogerson, Suzanne T. Hershelman, Carol Jasnow, and Carol Moltz
University of Michigan Press, 1992

front cover of Words for Students of English, Vol. 4
Words for Students of English, Vol. 4
A Vocabulary Series for ESL
Holly Deemer Rogerson, Gary Esarey, Suzanne T. Hershelman, Carol Jasnow, Carol Moltz, Linda M. Schmandt, and Dorolyn A. Smith
University of Michigan Press, 1992

front cover of Words for Students of English, Vol. 5
Words for Students of English, Vol. 5
A Vocabulary Series for ESL
Holly Deemer Rogerson, Suzanne T. Hershelman, and Carol Jasnow
University of Michigan Press, 1992

Volume 5 consists of 25 units that present basewords with definitions, usage examples, and exercises. Each unit focuses on a specific topic, carefully selected for its relevance to students' lives, so that students can practice new words in meaningful contexts. The exercises are flexible and easy to use, taking students from simple, fairly controlled practice to a final phase of communicative exercise. A list of words covered in previous volumes in included.

SKILL LEVEL: High-Intermediate

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front cover of Words for Students of English, Vol. 6
Words for Students of English, Vol. 6
A Vocabulary Series for ESL
Holly Deemer Rogerson, Gary Esarey, Suzanne T. Hershelman, Carol Jasnow, Linda M. Schmandt, Dorolyn A. Smith, and Courtenay Meade Snellings
University of Michigan Press, 1992

front cover of Words for Students of English, Vol. 7
Words for Students of English, Vol. 7
A Vocabulary Series for ESL
Holly Deemer Rogerson
University of Michigan Press, 1992

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Words for Students of English, Volume 8
A Vocabulary Series for ESL
Dawn E. McCormick, Lionel Menasche, Marilyn Smith Slaathaug, and Judith L. Yogman
University of Michigan Press, 2004
Volume 8 consists of 14 units that present basewords with definitions, usage examples, and exercises. Each unit focuses on a specific topic, carefully selected for its relevance to academic study, so that students can practice new words in meaningful contexts. The exercises are flexible and easy to use, taking students from simple, faily controlled practice to a final phase of communicative exercise. New to Volume 8 are collocation practice and crossword puzzles.
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The Work of Poverty
Samuel Beckett's Vagabonds and the Theater of Crisis
Lance Duerfahrd
The Ohio State University Press, 2013
How did Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot come to be performed in such places as San Quentin Prison, Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement, Sarajevo under military siege, New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina, and Zuccotti Park during the Occupy Wall Street protests? The Work of Poverty: Samuel Beckett’s Vagabonds and the Theater of Crisis studies the appeal of Godot to audiences in settings of historical crisis and suffering. Lance Duerfahrd argues that these circumstances transform the performance and the reception of the play, thereby illuminating a cathartic and political dimension of Beckett’s work that goes unseen in traditional performance contexts.
 
The resonance of one of the most canonical plays of the twentieth century within landscapes of disaster fulfills the aesthetic of “ultimate penury” that Beckett hones in his work. Here the subtractive and reductive dynamic of the Nobel Prize–winning author’s craft comes into clearer view, echoing with the despondent condition beyond the stage. In developing an aesthetic of penury, The Work of Poverty brings together the dispossessed characters in Godot; the derelict narrators of Beckett’s Molloy,Malone Dies, and the Unnamable; and the formal experimentation in poverty witnessed in his Endgame and Worstward Ho. Beckett forged increasingly destitute forms of theater and prose on the periphery of writing. Duerfahrd illustrates how this work speaks to our age by emphasizing characters on the periphery of society.
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Working Portuguese for Beginners
, Student's Edition
Monica Rector, Regina Santos, and Marcelo Amorim, with M. Lynne Gerber
Georgetown University Press, 2010

Working Portuguese for Beginners enables English speakers with no prior knowledge of Brazilian Portuguese to develop the basic communication skills and cultural knowledge needed to visit Brazil and to function in a work environment in which Portuguese is spoken. This language program presents not only all the situations and grammar normally covered in an elementary Portuguese textbook but also includes situations set in a business context in every lesson.

Major Features:• Twenty-four lessons, the last four concluding with a special independent project in which the student applies the language to his or her area of professional interest• Clear objectives for acquiring language skills, grammar, and cultural understanding• Lessons cover the important basics normally covered in any beginning Portuguese textbook such as introductions and greetings, counting, making travel plans, taking public transportation, and asking for directions• Lessons cover business tasks such as negotiating a contract, presenting a new product, writing a business memo—all in Brazilian Portuguese• Lessons provide dialogues and vocabulary lists for reading and listening, grammar, cultural reading, and interactive homework• Portuguese-English and English-Portuguese glossaries offer additional help with vocabulary• Course can be combined with affordable online access to self-grading exercises (available through Quia.com, $24.95 per student for 18 months of access)

Student’s Book• Includes MP3 tracks of vocabulary, dialogues, and audio exercises on CD• Lessons are valuable to the classroom student as well as self-directed independent learners

Teacher’s Edition• Includes a CD-ROM with all MP3 tracks of vocabulary, dialogues, and audio exercises found on the student’s disk• CD-ROM also provides quizzes and a midterm, materials for special activities, and approximately 300 supplementary PowerPoint slides for classroom presentation Online teaching features at Quia.com • Instructor-managed class activities and exercises • Monitoring of student progress • Customized grading options online • Students can complete exercises online, submit their answers electronically to their instructor, and receive automatic feedback • Teachers can also use Quia templates to build their own exercises or use exercises developed by other instructors to provide added help for students • Motivated self-directed learners can also access the self-grading online exercises at Quia.com (no instructor feedback will be provided)

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

System Requirements for Student's Edition Textbook Disk• Windows 2000 or later or Mac OS 10.2 or later• DVD-ROM drive on a computer or conventional DVD-ROM with MP3 player• Sound card and speakers or earphones for audio• An MP3 player, such as Windows Media Player or iTunes (available as a free download)

System Requirements for Teacher's Edition Textbook DVD-ROM • Windows 2000 or later (including Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7) or Mac OS 10.2 or later (including OS X 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6)• DVD-ROM drive• Sound card and either speakers or earphones (for MP3 files)• For PCs, Microsoft Word 2000 or later or for Macs, Microsoft Word X or later (for .doc files)• For PCs: PowerPoint 2000 or later (to edit PowerPoint PPT files) or to view PowerPoints only, PowerPoint Viewer 2003 or higher (available as a free download from www.microsoft.com); for Macs: PowerPoint X or later (for PowerPoint files)• An MP3 player, such as Windows Media Player or iTunes (available, respectively, as a free download from www.microsoft.com and www.itunes.com)• For PCs, Adobe Acrobat or Reader 9 or later, or for Macs Adobe Acrobat or Reader 6.0 or later (Adobe Reader is available as a free download from www.adobe.com)

System Requirements for the Online Exercises (Mac and PC)• Computer with Internet access, preferably a high-speed connection• Java-enabled browser: PC: Internet Explorer 6.x or higher, or Firefox 3.x or higherMac: Firefox 3.x or higher, or Safari 3.x or higher• The program QuickTime (available as a free download from http://www.quicktime.com) is needed to play audio• Speakers or headphones to hear audio• Microphone to record answers or responses

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