This progressive phonics series helps beginning readers to build reading confidence. With an engaging story alongside beautiful illustrations--this first step to reading offers on-page pronunciations and notes to teachers and parents.
“There is an Inner Light in every man which continuously impels him toward the highest, and he must be guided by this light if he would become great.”– Wallace D. Wattles Early in the twentieth century Wallace D. Wattles introduced the world to the power of positive thought. His writings were precursors to such books as The Laws of Attraction, The Science of Success, and The Powe…
Who has not dreamed of life on an exotic isle, far away from civilization? Here is the novel which has inspired countless imitations by lesser writers, none of which equal the power and originality of Defoe's famous book. Robinson Crusoe, set ashore on an island after a terrible storm at sea, is forced to make do with only a knife, some tobacco, and a pipe. He learns how to build a canoe, make …
Moll Flanders is, according to Virginia Woolf, one of the "few English novels which we can call indisputably great." Written by Defoe in 1722 under a pseudonym so his readers would think it an actual journal of the ribald fortunes and misfortunes of a woman in eighteenth-century London, the book remains a picaresque novel of astonishing vitality. From her birth in Newgate Prison to her ascent t…
A bold and provocative study that presents language not as an innate component of the brain—as most linguists do—but as an essential tool unique to each culture worldwide. For years, the prevailing opinion among academics has been that language is embedded in our genes, existing as an innate and instinctual part of us. But linguist Daniel Everett argues that, like other tools, language …