Writing The Story of Alphabets and Scripts

Margaret Ann Richek

Vocabulary for Achievement: Sixth Course

- Updated word lists to reflect current word usage and frequency- More reproducible tests and new sentence completion exercises to prepare students for the revised SAT - Context sentences for related forms of vocabulary words- New reading passages and activities to improve comprehension and apply lessons- Expanded teacher and student notes that make implementation easy

Paul T. Comeau

Workbook for Wheelock's Latin, 3rd Edition, Revised

Make learning Latin faster and easier with this essential companion to the esteemed classic introductory textbook, Wheelock's Latin . Reflecting the trend toward more active use of classroom Latin, this supplemental workbook focuses on listening and speaking skills to help students new to the language master its basics. Workbook for Wheelock's Latin offers forty lessons presented in an easy-to-read, clear layout. Each chapter begins with a detailed set of objectives (intellegenda) and continues with a series of questions designed to focus directly on newly introduced grammar (grammatica), as well as: Transformation drills, word and phrase translations, and other exercises to test and sharpen skills; Word Power sections that focus on vocabulary and derivatives; Reading comprehension questions and sentences for translation practice; Perforated pages for written homework assignments, including space for the student's name, class, and date.

Simon Singh

The Code Book: Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

In his first book since the bestselling Fermat's Enigma , Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code, to the Navajo Code Talkers who helped the Allies win World War II, to the incredible (and incredibly simple) logisitical breakthrough that made Internet commerce secure, The Code Book tells the story of the most powerful intellectual weapon ever known: secrecy. Throughout the text are clear technical and mathematical explanations, and portraits of the remarkable personalities who wrote and broke the world's most difficult codes. Accessible, compelling, and remarkably far-reaching, this book will forever alter your view of history and what drives it. It will also make you wonder how private that e-mail you just sent really is.