Title: Practice Makes Perfect Advanced English

Vocabulary Games Authors: Chris Gunn DECEMBER 2014 | 9780071841146 | Cover: Paperback | Subject: English | Pages: 224 | UK Price: 10.99 | Euro Price: 11.99 | SA$ Price: 15.00 | Imprint: STANDARD USE

An engaging workbook of fun and effective ESL activities to help you build an advanced vocabulary

Lanternfish ESL founder/leader and ESL instructor Chris Gunn knows what works best for ESL students and how to help them succeed. He shares his expertise in Practice Makes Perfect: Advanced English

Vocabulary Games. Inside you will find hundreds of games and puzzles (crosswords, word paths, and

more) that will engage you with fun but effective activities geared to advancing your ability level. These games can all easily be adapted for a classroom setting, but are designed for the independent study (high school, college, adult). Answer keys are provided.

Audience Advanced intermediate to advanced English language learners (in-class or independent) ELL instructors and tutors

Title: McGraw-Hill Education Essential TOEFL Vocabulary Authors: Diane Engelhardt DECEMBER 2014 | 9780071827102 | Cover: Paperback | Subject: English |

Pages: TBA | UK Price: 14.99 | Euro Price: 17.99 | SA$ Price: 22.00 | Imprint: STANDARD USE

Learn the vocabulary skills necessary to achieve TOEFL success

McGraw-Hill Education: Essential TOEFL Vocabulary zeroes in on the words likely to be found on the TOEFL exam--both the "Academic" (technical, scientific) vocabulary to be found in the reading/listening passages and the "Campus" (college life) vocabulary to be found in the listening/speaking area. Author and ESL instructor Diane Engelhardt offers you strategies that you can use to build your vocabulary and to be a successful test-taker.

Features:

1,000 words most likely to be on the TOEFL exam

Access to a free Language Lab App with flashcard vocabulary quizzes

70 minutes of audio support

A variety of exercises that will hone such skills as paraphrasing or incorporating new vocabulary into written text

Audience

More than 8,500 colleges, universities, and agencies in 130 countries around the world use TOEFL test

scores to assess whether students whose first language is not English have the English language skills necessary to succeed in an academic setting.

Advanced non-native speakers of English preparing for university (or increasingly, a job)

TOEFL and ESL instructors

Title: The Official Guide to the HiSET Exam Authors: Educational Testing Service JANUARY 2015 | 9780071845847 | Cover: Paperback | Subject: Study

Guide | Pages: 704 | Illustrations: 180 | UK Price: 13.99 | Euro Price: 15.99 | SA$ Price: 20.00 | Imprint: CONTEMPORARY

The one and only official guide to the ETS HiSET™ Exam (High School Equivalency Test) now used in more than 12 states

This one and only Official Guide to the HiSET™ Exam is the best, most reliable guide to the exam that is now used in more than 12 states to test students seeking to earn a high school equivalency credential. It includes an real HiSET Exam questions, descriptions and explanations of every test

section, official scoring information, HiSET Exam-style exercises, and strategies to help students do their best.

Features:

The only official HiSET Exam guide authorized by ETS.

McGraw-Hill has an impressive publishing track record in the field of adult education: McGraw-Hill Professional is the leading publisher of GED preparation materials for self-study learners

with 600,000+ copies in print!

This book is the only one with real HiSET Exam questions.

Audience Students preparing for the HiSET Exam

Title: Parenting with a Story: Real-Life Lessons in Character for Parents and Children to Share

Authors: Paul Smith NOVEMBER 2014 | 9780814433577 | Cover: Paperback | Subject: Parenting & Children | Pages: 272 | UK Price: 10.99 | Euro Price: 12.99 | SA$ Price: 16.00 | Imprint: AMACOM

Tell a young person what to do - play fair, be yourself, stick to the task at hand - and most will tune you out. But show them how choices and consequences play out in the real world, with real people, and the impact will be far more profound.

Parenting with a Story gathers 101 narratives from people around the world and from all walks of life,

recounting unexpected moments of clarity about who they are and how they should treat others. The lessons illuminate the power of character - integrity, curiosity, creativity, grit, kindness, patience, gratitude, and more - to prepare young people to meet life’s challenges.

Parents can read them, share and discuss them, and watch them shape their children into the adults they’ll be proud of.

Audience

Parents, grandparents, teachers, coaches, mentors, pastors and anyone with an important young person in their life.

Title: McGraw-Hill Education 1,715 ACT Practice Questions

Authors: Drew Johnson JANUARY 2015 | 9780071835053 | Cover: Paperback | Subject: Study Guide | Pages: 352 | Illustrations: 150 | UK Price: 13.99 | Euro Price: 15.99 | SA$ Price: 20.00 | Imprint: CONTEMPORARY

1,715 new practice questions for America’s fastest-growing standardized exam, giving you the extensive practice you need

McGraw-Hill Education: 1,715 ACT Practice Questions offers a plenty of practice based on the real ACT

questions and broken down by subjects. The book includes hundreds of exercises that cover every question type available and 1 full-length practice ACT test at the end, to help you evaluate your progress.

Features:

In-depth explanatory answers for every question

Practice exercises are based on the real ACT question types

Audience Students preparing for the ACT examination

Title: McGraw-Hill Education Short Course for the GED Test, 2/e

Authors: McGraw-Hill Education DECEMBER 2014 | 9780071836852 | Cover: Paperback | Subject: Study Guide | Pages: 592 | Illustrations: 220 | UK Price: 12.99 | Euro Price: 14.99 | SA$ Price: 18.00 | Imprint: CONTEMPORARY

Now updated for the latest test format, this all-new edition gives you concise review and practice in all subject areas of the GED exam

Short Course for the GED Test provides the ideal concise preparation course for the new-format GED

exam. Fully updated to align with the latest test format, this book covers all four subject areas of the GED test--Reasoning Through Language Arts (RLA), Social Studies, Science, and Mathematical Reasoning. Learning objectives are based on the Common Core State Standards, the Next Generation Science Standards, and several sets of national social studies standards, just like the real exam.

Covers all the essentials that you need to know

Each chapter includes drills and exercises that reinforce new skills, and multiple-choice tests

that help you measure your progress

Each section also includes practice questions in the latest test format, with complete explanations for every question

Audience

Students preparing for the GED examination

Title: The Intelligent Optimist's Guide to Life: How to Find Health and Success in a World That's a Better Place Than You Think

Authors: Jurriaan Kamp NOVEMBER 2014 | 9781626562752 | Cover: Paperback | Subject: Self Help | Pages: 96 | UK Price: 8.99 | Euro Price: 10.99 | SA$ Price: 12.95 |

Imprint: BERRETT-KOEHLER

Studies show that being an optimist can make a dramatic difference in how healthy, happy and productive we are. Jurriaan Kamp, the founder and publisher of The Intelligent Optimist (formerly Ode), a Maggie award-winning magazine, demonstrates how to experience the culture at large and our own lives in particular as richer, more profound, and more fulfilling by expanding our capacity for

optimism. Audience

Fans of intelligent optimist, personal growth readers, church groups, and therapists.

Title: Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better

Authors: Maya Schenwar NOVEMBER 2014 | 9781626562691 | Cover: Paperback | Subject: Self Help | Pages: 264 | UK Price: 12.99 | Euro Price: 15.99 | SA$ Price: 18.95 | Imprint: BERRETT-KOEHLER

35,000 Americans are arrested every day, and the number of prisoners has increased 500% over the last three decades. Truthout Executive Director Maya Schenwar shows that incarceration actually doesn’t deter crime, looks at its devastating effect on families and communities, and offers more humane and more effective alternatives. Audience

Progressives, prison reform advocates, prisoners and their families, policymakers, cultural studies

students, and Policemen.

Title: Teenagers 101: What a Top Teacher Wishes You Knew About Helping Your Kid Succeed

Authors: Rebecca Deurlein, Ed.D. NOVEMBER 2014 | 9780814434659 Cover: Paperback | Subject: Parenting & Children | Pages: 256 | UK Price: 10.99 | Euro Price: 12.99 | SA$ Price: 16.00 | Imprint: AMACOM

Parents desperately want their teens to succeed in school and in life. But as kids navigate the bumpy teenage years, how can parents know when to intervene, when to step back - and whether their efforts even make a difference?

Some of the best-informed people, who see kids seven hours a day, 180 days a year, are their

teachers. Teachers can be a parent’s eyes and ears: they see the good, the bad - and know what teens struggle with at school.

In Teenagers 101, a veteran high school teacher alerts parents to common issues, and helps them support their teens as they learn to negotiate conflicts, make decisions, accept responsibility, self-motivate, advocate for themselves, and cope with challenges on their path to adulthood.

Audience

Parents of teenagers, as well as teachers, counsellors, coaches, educational specialists, youth ministers and others who work with teenagers.

Title: Italian Vocabulary Drills

Authors: David Stillman, Tiziano Cherubini, Ronni Gordon JANUARY 2015 | 9780071823777 | Cover: Paperback | Subject: Italian | Pages: 240 | UK Price: 8.99 | Euro Price: 10.99 | SA$ Price: 13.00 | Imprint: STANDARD USE

What you need to build your Italian lexicon as well as your confidence in communicating in the language

Italian Vocabulary Drills provides a thematic approach by presenting clusters of essential terms. These terms are reinforced by a variety of written exercises, from fill-in the blank to translations to matching games. In addition, unlike other vocabulary titles on the market, a companion flashcard app also incorporates the key vocabulary for study and practice on-the-go.

Features:

Clear presentation of more than 2,250 essential vocabulary terms

More than 100 written exercises

Access to a FREE companion flashcard app

Audience Beginning to advanced beginning language learners. Sixth Form to adult.

Title: German Vocabulary Drills Authors: David Stillman, Daniele Godor, Ronni Gordon February 2015 | 9780071826143 | Cover: Paperback | Subject: German |

Pages: 288 | UK Price: 8.99 | Euro Price: 10.99 | SA$ Price: 13.00 | Imprint: STANDARD USE

What you need to build your German lexicon as well as your confidence in communicating in the language

German Vocabulary Drills provides a thematic approach by presenting clusters of essential terms. These terms are reinforced by a variety of written exercises, from fill-in the blank to translations to matching games. In addition, unlike other vocabulary titles on the market, a companion flashcard app also incorporates the key vocabulary for study and practice on-the-go.

Features:

Clear presentation of more than 2,250 essential vocabulary terms

More than 100 written exercises

Access to a FREE companion flashcard app

Audience

Beginning to advanced beginning language learners. High school to adult

Title: McGraw-Hill Education MCAT Chemical and Physical Foundations of Biological Systems

Authors: George Hademenos FEBRUARY 2015 | 9780071848848 | Cover: Paperback | Subject: Study Guide | Pages: 400 | Illustrations: 100 | UK Price: 30.99 | Euro Price: 36.99 | SA$ Price: 40.00 | Imprint: CONTEMPORARY

Totally geared to the brand-new test format scheduled to be introduced in 2015, this book

offers concise summaries of all important concepts, textbook-quality scientific diagrams, and abundant practice questions

This volume of McGraw-Hill Education's four-book MCAT test-prep series covers the chemical and physical sciences topics that MCAT candidates need to master. Chapters are organized around the “Foundational Concepts” specified in the MCAT syllabus. Each unit ends with a Minitest in MCAT format to give students ample practice with MCAT-style questions.

Closely follows the MCAT syllabus created for the all-new 2015 test

Practice with MCAT-style questions on every topic

Textbook-quality illustrations to enhance understanding

Focuses tightly on topics tested on the MCAT

Audience

Students preparing for the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT)

Title: McGraw-Hill Education Preparation for the GED. Test with CD-ROM, 2/e

Authors: Editors of McGraw-Hill Education FEBRUARY 2015 | 9780071846615 | Pre ISBN info: 9780071451994 | Cover: Soft back with CD | Subject: Study Guide | Illustrations: 0 | UK Price: 21.99 | Euro Price: 25.99 | SA$ Price: 32.00 | Imprint: CONTEMPORARY

This new edition of the bestselling GED preparation guide gives you an intensive review and practice in all subject areas of the new, all-computerized exam

Fully updated in anticipation of the new GED test scheduled to launch in 2014, McGraw-Hill Education Preparation for the GED Test walks you step-by-step through all four test subject areas--literacy (reading and writing), social studies, science, and math. Each section features pretests to identify your

initial strengths and weaknesses; hundreds of exercises to reinforce new skills; and multiple-choice tests to measure your progress. Learning objectives are based on the Common Core State Standards, just like the real exam. Each section also includes full-length practice GED tests in the new test format, with complete explanations for every question.

Audience

Students preparing for the GED examination

Title: McGraw-Hill Education MCAT 2: The Behavioral Sciences & Critical Analysis

Authors: George Hademenos FEBRUARY 2015 | 9780071825610 | Cover: Paperback | Subject: Study Guide | Pages: 272 | Illustrations: 101 | UK Price: 23.99 | Euro Price: 28.99 | SA$ Price: 35.00 | Imprint: CONTEMPORARY

Totally geared to the brand-new test format scheduled to be introduced in 2015, this book

offers concise summaries of all important concepts, textbook-quality scientific diagrams, and abundant practice questions

This volume of McGraw-Hill Education’s four-book MCAT test-prep series covers the psychological and social sciences topics that MCAT candidates need to master, as well as the critical reading and writing skills essential for professional success. Chapters are organized around the “Foundational Concepts”

specified in the MCAT syllabus. Each unit ends with a Minitest in MCAT format to give students ample practice with MCAT-style questions.

Closely follows the MCAT syllabus created for the all-new 2015 test

Practice with MCAT-style questions on every topic

Textbook-quality illustrations to enhance understanding

Focuses tightly on topics tested on the MCAT

Audience

Students preparing for the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT)

Title: McGraw-Hill Education MCAT Biological and Biochemical Foundations of Living Systems, 3/e

Authors: George Hademenos FEBRUARY 2015 | 9780071822039 | Pre ISBN info: 9780071633093 | Cover: Paperback | Subject: Study Guide | Pages: 256 | Illustrations: 286 | UK Price: 30.99 | Euro Price: 36.99 | SA$ Price: 45.00 | Imprint: CONTEMPORARY

Totally geared to the brand-new test format scheduled to be introduced in 2015, this book

offers hundreds of textbook-quality scientific diagrams, concise summaries of all important concepts, and abundant practice questions

This volume of McGraw-Hill Education's four-book MCAT test-prep series covers the life sciences topics that MCAT candidates need to master. Chapters are organized around the “Foundational Concepts” specified in the MCAT syllabus. Each unit ends with a Minitest in MCAT format to give students ample practice with MCAT-style questions.

Closely follows the MCAT syllabus created for the all-new 2015 test

Practice with MCAT-style questions on every topic

Textbook-quality illustrations to enhance understanding

Focuses tightly on topics tested on the MCAT

Audience

Students preparing for the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT)

Title: McGraw-Hill Education Preparation for the TASC Test, 2/e

Authors: Kathy Zahler FEBRUARY 2015 | 9780071843874 | Cover: Paperback | Subject: Study Guide | Pages: 416 | Illustrations: 115 | UK Price: 14.99 | Euro Price: 17.99 | SA$ Price: 22.00 | Imprint: CONTEMPORARY

The official guide for TASC--the new high school equivalency test straight from the test-makers at CTB/McGraw-Hill Education!

Now updated to cover major changes in test content, McGraw-Hill Education Preparation for the TASC

Test walks you step-by-step through the test. Each section features a pre-test that helps you identify strengths and weaknesses before study. Each chapter includes review of the test subjects and exercises that reinforce new skills. Learning objectives are based on the Common Core State

Standards, just like the real exam. You also get a full-length practice test section in the new test format, with complete explanations for every question. Test presently administered in California, Indiana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

Features:

Exclusive: Authentic sample TASC test questions--straight from the test-makers at

CTB/McGraw-Hill Education!

Free Test Planner app enables you to create your own customized study schedules with assignments delivered straight to your mobile device

Audience Students preparing for the TASC test

Title: Home for Dinner: Mixing Food, Fun, and Conversation for a Happier Family and Healthier Kids

Authors: Anne K. Fishel, Ph.D. FEBRUARY 2015 | 9780814433706 | Cover: Paperback | Subject: Parenting & Children | Pages: 240 | Illustrations: 0 | UK Price: 10.99 | Euro Price: 12.99 | SA$ Price: 16.00 | Imprint: AMACOM

Today’s overextended families are always on the go, but research shows that family dinners offer benefits beyond nutrition. Sharing meals and conversation helps everyone unwind, connect, and develop a sense of who they are as a family.

Studies have linked regular family dinners with greater resiliency and self-esteem, higher academic

achievement, a healthier relationship to food, and even reduced risk of substance abuse. What else takes so little time and packs such a punch?

Written by a family therapist and mother, Home for Dinner makes a passionate plea to put mealtime back at the center of family life, and supplies compelling evidence and realistic tips for getting even the busiest families back to the table.

Audience

Every parent with a child living at home, from toddler to teenager.

Title: You, Unstuck: How You Are Your Greatest Obstacle and Greatest Solution

Authors: Seth Adam Smith FEBRUARY 2015 | 9781626563469 | Cover: Paperback | Subject: Self Help | Pages: 54 | UK Price: 6.99 | Euro Price: 7.99 | SA$ Price: 9.99 | Imprint: BERRETT-KOEHLER

With his trademark wit and warmth, global superstar blogger Seth Adam Smith inspires readers to take ownership of their lives and turn their backs on the idea that they are ever helpless victims of circumstance. Audience

Seth's followers (100,000 direct subscribers), those suffering from depression and those who know someone suffering from depression.

Title: Sustainable Happiness: Live Simply, Live Well, Make a Difference

Authors: Sarah van Gelder, Staff of YES! Magazine FEBRUARY 2015 | 9781626563292 | Cover: Paperback | Subject: Self Help | Pages: 168 | UK Price: 11.99 | Euro Price: 13.99 | SA$ Price: 16.95 | Imprint: BERRETT-KOEHLER

Sarah van Gelder and the staff of Yes! Magazine marshal fascinating research, in-depth essays and compelling personal stories to counter the consumerist party line. It’s things like healthy communities, strong relationships, and a thriving planet that lead to lasting happiness, and this book shows how we can achieve them. Audience

Magazine Readers, progressives and readers of books on happiness.

Title: Easy Italian Reader, Premium, 2/e Authors: Riccarda Saggese MARCH 2015 | 9780071849838 | Pre ISBN info: 9780071439572 | Cover:

Paperback | Subject: Italian | Pages: 256 | UK Price: 10.99 | Euro Price: 11.99 | SA$ Price: 16.00 | Imprint: CONTEMPORARY

Enhance your Italian reading skills with this primer for premium results!

Easy Italian Reader Premium is based on the premise that the best way to learn a language is to start reading it, immediately. Suitable for raw beginners to intermediate-level language learners, the new premium edition of this bestselling title features engaging readings of progressive difficulty that allow

you to rapidly build comprehension. Includes flashcard sets of new vocabulary for every reading and a 1,500 entry digital glossary.

Quickly build comprehension

Listen to audio recordings of more than 50 readings from the book available online and on the

app

Record your answers to review questions, then compare your pronunciation to native speakers

Audience Perfect introduction for beginning learners; great review of skills for advanced beginning learners

Title: Easy French Reader Premium, 3/e Authors: R. de Roussy de Sales MARCH 2015 | 9780071850179 | Pre ISBN info: 9780071428484 | Cover:

Paperback | Subject: French | Pages: 240 | UK Price: 9.99 | Euro Price: 11.99 | SA$ Price: 14.00 | Imprint: CONTEMPORARY

Enhance your French reading skills with this primer for premium results!

Easy French Reader Premium is based on the premise that the best way to learn a language is to start reading it, immediately. Suitable for raw beginners to intermediate-level language learners, the new premium edition of this bestselling title features engaging readings of progressive difficulty that allow you to rapidly build comprehension. Includes flashcard sets of new vocabulary for every reading and a 1,500 entry digital glossary.

Quickly build comprehension

Listen to audio recordings of more than 50 readings from the book available online and on the app

Record your answers to review questions, then compare your pronunciation to native speakers

Audience

Perfect introduction for beginning learners; great review of skills for advanced beginning learners.

Title: Easy Spanish Reader Premium, 3/e Authors: William Tardy MARCH 2015 | 9780071850193 | Pre ISBN info: 9780071428064 | Cover: Paperback | Subject: Spanish | Pages: 224 | UK Price: 9.99 | Euro Price: 11.99 | SA$ Price: 12.99 | Imprint: CONTEMPORARY

Enhance your Spanish reading skills with this primer for premium results!

Easy Spanish Reader Premium is based on the premise that the best way to learn a language is to start reading it, immediately. Suitable for raw beginners to intermediate-level language learners, the new premium edition of this bestselling title features engaging readings of progressive difficulty that allow you to rapidly build comprehension. Includes flashcard sets of new vocabulary for every reading and a 1,500 entry digital glossary.

Quickly build comprehension

Listen to audio recordings of more than 50 readings from the book available online and on the

app

Record your answers to review questions, then compare your pronunciation to native speakers

Audience

Perfect introduction for beginning learners; great review of skills for advanced beginning learners

Title: Practice Makes Perfect Intermediate English Grammar for ESL Learners, 2/e

Authors: Robin Torres-Gouzerh MARCH 2015 | 9780071840514 | Pre ISBN info: 9780071462938 | Cover: Paperback | Subject: English | Pages: 224 | UK Price: 10.99 | Euro Price: 11.99 | SA$ Price: 15.00 | Imprint: CONTEMPORARY

Master English grammar through hands-on exercises and practice, practice, practice Now with digital support!

Continuing the success of the bestselling Practice Makes Perfect series, Practice Makes Perfect: Intermediate English Grammar for ESL Learners embraces all aspects of English grammar that you need to advance your English-language skills. This practical, insightful book helps you in understanding

how and why certain grammar elements are used. With help from this book, you will move beyond the

basics and master the subtleties that come naturally to native speakers. This second edition provides you with invaluable digital tools to ensure mastery of the content.

Features:

New flashcards with multiple-choice review exercises pinpoint areas of difficulty

Example sentences that illustrate and clarify each grammatical point

An answer key for all exercises in the book

Audience

For all intermediate students of English who want to ensure a firm foundation in the language, or for advanced beginners who want a thorough review. Suitable for learners from teenage to adult.

Title: The Cruising Life: A Commonsense Guide for the Would-Be Voyager, 2/e

Authors: Jim Trefethen MARCH 2015 | 9780071823210 | Pre ISBN info: 9780070653603 | Cover: Hardback | Subject: Marine | Pages: 256 | Illustrations: 20 | UK Price: 16.99 | Euro Price: 20.99 | SA$ Price: 25.00 | Imprint: MARINE

You don’t have to be wealthy to live the cruising life!

Both inspirational and practical, this new edition shows how anyone can experience high-seas adventure

The Cruising Life has shown thousands of sailors how to make their dream of sailing away a reality. The author explains that you do not have to be rich, nor do you have to borrow money or even have a boat to start out.

Trefethen provides everything you need to determine how much money you'll need, make smart financial decisions to reach your goals, choose the ideal boat, and avoid unnecessary expenditures by separating issues of real value from empty marketing and sales messages.

Audience

Sailors in mid-career wondering realistically how to move toward a more fulfilling life, Young sailors

balancing a land-based life versus a life at sea and Wanna-be sailors wondering what it might take to buy a boat and sail away