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Independent School Entrance Exam (ISEE) is a school entrance exam taken by students in grades 4 through 12 seeking admission into private schools and non-Catholic religious schools throughout the United States. This book focuses on the ISEE Lower Level. The Lower Level ISEE Exam is for students currently in grades 4 and 5 who are candidates for admission to grades 5 and 6. This ISEE Lower Level Book comprehensively covers all the five sections of the ISEE: Verbal Reasoning, Quantitative Reasoning, Reading Comprehension, Mathematics Achievement and Essay. There are almost 400 questions across 3 full-length practice tests. Each test comes with directions to take the test, time limits, answer keys and detailed explanations, so students can get an immersive experience of the real ISEE. The duration of each test is 2 hours 20 minutes and contains 128 questions. The questions are distributed in each of the sections as mentioned below:1-17 (17 qs): Verbal Reasoning18-34 (17 qs): Sentence Completion1-25 (25 qs): Reading Comprehension1: Essay TopicTotal English Questions = 60 1-38 (38 qs): Quantitative Reasoning1-30 (30 qs): Mathematics AchievementTotal Math Questions = 68 This book will help students not only get familiar with the ISEE in general, but also help them ace the test. The book also includes how the ISEE results are published and how to interpret the performance of the student from the results.

Independent School Entrance Exam (ISEE) is a school entrance exam taken by students in grades 4 through 12 seeking admission into private schools and non-Catholic religious schools throughout the United States. This book focuses on the ISEE Middle Level. The Middle Level ISEE Exam is for students currently in grades 6 and 7 who are candidates for admission to grades 7 and 8.This ISEE Middle Level Book comprehensively covers all the five sections of the ISEE: Verbal Reasoning, Quantitative Reasoning, Reading Comprehension, Mathematics Achievement and Essay. There are almost 400 questions across 3 full-length practice tests. Each test comes with directions to take the test, time limits, answer keys and detailed explanations, so students can get an immersive experience of the real ISEE.The duration of each test is 2 hours 20 minutes and contains 161 questions. The questions are distributed in each of the sections as mentioned below:1-20 (20 qs): Verbal Reasoning21-40 (20 qs): Sentence Completion1-36 (36 qs): Reading Comprehension1: Essay TopicTotal English Questions = 771-37 (37 qs): Quantitative Reasoning1-47 (47 qs): Mathematics AchievementTotal Math Questions = 84This book will help students not only get familiar with the ISEE in general, but also help them ace the test. The book also includes how the ISEE results are published and how to interpret the performance of the student from the results.

This book investigates the link between migrating, self-translating and identity in migrant narratives, by analysing a corpus of texts written by authors who were born in Italy and them moved to English-speaking countries.

Invention and Craft: Exercising Creativity in College Writing and Research is a first-year college composition textbook that leverages creativity theory to demystify practices associated with writing in various academic and public genres. Working from the premise that all writing is creative, Invention and Craft approaches students as meaning-makers while emphasizing the importance of forward- and backward- reaching knowledge transfer.

This book explores the emergence of the first bible, focussing on second-century Scripture, the earliest New Testament, and the canon formation process. Textual-interpretative, ritual, and paratextual aspects of the Christian Scriptures are discussed as well as their impact on the wider Roman and Medieval literary cultures, and beyond.

This book examines Australian parental leave provisions and compares them with their counterpart provisions in Canada, Germany, and Switzerland. Following comparison and analysis, recommended amendments to the Paid Parental Leave Act 2010 (Cth) are provided.

The volume examines the relationship between Samuel Beckett and Italian culture from an intermedial perspective.

This scholarly biography explores the act of bearing witness through the politically charged, mural-scale art of Lebanese-American activist and neo-expressionist, Nabil Kanso.

In 21 case studies, this short book examines the distinctive coincidental history of America, Britain, and various Asian countries during the twentieth century.

Creating Cultures of Peace details aspects of cultures, including language, films, journalism, political economics, museums, education, parenting, gender, artistic activism, and spirituality, which can contribute to either more violent societies or more peaceful ones. Solutions-oriented, it aims to inspire deep understanding and reflection, empowerment, and grassroots action in cultural spheres.

Approaching Irish nationalism through the historical lens of "Iran," this book investigates patterns of Irish nationalist self-configuration and uses of memory, counter-memory, and historical amnesia by means of worlding Ireland from the late eighteenth century until Ireland's partition and the founding of Irish Free State in 1922.

This book explores several critical connections between Black African objects and white Western aesthetics and artwork in the United States from the late 1800s until 1939.

The Exhibition of Modern Brazilian Paintings, held at the Royal Academy of Arts of London and seven other major venues, had never been academically investigated. The research unearthed abundant firsthand documents to reconstruct the episode and claims that the initiative was intended and managed to achieve a substantial impact on views about Brazil, by means of conveying a well-planned message.

This book investigates the Brazilian health cooperation in Mozambique through the implementation of a pharmaceutical factory in Maputo.

Marx in the Field is a unique edited collection illustrating the relevance of Marxian methods to study contemporary capitalism and the global development process. Essays in the collection bring Marx 'to the field' in three ways. They illustrate how Marxian categories can be concretely deployed for field research in the global economy, they analyse how these categories may be adapted during fieldwork and they discuss data collection methods supporting Marxian analysis, including during COVID-19 times.

The Great Battle or The Lonely Quest of Unilever's CEO Paul Polman describes the origins of Unilever and the role former CEO Paul Polman (2009-2019) played in Unilever's quest for acting responsibly in a world that is being threatened by climate change, lack of biodiversity, pollution and growing tensions between rich and poor. In The Lonely Quest of Unilever's CEO Paul Polman Smit reconstructs the lessons we can learn from a courageous pioneer who was also ahead of his time.

The Insider's Secrets to Finding Your School Leadership Job: This practical 125-page self-help professional guide coaches school and district leadership candidates step-by-step through the hiring process for their dream jobs in public education.

Literary translation can be retranslated into new ways of thinking about music and the other arts. In artistic transduction, Woolf called the word the poetical cry, Berlioz the singing lyric, and Brecht the rhyming slang.

The book collects material from local critics, newspapers and interviews to present V. S. Naipaul in new light as a "true blue" Trinidadian writer. The book foregrounds Naipaul's deep connections not only with the land of his birth but with its literary and historical heritage and its peoples.

The High School Placement Test (HSPT), is a high school entrance exam taken by students in grade 8 seeking admission to parochial high schools. This HSPT Test Prep book comprehensively covers all the five sections of the HSPT: Verbal Skills, Quantitative Skills, Reading Comprehension & Vocabulary, Mathematics Concepts, and Language Arts. There are almost 900 questions across three full-length practice tests. Each test comes with test taking directions, time limits, answer keys and detailed explanations, so students can get an immersive experience of the real HSPT.The book is developed in collaboration with a successful HSPT test prep institute with years of test prep experience with hundreds of successful students. It will help students not only get familiar with the HSPT in general, but even help them ace the test. The book also includes how the HSPT results are published and how to interpret the performance of the student from the results.

This book focuses on the multiple sites and articulations through which "love" is constructed, articulated and experienced in contemporary India.

An exploration of the value of the history of philosophy as a reading practice--that is, as a practice through which words from a philosophical past can give rise to wonder, can alienate, can lead to transformational breakthroughs or can animate a will to create anew.

This volume looks at the role of digital media platforms in shaping migrants' practices of connectivity and mobility. Focusing on migration within and beyond East Asia, it explores the pervasive use of smartphones as an everyday reality for intimacy, entrepreneurship, and care for East Asian migrants, advocating the necessity of understanding how they live their lives both online and offline.

This book engages with decolonial mourning by bearing witness to the political grief work of contemporary struggles against migration-coloniality necropolitics in Europe, the United States and Latin America.