Ventures Transitions Level 5 Student's Book


Book Description

Ventures Third edition is a six-level integrated skills series for Adult Education, aligned to standards and CASAS STEP to help your students meet their goals. Ventures 3rd Edition Transitions Student's Book has 10 units with six lessons each, based on relevant adult-learner themes. Two-page lessons are designed for an hour of classroom instruction and are aligned to teach students the skills needed for success with their education or careers. Culture notes, speaking, reading, and writing tips enrich and support exercises. A College and Career Readiness section in the back of the book addresses needs for more reading practice. Students can access audio and grammar presentation videos using the QR codes found throughout the book.




Ventures Transitions Level 5 Workbook


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Ventures is a six-level, standards-based ESL series for adult-education ESL. The Transitions Workbook is an excellent tool that provides extra classroom practice, homework, or independent learning when in-class participation is not possible. Key features: A page of exercises for each lesson in the Student's Book An answer key for self-study




Ventures Level 4 Workbook


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Provides extra classroom practice, homework, or independent learning when in-class participation is not possible. Feature two pages of exercises for each lesson in the student book, grammar charts and an answer key, practice reading and interpreting real-life documents.




Ventures Transitions Level 5 Teacher's Manual


Book Description

Ventures is a six-level, standards-based ESL series for adult-education ESL. This Teacher's Manual provides instructional support that makes Transitions even easier to teach. Key features include: lesson plans for teaching clear and engaging classes; lesson notes with dozens of additional activities; Student's Book answer key; student audio script.




Ventures Level 1 Workbook


Book Description

Ventures is a six-level, standards-based ESL series for adult-education ESL. The Workbook provides reinforcement exercises for each lesson in the Student's Book, an answer key for self-study, grammar charts, and examples of a variety of forms and documents.




Ventures Level 5 Transitions Workbook


Book Description

The Ventures 3rd Edition Transitions Workbook has exercises to help reinforce lessons in the Student's Book, with an answer key for self-study. Students can access audio to help improve listening, grammar, and reading comprehension using QR codes found throughout the Workbook.




Ventures Level 5 Transitions Student's Book


Book Description

Ventures 3rd Edition Transitions Student's Book has 10 units with six lessons each, based on relevant adult-learner themes. Two-page lessons are designed for an hour of classroom instruction and are aligned to teach students the skills needed for success in college and careers. Culture notes, speaking, reading, and writing tips enrich and support exercises. Review Units include sections focusing on pronunciation. A College and Careers section in the back of the book addresses needs for more reading practice. Students can access audio and grammar presentation videos using the QR codes found throughout the book.




Ventures Basic Student's Book


Book Description

Ventures 3rd Edition Basic Student's Book has 10 units with six lessons each, based on relevant adult-learner themes. Two-page lessons are designed for an hour of classroom instruction and are aligned to teach students the skills needed for success in college and careers. Culture notes, speaking, reading, and writing tips enrich and support exercises. Review Units include sections focusing on pronunciation. Students can access audio and grammar presentation videos using the QR codes found throughout the book.




The Business of Venture Capital


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The new edition of the definitive guide for venture capital practitioners—covers the entire process of venture firm formation & management, fund-raising, portfolio construction, value creation, and exit strategies Since its initial publication, The Business of Venture Capital has been hailed as the definitive, most comprehensive book on the subject. Now in its third edition, this market-leading text explains the multiple facets of the business of venture capital, from raising venture funds, to structuring investments, to generating consistent returns, to evaluating exit strategies. Author and VC Mahendra Ramsinghani who has invested in startups and venture funds for over a decade, offers best practices from experts on the front lines of this business. This fully-updated edition includes fresh perspectives on the Softbank effect, career paths for young professionals, case studies and cultural disasters, investment models, epic failures, and more. Readers are guided through each stage of the VC process, supported by a companion website containing tools such as the LP-GP Fund Due Diligence Checklist, the Investment Due Diligence Checklist, an Investment Summary format, and links to white papers and other industry guidelines. Designed for experienced practitioners, angels, devils, and novices alike, this valuable resource: Identifies the key attributes of a VC professional and the arc of an investor’s career Covers the art of raising a venture fund, identifying anchor investors, fund due diligence, negotiating fund investment terms with limited partners, and more Examines the distinct aspects of portfolio construction and value creation Balances technical analyses and real-world insights Features interviews, personal stories, anecdotes, and wisdom from leading venture capitalists The Business of Venture Capital, Third Edition is a must-read book for anyone seeking to raise a venture fund or pursue a career in venture capital, as well as practicing venture capitalists, angel investors or devils alike, limited partners, attorneys, start-up entrepreneurs, and MBA students.




Energy and Civilization


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A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel–driven civilization. "I wait for new Smil books the way some people wait for the next 'Star Wars' movie. In his latest book, Energy and Civilization: A History, he goes deep and broad to explain how innovations in humans' ability to turn energy into heat, light, and motion have been a driving force behind our cultural and economic progress over the past 10,000 years. —Bill Gates, Gates Notes, Best Books of the Year Energy is the only universal currency; it is necessary for getting anything done. The conversion of energy on Earth ranges from terra-forming forces of plate tectonics to cumulative erosive effects of raindrops. Life on Earth depends on the photosynthetic conversion of solar energy into plant biomass. Humans have come to rely on many more energy flows—ranging from fossil fuels to photovoltaic generation of electricity—for their civilized existence. In this monumental history, Vaclav Smil provides a comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel–driven civilization. Humans are the only species that can systematically harness energies outside their bodies, using the power of their intellect and an enormous variety of artifacts—from the simplest tools to internal combustion engines and nuclear reactors. The epochal transition to fossil fuels affected everything: agriculture, industry, transportation, weapons, communication, economics, urbanization, quality of life, politics, and the environment. Smil describes humanity's energy eras in panoramic and interdisciplinary fashion, offering readers a magisterial overview. This book is an extensively updated and expanded version of Smil's Energy in World History (1994). Smil has incorporated an enormous amount of new material, reflecting the dramatic developments in energy studies over the last two decades and his own research over that time.