"It's 1998 and the digital world takes shape. Into this maelstrom of change came three companies: Apple, Microsoft and Google. They were radically different companies and they would subsequently fight a series of pitched battles for control of different parts of the digital landscape: search technology, mobile music, smartphones and the tablet market. Their weapons would be hardware, and software, and advertising. At stake were their reputations -...

Provides strategies for improving K-12 writing instruction. The contributors demonstrate proven ways to teach different aspects of writing, with chapters on planning, revision, sentence construction, handwriting, spelling, and motivation. The use of the Internet in instruction is addressed, and exemplary approaches to teaching English-language learners and students with special needs are discussed. The book also offers best-practice guidelines for...

Covers American theater's formative period, 1916-1929, with 25 complete plays, biographical and production data, and a survey of the period's drama and dramatists. This volume supplements the two previously published collections: Twenty best plays of the modern American theatre (1929-1939), first series and Best plays of the modern American theatre (1939-1946), second series.