Books with author Richard Connor

Get your best possible math score! This book contains everything you need to know to get your best possible score on the math section of the ACT. It can be used as a standalone text or as a companion to the official prep guides published by the ACT.Forgot some of your math?This book has lessons covering 38 major topics and it contains more than 550 math ACT practice questions and their solutions. Topics are taken from algebra, geometry, pre-calculus and statistics.Not sure where to start?This book has a list of topics ordered according to how frequently they appear on the official practice tests. If your time is limited (whose isn't?), start with the most frequent topics.Using the official ACT practice tests?Problems in the official practice tests are cross-referenced to math topics in this book.Need help with the graphing calculator?To help you use the graphing calculator, calculator screen shots appear throughout the lessons.Need tips on taking the test?This book contains advice about setting a target score, optimizing your pace based on your target score, a series of steps to be followed when solving problems, getting the most from every practice test, and 6 useful problem solving techniques that you probably never learned in school.

This book contains everything you need to know in order to achieve your full potential on the ACT examination for college admission. The book is divided into two parts: - The first part contains a review of the math topics that are on the test. For each math topic there is a lesson, homework problems in multiple choice format, and answer explanations. - The second part contains advice about how to prepare and take the test. It describes a base strategy for taking the test, how to establish your target score, and the correct pacing for your target score. It then describes a practice test taking cycle that you should follow using The Real ACT Prep Guide. The second part also contains general techniques that can be used to solve problems along with a mapping of these to The Real ACT Prep Guide. Written by an active math tutor, the material in this book has been used by more than 5,000 students and has been field tested over and over.

The Most Dangerous Game is the popular short story originally published in 1924 which was written by Richard Connell. This is the story of a big game hunter who is trapped on an island with a fellow hunter, who is uninterested in hunting stereotypical prey, and instead decides that the only prey worthy of his skills is other humans. This title is often required reading in middle schools, and has been since adapted into movies and extended versions. This title is the original version by the author, and is considered one of the greatest short stories ever written.

“The Most Dangerous Game”, also published as “The Hounds of Zaroff”, is a story by Richard Connell, first published in Collier’s on January 19, 1924. The story features a big-game hunter from New York City who falls off a yacht and swims to what seems to be an abandoned and isolated island in the Caribbean, where he is hunted by a Russian aristocrat. The story is inspired by the big-game hunting safaris in Africa and South America that were particularly fashionable among wealthy Americans in the 1920s. The story has been adapted numerous times, most notably as the 1932 RKO Pictures film The Most Dangerous Game, starring Joel McCrea and Leslie Banks, and for a 1943 episode of the CBS Radio series Suspense, starring Orson Welles. It has been called the “most popular short story ever written in English.” Upon its publication, it won the O. Henry Award.

Rainsford is a big-game hunter (think elephants and tigers) who basically couldn’t give a hoot about his prey. It’s all about the hunt, kill, and impressive skins. After he falls from his Brazil-bound yacht, Sanger Rainsford makes it to the rocky shore of “Ship-Trap” Island. Safe at last! Those jaguars in the Amazon will just have to wait for their day of reckoning.He crawls through the gnarled jungle growth and along the shore until he makes it to a fortress/chateau managed under the watchful eye of the gun-toting butler/in-house torture specialist, Ivan. There he meets his host, a shady character named General Zaroff. This elegant man is a member of the Russian nobility who had to get out of town when the Communists took over Russia in 1917.Initially, Zaroff is the perfect host. But then the truth comes out: he's actually the perfect psychopath. After getting bored hunting animals, he's begun luring people to his island with a cute little trick involving misleading ships into thinking there’s a channel where there isn’t one. Voila! Fresh prey. But this guy’s no bully. He gives people the choice: be hunted for three days and go free if you survive, or be whipped to death by Ivan, who used to be the Czar’s designated sadist.Hm, that's not exactly a "cake or death" choice.And then, surprise! He offers Rainsford the exact same choice. Out the chateau gates for old Rainsford, who pulls out all the stops: the Malay mancatcher (sounds like character from The Hangover VIII), a Burmese Tiger pit, and a tricky little mechanism using a sapling and a knife.This last one takes out Ivan, and Raisnford also manages to kill one of Zaroff’s precious hounds. But then, with nowhere left to go, Rainsford hurls himself over a cliff into the stormy waters below. Zaroff figures that’s the end of that and goes home to bed.And then, double-surprise! Rainsford is in his bedroom. He’s alive, he's mad, and he's out for revenge, Zaroff concedes that Rainsford has won and tries to let him go free—but that’s not good enough for this American hunter. He feeds his host to the hounds and hits the hay for a good night's sleep.