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The Great Book of Journaling: How Journal Writing Can Support a Life of Wellness, Creativity, Meaning and Purpose (How to Journaling Self-Help) - Paperback

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by Eric Maisel (Editor), Lynda Monk (Editor)The Great Book of Journaling provides calming tools for quelling worry and anxiety, as well as expert writing tips and evidence-based research, to introduce a younger generation to the immense benefits of journaling and provide all journal writers with the tools they need to grow, heal, and deepen their personal writing experience. Psychotherapist Eric Maisel, PhD, and Director of the International Association for Journal Writing Lydia Monk, MSW, RS...

How To Write A Book ASAP: The Step-by-Step Guide to Writing Your First Book Fast! - Paperback

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by Garrett Paul Pierson (Author)How To Write A Book ASAP by Garrett Pierson Have you ever wanted to write a book? Have you started to write your book, but weren't able to finish? Are you ready to learn how to get a book published? Discover inside secrets to: Writing a book fast Where and how to start writing your book Finding the time in your busy life to write and finish a book Publishing a book the easy way Achieving real and practical writing results This book is for those of us...

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by Brendan Fairbanks (Author)Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Brendan Fairbanks examines the challenging subject of discourse markers in Ojibwe, one of the many indigenous languages in the Algonquian family. Mille Lacs elder Jim Clark once described the discourse markers as "little bugs that are holding on for dear life." For example, discourse markers such as mii and gosha exist only on the per...

Navajo Alphabet: The Navajo Sound System: Vowels and Consonants - Paperback

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by Bernhard Michaelis (Author), Bernhard Michaelis (Photographer), Native Child Dinetah (Author)The letters in this Navajo Alphabet book are introduced with beautiful photos, reflecting Navajo culture, tradition and environment. Each Navajo word is spelled out in Din Bizaad (Navajo language), and its corresponding English translation. Putting the Navajo consonants and vocals into a cultural context, affirms the Navajo Child's language and identity and also introduces non native children to a...

Mitologia para curiosos: Escritura creativa - Paperback

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by Patricia Sanchez-Cutillas (Author)"Mitología para curiosos" está dirigido a lectores inquietos que quieren conocer el significado de los mitos, a escritores noveles o consagrados, a profesores. Habla de los mitos, los interpreta, los relaciona con la literatura universal y, al final de cada capítulo, hay una propuesta de escritura, llamada" Elección artística", con sugerencias e ideas para escribir basándose en lo contado. Si te gusta escribir y tienes bloqueos o quieres enriquecer tus esc...

Dirty Talk Guide: The Language of Lust - How to Talk Dirty to Your Partner, Become His Sexual Obsession and Realize Your Wildest Fantasi - Paperback

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by Kelly Kinsey (Author)HTML - Copy This to AmazonMaster The Art Of Dirty Talk & Make Your Partner Beg For More Using This AWESOME Guide Are you looking for a simple, practical way to spice up your love life and have your partner eating off the palm of your hand?Talk dirty to them Talking dirty may sound super simple, but majority of the human race beg to differ.Dirty talk is a make-or-break endeavor. When executed perfectly, it can send shivers down your partner's spine and make them qui...

Women Who Trust: Simple And Practical Tips To Create A Powerful Legacy, Growth And Impact - Paperback

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by Izdihar Jamil (Author)Embark on a transformative journey with "Women Who Trust," crafted by bold female leaders across the globe. This book goes beyond mere inspiration, offering actionable steps and key insights that empower you to create a lasting legacy.These pages resonate with simplicity and depth, covering topics such as entrepreneurial wisdom, embracing grief through poetry, expanding spirituality, and making bold, logical decisions.Discover how to trust the Universe's guidance and ...

Water of the Sky: A Dictionary of 2,000 Japanese Rain Words

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Report copyright infringementby Miya Ando (Author), Hollis Goodall (Foreword by), Joan Halifax (Contribution by)A breathtakingly elegant visual dictionary of 2000 Japanese words for rain, with 100 drawings in indigo. In Water of the Sky, artist Miya Ando offers us a beautifully rich, bilingual visual dictionary for rain. Through a collection of 2,000 Japanese words, their English interpretations, and 100 drawings, Ando describes the breadth and diversity of rain's many expressions: when it fa...

Useless Etymology: Offbeat Word Origins for Curious Minds

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Report copyright infringementby Jess Zafarris (Author)Did you know that an "astronaut" is literally a "star sailor," that a thesaurus is, in fact, a "treasure trove" of words, and that someone who is "sinister" is actually just "left-handed"? Have you ever wondered why English isn't considered a Romance language if 60% of our words are Latin-derived? Did Shakespeare really invent 1,700 words, and if not, why the heck do we say that he did? Why is the English language stuffed with so many...

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Report copyright infringementby Larry W. Phillips (Author), F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author)A collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald's remarks on his craft, taken from his works and letters to friends and colleagues--an essential trove of advice for aspiring writers. As F. Scott Fitzgerald famously decreed, "An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever after." Fitzgerald's own work has gone on to be reviewed and discussed for ove...

Public Speaking: Calm Your Fear & Anxiety, Captivate the Audience and Command Any Room with Confidence, Even if You've Never Been on St

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Report copyright infringementby Anne McKeown (Author)Win over any audience and deliver an unforgettable speech, even if public speaking anxiety has held you back previously!Does the thought of speaking in public make you want to run for the nearest exit?Are you tired of letting your fear of public speaking stop you from seizing opportunities in your professional or personal life?You're not alone!Most people experience a natural fear of public speaking. It can be debilitating, but it doesn't h...

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Report copyright infringementby Adam J. Howell (Author), Miles V. Van Pelt (Editor)One of the obstacles to success in learning biblical Hebrew is understanding the various ways weak verbs inflect. Weak Verb Morphology by Adam J. Howell addresses the features and characteristics of the various weak verb patterns. With plenty of examples and thoughtful discussion, Howell's book helps to equip students to identify weak verbs and translate the biblical text with ease.Advancing Biblical Hebrew, ed...

Making Each Other Laugh: Contemporary Arapaho Storytelling

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Cowell (Author)Native American oral storytelling traditions have been widely documented and appreciated, but they are often associated with the past, pre-contact times, and ancient legends. Less attention has been given to the way this tradition continues to exist in the present, with new stories being created to respond to the modern world. Making Each Other Laugh provides unique insight into contemporary Northern Arapaho stories, told in the Arapaho la...

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Report copyright infringementby Hana Videen (Author)An entertaining tour of Old English words for animals, from the author of The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English Many of the animals we encounter in everyday life, from pets and farm animals to the wild creatures of field and forest, have remained the same since medieval times. But the words used to name and describe them have often changed beyond recognition, starting with the Old English word for "animal" itself, deor (pronounced DAY-or)...

How to Review Scholarly Books: Reading, Writing, Relishing

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Report copyright infringementby Steven E. Gump (Author)A guide to the art of reviewing scholarly books, with strategies and suggestions Scholarly book reviews should be enjoyable--both to write and to read. All too often, though, they offer little more than chapter-by-chapter summaries. In this comprehensive handbook, Steven Gump offers an encouraging guide to crafting valuable reviews of scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences. Readers learn how to write engaging, respectful re...

The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information; Volume 11

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Report copyright infringementby Hugh Chisholm (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important ...

Elements of Success Level 4 Student Book

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Report copyright infringementby Anne Ediger (Author), Jenni Currie Santamaria (Author), Randee Falk (Author) Dimensions: 0.5 x 10.9 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: August 22, 2014

Lessons from Take Me Home, Country Roads: Identity, (Be)Longing, and Imagined Landscapes

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah L. Morris (Author)You may have heard it at a football game, in an advertisement, or on the radio on a road trip far from home. You may have sung along on a rooftop in Thailand, at Oktoberfest in Belgium, or with a Japanese cover band. It may have moved you to dance at a wedding or cry at a funeral. Regardless of where it plays, the song "Take Me Home, Country Roads" is ubiquitous, unmistakable, universal. Written and recorded by Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert,...

A Room of His Own: Joseph Brodsky and the Making of a Bilingual Poet

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Report copyright infringementby Daria S. Smirnova (Author)Not just another book on Brodsky, this is a journey into the art of literary translation. The author unpacks the delicate balance between 'good poem' and 'good translation, ' tracing Brodsky's drafts and bilingual evolution to reveal how he reshaped both Russian and Anglo-American literary traditions.Author BiographyDaria Smirnova holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Oregon and a degree in Linguistics from Rus...

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Report copyright infringementby Jon Allsop (Author)What is at stake when journalism is threatened? Does society still need journalists? Journalism faces multiple threats today all over the world: economic decline, online disinformation, the rise of AI, authoritarian curbs on freedom of the press, and violence against journalists. In such a climate, it's more urgent than ever to ask what journalism is for. Drawing on his experience as a journalist and media commentator, and on interviews with...

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Report copyright infringementby John Ashbery (Author), Stephanie Burt (Foreword by)"An entertaining and shrewd little book ... Ashbery is an accomplished raconteur." --Charles Simic, New York Review of Books The most influential American poet of his generation appraises the lesser-known writers who shaped his own confounding, infinitely inventive work. John Ashbery was the quintessential "difficult poet." When asked to explain his work, he typically responded by insisting that his poetry was ...

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Report copyright infringementby Sister Miriam Joseph (Author)First published in 1947, Shakespeare's Use of the Arts of Language is a landmark study that reveals how deeply William Shakespeare's artistry was shaped by the classical disciplines of grammar, logic, and rhetoric-the "trivium" of Renaissance education.Sister Miriam Joseph, a distinguished scholar of English and the classics, demonstrates with clarity and precision how Shakespeare absorbed the techniques of formal rhetoric and trans...

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Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Scott McCloud (Author)"Magnificent! The best how-to manual ever published." -- Kevin Kelly, Cool ToolsThe renowned author of Understanding Comics offers brilliant instruction on how to actually create this widely beloved art form.Scott McCloud tore down the wall between high and low culture in 1993 with Understanding Comics, a massive comic book about comics, linking the medium to such diverse fields as media theory, movie criticism, and web design. In Reinvent...

Poetry's Data: Digital Humanities and the History of Prosody

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Report copyright infringementby Meredith Martin (Author)Why literary studies must confront digital mediation We live and research in a technologically mediated landscape in which old models of reading and researching--methods that presume an autonomous, single scholar gathering resources and making claims--no longer hold. Scholars have yet to theorize either the embeddedness of their sources inside multiple layers of mediation or their own place in an information ecosystem that demands our ac...

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Report copyright infringementby Herr Cherrytree (Pseud ?) (Author)Dive into a diverse collection of literary works with "Prose And Poetry," a compilation showcasing a range of styles and themes. This volume offers a blend of poetic expressions and prose narratives, perfect for readers seeking a broad literary experience. Explore various voices and perspectives within its pages, making it an enriching addition to any literature enthusiast's collection.This work has been selected by scholars as...

Backwardness: From Letters and Notebooks, 1973-2023

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Report copyright infringementby Garielle Lutz (Author)Backwardness is a selection of heartbreakingly hilarious excerpts from an epistolary and notebook chronicle, spanning half a century, of working-stiff miserabilia and the dark enchantments of life as a misfit. First published in 2024 by SF/LD Books, this is a revised and expanded reissue."Out of those gray middling years of the late twentieth century is etched this unlikely portrait of a genuine queerdo, back before anyone knew what that w...

On the Run with Mad Bombers, Outlaw Lovers & Movie Stars: True Stories

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel Voll (Author)"Voll puts you on the front lines - whether he's hanging with a Bosnian warlord, an Iraqi hunter of terrorists, an 82nd Airborne white supremacist, the father of the H-bomb, or his wife during childbirth. Exciting reading." -Oliver Stone Daniel Voll doesn't just report stories. From war zones and extremist bunkers to Hollywood movie sets, Voll embeds himself with some of the most dangerous, damaged, and fascinating people of our time. In thi...

The Interpreters: South Africa's New Nonfiction

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Report copyright infringementby Sean Christie (Editor), Hedley Twidle (Editor), J. M. Coetzee (Author)Across three decades of democracy, South Africa has seen an outpouring of longform, narrative journalism and creative nonfiction - genres in which some of the country's finest writers have tried to make sense of a complex and changing society. This brand new, one-of-a-kind anthology collects some of the best literary nonfiction published since the end of apartheid, carefully selected and intr...

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Report copyright infringementby Dohra Ahmad (Editor)Rotten English spans the globe to offer an overview of the best non-standard English writing of the past two centuries, with a focus on the most recent decades. What would once have been derogatorily termed "dialect literature" has come into its own in a language known variously as slang, creole, patois, pidgin, or, in the words of Nigerian novelist Ken Saro-Wiwa, "rotten English." The first anthology of its kind, Rotten English celebrates v...

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Report copyright infringementby Eric Partridge (Author)This classic work fully explains the whole range of sexual, scatological language and allusion in Shakespeare's works. Consisting of an alphabetical glossary with cross-references, this book helps the modern reader to make sense of the bawdy.Author BiographyEric Partridge (1884-1979) was the author of some three dozen books, mainly on the aspects of the English language. Stanley Wells is an eminent Shakespearean scholar and the general ed...

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Report copyright infringementby Edward Shammas (Author), Mayssa Kennouche (Illustrator)"Yummy Arabic Sounds, " a fun book designed to help young readers learn the Arabic alphabet and its corresponding sounds through relatable foods that are rooted in Arabic culture.This book uses engaging and effective techniques like Elkonin boxes, tapping, and blending to assist children in word mapping and sound awareness. Each page features a mouth visual to demonstrate how to produce the sounds, along wi...

Who Am I Really? Self-Exploration Journal for Women

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Report copyright infringementby Planners &. Notebooks Inspira Journals (Author)Self-exploration should be done daily. This is to make sure that you are constantly aware of your strengths and limitations. Such awareness can be used to design ways to improve your physical, mental and emotional state. Self-exploration should be written on a journal so that you will have a visual of where you are and where you want to be. Begin writing today. Number of Pages: 200 Dim...