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The Prichard-Pritchard Genealogy of the New England (or Northern Family Branch): From the First Known Settler of That Name--Roger Prichard (1600-1671) - Hardcover
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by Walter 1883- Prichard (Author)This book is a genealogy of the Prichard-Pritchard family of New England. It traces their lineage from the first known settler of that name, Roger Prichard (1600-1671), to 1960. It contains biographical information, genealogical data, and historical context, and serves as a resource for family historians and genealogists.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 w...
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 ...
Media, Women, and the Transformation of Sport: From Title IX to Nil - Paperback
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by Pamela J. Creedon (Editor), Laura A. Wackwitz (Editor)This edited collection provides a singular look at contemporary mediated coverage of women athletes and sports from Title IX to the present day.Through personal perspectives, contributors provide a valuable overview of common patterns in women's sports media coverage, exploring issues of diversity, ethnicity, and inclusion. Chapters examine Title IX discourse, NIL brand creation, and marketing among female college athletes through platf...
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188 Words for Rain: A Delightfully Damp Tour of the British Isles, Led by Natural Forces (an Official BBC Weather Book) - Hardcover
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by Alan Connor (Author)'Alan knows everything, knows everyone, and writes beautifully too.'RICHARD OSMAN 'The man with the contents of the Oxford English Dictionary stored just above his left eyebrow ... and he's quite funny too.'RORY CELLAN-JONES 'A gorgeous, funny tour of the British Isles as seen from the clouds.'KONNIE HUQ For fans of THE ETYMOLOGICON and VERY BRITISH PROBLEMS, a delightfully damp tour of the British Isles. Mizzle. Dreich. Raining knives and forks. A real mugga-fisty. A ...
Aqu? Se Habla: Centering the Local and Personal in Spanish Language Education - Hardcover
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by Adam Schwartz (Editor), Dalia Maga?a (Editor), Devin Grammon (Editor)Aqu? se habla serves to envision a more just and equitable Spanish language education that centers language learning as a deeply personal, local, and lifelong practice. Organized around long-standing tension points within and outside the field, this volume features a unique set of contributors whose diverse perspectives help to deconstruct disciplinary boundaries and elevate the knowledge and lived experiences of U.S. Spa...
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Dynamics of Multilingualism: Spatialised Repertoires and Representations - Hardcover
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by Maria Kuteeva (Editor), Caroline Kerfoot (Editor)This edited book focuses on the ways in which contemporary societal challenges are constructed, mediated and lived through language and other semiotic modalities in new on- and off-line spaces. It conceives of linguistic repertoires as part of dynamic assemblages that can enable an understanding of the ways in which different bodies, lived experiences, discourses, semiotic resources, and objects intra-act, change and 'become' together in unp...
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Christian Mission in Seventeenth-Century Taiwan: A Reception History of Texts, Beliefs, and Practices - Hardcover
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by Christopher Joby (Author)This is the first book-length study of the reception of Christianity and the epistemic outcomes of contact between Protestant and Catholic missionaries and Indigenous Austronesians in the contact zone of seventeenth-century colonial Taiwan. In the Age of European Expansion, Dutch Reformed and Spanish Catholic missionaries attempted to win the souls of Indigenous Austronesian people in Taiwan. Christopher Joby examines the strategies that the missionaries employed ...
Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Unmaking of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern America - Paperback
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by Korey Garibaldi (Author)Revisiting an almost-forgotten American interracial literary culture that advanced racial pluralism in the decades before the 1960s In Impermanent Blackness, Korey Garibaldi explores interracial collaborations in American commercial publishing-authors, agents, and publishers who forged partnerships across racial lines-from the 1910s to the 1960s. Garibaldi shows how aspiring and established Black authors and editors worked closely with white interlocutors to achieve...
Language, Aging and Society: What Can Linguistics Do for the Aging World? - Hardcover
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by Lihe Huang (Editor), Boyd Davis (Editor)This book explores how studies of language and aging can be applied to build an aging-friendly society, drawing on the socio-pragmatic turn in language and aging to examine the perspectives of older adults experiencing aging through a linguistic lens. Research on the phenomenon and mechanisms of language in aging can provide older adults with language training, increase their active aging, and offer improved information communication channels for an ...
Concept-Based Language Instruction: Usage-Based Linguistics and Sociocultural Theory in Teaching Japanese - Hardcover
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by Kyoko Masuda (Author), Amy Snyder Ohta (Author), Rie Tsujihara (Author)This volume showcases how concept-based language instruction (C-BLI) can be effectively integrated into foreign language instruction.C-BLI is grounded in the relationship between theory, research, and practice, incorporating visual aids called SCOBAs (schemas for a complete orientating basis of action) designed to teach accurate scientific concepts. SCOBAs materialize L2 usage-based linguistic and cultural concepts to c...
Granta 170: Winners - Paperback
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by Thomas Meaney (Author) It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game. Any schoolchild can smell the rat in the adage. Everybody knows a game is not worth watching unless the players are trying to win -- unless someone is willing to risk the high tackle, smash the serve, steal the base, or throw the knock-out punch. The winter issue of Granta explores how ideas about winning and competition suffuse modern society. We return to the magazine's tradition of sports writing. Arti...
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Insight Intermediate Student Book - Paperback
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The insight Student's Book is a core component of the course, providing everything your students need to engage with their language learning in the classroom. The interesting and thought-provoking topics in the Student's Book are based on actual facts and real-life events that students can find out more about at home. The lively and attractive design combined with cutting edge content and integrated video and audio material will appeal to digital, media aware and tech-savvy teenagers. Vocabul...
Culinary Cinema: Appetite, Narrative, and Community in Contemporary Film - Hardcover
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by Deborah R. Geis (Author)In this book, Deborah Geis offers a new approach to the evolving genre of culinary films that center on the acts of eating and cooking through close analyses of ten different films. These films range from the classics, like Big Night (1996) and Babette's Feast (1987) to later box-office hits, like Chef (2014) and to films that deserve a second look, like East Side Sushi (2014), Burnt (2015), and Mid-August Lunch (2008). Throughout these analyses, the book focuses on...
Korean Handwriting Workbook: Modern Cursive Korean Writing Practice with Hangul, Words & Inspirational Quotes (Beginner to Intermediate) - Paperback
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by Yeonsil Yoo (Author)Korean Handwriting Workbook: Modern Cursive Korean Writing Practice with Hangul, Words & Inspirational Quotes (Beginner to Intermediate)Master Korean cursive handwriting with this beginner-friendly workbook, taking you from foundational skills to inspirational quotes by notable figures.Inside You'll Find:
Cursive Handwriting Practice - Develop your style from basic Hangul letters to complete words and phrases.
Beginner to Intermediate Progression - Start with cor...
Writing Interiority Workbook: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Crafting Irresistible Memoir and Fiction Characters - Paperback
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by Mary Kole (Author)The Writing Interiority Workbook is not just another writing how-to-it's an invitation to transform your approach to character creation and storytelling. Its unique focus on interiority, combined with practical insights from a former literary agent and freelance editor, makes it an indispensable resource for writers at any stage of their career.Master Interiority: Delve into the art of interiority, the heartbeat of compelling fiction and memoir writing, ensuring your cha...
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Digicompass: Navigating Digital Multiliteracies in Global Language Education - Hardcover
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by Sonia Rocca (Author)This book addresses the urgent need for an educational framework that integrates digital multiliteracies with global competence. As technology reshapes how we communicate, learn, and work, educators face the challenge of preparing students not just academically but as informed, ethical participants in a digital and global community. Furthermore, as classrooms become more culturally diverse, the importance of inclusive practices and intercultural competence cannot be ove...
What's Your Name?: How to write your name in Hangul without learning the Korean language - Hardcover
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by Albert Jung (Author)Write Your Name, Share Your Voice with Han'gŭlHave you struggled with getting your name pronounced correctly in another language? What's Your Name? introduces Han'gŭl (Hangeul, Hangul), the Korean writing system, as a precise tool to represent names worldwide. Perfect for beginners, language learners, and cultural enthusiasts.Discover Han'gŭl Through Three Fascinating Lenses
Modern Han'gŭl: Today's streamlined script for diverse sounds.
15th-Century Han'gŭl: King Sejo...
West Virginia General Summative Assessment Test Prep: WVGSA Study Guide - Paperback
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by Lumos Learning (Author)Improve 2024-25 WVGSA Test ScoresPractice workbooks to confidently prepare and excel in the 2025 West Virginia Grade 5 English Language Arts Assessments!This 5th Grade WVGSA ELA Workbook is designed by expert teachers to boost your child's test scores by 10-15 points. Featuring hundreds of practice questions fully aligned with West Virginia Grade 5 ELA learning standards, realistic online practice tests, and personalized learning paths, this workbook is tailored to y...
Lexical Multidimensional Analysis - Hardcover
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by Tony Berber Sardinha (Author), Shannon Fitzsimmons-Doolan (Author)
Number of Pages: 92
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Publication Date: February 27, 2025
Spinning Toward the Sun: Essays on Writing, Resilience, & the Creative Life - Paperback
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by Nora Shalaway Carpenter (Author), Sean Petrie (Author), Erin Entrada Kelly (Author)
Number of Pages: 288
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Publication Date: February 25, 2025
Voice Assistants in Private Homes: Media, Data and Language in Interaction and Discourse - Paperback
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by Stephan Habscheid (Editor), Tim Hector (Editor), Dagmar Hoffmann (Editor)Voice Assistants such as Amazon's Alexa populate private homes as well as smartphones, TVs and cars. While suggesting easy living with smart devices, these assistants are criticized as the next step of corporate and state surveillance of the private home, or as harbingers of new and simplified linguistic practices. The contributors to this volume focus on the transformation and persistence of everyday linguistic, medi...
Transnational Korean Englishes - Hardcover
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by Sofia R?diger (Author), Alex Baratta (Author)
Number of Pages: 94
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Publication Date: February 06, 2025
Book Review Magazine - 03 (Winter 2025) - Paperback
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by Jeyran Main (Author)Since 2016, Review Tales Magazine has stood as a beacon for the writing community, celebrating extraordinary talents and empowering authors from around the globe. As a monthly publication, it offers a carefully curated selection of book reviews chosen from the thousands of submissions we receive, ensuring that only the most exceptional works are featured. This magazine isn't just about books-it's about celebrating the art of storytelling and giving talented authors the ...
Risk Management in Translation - Paperback
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by Anthony Pym (Author)Once fidelity and equivalence are abandoned, how can successful translation be understood? Risk management offers an alternative way of looking at the work of translators and their social function. It posits that the greater the cultural differences, the greater the risks of failed communication. What can be done to manage those risks? Drawing on the ways translators and interpreters handle intercultural encounters by adjusting what is said, this essay outlines a series...
Teaching Second Language Academic Writing - Paperback
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by Christine M. Tardy (Author)
Number of Pages: 84
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Publication Date: February 20, 2025
Writing Short Stories: A Routledge Writer's Guide - Paperback
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by Ailsa Cox (Author)The third edition of Writing Short Stories has been revised and updated to provide a complete guide to the craft of writing short stories. It emphasizes the importance of voice as a foundation for work on characterization, imagery, dialogue and pace, as readers move from their first sketches to working on more complex narrative structures. Ailsa Cox guides readers through key aspects of the craft, providing a variety of case studies of classic and contemporary core texts....
Transnational Korean Englishes - Paperback
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by Sofia R?diger (Author), Alex Baratta (Author)
Number of Pages: 94
Dimensions: 0.19 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: February 06, 2025
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The Community College Library:: Collections and Technical Services - Paperback
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by Janet Pinkley (Editor), Kaela Casey (Editor)Community colleges are a cornerstone of higher education and serve the unique needs of the communities in which they reside. Collections and technical services librarians at these institutions need expertise in their area of library work, but also a deep understanding of the community they serve to curate and make discoverable the resources their users need. The Community College Library: Collections and Technical Services highlights the various ...
News Writing - Paperback
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by Anna McKane (Author)Long awaited new edition of this hands-on guide to writing like a journalist. Full of examples, exercises and practical advice, it now covers online presentation and social media too.
Number of Pages: 192
Dimensions: 0.4 x 9.4 x 6.6 IN
Publication Date: December 20, 2013
Language, Image, Gesture - Hardcover
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by Christopher Hart (Author)Politics is an inherently symbolic practice. This innovative book advances a framework for the critical analysis of political texts and talk based in cognitive linguistics. Through detailed analyses of attested semiotic practices, it provides a current, comprehensive and authoritative statement on the paradigm of Cognitive Critical Discourse Analysis (Cognitive CDA). The ideological effects of dominant conceptualisations and their implications for the legitimation ...
The Women Who Raised Me - Hardcover
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by Victoria Rowell (Author)Born a ward of the state in the State of Maine, the child of a Yankee blueblood mother, Dorothy (Collins) Rowell, and a Black Marine, Levi (Cowan) Wilson, from South Carolina, Victoria Rowell beat the odds that befalls many foster children. The Women Who Raised Me is the remarkable story of her rise out of the foster care system to attain the American Dream and of the myriad women who lifted her up, inspired her, and seeded her with the drive and commitment it took ...
Language and Politics - Paperback
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by Julianne House (Author), D?niel Z. K?d?r (Author)
Number of Pages: 244
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Publication Date: February 27, 2025
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