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Face Up: A Collection of Outlaw Poems - Paperback

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by Suzanne Nielsen (Author), Belo Cipriani (Editor), Alison McGhee (Foreword by)WINNER OF THE 2021 OLEB BOOKS POETRY PRIZEFace Up: A Collection of Outlaw Poems is a volume of unmistakable power. Defying social expectations, Suzanne Nielsen writes "I was born in the mid-fifties with fists for hands because / in utero / I knew life wasn't fooling around." As she explores recurrent themes of physical illness, depression, and addiction, she demonstrates self-awareness gleaned from a life lived fu...

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Life Lines: What Your Handwriting Says about You - Hardcover

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by Tracey Trussell (Author), Life Linesis a celebration of how our ordinary, organic and often imperfect handwriting is not just a living form of expression and mode of communication, but also a relevant and poignant way of understanding ourselves and the people around us. Life Lines contains a carefully curated collection of real-life, deeply personal and often raw human-interest stories, drilling down into the nuts and bolts and complexities of our psyches. This ground-breaking book present...

Beginning Writers in the Zone of Proximal Development - Paperback

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by Elizabeth Petri Steward (Author)How do young children bridge the gap between "writing" a story with pictures and writing with words? How children learn to use written words to tell a story is a topic important to both cognitive development and early literacy instruction. Using the theoretical framework developed by Vygotsky, the behavior of a group of prekindergarten children as they author two consecutive pieces of writing is analyzed. The children tell their stories at first with spoken ...

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Every Living Thing: The Politics of Life in Common - Paperback

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by Jenell Johnson (Author)Explores the question of what is life, and how invocations of life itself can join and divide, horrify and amaze, and may have the potential to inspire a future politics in a world beset by crises.Author Biography Jenell Johnson is Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of American Lobotomy and has edited or coedited numerous volumes, including The Neuroscientific Turn, Biocitizenship, Rhetoric...

Discordant Pandemic Narratives in the U.S. - Hardcover

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by Shing-Ling S. Chen (Editor), Nicole Allaire (Editor), Melissa L. Beall (Contribution by)This book provides a careful examination of the discordant narratives that embodied the chaos, tensions, and conflicts in the U.S. pandemic responses. The ultimate goal of this volume is to help groups and individuals understand just what went wrong in the U.S. pandemic responses.Author BiographyShing-Ling S. Chen is professor of mass communication in the Department of Communication and Media at the Uni...

What It Takes to Talk: Exploring Developmental Cognitive Linguistics - Paperback

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by Paul Ibbotson (Author)This book puts cognition back at the heart of the language learning process and challenges the idea that language acquisition can be meaningfully understood as a purely linguistic phenomenon. For each domain placed under the spotlight - memory, attention, inhibition, categorisation, analogy and social cognition - the book examines how they shape the development of sounds, words and grammar. The unfolding cognitive and social world of the child interacts with, constrai...

Linguistic Communities and Migratory Processes: Newcomers Acquiring Sociolinguistic Variation in Northern Ireland - Paperback

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by Karen P. Corrigan (Author)This inter-disciplinary book is the first in an Irish context to address issues connected with the 'super-diversifying' of language and society engendered by recent and historical migrations. It analyses novel data from interviews with allochthonous and autochthonous groups of monolingual and plurilingual youngsters living in Northern Ireland. A key aim is to test models within second language acquisition and language variation and change research. Another goal is...

The Rhetoric of the Opioid Crisis - Hardcover

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by Rachel Sussman Kaplan (Author)In The Rhetoric of the Opioid Crisis, Rachel Sussman Kaplan explores the opioid crisis through modernity. This book argues the stakeholders in this crisis have a different rhetorical bias and each group has contributed some willingly in the name of corporate profit and others inadvertently while trying to help patients.Author BiographyRachel Sussman Kaplan is assistant teaching professor of Corporate Communication at Penn State University, Fayette. Number of P...

Recent Developments in Phase Theory - Paperback

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by Jeroen Van Craenenbroeck (Editor), Cora Pots (Editor), Tanja Temmerman (Editor)The overarching goal of this volume is to explore a number of recent developments in Phase Theory (both theoretical and empirical), thus contributing to our overall understanding of the concept of phases.The volume is divided into three parts, of which the first focuses on the traditional role played by phases in defining successive cyclicity, while at the same time examining the interaction between that traditi...

Handbook of Home Language Maintenance and Development: Social and Affective Factors - Paperback

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by Andrea C. Schalley (Editor), Susana A. Eisenchlas (Editor) Even a cursory look at conference programs and proceedings reveals a burgeoning interest in the field of social and affective factors in home language maintenance and development. To date, however, research on this topic has been published in piecemeal fashion, subsumed under the more general umbrella of 'bilingualism'. Within bilingualism research, there has been an extensive exploration of linguistic and psycholinguistic perspect...

The Greater Awyu Languages of West Papua - Paperback

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by Lourens De Vries (Author)This book is a comprehensive and authoritative description of the Greater Awyu family of Papuan languages. The book brings together many decades of research on Greater Awyu languages, including 10 years of field work by the author. The book presents a description of major patterns found in languages of the family: phonology, morphology, syntax and discourse. In addition, major aspects of the anthropological linguistics of Greater Awyu languages are described: count...

The Royal Toast Master Containing Many Thousands of the Best Toasts old and new, to Give Brilliancy to Mirth & Make the Joys of the Glass Supremely Ag - Hardcover

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by Multiple Contributors (Author)The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts a...

Advices from Parnassus, in two centuries With the Political touchstone, and an appendix to it Written in Italian by Trajano Boccalini, and translated - Hardcover

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by Traiano Boccalini (Author)The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are a...

Ars Pun-ica, Sive Flos Linguarum: The art of Punning: or, The Flower of Languages: in Seventy-nine Rules: for The Farther Improvement of Conversation - Hardcover

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by Thomas Sheridan (Author)The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are ava...

The Acts and Deeds of the Most Famous and Valiant Champion Sir William Wallace, Knight of Ellerslie. Written by Blind Harry in the Year 1361. Together - Hardcover

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by The Minstrel Henry (Author)The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are ...

An Introduction to English Grammar: Being an Abridgement of the Second Part of The Grammatical Institute. By Noah Webster, Jun. Esq - Hardcover

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by Noah Webster (Author)The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are availa...

The Wonderful History and Surprising Prophecies of Mother Shipton - Hardcover

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by Mother Shipton (Author)The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are avai...

The Unfortunate Shipwright: Or, Cruel Captain. Being a Faithful Narrative of the Unparallel'd Sufferings of Robert Barker, Late Carpenter on Board - Hardcover

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by Robert Barker (Author)The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are avail...

Alexander the Great. A Tragedy. Now First Translated From the French of M. Racine - Hardcover

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by Jean Racine (Author)The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are availab...

Corderii Colloquiorum Centuria Selecta: Or, a Select Century of Cordery's Colloquies, ... By John Stirling, ... The Sixth Edition - Hardcover

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by Mathurin Cordier (Author)The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are av...

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Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing - Paperback

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by Margaret Atwood (Author)From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments "A clear-eyed glance into the shadows where writers work and live." --The Washington Post Book World In this wise and irresistibly quotable book, one of the most intelligent writers now working in English addresses the riddle of her art: why people pursue it, how they view their calling, and what bargains they make with their audiences, both real and imagined. To these fascinating issues Margaret...

The Merry Companion: Or, Delights for the Ingenious. In two Parts. I. Teaching how to Shew Divers Merry Tricks, ... II. Containing a Collec - Hardcover

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by Richard Neve (Author)The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are availa...

The Enchantments of Jannes and Jambres Discovered: Or the Errors and Blasphemies of the Secession, in Their Principles on Magistracy, Exposed; ... In - Hardcover

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by A---- W---- (Author)The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are availab...

A new Latin-English Dictionary; Containing all the Words Proper for Reading the Classic Writers; ... To Which is Prefixed, a new English-Latin Diction - Hardcover

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by William Young (Author)The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are avail...

A True and Exact Catalogue of all the Plays That Were Ever yet Printed in the English Tongue; With the Authors Names Against Each Play ... and Continu - Hardcover

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by W. Mears (Author)The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available ...

The Four Seasons, and Other Poems. By James Thomson - Hardcover

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by James Thomson (Author)The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are avail...

Mercurius Rusticus: Or, the Countries Complaint of the Barbarous Outrages Begun in the Year 1642, by the Sectaries of This Late Flourishin - Hardcover

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by Bruno Ryves (Author)The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are availab...

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. From the Original Corrected Edition. With a set of Elegant Engravings. ... of 2; Volume 1 - Hardcover

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by John Cleland (Author)The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are availa...

The Works of Lucian, Translated From the Greek, by Several Eminent Hands. ... With the Life of Lucian, a Discourse on his Writings, and a Character of - Hardcover

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by Of Samosata Lucian (Author)The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are ...

More Fruits of Solitude: Being the Second Part of Reflections and Maxims, Relating to the Conduct of Human Life - Hardcover

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by William Penn (Author)The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are availa...

The New New Journalism: Conversations with America's Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft - Paperback

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by Robert Boynton (Author)Forty years after Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, and Gay Talese launched the New Journalism movement, Robert S. Boynton sits down with nineteen practitioners of what he calls the New New Journalism to discuss their methods, writings and careers. The New New Journalists are first and foremost brilliant reporters who immerse themselves completely in their subjects. Jon Krakauer accompanies a mountaineering expedition to Everest. Ted Conover works for nearly a year as ...

Letters Concerning the English Nation. By Mr. de Voltaire. A new Edition - Hardcover

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by Voltaire (Author)The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available ...