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German: Speak German In 7 Days Or Less - Premium Guide To Speaking Basic German Quickly - Paperback

$10.78

by Monica Rodriguez (Author)Want to learn German quickly? Learning a new language could be fun and easy. And who said learning German can't be? Learning German is a great choice. Germany boasts the most robust economy in Europe, populated with compassionate and amazing people. It is estimated that 90-95 million people speak German. This book contains an easy guide to learn the basics of German in a timely manner. This means you can learn everything basic you need to know within a week. Here's...

The Coloring Book for Writers: An Inspirational Brainstorming Tool - Paperback

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by Linda Fulkerson (Author)The Coloring Book for Writers enhances creativity by combining proven brainstorming techniques and activities with the act of coloring.Author BiographyLinda Fulkerson is a blog coach, marketing consultant, and owner of a digital services company. She is the author of several marketing and self-help books. Linda lives with her husband on a hobby farm in central Arkansas. Her hobbies include traveling and photography. To learn more about Linda, visit her website at ww...

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by Pamela Paul (Author), Maria Russo (Author), Dan Yaccarino (Illustrator)An indispensable guide to welcoming children--from babies to teens--to a lifelong love of reading, written by Pamela Paul and Maria Russo, editors of The New York Times Book Review. Do you remember your first visit to where the wild things are? How about curling up for hours on end to discover the secret of the Sorcerer's Stone? Combining clear, practical advice with inspiration, wisdom, tips, and curated reading lists...

27 Essential Principles of Story: Master the Secrets of Great Storytelling, from Shakespeare to South Park - Paperback

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by Daniel Joshua Rubin (Author)"So often people ask me if there's a book on story I can recommend. This is the one. I can't recommend it highly enough."--Alexa Junge, writer/producer, Friends, Sex and the City, The West Wing A master class of 27 lessons, drawn from 27 diverse narratives, for novelists, storytellers, filmmakers, graphic designers, and more. Author Daniel Joshua Rubin unlocks the secrets of what makes a story work, and then shows how to understand and use these principles in yo...

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Grammar Smart, 4th Edition: The Savvy Student's Guide to Perfect Usage - Paperback

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by The Princeton Review (Author), Liz Buffa (Author), Nell Goddin (Author)THE KNOWLEDGE YOU NEED TO BE A GRAMMAR GURU.How you speak and write can say a lot about you. Grammar makes a lasting impression, but learning it can seem like a never-ending parade of complicated and contradictory rules That's why we at The Princeton Review created Grammar Smart--instead of boring you with countless rules and confusing grammatical terms, this book takes a fun approach to showing the logic behind each c...

Word Smart, 6th Edition: 1400+ Words That Belong in Every Savvy Student's Vocabulary - Paperback

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by The Princeton Review (Author)LET YOUR VOCABULARY SPEAK FOR ITSELF. Whether your goal is to get a competitive edge on a specific exam or simply to build your word knowledge, this updated sixth edition of Word Smart gives you the tools you need to transform your vocabulary and start using words with confidence WORD SMART, 6th EDITION includes: - More than 1,400 vocab words that belong in every savvy student's vocabulary- Lists of common word roots and usage errors - Key terms you need to kn...

The Unofficial Scrivener Workbook - Paperback

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by M. J. Carlson (Author)Scrivener is novel writing and organizing software designed specifically for the non-linear way writers really work. The Scrivener Workbook is designed to work in conjunction with The Scrivener Manual and The Interactive Tutorial that came with your version of Scrivener. Written by veteran Scrivener user and author M.J. Carlson, you'll learn how to set up a new project, import and organize your research, track scene elements, create custom layouts, and more with this ...

A World in Words: The World-Building of Writing an Academic Essay - Paperback

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by M. Kent Travis (Author)"I can't write " "I'll never be able to do this " "I just don't know how to do an essay I'm hopeless." Ever made a comment like one of these? Ever felt lost when it comes to writing an academic essay? Here's good news: You-like nearly everyone on the planet-can learn to write a good essay. You're not hopeless. A World in Words will show you the basic fundamentals you need to become a skilled essay writer. Once you see that writing an essay is like building a world, ...

Comunicacion Transhumana: Comunicacion con animales y extraterrestres - Paperback

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by Omar Pena Grau (Author)Uno de los enigmas a resolver, que ha permanecido en todas las pocas, es la de establecer un puente de comunicaci n con otras especies distintas al ser humano. En este proceso, de entablar una eventual comunicaci n con varios contactos de todo tipo de animales, aves, insectos y mam feros, se ha intentado establecer c digos de aprendizaje tratando de que esos seres transhumanos comprendan nuestro lenguaje. El prop sito de este ensayo, es la de ir en sentido inverso. ...

French: Adjectives Fast Track Learning.: The 100 most used French adjectives with 800 phrase examples. - Paperback

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by Sarah Retter (Author)Focus your French learning on the most frequently used adjectives. Learn just the 100 adjectives you need for everyday life to talk about the past, the present and the future. One of the usual mistakes when learning a foreign language is that the student has no priorities. All the unknown adjectives get the same attention. Actually, to communicate you only need 100 adjectives in any language. These adjectives are the most frequently used and can be defined using an alg...

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An Essential Guide to Public Speaking: Serving Your Audience with Faith, Skill, and Virtue - Paperback

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by Quentin J. Schultze (Author), Martin Medhurst (Foreword by), Clifford Christians (Afterword by)Communication expert and popular speaker Quentin Schultze offers a practical, accessible, and inspiring guide to public speaking, showing readers how to serve their audiences with faith, skill, and virtue. This thoroughly rewritten and expanded four-color edition has been tested and revised with input from Christian undergraduates and contains new chapters on timely topics, such as speaking for v...

What the F: What Swearing Reveals about Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves - Paperback

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by Benjamin K. Bergen (Author)It may be starred, beeped, and censored -- yet profanity is so appealing that we can't stop using it. In the funniest, clearest study to date, Benjamin Bergen explains why, and what that tells us about our language and brains. Nearly everyone swears-whether it's over a few too many drinks, in reaction to a stubbed toe, or in flagrante delicto. And yet, we sit idly by as words are banned from television and censored in books. We insist that people excise profanit...

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Syria's Secret Library: Reading and Redemption in a Town Under Siege - Hardcover

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by Mike Thomson (Author)The remarkable story of a small, makeshift library in the town of Daraya, and the people who found hope and humanity in its books during a four-year siege. Daraya lies on the fringe of Damascus, just southwest of the Syrian capital. Yet for four years it lived in another world. Besieged by government forces early in the Syrian Civil War, its people were deprived of food, bombarded by heavy artillery, and under the constant fire of snipers. But deep beneath this scene o...

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Healthcare Writing: A Practical Guide to Professional Success - Paperback

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by Michael A. Arntfield (Author), James W. Johnston (Author) Healthcare Writing: A Practical Guide to Professional Success provides a wide-ranging, much-needed contemporary interdisciplinary perspective on the modes and contexts of writing that are most pertinent to healthcare professionals today. Back Jacket Notable for its use of real document examples drawn from actual healthcare settings, in addition to its central section's extended focus on narrative medicine and new media writing, Heal...

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Academic Writing, Real World Topics - Paperback

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by Michael Rectenwald (Author), Lisa Carl (Author) This new reader connects contemporary scholarly essays in multiple disciplines with helpful rhetorical instruction. Back Jacket Academic Writing, Real World Topics fills a void in the writing-across-the-curriculum textbook market. It draws together articles and essays of actual academic prose as opposed to journalism; it arranges material topically as opposed to by discipline or academic division; and it approaches topics from multiple discip...

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Writing and Workshopping Poetry: A Constructive Introduction - Paperback

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by Stephen Guppy (Author)A systematic and encouraging guide to poetry writing, including diverse and exciting sample poems throughout. Back JacketMost texts on creative writing emphasize either sources of inspiration or strategies for editing. The process of getting from initial inspiration to final draft isn't often dealt with in any practical way. Writing and Workshopping Poetry focuses on all three phases of the process of composition: finding the material; building and developing the poem...

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Writing Science in the Twenty-First Century - Paperback

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by Christopher Thaiss (Author)An encouraging, systematic, and up-to-date guide to writing in the STEM fields. Back JacketWriting Science in the Twenty-First Century offers guidance to help writers succeed in a broad range of writing tasks and purposes in science and other STEM fields. Concise and current, the book takes most of its examples and lessons from scientific fields such as the life sciences, chemistry, physics, and geology, but some examples are taken from mathematics and engineerin...

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The Broadview Guide to Writing: A Handbook for Students - Sixth Edition - Spiral

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by Corey Frost (Author), Karen Weingarten (Author), Doug Babington (Author)"Even the most useful reference guides are not always, well, shall we say, riveting. A refreshing exception is the new Broadview Guide to Writing, which is smart, helpful, and even fun to read." --Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein, authors of They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing Key Features --A coil-bound reference text suitable for a range of introductory composition and writing courses --D...

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by Michael Rectenwald (Author), Lisa Carl (Author) Academic Writing, Real World Topics fills a void in the writing-across-the-curriculum textbook market. It draws together articles and essays of actual academic prose as opposed to journalism; it arranges material by topic instead of by discipline or academic division; and it approaches topics from multiple disciplinary and critical perspectives.With extensive introductions, rhetorical instruction, and suggested additional resources accompanyi...

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The Broadview Pocket Guide to Writing: A Concise Handbook for Students - Fourth Edition - Spiral

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by Corey Frost (Author), Karen Weingarten (Author), Doug Babington (Author) A new edition of the concise version of one of the most acclaimed writing handbooks--now with the MLA Style section fully revised to take account of the extensive 2016 changes. Back Jacket The Broadview Pocket Guide to Writing: A Concise Handbook for Students presents essential material from the full Broadview Guide to Writing. Included are summaries of key grammatical points; a glossary of usage; advice on various fo...

This Language, a River: A History of English - Paperback

$89.91

by K. Aaron Smith (Author), Susan M. Kim (Author)A practical, student-centered, new History of English textbook that highlights the many varieties of historical English. Back JacketThis Language, A River is an introduction to the history of English that recognizes multiple varieties of the language in both current and historical contexts. Developed over years of undergraduate teaching, the book helps students both to grasp traditional histories of English and to extend and complicate those hi...

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The World Is a Text: Writing about Visual and Popular Culture: Updated Compact Edition - Paperback

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by Jonathan Silverman (Author), Dean Rader (Author)A compact, writing-focused new edition of this popular guide to writing about visual and popular culture. Back JacketWherever we look today, popular culture greets us with "texts" that make implicit arguments; this book helps students to think and write critically about these texts. The World Is a Text teaches critical reading, writing, and argument in the context of pop-culture and visual examples, showing students how to "read" everyday obj...

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Focus on Writing: What College Students Want to Know - Paperback

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by Laurie McMillan (Author)Back JacketThis first-year composition rhetoric-reader uses a Writing about Writing (WAW) approach and a conversational style to help students engage in threshold concepts and transfer what they know about writing to new situations. Each chapter asks a key question such as "Why Write?" or "What Is the Rhetorical Situation and Why Should I Care about It?" Preliminary answers to the chapter question are provided in accessible prose, and these initial ideas are supplem...

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by K. J. Peters (Author)Broadview's first argument/rhetoric handbook for introductory composition courses. Back JacketThe Argument Handbook is a classroom text for first-year composition that is designed to help students understand complex rhetorical situations and navigate the process of transforming private thoughts into persuasive, public writing. The book is organized around three key lenses of argumentation that help students focus on the practical challenges of persuasive writing: inven...

Business and Professional Writing: A Basic Guide - Second Edition - Paperback

$80.93

by Paul MacRae (Author)Updated and expanded, the second edition of Business and Professional Writing provides more information on ethics, security, and primary research. Back JacketStraightforward, practical, and focused on realistic examples, Business and Professional Writing: A Basic Guide is an introduction to the fundamentals of professional writing. The book emphasizes clarity, conciseness, and plain language. Guidelines and templates for business correspondence, formal and informal repo...

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An Introduction to Middle English: Grammar and Texts - Paperback

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by R. D. Fulk (Author) A current, comprehensive introduction to Middle English, this anthology also includes a broad selection of readings. Back Jacket An Introduction to Middle English combines an elementary grammar of the English language from about 1100 to about 1500 with a selection of texts for reading, ranging in date from 1154 to 1500. The grammar includes the fundamentals of orthography, phonology, morphology, syntax, regional dialectology, and prosody. In the thirty-eight texts for r...

Critical Approaches to Young Adult Literature - Paperback

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by Kathy Howard Latrobe (Author), Judy Drury (Author)Critical Approaches to Young Adult Literature is for librarians in school and public libraries (plus their colleagues across the curriculum) who strive for collections and programming that elicit thoughtful responses and build higher-level literacy skills across grades 6-12. The authors explore all facets of creating a vibrant YA reading community, such as inquiry-based learning, promoting and motivating reading, collection management, unde...

Understanding Data and Information Systems for Recordkeeping - Paperback

$144.00

by Philip C. Bantin (Author)Content management systems, data warehouses, relational databases -- the ways an institution can organize and store its information are changing rapidly. Here is a comprehensive guide to the new technologies that can help us better organize vital documents and information for preservation, search, and retrieval. Bantin looks at the major types of resources -- relational databases; data warehouses; and content, document, and knowledge management systems -- and the w...

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by American Library Association (Author)Librarians embarking on the challenge of building a digital collection have their work cut out for them--and here is the book to help launch and complete the mission Easy to understand, this guide demonstrates how resources are created, distributed, and accessed--and how librarians can keep up with the latest technologies for successfully completing these tasks. Chapters walk you step-by-step through all of the stages. This book offers detailed advice ...

Reference Sources and Services for Youth - Paperback

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by Meghan Harper (Author)With so much content available, the challenge for K-12 library media specialists, teachers, and youth services librarians alike is how and where to direct students so they spend time on productive research rather than aimless Internet searches. This "user-friendly" book will help you teach and support students as they learn to access, evaluate and use print and electronic information successfully. For library professionals, there are skill-based exercises and case stu...

Training Paraprofessionals for Reference Service - Paperback

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by Pamela J. Morgan (Author)Using paraprofessionals to answer reference questions is a great way to expand your library's reference reach while getting the most value out of your staff. But how do you begin training them? What training materials should be used? What skills should be taught? How important is the reference interview for paraprofessionals? What are the pros and cons of using paraprofessionals in this manner? Morgan answers these and other questions in a new edition of this bests...

Conducting the Ref Interview, 2nd - Paperback

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by Catherine Sheldrick Ross (Author), Lorsto Nilsen (Author), Marie L. Radford (Author)The revised 2nd edition of this practical how-to for all types of librarians will teach you to understand the needs of public, academic, and special library users across any virtual setting--email, text messaging, and social networking Web sites--as welll as in traditional and face-to-face models of communication. Based on the latest research in communication theory, the book includes new exercises and exam...