Language Arts & Linguistics & Literacy

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The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael: A Library of America Special Publication - Paperback

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by Pauline Kael (Author), Sanford Schwartz (Editor)A master film critic is at her witty, exhilarating, and opinionated best in this career-spanning collection featuring pieces on Bonnie and Clyde, The Godfather, and other modern movie classics "Film criticism is exciting just because there is no formula to apply," Pauline Kael once observed, "just because you must use everything you are and everything you know." Between 1968 and 1991, as regular film reviewer for The New Yorker, Kael used th...

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Beyond the Killing Fields: War Writings - Hardcover

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by Sydney Schanberg (Author)This first-ever anthology of the war reporting and commentary of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sydney Schanberg is drawn from more than four decades of reporting at home and abroad for the New York Times, Newsday, the Village Voice, and various magazines. The centerpiece of the collection is his signature work, "The Death and Life of Dith Pran," which appeared in the New York Times Magazine. This became the foundation of Roland Joff 's acclaimed film The Killin...

Joan Didion: The 1960s & 70s (Loa #325): Run River / Slouching Towards Bethlehem / Play It as It Lays / A Book of Common Prayer / The White Album - Hardcover

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by Joan Didion (Author), David L. Ulin (Editor)Library of America launches a definitive collected edition of one of the most original and electric writers of our time with a volume gathering her five iconic books of the 1960s & 70s Joan Didion's influence on postwar American letters is undeniable. Whether writing fiction, memoir, or trailblazing journalism, her gifts for narrative and dialogue, and her intimate but detached authorial persona, have won her legions of readers and admirers. ...

The Origin and Development of Humanistic Script - Paperback

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by B. L. Ullman (Author) Number of Pages: 196 Dimensions: 0.42 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 07, 2008

Aspectos Foneticos de Las Vocales Espanolas - Paperback

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by Rafael Monroy-Casas (Author)Se analizan en esta obra de forma rigurosa y cr tica varios aspectos problem ticos relacionados con las vocales del espa ol. Se recogen aqu varios trabajos realizados por el autor sobre el comportamiento de las vocales en espa ol. Se trata de estudios cr ticos con las opiniones al uso sobre aspectos tales como la duraci n en espa ol, la existencia o no de al fonos en nuestro sistema, el comportamiento voc lico y su reflejo fon mico de (h)i/y-(h)u, la fon tica d...

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The Everything Sign Language Book: American Sign Language Made Easy - Paperback

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by Irene Duke (Author)Discover the intricacies of American Sign Language with this comprehensive, essential guide to learning the basics of sign language. The appeal of American Sign Language (ASL) has extended beyond the Deaf community into the mainstream--it's even popular as a class in high school and college. You are guided through the basics of ASL with clear instruction and more than 300 illustrations. With a minimum of time and effort, you will learn to sign: the ASL alphabet; question...

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American Sign Language: A Step-By-Step Guide to Signing - Paperback

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by Suzie Chafin (Author), Johnston Grindstaff (Photographer)While learning a new language isn't a "knack" for everyone, Knack American Sign Language finally makes it easy. The clear layout, succinct information, and topic-specific sign language partnered with high-quality photos enable quick learning. By a "bilingual" author whose parents were both deaf, and photographed by a design professor at the leading deaf university, Gallaudet, it covers all the basic building blocks of communication. ...

More Tadpole Tales and Other Totally Terrific Treats for Readers Theatre - Paperback

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by Anthony Fredericks (Author)In this book, funny tales and rhymes are presented as readers theatre scripts, specifically written to motivate beginning readers. Readers theatre continues to be popular with teachers and librarians endeavoring to enhance reading fluency. Humorous scripts are particularly in demand. In MORE Tadpole Tales and Other Totally Terrific Treats for Readers Theatre, bestselling author Tony Fredericks presents all-new scripts based on fractured fairy and folk tales. Buil...

Tell Along Tales!: Playing with Participation Stories - Paperback

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by Dianne de Las Casas (Author)This book makes the perfect addition to teachers' and librarians' story time selections, containing 25 educational and entertaining tales from around the world as well as proven storytelling techniques.Author BiographyDianne de Las Casas was an author and award-winning storyteller who presented programs and provided educator/librarian training, workshops, and artist residencies. Number of Pages: 144 Dimensions: 0.4 x 10.9 x 8.4 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Da...

From Bunker Hill to Baghdad: True Stories of America's Veterans - Paperback

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by Patrick Mendoza (Author)These compelling, enlightening, and often highly personal experiences tell stories of average citizens as well as historical figures who made huge sacrifices by serving in the military, giving the reader new perspectives on war, and its real costs. Wars are generally started by those holding power--those whose names are recorded in history books--yet they are fought by the average citizen. In wartime, a single person's action can change the course of history. From B...

The International Baccalaureate Diploma Program and the School Library: Inquiry-Based Education - Paperback

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by Anthony Tilke (Author)This book, a blend of practice and theory, shows how the school library can contribute to the success of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program. Written for librarians in schools that are applying to offer the program as well as those who already work with it, The International Baccalaureate Diploma Program and the School Library: Inquiry-Based Education provides information and strategies specifically relating libraries to the IBDP. The guide includes inform...

Graphic Novels: A Guide to Comic Books, Manga, and More - Hardcover

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by Michael Pawuk (Author), David Serchay (Author)Covering genres from adventure and fantasy to horror, science fiction, and superheroes, this guide maps the vast terrain of graphic novels, describing and organizing titles to help librarians balance their graphic novel collections and direct patrons to read-alikes. New subgenres, new authors, new artists, and new titles appear daily in the comic book and manga world, joining thousands of existing titles--some of which are very popular and well...

Teaching Historical Fiction with Ready-Made Literature Circles for Secondary Readers - Paperback

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by Carianne Bernadowski (Author), Kelly Morgano (Author)This comprehensive step-by-step guide provides practical guidance to implement literature circles in any social studies or language arts classroom.Author BiographyCarianne Bernadowski, PhD, is assistant professor of early childhood and elementary education in the Department of Education and Social Services at Robert Morris University, Pittsburgh, PA. Her published works include Linworth's Teaching with Books that Heal: Authentic Literatu...

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by Stephen D. Krashen (Author)An eye-opening look at the latest research findings about the success of free voluntary reading in developing high levels of literacy. Free voluntary reading looks better and more powerful than ever. Stephen D. Krashen, PhD, is an advocate for free voluntary reading in schools and has published many journal articles on the subject. Free Voluntary Reading: Power 2010 collects the last ten years of his extensive work and reconsiders all aspects of this important de...

Better Serving Teens Through School Library-Public Library Collaborations - Paperback

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by Cherie P. Pandora (Author), Stacey Hayman (Author)In this practical guidebook, experienced librarians--a public librarian and a school librarian--share advice and ideas for extending resources, containing costs, and leveraging capabilities between school and public libraries, offering insights and strategies to overcome today's economic challenges. The current economic crisis has had a drastic impact on both public and school libraries. As budgets shrink, resources become scarcer, and the ...

Rainbow Family Collections: Selecting and Using Children's Books with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Content - Hardcover

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by Jamie Campbell Naidoo (Author), Catherine Barr (Editor)As one of the only highly praised resources on this important topic, this thoughtfully compiled book examines and suggests picture books and chapter books presenting LGBTQ content to children under the age of 12. Highlighting titles for children from infancy to age 11, Rainbow Family Collections examines over 250 children's picture books, informational books, and chapter books with LGBTQ content from around the world. Each entry in Rai...

Six Characters in Search of an Author - Hardcover

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by Luigi Pirandello (Author), Martha Witt (Translator), Mary Ann Frese Witt (Translator)Presented here for the first time together, and many for the first time in English, are the writings that formed the genesis of "Six Characters in Search of an Author," along with a new translation of the theater masterpiece itself by Martha Witt and Mary Ann Frese Witt. Although Pirandello's best-known play is now considered a revolutionary modernist work, it did not begin as avant-garde art, but rather i...

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Timeless Wisdom: The Best of Dr. Frank Crane's Four-Minute Essays - Paperback

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by Frank Crane (Author), K. R. Talbot (Compiled by)For the first time in nearly 100 years, selections from Dr. Frank Crane's popular series of Four Minute Essays are available once again to the public. One of the most admired writers of the twentieth century, dr. Crane published a series of columns on moral issues that may even be more important today than they were then. Number of Pages: 198 Dimensions: 0.6 x 8.9 x 6 IN Publication Date: June 01, 2007

Senior Citizens Writing: A Workshop and Anthology, with an Introduction and Guide for Workshop Leaders - Paperback

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by W. Ross Winterowd (Author)The number of seniors in our population is burgeoning and will continue to grow. Seniors are eager to tell their stories, explain their philosophies, create fictions, and vent their anger at the injustices they perceive in the nation and the world. In SENIOR CITIZENS WRITING, renowned teacher and writer W. Ross Winterowd describes in his introduction how writing workshops for seniors not only provide an audience but also give them opportunities for the intellectua...

Writing the Visual: A Practical Guide for Teachers of Composition and Communication - Paperback

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by Carol David (Editor), Anne R. Richards (Editor)WRITING THE VISUAL: A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR TEACHERS OF COMPOSITION AND COMMUNICATION offers a variety of creative and theoretically based approaches to the development of visual literacy. The book's introduction and twelve chapters provide an array of pedagogical perspectives, exceptional field-tested assignments for students writing across the disciplines, and a strong bibliographic base from which readers might continue their exploration of v...

The Promise and Perils of Writing Program Administration - Paperback

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by Theresa Enos (Editor), Shane Borrowman (Editor)Combining formal quantitative research with narrative-based scholarship, THE PROMISE AND PERILS OF WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION represents multiple voices from faculty balancing between the demands of teaching, writing, and administering writing programs in professional, ethical ways-often under circumstances that can be defined, at best, as difficult. In these pages, junior faculty tell their stories of triumph and trauma, while more firmly...

New Media / New Methods: The Academic Turn from Literacy to Electracy - Paperback

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by Jeff Rice (Editor), Marcel O'Gorman (Editor)The essays in NEW MEDIA/NEW METHODS: THE ACADEMIC TURN FROM LITERACY TO ELECTRACY pose an invention-based approach to new media studies. Representing a specific school of theory emergent in graduates of the University of Florida and working from the concept of electracy, as opposed to literacy, contributors present various heuristics for elaborating new media rhetoric and theory. NEW MEDIA/NEW METHODS challenges literacy-based understandings of n...

Equipment for Living: The Literary Reviews of Kenneth Burke - Paperback

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by Kenneth Burke (Author), Nathaniel A. Rivers (Editor), Ryan P. Weber (Editor)Kenneth Burke has been widely praised as one of the sharpest readers of Shakespeare, Freud, and Marx, among others. He was also well known for turning his many book reviews into essays and excursions of his own, in the interest of tracking down the implications of terminologies and concepts, all the while grappling with some of the greatest minds of the twentieth century. EQUIPMENT FOR LIVING: THE LITERARY REVIEWS ...

The English Language: From Sound to Sense - Paperback

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by Gerald Patrick Delahunty (Author), James J. Garvey (Author)Grounded in linguistic research and argumentation, THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: FROM SOUND TO SENSE offers readers who have little or no analytic understanding of English a thorough treatment of the various components of the language. Its goal is to help readers become independent language analysts capable of critically evaluating claims about the language and the people who use it. Written in a clear style, it guides its readers on topic...

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Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction: How to Create Out-Of-This-World Novels and Short Stories - Paperback

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by Orson Scott Card (Author), Philip Athans (Author), Jay Lake (Author)Do you envision celestial cities in distant, fantastic worlds? Do you dream of mythical beasts and gallant quests in exotic kingdoms? If you have ever wanted to write the next great fantasy or science fiction story, this all-in-one comprehensive book will show you how. Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction is full of advice from master authors offering definitive instructions on world building, character creation, and stor...

The Author Training Manual: A Comprehensive Guide to Writing Books That Sell - Paperback

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by Nina Amir (Author), James Scott Bell (Foreword by)If you want to write a book that's going to sell to both publishers and readers, you need to know how to produce a marketable work and help it become successful. It starts the moment you have an idea. That's when you begin thinking about the first elements of the business plan that will make your project the best it can be.The reality is that you don't want to spend time and energy writing a book that will never get read. The way to avoid t...

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Elements of Fiction Writing - Characters & Viewpoint: Proven Advice and Timeless Techniques for Creating Compelling Characters by an Award-Winning Aut - Paperback

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by Orson Scott Card (Author)Vivid and memorable characters aren't born they have to be made This book is a set of tools: literary crowbars, chisels, mallets, pliers and tongs. Use them to pry, chip, yank and sift good characters out of the place where they live in your imagination. Award-winning author Orson Scott Card explains in depth the techniques of inventing, developing and presenting characters, plus handling viewpoint in novels and short stories. With specific examples, he spells out ...

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by James Scott Bell (Author)Ramp up the tension and keep your readers hooked Inside you'll find everything you need to know to spice up your story, move your plot forward, and keep your readers turning pages. Expert thriller author and writing instructor James Scott Bell shows you how to craft scenes, create characters, and develop storylines that harness conflict and suspense to carry your story from the first word to the last. Learn from examples of successful novels and movies as you tran...

Locating Visual-Material Rhetorics: The Map, the Mill, and the GPS - Paperback

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by Amy D. Propen (Author)Parks, maps, and mapping technologies like the GPS are objects of visual and material culture that rely on the interplay of text, context, image, and space to guide our interpretations of the world around us. LOCATING VISUAL-MATERIAL RHETORICS: THE MAP, THE MILL, AND THE GPS examines in depth, and in several contemporary settings, how visual and material discursive artifacts, when understood as rhetorical, shape our understanding of the unique cultural moments that th...

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45 Master Characters: Mythic Models for Creating Original Characters - Paperback

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by Victoria Lynn Schmidt (Author)Create unforgettable characters your readers will love! Want to make your characters and their stories more compelling, complex, and original than ever before? 45 Master Characters is here to help you explore the most common male and female archetypes--the mythic, cross-cultural models from which all characters originate. - Explore a wide variety of character profiles including heroes, villains, and supporting characters. - Learn how to use archetypes as foun...

Locating Visual-Material Rhetorics: The Map, the Mill, and the GPS - Hardcover

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20 Master Plots: And How to Build Them - Paperback

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by Ronald B. Tobias (Author)Give your story a solid foundation--a plot that engages readers from start to finish! The best stories linger in the hearts and minds of readers for decades. These tales gain their power through plots that connect with the audience on both an emotional and intellectual level. Inside Ronald B. Tobias details these 20 time-tested plots. Each is discussed and analyzed, illustrating how a successful plot integrates all the elements of a story. Tobias then shows you how...