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Welcome to the Writer's Life: How to Design Your Writing Craft, Writing Business, Writing Practice, and Reading Practice - Paperback

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by Paulette Perhach (Author)Learn how to take your work to the next level with this informative guide on the craft, business, and lifestyle of writing With warmth and humor, Paulette Perhach welcomes you into the writer's life as someone who has once been on the outside looking in. Like a freshman orientation for writers, this book includes an in-depth exploration of all the elements of being a writer--from your writing practice to your reading practice, from your writing craft to the all-imp...

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The Lost Art of Reading: Books and Resistance in a Troubled Time - Hardcover

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by David L. Ulin (Author)Reading is a revolutionary act, an act of engagement in a culture that wants us to disengage. In The Lost Art of Reading, David L. Ulin asks a number of timely questions - why is literature important? What does it offer, especially now? Blending commentary with memoir, Ulin addresses the importance of the simple act of reading in an increasingly digital culture. Reading a book, flipping through hard pages, or shuffling them on screen - it doesn't matter. The key is th...

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by William Lutz (Author)Doublespeak is the language of non-responsibility, carefully constructed to appear to communicate when it fact it doesn't. In this lively and eye-opening expose, originally published in 1989, linguist William Lutz identifies the four most common types of doublespeak--euphemism, jargon, gobbledygook or "bureaucratese," and inflated language--showing how each is used in business, advertising, medicine, government, and the military. In this seminal book, Lutz articulates ...

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How to Argue with a Cat: A Human's Guide to the Art of Persuasion - Paperback

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by Jay Heinrichs (Author), Natalie Palmer-Sutton (Illustrator)Learn how to persuade cats--the world's most skeptical and cautious negotiators--with this primer on rhetoric and argument from the New York Times bestselling author of Thank You for Arguing Cats are skilled manipulators who can talk you into just about anything without a single word (or maybe a meow or two). They can get you to drop whatever you're doing and play with them. They can make you serve their dinner way ahead of schedu...

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The Well-Spoken Woman Speaks Out: How to Use Your Voice to Drive Change - Paperback

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by Christine K. Jahnke (Author)Practical and inspiring, this book is a valuable asset for women seeking to drive change with #MeToo, March for our Lives, Time's Up, Black Women Lead, Climate Action, She Should Run, Power to the Polls, and women's marches. In her successful book The Well-Spoken Woman, top speech coach Christine K. Jahnke shared techniques to help women present their ideas effectively in any setting. This new follow-up is for women who are persisting, resisting, advocating, or ...

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The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders - Paperback

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by Stuart Kells (Author)A sharp and delightful celebration of libraries around the world, and throughout time--for the passionate bibliophile and literary historian. "Excellent . . . Tracks the history of that greatest of all cultural institutions." --The Washington Post Libraries are much more than mere collections of volumes. The best are magical, fabled places whose fame has become part of the cultural wealth they are designed to preserve. Some still exist today; some are lost, like those...

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Your Story Matters: Finding, Writing, and Living the Truth of Your Life - Paperback

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by Leslie Leyland Fields (Author)Your story is bigger than you know.From its tiniest details to its most dramatic events, your story is a sacred gift, worthy of attention. But how do you find and tell that story?In this practical, liberating guide based on her thirty years of writing and teaching, Leslie Leyland Fields will lead you step by step in exploring your past and shaping your memories into vivid, compelling stories. With writing exercises to help you dive deeper into your story, you'...

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Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy - Paperback

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by Batya Ungar-Sargon (Author)Something is wrong with American journalism. Long before "fake news" became the calling card of the Right, Americans had lost faith in their news media. But lately, the feeling that something is off has become impossible to ignore. That's because the majority of our mainstream news is no longer just liberal; it's woke. Today's newsrooms are propagating radical ideas that were fringe as recently as a decade ago, including "antiracism," intersectionality, open bord...

Mr. Chatterbox: How to Become a Magnetic Public Speaker and Orator - Paperback

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by Allan Porter (Author)Eventually, every persons will have to speak in public. This can be for something like a social event, or it may be because they have an obligation at work. Being able to speak well in these situation can greatly help a person, and it can allow for them to enter into different kinds of jobs. In addition, it can simply help a person to avoid feeling nervous about speaking in public. A great way to learn how to speak in public is to purchase a guide that has step by step...

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Once Upon a Time It Was Now: The Art & Craft of Writing Historical Fiction - Paperback

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by James Alexander Thom (Author)While a historian stands firmly planted in the present and looks back into the past, a historical novelist has a more immediate task: to set readers in the midst of bygone events and lead them forward, allowing them to live and feel the wonderment, fear, hope, triumph, and pain as if they were there. Learning historical stories is easy, creating stories based in history is not. In Once Upon a Time It Was Now, best-selling author James Alexander Thom (Follow the...

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Writing Children's Books: Everything You Need to Know from Story Creation to Getting Published - Paperback

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by Anthony Fredericks (Author)Far too many prospective children's authors get stuck on the fundamental (and universal) question of all writers--Where do I start? That's simply because they're unsure about the nature of the children's book market and the skills necessary for literary success. Writing Children's Books answers the plight of these writers by providing proven strategies and insider information. This powerful how-to guide shows, in eye-opening detail, exactly how children's authors...

Use of Visual Displays in Research and Testing: Coding, Interpreting, and Reporting Data - Hardcover

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by Matthew McCrudden (Editor), Gregory Schraw (Editor), Chad Buckendahl (Editor)Visual displays play a crucial role in knowledge generation and communication. The purpose of the volume is to provide researchers with a framework that helps them use visual displays to organize and interpret data; and to communicate their findings in a comprehensible way within different research (e.g., quantitative, mixed methods) and testing traditions that improves the presentation and understanding of findin...

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by Speedy Publishing LLC (Author)Allow your imagination to run free with this creative writing journal. Creative writing is a wonderful way to build writing skills, to further cement your skills if you are a writer and even to use as a therapeutic method to unwind after a long day. The possibilities are infinite. Order your copy today. Number of Pages: 50 Dimensions: 0.1 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: April 13, 2015

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by Speedy Publishing LLC (Author)Mandala is a Sanskrit word that translates into the circle that holds the universe together. Taken into literal context, the Mandala Journal is designed to hold your stories of art, poetry, fiction and nonfiction. With this journal, you are pushed to release your literary self. Play with words, explore emotions and just be human. Have a meaningfully literary blast with the Mandala. Number of Pages: 50 Dimensions: 0.1 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: April 23, 2015

Journal To Write In For Every Day Of The Year - Paperback

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by Speedy Publishing LLC (Author)Literally count your blessings by writing about them in this heavy-with-gratitude journal. Fill each page with the things you are thankful of. This habit helps you reaffirm your positive self-talk and will constantly remind you that yes, you are blessed. Despite everything, you are blessed. And when you're feeling down, look back and reflect on all the good things other people did to you; then pass the good deed forward. Number of Pages: 50 Dimensions: 0.1 x 1...

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The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks - Paperback

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by Peter Kahn (Editor), Ravi Shankar (Editor), Patricia Smith (Editor)"The cross-section of poets with varying poetics and styles gathered here is only one of the many admirable achievements of this volume." --Claudia Rankine in the New York Times The Golden Shovel Anthology celebrates the life and work of poet and civil rights icon Gwendolyn Brooks through a dynamic new poetic form, the Golden Shovel, created by National Book Award-winner Terrance Hayes. An array of writers--including winn...

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by James Stavridis (Author), Robert M. Ancell (Author)For the last several years Adm. James Stavridis and his co-author, R. Manning Ancell, have surveyed over two hundred active and retired four-star military officers about their reading habits and favorite books, asking each for a list of titles that strongly influenced their leadership skills and provided them with special insights that helped propel them to success in spite of the many demanding challenges they faced. The Leader's Bookshel...

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Biblical Greek Made Simple: All the Basics in One Semester - Hardcover

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by H. Daniel Zacharias (Author)Diligent study of God's Word involves engaging with it in the language it was written. Learning Greek can be a challenging experience for seminary students, but it is a critical piece of their education. Engaging with the Bible in its original language will lead to deeper understanding, new insights, and provide tools to enter into the conversation surrounding God's Word. Biblical Greek Made Simple is a one-semester textbook that teaches the basics of biblical G...

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Invisible Wounds: Graphic Journalism - Hardcover

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by Jess Ruliffson (Author)Cartoonist Jess Ruliffson spent five years traveling across the country interviewing veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, from kitchen tables in Georgia and libraries in New York City to dive bars in Mississippi and back porches in Vermont. What she finds is that the real experience of soldiers at war is a far cry from depictions in popular media like Zero Dark Thirty or American Sniper. In these illustrated interviews, Ruliffson shares the stories of men, wome...

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Messages: The Communication Skills Book - Paperback

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by Matthew McKay (Author), Martha Davis (Author), Patrick Fanning (Author)Many people assume that good communicators possess an intrinsic talent for speaking and listening to others, a gift that can't be learned or improved. The reality is that communication skills are developed with deliberate effort and practice, and learning to understand others and communicate your ideas more clearly will improve every facet of your life.Messages has already helped thousands of people build communication ...

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by Aristotle (Author), W. Rhys Roberts (Author)Aristotle's Rhetoric is an ancient Greek treatise on the art of persuasion, dating from the 4th century BC. In Greek, it is titled ΤΕΧΝΗ ΡΗΤΟΡΙΚΗ, in Latin Ars Rhetorica. In English, its title varies: typically it is titled Rhetoric, the Art of Rhetoric, or a Treatise on Rhetoric.Aristotle is generally credited with developing the basics of the system of rhetoric that "thereafter served as its touchstone", influencing the development of rhetorica...

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Stan Brakhage in Rolling Stock, 1980-1990 - Hardcover

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by Jerry White (Author)This is a collection of writings by the giant of experimental cinema, Stan Brakhage, that shows him in a completely new light, as part of world cinema. For the duration of the 1980s, Brakhage contributed to the Boulder literary magazine Rolling Stock, mostly publishing reports from the Telluride Film Festival. These reports show that Brakhage was keenly interested in world cinema, anxious to meet and dialogue with filmmakers of many different stripes. The book also cont...

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by Matthew Porter (Illustrator)ABC is an adorable alphabet book that is full of gorgeous colours, textures, and cute animals. It comes with funky acrylic and ink paintings on wood, like those well-loved and worn wooden ABC blocks we stacked up, chewed up, kicked around, and dropped as children. This unique children's book is vintage, modern, and timeless. Number of Pages: 26 Dimensions: 0.5 x 6 x 5.9 IN Publication Date: July 20, 2021

Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor - Paperback

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by Lynda Barry (Author)Writing exercises and creativity advice from Barry's pioneering, life-changing workshop The award-winning author Lynda Barry is the creative force behind the genre-defying and bestselling work What It Is. She believes that anyone can be a writer and has set out to prove it. For the past decade, Barry has run a highly popular writing workshop for nonwriters called Writing the Unthinkable, which was featured in The New York Times Magazine. Syllabus: Notes from an Accident...

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by Steven Roger Fischer (Author)This second edition of Steven Roger Fischer's fascinating book charts the history of communication from a time before human language was conceived of to the media explosion of the present day. Fischer begins by describing the modes of communication used by whales, birds, insects, and nonhuman primates, suggesting these are the first contexts in which the concept of "language" might be applied. He then moves from the early abilities of Homo erectus to the spread...

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From the Vault: A Photo History of Windsor - Hardcover

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by Craig Pearson (Author)This second volume of From the Vault continues where its best-selling original left off, in 1950. Spanning thirty years, From the Vault, Vol. 2 is chock full of photographs from The Windsor Star archives, with fascinating and fun chapter introductions by local reporter and award-winning historian Craig Pearson.Author Biography Craig Pearson has worked as a daily journalist for three papers over 28 years, 24 of them at The Windsor Star. He is an award-winning journalis...

Language, Globalization and the Making of a Tanzanian Beauty Queen - Paperback

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by Sabrina Billings (Author)Through micro-analysis of language use, this book chronicles young women's pathways to becoming a Tanzanian beauty queen, offering an original perspective on the intersection of language with globalization, nationalism, and inequality in urban East Africa. This compelling linguistic ethnography considers the real-life effects, both on- and off-stage, of language policy, education, and gender dynamics for the women competing in the pageants. While highlighting many ...

Sociocultural Theory in Second Language Education: An Introduction Through Narratives - Paperback

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by Merrill Swain (Author), Penny Kinnear (Author), Linda Steinman (Author)In this accessible introduction to Vygotskian sociocultural theory, narratives illuminate key concepts of the theory. These key concepts include mediation; Zone of Proximal Development; collaborative dialogue and private speech; everyday and scientific concepts; the interrelatedness of cognition and emotion; activity theory; and assessment. A final chapter provides readers with an opportunity to consider two additional ...

Teachers as Mediators in the Foreign Language Classroom - Paperback

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by Michelle Kohler (Author)This book uses examples of classroom interaction to reveal how teachers of languages act as intercultural mediators and the implications of this for practice. The book offers an account of what teachers are thinking, feeling and doing as they enact an intercultural perspective on language teaching and learning.Author BiographyMichelle Kohler is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Research Centre for Languages and Cultures at the University of South Australia, and...

New Perspectives on Transfer in Second Language Learning - Paperback

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by Liming Yu (Editor), Terence Odlin (Editor)This book provides a comprehensive and multidimensional examination of transfer in second language acquisition. It brings theoretical analyses together with work based on empirical observation. Chapters consider lexical, syntactic, phonological and cognitive perspectives on language transfer.Author BiographyLiming Yu is Professor Emeritus, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China and President of the China Educational Linguistics Association. His resea...

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Quid Pro Quo: What the Romans Really Gave the English Language - Paperback

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by Peter Jones (Author)Peter Jones takes the reader on a fascinating journey along the highways and byways of Roman life and culture, telling the amazing stories behind the original Latin meanings and uses of hundreds of our everyday words. Taking in every aspect of the ancient world, including science, religion, military matters, politics and literature, Jones shows just how much the English language owes to the ancient Romans and the role Latin has played in the creation of our vast vocabul...