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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...

Exploring Parables in Luke: Integrated Skills for ESL/EFL Students of Theology - Paperback

$32.38

by Cheri L. Pierson (Author), Will Bankston (Author), Marilyn Lewis (Author)It is no easy task to move from a general proficiency in English to navigating the specialized English so often used in theological resources. In addition to linguistic challenges, theology students with English as a second language encounter difficult concepts and different ways of thinking. In response, Exploring Parables in Luke aims to help such students engage with theological literature more effectively. Chapter...

A Writer's Guide to Ancient Rome - Paperback

$22.50

by Carey Fleiner (Author)'A really fun idea for a book - and full of great stuff.' Greg Jenner, Public Historian This is the perfect guide for any writer who wants to recreate the Roman world accurately in their fiction. It will aid any novelist, screenwriter, games designer or re-enactor in populating their story with authentic characters and scenes, costumes and locations. Written from a historian's perspective, this guide pulls back the curtain to show the reader what life in Ancient Rome ...

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Post-Truth: How Bullshit Conquered the World - Paperback

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by James Ball (Author)2016 marked the dawn of the post-truth era. The year saw two shock election results, each of which has the potential to reshape the world: the UK's decision to leave the EU, and the elevation of Donald Trump to the office of US President. The campaigns highlighted many of the same issues in their home countries: social division, anger at the elite, anti-immigration sentiment and more--but, more than anything, they heralded an unprecedented rise of bullshit.Sophistry and ...

Data Management for Researchers: Organize, maintain and share your data for research success - Paperback

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by Kristin Briney (Author)Learning how to manage, share and preserve data is essential for active researchers. A comprehensive guide for scientific researchers providing everything they need to know about data management and how to organize, document, use and reuse their data. Author BiographyKristin Briney has a PhD in physical chemistry and a Master's degree in library and information studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and currently works in an academic library, advising rese...

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Motherfoclr: Dispatches from a Not So Dead Language - Paperback

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by Darach O'S饌ghdha (Author)Bestseller & Winner of the Popular Non-Fiction Irish Book Award. 'Thought-provoking, irreverent and often laugh-out-loud hilarious' Irish Independent. "Motherfoclr" [focloir means 'dictionary' and is pronounced like a rather more vulgar English epithet] is a book based on the popular Twitter account @theirishfor. As the title suggests, Motherfoclr takes an irreverent, pun-friendly and contemporary approach to the Irish language. The translations are expanded ...

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Lonely Planet Filipino (Tagalog) Phrasebook & Dictionary - Paperback

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by Aurora Quinn (Author)Lonely Planet Filipino (Tagalog) Phrasebook & Dictionaryis your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Filipino (Tagalog) phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Chat with locals and navigate menus - all with your trusted travel companion. With language tools in your back pocket, you can truly get to the heart of wherever you go, so begin your journey now!Get More From Your Trip with Easy-to-Find Phrases for Every...

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Lonely Planet Polish Phrasebook & Dictionary - Paperback

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by Piotr Czajkowski (Author)Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisherAnyone can speak another language! It's all about confidence. The mother tongue of illustrious personalities such as Copernicus, Chopin, Joseph Conrad, Marie Curie and Pope John Paul II has a fascinating and turbulent past and symbolises the resilience of the Polish people in the face of domination and adversity. Never get stuck for words with our 3500-word two-way dictionary Order the right meal with our m...

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Lonely Planet Russian Phrasebook & Dictionary - Paperback

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by Catherine Eldridge (Author), James Jenkin (Author), Grant Taylor (Author)Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisherAdmirers of Russian literature claim that the 'Slavic soul' of writers such as Chekhov or Tolstoy can't be fully appreciated in translation. For the less ambitious, the language will bring you closer to deciphering the 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma' that is Russia. Get More From Your Trip with Easy-to-Find Phrases for Every Travel Situation! Lone...

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Lonely Planet Africa Phrasebook & Dictionary - Paperback

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by Daniel Aboye Aberra (Author), Harrison Adeniyi (Author), Martin Benjamin (Author)Lonely Planet Africa Phrasebook & Dictionaryis your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful African phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Say hello, ask directions and make friends in Amharic to Zulu -all with your trusted travel companion. With language tools in your back pocket, you can truly get to the heart of wherever you go, so begin your journey n...

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Lonely Planet Tibetan Phrasebook & Dictionary - Paperback

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by Sandup Tsering (Author)Lonely Planet Tibet Phrasebook & Dictionaryis your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Tibetan phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Ask for trekking directions and order dishes with confidence - all with your trusted travel companion. With language tools in your back pocket, you can truly get to the heart of wherever you go, so begin your journey now!Get More From Your Trip with Easy-to-Find Phrases for Ev...

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Lonely Planet Europe Phrasebook & Dictionary - Paperback

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by Ronelle Alexander (Author), Anamaria Beligan (Author), Karina Coates (Author)Lonely Planet's Europe Phrasebook & Dictionaryis your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful European phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Ask for directions to historical sites, delve further into local culture, and order culinary specialties with confidence - all with your trusted travel companion. With language tools in your back pocket, you can truly g...

The Disappearance of Writing Systems: Perspectives on Literacy and Communication - Paperback

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by John D. Baines (Editor), John Bennet (Editor), Stephen Houston (Editor)This volume gathers papers from the first conference ever to be held on the disappearance of writing systems, in Oxford in March 2004. While the invention and decipherment of writing systems have long been focuses of research, their eclipse or replacement have been little studied. Because writing is so important in many cultures and civilizations, its disappearance - followed by a period without it or by replacement wit...

Butterflies and Sweaty Palms: 25 Sure-Fire Ways to Speak and Present with Confidence - Paperback

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by Judy Apps (Author)If you have ever carried a lucky talisman in your pocket to give yourself courage before a big event then carry this book instead. Based on Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), the ground-breaking solutions to performance anxiety in this book will carry you through the most daunting experience of public speaking. The exercises are simple and highly effective. Even if you have suffered intolerably from performance nerves in the past this book will enable you to perform wi...

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Public Speaking in Easy Steps: Learn to Deliver Inspirational Speeches - Paperback

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by Drew Provan (Author)Most people have to speak in public sometime during their life. Even if their working life doesn't require it, most are likely to face an audience for social events such as weddings and funerals. Why is public speaking so scary for so many? The fear of failure can increase the worry factor exponentially, making the process stressful to the point that many simply refuse to do it. The key to gaining the confidence to overcome fear, says author Drew Provan, is thorough, me...

Boosting the Knowledge Economy: Key Contributions from Information Services in Educational, Cultural and Corporate Environments - Paperback

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by Francisco Javier Calzada-Prado (Editor)This book presents a comprehensive, international and up-to-date review of the key contributions of information services to the Knowledge Economy. Chapters contributed by experts in different areas of LIS focus on the crucial roles libraries, archives and museums are playing in their home institutions -private, public, non-profit-, as much as their impact on the economy and society as a whole. Boosting the Knowledge Economy: Key Contributions from Inf...

Where Words Come From: A Dictionary of Word Origins - Paperback

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by Fred Sedgwick (Author)Did you know that 'aardvark' comes from the South African for 'earth pig'? Or that 'assassin' actually comes from the Arabic for 'smoker of hashish'? This book explains why 'bungalow' comes from Hindi and what exactly 'hello' is short for. It is an invaluable guide to the fascinating origins of everyday words. There are literally tens of thousands of English words with entertaining and engaging stories behind them. Tackling the topic in an anecdotal and yet thorough m...

Corpus Linguistics in Literary Analysis: Jane Austen and her Contemporaries - Paperback

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by Bettina Fischer-Starcke (Author)Corpus Linguistics and The Study of Literature provides a theoretical introduction to corpus stylistics and also demonstrates its application by presenting corpus stylistic analyses of literary texts and corpora. The first part of the book addresses theoretical issues such as the relationship between subjectivity and objectivity in corpus linguistic analyses, criteria for the evaluation of results from corpus linguistic analyses and also discusses units of m...

Exploring the Use and Impact of Travel Guidebooks - Paperback

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by Victoria Peel (Author), Anders Sørensen (Author)This volume provides the first comprehensive examination of travel guidebooks and their conceptualisation, use and impact. It challenges the current limited tourism research approaches to the topic, including the routinely held assumption that the internet has all but destroyed the printed guidebook.Author BiographyVictoria Peel is a senior lecturer in cultural tourism management in the Graduate Tourism program hosted by the National Centre f...

Foreign Language Input: Initial Processing - Paperback

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by Rebekah Rast (Author)This book presents a comprehensive study of the starting point of SLA. With its focus on the language input that learners receive and what they do with this input, the study sheds light on questions, such as what knowledge is brought to the acquisition process and how learners use this knowledge to process new linguistic information.Author BiographyRebekah Rast teaches English and Linguistics at The American University of Paris. She has published in the field of second...

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by Haruko Minegishi Cook (Author)Drawing on the perspective of language socialization and a theory of indexicality, this book examines dinnertime talk in a homestay context and explores ways in which learners of Japanese as a foreign language and their Japanese host families socialize their identities through speech style.Author BiographyHaruko Minegishi Cook is a Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She earned a PhD in Ling...

Second Language Socialization and Learner Agency: Adoptive Family Talk - Paperback

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by Lyn Wright Fogle (Author)This book examines how Russian-speaking adoptees in three US families actively shape opportunities for language learning and identity construction in everyday interactions. It focuses on how learners achieve agency in second language socialization processes and informs the fields of second language acquisition and language maintenance and shift.Author BiographyLyn Wright Fogle is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics/TESOL at Mississippi State University. She holds...

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Introducing Linguistics: A Graphic Guide - Paperback

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by R. L. Trask (Author), Bill Mayblin (Contribution by)Covering thinkers from Aristotle to Saussure and Chomsky, "Introducing Linguistics" reveals the rules and beauty that underlie language, our most human skill.Author BiographyR.L. Trask was a professor of Linguistics at the University of Sussex. A hugely acclaimed specialist in historical linguistics, his work on the Basque language made him among the world's foremost authorities on the subject. He died in 2004. Bill Mayblin trained as a g...

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The Big Heat: Earth on the Brink - Paperback

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by Jeffrey St Clair (Author), Joshua Frank (Author)The world as we know it is undergoing a sudden and violent transformation, unlike anything the planet has experienced since the Cretaceous Extinction. The evidence is all around us: vast droughts that last decades, super-storms and floods that destroy cities, dwindling aquifers, vanishing glaciers, toxic water supplies, raging wildfires, obscure new diseases, vanishing species and indigenous communities. Our planet is changing faster than evo...

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Introducing Chomsky: A Graphic Guide - Paperback

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by John Maher (Author), Judy Groves (Illustrator)Focusing on his contributions to linguistics, Introducing Chomsky traces Noam Chomsky's understanding of cognitive realities in the use of language and the technical apparatus needed to represent it. The book also describes Chomsky's radical critique of power institutions and the pathways of oppression and his commitment to freedom and justice.Author BiographyJohn Maher has won the Francis McManus Short Story Award, the P.J. O'Connor Radio Play...

Publishing: Principles and Practice - Paperback

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by Richard Guthrie (Author)This book is for academics and students studying the theory of publishing and for young professionals entering the practical reality of the industry. It provides historical context, describes industry processes and institutions and is packed full of real-life examples and advice for success in both print and digital publishing. Number of Pages: 240 Dimensions: 0.6 x 9.4 x 6.6 IN Publication Date: September 13, 2011

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Tolkien: Maker of Middle-Earth - Hardcover

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by Catherine McIlwaine (Editor)The range of J. R. R. Tolkien's talents is remarkable. Not only was he an accomplished linguist and philologist, as well as a scholar of Anglo-Saxon and medieval literature and Norse folklore, but also a skillful illustrator and storyteller. Drawing on these talents, he created a universe which is for many readers as real as the physical world they inhabit daily. Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth explores the huge creative endeavor behind Tolkien's enduring popular...

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by John Boardley (Author)How were the first fonts made? Who invented italics? When did we figure out how to print in color? Many of the standard features of printed books were designed by pioneering typographers and printers in the latter half of the fifteenth century. Johannes Gutenberg is credited with printing the first books in Europe with moveable type in the fifteenth century, but many different European printers and publishers went on to find innovative solutions to replicate the appe...

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by Arthur Quiller-Couch (Author) Number of Pages: 200 Dimensions: 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: October 23, 2009

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An Asperger's Guide to Public Speaking: How to Excel at Public Speaking for Professionals with Autism Spectrum Disorder - Paperback

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by Rosalind A. Bergemann (Author)This practical guide to effective public speaking for professionals with Asperger Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder) provides tailored advice on using your Asperger strengths to your advantage and overcoming areas of challenge to find your public speaking voice. Written by a business leader with Asperger Syndrome, it includes guidance and hands-on tools for preparation, research and delivery of successful speeches and presentations. It addresses all the key a...

Communication Disorders in Spanish Speakers: Theoretical, Research and Clinical Aspects - Paperback

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by José G. Centeno (Editor), Raquel T. Anderson (Editor), Loraine K. Obler (Editor)This volume provides much-needed multidisciplinary bases to provide clinical services to Spanish speakers. Researchers and practitioners provide theoretical and empirical grounds to develop evidence-based clinical procedures for monolingual Spanish and bilingual Spanish-English children and adults with communication disorders.Author BiographyJosé G. Centeno, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Speech-Langua...

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Reading the Gaelic Landscape - Paperback

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by John Murray (Author)Following the success of the first edition, this new edition has been expanded and improved with additional images and enhanced drawings. The subject matter has been expanded with the chapter on grammar and pronunciation extended. There are examples of how Gaelic personal names and the human body are used in place-names and many etymological sources have been added to place-name tables. In addition to the generic index, there is now an index of specific place-names. Fin...