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Japanese Kanji and Kana Workbook: A Self-Study Workbook for Learning Japanese Characters - Paperback

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by Wolfgang Hadamitzky (Author), Mark Spahn (Author)Japanese Kanji and Kana Workbook offers a modern approach to learning the Japanese writing system, covering all 92 Hiragana & Katakana characters as well as over 600 important Kanji! Offering such a wide range of characters allows students to build a truly solid foundation of the Japanese writing system, and unlike many other available resources Japanese Kanji and Kana Workbook has everything you need in just one book! Presenting all 92 ...

Jlpt Study Guide: The Comprehensive Guide to the Jlpt Level N5 Exam (Companion Materials and Online Audio Recordings Included) - Paperback

$16.99

by Clayton Macknight (Author)Don't worry--there's no need to stress about JLPT test prep! As the founder of JLPTBootCamp.com--a test prep website with more than 300,000 annual visitors--Clayton MacKnight has helped tens of thousands of students to pass the JLPT N5 exam. Now, he's distilled his study resources and tips into a handy must-have volume for anyone prepping for this important language test. MacKnight's complete study package fully prepares the exam-taker by providing: Clear and s...

Japanese Picture Dictionary: Learn 1,500 Japanese Words and Phrases (Ideal for Jlpt & AP Exam Prep; Includes Online Audio) - Hardcover

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by Timothy G. Stout (Author)A fun and helpful resource for anyone interested in learning some Japanese--whether you're 5 or 100 This picture dictionary covers the 1,500 most useful Japanese words and phrases. Each word and sentence is given in Japanese script--with a Romanized version to help you pronounce it correctly--along with the English meaning. The words are grouped into 40 different themes or topics, including basics like meeting someone new and using public transportation to culture...

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Japanese Made Easy: Revised and Updated: The Ultimate Guide to Quickly Learn Japanese from Day One - Paperback

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by Tazuko Ajiro Monane (Author), Yumi Matsunari (Revised by)This is a self-study guide to the Japanese language Harvard University's Tazuko Monane teaches you the secret of speaking Japanese fluently in simple 20-minute lessons. Each lesson zeroes in on one everyday activity: introducing yourself, asking directions, ordering sushi, giving directions to a taxi driver, eating with friends, and other everyday conversations. Japanese Made Easy is designed for people living in or going to Japan wh...

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Basic Japanese: Learn to Speak Everyday Japanese in 10 Carefully Structured Lessons (Audio Recordings Included) [With CD (Audio)] - Paperback

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by Samuel E. Martin (Author), Eriko Sato (Author)Basic Japanese takes a friendly and innovative approach to beginner Japanese, emphasizing the structure of the Japanese language rather than just vocabulary. This method was pioneered by the author, Samuel E. Martin. Once considered controversial, modern linguists now agree that the structurally based approach for learning a language allows for more efficient retention than the traditional repetition-based approach. It is especially useful for ...

Japanese Kanji for Beginners: (Jlpt Levels N5 & N4) First Steps to Learn the Basic Japanese Characters [Includes Online Audio & Printable Flash Cards] - Paperback

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by Timothy G. Stout (Author), Kaori Hakone (Author)The method that's helped thousands in the U.S. and Japan learn Japanese successfully. The Japanese language has two primary writing systems, kanji characters--which are based on Chinese characters and hiragana and katakana--a mnemonic based alphabet. This handy book teaches you a new mnemonics-based method to read and write the 430 highest-frequency kanji characters. Along with its sister book: Japanese Hiragana and Katakana for Beginners it ...

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Essential Japanese Vocabulary: Learn to Avoid Common (and Embarrassing!) Mistakes: Learn Japanese Grammar and Vocabulary Quickly and Effectively - Paperback

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by Akira Miura (Author), Wesley Jacobsen (Foreword by)This is a clear, simple and compact guide to colloquial, everyday Japanese. Acquire basic proficiency in spoken Japanese. A streamlined, efficient approach. Perfect for self-learners or classroom use. Includes kanji and kana. Essential Japanese Vocabulary teaches all the Japanese grammar you need to speak and understand simple spoken Japanese. It covers only what is essential which provides an efficient way for learners who have limite...

The Complete Guide to Japanese Kanji: (Jlpt All Levels) Remembering and Understanding the 2,136 Standard Characters - Paperback

$29.95

by Christopher Seely (Author), Kenneth G. Henshall (Author), Jiageng Fan (With)Learn over 2,000 Japanese Kanji characters with this user-friendly Japanese language-learning book. This unique Kanji study guide provides a comprehensive introduction to all the Kanji characters on the Japanese Ministry of Education's official Joyo ("General Use") list--providing detailed notes on the historical development of each character as well as all information needed by students to read and write them. As ...

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Fake News. La Verdad de Las Noticias Falsas - Paperback

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by Marc Amoros Garcia (Author)This book will make you think twice about forwarding stories and hitting the like button on social media. It will help you differentiate between real news and fake news. It will definitely make you a much more aware, discerning reader, especially in these divisive times. Dimensions: 0.6 x 8.6 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: September 30, 2018

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by Robert Cialdini (Author) Cu les son las t cnicas empleadas por los mejores para persuadir? Qu elementos de la comunicaci n hacen que se conquiste a una audiencia? Cu les son los momentos fundamentales en cualquier argumentaci n? Robert Cialdini nos revela las estrategias de persuasion m s efectivas, partiendo de la base de que las personas m s persuasivas no lo son solo por lo que dicen, sino sobre todo por lo que hacen en los momentos previos al mensaje, «el momento justo para el cambi...

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A Student's Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese: Revised Edition - Paperback

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by Paul W. Kroll (Author)Winner of the 2015 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award Also available in paperback. The work is also included in the Chinese-English Dictionary Online. A Student's Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese is the long-desired Chinese - English reference work for all those reading texts dating from the Warring States period through the Tang dynasty. Comprising 8,000+ characters, arranged alphabetically by Pinyin. As a lexicon meant for practical use, it immense...

Mind Tricks. Our brain is the limit. Cognitive processes in Sign Language Interpreting: Proceedings of the 22nd efsli Conference Antwerp, Belgium, 12t - Paperback

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by Triin Joeveer (Author), Beroepsvereniging Vlaamse Tolken Gebaren (Photographer), Lourdes Calle Alberdi (Photographer)This volume comprises four papers that were presented at the efsli Annual Conference in Antwerp, Belgium from 12th-14th September 2014.This conference addressed the important theme of the cognitive processes that interpreters use on a daily basis in order to perform their work effectively. These "mind tricks" were illuminated across the range of conference presentations, del...

Towards a Diasporic Imagination of the Present.: An eternal sense of Homelessness. - Paperback

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by Rina Verma Williams (Author), Sean O. Dubhghaill (Author), Tapati Bharadwaj (Editor)This collection of three essays looks at the notion of diasporic identity. It is not redundant to ask if we, who are situated in the present, are more conscious and self-reflexive about our dis-located situatedness? It would be rather simplistic to argue that people are traveling or migrating (for socio-political-economic reasons) more frequently than usual in the early 21st century but there does seem to b...

From Clerks to Corpora: essays on the English language yesterday and today - Hardcover

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by Philip Shaw (Editor), Britt Erman (Editor), Gunnel Melchers (Editor)Why is the Isle of Dogs in the Thames called Isle of Dogs? Did King Canute's men bring English usage back to Jutland? How can we find out where English speakers suck their breath in to give a short response? And what did the Bront s do about dialect and think about foreign languages? The answers are in this collection of empirical work on English past and present in honour of Nils-Lennart Johannesson, Professor of English ...

Battle for Sanskrit: Is Sanskrit Political or Sacred? Oppressive or Liberating? Dead or Alive? - Paperback

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by Rajiv Malhotra (Author)There is a new awakening in India that is challenging the ongoing Westernization of the discourse about India. Battle for Sanskrit seeks to alert traditional scholars of Sanskrit and sanskriti - Indian civilization - concerning an important school of thought that has its base in the US and that has started to dominate the discourse on the cultural, social and political aspects of India. The scholars of this field hold that many Sanskrit texts are socially oppressive ...

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Religion, Children's Literature, and Modernity in Western Europe 1750-2000 - Paperback

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by Jan de Maeyer (Editor), Hans-Heino Ewers (Editor), Rita Ghesquiére (Editor)In this book some 25 scholars focus on the relationship between religion, children's literature and modernity in Western Europe since the Enlightenment (c. 1750). They examine various aspects of the phenomenon of children's literature, such as types of texts, age of readers, position of authors, design and illustration. The role of religion in giving meaning both in a substantive sense as well as through the institu...

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Business Planning for Digital Libraries: International Approaches - Paperback

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by Mel Collier (Editor)This book brings together international experience of business planning for digital libraries: the business case, planning processes, costs and benefits, practice and standards, and comparison with the traditional library. Although there is a vast literature already on other aspects of digital libraries, business planning is a subject that until now has not been systematically integrated in a book. Digital libraries are being created not only by traditional libraries bu...

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English-Cantonese Dictionary: Cantonese in Yale Romanization - Paperback

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by New Asia Center (Editor)Over 15,000 of the most commonly used words and phrases; a brief introduction to Cantonese pronunciation in accordance with the Yale System of Romanization; a comparative chart of four systems of Romanization; and grammatical notes for beginners.Author BiographyThe New Asia-Yale-in-China Chinese Language Center is one of the largest institutions of its kind worldwide. Founded in 1963 under the auspices of New Asia College and the Yale-in-China Association, it became...

Questioning Creole: Creolisation Discourses in Caribbean Culture - Paperback

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by Verene A. Shepherd (Editor), Glen L. Richards (Editor)In his seminal work, The Development of Creole Society in Jamaica, Kamau Brathwaite attempted to expose the essential "Jamaican" nature of the identity that developed at the interstices between the cultures of Europe and Africa. He took the concept of Creole society beyond mere description by articulating s clear and poetically engaging intellectual model of the process of cultural change that defines, and distinguishes, Creole societie...

Guinea's Other Suns: The African Dynamic in Trinidad Culture (Second Edition) - Paperback

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by Maureen Warner-Lewis (Author)Guinea's Other Suns is a classic collection of essays on the forced and voluntary migration to Trinidad of West and West-Central Africans during the 1800s, extending through both the slavery and post-emancipation eras. This second edition is a thematic expansion buttressed by historical documentary sources and painstaking linguistic research. Maureen Warner-Lewis examines African cultural practices and artefacts as recalled by the biological descendants of thes...

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by Semezdin Mehmedinovic (Author)This pocket-sized paperback is one of the twenty-four titles published for 2017 Hong Kong International Poetry Nights. The theme of IPHHK2017 is "Ancient Enmity". IPNHK is one of the most influential international poetry events in Asia. From 22-26 November 2017, over 20 invited poets from various countries will be in Hong Kong to read their works based on the theme "Ancient Enmity." Included in the anthology and box set, these unique works are presented with C...

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by Julia Fiedorczuk (Author)This pocket-sized paperback is one of the twenty-four titles published for 2017 Hong Kong International Poetry Nights. The theme of IPHHK2017 is "Ancient Enmity". IPNHK is one of the most influential international poetry events in Asia. From 22-26 November 2017, over 20 invited poets from various countries will be in Hong Kong to read their works based on the theme "Ancient Enmity." Included in the anthology and box set, these unique works are presented with Chines...

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Book Marks Guided Journal: A Reading Tracker - Paperback

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by Book Riot (Author)A customizable reading journal to track all things literary in your life Meet your new reading buddy: an all-in-one spot to record everything and anything book related. Book Marks offers ideas for setting up a multitude of book tracking pages with a mix of fill-in prompts, charts, lists, and plenty of dot-grid pages to customize. To help expand your literary horizons, the journal also includes a section of recommended reading lists compiled by Book Riot. Use Book Marks ...

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On the Go with Senior Services: Library Programs for Any Time and Any Place - Paperback

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by Phyllis Goodman (Author)Not only does this book offer insights into how to better serve all seniors, but it also provides complete step-by-step instructions for dozens of exciting and engaging programs that can be held both onsite and offsite. While serving the senior population is a standard service in public libraries, it has traditionally focused on in-house programs and homebound services. On the Go with Senior Services is different. With this inspiring and practical guide, your librar...

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PSAT 10 Prep 2019 & 2020: PSAT 10 Study Guide & Practice Book for the College Board Exam - Paperback

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by Test Prep Books (Author)Test Prep Books' PSAT 10 Prep 2019 & 2020: PSAT 10 Study Guide & Practice Book for the College Board Exam Made by Test Prep Books experts for test takers trying to achieve the best PSAT scores. This comprehensive study guide includes: -Quick Overview Find out what's inside this guide -Test-Taking Strategies Learn the best tips to help overcome your exam -Introduction Get a thorough breakdown of what the test is and what's on it -Reading Test -Writing ...

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HSPT Prep Book 2019-2020: HSPT Test Prep & Practice Test Questions for the High School Placement Test [Includes Detailed Answer Explanations] - Paperback

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by Test Prep Books (Author)Test Prep Books' HSPT Prep Book 2019-2020: HSPT Test Prep & Practice Test Questions for the High School Placement Test Includes Detailed Answer Explanations] Made by Test Prep Books experts for test takers trying to achieve a great score on the HSPT exam. This comprehensive study guide includes: -Quick Overview Find out what's inside this guide -Test-Taking Strategies Learn the best tips to help overcome your exam -Introduction Get a thorough breakdown of...

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Writing Sci-Fi and Fantasy (Lit Starts): A Book of Writing Prompts - Paperback

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by San Francisco Writers' Grotto (Author), Dorothy Hearst (Foreword by)A fill-in book from the San Francisco Writers' Grotto, authors of the best-selling 642 Things series Focus on a single aspect of the craft of writing with help from the San Francisco Writers' Grotto. Writing Sci-Fi and Fantasy starts with a foreword by author Dorothy Hearst, who offers pointers for writing speculative fiction and inventing fantastic new worlds. The rest of the book consists of prompts and space to write, ...

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Writing Memoir (Lit Starts): A Book of Writing Prompts - Paperback

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by San Francisco Writers' Grotto (Author), Julie Lythcott-Haims (Foreword by)A fill-in book from the San Francisco Writers' Grotto, authors of the bestselling 642 Things series Focus on a single aspect of the craft of writing with help from the San Francisco Writers' Grotto. Writing Memoir starts with a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Julie Lythcott-Haims, who offers pointers for crafting a compelling narrative from your own experiences. The rest of the book consists of prompts...

Reading and Writing Japanese Hiragana: A Character Workbook for Beginners (Online Audio & Printable Flashcards) - Paperback

$11.99

by Emiko Konomi (Author)This book provides a complete course for beginning students who want to master the first step in learning to read and write Japanese With plentiful writing and reading practice, this workbook starts with the basic letters and works up to writing words and complete sentences. Divided into two parts, the first part presents the 46 main Hiragana in their full and contracted forms, with extensive writing spaces provided for writing practice. Recognition and pronunciation ...

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Reading and Writing Japanese Katakana: A Character Workbook for Beginners (Audio Download & Printable Flash Cards) - Paperback

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by Emiko Konomi (Author)This book provides a complete course for beginning students who want to learn the Katakana alphabet With plentiful writing and reading practice, this workbook starts with the basic letters and works up to writing words and complete sentences. Divided into two parts, the first part presents the 46 main Katakana letters in their full and contracted forms, with extensive writing spaces provided for writing practice. Recognition and pronunciation of the letters are reinfo...

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by Robert A. Caro (Author)"One of the great reporters of our time and probably the greatest biographer." --The Sunday Times (London) From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply moving recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed books. Now in paperback, Robert Caro gives us a glimpse into his own life and work in these evocatively written, personal pieces. ...

You Should Be Writing: A Journal of Inspiration & Instruction to Keep Your Pen Moving (Gift for writers) - Paperback

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by Brenda Knight (Author), Nita Sweeney (Author), Becca Anderson (Foreword by)The goal of this book is to be a useful tool for aspiring writers of any level of experience. #amwriting compiles writing advice from many well-known authors and organizes them into a journal that can be accessed by anyone to advance their writing abilities. Advice from famous names like Ray Bradbury or Veronica Roth can help sharpen the reader's writing style or simply inspire creative output when needed. Number of...