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by Jennifer Summit (Author)In Jennifer Summit's account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition; they are volatile spaces that actively shape the meanings and uses of books, reading, and the past. Considering the two-hundred-year period between 1431, which saw the foundation of Duke Humfrey's famous library, and 1631, when the great antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton died, Memory's Library revises the history of the modern library by focusing on its origins in medieval and ...
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by Sterling Johnson (Author)In the English language, swearing is essential to effective communication. In this hilarious and illuminating guide, you will learn just how to do it - no f*cking problem. Whether you want to succeed in business, school, or social circles, a strong command of vocabulary is absolutely necessary. Just imagine a stranger to our shores, trying to comprehend the following conversation: John: Mary, would you like to attend the opera this evening?Mary: F*cking-A. should...
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by Martin Reisigl (Author), Ruth Wodak (Author)Discourse and Discrimination is a study of how racism, antisemitism and ethnicism are reflected in discourse. The authors first survey five established discourse analysis approaches before providing their own model and three case-studies. Drawing on a wide range of sources, they question why racism and anti-Semitism are still virulent worldwide.Author BiographyMartin Reisigl is based at the University of Vienna and is co-author of The Discursive ...
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by William Marsden (Author)On The Polynesian: Or East-Insular Languages is a book written by William Marsden and originally published in 1834. The book is a comprehensive study of the Polynesian languages spoken in the East-Insular region, including languages such as Hawaiian, Maori, Samoan, and Tahitian. Marsden was a British scholar who had spent several years in the East-Indies and had a deep interest in linguistics. In this book, he provides a detailed analysis of the grammar, vocabulary,...
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by Mary Aubert (Author)The New and Complete Manual of Maori Conversation and Vocabulary is a comprehensive guide to the Maori language, written by Mary Aubert. This book is designed for both beginners and advanced learners of the language, and it provides a thorough overview of Maori grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation. The manual is divided into several sections, each of which focuses on a different aspect of the language. The first section covers basic Maori grammar, including sentence s...
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by Georgina Frederica Jackson (Author)The Shropshire Wordbook is a comprehensive glossary of archaic and provincial words, phrases, and expressions that were commonly used in the county of Shropshire in the late 19th century. Compiled by Georgina Frederica Jackson and first published in 1879, this book is a valuable resource for linguists, historians, and anyone interested in the local dialects and vernacular of Shropshire. The entries in the glossary are arranged alphabetically and include d...
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by Hallie Ephron (Author)For an aspiring novelist, nothing is more intimidating than a blank page or computer screen. This step-by-step guide helps you get past that hurdle, start writing, and cross the finish line to first draft in only twenty-six weeks! This guide covers the entire novel-writing process--from polishing an idea to finding an agent and submitting to publishers. This practical guide takes you through the ins and outs of writing and publishing your first book, including how to:...
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by Michelle Lovric (Author)Offering sample writings, historical examples, and practical advice, this invaluable and beautifully packaged book contains guidance for all occasions that call for eloquent and inspired love letters. Modern model letters to adapt and use in specific circumstances, tips on letter-writing techniques, and creative suggestions for packaging and delivering messages of love are peppered with fanciful, original Victorian illustrations, making the look of this volume as ro...
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by Charles Bazerman (Author)PERSPECTIVES ON WRITING Series Editor, Susan H. McLeod "LITERATE ACTION, in its two volumes, makes an indispensable contribution to writing studies. Undertaken by one of the most learned and visionary scholars in the field, this work has a comprehensive and culminating quality to it, tracking major lines of insight into writing as a human practice and articulating the author's intellectual progress as a theorist and researcher across a career. ABOUT VOLUME 2: "A TH...
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by Desiree Webber (Author), Dee Ann Corn (Author), Elaine Harrod (Author)This book assists the busy professional with ready-to-use materials to present entertaining, educational, and age-appropriate programs that introduce young learners to countries and cultures around the world. The result of a collaboration of children's librarians and educators with over 70 years' combined experience, Travel the Globe: Story Times, Activities, and Crafts for Children, Second Edition offers the busy librar...
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by Robert Atwell (Author)Everybody wants a christening, wedding or funeral service to be unique to them and one of the main ways of personalising a ceremony is to choose one's own readings. Not everyone reads poetry or novels together and many do not know where to start in choosing a special piece. Here, an experienced editor of such books has collected together 100 readings from scripture and literature across the centuries in celebration of a birth, a marriage, a life that has ended. There ...
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by Ewa Dąbrowska (Editor), Dagmar Divjak (Editor)The key topics discussed in this book illustrate the breadth of cognitive linguistic research and include semantic typology, space, fictive motion, argument structure constructions, and prototype effects in grammar. New themes such as individual differences, emergence, and default non-salient interpretations also receive coverage. Author BiographyEwa Dąbrowska, Nürnberg-Erlangen, Germany. Dagmar Divjak, Birmingham, UK.
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by Paulus Kieviet (Author)This book is a comprehensive description of the grammar of Rapa Nui, the Polynesian language spoken on Easter Island. After an introductory chapter, the grammar deals with phonology, word classes, the noun phrase, possession, the verb phrase, verbal and nonverbal clauses, mood and negation, and clause combinations. The phonology of Rapa Nui reveals certain issues of typological interest, such as the existence of strict conditions on the phonological shape of words, w...
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by Pius Ten Hacken (Editor), Renáta Panocová (Editor)Drawing on detailed case studies across a range of languages, including English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Czech, Russian, Lithuanian and Greek, this book examines the different factors that determine the outcome of the interaction between borrowing and word formation. Historically, borrowing has largely been studied from etymological and lexicographical perspectives and word formation has been included in morphology. Howe...
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by E. Allison (Edgar Allison) 18 Peers (Created by)A detailed study of the life and teachings of St. John of the Cross, one of the most important mystics in the Christian tradition. Peers's analysis provides a rich and nuanced understanding of St. John's work, situating it in the context of his time and exploring the ideas that inspired him. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in Christian mysticism and the history of religious thought.This work has been selected by scholars ...
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by Natalie Cole (Author), Virginia a. Walter (Author)Changes in public libraries, the communities they serve, children's lives, and educational research all demonstrate that traditional summer reading programs need to be reimagined. Working groups of librarians, in partnership with the California Library Association and the California State Library, have done just that, creating and implementing outcomes- and outreach-based summer reading programs that speak directly to diverse and changing c...
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by Maud Ellmann (Author)This book offers an entertaining study of the facts and fantasies associated with the vacuum cleaner as it evolved from a luxury gimmick to a household necessity. The iconic appliance of twentieth-century domestic revolution, the vacuum cleaner stands at the forefront of radical changes in technology, automation, finance, marketing, hygiene, infrastructure, time-management, domestic labour, and the history of dirt. This appliance also insinuates itself into the dominan...
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by Sweta Baniya (Author)This book demonstrates how local knowledge and transcultural practices of recognizing, highlighting, and valuing marginalized perspectives during or after a crisis create an opportunity for tackling social injustices in post-disaster situations. With grounded case studies of the 2015 Nepal earthquake and 2017 Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, this book showcases how locals in marginalized and colonized spaces overcome disaster-created complexities via coalitional and tra...
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by Armani Talks (Author)Think Fast is a guide to learning impromptu speaking skills and improving concentration levels. This is a beginner-friendly book to turn thoughts into ideas and ideas into words. Think fast and adjust to any situation you are presented with.In Think Fast, You Will Learn: The benefits of learning impromptu speaking.How to focus better.The power of daily 1% improvements.Frameworks on how to practice impromptu speaking.How to monitor your progress.Challenges to expect whe...
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by Ewa Dziedzic-Elliott (Editor)Information literacy is a complex subject that finally arrived at the doorstep of school libraries. For decades academic researchers have been trying to capture the essence of information literacy, its educational, cognitive and civic value. The collection of book chapters offered in We Can Teach That is a handbook that can be used as an inspiration for teaching various types of literacy: visual, digital, multicultural, health and more. The book asks important ...
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by Natalie Ann Hendry (Editor), Ingrid Richardson (Editor)Data excess -- particularly in digital media research -- is inevitable. It emerges as the 'debris' and 'leftovers' from planning, fieldwork and writing; the words cut from drafts and copied to untouched and forgotten files; digital metadata automatically recorded to databases; the data archived but never analysed or published. What do or can we do with this excess from our research? Thinking beyond academic constraints and the constant...
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by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (Editor), Robert L. Bradshaw (Editor), Luca Ciucci (Editor)Every society thrives on stories, legends and myths. This volume explores the linguistic devices employed in the astoundingly rich narrative traditions in the tropical hot-spots of linguistic and cultural diversity, and the ways in which cultural changes and new means of communication affect narrative genres and structures. It focusses on linguistic and cultural facets of the narratives in the areas of ling...
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by Joseph Packer (Author), Ethan Stoneman (Author)In A Feeling of Wrongness, Joseph Packer and Ethan Stoneman confront the rhetorical challenge inherent in the concept of pessimism by analyzing how it is represented in an eclectic range of texts on the fringes of popular culture, from adult animated cartoons to speculative fiction.Packer and Stoneman explore how narratives such as True Detective, Rick and Morty, Final Fantasy VII, Lovecraftian weird fiction, and the pop ideology of transhuman...
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by Albert Jack (Author)The fun and fascinating follow-up to the international bestseller Red Herrings and White Elephants Why do people put their "skeletons in a closet," "have a hunch," "get the cold shoulder," "get dressed up to the nines," or "call a spade a spade?" These phrases are used every day, yet most people have little or no idea where most of them come from. In Black Sheep and Lame Ducks, Albert Jack takes readers on a journey through the curious- and often bizarre-origins of hu...
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by Timothy Garton Ash (Editor)This is an assessment of the Central and East European Publishing Project, an initiative designed to support embattled Central and East European publishers and journals, and to punch holes through the cultural Iron Curtain by encouraging translations. The nine years of its existence straddle the largest watershed in European history since 1945, and the Project's history - told here by some of its leading participants - illuminates the nature of the recent changes...
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by Orna Ross (Author)An illustrated gift-book of poems about motherhood and caregiving."Orna Ross harnesses language to recreate life's moments by creating a canvas where every word scintillates with depth and meaning." AMAZON REVIEWERCircle of Life is the fourth book in the 12 Poems to Inspire series, a range of gift-books for festivals like Valentine's Day and Christmas, as well as milestones we all experience, including loss and new beginnings. Circle of Life celebrates Mother's Day-and ca...
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by Annamary Consalvo (Editor), Ann D. David (Editor)Writing instruction is a particular challenge because there is no singular, linear solution to teaching students to write well. This book approaches writing as a wicked problem that takes place in complicated contexts. Through both scholarly research and teacher reflection, it examines ELA classrooms and the experiences of writing teachers to identify approaches that have proven effective with adolescents. The book uses wickedity to frame th...
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by Thomas S. C. Farrell (Author)Based on a range of detailed case studies, this innovative book presents a model for early career language teacher development. It showcases the lived experiences of English language teachers in their training years, as well as the reflections of two more experienced English language teachers, and uses these case studies to provide practical guidelines on early career needs and development. It outlines four essential and highly connected conditions that will en...
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by Alexandra C. Klar?n (Author)Fred Rogers is an American cultural and media icon, whose children's television program, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, ran for more than thirty years (1967-2001) on the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). In this highly original book, Alexandra C. Klar?n shows how Rogers captured the moral, social, and emotional imaginations of multiple generations of Americans. She explores the nuanced complexity of the thought behind the man and the program, the dialogical integr...
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by Arcadio Díaz Quiñones (Author)De la guerra del 98 a la Guerra Fría, este libro sobre el Caribe hispano es un recorrido por ciudades e ideas, por intelectuales y debates, en un arco analítico que tipifica las preocupaciones centrales de la nueva historia intelectual en América Latina. A propósito de Nueva York, Martí y Henríquez Ureña, anota Díaz Quiñones que "la memoria de la ciudad funciona por sus omisiones tanto como por sus afirmaciones". Habría entonces que agregar que este es también...
