Collection:
Language Arts & Linguistics & Literacy
Regular price
$17.53
Sale price
$17.53
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Herbert Mullenax (Author)La lectura mejora el vocabulario y las habilidades del lenguaje.Los ni os aprenden palabras b sicas de vista mientras leen. Inconscientemente, absorben informaci n sobre c mo estructurar oraciones y c mo usar palabras y otras caracter sticas del lenguaje de manera efectiva en su escritura y expresi n oral. La lectura promueve el logro en todas las materias, no solo en ingl s. Los ni os que son buenos lectores tienden a obtener mejores resultados en todo el plan de ...
Regular price
$24.46
Sale price
$24.46
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Lawrence Block (Author)An MWA Grand Master tells it straight: Raymond Chandler: "You have to wonder how he got it so right. He spent a lot of time in the house--working, reading, writing letters. He saw to his wife, who required a lot of attention in her later years. And when he did get out, you wouldn't find him walking the mean streets. La Jolla, it must be noted, was never much for mean streets." Evan Hunter: "In his mid-seventies, after a couple of heart attacks, an aneurysm, and a si...
Regular price
$24.46
Sale price
$24.46
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Jordie Albiston (Editor)The Weekly Poem has been primarily designed with teachers and students of poetry in mind. It contains exercises using 52 different concepts and forms, all of which have been developed to inspire and expand poetic practice. Each exercise is accompanied by one or more poems - sourced from around the world, with a main focus on Australia - which provide guidance, depth and an invigorating sense of possibility.The Weekly Poem represents an invaluable resource for all po...
Regular price
$195.48
Sale price
$195.48
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Maurizio Gotti (Other), Claudia Claridge (Editor), Merja Kytö (Editor)The book showcases grammatical, pragmatic, and stylistic functions of punctuation, and shows how punctuation can encode emotion, metalinguistic marking, foregrounding and paralinguistic indications. It also highlights the sensibility of punctuation to genre and the speech-writing continuum, and shows how punctuation conventions change in time.Author BiographyClaudia Claridge is Professor of English linguistics at the Uni...
Regular price
$66.67
Sale price
$66.67
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Stewart Shapiro (Author)Logical pluralism is the view that different logics are equally appropriate, or equally correct. Logical relativism is a pluralism according to which validity and logical consequence are relative to something. In Varieties of Logic, Stewart Shapiro develops several ways in which one can be a pluralist or relativist about logic. One of these is an extended argument that words and phrases like 'valid' and 'logical consequence' are polysemous or, perhaps better, are cl...
Regular price
$17.53
Sale price
$17.53
Regular price
Unit price
per
by David Weller (Author)Do you want to plan faster and more effectively?Most of the time, planning sucks. It takes ages, and your next lesson is in 20 minutes.So you pick up the coursebook, grimace, and walk into class, promising to be more organized next time...★ There is a Better Way ★You CAN finish your planning faster, with awesome lesson activities, and still have time to chat in the staffroom.Written by an experienced teacher trainer, manager and education blogger, 'Lesson Planning for ...
Regular price
$27.34
Sale price
$27.34
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Lawrence Block (Author)For fourteen years, five-time Edgar winner and MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block wrote a monthly column on fiction for Writers Digest magazine. These columns yielded four books regarded as classics: Telling Lies for Fun & Profit, Spider Spin Me a Web, The Liar's Bible...and now The Liar's Companion. Reader reviews: "This recently released treasure from award winning mystery author Lawrence Block is a welcome addition to my bookshelf. ...Block has a gift for casu...
Regular price
$28.95
Sale price
$28.95
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Ward Farnsworth (Author)"An original and absorbing guide to English style. Get it if you can."--Wall Street Journal Say it with style--on paper or in person. This book explains why the best writing sounds that way, with hundreds of examples from Lincoln, Churchill, Douglass, and other masters of the language. As Farnsworth says, "Explaining a precept may take just a few words, but only examples can make it familiar to the ear. So we will consider examples from writers and orators who all h...
Regular price
$66.42
Sale price
$66.42
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Allyson Mower (Author)"[T]his volume provides a wealth of information for all librarians dealing with copyright." Library Journal, Starred Review - Copyright policies take the guess work out of daily academic, public, government, and private library practices such as interlibrary loan, digitization, 3D printing, and using other people's works to advertise library events. Author BiographyAllyson Mower, MA, MLIS is Head of Scholarly Communication & Copyright at the University of Utah Mar...
Regular price
$80.35
Sale price
$80.35
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Ghil'ad Zuckermann (Author)In this book, Ghil'ad Zuckermann introduces revivalistics, a new trans-disciplinary field of enquiry surrounding language reclamation, revitalization, and reinvigoration. Applying lessons from the Hebrew revival of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to contemporary endangered languages, Zuckermann takes readers along a fascinating and multifaceted journey into language revival and provides new insights into language genesis. Beginning with a critic...
Regular price
$27.00
Sale price
$27.00
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Roberto Pérez Reyes (Foreword by), Roberto Martínez-Torres (Author)A LO SUCU SUMUCU (Vol. III): en este tercer volumen, el investigador j baro, Roberto Mart nez Torres, a ade nuevas palabras a su recolecci n publicada en los dos vol menes previos de la serie. Esta nueva lista de casi 500 palabras (divididas en cuatro secciones: General, La Agricultura, La Espiritualidad J bara, y Crianza de Animales), las cuales escuch desde ni o en boca de sus familiares cercanos, padres, abuelos y amigo...
Sold Out
Regular price
$59.83
Sale price
$59.83
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Heidi M. Levitt (Author)This book shows researchers how to use APA Style Journal Article Reporting Standards for Qualitative Research (JARS-Qual), Mixed Methods Article Reporting Standards (MMARS), and Qualitative Meta-Analysis Reporting Standards (QMARS). These standards provide much-needed criteria to guide researchers as well as journal editors, reviewers, and students. They also provide the critical elements of a qualitative study, including design choices, participant recruitment str...
Sold Out
Regular price
$59.83
Sale price
$59.83
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Harris Cooper (Author)This updated edition offers practical guidance for understanding and implementing APA Style Journal Article Reporting Standards (JARS) and Meta-Analysis Reporting Standards (MARS) for quantitative research. These standards provide the essential information researchers need to report, including detailed accounts of the methods they followed, data results and analysis, interpretations of their findings, and implications for future research. This revised edition refle...
Sold Out
Regular price
$7.95
Sale price
$7.95
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Patricia Roberts-Miller (Author)It's easy to say that racism is wrong. But it's surprisingly hard to agree on what it is. Does a tired stereotype in your favorite movie make it racist? Does watching it anyway mean you're racist? Even among like-minded friends, such discussions can quickly escalate to hurt feelings all around--and when they do, we lose valuable opportunities to fight racism. Patricia Roberts-Miller is a scholar of rhetoric--the art of understanding misunderstandings. In Spe...
Regular price
$20.23
Sale price
$20.23
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Melony Jacobs (Author)Have you ever wondered what it would be like to possess perfect English grammar, writing and speaking skills? If so, keep reading because you're in for a treat.So you've been reading online about all the different methods and techniques to finally call yourself an English Grammar Expert. You've paid all types of people to help you improve your punctuation skills and sentence structure struggles, and maybe even attended classes in hopes of achieving the top notch Engli...
Regular price
$85.84
Sale price
$85.84
Regular price
Unit price
per
by William M. Kunz (Author)Drawing from theories of the political economy of communication, this book offers readers a comprehensive data-rich assessment of contemporary sports television and its evolution. Providing an in-depth look at the ownership and regulation of sports television in the United States, William M. Kunz analyzes a range of platforms, networks, and sports, with particular focus on the way ownership has become concentrated in five conglomerates: AT&T, CBS, Comcast, Disne...
Regular price
$162.00
Sale price
$162.00
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Alan R. Stephenson (Author), Reed Smith (Author), Mary E. Beadle (Author)Broadcast Announcing Worktext, now in its fifth edition, remains one of the best resources for those looking to gain the skills, techniques, and procedures necessary to enter the competitive field of broadcast performance. Written accessibly, with easy-to-digest modules and practice projects, this book encourages active participation from readers to help develop their talent on air. In addition to the principles of g...
Regular price
$34.54
Sale price
$34.54
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Laura Anne Crowell (Author)After bringing six photographs of letters on rocks to her middle school, her student Brooke Conroy thought she should keep looking for the rest of the alphabet and make a book titled "Alphabeach." So I did. It took from the spring until the end of the summer to find all 26 letters. Thanks for the inspiration Brooke
Number of Pages: 32
Dimensions: 0.25 x 8.5 x 8.5 IN
Publication Date: December 20, 2019
Regular price
$111.76
Sale price
$111.76
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Thomas B. Ksiazek (Author), Nina Springer (Author)This book is an authoritative discussion of user comments and moderation in digital journalism, examining how user comments have disrupted the field of journalism and how a growing number of news organizations have abandoned commenting features altogether.Making a broad argument concerning user commentary as a manifestation of user engagement and public deliberation, User Comments and Moderation in Digital Journalism: Disruptive Engagement ...
Regular price
$17.26
Sale price
$17.26
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Robert C. Worstell (Author)Learn How to Write, Design, Format, Upload, and Sell Your Own Book for Low Cost or Free.You probably have a story inside you that's just busting to get out. Most people do.And the premise for here is that you don't have to buy or pay for anything in order to get your story written, published, and selling online.Learn the 3 Parts to eBook Publishing1. How to write a book - painlessly, effortlessly, earning the satisfaction and pride you deserve.2. How to publish y...
Regular price
$9.43
Sale price
$9.43
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Hindi Alphabets (Author)This beautiful 153 page book for children of ages 4+ is a great tool in learning to write Hindi CONSONANTS ( vyanjan varanamala ) and their phonics using trace directions, commonly used words and associated pictures. A perfect book to start learning Hindi Varnamala The Book Contains: - Premium color cover design - Printed on high quality perfectly sized pages at 8.5x11 inches. - 153 Black and White pages - Alphabets with their English phonics, commonly used words a...
Regular price
$18.90
Sale price
$18.90
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Kyriakos Georgiadis (Author), Lia Miliou (Author), Lia Miliou (Translator)The Greek language is the expression and the emblazonment of a nation, the Greek nation, through time. Greeks have saved a tradition which has its fundaments on a spiritual mountain range, metaphorically speaking: the Creto-Mycenean heritage and the heroic ethics, the archaic cities-states and the classical miracle, philosophy, and tragedy, the Macedonian leap, and the Alexandrian flourishing, the Orthodox Christian ...
Regular price
$21.04
Sale price
$21.04
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Aruna Bommareddi (Author)The anthology of writing Fingerprints of Creativity serves as an excellent manual for Creative Writing teachers and students across the country. This volume contains some of the best examples of writing that would be useful as practice exercises to students. In the midst of a bewildering range of books that pass off as text books of Creative Writing, this volume makes a subtle, yet strong point on how to go about teaching the course; it takes the approach to teachi...
Regular price
$71.26
Sale price
$71.26
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Aimee Rickman (Author)This book considers teens' social media use as a lens through which to more clearly see American adolescence, girlhood, and marginality in the twenty-first century. It investigates how young women use social media to address, mediate, and negotiate the struggles they face in their daily lives as minors, females, and racial minorities.Author BiographyAimee Rickman is assistant professor of child and family sciences at California State University, Fresno.
Number of Page...
Regular price
$71.26
Sale price
$71.26
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Tracy R. Worrell (Author)This book takes a unique look at not only the presentation of disability in the media but also how image echoes impact individuals with disabilities and their identities and possible stigmatization. It provides an empirical analysis in the form of two case studies including primary research.Author BiographyTracy R. Worrell is associate professor in the School of Communication at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Number of Pages: 142
Dimensions: 0.33 x 9 x 6 IN...
Sold Out
Regular price
$27.95
Sale price
$27.95
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Sid Meier (Author)Over his four-decade career, Sid Meier has produced some of the world's most popular video games, including Sid Meier's Civilization, which has sold more than 51 million units worldwide and accumulated more than one billion hours of play. Sid Meier's Memoir! is the story of an obsessive young computer enthusiast who helped launch a multibillion-dollar industry. Writing with warmth and ironic humor, Meier describes the genesis of his influential studio, MicroProse, founded...
Sold Out
Regular price
$26.95
Sale price
$26.95
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Martin Puchner (Author)Centuries ago in middle Europe, a coded language appeared, scrawled in graffiti and spoken only by people who were wiz (in the know). This hybrid language, dubbed Rotwelsch, facilitated survival for people in flight--whether escaping persecution or just down on their luck. It was a language of the road associated with vagabonds, travelers, Jews, and thieves that blended words from Yiddish, Hebrew, German, Romani, Czech, and other European languages and was rich in ex...
Regular price
$45.34
Sale price
$45.34
Regular price
Unit price
per
by A. K. Prabhat (Author)Speak Effortless English has been written for English lovers who want to achieve proficiency in English. As everyone knows that knowing English is the need of hour. The coin has two sides, heads and tails. In the same manner English has two aspects, SPOKEN and WRITTEN. This book has been divided into four parts. Part I deals with grammar with spoken sentence. Part II deals with conversation and spoken words. Part III deals with vocabulary & sentence structure. Par...
Sold Out
Regular price
$16.99
Sale price
$16.99
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Masahiro Tanimori (Author)If you've mastered the basics of Japanese grammar and are ready to move to the next level, this book is for you Each of the 12 chapters is devoted to one widely-used sentence structure and its variations. Chapters are broken down into the following easy-to-follow components:
Clear presentation of model sentences
Breakdown and explanation of the grammar of key sentence patterns
Controlled practice exercises, such as filling in the blanks and imitating model sente...
Regular price
$56.63
Sale price
$56.63
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Vanessa Freije (Author)In Citizens of Scandal, Vanessa Freije explores the causes and consequences of political scandals in Mexico from the 1960s through the 1980s. Tracing the process by which Mexico City reporters denounced official wrongdoing, she shows that by the 1980s political scandals were a common feature of the national media diet. News stories of state embezzlement, torture, police violence, and electoral fraud provided collective opportunities to voice dissent and offered an im...
Sold Out
Regular price
$82.06
Sale price
$82.06
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Salvatore Attardo (Author)This book is the first comprehensive and systematic introduction to the linguistics of humor. Salvatore Attardo takes a broad approach to the topic, exploring not only theoretical linguistic analyses, but also pragmatic and semantic aspects, conversation and discourse analysis, ethnomethodology, and interactionist and variationist sociolinguistics. The volume begins with chapters that introduce the terminology and conceptual and methodological apparatus, as well a...
