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by Grand Journals (Author)Writing a Journal will be one of the most rewarding decisions you would have ever made in your life to kick-start your passion for writing. There are 180 thought-provoking prompts in this book to keep you creative and motivated. These prompts will help you sharpen your writing skills and inspire you to write better.Writing one prompt a day in this book should keep you going for 6 monthsRemember this Writing Journal is a place just for you and your imagination. Let it...
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by Rebecca Walker (Author), Lily Diamond (Author)"This journal is beautiful. It will help you find your voice and, finally, hold it sacred." --Cleo Wade, bestselling author of Heart Talk Transformational questions for personal and collective change. In this time of global reckoning, revolution, and reinvention, authors Rebecca Walker and Lily Diamond invite you to excavate the narratives that have shaped your life and write a new, fulfilling story for the future. Consisting of 150+ questions...
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by Michael L. Chyet (Author)Ferhenga Biruski is the go-to dictionary for Kurmanji-English a dialect of Kurdish spoken originally in parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey while also being common among a large diaspora of Kurds in Europe, North America and elsewhere. This comprehensive Kurmanji-English dictionary is prepared in two volumes by Michael L. Chyet, a renowned linguist with extensive knowledge of the major dialects of Kurdish. This dictionary is an essential reference source for linguis...
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by Felicia Rose Chavez (Author)This easy-to-use guide explains how to recruit, nourish, and fortify writers of color through innovative reading, writing, workshop, critique, and assessment strategies.Author BiographyFelicia Rose Chavez is an award-winning educator with an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Iowa. She is the author of The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom and co-editor of The BreakBeat Poets Volume 4: LatiNEXT with Willie Perd...
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by Matthew Preston (Author), Kevin Lee (Author)Preston Lee's Beginner English 100 Lessons is one of the biggest and most comprehensive ESL books ever written Everything a beginner needs for learning English in one book Have fun and learn English the easy way. This book has been written for all ages, children and adults alike. - 100 excellent lessons- 200 fun worksheets for easy learning- Over 200 useful sentence patterns- Practice tests to reinforce learning- Step-by-step grammar development-...
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by G. Edward Evans (Author), Stacey Greenwell (Author)The recipient of rave reviews from far and wide (Journal of Hospital Librarianship deemed it "a librarian's dream ... very forward-thinking"), since its initial publication this text has served as an essential resource for both LIS students and practitioners. The new fourth edition offers an updated, comprehensive examination of the myriad of basic skills effective library managers must exercise throughout their careers. Throughout, Evans ...
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by Dorothy Stoltz (Author), Morgan Miller (Author), Lisa Picker (Author)Curiosity, respect, goodwill, and unity: these are a few of what Plato calls "big ideas," and they're concepts that libraries can harness to enlighten humanity in the long-term and help solve problems in the short-term. The journey toward applying your potential starts with personal discovery. A guide for leaders and courageous followers from all types of libraries, this book's aim is to cultivate inspired thinking in lib...
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by DK (Author)Puzzled by past tenses? Confused be comparatives? The English for Everyone Grammar Guide is packed with easy-to-follow English grammar rules and annotated sample sentences. Ideal for English test preparations or ESL lesson plans, the Grammar Guide uses visual teaching methods to introduce English grammar for beginners, reinforced through a variety of exercises and examples when used alongside our Grammar Practice Book. Once you have built up your confidence in the written Englis...
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by Asta Cekaite (Editor), Lorenza Mondada (Editor)Rooted in multimodal conversation analysis and based on video recordings of naturally occurring social interactions, this book presents a novel analytical perspective for the study of touch. The authors focus on how different forms of touch are interactionally organized in everyday, institutional, and professional practices, showing how touch is multimodally achieved in social interaction, how it acquires its significance, how it is embedded i...
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by Susan Lindsley (Author)Originally published in hard-cover version in 2011, this book is now being released in paperback. Susan Myrick was the technical consultant to preserve the authenticity of the Southern culture in the making of the movie "Gone With The Wind." This book reveals the Susan Myrick that she hid from the world and recorded only in her diary. You will feel her anguish at the loss of love. You will feel her own fear at the prospect of having to face down David Selznick over t...
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by Anne-Cécile Grandmougin (Author), Tegan Raleigh (Translator)Lucien Herr was the director of the library of the Ecole Normale Sup rieure, the leading academic institution of France, from 1888 to 1926. In addition to being a library innovator of the time, he was an influential socialist and an early voice in the Dreyfus Affair. From his citadel in the library, he influenced the thinking of France's emerging socialist leaders, Jean Jaur s and L on Blum. He had the option of a career as a prof...
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by Bruce White (Author)Work smarter and save time with the librarian's guide to the hidden-in-plain-sight secrets of Excel, Sheets, and other types of spreadsheets. While some librarians have become very skilled at using the full power of Excel and Sheets to turn data into useful and valuable information, for many librarians the relevance of spreadsheets--and how to use them--is not necessarily obvious. This book demystifies Excel and other spreadsheets. Starting from basic concepts, the book...
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by Sallust (Author), H. E. Butler (Editor)This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Number of Pages: 156
Dimensions: 0.36 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN
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by Andrea Clarke (Editor)In an age of emails, tweets and emojis, this beautiful selection of original love letters invites us into a privileged realm and reminds us why the written word is so expressive and revealing. The 30 handwritten notes included in this book span centuries, cultures and continents. They contain expressions of every shade of love, from the joy of falling in love to the pain of unrequited passion. They include amorous declarations, pain and grief, the final separation of ...
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by Alina Schartner (Author), Tony Johnstone Young (Author)Universities are among the most dynamic contemporary arenas for intercultural contact, and one of the most interesting phenomena for social interaction studies, both conceptually and empirically. There are around four million people worldwide studying abroad, with numbers growing. These international student sojourns are, first and foremost, social experiences, with social interaction being both a success factor for and outcome of inte...
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by Michelle Reale (Author)While the profession has generated many books on information literacy, none to date have validated exactly why it is so difficult to teach. In her new book, Reale posits that examining and reflecting on the reality of those factors is what will enable practitioners to meet the challenge of their important mandate. Using the same warm and conversational tone as in her previous works, she
uses personal anecdotes to lay out the key reasons that teaching information lite...
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by Scott Carlson (Author), Cory Lampert (Author), Darnelle Melvin (Author)Linked data has become a punchline in certain circles of the GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) community, derided as a much-hyped project that will ultimately never come to fruition. But the fact is, linked data is already happening now, evident in projects from Big Tech and the Wikimedia Foundation as well as the web pages of library service platforms. The goal of exposing cultural institutions' record...
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by David R. Godine (Author)"The story of a book-making life."--New York Times "The lovely colors, tasteful art and elegant typography are an abiding reminder to a hurried world that some gifts of grace endure. That promise is realized in Godine's books, the gold standard of commercial bookmaking."--Wall Street Journal David R. Godine, the retired founder of the press, conducts a personal tour of the most memorable books he published during his 50-year career. From his earliest days as a lette...
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by Matt Pearl (Author)The Solo Video Journalist, now in its second edition, offers a comprehensive overview of the solo video reporting process from start to finish.Drawing from years of professional experience in the field, the author covers all aspects of multimedia journalism, from planning for a segment, to dressing appropriately for multiple roles, to conducting interviews, and editing. The book contains interviews with more than a dozen top storytellers from around the United States and...
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by William Ottens (Author)Published in cooperation with the American Library Association, an insider's look at one of the most prevalent, yet commonly misunderstood institutions Here is the good, the bad, and the ugly of librarian William Ottens's experience working behind service desks and in the stacks of public libraries, most recently at the Lawrence Public Library in Kansas. In Librarian Tales, published in cooperation with the American Library Association, readers will learn about str...
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by Natalie H. Rogers (Author)A simple step-by-step science-backed system that actually affects your anxiety ridden brain and is guaranteed to transform every previously fearful public speaker into a much admired presenter. Do you break into a cold sweat when you have to give a speech? Would you rather jump off a ledge than speak in public? Have you attended Public Speaking Classes hoping to find a teacher who could teach you to get of rid of your debilitating public speaking anxiety and nerv...
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by Dale Griffee (Author), Greta Gorsuch (Author)Typically, books on evaluation in the second and foreign language field deal with large programs and often result from large‐scale studies done by the authors. The challenge for ordinary second and foreign language classroom teachers is that they must extrapolate techniques or strategies for evaluation from a very large scale to a much smaller scale, that of the course. At the same time, classroom teachers are responsible for outcomes of their ...
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by Denis Jean (Author)Big Size 8.5 x 8.5 / Full Color / Alphabet Learning Book, Baby Book, Children's Book, Toddler Book, Car Truck Air Plane Motorcycle With Fun Animals Illustration / This alphabet book combines letters with all of boys' favorite things--airplanes, dump trucks, funny animals and more Makes a special baby shower, birth, and birthday gift Perfect for kids ages 0-5.
Number of Pages: 28
Dimensions: 0.07 x 8.5 x 8.5 IN
Publication Date: March 19, 2019
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by Thomas Chatterton Williams (Author)The son of a "black" father and a "white" mother, Thomas Chatterton Williams found himself questioning long-held convictions about race upon the birth of his blond-haired, blue-eyed daughter--and came to realize that these categories cannot adequately capture either of them, or anyone else. In telling the story of his family's multigenerational transformation from what is called black to what is assumed to be white, he reckons with the way we choose to se...
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by P. L. Thomas (Author)American author Kurt Vonnegut has famously declared that writing is unteachable, yet formal education persists in that task. Teaching Writing as Journey, Not Destination is the culmination of P.L. Thomas's experiences as both a writer and a teacher of writing reaching into the fourth decade of struggling with both.This volume collects essays that examine the enduring and contemporary questions facing writing teachers, including grammar instruction, authentic practices ...
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by Robert J. Nash (Author)This book provides an alternative to the more conventional modes of qualitative and quantitative inquiry currently used in professional training programs, particularly in education. It features a very accessible presentation that combines application, rationale, critique, and inspiration--and is itself an example of this kind of writing.It teaches students how to use personal writing in order to analyze, explicate, and advance their ideas. And it encourages minority ...
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by Natasha Hashimoto (Author), Daniel Hooper (Author)This book includes 16 chapters written by current and former eikaiwa (English conversation school) teachers to illustrate a complexity within the eikaiwa profession that has been thus far largely ignored. Through teacher narratives, the authors explore the unique and often problematic world of eikaiwa to present a counter narrative to what the editors regard as blanket stereotyping of a multifaceted and evolving teaching context.
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by Grace Jackson-Brown (Author)Learn how to successfully develop diverse programming through reading books by African American authors and how to build strong partnerships among libraries, public organizations, and academic departments for multicultural outreach. Promoting African American Writers is written for librarians and others who are committed to developing programming that promotes reading of books by African American authors and books with multicultural themes. It is an outreach gui...
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by Nathan Crick (Author)Drawing from the writings of John Dewey, identifies the core attitudes of fascism, sets forth an idea of democracy as communicative practice, and defines the values and methods of humanistic logic, aesthetics, and rhetoric. Author Biography Nathan Crick is Professor of Communication at Texas A&M University and the author of The Keys of Power: The Rhetoric and Politics of Transcendentalism; Rhetoric and Power: The Drama of Classical Greece; Rhetorical Public Speakin...
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by Lisa A. Flores (Author)Studies popular tropes in the United States for Mexican immigrants, tracing the history and usage of terms that were shaped by race, class, and national borders.Author Biography Lisa A. Flores is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Number of Pages: 236
Dimensions: 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: October 14, 2020
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by Lucy Newlyn (Author)A wonderfully accessible handbook to the art of writing and reading poetry--itself written entirely in verse "Reading this book, you get to know poetry from the inside, without the alienating or distracting effect of abstract definition. Knowledge of how poetry works is here imbibed not as a course of instruction but as a sustained pleasure."--Bernard O'Donoghue, University of Oxford, Winner of the Whitbread Prize for Poetry How does poetry work? What should readers n...
