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Games Girls Play: Contexts of Girls and Video Games - Paperback

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by Carolyn M. Cunningham (Author)This book examines the role that video games play in girls' lives, including how games structure girls' leisure time, how playing video games constitutes different performances of femininity, and what influences girls to play or not play video games, as well as the discourses surrounding girls and video games.Author BiographyCarolyn M. Cunningham is associate professor in the Communication and Leadership Studies Program at Gonzaga University. Number of Pages: ...

The Political Effects of Entertainment Media: How Fictional Worlds Affect Real World Political Perspectives - Paperback

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by Anthony Gierzynski (Author)This book provides theory and empirical research on entertainment media's effects on political perspectives. Included are experimental and survey research on the impact of shows such as Game of Thrones, House of Cards, and The Colbert Report, the genre of science fiction, and villain and leader character types.Author BiographyAnthony Gierzynski is professor and chair of the Political Science Department at the University of Vermont. Number of Pages: 248 Dimensions...

Integrated Library Systems: Planning, Selecting, and Implementing - Paperback

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by Desiree Webber (Author), Andrew Peters (Author)This book offers everything you need to know about selecting and implementing the best integrated library system (ILS) for your library, whether you purchase and install it yourself or hire a consultant to assist you. This is the book you've been waiting for. Integrated Library Systems: Planning, Selecting, and Implementing is an all-inclusive guide to acquiring a new ILS. Detailed and practical, the book covers every step of the process, from...

Library Automation: Core Concepts and Practical Systems Analysis - Paperback

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by Dania Bilal (Author)Recent advances in technology such as cloud computing, recent industry standards such as RFID, bibliographic standards like RDA and BIBFRAME, the increased adoption of open source integrated library systems (ILS), and continued shift in users' expectations have increased the complexity of the decision regarding ILS for all types of libraries. Recent advances in technology such as cloud computing, recent industry standards such as RFID, bibliographic standards like RDA a...

Assessing for Learning: Librarians and Teachers as Partners - Paperback

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by Violet Harada (Author), Joan Yoshina (Author)In this book, theory is blended with practical application to provide a concise, up-to-date explanation of how school librarians can work with students and teachers to assess for learning in 21st century schools. Coauthors Harada and Yoshina authored the first text that focused on learning assessment in a school library context. In this revised and expanded version of Assessing for Learning: Librarians and Teachers as Partners, they continue to ...

Once Upon a Sign: Using American Sign Language to Engage, Entertain, and Teach All Children - Paperback

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by Kim Taylor-Dileva (Author)This book shows how integrating American Sign Language (ASL) into story time and other educational programs can benefit and entertain ALL children, whether or not they are hearing impaired, from infancy onward. There are a multitude of reasons to introduce hearing children to American Sign Language, currently the third most-used language in the United States. Babies and young children who are taught basic signing typically have a stronger bond with their parents; ...

The Basic Business Library: Core Resources and Services - Hardcover

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by Eric Forte (Editor), Michael Oppenheim (Editor)Everything you need to know in order to start, maintain, and provide service for a business collection, and to research virtually any business topic. Now in its fifth edition, The Basic Business Library is a modern sourcebook of core resources for the business library and the business information consumers and researchers it serves. This up-to-date guide also discusses strategies for acquiring and building the business collection in a Web 2.0/...

Informed Transitions: Libraries Supporting the High School to College Transition - Paperback

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by Kenneth Burhanna (Editor)How can libraries and librarians across the educational continuum work together to support student transitions from high school to college, utilizing free or low-cost resources? This book supplies the answers. Informed Transitions: Libraries Supporting the High School to College Transition identifies the ways in which libraries and librarians can work together and create valuable resources that help students transition successfully to college--despite the challenge...

Special Libraries: A Survival Guide - Paperback

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by James Matarazzo (Author), Toby Pearlstein (Author)Learn why special or corporate libraries must align with their parent organizations in order to survive in these difficult economic times--and how to foster and demonstrate this critical relationship. Special Libraries: A Survival Guide analyzes what has happened--and is still continuing to happen--to corporate libraries in order to identify the strategies that must be taken to protect their staff's survival. Through a careful examination o...

Diversity Programming for Digital Youth: Promoting Cultural Competence in the Children's Library - Hardcover

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by Jamie Naidoo (Author)Combining information about outreach to diverse populations, selection of culturally diverse children's print and digital media, and library programming, this book is the tool librarians need to promote cultural understanding through engaging children's programs designed for today's culturally diverse youth. Today's children live in a culturally diverse and constantly changing digital world. New digital media is created every day but librarians and other educators need...

Teaching the Scientific Literature Review: Collaborative Lessons for Guided Inquiry - Paperback

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by Randell Schmidt (Author), Maureen Smyth (Author), Virginia Kowalski (Author)An essential resource for teachers and librarians who work with students in the later high school years through college and graduate school levels, this book explains and simplifies the scholarly task of researching and writing a scientific literature review. This thoroughly updated and revised follow-up to the popular text Lessons for a Scientific Literature Review: Guiding the Inquiry is designed for pre-collegia...

Mass Appeal: Communicating Policy Ideas in Multiple Media - Paperback

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by Justin Gest (Author)Public policy education is oriented around the development of innovative ideas for how to improve governance and make society better. However, it undervalues a critical tool for translating policy ideas into action: the ability to communicate ideas broadly, strategically, and effectively. Drawing on his past frustration with translating his research from academia to the public sphere, Justin Gest has written a primer for public policy students, researchers, and policy p...

The Story I Am: Mad about the Writing Life - Hardcover

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by Roger Rosenblatt (Author)This is a gorgeous book, one that will inspire anyone to make the next sentence.--Jericho Brown, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 2020 Roger Rosenblatt has always been "mad about the writing life." In this new collection, he shares the stories and insights about writing that have inspired him, as a journalist, a columnist for The Washington Post, an essayist for Time magazine and The New Republic, and then as the author of best-selling books like Making Toas...

How To Write a Love Poem: Your Step By Step Guide To Writing Love Poems - Hardcover

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by Howexpert (Author), Howard Moore (Author)If you want to learn how to write a love poem, then check out "How To Write a Love Poem" written by a love poetry enthusiast. Love poetry can be about romantic love but far more. It can be about love of country, of a people or nation. It can be about love of ideals such as freedom and peace. Poetry can be rhymed or written in one of many recognized forms of poetry (such as a Sonnet). It can be unrhymed and follow no uniform pattern. In any topic or...

Uncovering the sinister side of Willy Wonka. Mystery and Dark Humor in Film Adaptations of Roald Dahl's

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by Amelie Meyer (Author)Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Göttingen (Philosophische Fakultät), course: Theorizing Film Remakes, language: English, abstract: Roald Dahl's 1964 novel "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" has been voted the most popular children's book of all time. The sometimes violently imposed morality and thereby suitability for children has been a matter of debate amongst disapproving critics for a long ti...

Teaching Esl/Efl Reading and Writing: Second Edition - Paperback

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by I. S. P. Nation (Author), John MacAlister (Author)The second edition of this bestselling text, Teaching ESL/EFL Reading and Writing, is a fully updated and expanded guide for teaching learners at all levels of proficiency how to develop their reading and writing skills and fluency. Practical and accessible, this book covers a diverse array of language teaching techniques suitable for all contexts.Updated with cutting-edge research and theory, the second edition is an essential and engagin...

The Rhetoric of Social Movements: Networks, Power, and New Media - Paperback

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by Nathan Crick (Editor)This collection provides an accessible yet rigorous survey of the rhetorical study of historical and contemporary social movements and promotes the study of relations between strategy, symbolic action, and social assemblage.Offering a comprehensive collection of the latest research in the field, The Rhetoric of Social Movements: Networks, Power, and New Media suggests a framework for the study of social movements grounded in a methodology of slow inquiry and the interc...

Contrastive Analysis vs. Error Analysis in Respect of their Treatment of the Avoidance Phenomenon - Paperback

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by Elena Gluth (Author)Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,5, Free University of Berlin (Institut f r Englische Philologie), language: English, abstract: This research paper compares contrastive analysis with the error analysis approach in respect of their treatment of avoidance behaviour. It considers several researches on avoidance behaviour and shows that contrastive analysis predicts the avoidance phenomenon in mo...

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by Anatol Stefanowitsch (Author)Corpora are widely used in linguistics, but not always wisely. This book attempts to frame corpus linguistics systematically as a variant of the observational method. The first part introduces the reader to the general methodological discussions surrounding corpus data as well as the practice of doing corpus linguistics, including issues such as the scientific research cycle, research design, extraction of corpus data and statistical evaluation. The second part...

Future Directions in Digital Information: Predictions, Practice, Participation - Paperback

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by David Baker (Editor), Lucy Ellis (Editor)The last decade has seen significant global changes that have impacted the library, information, and learning services and sciences. There is now a mood to find pragmatic information solutions to pressing global challenges. Future Directions in Digital Information presents the latest ideas and approaches to digital information from across the globe, portraying a sense of transition from old to new. This title is a comprehensive, international take o...

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by Linda Kita-Bradley (Author)This workbook is for adolescent and adults who are learning to read. It provides carefully levelled passages at a Grade 2 reading level. The passages focus on five themes: people, relationships, health and safety, the environment, and history. Each unit provides a passage, followed by post-reading questions, a mini-lesson that reinforces a key comprehension strategy, skill development activities, and an authentic literacy task. An answer key is located at the bac...

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by Linda Kita-Bradley (Author)This workbook is for adolescent and adults who are learning to read. It provides carefully levelled passages at a Grade 7-8 reading level. The passages focus on five themes: people, relationships, health and safety, the environment, and history. Each unit provides a passage, followed by post-reading questions, a mini-lesson that reinforces a key comprehension strategy, skill development activities, and an authentic literacy task. An answer key is located at the b...

World Language Education as Critical Pedagogy: The Promise of Social Justice - Paperback

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by Timothy G. Reagan (Author), Terry A. Osborn (Author)Accessible and cutting-edge, this text is a pivotal update to the field and offers a much-needed critical perspective on world language education. Building off their classic 2002 book, The Foreign Language Educator in Society, Timothy G. Reagan and Terry A. Osborn address major issues facing the world language educator today, including language myths, advocacy, the perceived and real benefits of language learning, linguistic human rights,...

Actually, the Comma Goes Here: A Practical Guide to Punctuation - Paperback

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by Lucy Cripps (Author)Fun, funny, and factual--the most complete guide to punctuation for beginners and experts alike. Period. No one's ever said that learning punctuation is fun--until now. Actually, The Comma Goes Here takes a lighthearted yet highly informative approach to ensuring you never misplace a comma again. Whether it's semicolons or exclamation points, this primer has you covered with chapters that dive deep into the correct use for each and every piece of punctuation. You'll fin...

Vocabulary from Classical Roots: Ideal for Standardized Tests - Paperback

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by Justin J (Author)Learn Hundreds of Standardized Test (SSAT/ISEE/COOP/ASVAB/GRE....) Vocabulary words Quickly with roots *Learn important Greek and Latin roots and vocabulary words derived from these.*Get to really know the words, acquire and internalize vocabulary for use and not to simply memorize a word list.*Consolidate your learning with the help of varied and interesting exercises. You will learn not just new vocabulary words, but will also;-Know the dictionary definition (denotation...

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by Thorlac Turville-Petre (Author), J. A. Burrow (Author)The fourth edition of this essential Middle English textbook introduces students to the wide range of literature written in England between 1150 and 1400. Beginning with an extensive overview of middle English history, grammar, syntax, and pronunciation, the book goes on to examine key middle English texts -- including a new extract from Julian of Norwich's Revelation of Divine Love -- with helpful notes to direct students to key points...

Understanding Health Care in America: Culture, Capitalism, and Communication - Paperback

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by Michael Pagano (Author)This book examines the current state of American health care using a social science lens to focus on the interdependent, intercultural, economic, and communication aspects of access and delivery. This text explores how the cultures of health care organizations, health professions, governments, and capitalism, as well as communication, all contribute to a disease-focused, economically driven, technology-centered health care system. It seeks to understand 21st centur...

Japanese-English Translation: An Advanced Guide - Paperback

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by Judy Wakabayashi (Author)This volume is a textbook for aspiring translators of Japanese into English, as well as a reference work for professional Japanese-English translators and for translator educators. Underpinned by sound theoretical principles, it provides a solid foundation in the practice of Japanese-English translation, then extends this to more advanced levels. Features include: 13 thematic chapters, with subsections that explore common pitfalls and challenges facing Japanes...

The Greatest Thing in the World And Other Addresses: Pathways To The Past - Paperback

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by Henry Drummond (Author)"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love." -Henry Drummond"EVERY one has asked himself the great question of antiquity as of the modern world: What is the summum bonum--the supreme good? You have life before you. Once only you can live it. What is the noblest object of desire, the supreme gift to covet? We have been accustomed to be told that the greatest ...

Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press - Paperback

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by Jeff Weddle (Author)Winner of the 2007 Welty Prize In 1960, Jon Edgar and Louise "Gypsy Lou" Webb founded Loujon Press on Royal Street in New Orleans's French Quarter. The small publishing house quickly became a giant. Heralded by the Village Voice and the New York Times as one of the best of its day, the Outsider, the press's literary review, featured, among others, Charles Bukowski, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Creeley, Denise Levertov, and Walter Lowenfels. Loujon publ...

French on Shifting Ground: Cultural and Coastal Erosion in South Louisiana - Paperback

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by Nathalie Dajko (Author)In French on Shifting Ground: Cultural and Coastal Erosion in South Louisiana, Nathalie Dajko introduces readers to the lower Lafourche Basin, Louisiana, where the land, a language, and a way of life are at risk due to climate change, environmental disaster, and coastal erosion. Louisiana French is endangered all around the state, but in the lower Lafourche Basin the shift to English is accompanied by the equally rapid disappearance of the land on which its speakers ...

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Book Marketing for Authors: Get Ready, Get Set, Succeed! - Paperback

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by Terri Ann Leidich (Author), Julie Bromley (Author)The biggest challenge for authors is transitioning from being a writer to being an author, which are two totally different occupations. Many authors have the mindset that once they are published, their publisher handles all marketing and the sales come in like magic. In today's world, that is not reality, no matter how you are published. Written by publisher and author Terri Ann Leidich and author marketing coach and support Julie Bromley, ...