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Curating Culture: How Twentieth-Century Magazines Influenced America - Hardcover

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by Sharon Bloyd-Peshkin (Editor), Charles Whitaker (Editor)Curated case studies illuminate how twentieth-century magazines created, cultivated, and served specific communities, laying the groundwork for contemporary media forms to continue that role today. Chapters examine how cultural niches were cultivated, how they changed over time, and how they influenced broader cultural conversations. Author BiographySharon Bloyd-Peshkin is associate professor of journalism at Columbia College Chicago,...

Teaching Race: Struggles, Strategies, and Scholarship for the Mass Communication Classroom - Paperback

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by The Aejmc Minorities and Commu Division (Author), George Daniels (Editor), Robin Blom (Editor)When teaching about race, instructors from various backgrounds must acknowledge the challenges surrounding the topic while facilitating the learning of undergraduate and graduate students. This guide presents wisdom from the frontlines of teaching to help all instructors engage more fully and effectively with contentious topics.Author BiographyRobin Blom is associate professor and graduate directo...

A Handbook of User Experience Research & Design in Libraries - Paperback

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by Andy Priestner (Author)A Handbook of User Experience Research & Design in LibrariesA comprehensive and practical handbook exploring the value and applicability of UX Research & Design to libraries. As well as detailed methodology, there are numerous case studies from around the world and insights from practitioner librarians. This volume takes you through all the stages of the UX Process, from research, to data mapping and analysis, to idea generation and finally prototyping and it...

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News and How to Use It: What to Believe in a Fake News World - Paperback

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by Alan Rusbridger (Author)People everywhere feel ever more alienated from - and mistrustful of - news and those who make it. We no longer seem to know who or what to believe. We are living through a crisis of 'information chaos'. News and How to Use It is a glossary for this bewildering age. From AI to Bots, from Climate Crisis to Fake News, from Clickbait to Trolls (and more), here is the definitive user's guide for how to stay informed, tell truth from fiction and hold those in power accou...

Territorios de lectura: Experiencias de mediación y comprensión lectora en la escuela, en el hogar y en la comunidad - Paperback

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by Silvia Paglieta (Author)Territorios de lectura es un mapa donde confluyen distintas experiencias con los textos, vinculadas con la mediación. Contiene herramientas siempre útiles, punto de partida y de llegada para prácticas que pueden recorrer los mediadores, desde docentes a personas que deseen difundir la lectura más allá del ámbito escolar. Territorios de lectura teje historias (y en este caso no es metáfora), se sienta a la mesa y comparte textos con las familias, se asoma para alcanz...

Your World Language Classroom: Strategies for In-Person and Digital Instruction - Paperback

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by Rachelle Dene Poth (Author)Perfect for K-12 world language teachers, this book provides clear, fun and practical guidance on how to help students master language in the classroom using technology tools. Regardless of your level of technological proficiency as a teacher, this book will show you how to provide effective learning to students in in-person, online and hybrid environments and help you become more comfortable at using digital tools. With teacher vignettes sprinkled throughout, ch...

Mysteries of English Grammar: A Guide to Complexities of the English Language - Paperback

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by Andreea S. Calude (Author), Laurie Bauer (Author)Despite a history of hundreds of years of research analysing aspects of English grammar, there are still open problems which continue to baffle language researchers today. Such 'grammar mysteries' arise for a number of reasons: because the language is changing; because different speakers of the language adhere to distinct norms and thus introduce and maintain variation in the system; because there are differences between the grammar of spoke...

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by Ricardo Fernandes Marques (Author)Basic level according to Brazilian courses' contents. Number of Pages: 64 Dimensions: 0.17 x 11.02 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: October 09, 2006

I Can Write: Uppercase and Lowercase Letter Handwriting Workbook - Paperback

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by Chemise Taylor (Author)Trace and write uppercase and lowercase letters A through Z with this guided practice handwriting workbook. This workbook allows learners to practice pre-writing skills, as well as, increase legibility by providing over 20 opportunities to write each letter. Learners can also practice writing numbers 0-9 with this handwriting workbook. Great for learners no matter their skill level! Visit myskillsbooks.com for more of our books. Number of Pages: 58 Dimensions: 0.15 x...

Overcentralization in Economic Administration: A Critical Analysis Based on Experience in Hungarian Light Industry - Paperback

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by János Kornai (Author), John Knapp (Author)Overcentralization in Economic Administration (Oxford, 1959) was the first book written by an Eastern European and published in the West that openly criticized socialist central planning. In this work the distinguished economist János Kornai begins a lifelong study of the economic organization of centrally planned economies. Professor Kornai's aim in this book was to observe the reality of the working socialist system, and to draw conclusions that ...

Worlds in Words: Essays in the History of Words - Paperback

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by Brian Charles Burke (Author)In its 122 brief essays, Worlds in Words traces the history and links among key concepts in Western cultures. Beginning with Proto-Indo-European roots, the book follows the development of constellations of meaning in Romance, Germanic, and Slavic languages. The essays examine fundamental verbal images so basic that we take them for granted. From simplicity to complexity, they point out the many-layered stories that simple words tell. Number of Pages: 438 Dimensi...

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Being Present: Commanding Attention at Work (and at Home) by Managing Your Social Presence - Hardcover

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by Jeanine W. Turner (Author)Being Present offers a framework to navigate social presence at work and at home. By exploring four primary communication choices--budgeted, entitled, competitive, and invitational--author Jeanine W. Turner shows when and where to employ each strategy to most effectively communicate in modern life. Author BiographyJeanine W. Turner is a professor at Georgetown University, where she teaches in both the Communication, Culture and Technology (CCT) Program and the McD...

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by Peggy Mohan (Author)One of India's most incredible and enviable cultural aspects is that every Indian is bilingual, if not multilingual. Delving into the fascinating early history of South Asia, this original book reveals how migration, both external and internal, has shaped all Indians from ancient times. Through a first-of-its-kind and incisive study of languages, such as the story of early Sanskrit, the rise of Urdu, language formation in the North-east, it presents the astounding argum...

Research Data Management and Data Literacies - Paperback

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by Koltay Tibor (Author)Research Data Management and Data Literacies help researchers familiarize themselves with RDM, and with the services increasingly offered by libraries. This new volume looks at data-intensive science, or 'Science 2.0' as it is sometimes termed in commentary, from a number of perspectives, including the tasks academic libraries need to fulfil, new services that will come online in the near future, data literacy and its relation to other literacies, research support and ...

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Jumping Sharks and Dropping Mics: Modern Idioms and Where They Come from - Paperback

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by Gareth Carrol (Author)Gareth Carrol presents a collection of modern idioms, which have become a part of our vocabulary in the past 50 years or so. In most cases, idioms such as raining cats and dogs, that colour our everyday communication, are deeply rooted in culture and history. However, just like words, new idioms emerge in language, and many have entered our vocabulary through, TV, movies and the internet. These modern idioms can be dated very precisely. Jumping Sharks and Dropping Mic...

New Perspectives in Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew - Paperback

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by Aaron D. Hornkohl (Editor), Geoffrey Khan (Editor)Most of the papers in this volume originated as presentations at the conference Biblical Hebrew and Rabbinic Hebrew: New Perspectives in Philology and Linguistics, which was held at the University of Cambridge, 8-10th July, 2019. The aim of the conference was to build bridges between various strands of research in the field of Hebrew language studies that rarely meet, namely philologists working on Biblical Hebrew, philologists working on R...

New Perspectives in Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew - Hardcover

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Dead Lines: Slices of Life from the Obit Beat - Paperback

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by George Hesselberg (Author)In a lively collection of feature obituaries and related news stories, longtime newspaper reporter George Hesselberg celebrates life, sharing the most fascinating stories that came from decades of covering the obit and public safety beats. In more than forty years at the Wisconsin State Journal, Hesselberg frequently found himself writing about fatal accidents, crime investigations, and the deaths of the wealthy, famous, or notorious. But he was most drawn to the...

The Dictionary of Body Language: The Ultimate Guide on How to Read Body Language, Discover How to Decode the Tiniest Body Language and Learn What Othe - Paperback

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by P. D. Marel (Author)The Dictionary of Body Language: The Ultimate Guide on How to Read Body Language, Discover How to Decode the Tiniest Body Language and Learn What Others Are ThinkingBody language are the nonverbal signs or signals that we use to communicate. Studies show that more than 60% of what we communicate are actually done through body language so reading body languages is a very important skill you should learn. From facial expressions to body movements, these can all convey dif...

The Psychology of Journalism - Hardcover

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by Sharon Coen (Volume Editor), Peter Bull (Volume Editor)The Psychology of Journalism takes a media psychological approach towards a better understanding of key aspects of news production and reception. Media Psychology is an emerging discipline which is concerned with understanding the interaction between individuals and communication technology. Scholars interested in this area ask questions concerning the way in which communication between individuals is shaped by the media in terms of bo...

Open Source Library Systems: A Guide - Paperback

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by Robert Wilson (Author), James Mitchell (Author)Knowing about the open source alternative to integrated library systems and being able to make accurate comparisons can save a library tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars a year while more closely matching the library's functional needs.Author BiographyRobert Wilson is systems librarian and assistant professor at Middle Tennessee State University's Walker Library. He has worked with library systems since 2011 in school, public, and academ...

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by Ian Roberts (Author)This second edition of Ian Roberts's highly successful textbook on diachronic syntax has been fully revised and updated throughout to take account of the multiple developments in the field in the last decade. The book provides a detailed account of how standard questions in historical linguistics - including word order change, grammaticalization, and reanalysis - can be explored in terms of current minimalist theory and Universal Grammar. This new edition offers expande...

Museums, Emotion, and Memory Culture: The Politics of the Past in Turkey - Paperback

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by Gönül Bozoğlu (Author)Museums, Emotion, and Memory Culture examines the politics of emotion in history museums, combining approaches and concerns from museum, heritage and memory studies, anthropology and studies of emotion. Exploring the meanings and politics of memory contests in Turkey, a site for complex negotiations of identity, the book asks what it means for museums to charge the past with political agendas through spectacular, emotive representations.Providing an in-depth examinati...

650 Idioms and Proverbial Phrases in Modern Standard Arabic: For Intermediate to Advanced Students - Paperback

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by Lamia Jamal-Aldin (Author), Abdullah Hammadi (Author)650 Idioms and Proverbial Phrases in Modern Standard Arabic is the ideal tool for learners of Arabic who wish to improve their knowledge and comprehension of Arabic language and culture and make their language more expressive and idiomatic. Including over 650 idiomatic expressions found in contemporary Arabic, this book is divided into two parts. Part I lists the idioms alphabetically for ease of use, providing English equivalents and a ...

Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity - Paperback

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by Panagiotis G. Pavlos (Editor), Lars Fredrik Janby (Editor), Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson (Editor)Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity examines the various ways in which Christian intellectuals engaged with Platonism both as a pagan competitor and as a source of philosophical material useful to the Christian faith. The chapters are united in their goal to explore transformations that took place in the reception and interaction process between Platonism and Christianity in this peri...

Learn Italian For Beginners: The Ultimate Italian Language Learning Guide For Beginners. Learn Beginner Italian Step by Step With Fast Track Tips T - Paperback

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by Laura Mancini (Author)Do you want to learn how to speak real Italian as if you relocated to a Italian-speaking country for months without actually having to, then keep reading....You've probably already purchased other learning- Italian programs or two. And still feel you're unable to speak Italian with real confidence.Let Me tell you, there's no need to spend a ton of money. With these proven strategies inside this book we skip right over the unnecessary run around taking you from beginne...

Shadowing as a Practice in Second Language Acquisition: Connecting Inputs and Outputs - Paperback

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by Shuhei Kadota (Author)Shadowing is a theoretically and empirically well-examined method to develop L2 learners' listening comprehension (input effect); enhance their subvocal rehearsal mechanism in the phonological working memory for learning new words, formula, and constructions (practice effect); simulate some stages of speech production (output effect); and develop metacognitive monitoring and control by their executive working memory (monitoring effect). In Japan and some other Asian c...

How to Sell Your Book Today: Focus your book marketing for the new digital economy - Paperback

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by Karen Hodges Miller (Author) How can you sell your book in today's new world of social distancing? There's never been a better time to sell a book. More people are reading. Last year, book sales were the highest they have been in 15 years with 627 million units sold. But more people are writing books, also. More than one million new books are published each year in the United States. That means that the competition to get your book noticed is fierce. So how do you market your book when y...

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by Sharon Jones (Author)The national bestseller. Write. Burn. Repeat. Now with new covers to match whatever mood you're in. "This book has made me laugh and cry, filled me with joy, and inspired me." -TikTok user camrynbanks Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, TikTok, VSCO, YouTube...the world has not only become one giant feed, but also one giant confessional. Burn After Writing allows you to spend less time scrolling and more time self-reflecting. Through incisive questions and thought experime...

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Burn After Writing (Spiders) - Paperback

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The Routledge Handbook of Literary Translation - Paperback

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by Kelly Washbourne (Editor), Ben Van Wyke (Editor)The Routledge Handbook of Literary Translation provides an accessible, diverse and extensive overview of literary translation today. This next-generation volume brings together principles, case studies, precepts, histories and process knowledge from practitioners in sixteen different countries. Divided into four parts, the book covers many of literary translation's most pressing concerns today, from teaching, to theorising, to translation tec...

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Burn After Writing (Tie-Dye) - Paperback

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