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Power Lines: Connecting with Teens in Urban Communities Through Media Literacy - Paperback

$89.98

by Anderson Jimmeka (Author), Kelly Czarnecki (Author)Helping readers understand the challenges and barriers faced by teens in urban communities, this one-of-a-kind resource offers real-world recommendations, case studies, and experience-based programmatic solutions for fostering crucial media literacy skills.Author BiographyJimmeka Anderson received her Ph.D. in Urban Education and is an author, media literacy educator, advisor, and consultant for several national organizations such as the A...

$25.65

by Terusaw Solomon (Editor), Wondemagegn Taye (Editor), Andrew Tadross (Author)AMHARIC VERB CONJUGATION explains in-depth how to conjugate verbs in past, present, future, and continuous tenses in both the affirmative and negative. This is not a beginners Amharic book, and thus does not include greetings, vocabulary, and typical phrases. However, this book will take your Amharic to the next level! Essential for ex-pats, volunteers, researchers, diaspora, or others living in Ethiopia, who are l...

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Snails & Monkey Tails: A Visual Guide to Punctuation & Symbols - Hardcover

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by Michael Arndt (Author)"There are countless books that can teach you the alphabet, but almost none that focus on the tiny designs that run interference among the letterforms: those easily overlooked punctuation and typographic symbols. These symbols, as Michael Arndt proves in this beautiful and endlessly fascinating book, are absolutely indispensable to communication: punctuation turns words into sentences and language into meaning... From commas to semicolons, from slashes to asterisks, f...

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What Proust Heard: Novels and the Ethnography of Talk - Paperback

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by Michael Lucey (Author)Michael Lucey offers a linguistic anthropological analysis of Proust's In Search of Lost Time. What happens when we talk? This deceptively simple question is central to Marcel Proust's monumental novel In Search of Lost Time. Both Proust's narrator and the novel that houses him devote considerable energy to investigating not just what people are saying or doing when they talk, but also what happens socioculturally through their use of language. Proust, in other words...

Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World) - Paperback

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by Thomas S. Mullaney (Author), Christopher Rea (Author)Plenty of books tell you how to do research. This book helps you figure out WHAT to research in the first place, and why it matters. The hardest part of research isn't answering a question. It's knowing what to do before you know what your question is. Where Research Begins tackles the two challenges every researcher faces with every new project: How do I find a compelling problem to investigate--one that truly matters to me, deeply and ...

Korean Morphosyntax: Focusing on Clitics and Their Roles in Syntax - Paperback

$92.32

by Hee-Rahk Chae (Author)Korean Morphosyntax: Focusing on Clitics and Their Roles in Syntax presents a theory-neutral comprehensive analysis of Korean morphosyntax for advanced students and scholars of Korean language and linguistics.This book focuses on the morphosyntactic status of particles in Korean and highlights how this understanding allows for a proper analysis of sentences. As the significance of clitics in Korean has not been highlighted by previous works in such depth, this book of...

When Communication Became a Discipline - Hardcover

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by William F. Eadie (Author)When Communication Became a Discipline describes how speech and journalism professors embraced the concept of communication as central to their scholarly work. It tells the story of how they transformed themselves and established an academic discipline of communication.Author BiographyWilliam F. Eadie is professor emeritus of journalism and media studies and director of the School of Communication at San Diego State University. Number of Pages: 192 Dimensions: 0.56...

Writing Centers at the Center of Change - Paperback

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by Joe Essid (Editor), Brian McTague (Editor)Writing Centers at the Center of Change looks at how eleven centers, internationally, adapted to change at their institutions, during a decade when their very success has become a valued commodity in a larger struggle for resources on many campuses. Bringing together both US and international perspectives, this volume offers solutions for adapting to change in the world of writing centers, ranging from the logistical to the pedagogical, and even to...

Writing Democracy: The Political Turn in and Beyond the Trump Era - Paperback

$92.32

by Shannon Carter (Editor), Deborah Mutnick (Editor), Stephen Parks (Editor)Writing Democracy: The Political Turn in and Beyond the Trump Era calls on the field of writing studies to take up a necessary agenda of social and economic change in its classrooms, its scholarship, and its communities to challenge the rise of neoliberalism and right-wing nationalism.Grown out of an extended national dialogue among public intellectuals, academic scholars, and writing teachers, collectively known as t...

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Wild Things and Castles in the Sky: A Guide to Choosing the Best Books for Children - Paperback

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by Leslie Bustard (Editor), Théa Rosenburg (Editor), Carey Bustard (Editor)Wild Things and Castles in the Sky: A Guide to Choosing the Best Books for Children gives the reader over 40 essays that examine specific types of children's books and offer suggestions in each category. Among the topics covered are: imagination, faith, classic literature, middle school books, race, fantasy, contemporary children's books, Shakespeare, art history, Newbery books, young adult novels, poetry, and more. C...

Children in the Bible and the Ancient World: Comparative and Historical Methods in Reading Ancient Children - Paperback

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by Shawn W. Flynn (Editor)The topic of children in the Bible has long been under-represented, but this has recently changed with the development of childhood studies in broader fields, and the work of several dedicated scholars. While many reading methods are employed in this emerging field, comparative work with children in the ancient world has been an important tool to understand the function of children in biblical texts.Children in the Bible and the Ancient World broadly introduces child...

Young People and Social Media: Contemporary Children's Digital Culture - Hardcover

$155.52

by Steve Gennaro (Editor), Blair Miller (Editor)'Young People and Social Media: Contemporary Children's Digital Culture' explores the practices, relationships, consequences, benefits, and outcomes of children's experiences with, on, and through social media by bringing together a vast array of different ideas about childhood, youth, and young people's lives. These ideas are drawn from scholars working in a variety of disciplines, and rather than just describing the social construction of chil...

Creative Writing Prompts for Kids - Paperback

$21.80

by Lauren Piskothy (Author)These 25 unique writing prompts are a great way for children 8+ to embrace their creativity. This colorful book also includes several extra pages for kids to journal and write longer stories, plus a fun little poem at the end! Number of Pages: 82 Dimensions: 0.21 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: April 30, 2021

Finding Your Seat at the Table: Roles for Librarians on Institutional Regulatory Boards and Committees - Hardcover

$145.80

by Susan M. Harnett (Editor), Laureen P. Cantwell (Editor)This book delineates effective roles for librarians on Institutional Review Boards (IRB) and the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees (IACUC) and provides guidance for librarians on how to serve on them.Author BiographySusan M. Harnett, MLS, AHIP-D, is medical information services librarian at Borland Library, University of Florida, Jacksonville, FL. She received her master of library service from Rutgers University, New Brunsw...

How to Care More: Seven Skills for Personal and Social Change - Hardcover

$127.98

by Miranda Campbell (Author)How to Care More offers a definition of care based in relational action, highlighting care as an umbrella concept that can catalyze personal and social change and prevent conflict. Each chapter provides an overview of one skill to practice caring more, including listening, consent, collaboration, and cultivating inclusion, love, and resilience.Author BiographyMiranda Campbell is associate professor in the School of Creative Industries at Ryerson University in Toron...

The Black Librarian in America: Reflections, Resistance, and Reawakening - Hardcover

$179.82

by Shauntee Burns-Simpson (Editor), Nichelle M. Hayes (Editor), Ana Ndumu (Editor)The Black Librarian in America: Reflections, Resistance, and Reawakening is the latest in the powerful line of The Black Librarian in America volumes. While previous editions we organized around library types, this edition is organized in four thematic sections" -A Rich Heritage: Black Librarian History -Celebrating Collective and Individual Identity -Black Librarians across Settings -Moving Forward: Activism, A...

The Post-Pandemic Library Handbook - Hardcover

$162.00

by Julie Todaro (Author)Here's your library's guide for reopening, reengineering and redesigning library facilities, resources, services and staff for the post-pandemic era.Author BiographyDr. Julie Todaro is the dean of Austin Community College (ACC) Library Services. Her professional career includes academic library manager; library educator (management, public libraries, ) and public librarian. She manages 200 employees at ACC who provide library resources and services throughout eleven ca...

The Stories of Building the Black Beach Community of Ocean City, North Carolina - Hardcover

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by Hope W. Jackson (Author)The Stories of Building the Black Beach Community of Ocean City, North Carolina shares a provocative story about a small Black beach community on North Topsail Island, North Carolina. Ocean City residents radically created a safe harbor for Blacks to visit, live, worship and recreate in the midst of de facto segregation.Author BiographyHope Jackson is director of the Master's program in English and African-American Literature in the English Department at North Carol...

Third Parties, Outsiders, and Renegades: Modern Challenges to the Two-Party System in Presidential Elections - Hardcover

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by Melissa M. Smith (Author)Third Parties, Outsiders, and Renegades analyzes 10 third-party, outsider, or renegade presidential candidates and explores each one's impact on the political process. The list of modern outsider candidates who have attracted the public's attention is fairly long, but most of the time the candidates never garner enough support to become elected or they self-destruct somewhere along the way. A few, however, have taken votes away from more mainstream candidates and c...

My Burning Tongue: Mexican Spanish - Paperback

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by Lee Jamison (Author)MORE than 167 million natives speak Mexican Spanish-with nearly 40 million speakers in the United States alone. Explore the idiosyncrasies of this colorful language spoken throughout the region. If a Mexican asks you for a popote, should you be worried? If he shouts Aguas!, will you get wet? If another asks Cómo ves?, is he concerned about your visual acuity? Find out what Mexicans are really saying as you uncover the hidden meaning behind local words, idioms, and say...

Rhetoric of the Opioid Epidemic: Deaths of Despair in America - Hardcover

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by Tiara K. Good (Author)Rhetoric of the Opioid Epidemic argues that the opioid epidemic is a public health issue. By analyzing case studies from popular culture and governmental responses, Tiara Good demonstrates that the power of naming it an epidemic, rather than a drug or crime issue, reduces counterproductive stigma and assists in reshaping public perspectives.Author BiographyTiara K. Good is faculty in the Communication Studies Department at Western Oregon University. Number of Pages: 1...

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Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark - Paperback

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by Cecelia Watson (Author)"Delightful." --Mary Norris, The New YorkerA page-turning, existential romp through the life and times of the world's most polarizing punctuation markThe semicolon. Stephen King, Hemingway, Vonnegut, and Orwell detest it. Herman Melville, Henry James, and Rebecca Solnit love it. But why? When is it effective? Have we been misusing it? Should we even care?In Semicolon, Cecelia Watson charts the rise and fall of this infamous punctuation mark, which for years was the t...

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Immersive Storytelling for Real and Imagined Worlds: A Writer's Guide - Paperback

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by Margaret Kerrison (Author)What gets your heart rate going more: reading a story about dinosaurs, or being chased by one? The emerging discipline of immersive storytelling recognizes the power of creative works that put the viewer at the center of the action. In Immersive Storytelling, theme park designer Margaret Kerrison shares tips and tricks for writers on teams tasked with bringing a narrative to life. How do you take an idea from inspiration to manifestation? How do you move from tell...

The Settling of the Manor of Tara: a dual language translation - Paperback

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by Morgan Daimler (Author)The Settling of the Manor of Tara tells the story of how Ireland's provinces were dived up along with vivid descriptions of the qualities of each. It also contains detailed information about Ireland throughout a series of pseudo-historical and mythic time periods up until the point of this division, offering fascinating insight into the beliefs woven into the landscape. This text represents a new translation of the Middle Irish manuscript, presented as literally as p...

Collective Trauma and Its Narrative Techniques. Julie Otsuka's

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by Marnie Hensler (Author)Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2.0, University of Freiburg (Englisches Seminar), language: English, abstract: Julie Otsuka novels "When the Emperor was Divine"(2002) and "The Buddha in the Attic" (2011) narrate the collective trauma experienced by Japanese immigrants in America during the Second World War. With the help of different narrative techniques, both novels communicate the collecti...

Computational approaches to semantic change - Hardcover

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by Nina Tahmasebi (Editor), Lars Borin (Editor), Adam Jatowt (Editor)Semantic change - how the meanings of words change over time - has preoccupied scholars since well before modern linguistics emerged in the late 19th and early 20th century, ushering in a new methodological turn in the study of language change. Compared to changes in sound and grammar, semantic change is the least understood. Ever since, the study of semantic change has progressed steadily, accumulating a vast store of knowl...

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by Nicklas N. Bahrt (Author)This book provides a comprehensive typological account of voice syncretism, focusing on resemblance in formal verbal marking between two or more of the following seven voices: passives, antipassives, reflexives, reciprocals, anticausatives, causatives, and applicatives. It covers voice syncretism from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives, and has been structured in a manner that facilitates convenient access to information about specific patterns of voice sy...

The Image of Language: An Artist's Memoir - Hardcover

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by Michael Winkler (Author)Michael Winkler never had any plans to become an artist. On a rainy Seattle night in December of 1980, he discovered, by accident, that there are inexplicably meaningful patterns encoded in the signs for words. The relationship between the meaning of words and the patterns they create was so fascinating that he explored it all night. The next morning, a chance encounter with a curator resulted in an offer to present the 'word-images' in a solo exhibition. Michael Wi...

Euphemisms as a Means of Manipulation in the Language of News Media - Paperback

$71.39

by Nafisa Ruziyeva (Author)Euphemia is a complex universal communicative phenomenon, in its structure being a diverse linguistic phenomenon that plays an important role in the history of the development of society. Euphemisms are "a reflection of moral and spiritual culture, value attitudes, peculiarities of thinking and worldview of an individual and an ethnocultural community. Euphemia is a universal, multidimensional phenomenon with its own cultural, social, historical, psychological and l...

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Spine Poems: An Eclectic Collection of Found Verse for Book Lovers - Hardcover

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by Annette Dauphin Simon (Author)A charming, clever, and original collection of more than 100 spine poems-a popular form of found poetry composed by arranging book spines--illustrated with 110 full-color photographs.Easy to create and share online, spine poems--also known as collage poems or centos--have become a fun and popular way of writing poetry. Spine Poems is a delightful, illustrated collection of more than 100 spine poems that range from hilarious to heart-rending to profound.Award-w...

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Unreliable Watchdog: The News Media and U.S. Foreign Policy - Hardcover

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by Ted Galen Carpenter (Author)Freedom of press is a cornerstone of our democratic political system. But reporters, pundits, and editors face intense pressure to serve as propagandists rather than journalists in their coverage of U.S. foreign policy. Too many members of the news media seem unable to make that distinction and play their proper role as watchdogs for the American people regarding possible government incompetence or misconduct. Since World War II, America has become a garrison st...

Power, Media and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Framing Public Discourse - Paperback

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by Stuart Price (Editor), Ben Harbisher (Editor)This edited collection provides an in-depth, interdisciplinary critique of the acts of public communication disseminated during a major global crisis. Encompassing contributions from academics working in the fields of politics, environmentalism, citizens' rights, state theory, cultural studies, journalism, and discourse/rhetoric, the book offers an original insight into the relationship between the various social forces that contributed to the ...