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Chinese Characters Writing Practice Pad: Learn Chinese in Just Minutes a Day! - Paperback
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by Xin Liang (Author), Martha Lam (Author)Five minutes a day is all it takes to begin learning Chinese! Chinese Characters Writing Practice Pad is the perfect guide for busy people who want to start learning Chinese or students looking for a fun way to review what they've learned. This interactive paper pad helps even those completely unfamiliar with the language learn and write 280 essential Chinese characters--in just a few minutes a day! Each tear-out sheet includes:
One new character
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Translating Change: Enhanced Practical Skills for Translators - Paperback
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by Ann Pattison (Author), Stella Cragie (Author)Translating Change explores and analyses the impact of changes in society, culture and language on the translation and interpreting process and product. It looks at how social attitudes, behaviours and values change over time, how languages respond to these changes, how these changes are reflected in the processing and production of translations and how technological change and economic uncertainty in the wake of events such as the COVID-19 pand...
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Beyond the Visual: An Introduction to Researching Multimodal Phenomena - Paperback
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by Frank Serafini (Author), Theo Van Leeuwen (Foreword by) Beyond the Visual is a survey of contemporary approaches to researching a wide range of visual and multimodal phenomena. Building on his earlier book, Reading the Visual, Serafini shares resources for conducting multimodal research across the social sciences. Beginning with a comprehensive overview of the theoretical foundations that support the analytical frameworks, the text is organized into two parts--texts and objects, events and...
Reading Poetry: A Complete Coursebook - Paperback
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by Tom Furniss (Author), Michael Bath (Author)Reading Poetry offers a comprehensive and accessible guide to the art of reading poetry. Discussing more than 200 poems by more than 100 writers, ranging from ancient Greece and China to the twenty-first century, the book introduces readers to the skills and the critical and theoretical awareness that enable them to read poetry with enjoyment and insight. This third edition has been significantly updated in response to current developments in po...
How to Write Great Dialog, Third Edition - Paperback
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by James R. Callan (Author)"As an editor, I wish all my clients would read and apply the advice in this book. ... Highly recommended." Lorna Collins, content editor, and multi-published author "A REALLY HELPFUL book ... will teach you everything you need to know about writing dialog." Arlene Uslander, award-winning journalistic professional editor. "This book should be in every aspiring writer's library." F.M. Meredith, Author. Learn How To ...
Develop characters through dialog
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New Ways in Teaching Vocabulary, Revised - Paperback
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by Averil Coxhead (Author)
Number of Pages: 286
Dimensions: 0.6 x 10 x 7 IN
Publication Date: November 01, 2014
tracing books for kids ages 3-5: Step By Step Alphabet tracing book, size 8.5*11. - Paperback
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by Tracing Alphabet (Author)60 practice pages for tracing letters and numbers. Wide lines and dashed centers to help children learn to write with consistent size and shapes._ size 8.5*11_ 60 pages
Number of Pages: 110
Dimensions: 0.23 x 11 x 8.5 IN
Publication Date: September 05, 2021
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Shaping Information: The Rhetoric of Visual Conventions - Paperback
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by Charles Kostelnick (Author), Michael Hassett (Author)From charts, texts, and graphs to illustrations, icons, and screens, we live in an information age saturated with visual language. Yet the underlying principles that provide structure for visual language have long eluded scholars of rhetoric, design, and engineering. To function as a language that reliably conveys meaning, visual language must embody codes that normalize its practices among both the designers who employ it and the reader...
The Data Wrangler's Handbook: Simple Tools for Powerful Results - Paperback
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by Kyle Banerjee (Author)Data manipulation and analysis are far easier than you might imagine-in fact, using tools that come standard with your desktop computer, you can learn how to extract, manipulate, and analyze data (and metadata) of any size and complexity. In this handbook, data wizard Banerjee will familiarize you with easily digestible but powerful concepts that will enable you to feel confident working with data. With his expert guidance, you'll learn how to
use a single-word comman...
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Lexicarry: Pictures for Learning Languages - Paperback
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by Patrick R. Moran (Author)A one-of-a-kind picture dictionary, Lexicarry offers a fun, active, conversational approach to language learning. It is a book of wordless pictures designed to help learners build vocabulary and conversation skills in any second language using the American English word list in the book, a bilingual dictionary, one of the Lexicarry word lists, and/or someone who knows the language. There are 13 foreign language word lists available at ProLinguaLearning.com to use wi...
Nelson's West Indian Readers First Primer - Spiral
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by J. O. Cutteridge (Author)
Number of Pages: 32
Dimensions: 0.1 x 6.9 x 4.5 IN
Publication Date: November 01, 2014
Nelson's West Indian Readers Second Primer - Spiral
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by J. O. Cutteridge (Author)
Number of Pages: 48
Dimensions: 0.13 x 7.21 x 4.8 IN
Publication Date: November 01, 2014
Bite in - 2 - Paperback
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by X. Grey (Author)
Number of Pages: 128
Dimensions: 0.25 x 8.59 x 5.54 IN
Publication Date: November 01, 2014
Oxford School Dictionary of Word Origins - Paperback
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by John Ayto (Author)This new paperback edition of the Oxford School Dictionary of Word Origins gives an engaging insight into the origins of the everyday language we use. It provides additional language support and information through funny and absorbing word histories, feature entries on especially curious, 'yucky', and 'mind-boggling' words, and a full thematic section on words from the worlds of food, fashion, dinosaur names, invented and onomatopoeic words and much more. John Ayto, top w...
Dominoes: One: Peter Pan - Paperback
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by James Matthew Barrie (Author)Dominoes is a full-colour, interactive readers series that offers students a fun reading experience while building their language skills. With integrated activities, an interactive MultiROM, and exciting, fully dramatized audio for every story, the new edition of the series makes reading motivating for students while making it easy for you to develop their reading and language skills.
Number of Pages: 56
Dimensions: 0.3 x 8.1 x 5.7 IN
Illustrated: Yes
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New Top Technologies Every Librarian Needs to Know: A Lita Guide - Paperback
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by Kenneth J. Varnum (Editor)The time is right for this all-new survey of the library technology that's already transitioning from trend to everyday reality. As in the previous best-selling volume, Varnum and his contributors throw the spotlight on the systems, software, and approaches most crucial to the knowledge institutions of tomorrow. Inside, readers will find concise information and analysis on topics such as
mobile technologies;
privacy-protection technology tools;
the Internet of Thi...
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Dominoes: Level 1: 400-Word Vocabularythe Wild West - Paperback
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by John Escott (Author)Zoe Baker works in a bookstore. She also likes acting, and she has a part in the play Romeo and Juliet. Mike Morrison writes about the play for the newspaper. What does he write about Zoe? Is Zoe a good actress... or is she just 'a pretty face'? What does Zoe think when she reads the newspaper? What does she do?
Number of Pages: 56
Dimensions: 0.1 x 8.25 x 5.75 IN
Publication Date: July 18, 2010
Dolphin Readers: Level 4: 625-Word Vocabularyyesterday, Today and Tomorrow Activity Book - Paperback
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This interactive series makes developing language skills exciting for primary.Stories and cross-curricular texts with full-color illustrations stimulate students' interest, while carefully graded English introduces them to new language. BL Pictures support the story clearlyBL Text in different colors makes it easier to follow the dialogueBL "Read and do" integrated activities for every page of readingBL Picture Dictionary in each bookBL Notes for teachers and parents in each book
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Dolphin Readers: Level 1: 275-Word Vocabularywhere Is It? Activity Book - Paperback
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This interactive series makes developing language skills exciting for primary.Stories and cross-curricular texts with full-color illustrations stimulate students' interest, while carefully graded English introduces them to new language. BL Pictures support the story clearlyBL Text in different colors makes it easier to follow the dialogueBL "Read and do" integrated activities for every page of readingBL Picture Dictionary in each bookBL Notes for teachers and parents in each book
Num...
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Dolphin Readers: Level 4: 625-Word Vocabularycity Girl, Country Boy Activity Book - Paperback
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This interactive series makes developing language skills exciting for primary.Stories and cross-curricular texts with full-color illustrations stimulate students' interest, while carefully graded English introduces them to new language. BL Pictures support the story clearlyBL Text in different colors makes it easier to follow the dialogueBL "Read and do" integrated activities for every page of readingBL Picture Dictionary in each bookBL Notes for teachers and parents in each book
Num...
Dolphin Readers: Level 4: 625-Word Vocabularygo, Gorillas, Go Activity Book - Paperback
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This interactive series makes developing language skills exciting for primary.Stories and cross-curricular texts with full-color illustrations stimulate students' interest, while carefully graded English introduces them to new language. BL Pictures support the story clearlyBL Text in different colors makes it easier to follow the dialogueBL "Read and do" integrated activities for every page of readingBL Picture Dictionary in each bookBL Notes for teachers and parents in each book
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Schools - Paperback
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by Richard Northcott (Author)
Number of Pages: 32
Dimensions: 0.23 x 8.49 x 5.83 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: November 08, 2012
Comparative Rhetoric: An Historical and Cross-Cultural Introduction - Paperback
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by George A. Kennedy (Author)Comparative Rhetoric is the first book to offer a cross-cultural overview of rhetoric as a universal feature of expression, composition, and communication. It begins with a theory of rhetoric as a form of mental and emotional energy which is transmitted from a speaker or writer to an audience or reader through a speech or text. In the first part of the book, George Kennedy explores analogies to human rhetoric in animal communication, possible rhetorical factors in...
Latin America: An Introduction - Paperback
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by Gary Prevost (Author), Harry E. Vanden (Author)Latin America: An Introduction offers a contemporary, thematic analysis of the region that is grounded in Latin America's social, political, economic, and cultural past. Based on chapters from Harry Vanden and Gary Prevost's popular text, Politics of Latin America, this book provides an accessible and interesting discussion of a broad range of topics, including democracy, revolution, indigenous populations, culture, gender, religion, politics,...
Read and Respond: A Text/Anthology - Paperback
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by Janet R. Swinton (Author), William J. Agopsowicz (Author)The Fourth Edition of this popular combination text/anthology integrates reading and writing skills. The approach of Read and Respond is unique: students are assessed for comprehension through summary-writing rather than objective testing. After summarizing an article, students write a personal response. Because the summary and personal response are written in the students' own words, the instructor gains valuable insight into their ...
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The Logic Manual - Paperback
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by Volker Halbach (Author)An exceptionally clear, concise, and affordable introduction to logic, The Logic Manual carefully walks beginning philosophy students through the fundamentals, offering them a real understanding of how and why logic works. Author Volker Halbach presents essential concepts through examples, informal explanations, and abstract definitions. Topics covered include propositional and predicate logic (with and without identity) and an account of the semantics of these langu...
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Language vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists - Hardcover
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by N. J. Enfield (Author)A fascinating examination of how we are both played by language and made by language: the science underlying the bugs and features of humankind's greatest invention. Language is said to be humankind's greatest accomplishment. But what is language actually good for? It performs poorly at representing reality. It is a constant source of distraction, misdirection, and overshadowing. In fact, N. J. Enfield notes, language is far better at persuasion than it is at objectiv...
Mass Communication Theories: Explaining Origins, Processes, and Effects - Paperback
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by Melvin L. DeFleur (Author), Margaret H. DeFleur (Author)The second edition of this innovative textbook provides a comprehensive overview of mass communication theories, as well as their origins and empirical supports in psychology, sociology, political science, and philosophy. Each chapter presents a specific theory, describing its basic structure in simple formal terms and providing an accessible summary of the research studies and scholarly writings from which it developed. It breaks e...
Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants; 3 - Paperback
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by Joseph 1803-1865 Paxton (Created by)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be pres...
Vocabulary of the Massachusetts (or Natick) Indian Language [microform] - Hardcover
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by Josiah 1680-1756 Cotton (Author), John 1777-1846 Pickering (Author), John 1761-1847 Davis (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe...
Dilworth's Spelling-book, Improved: a New Guide to the English Tongue ... - Hardcover
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by Thomas D. 1780 Dilworth (Created by)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be pres...
A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field - Paperback
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by James Clerk 1831-1879 Maxwell (Author), Donor Dsi Burndy Library (Created by), Royal Society (Great Britain) (Created by)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of th...
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