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A Field Guide to Community Literacy: Case Studies and Tools for Praxis, Evaluation, and Research - Paperback

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by Laurie A. Henry (Editor), Norman A. Stahl (Editor)This practical guidebook presents trends, research-grounded strategies, and field-based solutions to challenges of working in community-based literacy initiatives. A comprehensive guide for practitioners, this book addresses best practices for implementing, maintaining, expanding, and evaluating community-based literacy initiatives. The contributors in this volume help readers shift thinking from merely considering, "How can communities sup...

How to Speak and Write the English Language Correctly [microform]: Specially Arranged for Teachers, Students and Persons Speaking and Writing Other La - Paperback

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by R. (Robert) 1870-1950 Goltman (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 b...

Fundraising for Impact in Libraries, Archives, and Museums: Making the Case to Government, Foundation, Corporate, and Individual Funders - Paperback

$79.36

by Kathryn K. Matthew (Author)Fundraising for Impact in Libraries, Archives, and Museums provides practical advice that will help LAMs reassess how to leverage their organizational assets in ways that support communities and help to forge productive relationships with foundation, individual, corporate, and government funders. Drawing on the insights gleaned from interviews with more than 100 international LAM practitioners, the book examines the common fundraising challenges that LAM institu...

Grammar and Dictionary of the Blackfoot Language in the Dominion of Canada [microform]: for the Use of Missionaries, School-teachers, and Others - Paperback

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by J. W. (John William) 1857-1945 Tims (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 enoug...

Cynthia Ann Parker, The Story of Her Capture at the Massacre of the Inmates of Parker's Fort; of Her Quarter of a Century Spent Among the Comanches, a - Paperback

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by James T. 1861-1948 DeShields (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...

Catalogue of the Library of King's College, Windsor, Nova Scotia [microform]: With Occasional Annotations - Paperback

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by University of King's College (Windsor (Created by), Harry 1870-1940 Piers (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, and we concur,...

An English Spelling-book [microform]: With Reading Lessons Adapted to the Capabilities of Children: in Three Parts, Calculated to Advance the Learners - Paperback

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by Lindley 1745-1826 Murray (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, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserv...

Journal of the Pacific (Bark) out of New Bedford, MA, Mastered by Gilbert B. Borden and Kept by Gilbert B. Borden, on a Whaling Voyage Between 1873 an - Paperback

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by Pacific (Bark) (Created by), Gilbert B. Borden (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, and we concur, that this work is importan...

Literary Taste [microform]: How to Form It, With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature - Paperback

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by Arnold 1867-1931 Bennett (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, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserv...

The English Reader: or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected From the Best Writers... With a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principle - Paperback

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Basil Valentine His Triumphant Chariot of Antimony: With Annotations of Theodore Kirkringius, M.D.: With, The True Book of the Learned Synesius, a Gre - Paperback

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by Basilius Valentinus (Created by), Theodor 1640-1693 Kerckring (Author), Alchemist Vray Livre de la Synesius (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...

The Principle of Individuality and Value: the Gifford Lectures for 1911, Delivered in Edinburgh University - Paperback

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by Bernard 1848-1923 Bosanquet (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, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be pres...

The Eclectic Fourth Reader: Containing Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry From the Best American and English Writers: With Copious Rules for Rea - Paperback

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by William Holmes 1800-1873 McGuffey (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, and we concur, that this work is important enough to b...

Eight Weeks to a Complete Novel: Write Faster, Write Better, Be More Organized - Paperback

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by Becky Clark (Author)Want to speed up your writing process and complete a top-notch novel in just two months?Learn veteran author Becky Clark's tried-and-true techniques to: - Write faster - Organize yourself - Create a flexible outline you can live with (even if you hate outlines with an intensity usually reserved for walking into a spider web)- Devise your own reliable system to get you from the premise to THE END in eight short weeks. - Become the prolific career novelist you've always d...

Work Hard, Not Smart: How to Make a Messy Literary Life - Paperback

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by Alexis Paige (Author)At the ripe age of forty, when Alexis Paige was finally diagnosed with ADHD-Inattentive Type, she rolled her eyes even before the doctor could finish spelling out her new marching orders: "The goal now," he said, "is to learn how to work smart, not hard.""But that doesn't sound like any fun," she said. She was going to have to do this, too-ironically, inexplicably, comically-as she did everything else, the hard way. Part memoir, part craft guide, Work Hard, Not Smart,...

(Im)Mobile Homes: Family Life at a Distance in the Age of Mobile Media - Paperback

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by Earvin Charles B. Cabalquinto (Author)The home has been on the forefront of rapid economic, political, social, and technological transformations for many individuals and families across the world. As a country reliant on the exportation of human labor to sustain its national economy, the Philippines exemplifies a valuable case study of the impacts of a globalized and networked society on the everyday dynamics of a transnational family arrangement. Despite ranking among the heaviest Interne...

Administration in Theological Libraries - Paperback

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by Reysa Alenzuela (Author), Kelly Campbell (Author), Jaeyeon Lucy Chung (Author)This volume introduces the reader to the administration of theological libraries and answers these basic questions: What are the essential policies and procedures for a theological library? How are they specifically developed in the areas of staffing/volunteers and financial accountability? How does one conduct library planning through establishing of mission and goals, strategic planning, and creating a budget?...

Word Knowledge and Word Usage: A Cross-Disciplinary Guide to the Mental Lexicon - Paperback

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by Vito Pirrelli (Editor), Ingo Plag (Editor), Wolfgang U. Dressler (Editor)Word storage and processing define a multi-factorial domain of scientific inquiry whose thorough investigation goes well beyond the boundaries of traditional disciplinary taxonomies, to require synergic integration of a wide range of methods, techniques and empirical and experimental findings. The present book intends to approach a few central issues concerning the organization, structure and functioning of the Mental...

Patterns in Language and Linguistics: New Perspectives on a Ubiquitous Concept - Paperback

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by Beatrix Busse (Editor), Ruth Moehlig-Falke (Editor)The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies, which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to fur...

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by Laura McPherson (Author)Seenku is a Western Mande language of the Samogo group spoken in southwestern Burkina Faso by approximately 17,000 speakers. It has undergone a lot of phonological reduction, leading to a rich segmental and tonal phoneme inventory but mainly mono- and sesquisyllabic roots. The language has four contrastive levels of tone that combine to create over a dozen contours. Tone has a high functional load lexically and grammatically, permeating all aspects of grammar. Most ...

Grammatical Reconstruction: The Sogeram Languages of New Guinea - Paperback

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by Don Daniels (Author)There is still widespread disagreement among historical linguists about how, or whether, syntactic reconstruction can be done. This book presents a comprehensive methodology for syntactic reconstruction, grounded in a constructional understanding of language. The author then uses that methodology to reconstruct Proto-Sogeram, the ancestor to ten languages in Papua New Guinea. Chapters are devoted to phonology, lexicon, verbal morphosyntax, nominal morphosyntax, and synt...

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by No Contributor (Other)In three comprehensive volumes, Logic of the Future presents a full panorama of Charles S. Peirce's most important late writings. Among the most influential American thinkers, Peirce took his existential graphs to be a significant contribution to human thought. The manuscripts from 1895-1913, with many of them being published here for the first time, testify to the richness and open-endedness of his theory of logic and its applications. They also invite us to reconsid...

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by No Contributor (Other)Although the figure of irony has enjoyed extensive attention through important contributions to the diverse literatures addressing figurative thought and language, it still remains relatively in the background compared to other figures such as metaphor and metonymy. The present volume, together with a 2017 collection by Angeliki Athanasiadou and Herbert L. Colston, aims to the further exploration of verbal and situational irony, its gestural accompaniments, its compre...

Formulaic Language and New Data: Theoretical and Methodological Implications - Paperback

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by Elisabeth Piirainen (Editor), Natalia Filatkina (Editor), Sören Stumpf (Editor)The existence of formulaic patterns has been attested to all languages of the world. However, systematic research in this field has been focused on only a few European standard languages with a rich literary tradition and a high degree of written norm. It was on the basis of these data that the theoretical framework and methodological approaches were developed.The volume shifts this focus by centering the invest...

Rosicrucian Manual for the Instruction of Postulants in the Congregation of the Outer, Neophytes, and Fraters of Duly Istituted Colleges of the Societ - Paperback

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by George Winslow 1876-1944 Plummer (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, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be...

Grammar - Discourse - Context: Grammar and Usage in Language Variation and Change - Paperback

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by Kristin Bech (Editor), Ruth Möhlig-Falke (Editor)This collected volume brings together a wide array of international linguists working on diachronic language change with a specific focus on the history of English, who work within usage-based frameworks and investigate processes of grammatical change in context. Although usage-based linguistics emphasizes the centrality of the discourse context for language usage and cognition, this insight has not been fully integrated into the investigati...

Derivational Networks Across Languages - Paperback

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by Lívia Körtvélyessy (Editor), Alexandra Bagasheva (Editor), Pavol Stekauer (Editor)This pioneering research brings a new insight into derivational processes in terms of theory, method and typology. Theoretically, it conceives of derivation as a three-dimensional system. Methodologically, it introduces a range of parameters for the evaluation of derivational networks, including the derivational role, combinability and blocking effects of semantic categories, the maximum derivational potentia...

Communication in the 2020s: Viewing Our World Through the Eyes of Communication Scholars - Paperback

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by Christina S. Beck (Editor)This book provides an inside look at the discipline of Communication. In this collection of chapters, top scholars from a wide range of subfields discuss how they have experienced and how they study the crucial issues of our time. The 2020s opened with a series of events with massive implications for the ways we communicate, from the COVID-19 pandemic, a summer of protests for social justice, and climate change-related natural disasters, to one of the most content...

Better Blurb Writing for Authors - Paperback

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by Olivia Atwater (Author)Write better blurbs. Get better readers.Writing book descriptions for genre fiction (or blurbs, as some authors call them) requires a completely different skill set from writing full-length novels. For many authors, blurbs are a last distasteful obstacle they must overcome before they're allowed to sell their book-but it doesn't have to be that way! Writing blurbs is far easier with a step-by-step guide and a bit of helpful advice.In this short, accessible book, you ...

Transformative Digital Humanities: Challenges and Opportunities - Paperback

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by Mary McAleer Balkun (Editor), Marta Mestrovic Deyrup (Editor)Transformative Digital Humanities takes a two-pronged approach to the digital humanities: it examines the distinct kinds of work currently being undertaken in the field, while also addressing current issues in the digital humanities, including sustainability, accessibility, interdisciplinarity, and funding. With contributions from humanities and LIS scholars based in China, Canada, England, Germany, Spain, and the United States, ...

Metaphors of Multilingualism: Changing Attitudes Towards Language Diversity in Literature, Linguistics and Philosophy - Paperback

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by Rainer Guldin (Author)Metaphors of Multilingualism explores changing attitudes towards multilingualism by focusing on shifts both in the choice and in the use of metaphors. Rainer Guldin uses linguistics, philosophy, literature, literary theory and related disciplines to trace the radical redefinition of multilingualism that has taken place over the last decades. This overall change constitutes a paradigmatic shift. However, despite the emergence of the new paradigm, the traditional monoli...

Teaching the Short Fiction of Henry James: Critical and Pedagogical Essays - Paperback

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by Kathleen McDonald (Editor), Anne S. Jung (Editor)Henry James stands as one of the preeminent writers of the late 19th/early 20th century period; however, the world he wrote about has since disappeared. This collection of essays provides pedagogical assistance for several of his short stories--including "The Jolly Corner", "The Europeans" and "Travelling Companions"--and his most anthologized longer works. It is aimed at instructors who do not consider themselves experts on James' work. Eac...