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by Amy Jones (Author)Why do some books grab you from the very first line? What did Aristotle have to say about the art of telling stories? Is there a secret structure to stories known by all the best writers? In this neat pocket book, English lecturer Amy Jones describes the clever narrative scaffolds used for thousands of years by novelists and scriptwriters. With helpful examples, diagrams and cartoons, this is an essential reference guide for writers of all ages and disciplines.
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by James Stavridis (Author), Robert M. Ancell (Author)For the last several years Adm. James Stavridis and his co-author, R. Manning Ancell, have surveyed over two hundred active and retired four-star military officers about their reading habits and favorite books, asking each for a list of titles that strongly influenced their leadership skills and provided them with special insights that helped propel them to success in spite of the many demanding challenges they faced. The Leader's Bookshel...
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by Miya Miles (Author)A Beautiful creative writing prompts journal appreciation giftBook features: Size: (8.5x 0.25 x11)Cover finish: Beautiful Mate coverInterior: Printed on bright White paperPages: 101Best gift for:
Look deeper into their interests and experiences and use them to fuel their creative writing.
Cook up a 'word soup' to unleash a wealth of ideas for themes and settings for their stories.
Ask themselves questions as they start a story, so they have insight into how their tale w...
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by Kathryn J. McGarr (Author)An inside look at how midcentury DC journalists silenced their own skepticism and shaped public perceptions of the Cold War. Americans' current trust in journalists is at a dismayingly low ebb, particularly on the subject of national and international politics. For some, it might be tempting to look back to the mid-twentieth century, when the nation's press corps was a seemingly venerable and monolithic institution that conveyed the official line from Washington ...
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by Svetlanaaaah Novikovaaaa (Author)Practical notebook for learning to write in Russian.This book will help you learn to write in Cyrillic and will allow you to master Russian language faster and better! A helpful guide for beginners and "dummies" who have just started to learn Russian. If you want to learn Russian, this notebook will help you on your way to learning a new language.Learn to write Cyrillic and master a new language.Notebook features: Size: 8.5 x 11 inch (21.59 x 27.94 cm)66 pa...
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by James L. Kastely (Author)A revolutionary approach to rhetoric that asks why audiences need persuading. What is persuasion? For some, it is the ideal alternative to violence. For others, persuasion is simply a neutral instrumentality--a valued source of soft power. Both positions rest on a fundamental belief: persuasion is a power that resides in a speaker acting on an audience. Loving the World Appropriately asks a different, more fundamental, question: why does an audience need persuasio...
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by Manuel Jimenez Raya (Author), Flavia Vieira (Author)Autonomy in Language Education offers a holistic overview of and novel contribution to a complex and multifaceted, yet under-studied, field of inquiry that is transforming language pedagogy: It offers nineteen original chapters that critically analyze the impact of Henri Holec's seminal 1979 book Autonomy in Foreign Language Learning; unpack theoretical, empirical, conceptual, methodological, ethical, and political developments over the l...
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by Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder (Author)A rhetorical exploration of an underexamined side of climate change--the ongoing research into and development of geoengineering strategies Geoengineering, Persuasion, and the Climate Crisis: A Geologic Rhetoric exposes the deeply worrying state of discourse over geoengineering--the intentional manipulation of the earth's climate as means to halt or reverse global warming. These climate-altering projects, which range from cloud-whitening to carbon dioxide r...
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by Sandy Hervieux (Editor), Amanda Wheatley (Editor)Librarians are uniquely positioned to rise to the challenge that artificial intelligence (AI) presents to the field. Libraries and their like have existed for millennia; they progress with society, altering and adapting their services to meet the information needs of their communities. The Rise of AI collects projects, collaborations, and future uses from academic librarians who have begun to embrace AI in their work. In three parts--User Se...
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by Sofia Iordanidou (Editor), Chrysi Dagoula (Editor)New edited collection that discusses, and recommends solutions to, challenges facing journalism in this digital age. It draws attention to seven key factors that not only highlight the present crisis in journalism, but also indicate the steps we need to take to safeguard and enhance trustworthy journalism for the future. 2 b&w illusAuthor BiographyChrysi Dagoula is assistant professor in the Department of Media Studies and Journalism at...
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by Jieun Kiaer (Author), Ben Cagan (Author)This book explores how the greater amount of pragmatic information encoded in Korean and Japanese can result in pragmatic (in)visibility when translating between those languages and English. Pragmatic information must be added when translating from English to Korean or Japanese and is easily lost when translating in the other direction.This book offers an analysis of translations in Japanese and Korean of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and ...
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by Matt Cohen (Author)Confronting the rifts created by our common conceptual vocabulary for North American colonial studies How can we tell colonial histories in ways that invite intercultural conversation within humanistic fields that are themselves products of colonial domination? Beginning with a famous episode of failed communication from the narrative of the freed slave Olaudah Equiano, The Silence of the Miskito Prince explores this question by looking critically at five concepts freq...
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by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Author), Emily Apter (Editor), Avishek Ganguly (Editor)A collection that brings together Spivak's wide-ranging writings on translation for the first time. Living Translation offers a powerful perspective on the work of distinguished thinker and writer Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, revealing how, throughout her long career, she has made translation a central concern of the comparative humanities. Starting with her landmark "Translator's Preface" to Jacques Derrida...
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by Jon Thompson (Editor)Where does poetry come from? THE ENCOUNTER: A HANDBOOK OF POETIC PRACTICE addresses this question by offering personal essays by thirty different contemporary poets who reflect upon an encounter that has been formative in their own life. In evaluating their own experience, the poets in this collection cast light upon their own poetic process and their own coming to form. Whether by considering encounters with richly-individualized people, paintings, poems, poetic forms...
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by Betty Lai (Author)A practical guide to effective grant writing for researchers at all stages of their academic careers Grant funding can be a major determinant of promotion and tenure at colleges and universities, yet many scholars receive no training in the crucial skill of grant writing. The Grant Writing Guide is an essential handbook for writing research grants, providing actionable strategies for professionals in every phase of their careers, from PhD students to seasoned researchers....
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by Mary Smith (Author)Start signing with your baby today! This comprehensive book makes signing easy with photos of real kids using 100+ signs, plus expert advice on teaching your baby to communicate early. In Baby Sign Language, Mary Smith--ASL interpreter and founder of popular sign language education business Sign 'n Grow--shares everything you need for learning how to sign with your 0-3-year-old. Maybe you've seen it online or remember a friend and their baby signing MILK or MORE. No mat...
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by Real Academia Es Real Academia Española (Author)Crónica de la lengua española es un libro inclinado, sobre todo, a la transparencia y lainformación, que la Real Academia Española publicará periódicamente al final de cada año. Suobjetivo principal es dar a conocer los trabajos desarrollados por la institución y describir o explicarlos problemas más relevantes que afectan a la unidad de nuestra lengua en el universo hispanohablante, exponer sus criterios sobre cómo abordarlos y enfrentar los...
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by Marília Duque (Author)Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Brazil shows how older people in a middle-class neighbourhood in São Paulo are using smartphones to reinvent their work and personal lives. Author BiographyMarília Duque is a researcher at ESPM (Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing) in São Paulo, Brazil.
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Dimensions: 1.18 x 9.13 x 6.14 IN
Publication Date: April 21, 2022
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by Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman (Editor), Tabe Bergman (Editor)This edited collection brings together critical and up-to-date assessments of how mainstream American and British media cover their respective foreign policies, paying special attention to 'official enemies'.In the age of the internet and social media, the reporting and commentary on world events by mainstream Western media remains tightly bound by the way in which Western governments promote their framing. This book explores the ex...
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by Rik Smits (Author)A funny and fascinating exploration of our reliance upon swear words, insults, and the artfully placed expletive, damn it. We use salty or artful language to win arguments, slander, cheat, and bully, as well as to express feelings of joy or frustration by swearing or "blowing off steam." Rik Smits delves into the magic of oaths and profanity, art and advertising, the lure of fake news and propaganda, as well as invective and off-color jokes the world over. This book show...
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by Birgit Anette Olsen (Editor), Hannes Fellner (Editor), Michaël Peyrot (Editor)A diverse and comprehensive treatment of the relationships between ancient Tocharian A and B and other Indo-European languages. This book offers the most diverse and comprehensive treatment of the relationships between ancient Tocharian A and B and other Indo-European languages. Studying now-extinct languages from the first millennium, early twentieth-century archaeologists discovered previously unknown Tocharia...
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by Adrienne Young (Author), Isabel Ibañez (Author)Your companion to writing a novel from start to finish, with thoughtful prompts, calendars, and checklists to guide you along the way. Wherever you are on your journey as a writer, The Storyteller's Workbook is your one-stop shop for planning, writing, and pitching your novel. Find the space and freedom to create authentically with just enough structure and guidance to get you to the finish line. The workbook includes: calendars to record dai...
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by Ruchi Agarwal-Rangnath (Author), Christine E. Sleeter (Foreword by)Elementary-aged children are often positioned as not developmentally ready to learn about race, racism, and injustice. Yet, the classroom materials used in most schools misrepresent history, withhold knowledge about racial injustice, or fail to uplift stories of resilience and resistance. For almost a decade, this groundbreaking resource has been one of the most highly used textbooks in justice-oriented social studies metho...
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by Kindel Turner Nash (Author), Alicia Arce-Boardman (Author), Roderick D. Peele (Author)Literacy educators are often unequipped to help young children contend with the world we inhabit, where linguistic, literate, and cultural pluralism are not always valued or sustained. In fact, educators are routinely bombarded by programs that position literacy as a simple, one-size-fits-all practice. This resource will help pre-K-3 teachers create and interpret literacy teaching processes, practices, an...
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by Luke Rodesiler (Author), Jeffrey D. Wilhelm (Foreword by)Learn how to use literature and informational texts related to sports as an alternative or a supplement to a canon-centric English classroom. This practical book promotes an instructional approach that honors students' knowledge of, interests in, and experiences with sports culture to advance literacy learning. Informed by his own experiences in high school classrooms, the author documents the distinct methods employed by four second...
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by James Owen Dorsey (Author)"Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children."-Crazy Horse, Chief Lakota (Sioux) Native Americans (1890)The Cegiha Language (1890), by Rev. James Owen Dorsey is the sixth volume of a nine-part series entitled Contributions to North American Ethnology (all available from Cosimo Classics). This comprehensive book is comprised of myths, stories, and historical texts the author collected from various tribes of t...
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by Ingrid Paulsen (Author)Do speakers' identity constructions influence the emergence of new varieties of a language? This question is at the heart of a debate about how the process of the emergence of postcolonial varieties of English can best be modeled. This volume contributes to the debate by linking it to models and theories proposed by anthropological linguists, sociolinguists and discourse linguists who view identity as a social and cultural phenomenon that is produced through linguist...
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by Wine Tesseur (Author)This book analyses the translation policies and practices of international non-governmental organisations (INGOs), engaging in critical questions around the ways in which translation can redress power dynamics between INGOs and the people they work with, and the role of activist researchers in contributing to these debates.The volume examines the duality of translation and interpreting in INGOs, traditionally undervalued and under-resourced while simultaneously acknowl...
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by Instituto Cervantes (Author), Marta Albelda Marco (Author)Saber hablar explica con claridad, amenidad y rigor las pautas necesarias para expresar lo que pensamos; facilita la comunicación entre los seres; amplia los procedimientos de generación y precisión de ideas, de documentación y de planificación. Vivimos rodeados de palabras, inmersos en un tráfico constante de expresiones en un mundo que es diálogo por naturaleza. Alguna vez se ha parado a pensar en el poder que le confiere el habla...
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by Melanie Faith (Author)You've been writing and honing your craft for months or years and are curious about seeking publication for your latest project. Perhaps you wonder about the next steps in the process. Look no further!This book has a little something for every writer interested in expanding their audience and sharing their writing with readers, from pre-writing and writing your drafts to choosing your market and the writing life before, during, and after publication.Topics covered inc...
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by Michael McCarthy (Author)Author BiographyMichael McCarthy, MA & PhD (Cambridge University), has more than 50 years' experience of teaching English and Applied Linguistics in language schools, universities and institutes of adult education. He is the Author/co-author of 50+ books on English and the teaching of English and 100+ academic articles. He is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics in the School of English, University of Nottingham, UK. He has also served as Visiting Professo...
