Language Arts & Linguistics & Literacy

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Arts in Corrections: Thirty Years of Annotated Publications - Paperback

$84.22

by Grady Hillman (Author)In Arts in Corrections, the author--a poet, translator and teacher--takes readers on a chronological journey through an annotated selection of 24 of his own publications from 1981 to 2014 which recount his experiences teaching, consulting and documenting US arts programs in prisons, jails and juvenile facilities.Anyone interested in corrections and arts-in-corrections will be drawn in by the poetic sensibility Hillman brings to his writing. Readers will gain a histori...

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Et Tu, Brute?: The Best Latin Lines Ever - Hardcover

$20.00

by Harry Mount (Author), John Davie (Author)Harry Mount and John Davie unlock the wisdom of the past in this light-hearted and fascinating book, revealing how ancient Latin can help us to live better in the present. There are so many Latin phrases in everyday use that often we use them without understanding the background and context within which they were actually used. 'Carpe diem'; 'Stet'; 'Memento mori'; 'Et tu Brute' - examples would fill a book. And often these phrases are also used in ...

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Matchmaking in the Archive: 19 Conversations with the Dead and 3 Encounters with Ghosts - Paperback

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by E. G. Crichton (Author), Jonathan D. Katz (Contribution by), Chris Vargas (Contribution by)Though today's LGBTQ people owe a lot to the generations who came before them, their historical inheritances are not always obvious. Working with the archives of the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Historical Society, artist E.G. Crichton decided to do something to bridge this generation gap. She selected 19 innovative LGBTQ artists, writers, and musicians, then paired each of them with a deceased p...

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Unsafe Words: Queering Consent in the #Metoo Era - Paperback

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by Shantel Gabrieal Buggs (Editor), Trevor Hoppe (Editor), Angela Jones (Contribution by)Queer people may not have invented sex, but queers have long been pioneers in imagining new ways to have it. Yet their voices have been largely absent from the #MeToo conversation. What can queer people learn from the #MeToo conversation? And what can queer communities teach the rest of the world about ethical sex? This provocative book brings together academics, activists, artists, and sex workers to tac...

Accounting for Authors: Financial Analysis, Budgeting, Costs, and Margin Made Simple - Paperback

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by D. F. Hart (Author), Mark Leslie Lefebvre (Author)Do you avoid thinking about money as a writer?Does the thought of analyzing finances or balancing a budget turn you off?Are you looking for a way to embrace accounting principles to help you make the most of your author earnings? Managing finances can be difficult for anyone, but writers often face unique challenges when it comes to budgeting, calculating production and marketing costs, understanding margin, and forecasting. Whether you are...

Easy English Grammar Step-By-Step, Second Edition - Paperback

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by Phyllis Dutwin (Author), Jane R. Burstein (Author)This step-by-step approach helps you learn the rules of grammar quickly and easily!The English language is full of rules, exceptions, and often confusing concepts, and for many students, English grammar is a difficult subject that only gets tougher as more concepts are learned. That's why Easy English Grammar Step-by-Step, Second Edition is so effective at helping you succeed where other resources and guides fail. Using an original, step-by...

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Out of Silence, Sound. Out of Nothing, Something.: A Writers Guide - Paperback

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by Susan Griffin (Author)In an elegant but contemporary voice, award-winning author Susan Griffin breaks down the creative process step-by-step, guiding the reader through a practical course in how to begin and end a work of literature, whether fiction or nonfiction, poetry, or prose The distinguished author of more than twenty-two books, many award-winning, Susan Griffin distills daily wisdom garnered from more than five decades teaching creative writing and editing manuscripts, as well as f...

A Rhetoric of Becoming: USAmerican Women in Qatar - Paperback

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by Nancy Small (Author)Studies in Rhetorics and FeminismsEditors: Cheryl Glenn and Shirley Wilson Logan A Rhetoric of Becoming: USAmerican Women in Qatar takes Western feminism abroad into the complexity of transnational spaces. Working at interdisciplinary intersections of rhetoric, feminist theory, narrative inquiry, and expat studies, Nancy Small interweaves conversational interviews with observations of the author's own six years living in the Middle East. A shared lifeworld of paradoxic...

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The Canadian Guide to Creative Writing and Publishing - Paperback

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by Patricia Westerhof (Author)The essential guide for Canadian writers seeking to have their work published today.How do you get your writing published in Canada? What are the industry standards for publishable work and how do you reach them? This lively, practical guide shows you how to think more creatively, cultivate a strong writing voice, and make your sentences powerful. It explains the elements of style and offers writing prompts to help you apply what you learn. It gives strategies fo...

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by Claudia Manley (Author), Abi Slone (Author)Acting as a comprehensive primer for the field of fashion writing, this book provides an accessible entry point for readers from diverse backgrounds, giving them a clear understanding of the intricacies of fashion writing, the outlets in which it appears, and the possibilities beyond the page. Fashion Writing: A Primer lays out a framework for various types of fashion writing (runway and trend reports, service pieces, features, and more), while of...

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Hsk Vocabulary Handbook: Level 1-3 (Second Edition) - Paperback

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by Fltrp International Chinese Researc N/A (Editor)HSK Vocabulary Handbook can help readers prepare for HSK exams or study Chinese independently. It covers all the vocabulary of the newly released HSK Test Syllabus developed in 2015, and the vocabulary is organized in different levels and arranged in alphabetical order. Notes to each word include Pinyin, parts of speech, English translations, collocations, and example sentences. For some of the vocabulary, expansion words, synonyms or antonym...

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Hsk Vocabulary Handbook: Level 6 (Second Edition) - Paperback

$22.95

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Hsk Grammar Analysis and Exercises: Level 1-6 - Paperback

$15.95

by Liping Jiang (Editor)HSK Grammar Analysis and Exercises is one of the HSK Test Syllabus Interpretation Series. It provides a detailed analysis of the HSK Grammar Syllabus and is to help learners to better understand the grammar points in HSK 1 to HSK 6. The book includes bilingual explanation, usage format, example sentences from HSK tests, bilingual synonym discrimination, various exercises, and usage expansion.Author BiographyProfessor Jiang Liping is teaching at the College of Advanced ...

Emerging Writing Research from the Russian Federation - Paperback

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by L. Ashley Squires (Editor)In the early 2010s, Russian institutions of higher education began responding to the need to internationalize Russian academia through faculty publications and academic mobility programs. The promotion of academic writing courses and writing centers based on international models has been a critical part of that effort, leading to the rapid growth of a field of teaching and scholarship that had not received much attention. This book explores these developments thro...

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Try This: Research Methods for Writers - Paperback

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by Jennifer Clary-Lemon (Author), Derek N. Mueller (Author), Kate Pantelides (Author)Try This explores interdisciplinary research methods employed in research in writing studies but rarely drawn upon in undergraduate courses. This shifts writing instruction from a model of knowledge delivery and solitary research to a pedagogy of knowledge-making and an acknowledgment of research writing as collective, overlapping, and distributed. Each chapter is organized around methods to approach a partic...

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I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like: A Comprehensive Compilation of History's Greatest Analogies, Metaphors, and Similes - Hardcover

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by Mardy Grothe (Author)The murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.Describing something by relating it to another thing is the essence of metaphorical thought. It is one of the oldest activities of humankind--and one of the most impressive when done skillfully. Throughout history, many masters of metaphor have crafted observations that are so specta...

Public Speaking and Presentations Demystified - Paperback

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by Melody Templeton (Author)Take the mystery out of effective, fear-free public speaking This latest book in the Demystified series takes the confusion out of preparing for and delivering speeches and presentations. Public Speaking and Presentations Demystified walks you step-by-step through the fundamentals of the subject and provides you with techniques for effective speaking, avoiding common errors, and overcoming stage fright. With these skills, you will feel confident in business and soc...

78 Reasons Why Your Book May Never Be Published and 14 Reasons Why It Just Might - Paperback

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by Pat Walsh (Author)For the hundreds of thousands who buy writers' guides every year, at last there's one that tells the ugly truth: writers who can't get published are usually making a lot of mistakes. This honest, often funny, book shows them how to identify their own missteps, stop listening to bad advice, and get to work. Drawing on his experience as founding editor of MacAdam/Cage, Pat Walsh gives writers what they need--specific, straightforward feedback to help them overcome bad habit...

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by William Harmless (Author)Mystics are path-breaking religious practitioners who claim to have experience the infinite, word-defying Mystery that is God. Many have been gifted writers with an uncanny ability to communicate the great realities of life with both a theologian's precision and a poet's lyricism. They use words to jolt us into recognizing ineffable mysteries surging beneath the surface of our lives and within the depths of our hearts and, by their artistry, can awaken us to see an...

International Law and the Use of Force by National Liberation Movements - Paperback

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by Heather A. Wilson (Author)Beginning with an explanation of the traditional tenets of international laws of armed conflict, this book explores the idea that national liberation movements may legitimately resort to the use of force, and examines the application of the humanitarian law of armed conflict in wars of national liberation. Number of Pages: 224 Dimensions: 0.47 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: October 30, 2003

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A History of the Scots Language - Paperback

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by Robert McColl Millar (Author)This book provides a thorough yet approachable history of the Scots language, a close relative of Standard English with around 1.5 million speakers in Scotland and several thousand in Ireland, according to the 2011 census. Despite the long history of Scots as a language of high literature, it has been somewhat neglected and has often been treated as a dialect of Standard English. In this book, Robert McColl Millar explores both sociolinguistic and structural de...

Rhetorical Style: The Uses of Language in Persuasion - Paperback

$140.22

by Jeanne Fahnestock (Author)A comprehensive guide to the language of argument, Rhetorical Style offers a renewed appreciation of the persuasive power of the English language. Drawing on key texts from the rhetorical tradition, as well as on newer approaches from linguistics and literary stylistics, Fahnestock demonstrates how word choice, sentence form, and passage construction can combine to create effective spoken and written arguments. With examples from political speeches, non-fiction wo...

Dialectical Readings: Three Types of Interpretations - Paperback

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by Stephen N. Dunning (Author)Interpretation pervades human thinking. Whether perception or experience, spoken word or written theory, whatever enters our consciousness must be interpreted in order to be understood. Every area of inquiry--art and literature, philosophy and religion, history and the social sciences, even many aspects of the natural sciences--involves countless opportunities to interpret the object of inquiry according to very different paradigms. These paradigms may derive fro...

Tax Evasion and the Rule of Law in Latin America: The Political Culture of Cheating and Compliance in Argentina and Chile - Paperback

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by Marcelo Bergman (Author)Compares the tax systems in Argentina and Chile. Examines differences in law abidance between the two countries and the effectiveness of legal enforcement.Author BiographyMarcelo Bergman is Associate Professor in the Department of Legal Studies at CIDE in Mexico City and the director of PESED (Program for the Study of Security and the Rule of Law). He has served as a consultant to tax administrations in Argentina, Chile, and Mexico. Number of Pages: 280 Dimensions: ...

U.S. Mexican Spanish West of the Mississippi: Social Context and Linguistic Features - Paperback

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by Daniel J. Villa (Author), Jens H. Clegg (Author) U.S. Mexican Spanish West of the Mississippi proposes a macro-dialect of the most widely spoken Spanish variety in the western United States from a number of social and linguistic angles. This book is unique in its focus on this one variety of Spanish, which allows for a closer investigation of the social context and linguistic features through a number of different topics. Comprised of 13 chapters divided into two sections, this textbook pr...

Sound-On-Film: Interviews with Creators of Film Sound - Hardcover

$171.00

by Vincent LoBrutto (Author)Sound-On-Film contains interviews with 27 prominent men and women who discuss their careers and the art and craft of film sound. These sound creators represent many of the crafts working in film sound, including production sound, sound editing, sound design, automatic dialogue replacement (ADR), Foley, re-recording mixing, and sound engineering. The interviews are presented in an order that attempts to give the reader a historical perspective on the development of ...

Economic Considerations for Libraries, Archives and Museums - Paperback

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by Lorraine A. Stuart (Editor), Thomas F. R. Clareson (Editor), Joyce Ray (Editor)Economic Considerations for Libraries, Archives and Museums provides insight into the economics of collaboration across Libraries, Archives, and Museums (LAMs) and cultural heritage funding.Author BiographyAssociate Prof. Lorraine A. Stuart is Head of Special Collections/Curator of Historical Manuscripts and Archives at the University of Southern Mississippi. Previously, she directed the archival program at the ...

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Dual Language Instruction from A to Z: Practical Guidance for Teachers and Administrators - Paperback

$72.83

by Else Hamayan (Author), Fred Genesee (Author), Nancy Cloud (Author)In this comprehensive guide to developing, implementing, and improving dual-language programs, internationally recognized experts Else Hamayan, Fred Genesee and Nancy Cloud address every aspect of a successful dual-language program, including: specific strategies for building community support for the program guidance for choosing a program model and planning curriculum across grade levels best-practice teaching strategies...

Story Matters: Teaching Teens to Use the Tools of Narrative to Argue and Inform - Paperback

$61.00

by Liz Prather (Author)When we read a nonfiction text, what is the difference between one that keeps us interested and one that merely informs? Especially when the topic may be a bit, well, dry? The difference is narrative. The writer who threads a story throughout her text - using the tools of human connection, of narrative - is the writer who brings information to life. The argument she makes is compelling and real, because we care about the story within her story. This writer understands t...

Everyday Linguistics: An Introduction to the Study of Language - Paperback

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by Joanne Cavallaro (Author)This innovative introduction to linguistics connects language structure to everyday use, culture, and context, making the technicalities of language structure accessible, vivid and engaging.Author BiographyJoanne Cavallaro is a professor emerita of English at St. Catherine University, Minnesota, U.S.A., where she has taught linguistics for 30 years. Number of Pages: 248 Dimensions: 0.55 x 10 x 7 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: August 21, 2023

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Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech - Paperback

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by Edward Sapir (Author)An expert, accessible study, this book asks and answers fundamental questions about how language works, its regional variations, and its cultural and historical roles. The author relates linguistic issues to a broad spectrum of other areas, including the part played by language in the nature of thought and in artistic expression. No finer introduction to the subject exists, and this work's direct style and thought-provoking topics extend its appeal beyond the classroom...

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Scoops: Now a Major Movie on Netflix - Paperback

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by Sam McAlister (Author)The secrets of a former Newsnight producer who found her way to Buckingham Palace 'A cracking read' Lorraine Kelly 'Riveting' Sunday Telegraph 'Behind every great interview is a great booker - Sam McAlister is one of the unsung heroes of television news' Piers Morgan Sam McAlister is the woman who clinched the 2019 interview with Prince Andrew, described as 'a plane crashing into an oil tanker, causing a tsunami, triggering a nuclear explosion'. She is many things bes...