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Thinking Like a Generalist: Skills for Navigating a Complex World - Paperback

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by Angela Kohnen (Author), Wendy Saul (Author)What can we teach kids today that will have utility ten or fifteen years from now? Angela Kohnen and Wendy Saul propose an approach to information literacy that goes beyond the teaching of discreet, easily outdated skills. Instead they use activity to help students build identities as curious individuals empowered to ask their own questions and able to navigate their information-filled world in pursuit of credible answers. A generalist is curious,...

Hope and a Future: Perspectives on the Impact That Librarians and Libraries Have on Our World - Hardcover

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by Renee F. Hill (Editor)In a world that often questions the value of libraries and librarianship, this collection of reflective essays and future-focused research emphasizes the ways in which being an information professional continues to be a rewarding and vital profession. Including sixteen chapters written by library practitioners, researchers, and educators, this book covers topics, among others, such as the impact of K-12 school librarians on media literacy, the community power of publ...

How To Tell A Great Story: A book for the novice storyteller looking to learn the basics of storytelling in a weekend. - Paperback

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by Aneeta Sundararaj (Author)How To Tell A Great Story will equip you with powerful storytelling techniques that master storytellers have used throughout time to amaze and engage their audiences. This simple, but powerful beginner's guidebook, makes learning storytelling techniques easy and explains things in simple language. When you read this book, you will learn how to start telling your own story quickly and effortlessly; construct a fascinating, well-structured story from scratch; use po...

Teaching Critical Reading and Writing in the Era of Fake News - Hardcover

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by Leonard Podis (Other), Alice S. Horning (Other), Ellen C. Carillo (Editor)This collection offers support for instructors who are concerned about students' critical literacy abilitiesAuthor BiographyEllen C. Carillo is Professor of English and a Writing Coordinator at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Securing a Place for Reading in Composition: The Importance of Teaching for Transfer; A Writer's Guide to Mindful Reading; Teaching Readers in Post-Truth America; and the MLA...

The Makerspace Librarian's Sourcebook - Paperback

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by Ellyssa Kroski (Editor)Library makerspaces continue to thrive, drawing new patrons in and engaging them as never before. This hands-on sourcebook edited by technology expert Kroski includes everything libraries need to know about the major topics, tools, and technologies relevant to makerspaces today. Packed with cutting edge instruction and advice from the field's most tech-savvy innovators, this collection leads librarians through how to start their own makerspace from the ground up, co...

5 Languages Sight Word Flashcards Fluency Reading Phrasebook for Kids- English German French Spanish Arabic: 120 Kids flash cards high frequency words - Paperback

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by Carol Smith M. Ed (Author)Reading is a fundamental learning process, and in order to be successful in any endeavor, a student needs to be able to grasp these sight words early on. Without a cognitive understanding of how to recognize and use the sight words in sentences and phrases, a student may be missing out on the most crucial building block of the learning process. How do we help children do this? There are many ways to embed vocabulary into children's daily lives. Engaging in convers...

5 Languages Sight Word Flashcards Fluency Reading Phrasebook for Kids - English German French Spanish Afrikaans: 120 Kids flash cards high frequency w - Paperback

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Elite Authenticity: Remaking Distinction in Food Discourse - Paperback

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by Gwynne Mapes (Author)Food plays a central role in the production of culture and is likewise a powerful resource for the representation and organization of social order. Status is asserted or contested through both the materiality of food (its substance, its raw economics, and its manufacture or preparation) and through its discursivity (its marketing, staging, and the way it is depicted and discussed). This intersection of materiality and discursivity makes food an ideal site for examining...

You Don't Want to Be Published (and Other Things Nobody Tells You When You First Start Writing) - Paperback

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by Peter M. Ball (Author)In these essays, Peter M. Ball-Aurealis award-winning author and founder of Brian Jar Press-explores the seemingly unintuitive lessons he's learned over twenty years of writing, educating other writers, and running writing conferences attended by hundreds of authors at every level of experience.Drawn from some of his most popular blog posts, author presentations, and articles, You Don't Want To Be Published sets out to bring the kind of conversations established write...

Kindergarten Reading: YAY IT'S TIME TO READ! - Improve Your Child's Reading and Writing Skills With This Kindergarten Workbook Age 5-6 - Paperback

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by Sharon McLean (Author)TEACH YOUR KIDS TO READ WITH THIS FUN AND EDUCATIONAL BOOK TODAY Get Your Kids Excited About Reading And Help Them Learn About Feelings, School, Family, and Simple Life Principles That Will Get Them Through Their First Grades With Ease. This Book Also Includes 50 Insightful and Enlightening Poems To Broaden Their Knowledge And Help Them Become Better Children.In This Book Your Kids Will Learn: How To Recognise The Sounds of Words Activities That Help Them With Spoken...

Bedtime Stories for Kids Age 10: A Collection of Fantastic stories to let Your Kids discover Magical Tales Full of Exciting Characters and Engaging Pl - Paperback

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by Olivia Collins (Author)Are you looking for an outstanding and enchanting compilation of bedtime stories to help your children recover their natural sleep, relax, and have fun? Would you like to feel more comfortable as a parent knowing your kids are learning and enjoying and sleeping better? If yes, you should get this book right now The book contains fantastic tales that, for sure, children will love If you want to know more about the content of this book, keep reading The mental and p...

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by Sam Pickering (Author)Terrible Sanity is wondrous sanity. Pickering's essays are acetaminophen for hippish days. "Life doesn't have a neat beginning and a tidy end," Roger, a character in V. S. Naipaul's Half a Life, says. "Life is always going on." In this collection, Pickering depicts the joy and sadness of life's going on. He observes that great knowledge often brings small pleasure while the small knowledge that all people experience brings great pleasure. A dental hygienist tells him ...

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The Year's Best Sports Writing 2021 - Paperback

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by Glenn Stout (Editor)A must-read collection featuring the best in sports journalism Glenn Stout, founding editor of the Best American Sports Writing, has curated an essential anthology showcasing incredible feats and diverse perspectives across the world of sports. Selected from a wide range of newspapers, magazines, and digital publications during the previous year, these stories capture enduring moments while celebrating the craft of writing at its most sublime. This extraordinary coll...

Viking Mediologies: A New History of Skaldic Poetics - Paperback

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by Kate Heslop (Author)Viking Mediologies is a study of pre-modern multimedia rooted in the embodied poetic practice of Viking Age skalds. Prior study of the skaldic tradition has focused on authorship--distinctions of poetic style, historical contexts, and attention to the oeuvres of the skalds whose names are preserved in the written tradition. Kate Heslop reconsiders these not as texts but as pieces in a pre-modern media landscape, focusing on poetry's medial capacity to embody memory, vis...

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by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (Author)This book provides an in-depth typological account of the forms, functions, and histories of serial verb constructions. Serial verbs, in which several verbs combine to form a single predicate, describe what is conceptualized as a single event. The verbs in the construction have the same tense, aspect, mood, modality, and evidentiality values, cannot be negated or questioned separately, and usually share the same subject and object. They are a powerful means ...

Unlocking the Poem: A Guide to Discovering Meaning through Understanding and Analysis - Paperback

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by Martin Beller (Author), Donna Tanzer (Author)The limited number of poetry resources for high school students all present their subjects by way of techniques: poems are included in chapters focused on "metaphor," "tone," or "sound." But no great poem was ever written to illustrate a lesson on metaphor. The way to understand a poem is to get to know it as itself, rather than as an example of poetic technique. Unlocking the Poem treats each poem as an independent literary event, just as it wa...

Chronicles of Dissent: Interviews with David Barsamian, 1984-1996 - Hardcover

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by Noam Chomsky (Author), David Barsamian (Author)An Accessible Overview of Noam Chomsky's Political Thought. Number of Pages: 664 Dimensions: 1.63 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 08, 2022

Practice Thai Writing Using Cheesy Thai Pick-Up Line Phrase: Learning Thai language extremely fast and stress-free using a great collection of success - Paperback

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by Adisak Mapho (Author)Great for learning and practicing Thai consonants, vowels and tones to succeed writing Thai alphabets. To help you overcome the difficulty of learning an alphabet that is entirely alien to your brain. With this chat-up line book you will learn Thai Pick Up Lines that work to break the ice, and to bring a smile to the Thai girl or guy you approach. Number of Pages: 194 Dimensions: 0.41 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: April 27, 2021

In Pursuit of English: Language and Subjectivity in Neoliberal South Korea - Paperback

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by Joseph Sung-Yul Park (Author)In Pursuit of English traces how the English language became an object of heated pursuit amid South Korea's rapid neoliberalization, creating the so-called "English fever" of the 1990s and 2000s. Joseph Sung-Yul Park demonstrates that English gained prominence not because of the language's supposed economic value, but because of the anxieties, insecurities, and moral desire instilled by neoliberal Korean society. Park shows how English came to be seen as an ind...

International Students in Higher Education: Language, Identity, and Experience from a Holistic Perspective - Hardcover

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by Vander Tavares (Author)This book sheds light on lived experience, identity construction, and language acquisition in presenting the portraits of four multilingual international students and of their university. It approaches the students' experiences from a critical and holistic perspective that showcases experiences of challenge, resilience, and success.Author BiographyVander Tavares is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Faculty of Education at Hskolen i Innlandet (Inland Norway Unive...

Classic Tales: Level 1: The Three Billy Goats Gruff Activity Book & Play - Paperback

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Children love stories. Bring the magic of good storytelling into your classroom with Classic Tales, and they'll love their English lessons too. This new edition of the award-winning series uses traditional tales to bring English to life through more than 30 beautifully illustrated stories - now with accompanying: * e-Books * Audio Packs * Activity Books and Plays Project the story and accompanying audio onto the Interactive Whiteboard - a digital 'Big Book'! Students can also watch and listen...

A New Critical Approach to the History of Palestine: Palestine History and Heritage Project 1 - Paperback

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by Ingrid Hjelm (Editor), Hamdan Taha (Editor), Ilan Pappe (Editor)A New Critical Approach to the History of Palestine discusses prospects andmethods for a comprehensive, evidence-based history of Palestine with acritical use of recent historical, archaeological and anthropological methods.This history is not an exclusive history but one that is ethnically andculturally inclusive, a history of and for all peoples who have lived in Palestine.After an introductory essay offering a strategy for ...

A Descriptive Grammar of Hindko, Panjabi, and Saraiki - Paperback

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by Elena Bashir (Author), Thomas J. Conners (Author), Brook Hefright (Contribution by)Hindko, Panjabi, and Saraiki are three closely related, geographically contiguous languages of Pakistan. Together, they are the native language of some 125 million people. Panjabi alone ranks among the 15 most widely spoken languages in the world. The Grammar of Hindko, Panjabi, and Saraiki provides a comparative description of these three language varieties, focusing, where possible, on the variety of Hindk...

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by Dirtysacred (Author)In these tankas, dirtysacred explores the Spring and all of it's facets internal and external. The tanka, a classical Japanese poetry form, is an ideal form to examine these ideas; but like in his chapbook, GOD'S TIRED PLUMBERS, these tanka -- traditionally understood in English as a 31 syllable style -- aren't your elementary school teacher's tanka. He examines the form itself as he examines the Spring: with lightness and focus. Number of Pages: 56 Dimensions: 0.12 x 8...

The Scrabble Vocabulary: Explore The Indispensable Cheat Words For Scrabble: Into Bizarre Words - Paperback

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by Ruben Corid (Author)If you are a fan of the Scrabble game, then this book is for you.This book contains 1000 words for scrabble and words with friends - a perfect guide for people who play word games to win Number of Pages: 164 Dimensions: 0.38 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 25, 2021

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Developing Tactics for Listening Third Edition Teachers Resource - Paperback

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by Oxford (Author) Dimensions: 0.3 x 11.4 x 8.6 IN Publication Date: November 14, 2011

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Oxford Bookworms 3e Fact File 1 Usain Bolt Adaptation - Paperback

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by Raynham (Author) Dimensions: 0.33 x 8.6 x 5.15 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: July 01, 2019

The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea; Travel and Trade in the Indian Ocean - Paperback

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by Wilfred Harvey 1874- Tr Schoff (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 ...

The Groundwork of the Christian Virtues: a Course of Lectures - Paperback

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by William Bernard Abp Ullathorne (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 ...

The Languages of the Seat of War in the East: With a Survey of the Three Families of Language: Semitic, Arian, and Turanian - Paperback

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by F. Max (Friedrich Max) 1823-19 M?ler (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 enou...

The History of Genghizcan the Great, First Emperor of the Antient Moguls and Tartars, in Four Books: Containing His Life, Advancement and Conquests, W - Hardcover

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by Fran輟is 1622-1695 P騁is (Author), Fran輟is 1653-1713 P騁is de la Croix (Created by), Penelope 1679-1731 Aubin (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...

A Catalogue of the Chinese Translation of the Buddhist Tripitaka: the Sacred Canon of the Buddhists in China and Japan - Paperback

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by Bunyiu 1849-1927 Nanjio (Author), India Office Library (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...