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Africa's Media Image in the 21st Century: From the Heart of Darkness to Africa Rising - Paperback

$85.84

by Mel Bunce (Editor), Suzanne Franks (Editor), Chris Paterson (Editor) Africa's Media Image in the 21st Century is the first book in over twenty years to examine the international media's coverage of sub-Saharan Africa. It brings together leading researchers and prominent journalists to explore representation of the continent, and the production of that image, especially by international news media. The book highlights factors that have transformed the global media system, changing whose per...

Psychomachia; The War of the Soul: Or, the Battle of the Virtues, and Vices. Translated from Aur. Prudentius Clemens. - Paperback

$25.56

by Prudentius (Author) The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are availab...

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Sayings & Their Stories: Uncovering the Origins of 200 Common Phrases - Paperback

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by Campbell Jessop (Author)From discovering why coffee is called a "cup of Joe" to the comical story of how "paint the town red" came to be, Sayings & Their Stories will take readers on a fascinating and entertaining journey through the history of common phrases we use every day and how they have changed over time. Through fun anecdotes, engaging stories, and surprising histories, Sayings & Their Stories helps readers deepen their understanding of the many colorful expressions we use ...

Promote Reading Gains with Differentiated Instruction: Ready-To-Use Lessons for Grades 3-5 - Paperback

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by Laura Robb (Author), David L. Harrison (Author), Timothy Rasinski (Author)Accelerate learning gains using differentiated instruction! This professional teaching resource supports educators with easy-to-use lessons that strengthen students' reading skills. This book provides teachers with 36 lessons that support differentiated instruction in grades 3, 4, and 5. The lessons focus on four advanced reading skills: visualize, infer, draw conclusions, and compare/contrast. Written by literacy ex...

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by Alessandro Baricco (Author)Baricco reflects on the narratives and tries to unravel their mysteries. What is its final sense and its internal mechanics? The narrative has something of a hieroglyph and something of a map. Its alchemy emerges in the elusive and enigmatic borders between magic and optical illusion, between the mystical event and the chemical process. Can narration be taught? Can you learn to narrate? Number of Pages: 112 Dimensions: 0.39 x 8.27 x 5.2 IN Publication Date: July ...

The Antiracist English Language Arts Classroom - Paperback

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by Keisha Rembert (Author)How can you incorporate antiracist practices into specific subject areas? This practical guide answers that question and provides a road map for introducing antiracism into the English language arts (ELA) classroom with teacher-friendly tools and strategies. Drawing on foundational and cutting-edge knowledge of antiracism, expert Keisha Rembert responds to the following questions: What does antiracism look like in the English language arts classroom, given the uniqu...

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Storylines: How Words Shape Our World - Paperback

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by J. Edward Chamberlin (Author)A brilliant and timely exploration of the power of stories and songs--from both the distant past and today's news--counters despair and disillusionment with hope and possibility. Stories are our first and last survival strategy. For tens of thousands of years, they have told humanity what we know and what we don't know, what to wonder about and what to watch out for. We draw comfort from our great myths, and from the storytelling of our contemporaries (includin...

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Train Your Brain For Success - Paperback

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by Roger Seip (Author)Train your mind to achieve new levels of success! Professionals and entrepreneurs do a great job of keeping up appearances. But if they're honest with themselves, they're short on living the life they really want. Train Your Brain For Success provides the perspective to analyze how you got where you are and, more importantly, learn the skills to get where you truly desire to be. Train Your Brain For Success explains specific ways of thinking and acting that will get anyo...

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Writing Instruction for Success in College and in the Workplace - Paperback

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by Charles A. MacArthur (Author), Zoi A. Philippakos (Author), Dolores Perin (Foreword by)Discover an innovative, evidence-based method for preparing students for the demands of college writing called Supporting Strategic Writers (SSW). The goal of SSW is to help students become independent learners who understand the value of strategies and can apply them flexibly in future courses and the workplace. The text provides genre-based strategies for rhetorical analysis, planning, evaluation and r...

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It's All Greek: Borrowed Words and Their Histories - Hardcover

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by Alexander Tulloch (Author)Most of us are aware that the words for some of our most important concepts stem from ancient Greek roots--words such as geometry, democracy, technology, and aesthetics. But lesser known is the wide and varied scope of old Athenian influence on the English language, which extends to some of our most mundane, run-of-the-mill words--words like purse, sketch, and marmalade. This book offers a word-by-word look at the influence of Greek on everyday words in English, ...

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Between the Commas: Sentence Instruction That Builds Confident Writers (and Writing Teachers) - Paperback

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by Martin Brandt (Author)For too long, sentence instruction has been heavy on correctness and terminology (as in "mind your grammar") and light on play and experimentation. Or it has been abandoned altogether. In this lively book, Marty Brandt sets out to change all that. It is partly the story of a teacher hitting a plateau in mid-career, deeply frustrated by the flatness of his students' writing, particularly as they struggled with more academic tasks. But it also tells the story of importa...

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Cambridge Checkpoint Lower Secondary English Student's Book 8: Hodder Education Group - Paperback

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by John Reynolds (Author)This series has been endorsed by Cambridge International to support the curriculum framework from 2020. Put your trust in a market-leading approach that has been used by teachers for over 10 years. Written by experienced author John Reynolds, Cambridge Checkpoint Lower Secondary English offers full coverage of the new Cambridge Lower Secondary English curriculum framework (0861). - Boost confidence and test understanding: Questions within the chapters will help consol...

Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century, New Edition - Paperback

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by Jane Rhodes (Author)Mary Ann Shadd Cary was a courageous and outspoken nineteenth-century African American who used the press and public speaking to fight slavery and oppression in the United States and Canada. Part of the small free black elite who used their education and limited freedoms to fight for the end of slavery and racial oppression, Shadd Cary is best known as the first African American woman to publish and edit a newspaper in North America. But her importance does not stop the...

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by Christopher Cannon (Editor), Steven Justice (Editor)An interdisciplinary exploration of how writers have conveyed sound through text.Edited by Christopher Cannon and Steven Justice, The Sound of Writing explores the devices and techniques that writers have used to represent sound and how they have changed over time. Contributors consider how writing has channeled sounds as varied as the human voice and the buzzing of bees using not only alphabets but also the resources of the visual and mu...

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The Six Academic Writing Assignments: Designing the User's Journey - Paperback

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by Jim Burke (Author)Writing assignments are road maps-or they should be. They guide the writer on a journey. They lay out a process, envision a destination. They are designed. As Jim Burke explains it: "What we are really doing when we create a year's worth of writing assignments, of experiences, is designing a story. Each day's class a sentence, each week a paragraph, each unit a chapter in the story of the year students spend in our classes. And as with any good story, there needs to be te...

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The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in English - Paperback

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by Sandra M. Gilbert (Editor), Susan Gubar (Editor)Now, the much-anticipated Third Edition responds to the wealth of writing by women across the globe with the inclusion of 61 new authors (219 in all) whose diverse works span six centuries. A more flexible two-volume format and a versatile new companion reader make the Third Edition an even better teaching tool. "As diversity itself has shaped the evolution of feminist criticism, from its early preoccupation with women's shared experiences to...

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Reading Comprehension: Paired Text, Grade 4 Teacher Resource - Paperback

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by Evan-Moor Corporation (Author)Prepare your students to succeed on state tests! Test-prep made easy! Reading Comprehension: Paired Text grade 4 is an easy-to-use resource that includes 8 paired text units with everything you need to practice reading comprehension skills. Use Evan-Moor's grade 4 paired text units to provide students with opportunities to compare multiple viewpoints and to integrate information. Units contain two selections that are focused around an essential question. Eac...

Mantha: Alchemies of the Cultural Turn - Hardcover

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by Mark K. Warford (Author)Set against the rich and troubled tapestry of the West's Greco-Roman inheritance, the Sanskrit root 'manth/-', which roughly translates to "a churn" ('mantha') or "to churn" ('manth') in Sanskrit, serves as a cauldron into which age-old binaries are blended. A mantha of the Greek metaphysical notion of the One and the Many drives explorations of a variety of themes, including the Feminine and the Masculine, Self and Other, East and West, Heroes and Monsters, Olympia...

Collocations, Corpora and Language Learning - Paperback

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by Pawel Szudarski (Author)This Element provides a systematic overview and synthesis of corpus-based research into collocations focusing on the learning and use of collocations by second language (L2) users. Underlining the importance of collocation as a key notion within the field of corpus linguistics, the text offers a state-of-the-art account of the main findings related to the applications of corpora and corpus-based measures for defining, identifying and analysing collocations as relate...

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Lessons of the Pandemic: Disruption, Innovation, and What Schools Need to Move Forward - Paperback

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by David T. Marshall (Author), Tim Pressley (Author), Harry Anthony Patrinos (Foreword by)The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on K-12 education have been pervasive and profound. This engaging book concisely outlines the current crisis in schools in the core areas of student learning, student and teacher mental health, and teacher burnout. Synthesizing original research, David T. Marshall and Tim Pressley offer in-depth descriptions of the disruptions caused by prolonged school closures and r...

Interlingual Readings of Political Discourse: Translation, Interpreting and Contrastive Analysis - Paperback

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by Jun Pan (Volume Editor), Sandra L. Halverson (Volume Editor), Jeremy Munday (Volume Editor)This volume provides a timely reflection of this growing interdisciplinary field of translation, interpreting and political discourse. It includes very recent work carried out by researchers from a range of countries. The chapters illustrate new trends and perspectives in the interdisciplinary research field, and extends previous research. The volume covers both translation and interpreting modes in ...

Hummingbird: Messages from My Ancestors - Hardcover

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by Diana Raab (Author)Explore the depths of love and loss across three generations of womenHummingbird is a spiritual memoir about the connection between three generations of women--the author, her mother and her beloved maternal grandmother whose wisdoms taught the author how to exist in the world by following her intuition and listening to her heart. Follow Diana on a journey of more than five decades as an author, nurse, research psychologist, teacher, cancer survivor, and more. With insig...

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Influential Machines: The Rhetoric of Computational Performance - Paperback

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by Miles C. Coleman (Author)A new framework for understanding how algorithms influenceWeb applications offer us conclusions about science. Twitter bots generate art. Machine-learning systems satirize politicians. We live in an era where a substantial share of our private and public communication is machinic. Modern computing machines cannot yet speak for themselves--although the capacities of AI are rapidly expanding--but they generate rhetorical energies as they give advice, entertain, and p...

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Alphabets and the Mystery Traditions: The Origins of Letters in the Earth, the Underworld, and the Heavens - Paperback

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by Judith Dillon (Author)Reveals the esoteric mysteries encoded in the order of the alphabet - Explores the secrets hidden in our alphabet and how each letter represented a specific stage on the alchemical path toward enlightenment - Divides our alphabet's sequence of letters into three distinct parts: the first representing Earth and the natural year, the second the Underworld and the hero's journey, and the third the Heavens and astronomical cycles - Reveals how the ancient secrets encoded ...

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Modern Chinese Counter-Enlightenment: Affect, Reason, and the Transcultural Lexicon - Hardcover

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by Hsiao-Yen Peng (Author)An examination of the Counter-Enlightenment movement in China. In Modern Chinese Counter-Enlightenment, Peng Hsiao-yen argues that a trend of Counter-Enlightenment had grown from the late Qing to the May Fourth era in the 1910s to the 1920s and continued to the 1940s. She demonstrates how Counter-Enlightenment was manifested with case studies such as Lu Xun's writings in the late 1900s, the Aesthetic Education movement from the 1910s to 1920s, and the Science and Li...

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World Link 1 with the Spark Platform - Paperback

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by Nancy Douglas (Author), James R. Morgan (Author) Dimensions: 0.5 x 11.6 x 8.2 IN Publication Date: March 19, 2021

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American Sign Language Sparkcharts - Paperback

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by Sparknotes (Author)SparkCharts(TM) The information you need-concisely, conveniently, and accurately. Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, these study companions and reference tools cover a wide range of college and graduate school subjects, from Business and Computer Programming to Medicine, Law, and Languages. Theyll give you what it takes to find success in school and beyond. Outlines and summaries cover key points, while diagrams and tables make difficult concepts easie...

Westbury Imagined: Based on True Stories - Paperback

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by Arthur Dobrin (Author)Arthur Dobrin has lived with his family in Westbury since 1969. He is Professor Emeritus of University Studies at Hofstra University and Leader Emeritus of the Ethical Humanist Society of Long Island. His books have been translated into Japanese, Chinese, Bangla, Dutch and Spanish.The first encounters between Indigenous people and Europeans, the enslavement of Africans and their fight for freedom, fox hunting millionaires and Italian immigrants, and the development of...

Flash Nonfiction Food: 91 Very Delicious, Very True, Very Short Stories - Paperback

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by Tom Hazuka (Author), Kathryn Fitzpatrick (Editor)Fresh off the success of Flash Nonfiction Funny comes a piping-hot new take on the flash genre: Food. Working within a 750-word limit, each of these nonfiction pieces is driven by a hunger for something filling. Memories of an ill-fated birthday cake, contemplations on a family recipe, an embarrassing sauce spill on a first date -- all of it true, all of it tasty. Featuring both established and up-and-coming writers, this collection is perfe...

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When Challenge Brings Change: How Teacher Breakthroughs Transform the Classroom - Paperback

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by Sandra Murphy (Editor), Mary Ann Smith (Editor), Elyse Eidman-Aadahl (Foreword by)All teachers face challenges--from the daunting and unexpected, like teaching during a pandemic, to nagging doubts about daily interactions and teaching practices. If there were ever a time for sharing teacher personal and professional breakthroughs--the ways teachers have successfully and courageously turned a corner--that time is now. In this collection of compelling narratives, high school and college teac...

Words Go Dancing: A Nimble Guide to Grammar - Paperback

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by Vicki Wilt (Author), Alan Michael Wilt (Joint Author)Grammar At a Glance!Do you know: whether to say between you and I or between you and me? when to use commas? whether to say he done or he did? when to use 's and when to use s'? when to use lie and when to use lay? Using good English can help you earn better grades--and make the best possible impression in important situations outside of school. This easy-to-use handbook is designed to help you find out exactly what you need to know . ....

Innovative Technology in Art Conservation: Original Appearance and Viewer Perception - Hardcover

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by W. (Bill) Wei (Author)Innovative Technology in Art Conservation provides one of the first ever critical assessments of innovation in conservation science and questions what role it should play in conservation and conservation ethics.Author BiographyDr. W. (Bill) Wei (1955) is a retired senior conservation scientist in the Research Department of the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE - Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed). He has a B.S.E. in mechanical engineering from Prin...