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Aleman: Aprendizaje de Verbos por Via Rapida: Los 100 verbos más usados en alemán con 3600 frases de ejemplo: Pasado. Presente. Futuro. - Paperback

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by Sarah Retter (Author)Para un aprendizaje mas rápido del alemán haga foco en estudiar los verbos utilizados con mayor frecuencia. Aprenda los 100 verbos que necesita para la vida cotidiana para referirse al pasado, al presente y al futuro. Enfoca tu aprendizaje del alemán en los verbos más utilizados. Aprende sólo las 100 verbos en alemán que necesitas para la vida cotidiana y para viajar. Uno de los errores más frecuentes al estudiar un idioma extranjero es que el estudiante no fija priori...

Jolly Tales for Learning: Rhymed short stories to improve pronunciation - Paperback

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by Alba Paz (Author)Short tales rhymed on a target sound These tiny stories are meant for amusement and enjoyable learning. If you want to improve your English but the traditional learning doesn t appeal to you, try this little book; the result is amazing. The stories are short. Words with different graphemes rime on the target sound. The plot helps you relate and remember them. The lay out also provides indirect effective exposition to basic grammar, which facilitates its natural acquisition...

Amarigna & Tigrigna Qal Roots of Spanish Language: The Spanish Language's Not So Distant African Linguistic Roots - Paperback

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by Legesse Allyn (Author)The Spanish language is rooted in the east African and ancient Egyptian languages of Amarigna and Tigrigna. This book provides a small sampling of Spanish's not so distant African linguistic roots. Number of Pages: 116 Dimensions: 0.24 x 10 x 7.99 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: January 30, 2015

Loglines in the Wild: Case Studies in Crafting an Incredible Story Pitch - Paperback

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by Jordan Smith (Author)More logline know-how from the author of Finding the Core of Your Story!Writers everywhere have learned to pitch their stories more effectively with Finding the Core of Your Story. Now author Jordan Smith is back with Loglines in the Wild, a first-hand look at the process of creating a great story pitch.Inside, you'll find: Eight complete case studies drawn from consulting sessions done with independent authors and filmmakers. Each case study highlights a different fa...

El origen de palabras y expresiones venezolanas - Paperback

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by Ruben Dario Villegas (Author)Una mirada diferente al lenguaje venezolano. An cdotas, historia y humor para contarnos de d nde vienen y c mo nacieron algunas de las palabras y expresiones m s populares de Venezuela. Number of Pages: 130 Dimensions: 0.31 x 7.99 x 5 IN Publication Date: December 13, 2016

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by Remo Nannetti (Author)Italian Grammar Practice is a collection of 45 worksheets which cover the basic areas of Italian grammar. The book assumes that you have already learned the particular grammar point you intend to practise and for this reason no explanations of the various grammar points are provided. It is therefore recommended that you have to hand the particular Italian grammar or course book that you have been using for reference purposes.Answer keys are provided for all the exerci...

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100 Task Cards in a Box: Context Clues - Hardcover

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by Scholastic (Author)Just 10 minutes a day can boost kids' reading comprehension!These collections of ready-to-go task cards feature high-interest short passages with key questions that prompt students to identify the main idea, make inferences, sequence events, compare and contrast, determine the author's purpose, summarize, and more. Bonus Comprehension Helper cards provide kid-friendly definitions, tips, and examples to help students master reading skills. Perfect for whole-class, group, ...

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by Saint Augustine of Hippo (Author), Augustine (Author), Augustine Augustine (Author)This volume presents the Latin text of one of the great classics of Christian literature, accompanied by a commentary. Confessions is concerned with one human life as an example of what it is to be human and in search of God. In books I-IV, Augustine reflects on his infancy and childhood, adolescent rebellion and student days, and his early teaching career. The commentary, which can be used by those new to A...

Free Within Ourselves: Fiction Lessons for Black Authors - Paperback

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by Jewell Parker Rhodes (Author)A Bird by Bird for the African-American market--A top-notch writer's guide filled with practical guidance, essays, and journal exercises for the African-American writer including advice from E.Lynn Harris, Charles Johnson, and Yolanda Joe. In her introduction, Jewell Parker Rhodes writes: "Never (in four years of college or five years of graduate school) was I assigned an exercise or given a story example that included a person of color...While the educational ...

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by Katja Grasberger (Author)Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject American Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0, University of Bonn (Anglistik), course: Variational Pragmatics, language: English, abstract: So far little work has been done to investigate impoliteness, but a lot has been done on politeness. Can politeness even work without a complete overview of impoliteness in the same amount? Not only has there been rarely any research on how impoliteness works and when it occurs, but ...

Corpus Linguistics with BNCweb - a Practical Guide - Paperback

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by Joybrato Mukherjee (Other), Sebastian Hoffmann (Author), Stefan Evert (Author)This book presents a richly illustrated, hands-on discussion of one of the fastest growing fields in linguistics today. The authors address key methodological issues in corpus linguistics, such as collocations, keywords and the categorization of concordance lines. They show how these topics can be explored step-by-step with BNCweb, a user-friendly web-based tool that supports sophisticated analyses of the 100-mil...

Communicative Classroom Language for Bilingual Education: Teaching Real English for CLIL - Paperback

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by Maria Luisa Pérez Cañado (Author), Borja Ojeda-Pinar (Author)This book presents 33 originally designed and piloted activities and 330 useful expressions related to communicative classroom language for bilingual education. It aims to equip language and content teachers with real, updated English expressions of direct relevance in CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) contexts.Author BiographyDr. María Luisa Pérez Cañado is Associate Professor at the Department of English Philology...

The Elements of F*cking Style: A Helpful Parody - Paperback

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by Chris Baker (Author), Jacob Hansen (Author)The truth about English is that it can get pretty boring. Dangling modifiers, gerunds, punctuation marks--it's enough to make you want to drop out of high school. Swearing and sex on the other hand, well, these time-honored pastimes warm the cockles of our hearts. Now, The Elements of F*cking Style drags English grammar out of the ivory tower and into the gutter, injecting a dull subject with a much-needed dose of color. This book addresses everyt...

Show Don't Tell - The Ultimate Writers' Guide - Paperback

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by Robyn Opie-Parnell (Author)Do you finally want to learn the secret to all great fiction writing? Do you want to write like bestselling authors? Do you want publishers to sit up and take real notice of your stories? Robyn Opie Parnell, bestselling author of ninety five published books, says: "I can't stress how important it is to grasp the profound difference between showing and telling in your writing." But what does the phrase 'Show, Don't Tell' actually mean? What is the one simple ingre...

Novel Revision Prompts: Make Your Good Book Great - Self-Edit Your Plot, Scenes & Style - Paperback

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by Rayne Hall (Author)You've written a novel, and the draft brims with promise. Now you're revising it to shape it into a gripping work of fiction readers can't put down. Revising a novel is fun. With each change, you see your book grow closer to your vision and gain more power. This book offers you ideas on how to bring out your novel's full potential. Play with them, experiment, explore where they'll lead. To help you find the kind of prompts you need right now, they are sorted into three g...

Mrs. Alphabety Basic Vocabulary Dictionary for Children: In Three Languages: English, Italian and French - Hardcover

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by Ranya Ibrahim Ahmed (Author)A basic reference to essential everyday vocabulary in living languages. it offers more than 2000 words and idioms in English French and Italian and introduces children to the world of words in three different languages. Number of Pages: 108 Dimensions: 0.38 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: August 16, 2013

Writing Habit Mastery: How to Write 2,000 Words a Day and Forever Cure Writer's Block - Paperback

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by S. J. Scott (Author)LEARN:: How to Forever Eliminate Writer's Block and Write THOUSANDS of Words a Day Do you struggle to write every day? Many people dream of becoming a successful author, but can't *find* the time to write. The truth is this: Great writers don't have more time than you do. They make time to write. Not only do they make time, they also follow specific routines that help them avoid writer's block altogether. By developing the "writing habit" you'll have the confidence to s...

Animals, Birds and Colors in Cherokee: A Starter Language Word List - Paperback

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by Oliver Lawrence (Author)This book is a first reader to teach the words for animals, birds, and colors in the Cherokee language. Each word is provided in English, Phonetics, and Syllabary. This book is part of a series to simplify the process of learning. These are designed as supplemental reading materials that are so necessary for learning to read and write. Number of Pages: 40 Dimensions: 0.1 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 30, 2013

Mastering Spanish Irregular Verbs: A Simplified Approach and Visual Guide for Spanish Verb Fluency - Hardcover

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by Juan M. González (Author), Dan Bishop (Author)Learning verb conjugations and dealing with irregular verbs in the Spanish language is a serious challenge for many English speakers. Dr. Juan M. González, an assistant professor of Spanish at Adams State College in Alamosa, Colorado, and Dr. Dan Bishop have developed a unique visual framework within which students can more easily learn Spanish verb irregularities. González and Bishop present most verb irregularities as two easily manageable gr...

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by James Nugent (Author)I went to learn more about Esperanto, a language that was invented 126 years ago. In the end I found hope for the future Number of Pages: 40 Dimensions: 0.08 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: August 08, 2013

El Origen Prehistórico de la Escritura Tartesia: Ensayo epigráfico-lingüístico sobre el origen autóctono pre-fenicio de las antiguas escrituras de la - Paperback

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by Scientific Atlanto Sociedad Epigráfica (Editor), Georgeos Díaz-Montexano (Author)Ensayo epigr fico-ling stico sobre el origen aut ctono pre-fenicio de las antiguas escrituras de la pen nsula ib rica. Veinte a os de investigaciones epigr ficas de las m s antiguas escrituras lineales usadas en el occidente y especialmente en Iberia durante el Paleol tico, el Neol tico, el Calcol tico y la Edad del Bronce.Los dos sistemas de escrituras considerados como m s antiguos de la pen nsula ib rica d...

Mnemonic and Association Techniques for SAT Vocabulary - Paperback

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by Henry Davis (Author)The vocabulary learning model is broken. Students memorize the word list for the test Friday, take the test, and forget the words Saturday. Using the great amount of research which explains the effectiveness of association, review, and testing for maximizing the efficiency of learning we have developed an efficient method for learning and retaining new information - in this instance vocabulary words. We want to help you practice taking control of how YOU create associat...

A Guide to English Grammar: Conjugation of Verbs Volume I - Hardcover

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by Bessie Brooks (Author) Number of Pages: 740 Dimensions: 1.75 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 16, 2012

The Handbook of the History of English - Paperback

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by Ans Van Kemenade (Editor), Bettelou Los (Editor)The Handbook of the History of English is a collection of articles written by leading specialists in the field that focus on the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language. organizes the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language innovatively and applies recent insights to old problems surveys the history of English from the perspective of structural developments in areas such as phonology,...

Compositionality in Formal Semantics - Paperback

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by Barbara H. Partee (Author)Compositionality in Formal Semantics is a collection of Barbara Partee's papers that have been influential in the field but are not readily available and includes a new introductory essay in which Partee reflects on how her thinking and the field of semantics have developed over the past 35 years. Brings together, in one volume, influential but difficult to find papers by one of the most important researchers in formal semantics. Includes a new introductory essay...

The Young Lady's Accidence: Or, A Short and Easy Introduction to English Grammar. Designed, Principally, for the use of Young Learners, More Espec - Hardcover

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by Caleb Bingham (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 avail...

A Brief History of Epidemic and Pestilential Diseases; With the Principal Phenomena of the Physical World, Which Precede and Accompany Them, and Obser - Hardcover

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by Noah Webster (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 availa...

Eloisa to Abelard. Written by Mr. Pope. The Second Edition - Hardcover

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by Alexander Pope (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 avai...

Memoirs of the Most Renowned James Graham, Marquis of Montrose. Translated From the Latin of the Rev. Doctor George Wishart, ... With an Appendix, - Hardcover

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by George Wishart (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 avai...

A Relation of the Fearful Estate of Francis Spira, After he Turn'd Apostate From the Protestant Church to Popery. As Also the Miserable Lives, and Wof - Hardcover

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by Nathaniel Bacon (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 ava...

The Adventures of Mr. Thomas Pellow. In Which is Introduced, a Particular Account of the Manners and Customs of the Moors, and of the Inland Parts of - Hardcover

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by Thomas Pellow (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 avail...

The Tragical History of King Richard III. Alter'd from Shakespear by Colley Cibber, Esq. ... - Paperback

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by Colley Cibber (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 avail...