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by Stephan Habscheid (Editor), Tim Hector (Editor), Dagmar Hoffmann (Editor)Voice Assistants such as Amazon's Alexa populate private homes as well as smartphones, TVs and cars. While suggesting easy living with smart devices, these assistants are criticized as the next step of corporate and state surveillance of the private home, or as harbingers of new and simplified linguistic practices. The contributors to this volume focus on the transformation and persistence of everyday linguistic, medi...
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by Jeyran Main (Author)Since 2016, Review Tales Magazine has stood as a beacon for the writing community, celebrating extraordinary talents and empowering authors from around the globe. As a monthly publication, it offers a carefully curated selection of book reviews chosen from the thousands of submissions we receive, ensuring that only the most exceptional works are featured. This magazine isn't just about books-it's about celebrating the art of storytelling and giving talented authors the ...
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by Anthony Pym (Author)Once fidelity and equivalence are abandoned, how can successful translation be understood? Risk management offers an alternative way of looking at the work of translators and their social function. It posits that the greater the cultural differences, the greater the risks of failed communication. What can be done to manage those risks? Drawing on the ways translators and interpreters handle intercultural encounters by adjusting what is said, this essay outlines a series...
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by Ailsa Cox (Author)The third edition of Writing Short Stories has been revised and updated to provide a complete guide to the craft of writing short stories. It emphasizes the importance of voice as a foundation for work on characterization, imagery, dialogue and pace, as readers move from their first sketches to working on more complex narrative structures. Ailsa Cox guides readers through key aspects of the craft, providing a variety of case studies of classic and contemporary core texts....
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by Anna McKane (Author)Long awaited new edition of this hands-on guide to writing like a journalist. Full of examples, exercises and practical advice, it now covers online presentation and social media too.
Number of Pages: 192
Dimensions: 0.4 x 9.4 x 6.6 IN
Publication Date: December 20, 2013
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by Christopher Hart (Author)Politics is an inherently symbolic practice. This innovative book advances a framework for the critical analysis of political texts and talk based in cognitive linguistics. Through detailed analyses of attested semiotic practices, it provides a current, comprehensive and authoritative statement on the paradigm of Cognitive Critical Discourse Analysis (Cognitive CDA). The ideological effects of dominant conceptualisations and their implications for the legitimation ...
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by Victoria Rowell (Author)Born a ward of the state in the State of Maine, the child of a Yankee blueblood mother, Dorothy (Collins) Rowell, and a Black Marine, Levi (Cowan) Wilson, from South Carolina, Victoria Rowell beat the odds that befalls many foster children. The Women Who Raised Me is the remarkable story of her rise out of the foster care system to attain the American Dream and of the myriad women who lifted her up, inspired her, and seeded her with the drive and commitment it took ...
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by Paul Hellweg (Author)A thesaurus for adult learners of English. The American Heritage(R) Word Finder is a vocabulary builder designed for adult learners of English. This study guide provides students basic vocabulary to help them achieve their goals, such as entering an English-language university, doing well on an English proficiency test, or finding a good job. Every entry has been selected with the needs of beginning learners in mind. Easy-to-understand example sentences accompany each...
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by Simon Okotie (Author)Author and essayist Simon Okotie interprets the signposts - evident through the history of the novel - that point to the form's future. We're used to the novel being declared dead, dying, or endangered. Seemingly every few years, a critic will read it the last rites - yet the form remains more popular than ever with readers. In The Future of the Novel, author Simon Okotie presents a bold future for long-form fiction, and suggests its evolution is far from over. Okotie ...
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by Charles Martin (Author)A rich collection of poems inspired by the Persian lyric tradition.In The Khayyam Suite, acclaimed poet Charles Martin explores both the profound and the personal in verse that celebrates the spectrum of human experience. At the heart of this collection is a study of the Rubaiyat, the renowned poem cycle attributed to the Persian poet Omar Khayyam. Martin pays homage to Khayyam's classical Persian poetic form--the ghazal--by infusing it with contemporary sensibilitie...
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by Collins (Author)The tenth edition of the Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's Dictionary has been revised and updated to include detailed coverage of today's English in a clear, attractive format.Ideal for upper intermediate and advanced learners of English, this dictionary covers all the words, phrases, and idioms that students need to master in order to speak and write effective English. New to this edition is the inclusion of CEFR levels, helping learners to focus on the words that are mo...
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by Janina Klimas (Author)This innovative book offers over 100 engaging and effective activities that busy teachers can use to help students become confident, comfortable, and proficient learners, acquirers, and communicators in new languages. Many activities can be adapted to different languages and levels in secondary-level language courses.Klimas provides readers with ready-to-use templates, editable posters, as well as multimodal communicative activities such as games, storytelling exercis...
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by Jeffrey Pomerantz (Author), Jason Griffey (Author)An engaging introduction to standards, the invisible infrastructure that shapes the built and digital environments of the modern world. Standards are the DNA of the built environment, encoded in nearly all objects that surround us in the modern world. In Standards, Jeffrey Pomerantz and Jason Griffey provide an essential introduction to this invisible but critical form of infrastructure--the rules and specifications that govern so many ele...
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by ?lika Ortega (Author)Far from causing the "death of the book," the publishing industry's adoption of digital technologies has generated a multitude of new works that push the boundaries of literature and its presentation. In this fascinating new work, ?lika Ortega proposes the notion of "binding media" - a practice where authors and publishers "fasten together" a codex and electronic or digital media to create literary works in the form of hybrid print-digital objects. Examining more than ...
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by Anne Wright (Author), Saundra Rose Maley (Author), Jeffrey Katz (Author)How a passion for translation fueled the development of a great American poetSo Much Secret Labor is a window into the work of the great American poet, James Wright (1927-1980), whose love of languages and quest for the "true imagination" helped transform American poetry. The book draws on memoir, archival research, interviews, letters, and previous unpublished journal excerpts, presenting a scrupulous and intimate rea...
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by Maria J. Cabrera-Puche (Author)Strategies, tools, and motivation for learning a new language Learning A New Language For Dummies explains how you can create a personal plan to achieve your language learning goals. Get research-based suggestions for speeding up your language acquisition and learn about the benefits of leveling up your linguistic ability. Even if you've never studied a language before, this easy-to-understand guide will prepare you to pick the learning methods that will work...
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by Gary D. Schmidt (Editor), Elizabeth Stickney (Editor)Acceptable Words offers prayers that correspond with each stage of the writer's work -- from finding inspiration to penning the first words to "offering it to God" at completion. Gary Schmidt and Elizabeth Stickney, experienced writers themselves, introduce each chapter of prayers with pithy pastoral reflections that will encourage writers in their craft. This welcome spiritual resource for writers includes both ancient and contemporary ...
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by Ana Kondic (Author), Ana Kondic "Recorded by Ana Kondic in the village of San Francisco Chontla in La Sierra de Otontepec, Veracruz, Mexico, between 2007 and 2011, and translated into English and Spanish, the accounts in this landmark trilingual collection provide a rare opening into South Eastern Huastec (Teenek) traditions, oral literature, and daily life. An accompanying audio-video DVD-ROM allows readers the rare chance to hear and see these narrators tell their stories in their own la...
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by Ruth Toor (Author), Hilda K. Weisburg (Author)Transitioning from library school to a real world job or even from a different type of library can pose significant challenges for school library media specialists (SLMS). From job search strategies and discovering your work philosophy to the nitty-gritty details of creating acceptable use policies, New on the Job serves as a wise mentor for new SLMS. Expert authors Ruth Toor and Hilda K. Weisburg share the joys and perils of the profession alo...
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by Arlene Miller (Author)Is it hunger pains or hunger pangs? Some time or sometime? Lay or lie? Butt naked or buck naked? Retroactive from or retroactive to? Does Your Flamingo Flamenco? The Best Little Dictionary of Confusing Words and Malapropisms contains over 250 confusing word pairs, word groups, and idioms. They are all listed alphabetically--with explanations and examples--and cross-referenced for ease of use, with a handy table of contents. You will want to keep this little book near ...
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by Francisco Zamarron (Author)"A Grammar Guide" es una serie para hispanoparlantes que han enfrentado dificultades con la comprensión de la lengua inglesa. Esta obra es para personas de cualquier edad y escolaridad que necesitan comprender el idioma escrito, o escribir sus ideas en el mismo. Por medio de presentaciones sencillas entenderás cómo se organiza la lengua escrita básica, sus elementos fundamentales y el orden de palabras. Así mismo, aprenderás la función de diferentes tiempos grama...
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by Prell Madlock (Author)A Great Addition to Your Library My hope is this book will guide someone to Jesus, that is why I spend time defining key words. Starting with the word, WORD, the bible describe Jesus as the word of God, and Jesus the word, Being the author and the finisher of our faith, that the same mind in Christ Jesus, may be in us all, That we will speak in faith that is the Christian language, so that our understanding will be clear about, The will of God and our growth process w...
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by Smart Books Publishing (Author)All About the Alphabet - Activity Workbook for Kids (165 Pages, 8.5 x 11) is a compilation of carefully selected activities that are fun and entertaining. This Workbook is designed for 4-8 Year old's to keep them busy and interested for hours. What's Included:
Letter Printing Worksheets with dotted lines for easier and better handwriting practices.
Letter Recognition Activities, A-Z (capital letters and small letters).
Fun A-Z Coloring Pages, using imagery s...
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by Ralph 1908- de Sola (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 be preserve...
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by Lorenzo Rutherford (Author)Everyone in the modern world has an opinion about every other person on the planet. Our society constantly labels us with its perceptions of who we are, what we should do, and what we should not do. It is always about our flaws and weaknesses, but never about how to innovate on these flaws to improve our self-esteem and become a better person.Fortunately, self-esteem and self-confidence are both attributes that can be acquired through practice, tools, and knowled...
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by Melissa M Herrod (Author)The aim of this course is for students to practise and improve their speaking, listening, and pronunciation skills. Along the way the student will learn plenty of new vocabulary - including non-literal English expressions, such as idioms, phrasal verbs, and slang - and also practise reading, writing, and grammar skills, e.g. verb forms, word order, parts of a sentence, and so on. This book provides an organised sequence of learning activities for students at interm...
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by Maud McLure Kelly (Author)Maud Kelly provides an extensive genealogy of the descendants of Richard Pace of Pace's Pains and Samuel Macock. This book also includes a history of the Pace and Macock families in America.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 a...
