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Academic Librarianship in Canada: Post-COVID Perspectives in a Neoliberal Era - Paperback

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by Jessica E. Shiers (Editor), Harriet M. Sonne de Torrens (Editor), Joanna Szurmak (Editor)This edited collection of seven critical essays is focused on the changing dynamics of academic librarianship through the lens of Canadian professionals responding to the corporatization of their scholarly workplaces and the erosion of their communities of practice. The contributors' underlying concern is the transformation of academic libraries from sites of collegial scholarly activity into hierarchi...

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by Rub?n S?nchez (Author)C?mo reaccionar?as si una larga lista de gente con influencia y poder te pusiese en su punto de mira para acusarte de ser un corrupto, defraudar dinero p?blico, consumir coca?na, tener sicarios que parten piernas y amenazan de muerte, ser un pederasta y liderar una organizaci?n criminal dedicada a la estafa, el acoso y la extorsi?n? Rub?n S?nchez lleva m?s de una d?cada desmontando bulos y enfrent?ndose a todo tipo de insultos, amenazas y denuncias falsas. Ha ganado m...

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by Joseph Ajale Ekane (Author)Akisè Reader and Grammar presents findings of over ten years of research and development in writing Akósè. It is intended to facilitate the writing, reading, and speaking of Akósè, the three important elements in language teaching. It consists of twenty-five sections which deal mainly with the grammatical structure or composition of the Akósè language, knowledge which is intended to assist the reader in reading or speaking Akósè fluently and correctly. The book d...

Native-Speakerism and Trans-Speakerism - Hardcover

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by Takaaki Hiratsuka (Author)Introducing the liberating concept of trans-speakerism, this book challenges prevailing linguistic biases and advocates for inclusive designations to foster equitable education, and empower language practitioners and researchers. By valuing diverse linguistic backgrounds, it shows how to cultivate a fair language education landscape. Number of Pages: 176 Dimensions: 0.44 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: October 17, 2024

750 Writing Prompts For Journaling, Fiction, Memoirs, Gratitude Journals, Poetry, Essays, And Creative Writing - Series Bundle - Paperback

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by S. A. M. Richards (Author) Number of Pages: 108 Dimensions: 0.26 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: December 16, 2024

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by Blp Simmons (Author) Number of Pages: 146 Dimensions: 0.4 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 14, 2024

T.O.M.B. (Those Of My Blood) - Paperback

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by T. C. Monk (Author) Number of Pages: 302 Dimensions: 0.63 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: November 28, 2024

Emoji Speak: Communication and Behaviours on Social Media - Paperback

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by Jieun Kiaer (Author)Providing an in-depth discussion of emoji use in a global context, this volume presents the use of emoji as a hugely important facet of computer-mediated communication, leading author Jieun Kiaer to coin the term 'emoji speak'. Exploring why and how emojis are born, and the different ways in which people use them, this book highlights the diversity of emoji speak. Presenting the results of empirical investigations with participants of British, Belgian, Chinese, French, ...

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Revolutionize Youth Book Clubs: Strategies for Meaningful and Fun Reading Experiences - Paperback

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by Stacy Brown (Author)Learn to facilitate modern book clubs devoted to elevating the reading experience through active engagement, resulting in long-term commitment to book club events. How do you get the kids in your library to read? The benefits of reading are plentiful, especially for youth - it improves vocabulary, helps them become more empathetic and inclusive, and expands exposure to academic opportunities. In an age of digital distractions, book clubs can be a catalyst for encouragin...

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Lonely Planet Swahili Phrasebook & Dictionary - Paperback

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by Martin Benjamin (Author)Lonely Planet's Swahili Phrasebook and Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Indian phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Learn the names of wildlife, chat with the locals and adventure on safari; all with your trusted travel companion. Get More From Your Trip with Easy-to-Find Phrases for Every Travel Situation!Feel at ease with essential tips on culture, manners, idioms and multiple meanings...

Lonely Planet Cantonese Phrasebook & Dictionary - Paperback

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by Chiu-Yee Cheung (Author), Tao Li (Author)Lonely Planet's Cantonese Phrasebook and Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Indian phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Chat with locals along the Great Wall, ask for recommendations of Hong Kong's best night spots; all with your trusted travel companion.Get More From Your Trip with Easy-to-Find Phrases for Every Travel Situation!Feel at ease with essential tips on culture...

Lonely Planet Hebrew Phrasebook & Dictionary - Paperback

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by Justin Rudelson (Author), Klara Ilana Wistinetzki (Author)Lonely Planet's Hebrew Phrasebook and Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Indian phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Ask directions in Hebrew, visit theHoly Land and chat with locals; all with your trusted travel companion. Get More From Your Trip with Easy-to-Find Phrases for Every Travel Situation!Feel at ease with essential tips on culture, manners, idi...

Lonely Planet Korean Phrasebook & Dictionary - Paperback

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by Lonely Planet (Author)Lonely Planet's Korean Phrasebook and Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Korean phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Order kimchi with ease, navigate road signs and chat with locals; all with your trusted travel companion. Get More From Your Trip with Easy-to-Find Phrases for Every Travel Situation!Feel at ease with essential tips on culture, manners, idioms and multiple meaningsOrder with c...

Merriam-Webster's Japanese-English Dictionary - Paperback

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by Merriam-Webster (Editor)Perfect for students studying Japanese, this newly updated bilingual dictionary features comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of essential current vocabulary. Communicate effectively in Japanese and American English Bilingual, bidirectional dictionary 26,000 entry words and phrases and 27,000 translations Clear, precise definitions deliver the words you need IPA pronunciations and abundant examples of words used in context guide correct usage Special sections include...

Merriam-Webster's Arabic-English Dictionary - Paperback

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by Merriam-Webster (Editor)Perfect for students studying Arabic, this newly updated bilingual dictionary features comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of essential current vocabulary. Communicate effectively in Arabic and American English Bilingual, bidirectional dictionary 23,000 entry words and phrases and 24,000 translations Clear, precise definitions deliver the words you need IPA pronunciations and abundant examples of words used in context guide correct usage Special sections include Eng...

Heart Of Grace; My Journey Through Art And Adversity - Paperback

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by Carol Cisneros (Author) Number of Pages: 246 Dimensions: 0.67 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 05, 2024

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The New Testament and Other Early Christian Writings: A Reader - Paperback

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by Bart D. Ehrman (Editor)The twenty-seven books of the New Testament were not the only writings produced by early Christians. Nor were they the only ones to be accepted, at one time or another, as sacred Scripture. Unfortunately, nearly all the other early Christian writings have been lost or destroyed. But approximately twenty-five books written at about the same time as the New Testament have survived--books that reveal the rich diversity of early Christian views about God, Jesus, the worl...

The Complete Bullshit-Free and Totally Tested Writing Guide: How To Make Publishers, Agents, Editors & Readers Fall In Love With Your Work - Paperback

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by Gabe Berman (Author)"How do I get published?" Following the successful publication of his book, Live Like A Fruit Fly, Gabe Berman is asked this question more than any other. Do you know why you don't know how to get published? Because nobody does. And that's why the idea of writing a book is so utterly overwhelming. There isn't a map. You're on your own. Until now. Questions For You: Do you feel destined to be one of the great writers? Are you writing a book? Are you self publishing? Are ...

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by Byung-Jin Lim (Author), Jieun Kim (Author), Ji-Hye Kim (Author)My Korean: Step 2 uses authentic dialogues based on real-life and interactive activities and tasks that encourage students' active participation. The textbook is arranged thematically around topics that high-beginner and intermediate-low level learners of Korean are likely to encounter in their studies.Author BiographyByung-jin Lim is an associate professor of Korean Language and Linguistics in the Department of Asian Languages...

An Account Of The Romansh Language - Paperback

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by F. Joseph Planta Esquire (Author)""An Account of the Romansh Language"" is a book written by F. Joseph Planta Esquire, which provides a comprehensive overview of the Romansh language. The book covers a variety of topics related to the language, including its history, grammar, vocabulary, and usage. It also includes information on the various dialects of Romansh and their differences. The author provides examples and explanations throughout the book to help readers understand the language b...

Engaging Diverse Learners: Teaching Strategies for Academic Librarians - Paperback

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by Mark Polger (Author), Scott Sheidlower (Author)This book connects teaching practical strategies and ideas with educational theories to give you techniques to use in the classroom to capture students' attention and engage them with instruction. Drawing on the literatures of adult education and of teaching skills, Engaging Diverse Learners: Teaching Strategies for Academic Librarians presents a wide range of methods to improve how you teach. Coauthors Mark Aaron Polger and Scott Sheidlower a...

Critical Semiotics: Theory, from Information to Affect - Paperback

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by Gary Genosko (Author), Gregory Paschalidis (Editor)Critical Semiotics provides long overdue answers to questions at the junction of information, meaning and 'affect'. The affective turn in cultural studies has received much attention: a focus on the pre-individual bodily forces, linked to automatic responses, which augment or diminish the body's capacity to act or engage with others. In a world dominated by information, how do things that seem to have diminished meaning or even no meaning ...

Medical Library Association Essential Guide to Becoming an Expert Searcher Xpert Searcher: Proven Techniques, Strategies, and Tips for Finding Health - Paperback

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by Terry Ann Jankowski (Author)Ideal for use as a course text or a workbook for self-instruction, this utilitarian guide will teach you valuable strategies and techniques, regardless of your current skill level. Begin with the self-evaluation tool--find out where you are on the novice-to-expert continuum and then follow Jankowski through all of the components of an expert search, starting with the reference interview. A useful interview checklist and examples of librarian-user interactions wi...

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Structure of the Embryonic Rat Brain - Paperback

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by Christopher Janke (Author)Janke stops at nothing, not even the end of a line, in the expression of foment. These meditiations, set up on the synapses of an embryonic rat under knife, achieve potency through nerve. Disjunctive and epistemic, the poems consider consciousness and its wide, inchoate eye. By turns ferocious and goofy, these lines evidence the springing of the mind into being.Author BiographyCHRISTOPHER JANKE lives in Turners Falls, Massachusetts. He is a graduate of Eastern Naz...

The Pacific and Australasia [With CD (Audio)] - Paperback

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by Kate Burridge (Editor), Bernd Kortmann (Editor)This volume gives a detailed overview of the varieties of English spoken in the Pacific and Australasia, including regional, social and ethnic dicalects (such as New Zealand, Australian Vernacular, or Maori English) as well as pidgins and creoles (such as Tok Pisin, Hawaii Creole, or Kriol in Australia). The chapters, written by widely acclaimed specialists, provide concise and comprehensive information on the phonological, morphological and ...

Metaphor and Metonymy Across Time and Cultures: Perspectives on the Sociohistorical Linguistics of Figurative Language - Paperback

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by Javier E. D?az-Vera (Editor)This volume offers new insights into figurative language and its pervasive role as a factor of linguistic change. The case studies included in this book explore some of the different ways new metaphoric and metonymic expressions emerge and spread among speech communities, and how these changes can be related to the need to encode ongoing social and cultural processes in the language. They cover a wide series of languages and historical stages.Author BiographyJav...

Illusive Shadows: Justice, Media, and Socially Significant American Trials - Paperback

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by Lloyd Jr. Chiasson (Author), Lloyd Jr. Chiasson (Editor)As Chiasson and his contributors illustrate, trials are media events that can have long-reaching significance. They can, and have, changed the way people think, how institutions function, and have shaped public opinions. While this collection on ten trials is about withcraft, slavery, religion, and radicalism, it is, in many ways, the story of America. Trials are the stuff of news. Those rare moments when justice, or a reasonable facs...

Words: Essays on Writing, Reading, and Life - Paperback

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by Jessica McCann (Author)"A book is a box of words, until someone opens it." Ursula K. Le GuinJessica McCann has woven together a collection of personal essays and writing tips that offer a unique glimpse into her writing journey and process. She is an award-winning historical novelist and has worked as a professional freelance writer and editor for magazines, universities, corporations, and nonprofits for more than thirty years. In Words, McCann shares her passion for books, as well as rese...

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by Jeffrey Rice (Author)In typical academic circles, texts must be critiqued, mined for the obfuscated meanings they hide, and shown to reveal larger, broader meanings than what are initially evident. To engage in this type of writing is to perform an authentic version of scholarship. But what if a scholar chooses instead to write without critique? What if they write about travelling, their children, food, grocery shopping, frozen garlic bread, sandwiches, condiments, falafel, yoga, and momen...

From Baby Brain to Writer Brain: Writing Through A World of Parenting Distractions - Paperback

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by Tansy Rayner Roberts (Author)"I think 'time to write' must be one of the most misleading phrases in the English language..."In this chapbook, Tansy Rayner Roberts-the Hugo-award winning podcaster and author of Musketeer Space, the Creature Court series, and more-explores the paths taken to reclaim and re-envision her writing career after becoming a mother.Drawn from her popular blog, From Baby Brain to Writer Brain charts Roberts' journey and offers advice to any parent trying to balance a...

The Dictionary of 1980s Slang - Paperback

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by Rick Carlile (Author), Rick Carlile (Illustrator)STRANGER THAN FICTION! Ideal for any '80s kid, and anyone who wants to discover what made the '80s great! From the author of the USA #1 best-selling (unofficial) Scrabble book "The Dictionary of Two-Letter Words." Packed with over 800 scrupulously-researched entries. Over 500 citations from '80s movies, music and books. Incisive, humorous definitions examining etymology, history, and more. Numerous explanatory illustrations. Bonus! Cut-...

Transnational East Asian Studies - Paperback

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by Kevin Cawley (Editor), Julia Schneider (Editor)Transnational East Asian Studies demonstrates how transnationalism as a mode of intellectual enquiry has wide-ranging interdisciplinary potential and has immense value when examining the past, just as much as much as when examining the present. Artificially erected borders, which appear on maps and globes, fail to consider the ways people in diverse regions live and practice their everyday lives, existing beyond boundaries. The people of East ...