Language Arts & Linguistics & Literacy

21781 books

French for Americans--Volume 1: A clear and easy method for beginners - Paperback

$21.55

by Sidonie Besser (Author)French for Americans, volume 1 is a complete language course that will enable you to learn French quickly and effectively. As you progress through this course you will find yourself reading, writing, speaking and understanding French with ease and confidence. Inside you will find: Clear presentations of everyday words and phrases. Cultural notes with insights into well-known and not so well-known French culture. Easy to understand conjugation and grammar. Profici...

Dramatizing 17th Century Family History of Deacon Stephen Hart & Other Early New England Settlers: How to Write Historical Plays, Skits, Biographies, - Paperback

$18.31

by Anne Hart (Author)Here is a step-by-step guide to writing historical skits, plays, or monologues for all ages from true life stories, genealogy records, oral history, DNA-driven anthropology, social issues, current events, and personal history of early colonial era settlers. Put direct experience in a small package and launch it worldwide. You could emphasize the early New England 17th century settlers and their diaries of family life, food, clothing, marriage, spirituality, customs, or si...

Popular Health & Medical Writing for Magazines: How to Turn Current Research & Trends Into Salable Feature Articles - Paperback

$18.31

by Anne Hart (Author)Here's how to transform your interest in popular health topics such as gene hunters, medical trends, self-help, nutrition, current issues, or pets into writing salable feature articles for popular publications. Become a health-aware feature writer, journalist, editor, indexer, abstractor, proofreader, information broker, book packager, investigative reporter, pharmaceutical copywriter, or documentary video producer. Here are the skills you'll need to transform your intere...

Just For Dads and Grandpa too: A Living-Legacy Journal - Paperback

$21.55

by Richard Possett (Author)This journal book is Just For Dads ( and Grandpa, too). Its about Dads of all ages. Typically, what is handed down from our fathers is both a natural and material inheritance. It is a legacy of genes, behaviors, mannerisms, money, and property. Unless there is some special effort put forth, a lot about Dad is lost upon his death. The purpose of this journal book is for fathers to record their story. It is meant to be a living life gift to their sons and daughters. ...

$24.79

by John D. Husher (Author)By a River, On a Hill brings you into the lives of twins born during the depression in a small steel mill town in Western Pennsylvania and carries you through the depression, the war, the building of the Golden Gate Bridge and on to two completely different routes of success of each to his chosen profession. One who gains his success on a journey that carries him to Argentina for three years and later to Brazil for three years fighting for acceptance in his chosen fi...

Poetry Writing for Wanna-Be's: A Writer-Friendly Guidebook Including the Author's Chapbook of Light Verse, Poems Are Such Funny Stuff - Paperback

$13.99

by Sam McCarver (Author)After reading and enjoying poetry, many of us become "wanna-be poets" wanting to develop our own skills and style by learning from experiences of others. The goal is to write our own poems in readable, entertaining form. This simple, practical, handy guide provides the background and essentials you need for writing your poems. In Part One, "Poetry Writing For Wanna-be's", you'll learn about various poetry forms from traditional to free verse. You'll read about poetry a...

Advanced Writing: Fiction and Film - Hardcover

$34.51

by Wells Earl Draughon (Author)Reader and audience appeal, global constraints, large-scale desiderata, dynamics, consummation scenes, characters, relationships, structure, embodiment, voice, the line level. Developing and testing a theory of writing. Discusses such topics as originality, credibility, contrivance, crudeness, monotony, repetition. Story appeal, story impact. Threat, hope, need to know, tension and pace. Character realization, character identification, character appeal, repellan...

Who's Buying Which Popular Short Fiction Now, & What Are They Paying?: How to Write, Customize, & Sell Tales Online or On Paper - Paperback

$23.95

by Anne Hart (Author)Online booksellers are rapidly becoming online publishers. Sell your short fiction or nonfiction to the newest markets. Anyone who publishes your compiled short stories, novels, or nonfiction is looking for more opportunities to market your work. If you have published your stories or nonfiction with a mainstream or print-on-demand publisher, that firm cooperates with online booksellers. They probably want to leverage serial rights opportunities with your short stories, ar...

Sold Out

$30.89

by Keri Smith (Author)The international bestseller... For anyone who's ever had trouble starting, keeping, or finishing a journal or sketchbook comes this expanded edition of "Wreck This Journal, " an illustrated book that features a subversive collection of prompts, asking readers to muster up their best mistake and mess-making abilities and to fill the pages of the book (or destroy them). Through a series of creatively and quirkily illustrated prompts, acclaimed artist Keri Smith encourage...

The Definitive Guide to Travel Writing - Paperback

$15.25

by Shannon Hurst Lane (Author)The Definitive Guide to Travel Writing is a practical, no-nonsense approach to the business of travel writing. This how-to book, written by travel writer Shannon Hurst Lane, is a must have for anyone considering becoming a travel writer. This book includes areas to take notes while on assignment, as well as how to get those assignments. This guide will tell aspiring travel writers all they need to know to become successful in the beginning stages of their career....

Sold Out

Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words - Paperback

$16.00

by Susan G. Wooldridge (Author)Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge is a poet and teacher who conducts workshops privately, as well as in the California Poets in the Schools program. Her exuberant, critically acclaimed teaching guide takes instructors, writers, and general readers into the very heart and intensity of life and the craft of expressing what one feels through the written word.Author BiographySusan G. Wooldridge conducts writing workshops privately, through Poets & Writers, Inc., and wi...

Communication Skills for Medical Professionals - Paperback

$24.23

by Mark Jerome Walters (Author)As a physician, nurse, veterinarian, dentist, or other health professional, you constantly face the challenge of describing complex ideas or delivering difficult information to laypeople. Whether this involves conveying the risk of a drug or the complexities of a procedure, or simply trying to elicit basic information from a client or patient, this book is designed to help. Concise, practical, and highly accessible, Communication Skills for Medical Professionals...

The New Joys of Yiddish: Completely Updated - Paperback

$22.00

by Leo Rosten (Author), Lawrence Bush (Revised by), Ro Blechman (Illustrator)Enjoy the most comprehensive and hilariously entertaining lexicon of the colorful and deeply expressive language of Yiddish. With the recent renaissance of interest in Yiddish, and in keeping with a language that embodies the variety and vibrancy of life itself, The New Joys of Yiddish brings Leo Rosten's masterful work up to date. Revised for the first time by Lawrence Bush, in close consultation with Rosten's daugh...

A Mother's Journey and Selected Photographs - Paperback

$34.56

by Renée C. Byer (Other), Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art (Author), Brian Wallace (Introduction by)Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs document a single mother's emotional and financial struggles as her son battles a rare form of childhood cancer. Number of Pages: 94 Dimensions: 0.24 x 8.5 x 8.5 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: April 13, 2010

$33.75

by Barry B. Longyear (Author)Writing Instruction: By award winning author Barry B. Longyear, a step-by-step course in developing the outlook, method, and skills that will enable you to write the best stories of which you are capable.About Barry B. Longyear's The Write Stuff . . ."Don't read this book. Please. You'll only make my job harder. You see, it's true that we receive about 700 manuscripts a month. But the truth is that of those 700, 600 of them can go right back. It's easy to tell the...

Burn Wild: A Writer's Guide to Creative Breakthrough - Paperback

$20.25

by Christi Krug (Author)This is a guide for discovering and celebrating one's own creativity. The methods of Burn Wild help writers and artists of all levels to silence the critic, identify their unique voice, and unleash ideas. There are 99 "sparks" as writing prompts, letting creators embrace their own genius.Author BiographyChristi Krug is an award-winning writer whose poetry, fiction, essays, and articles have appeared in everything from international magazines to handmade publications. ...

Write Right - Right Now - The Book - Paperback

$20.25

by Walter M. Perkins (Author)Write Right - Right Now - The Book, the Authoritative Insider's Guide to Writing for Publication, for aspiring authors and entrepreneurs wanting to become subject matter experts. From idea creation, finding information, conducting interviews, and marketing, to legal and business issues; Write Right is the book for you. If you're wondering who will publish your book, who will buy it, how to do a book proposal; and who will design, print and distribute...This is the...

On Writing Words: A Writer's Essential Relations With Words - Paperback

$10.73

by Kalinda Rose Stevenson (Author)How to Make Good Writing Great Are you overlooking the essential writing skill that turns good writing into great writing? Do you want to know the real secret of great writers? It's a secret hidden in plain sight. Great writers know that great writing depends on choosing the right words. Choosing the Right Words Why does choosing the right words matter so much? Writing is nothing more than choosing words and arranging them into a readable form. Great writing ...

Wittgenstein Rules and Private - Paperback

$53.91

by Kripke (Author)In this book Saul Kripke brings his powerful philosophical intelligence to bear on Wittgenstein's analysis of the notion of following a rule.Author BiographyBorn in Bay Shore, New York, the son of a rabbi (Myer Samuel) and a writer (Dorothy Karp), Saul Kripke demonstrated his genius to his startled parents when he was only 3 years old. He not only drew the logical consequences of ordinary beliefs, but also solved intricate problems in mathematics. As a child prodigy, he was ...

Donald Davidson's Philosophy of Language: An Introduction - Hardcover

$88.11

by Bjorn Ramberg (Author)This book is an introduction to and interpretation of the philosophy of language devised by Donald Davidson over the past 25 years. The guiding intuition is that Davidson's work is best understood as an ongoing attempt to purge semantics of theoretical reifications. Seen in this light the recent attack on the notion of language itself emerges as a natural development of his Quinian scepticism towards "meanings" and his rejections of reference-based semantic theories. ...

$107.91

by Anne E. Baker (Editor), Kees Hengeveld (Editor)Linguistics is a comprehensive crosslinguistic introduction to the study of language, and is ideal for students with no background in linguistics. A comprehensive introduction to the study of language, set apart by its inclusion of cross-linguistic data from over 80 different spoken and signed languages Explores how language works by examining discourse, sentence-structure, meaning, words, and sounds Introduces psycholinguistic and sociolingu...

Persian (Farsi-Dari) Grammar and Self-Learner - Paperback

$20.25

by Yavar Dehghani (Author)This Persian self learner is unique in a sense that it uses a comparative linguistics method to teach Persian as a second or foreign language. This method has been attested by the author through several years of teaching of Persian to adult English speakers in Australia. The logic behind this method is that if the language learners understand the structural differences between their own languages with the target language, learning the language will be much easier for...

Sold Out

$10.99

by Ida Ehrlich (Author)LEARNING NEW WORDS IS AS EASY AS ONE, TWO, THREE - RECOGNIZE the keys to the English language, the basic units from which all words are made - FOLLOW clear examples of how the key explains a word's origin and meaning -- or how it combines with other keys to create new words - BUILD your word power with practical exercises to expand and integrate your knowledge, without memorization Why enroll in an expensive course when everything you need to increase your vocabula...

Sold Out

The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking - Paperback

$10.99

by Dorothy Carnegie (Author), Dale Carnegie (Author)In this streamlined and updated edition of Dale Carnegie's communications classic, learn how to achieve greater success and have maximum impact as a speaker in every situation that requires convincing others of your point of view. Good public speakers are made, not born--as the pioneer of personal business skills, Dale Carnegie, once argued. Yet business, social, and personal satisfaction and success often depends heavily upon your ability t...

Comeuppance: Costly Signaling, Altruistic Punishment, and Other Biological Components of Fiction - Paperback

$72.00

by William Flesch (Author)With Comeuppance, William Flesch delivers the freshest, most generous thinking about the novel since Walter Benjamin wrote on the storyteller and Wayne C. Booth on the rhetoric of fiction. In clear and engaging prose, Flesch integrates evolutionary psychology into literary studies, creating a new theory of fiction in which form and content flawlessly intermesh. Fiction, Flesch contends, gives us our most powerful way of making sense of the social world. Comeuppance b...

Sold Out

Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture - Paperback

$40.50

by Carol A. Padden (Author), Tom L. Humphries (Author)Written by authors who are themselves Deaf, this unique book illuminates the life and culture of Deaf people from the inside, through their everyday talk, their shared myths, their art and performances, and the lessons they teach one another. Carol Padden and Tom Humphries employ the capitalized Deaf to refer to deaf people who share a natural language--American Sign Language (ASL--and a complex culture, historically created and actively t...

Sold Out

$27.00

by Carol A. Padden (Author), Tom L. Humphries (Author)In this absorbing story of the changing life of a community, the authors of Deaf in America reveal historical events and forces that have shaped the ways that Deaf people define themselves today. Inside Deaf Culture relates Deaf people's search for a voice of their own, and their proud self-discovery and self-description as a flourishing culture. Padden and Humphries show how the nineteenth-century schools for the deaf, with their denigrat...

Sold Out

$15.95

by Rainer Maria Rilke (Author), Mark Harman (Translator)In 1902, a nineteen-year-old aspiring poet named Franz Kappus wrote to Rilke, then twenty-six, seeking advice on his poetry. Kappus, a student at a military academy in Vienna similar to the one Rilke had attended, was about to embark on a career as an officer, for which he had little inclination. Touched by the innocence and forthrightness of the student, Rilke responded to Kappus' letter and began an intermittent correspondence that wou...

Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora - Hardcover

$113.40

by Tsu (Author)What happens when language wars are not about hurling insults or quibbling over meanings, but are waged in the physical sounds and shapes of language itself? Native and foreign speakers, mother tongues and national languages, have jostled for distinction throughout the modern period. The fight for global dominance between the English and Chinese languages opens into historical battles over the control of the medium through standardization, technology, bilingualism, pronunciatio...

Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar - Paperback

$70.20

by Gerald Gazdar (Author), Ewan Klein (Author), Geoffrey K. Pullum (Author)Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar provides the definitive exposition of the theory of grammar originally proposed by Gerald Gazdar and developed during half a dozen years' work with his colleagues Ewan Klein, Geoffrey Pullum, and Ivan Sag. This long-awaited book contains both detailed specifications of the theory and extensive illustrations of its power to describe large parts of English grammar. Experts who wish to...

Sold Out

$37.00

by David Shulman (Author)Spoken by eighty million people in South Asia and a diaspora that stretches across the globe, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that survives as a mother tongue for so many speakers. David Shulman presents a comprehensive cultural history of Tamil--language, literature, and civilization--emphasizing how Tamil speakers and poets have understood the unique features of their language over its long history. Impetuous, musical,...

Homer's Versicolored Fabric: The Evocative Power of Ancient Greek Epic Word-Making - Paperback

$44.91

by Anna Bonifazi (Author)Anna Bonifazi suggests that the Homeric text we have now would have enabled ancient audiences to enjoy the evocative power of even minimal linguistic elements. The multiple functions served by these elements are associated not only with the variety of narrative contexts in which they occur but also with overarching poetic strategies. The findings relate to two strategies in particular: unfolding the narrative by signaling the upcoming content with αύ- adverbs and part...