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If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents - Paperback

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by Gregory Rabassa (Author)A Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of the Year for 2005. Gregory Rabassa's influence as a translator is tremendous. His translations of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and Julio Cortazar's Hopscotch have helped make these some of the the most widely read and respected works in world literature. (Garcia Marquez was known to say that the English translation of One Hundred Years was better than the Spanish original.) In If This Be Treason: Transla...

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Translanguaging for Emergent Bilinguals: Inclusive Teaching in the Linguistically Diverse Classroom - Paperback

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by Danling Fu (Author), Xenia Hadjioannou (Author), Xiaodi Zhou (Author) Translanguaging for Emergent Bilinguals is a thorough examination of the development, evolution, and current realities of educating emergent bilinguals in U.S. classrooms. Through engaging vignettes, readers follow the experiences of emergent bilinguals in a variety of monolingual settings, tracing the challenges encountered by both the students and the schools that serve them. The authors argue that the future of emerge...

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Arts Integration in Diverse K-5 Classrooms: Cultivating Literacy Skills and Conceptual Understanding - Paperback

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by Liane Brouillette (Author)This practical resource emphasizes the special contribution that visual art, drama, music, and dance can make to student literacy and understanding of content area reading assignments. Focusing on those areas where students tend to struggle, this book helps K-5 teachers provide an age-appropriate curriculum that is accessible to an increasingly diverse student population but does not ignore other important aspects of healthy human development. Without detracting f...

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Letting Go of Literary Whiteness: Antiracist Literature Instruction for White Students - Paperback

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by Carlin Borsheim-Black (Author), Sophia Tatiana Sarigianides (Author), Timothy J. Lensmire (Foreword by)Rooted in examples from their own and others' classrooms, the authors offer discipline-specific practices for implementing antiracist literature instruction in White-dominant schools. Each chapter explores a key dimension of antiracist literature teaching and learning, including designing literature-based units that emphasize racial literacy, selecting literature that highlights voices of...

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by Henry Miller (Author)"A brilliant selection . . . it is in short a voyage of discovery, an adventure and this the log of that voyage in the life of a probing and powerful writer." --Robert R. Kirsch, Los Angeles TimesBack JacketSome of the most rewarding pages in Henry Miller's books concern his self-education as a writer. He tells, as few great writers ever have, how he set his goals, how he discovered the excitement of using words, how the books he read influenced him, and how he learned...

Speak Italian: The Fine Art of the Gesture - Paperback

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by Bruno Munari (Author)Attenzione They say that a gesture is worth a thousand words, and when it comes to speaking with your hands, the Italians speak volumes. This quirky handbook of Italian gestures, first published in 1958 by renowned Milanese artist and graphic designer Bruno Munari, will help the phalange-phobic decipher the unspoken language of gesturesa language not found in any dictionary. Charming black-and-white photos and wry captions evoke an Italy of days gone by. Speak Italian ...

Backwards & Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays - Paperback

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by David Ball (Author), Michael Langham (Foreword by), Joseph Haj (Foreword by)The best-selling script analysis book for thirty-five years Considered an essential text since its publication thirty-five years ago, this guide for students and practitioners of both theater and literature complements, rather than contradicts or repeats, traditional methods of literary analysis of scripts. Ball developed his method during his work as literary director at the Guthrie Theater, building his guide o...

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Literature Class, Berkeley 1980 - Paperback

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by Julio Cortázar (Author), Katherine Silver (Translator)"I want you to know that I'm not a critic or theorist, which means that in my work I look for solutions as problems arise." So begins the first of eight classes that the great Argentine writer Julio Cortázar delivered at UC Berkeley in 1980. These "classes" are as much reflections on Cortázar's own writing career as they are about literature and the historical moment in which he lived. Covering such topics as "the writer's path" ("while...

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Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei - Paperback

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by Eliot Weinberger (Author), Octavio Paz (Afterword by)The difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty--from a transliteration to Kenneth Rexroth's loose interpretation. As Octavio Paz writes in the afterword, "Eliot Weinberger's commentary on the successive translations of Wang Wei's little poem illustrates, with succinct clarity, not only the evolut...

Black Perspectives in Writing Program Administration: From the Margins to the Center - Paperback

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by Staci M. Perryman-Clark (Author), Collin Lamont Craig (Editor)This volume then on fleek cuz it straight presentin what ahm calling this blended wokeness-protest and humanity, racialized pedagogical experiences, . . . and the possibilities for racial empathy.- Vershawn Ashanti Young, University of Waterloo, from the IntroductionBlack Perspectives in Writing Program Administration is a powerful and moving argument for genuinely recognizing how black bodies are racialized-rendered invisible, ...

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by Truman Capote (Author)Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote--also available are Breakfast at Tiffany's and Other Voices, Other Rooms (in one volume), Portraits and Observations, and The Complete Stories Truman Capote's masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively res...

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Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style - Hardcover

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by Benjamin Dreyer (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A sharp, funny grammar guide they'll actually want to read, from Random House's longtime copy chief and one of Twitter's leading language gurus NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY O: The Oprah Magazine - Paste - Shelf Awareness"Essential (and delightful )"--People We all write, all the time: books, blogs, emails. Lots and lots of emails. And we all want to write better. Benjamin Dreyer is here to help. As Random House's copy chie...

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Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer - Paperback

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by Bret Anthony Johnston (Editor)You already have the tools to become a gifted writer; what you need is the spark. Harvard creative writing professor and acclaimed author Bret Anthony Johnston brings you an irresistible interactive guide to the craft of narrative writing. From developing characters to building conflict, from mastering dialogue to setting the scene, Naming the World jump-starts your creativity with inspiring exercises that will have you scrambling for pen and paper. Every chap...

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Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction - Paperback

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by Tracy Kidder (Author), Richard Todd (Author)NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS Good Prose is an inspiring book about writing--about the creation of good prose--and the record of a warm and productive literary friendship. The story begins in 1973, in the offices of The Atlantic Monthly, in Boston, where a young freelance writer named Tracy Kidder came looking for an assignment. Richard Todd was the editor who encouraged him. From that article grew a lifelong associat...

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The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms - Paperback

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by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Author)The Bed of Procrustes is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don't understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, Antifragile, and Skin in the Game. By the author of the modern classic The Black Swan, this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses his major ideas in ways...

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by Peter L. Allen (Author)Two major French medieval literary works that claim to teach their readers the art of love are virtually torn apart by the contradictions and conflicts they contain. In Andreas Capellanus's late twelfth-century Latin De amore, the author instructs his friend Walter in the amatory art in the first two books, but then harshly repudiates his own teachings and love itself in a third and final book. In Jean de Meun's encyclopedic continuation of the Romance of the Rose, w...

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by Norman Mailer (Author)In 1974 in Kinshasa, Za re, two African American boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to fight each other. One was Muhammad Ali, the aging but irrepressible "professor of boxing." The other was George Foreman, who was as taciturn as Ali was voluble. Observing them was Norman Mailer, a commentator of unparalleled energy, acumen, and audacity. Whether he is analyzing the fighters' moves, interpreting their characters, or weighing their competing claims on the Af...

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by William E. Klingshirn (Author)From the very beginning Christianity was a religion of books--a lived, but also a written faith. The essays in this collection focus on the ways in which books were produced, used, treasured, and conceptualized in the early Christian centuries (AD 100--600). During this crucial period, just after the New Testament writings were composed, Christianity grew from the religion of a tiny minority in the eastern Roman Empire to the religion of the empire itself, and...

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Embracing Change:: Alternatives to Traditional Research Writing Assignments - Paperback

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by Silke Higgins (Editor), Ngoc-Yen Tran (Editor)The pedagogical value and real-life applicability of traditional research writing assignments has been investigated since at least the 1990s, and the increase in adoption of alternative assignments could be an indication that students are questioning their long-term benefits. Traditional research writing assignments do not always align with the goals and outcomes that students set for their education. Embracing Change: Alternatives to Tradition...

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After Pedagogy: The Experience of Teaching - Paperback

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by Paul Lynch (Author)What does it mean to teach after pedagogy? For a long time, composition's pedagogical conversation has been defined by its theoretical disagreements. Is learning a cognitive process or a social one? Is the self expressed or distributed? Can writing be understood as a process, or is any process too messy to be understood? These debates have finally run out of steam, argues Paul Lynch, leaving composition in a "postpedagogical" moment, a moment when the field no longer bel...

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Alice Walker in the Classroom: Living by the Word - Paperback

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by Carol Jago (Author)In Alice Walker in the Classroom, Carol Jago offers readers a handy guide for bringing this celebrated author's work into the classroom. The second volume in the new NCTE High School Literature Series includes biographical information, ideas for literature circles using Walker's short stories, sample writing lessons using Walker's poems, suggestions for teaching The Color Purple, and a wealth of resources for further investigation of Alice Walker and her work. Number of ...

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by Kathleen Blake Yancey (Editor), Stephen J. McElroy (Editor)Drawing on historical studies as well as on current innovations of composing, Assembling Composition provides a new framework for understanding composing. As Kathleen Blake Yancey, Stephen J. McElroy, and their contributors detail, assemblage theory explains disparate composing practices--from postcard production in the early twentieth century to database-informed composing in the twenty-first, from museum-inspired collecting to cr...

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Becoming Writers in the Elementary Classroom: Visions and Decisions - Paperback

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by Katie Van Sluys (Author)This book illustrates how teachers of elementary-age writers bring their beliefs about teaching and learning to life--through the visions they hold for writers, writing, and the world, as well as through the decisions they make every day in their classrooms. Teachers today face contextual challenges and pressures that may conflict with their visions of effective teaching. Katie Van Sluys demonstrates how to (re)claim our professional practice to ensure that young pe...

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Becoming Teammates: Teachers and Families as Literacy Partners - Paperback

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by Charlene Klassen Endrizzi (Author)Describes a three-phase plan for elementary-level teachers to develop literacy partnerships with children's families. Becoming Teammates: Teachers and Families as Literacy Partners offers a bold new look at how teachers and families can work together to build family-school relationships that value and respect each other's perspectives on literacy. Featuring the voices of parents, teachers, graduate students, and preservice teachers, Charlene Klassen Endriz...

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Adolescent Literacy and the Teaching of Reading - Paperback

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by Deborah Appleman (Author)Reading is interpreting; interpreting is reading, which is why it's more crucial than ever to ensure that our students are able to make meaning as they read. But do we know how to integrate best practices in reading instruction into our classrooms? In Adolescent Literacy and the Teaching of Reading: Lessons for Teachers of Literature, Deborah Appleman dismantles the traditional divide between secondary teachers of literature and teachers of reading and offers a var...

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Adventurous Thinking: Fostering Students' Rights to Read and Write in Secondary Ela Classrooms - Paperback

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by Mollie V. Blackburn (Editor)Drawing from the work of high school teachers across the country, Adventurous Thinking illustrates how advocating for students' rights to read and write can be revolutionary work.Ours is a conflicted time: the #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo movements, for instance, run parallel with increasingly hostile attitudes toward immigrants and prescriptive K-12 curricula, including calls to censor texts. Teachers who fight to give their students the tools and opportunities...

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Forgotten Paths: Etymology and the Allegorical Mindset - Paperback

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by Davide del Bello (Author)Much has been Written on Allegory as a cognitive tool--a rhetorical device that is more a philosophical forma mentis than sheer literary form. The writings of the classical thinkers, the work of Isidore of Seville, and the texts of Renaissance humanists tacitly acknowledge the rhetorical, argumentative impact of etymology. Yet appreciation for the practice of etymology remains largely uncharted in modern works. When recognized, it is invariably with reservations ab...

Talking Appalachian: Voice, Identity, and Community - Hardcover

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by Amy D. Clark (Editor), Nancy M. Hayward (Editor)Tradition, community, and pride are fundamental aspects of the history of Appalachia, and the language of the region is a living testament to its rich heritage. Despite the persistence of unflattering stereotypes and cultural discrimination associated with their style of speech, Appalachians have organized to preserve regional dialects-complex forms of English peppered with words, phrases, and pronunciations unique to the area and its people....

Voice of the Wildcats: Claude Sullivan and the Rise of Modern Sportscasting - Hardcover

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by Alan Sullivan (Author), Tom Leach (Foreword by), Joe Cox (Author)As one of the first voices of the University of Kentucky men's basketball program, Claude Sullivan (1924-1967) became a nationally known sportscasting pioneer. His career followed Kentucky's rise to prominence as he announced the first four NCAA championship titles under Coach Adolph Rupp and covered scrimmages during the canceled 1952-1953 season following the NCAA sanctions scandal. Sullivan also revolutionized the coverage...

Talking Appalachian: Voice, Identity, and Community - Paperback

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Beyond Standardized Truth: Improving Teaching and Learning Through Inquiry-Based Reading Assessment - Paperback

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by Scott Filkins (Author)Beyond Standardized Truth, included in the Principles in Practice imprint, is the result of the author's own efforts to bridge the gap between valuing reading and being able to respond with appropriate instruction or evaluate growth in reading. Scott Filkins brings us into his classroom and the classrooms of his colleagues to demonstrate how high school teachers across the disciplines can engage in inquiry-based reading assessment to support student learning. Based in...

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by Betsy Gilliland (Author), Shannon Pella (Author)The word accountability is everywhere in education today, but it means different things to different people. Speaking directly to teachers who work closely with English language learners, Betsy Gilliland and Shannon Pella examine essential questions in this age of accountability: What kind of accountability measures truly demonstrate multilingual students' learning? How do these measures reflect the planning and teaching that teachers do to h...