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Write for Your Life: A Guide to Clear and Purposeful Writing (and Presentations) - Paperback

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by Charles Wheelan (Author)How would you create a winning pitch for your latest investment idea? Or persuasively argue for a major policy change? Or successfully ask your boss for a raise? The answer: clear and effective communication, whether in writing or through a presentation.Best-selling author Charles Wheelan has spent decades mastering effective communication skills in his work as a writer, college professor, journalist, speechwriter, political candidate, and public speaker. In Write f...

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by Patrick Barry (Author)With a little knowledge and a lot of practice, you can do more than just sound more professional when you skillfully use commas, semicolons, and other forms of punctuation. You can, importantly, become more persuasive. That's what students who have taken Professor Patrick Barry's classes at the University of Michigan Law School, the University of Chicago Law School, and the UCLA School of Law have learned, as have the over 100,000 people who have enrolled in his onlin...

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by Andrew Jackson Grayson (Author)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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the pu...

The Approach of Academic to Spoken Style in German: A Study in Popular Scientific Prose from 1850 to 1914 - Hardcover

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by Charles Fischer Sladen (Author)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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the pu...

Learn To Read English With Directions In Korean Classwork: Color Edition - Paperback

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by Alexander J. Charles (Author), Wendy A. Charles (Author)Learn To Read English With Directions In Korean Classwork is a comprehensive bilingual workbook designed to teach and reinforce phonics instruction for older students. The 26 instructional units have engaging activities from letter A to letter Z. Sequential activities give students multiple opportunities to practice and apply newly acquired reading skills. Each unit includes reading and writing tasks that build fluency, expand vocabul...

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by Alan Macgillivray (Author), Isobel Macgillivray (Illustrator)A wide-ranging bounty of poetry spanning two decades, this new collection includes An Altitude Within (2010), the twelve-part verse monologue the saga of fnc gull (2009), with illustrations here by Isobel MacGillivray, Redomones, and Eye to the Future (2016), Riding to Trapalanda (2018), Walking to the Island (2018) and Sonnets to Hugh MacDiarmid, and Other Scots Poems (2020). Other poems are drawn from the pamphlets, Kindly Clo...

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by Nance Van Winckel (Author)In Sister Zero, a woman who never wanted children suddenly becomes a mother to her nine-year-old nephew after her sister commits suicide at age 34. Fifteen years later, the boy will also kill himself and in almost exactly the same manner. Sister Zero is narrated through short prose sections and snippets of "advice" from Mister Ed (of the old television show), while Nance Van Winckel exhumes the sisters' shared childhood for missed clues, interrogates memory's ac...

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by Natalia Ilyin (Author)"Becoming a designer takes a huge amount of time and education. With so many skills to learn, many people never get the chance to master the one skill that can give them a real advantage in business or academia: They never learn to write well." In Writing for the Design Mind author, designer and educator Natalia Ilyin offers clear, concise, and humorous writing tips, techniques and strategies to people who have spent their lives mastering design rather than learning t...

Linguistics and Psychoanalysis: A New Perspective on Language Processing and Evolution - Paperback

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by Thomas Paul Bonfiglio (Author)This groundbreaking, provocative book presents an overview of research at the disciplinary intersection of psychoanalysis and linguistics. Understanding that linguistic activity, to a great extent, takes place in unconscious cognition, Thomas Paul Bonfiglio systematically demonstrates how fundamental psychoanalytic mechanisms--such as displacement, condensation, overdetermination, and repetition--have been absent in the history of linguistic inquiry, and expla...

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Writing Speculative Fiction: Creative and Critical Approaches - Paperback

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by Eugen Bacon (Author)In this engaging and accessible guide, Eugen Bacon explores writing speculative fiction as a creative practice, drawing from her own work, and the work of other writers and theorists, to interrogate its various subgenres. Through analysis of writers such as Stephen King, J.R.R. Tolkien and J. K. Rowling, this book scrutinises the characteristics of speculative fiction, considers the potential of writing cross genre and covers the challenges of targeting young adults. It...

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Language and Mediated Masculinities: Cultures, Contexts, Constraints - Paperback

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by Robert Lawson (Author)From television shows to the manosphere, and from alt-right communities to fatherhood forums, debates about masculinity have come to dominate the media landscape. What does it mean to be a man in contemporary society? How is masculinity constituted in different media spaces? This growing cultural tension around masculinities has been discussed and analyzed both for general audiences and in burgeoning academic scholarship. What has been typically overlooked, however, i...

Animals and their names coloring book: learn how to name and identify different animals - Paperback

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by William Yang Kerry (Author)This book gives a detailed description of various animal images and their names Number of Pages: 72 Dimensions: 0.15 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 19, 2022

Learn To Read English With Directions In Chinese Classwork: Black and White Edition - Paperback

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by Alexander J. Charles (Author), Wendy A. Charles (Author)Learn To Read English With Directions In Chinese Classwork is a comprehensive bilingual workbook designed to teach and reinforce phonics instruction for older students. The 26 instructional units have engaging activities from letter A to letter Z. Sequential activities give students multiple opportunities to practice and apply newly acquired reading skills. Each unit includes reading and writing tasks that build fluency, expand vocabu...

Facets of Female Agency in three of Shakespeare's Works: Shakespeare's Characters Juliet, Beatrice and Lady Macbeth as Examples of a New Female Agency - Paperback

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by Marie Sophie Jendrusch (Author)Bachelor Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Duisburg-Essen (Anglophone Studies), language: English, abstract: In this Bachelor thesis I will analyse Juliet, Beatrice and Lady Macbeth's agency in relation to the plays' plots, the outer and inner processes of the plays and characters, their relationships to men and their own character traits. I will do so against the backgroun...

The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and Explanatory Notes, Volume 1 - Hardcover

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by Richard Steele (Author), Joseph Addison (Author)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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This ...

The Fundamentals of Argumentation and Debate - Hardcover

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by Jacob Walter Reeves (Author)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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the publi...

Eating Disorders in Public Discourse: Exploring Media Representations and Lived Experiences - Hardcover

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by Laura A. Cariola (Editor)Eating disorders remain little understood by the public, and sensationalist stories in the media have done little to dispel simplistic and reductionist perspectives. This book uncovers compelling insights on the intersection of language, discourse and mental health. Number of Pages: 364 Dimensions: 0.94 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: January 24, 2023

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Distant Readings of Disciplinarity: Knowing and Doing in Composition/Rhetoric Dissertations - Paperback

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by Benjamin Miller (Author)In Distant Readings of Disciplinarity, Benjamin Miller brings a big data approach to the study of disciplinarity in rhetoric, composition, and writing studies (RCWS) by developing scalable maps of the methods and topics of several thousand RCWS dissertations from 2001 to 2015. Combining charts and figures with engaging and even playful prose, Miller offers an accessible model of how large-scale data-driven research can advance disciplinary understanding--both answer...

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Marbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems - Paperback

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by Virginia Konchan (Editor), Sarah Giragosian (Editor)Marbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems was conceived from a poetic dialogue on how to shed light on the art and science behind the material construction of a poetry collection, and to generate a conversation around an art form too-long hermetically obscured. This anthology of interconnected essays (craft, lyric, and critical) explores the art and technique of poetry manuscript assembly as articulated by poets in all stages ...

El secreto del molino: Learn Spanish with Improve Spanish Reading Downloadable Audio included - Paperback

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by María Danader (Author)Welcome to the IMPROVE SPANISH READING books, a fun way to learn Spanish! These books are a series of novels in Spanish, chapter books in Spanish, with levels from beginner to expert. Our method is based on the natural daily dialogue and expressions. You will make your Spanish more fluent in an easy way. With our adapted stories graded to ensure a confortable read at every level. Each story is recorded by a native Spanish speaker. Listening this audio, you can learn h...

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by Todor Koev (Author)This book investigates the semantics and pragmatics of a representative sample of parenthetical constructions. Todor Koev argues that these constructions fall into two major classes: pure and impure. Pure parentheticals comment on some part of the descriptive content of the root sentence but are otherwise relatively independent of it. Impure parentheticals modify components of the illocutionary force and affect the felicity or the truth of the root sentence. The book stu...

Child Psychology in Twelve Questions - Hardcover

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by Paul L. Harris (Author)Child psychology as a scientific enterprise is about 100 years old, but while numerous textbooks and practical guides are available, the more meditative questions about the nature of a child's mind are rarely asked. This book explores some of the enduring questions in developmental psychology: How do children form an attachment to their caregivers? How do they learn words? In their imagination, are they confused - or clear-sighted - about the difference between fanta...

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The Oxford Handbook of Ellipsis - Paperback

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by Van Craenenbroeck (Author) Publication Date: January 20, 2023

English Grammar All-In-One for Dummies (+ Chapter Quizzes Online) - Paperback

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by Geraldine Woods (Author)Learn to get your ideas across clearly and correctly--the easy way English Grammar All-in-One For Dummies is packed with everything you need to know to communicate with confidence--in your writing, on standardized tests, at work, on social media, and everywhere else. Strong verbal and written skills can help you get where you want to be, and this easy-to-understand Dummies guide will help you understand the English grammar principles you need to know so you can impr...

Velocity Reading: Read Better, Read Faster. - Paperback

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by Gilles Lavoie (Author)Read Velocity Reading, and see your speed to extract quality information soar !" When one reads too quickly or too slowly, one hears nothing." Blaise Pascal Do you know anyone who can quickly grasp the content of a book or report?Nine times out of 10, it isn't talent.They learned a methodology. They learned how. Do you forget most of what you read?Do you have a hard time remembering and applying what you read?Did you know that there are reading best practices?-----A f...

Launch Pad: The Countdown to Publishing Your Book - Paperback

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by Stephanie Larkin (Author), Grace Sammon (Author)You've written - or you're writing - your book, and the goal is publication. With so many paths to publishing open to you, choosing the path that best matches your vision, your audience, and yes, even your budget, can be confusing and overwhelming. Are you at those crossroads? Join us here for LAUNCH PAD: The Countdown to Publishing Your Book.From the first insightful words of New York book influencer and publisher Zibby Owens to the hands-on...

Legal Meanings: The Making and Use of Meaning in Legal Reasoning - Paperback

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by Janet Giltrow (Editor), Frances Olsen (Editor), Donato Mancini (Editor)This collection is about how law makes meaning and how meaning makes law. Through clear methodology and substantial findings, chapters expose the deficits of 'literal' meaning and the difficulties in 'ordinary' meaning, in international legal contexts and in more immediate social ones, as well as in courtrooms. Further, chapters in this volume see the challenges to national and international commitments to all speakers ...

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by Rodrigo Cortés (Author)Rodrigo Cortés regresa a las librerías con Verbolario diccionario satírico, humorístico y poético, que, con sus más de dos mil definiciones y siete años de trabajo a la espalda, se atreve a enmendarle la plana al diccionario. «Verbolario es un milagro sostenido: la noticia más extraordinaria del día está en sus definiciones . --Manuel Jabois Toda palabra tiene su significado oculto (su significado verdadero) acechante entre sus pliegues con la astucia del salteado...

Unrounded Vowel Finals in Alternate Pronunciation of Mandarin Characters - Paperback

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by Stephen M. Kraemer (Author)This book presents pronunciation variation in all vowel final Mandarin Chinese characters where at least one pronunciation has finals with only unrounded vowels. Number of Pages: 132 Dimensions: 0.28 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 19, 2022

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by G. Kurt Piehler (Editor), Ingo Trauschweizer (Editor), Steven Casey (Contribution by)This set of essays offers new insights into the journalistic process and the pressures American front-line reporters experienced covering World War II. Transmitting stories through cable or couriers remained expensive and often required the cooperation of foreign governments and the American armed forces. Initially, reporters from a neutral America documented the early victories by Nazi Germany and the Sov...

Poetry as Spellcasting: Poems, Essays, and Prompts for Manifesting Liberation and Reclaiming Power - Paperback

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by Tamiko Beyer (Author), Destiny Hemphill (Author), Lisbeth White (Author)Poems, essays, and prompts to sing a new world into being--Queer & BIPOC perspectives on poetry as an insurgent ritual for manifesting liberation and reclaiming power. Written for poets, spellcasters, and social justice witches, Poetry as Spellcasting reveals the ways poetry and ritual can, together, move us toward justice and transformation. It asks: If ritualized violence upholds white supremacy, what ritualized ...