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The Fundamentals of Lebanese Grammar - Paperback

$79.36

by Richard A. Kline (Author)The Fundamentals of Lebanese Grammar provides a comprehensive guide to the grammar of the spoken language of Lebanon. It presents the fundamentals and complexities of the Lebanese variety of Arabic in a practical and organized way. This guide also utilizes side-by-side transliterations in both the Arabic script and the Latin alphabet in the way that they are used by native speakers. The explanations of the grammar concepts are presented in English and are made to b...

Refugee Talk: Propositions on Ethics and Aesthetics - Hardcover

$165.60

by Eva Rask Knudsen (Author), Ulla Rahbek (Author)What does it mean to be a refugee? What political questions do they raise? Through what political rhetoric is their experiences parsed? The ongoing refugee crisis has sparked all these questions and more. Refugee Talk uses conversation as a research method and ethical practice to approach the representation of and the discourse about and by the refugee. Though refugees who cross borders are routinely registered, filed, and detained, the indivi...

The Year of My Life, Second Edition: A Translation of Issa's Oraga Haru - Hardcover

$171.00

by Nobuyuki Yuasa (Translator)This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1960. Number of Pages: 150 Dimensions: 0.38 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Dat...

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by Jorge Carrion (Author) Number of Pages: 180 Dimensions: 0.55 x 8.19 x 5.35 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: February 14, 2023

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Facts and Other Lies: Welcome to the Disinformation Age - Paperback

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by Ed Coper (Author)From fringe conspiracy theories to 'alternative facts', a timely look at how we arrived in the 'fake news' era. Would your younger self believe the news of today? An entire city block blown up by a suicide bomber on Christmas Day because he believed phone towers spread disease. A Representative elected to the US Congress on a platform that Democrats are secretly harvesting an anti-aging chemical from the blood of abused children. Angry rioters in furs and horns overrun th...

Writing That Gets Noticed: Find Your Voice, Become a Better Storyteller, Get Published - Paperback

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by Estelle Erasmus (Author)Successful essayist, columnist, writing instructor, and editor Estelle Erasmus will show you how to find your voice, write stellar pieces, and get published. In real-world, experience-based chapters, she coaches you to: - mine your life for ideas and incubate those ideas - choose the perfect format -- essay, op-ed, feature article, and more - research publications and follow editor etiquette - craft a perfect pitch - protect your psyche from rejection - revise your...

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by Dolores Jean Calhoun (Author)Our American SayingsBy: Dolores Jean CalhounDolores Jean Calhoun began collecting idioms some time ago, and over time they began to add up. Fascinated by the seemingly endless turns of phrase, Calhoun found interest in their distinctly American wisdom and humor. She soon discovered that there may be a saying for nearly every situation humans can find ourselves in, including popular American sayings like "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water," to more ob...

Oxford Discover Futures Level 4 Teachers Pack - Paperback

$158.40

by Koustaff (Author) Dimensions: 0.37 x 11.54 x 8.28 IN Publication Date: July 01, 2022

Oxford Discover Futures Level 3 Teachers Pack - Paperback

$158.40

by Koustaff (Author) Dimensions: 0.34 x 11.59 x 8.29 IN Publication Date: July 01, 2022

Oxford Discover Futures Level 5 Student Book - Paperback

$89.10

by Koustaff (Author) Publication Date: July 01, 2022

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Failure to Communicate: Why We Misunderstand What We Hear, Read, and See - Hardcover

$26.95

by Roger Kreuz (Author)"Why didn't they understand me? I was as clear as I could be." Everyone has had this thought at one time or another. Research from the fields of psychology and cognitive science can provide concrete answers to these questions. In Failing to Communicate, Dr. Roger Kreuz explores the answers to these questionsWe are exposed to the dangers of miscommunication early in life. As children, we play the Telephone Game and learn an important lesson about the fragility of long co...

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Writing the Self-Elegy: The Past Is Not Disappearing Ink - Paperback

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by Kara Dorris (Editor), Teresa Leo (Contribution by), Jennifer McCauley (Contribution by)An innovative roadmap to facing our past and present selves Honest, aching, and intimate, self-elegies are unique poems focusing on loss rather than death, mourning versions of the self that are forgotten or that never existed. Within their lyrical frame, multiple selves can coexist--wise and naïve, angry and resigned--along with multiple timelines, each possible path stemming from one small choice tha...

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by Vanni Santoni (Author) Number of Pages: 136 Dimensions: 0.4 x 7 x 4.4 IN Publication Date: October 04, 2022

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Teach Yourself Palaeography: A Guide for Genealogists and Local Historians - Paperback

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by Claire Jarvis (Author)This is the very first 'teach yourself' book on palaeography, covering all the skills that the genealogist needs to read any document that might be found at any date in English archives. Taking the form of a series of graded exercises in transcription, it works backwards in time from the modern handwriting of the nineteenth century in easy stages to the 'court hands' of the medieval period, focusing on records that are of particular interest to family and local histor...

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by George Walkden (Author), Mísa Hejná (Author)Where does today's English language come from? This book takes its readers on a journey back in time, from present-day varieties to the Old English of Beowulf and beyond. Written for students with little or no background in linguistics, and reflecting the latest scholarship, it showcases the variation and change present throughout the history of English, and includes numerous exercises and sample texts for every period. The reverse-chronological ...

Multimodal Approaches to Healthcare Communication Research: Visualising Interactions for Resilient Healthcare in the UK and Japan - Hardcover

$234.00

by Keiko Tsuchiya (Editor), Frank Coffey (Editor), Kyota Nakamura (Editor)Drawing on the concept ofresilient healthcare, this book explores multimodally embedded everyday practices of healthcare professionals in the UK and Japan, utilising novel technology, such as eye-tracking glasses, to inform what constitutes good practice.Providing an interdisciplinary examination of the theories and rationales of resilient healthcare, the book engages with a range of case studies from a variety of healt...

The Art of Writing Technical Books: The Tools, Techniques, and Lifestyle of a Published Author - Paperback

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by Peter H. Gregory (Author)Develop your technical book from idea to finished product. Written by an author of over fifty best-selling technical books, The Art of Writing Technical Books is packed with everything you need to develop your book idea. You'll be guided through all the steps, including identifying your book's purpose and target audience, writing a winning proposal, finding a publisher, negotiating a contract, successfully navigating the end-to-end publishing process, and promoting...

Teaching Adult Learners with Dyslexia and English as an Additional Language: Practical Tips to Support Best Practice - Paperback

$69.64

by Paul Demetriou (Author)Packed full of practical tips to use in the classroom, case studies to provide theoretical grounding and ideas to improve inclusion, Teaching Adult Learners with Dyslexia and English as an Additional Language covers all the key areas necessary to ensure inclusive and effective teaching practice in higher and further education settings. This book provides a coherent framework for those looking to develop their knowledge and skills in this challenging area and explor...

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The A to Z of Grandparent Names: From Abba to Zumu - Hardcover

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by Katie Hankinson (Author)Learn the cultural significance behind the traditional and unique names for grandparents all over the world with The A to Z of Grandparent Names.Grandma and grandpa, babushka and dedushka, oma and opa, bibi and babu--these names are near and dear to our hearts. Uncover the origins of these names in various languages and cultures around the world. This book celebrates the special bond between grandparent and grandchild. You may recognize what you called your own gran...

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New Dad, Same Bad Jokes: A Dad Joke a Day for That First Sleepless Year - Paperback

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by Slade Wentworth (Author)Q: Why is that baby still in diapers? A: I'll give you two reasons: number one and number two. Calling new dads! Cackle and eye-roll your way through baby's first year with 365 hilariously horrible dad jokes for parents who have no idea what they're in for. Classically corny plus new cringe, these jokes help first-time dads take a load off, tickle their loved ones, and give baby their first giggly groan. New Dad, Same Bad Jokes won't make it easier to be a new paren...

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The Crime Without a Name: Ethnocide and the Erasure of Culture in America - Paperback

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by Barrett Holmes Pitner (Author)In this incisive blend of personal narrative and philosophical inquiry, journalist and activist Barrett Holmes Pitner seeks a new way to talk about racism in America An NPR Best Book of the YearCan new language reshape our understanding of the past and expand the possibilities of the future? The Crime Without a Name follows Pitner's journey to identify and remedy the linguistic void in how we discuss race and culture in the United States. Ethnocide, first coin...

Oxford Discover Futures Level 1 Teachers Pack - Paperback

$158.40

by Koustaff (Author) Dimensions: 0.34 x 11.59 x 8.29 IN Publication Date: July 01, 2022

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God the Bestseller: How One Editor Transformed American Religion a Book at a Time - Hardcover

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by Stephen Prothero (Author)New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed religion scholar, Stephen Prothero, captures the compelling and unique saga of twentieth-century America on an identity quest through the eyes and books of one of the most influential editors of the day--a search, born of two world wars, for resolution of our divided identity as a Christian nation and a nation of religions.One summer evening in 1916 in Blanchester, Ohio, a sixteen-year-old farm boy was riding his hors...

Designing Multilingual Experiences in Technical Communication - Paperback

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by Laura Gonzales (Author)As technical communicators continue advocating for justice, the field should pay closer attention to how language diversity shapes all research and praxis in contemporary global contexts. Designing Multilingual Experiences in Technical Communication provides frameworks, strategies, and best practices for researchers engaging in projects with multilingual communities. Through grounded case studies of multilingual technical communication projects in the US, Mexico, an...

The Dual Enrollment Kaleidoscope: Reconfiguring Perceptions of First-Year Writing and Composition Studies - Paperback

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by Christine Denecker (Editor), Casie Moreland (Editor)The Dual Enrollment Kaleidoscope serves as a starting point for elevating the voices of those who do dual enrollment (DE) work--those who historicize, legitimize, scrutinize, critically analyze, align, and assess it--pushing readers beyond unique, singular views of DE first-year composition and positioning DE's impact on composition instruction as one that shifts dependent upon perspective. Just as kaleidoscopes reconfigure images, DE pro...

The People's Tongue: Americans and the English Language - Hardcover

$35.00

by Ilan Stavans (Editor)A riveting, one-of-a-kind anthology of the diversity, strangeness, and power of American English that features a tremendous array of letters, poems, memoir, jeremiads, stories, songs, documents, and more from Sojourner Truth and Abraham Lincoln to Henry Roth and Zora Neale Hurston, from George Carlin and James Baldwin to Richard Rodríguez and Amy Tan, from Tony Kushner and Toni Morrison to Louise Erdrich and Donald Trump.This volume is a kind of people's history of Eng...

Mobile Assisted Language Learning Across Educational Contexts - Paperback

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by Valentina Morgana (Editor), Agnes Kukulska-Hulme (Editor)This concise collection critically reflects on mobile assisted language learning research across educational stages, from early childhood through to university settings. // The volume traces the development of MALL practices through researchers' and teachers' efforts to make sense of the impact of mobile technologies on formal and informal second language learning and development. The chapters explore a range of topics around mobile ...

Community Building and Early Public Relations: Pioneer Women's Role on and After the Oregon Trail - Paperback

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by Donnalyn Pompper (Author)From the start, women were central to a century of westward migration in the U.S. Community Building and Early Public Relations: Pioneer Women's Role on and after the Oregon Trail offers a path forward in broadening PR's Caucasian/White male-gendered history in the U.S. Undergirded by humanist, communitarian, critical race theory, social constructionist perspectives, and a feminist communicology lens, this book analyzes U.S. pioneer women's lived experiences, drawi...

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by Raoul Zamponi (Author)South Picene is the pre-Roman language spoken in the Adriatic sector of central Italy. This book presents a description of what we know about the structure of this language. South Picene is (together with Umbrian, Oscan, Latin, and Faliscan) one of the few members of the Italic branch of the Indo-European family and is also one of the European languages with the oldest existing texts (550 BCE). Besides a grammatical outline of the language, the book contains the lingu...

Numeral Classifiers and Classifier Languages: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean - Paperback

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by Chungmin Lee (Editor), Young-Wha Kim (Editor), Byeong-UK Yi (Editor)Focusing mainly on classifiers, Numeral Classifiers and Classifier Languages offers a deep investigation of three major classifier languages: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. This book provides detailed discussions well supported by empirical evidence and corpus analyses. Theoretical hypotheses regarding differences and commonalities between numeral classifier languages and other mainly article languages are tested to seek u...

Generational Gaps in Political Media Use and Civic Engagement: From Baby Boomers to Generation Z - Paperback

$90.70

by Kim Andersen (Author), Jakob Ohme (Author), Camilla Bjarnøe (Author)This book investigates news use patterns among five different generations in a time where digital media create a multi-choice media environment. The book introduces the EPIG Model (Engagement-Participation-Information-Generation) to study how different generational cohorts' exposure to political information is related to their political engagement and participation. The authors build on a multi-method framework to determin...

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English for Everyone English Grammar Guide and Practice Book Grammar Box Set - Paperback

$44.94

by DK (Author)Understanding and practicing even the trickiest English grammar points has never been easier with this beautifully packaged box set for adults. Puzzled by past tenses? Confused by comparatives? Make learning grammar fun with this box set containing a comprehensive visual reference guide to English grammar and an accompanying practice book. With more than 1,000 practice exercises, this beautifully packaged box set makes learning and practising grammar incredibly easy. English for...