Language Arts & Disciplines

"It sounds like a simple thing, to say what you see," Mark Doty begins. "But try to find words for the shades of a mottled sassafras leaf, or the reflectivity of a bay on an August morning, or the very beginnings of desire stirring...

Simplified Medical Spanish for Healthcare ProfessionalsThis book is specifically created for healthcare professionals: in particular, physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses (including NPs, LVNs, LPNs and MAs), medical assistants, lab technicians, and ancillary medical staff. Interact with Spanish-speaking patients, even with zero prior background...

David Siller's debut collection ...& Other Improprieties delivers a model of worship that attends not to the skies above but every quotidian detail of our days. He has constructed an poetic Versailles, drawing richly on a beloved second language, French. These poems fly the...

The story of the legendary Random House founder, whose seemingly charmed life at the apogee of the American Century afforded him a front-row seat to literary and cultural history in the making "A stunning achievement . . . a sweeping intellectual history with a...

A tried-and-true grammar-based approach that will have you speaking Korean confidently in no time, even if you are an absolute beginner.This book is designed to address the key areas where students frequently struggle.It provides a step-by-step learning method that anyone can follow and will...

The acclaimed author of Sins of My Father shares the secrets of writing a new, transformative kind of memoir. Into being is an essential guide to writing radical and empowering memoir. Drawing on her experience as a memoirist and a teacher of creative writing,...

Build your fluency and confidence in English with this fun, engaging, and easy-to-use self-study program.Want to brush up on your English idioms? Always caught out by phrasal verbs? Or are you just looking to expand your English vocabulary? With three visual guides to the...

Boost your language skills and discover contemporary Vietnam by reading real-life articles from Vietnamese newspapers, available in both Vietnamese and English! This innovative language book features 28 authentic articles from Vietnamese newspapers, one contemporary short story, and two original poems -- each presented side-by-side...

How we learn to read is not a secret formula, it's a science. More than five decades of research conducted across the world informs the Science of Reading. This one-stop guide examines the crucial aspects of literacy development. Uncover the workings of the brain...

Business, social and personal satisfaction depend heavily upon a person's ability to communicate clearly. Public speaking is an important skill which anyone can acquire and develop. It is also the very best method of overcoming self-consciousness and building confidence, courage and enthusiasm. This book...

What makes a romance novel a romance? How do you write a kissing book? Writing a well-structured romance isn't the same as writing any other genre-something the popular novel and screenwriting guides don't address. The romance arc is made up of its own story...

The intelligent approach to learning the Japanese writing system that has helped thousands! Japanese characters may seem mysterious and difficult, but Read Japanese Today explains the writing system in a way that's clear and easy to understand. This proven approach teaches you the essential...

Discover the fascinating history and current use of Black American Sign Language, then bring it to life with your hands following photo-illustrated instruction. Deaf history has been told primarily from a white-centered lens, pushing Black Deaf history into the background. However, today, Black signers...

Herodotus' Histories are the primary source for the conflict between Greece and the enormous Persian Empire in the fifth century BC. Book VII begins after the defeat of the first Persian invasion by Athens at the Battle of Marathon and covers the Persian decision...

"The selections are good and the translations are excellent." ― Germaine Brée, New York UniversityDrawn from two centuries of French literature, these superb selections by ten great writers span a wide variety of styles, philosophies, and literary creeds. The stories reflect not only the...

"Monumental . . . [Ostler's] massive overview of major languages in world history puts the current global spread of English in perspective."--Chicago TribuneIn this linguistic Thousand and One Nights, Nicholas Ostler creates the first history of the world's great languages, gloriously celebrating the wonder...

We are only now coming to terms with how common trauma really is; a landmark Kaiser study that surveyed patients receiving physicals found that almost two-thirds had experienced at least one form of abuse, neglect, or other trauma as a child. Though originating in...

If you need to make the leap from single sentences to a published manuscript, you will find valuable help and resources in this fully updated fifth edition of Anatomy of Writing for Publication for Nurses. In this practical and useful guide, lead author and...

A life-affirming memoir about resilience, language, and the healing power of our ancestor's music, stories, and recipes. Samantha's mother tongue is dying out. The daughter of Iraqi Jewish refugees, Samantha grew up surrounded by the noisy, vivid, hot sounds of Judeo-Iraqi Arabic. A language...

Making the leap from the basics of biblical Greek to its real-life application can be a frustrating challenge for students of intermediate Greek. A Graded Reader of Biblical Greek was developed to make the transition easier.It takes beginning exegetes from simple to progressively more...