Language Arts & Disciplines
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Black Sheep and Lame Ducks: The Origins of Even More Phrases We Use Every DayThe fun and fascinating follow-up to the international bestseller Red Herrings and White Elephants Why do people put their skeletons in a closet, have a hunch, get the cold shoulder, get dressed up to the nines, or call a spade a spade? These phrases...
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A Writer's Guide to Fiction: A Concise, Practical Guide for Novelists and Short-Story WritersThe second book in the Writer's Compass series from professional writing instructor Elizabeth Lyon offers both aspiring and established authors the fundamentals of writing and selling a great novel or short story. In addition to the basics of characterization, plot, pacing, and theme, A...
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Teaching Poetry: A Handbook of Exercises for Large and Small ClassesThis practical handbook offers a wide variety of innovative in-class exercises designed to enliven classroom discussion. Each of these flexible teaching exercises includes straightforward, step-by-step guidelines and suggestions for variation.Author: Allan J. GedalofPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublished: 06/01/2004Pages: 74Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize: 8.25h...
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Book Business Publishing: Past, Present, and FutureJason Epstein has led arguably the most creative career in book publishing during the past half-century. He founded Anchor Books and launched the quality paperback revolution, cofounded the New York Review of Books, and created of the Library of America, the prestigious publisher of...
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At Random: The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf"I've got the name for our publishing operation. We just said we were going to publish a few books on the side at random. Let's call it Random House." So recounts Bennett Cerf in this wonderfully amusing memoir of the making of a great...
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5th Grade Reading Comprehension Success Workbook: Reading and Preparation, Context and Indifference, Main Ideas and Details, Point of View, Making ArgLearn from anywhere with these kid-friendly, teacher-reviewed activities for 5th grade reading success This colorful workbook is jam-packed with fun games and exercises based on the fifth grade curriculum for kids tackling 5th grade reading and writing. Perfect for back to school--no matter what...
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Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, PipsIf everybody's first English teacher were Roy Blount Jr., we might still be trillions in debt, but we would be so deeply in love with words and their magic . . . that we'd hardly notice. --Chris Tucker, The Dallas Morning News After forty...
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Write Yourself Out of a Corner: 100 Exercises to Unlock CreativityWhen you are facing down a blank page (or screen), a constraint-based prompt--for example, "you must use the words 'cloud' and 'green'" or "you must set the scene in a crowded grocery store"--can get your brain working in unexpected ways.In this creative writing guide,...
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Prizing Children's Literature: The Cultural Politics of Children's Book AwardsChildren's book awards have mushroomed since the early twentieth-century and especially since the 1960s, when literary prizing became a favored strategy for both commercial promotion and canon-making. There are over 300 awards for English-language titles alone, but despite the profound impact of children's book...
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Understanding SyntaxAssuming no prior grammatical knowledge, Understanding Syntax explains and illustrates the major concepts, categories and terminology involved in the study of cross-linguistic syntax. Taking a theory-neutral and descriptive viewpoint throughout, this book: introduces syntactic typology, syntactic description and the major typological categories found in...
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More Grammar to Get Things Done: Daily Lessons for Teaching Grammar in ContextCO-PUBLISHED BY ROUTLEDGE AND THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH Complementing Crovitz and Devereaux's successful Grammar to Get Things Done, this book demystifies grammar in context and offers day-by-day guides for teaching ten grammar concepts, giving teachers a model and vocabulary for discussing...
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The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism; Evidence and Reasons Behind the Media's CorruptionTurning his muckraking talents to journalism itself, Upton Sinclair exposes a variety of the news media's ingrained biases and its agenda-serving corruption. Upton Sinclair became famous for exposing filthy and inhumane conditions in the American meat packing industry at the turn of the 20th...
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The Rohonc Codex: A Working SolutionThe Rohonc Codex: A Working Solution presents one of the most current transcriptions, translations, and possible solutions to finally deciphering of the Rohonc Codex This edition includes an exhaustive and complete transcription of the codex, glyph tables of every symbol, a working translation of...
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Reading Explorer 1Reading Explorer, a six-level reading series, prepares learners for academic success with highly visual, motivating National Geographic content that features real people, places, and stories.Author: David Bohlke, Nancy DouglasPublisher: Heinle ELTPublished: 05/28/2019Pages: 176Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 10.80h x 8.50w x 0.40dISBN: 9780357116258About the AuthorDouglas,...
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The Rivan Codex: Ancient Texts of the Belgariad and the MalloreonJoin David and Leigh Eddings on a fascinating behind-the-scenes tour of the extensive background materials they compiled before beginning the masterpiece of epic fantasy unforgettably set down in The Belgariad and The Malloreon and their two companion volumes, Belgarath the Sorcerer and Polgara the...
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The African American Writer's Handbook: How to Get in Print and Stay in PrintWith African Americans writing and buying books in record numbers, the time is ripe for a comprehensive publishing guide tailored expressly to the needs of this vibrant, creative community. The African American Writers Handbook meets this challenge perfectly. Written by veteran journalist and published...
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Multimodal Discourse: The Modes and Media of Contemporary CommunicationMultimodal Discourse outlines a new theory of communication for the age of interactive multimedia. Kress and Van Leeuwen show how two kinds of thought processes interact in the design and production of communicative messages: "design thinking" and "production thinking," the kind of thinkingwhich occurs...
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El Libro de Estrategias de Lectura: Guia Completa Para Formar Lectores Habiles"Spanish-language educators tell me that they too often spend precious time translating English-only material so that it can work with their students. My Facebook and Twitter messages and my email inbox are all filled with educators who are asking for the same thing: Spanish...
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The Kingdom of SpeechThe maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong. Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. The Kingdom of Speech...
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Why I Write: Thoughts on the Craft of FictionIn this anthology, 26 writers illuminate the motivations at the heart of their creative lives in original essays that are as surprising and varied as their fiction. The contributors include Pat Conroy, Norman Mailor, Rick Moody and David Foster Wallace.Author: Will BlythePublisher: Back Bay...
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