Language Arts & Disciplines
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Closing the Loop: A Powerful and Practical Guide to School-Home CommunicationAs an educator, you know you need to communicate with your families, but it's hard to know what to say and how to say it...it's hard to know what to write and how to write it.In her book, Closing the Loop: A Powerful and...
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Blue PasturesBlue Pastures collects fifteen prose works from Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning poet Mary Oliver."This transcendent collection is Oliver's joyful sharing of her love of her craft."--Library JournalWith consummate craftsmanship, Mary Oliver has fashioned fifteen luminous prose pieces: on nature, writing, and herself...
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ASL American Sign Language: Speak with your Hands, Listen with your Eyes"Hearing impairment is not a disability but only a difference in human experience and perception." A new Sign Language book is aimed at "breaking the barriers" between the Deaf community and the rest of society. This book is an introduction to American Sign Language...
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AP - Associated Press Style Guide: A Quickstudy Laminated ReferenceHandy reference that is as fast and durable as those people who choose to work in the world of mass media. Every tool helps with today's challenging goal of sharing information that is accurate, precise, clear and without bias, online, on air or in...
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15-Minute Italian: Learn in Just 12 WeeksTeach yourself Italian in just 12 weeks with this fun-filled language course. DK's 15 Minute Language is the perfect course for busy people who want to learn Italia fast. The 12 themed chapters are broken down into easy-to-follow 15-minute daily lessons, spanning a range...
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Writing Proposals and Grants, Third EditionWriting Proposals and Grants, Third Edition takes readers through the entire proposal and grant writing process-from finding and analyzing requests for proposals to designing final deliverables. Writing Proposals and Grants (3rd ed.) offers an updated and expanded version of Writing Proposals (2nd ed.). This...
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Writing Essays about Literature: A Brief Guide for University and College Students - Second EditionThis book gives students an answer to the question, "What does my professor want from this essay?" Using a single poem by William Carlos Williams as the basis for the process of writing a paper, it walks students through the processes of reading, brainstorming,...
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Writing as a Way of Life: A Book about Art, Craft, and DevotionIn Writing as a Way of Life: A Book About Art, Craft, and Devotion, novelist and memoirist Brian Morton (Starting Out in the Evening) provides writers with a guidebook for finding the psychic equipment they'll need to remain committed to their craft over the...
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Write Your Book - Publish Your Book - Promote Your BookWhen I was doing publicity for my books, I met many people at book signings, on television and radio shows - and believe it not, on the street or in a supermarket who told me the same thing. "As soon as I have time...
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Words from Hell: Unearthing the Darkest Secrets of English EtymologyThe English language is where words go to be tortured and mutilated into unrecognizable shadows of their former selves. It's where Latin, Greek, and Germanic roots are shredded apart and stitched unceremoniously back together with misunderstood snippets of languages snatched from the wreckage of...
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The Scientist's Guide to Writing, 2nd Edition: How to Write More Easily and Effectively Throughout Your Scientific CareerAn updated and expanded edition of the acclaimed writing guide for scientists The Scientist's Guide to Writing explains the essential techniques that students, postdocs, and early-career scientists need to write more clearly, efficiently, and easily. Now fully updated and expanded, this incisive primer offers...
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The Fantasy Fiction FormulaThere's more to writing a successful fantasy story than building a unique world or inventing a new type of magic. From the writing of strong, action-packed scenes to the creation of dynamic, multi-dimensional characters, fantasy author Deborah Chester guides novices and intermediate writers through...
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The Elements of Rhetoric: How to Write and Speak Clearly and Persuasively -- A Guide for Students, Teachers, Politicians & PreachersThe Elements of Rhetoric offers a concise, comprehensive course in the rules for making your point stick. With copious examples from such masters of language as Cicero, Augustine, Shakespeare, Erasmus, Lincoln, Dickens, Newman, Chesterton, and Lewis, you will discover the 26 rules of persuasion...
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum CryptographyIn his first book since the bestselling Fermat's Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own...
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The Cleaving: Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora Volume 8The first and only book to gather the voices and perspectives of Vietnamese diasporic authors from across the globe. Edited by Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Lan P. Duong, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Cleaving brings together Vietnamese artists and writers from around...
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The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics, Fifth EditionFilled with both common and rarely heard of forms and prosodies, Turco's engaging style and apt examples invite writers to try their hands at exploring forms in ways that challenge and enrich their work.Author: Lewis TurcoPublisher: Unm PressPublished: 09/01/2020Pages: 448Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 8.40h...
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The Art of Brevity: Crafting the Very Short StoryWith increased compression, every word, every sentence matters more. A writer must learn how to form narratives around caesuras and crevices instead of strings of connections, to move a story through the symbolic weight of images, to master the power of suggestion. With elegant...
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Speak with Distinction: The Classic Skinner Method to Speech on the StageWidely recognized as the most complete and rigorous text of its kind since it was first published in 1942, Speak With Distinction is an invaluable resource. It presents a comprehensive study of the sounds of Spoken English in their most important phonetic environments. This...
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Skill with PeopleAre you having problems with the boss? Wishing you could be a better spouse? Not communicating well with your employees? Having trouble building business relationships? Or would you just like to improve your people skills and your ability to make strong, lasting impressions on...
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Sharing Our Science: How to Write and Speak StemA personal, practical, and inspirational guide to written and oral STEM communications for scientists and technical professionals. In Sharing Our Science, scientist-turned-writing teacher Brandon Brown offers an eminently useful guidebook for STEM practitioners looking to communicate their technical work to either a technical or...
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