Language Arts & Disciplines

Writing as Lemony Snicket, Daniel Handler has led several generations of young readers into that special and curious space of being hopelessly lost, and joyfully finding yourself, in the essential strangeness of literature. The wondrous and perilous journey of the Baudelaire orphans sprung from...

50 Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners includes an assortment of practical strategies aligned to TESOL standards, which have been field-tested in diverse classrooms. Each strategy includes a brief explanation, step-by-step instructions on how to plan and use the strategy, and classroom scenarios demonstrating...

Help third grade students improve their writing skills with fun and effective daily practice activities.180 Days(TM) Writing for Third Grade Guides students through the five steps of the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing with fun daily activities Builds students' confidence with...

Learning Ukrainian language? In this book you'll find 100 easy texts in Ukrainian, and 60 minutes of audio is available online. The book helps not just to learn the words but to use them! This edition contains fun exercises to complement your learning. This...

What If? is the first handbook for writers based on the idea that specific exercises are one of the most useful and provocative methods for mastering the art of writing fiction. With more than twenty-five years of experience teaching creative writing between them, Anne...

Ventures 3rd Edition Level 1 Student's Book has 10 units with six lessons each, based on relevant adult-learner themes. Two-page lessons are designed for an hour of classroom instruction and are aligned to teach students the skills needed for success in college and careers....

Did you know that an "astronaut" is literally a "star sailor," that a thesaurus is, in fact, a "treasure trove" of words, and that someone who is "sinister" is actually just "left-handed"? Have you ever wondered why English isn't considered a Romance language if...

Despite the efforts of teachers and educators, every year secondary schools across the English-speaking world turn out millions of functionally-illiterate leavers. The costs in human misery and in wasted productivity are catastrophic. What can schools do to prevent this situation?In their highly-accessible new book,...

"Charming and erudite," from the author of Rationality and Enlightenment Now, "The wit and insight and clarity he brings . . . is what makes this book such a gem." --Time.com Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it...

In The New Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed, Karen Elizabeth Gordon "manages to make the period, question mark, exclamation point, comma, and semicolon sound friendly instead of forbidding" (New York Times).This essential guide to grammar rescues...

An accessible and complete Russian language course for beginners Designed to provide an excellent command of basic Russian, this book features thirty lessons punctuated by revision exercises to ensure you have fully understood what you have learned. The emphasis is on acquiring vocabulary, experiencing...

The "engaging" and "ambitious" (Washington Post) history of libraries and the people who built them, from the ancient world to the digital age.  The history of the library is rich, varied, and stuffed full of incident. In The Library, historians Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen introduce us to the antiquarians and...

Inside this stirring and timely collection, readers will discover the important stories of many trailblazing Black women who fought racism, sexism, and other hardships in their libraries and communities to become leaders of our profession.Black women have historically been hidden figures in librarianship, yet...

Named one of the 100 Best Nonfiction Books by The Modern Library and The Guardian - With surgical precision, Janet Malcolm dissects the famous case of journalist Joe McGinniss and murderer Jeffrey MacDonald. A riveting exploration of the uneasy dynamic between writers and their...

Providing concrete guidance on integrating accessibility into all aspects of a library's digital work, this book will serve as your one-stop guide to accessibility standards, processes, and best practices.A complicated topic encompassing many disparate facets, digital accessibility in libraries is in constant flux as...

The classic guide to copywriting, now in an entirely updated fourth edition This is a book for everyone who writes or approves copy: copywriters, multichannel marketers, creative directors, freelance writers, marketing managers . . . even small business owners and information marketers. It reveals...

Get advice from the best in the business on every stage of the novel-writing and publishing process! In The Complete Handbook of Novel Writing, 3rd Edition, you'll learn from established writers about how to make your novel a reality. Discover techniques and strategies for...

So, you want to master the verbs and conjugations of the Spanish language?Learning a new language involves dedication and hard work, and a language such as Spanish is no different. Spoken by over 500 million people across the world and used as an official...

"Johnson writes with a fervor that can only be described as religious. Seek is scary and beautiful and ecstatic and uncontrolled...he elevates the mundane to the sublime; he boils things down to their essence. He's simply one of the few writers around whose sentences...

In Rethinking Writing Instruction in the Age of AI, Laist offers composition instructors practical ways to address AI panic as well as insight into how to embrace it as an opportunity to strengthen writing and critical thinking skills. Composition and writing instructors have long...