Language Arts & Disciplines

For the last several years Adm. James Stavridis and his co-author, R. Manning Ancell, have surveyed over two hundred active and retired four-star military officers about their reading habits and favorite books, asking each for a list of titles that strongly influenced their leadership...

This bestselling book provides indispensable tools and strategies for explicit, systematic phonics instruction in K-3. Teachers learn effective ways to build students' decoding skills by teaching letter-sound relationships, blending, word building, multisyllabic decoding, fluency, and more. The volume is packed with engaging classroom activities,...

Want to Be a Better Writer?To improve your writing, perfect your process. Process is a vital, unsung writing skill.For example, do you fear the blank page? You may be skipping the essential early phases of writing.Do you generate swarms of ideas but never publish...

A seminal work and examination of the psychopathology of journalism. Using a strange and unprecedented lawsuit by a convicted murder againt the journalist who wrote a book about his crime, Malcolm delves into the always uneasy, sometimes tragic relationship that exists between journalist and...

Author: Stephen HakePublisher: Stephen Hake GrammarPublished: 07/03/2013Pages: 706Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 2.80lbsSize: 10.80h x 8.30w x 1.20dISBN: 9780544044296This title is not returnable

Mary Norris has spent more than three decades working in The New Yorker's renowned copy department, helping to maintain its celebrated high standards. In Between You & Me, she brings her vast experience with grammar and usage, her good cheer and irreverence, and her...

Economics is not a field that is known for good writing. Charts, yes. Sparkling prose, no. Except, that is, when it comes to Deirdre Nansen McCloskey. Her conversational and witty yet always clear style is a hallmark of her classic works of economic history,...

Topics reflect real-life situations Structured speaking activity at the end of each unit Clear focus on key functional language and topic-related vocabulary Language review sections with additional explanations and 'Test yourself' exercises for consolidation 'Glossary' and 'More words to use' help develop specialist vocabularyAuthor:...

The Future of Enriched, Linked, Open and Filtered Metadata is a comprehensive and accessible guide to creating accurate, consistent, complete, user-centered and quality metadata that supports the user tasks of finding, identifying, selecting, obtaining and exploring information resources. Based on the author's many years...

This is the ultimate guide to swear words from around the globe. When you want to get your point across abroad, there's only one way to do it: by swearing your ass off! Ever been lost for words abroad? When you go on holiday...

The Japanese Woodblocks Set of 3 Midi Notebooks features a collection of three midi, foiled notebooks with alternating lined and blank pages. Each notebook has a different beautiful design: The Great Wave, Sea at Satta and Plum Garden. With a sturdy cover and rounded...

Perfect for self-study or classroom learners, this Farsi language book takes a user-friendly approach. Farsi for Beginners is a complete language course by experienced teacher Dr. Saeid Atoofi, which will help you to speak the language and open doors to Persian culture. This second...

"The story of a book-making life."--New York Times "The lovely colors, tasteful art and elegant typography are an abiding reminder to a hurried world that some gifts of grace endure. That promise is realized in Godine's books, the gold standard of commercial bookmaking."--Wall Street...

This ground-breaking book is the first to describe in detail how teachers, supported by university educators and education advisers, might plan and implement innovative ideas based on sound theoretical foundations. Focusing on the teaching and learning of intercultural communicative competence in foreign language classrooms...

In The Hundreds Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart speculate on writing, affect, politics, and attention to processes of world-making. The experiment of the one hundred word constraint--each piece is one hundred or multiples of one hundred words long--amplifies the resonance of things that are...

First ever critical study of Tolkien's little-known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth and beyond, to George R R Martin's Game of Thrones. J.R.R. Tolkien's linguistic invention was a fundamental part of his artistic output, to the extent that...

The post office is an important place in a community. It's where you can send or pick up a package, buy postage to send mail, and where you might get a photograph taken for your passport before traveling abroad. Due to changes in how...

How to master the art of persuasion--from the bestselling author of Talk Like TED.Ideas don't sell themselves. As the forces of globalization, automation, and artificial intelligence combine to disrupt every field, having a good idea isn't good enough. Mastering the ancient art of persuasion...

An accessible, contemporary guide to the art of dramatic writing During the ten years that Stuart Spencer has taught playwriting, he has struggled to find an effective playwriting handbook for his courses. Although most of the currently popular handbooks have good ideas in them,...

Author: Stephen HakePublisher: Stephen Hake GrammarPublished: 07/05/2013Pages: 616Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 2.80lbsSize: 10.80h x 8.30w x 1.20dISBN: 9780544044265This title is not returnable