Language Arts & Disciplines

Roberto A. Gonzalez's English to Spanish Dictionary and Phrase Book for Domestic Work is an invaluable tool for any English-speaking person who needs to communicate with Spanish-speaking workers -- particularly for workers providing help around the house.Author: Roberto A. GonzalezPublisher: Booksurge PublishingPublished: 06/12/2006Pages: 90Binding...

Author: J. O. CutteridgePublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 11/01/2014Pages: 96Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 6.90h x 4.70w x 0.40dISBN: 9781408523513This title is only available via back order

Proficiency in a specialist English relevant to a chosen vocation is an essential requirement for thousands of non-native English speakers training for employment in the UK or already working in their chosen vocation. This book teaches English for nursing.Author: Maria Spada Symonds, Ros WrightPublisher:...

The reputation of journalists is continually being questioned. Nearly every public opinion poll shows that people have lost respect for journalists and lost faith in the news media. In this fully updated and expanded 6th edition of Ethics in Journalism, author Ron F. Smith...

Forty years after Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, and Gay Talese launched the New Journalism movement, Robert S. Boynton sits down with nineteen practitioners of what he calls the New New Journalism to discuss their methods, writings and careers. The New New Journalists are...

This dynamic, skills-based introduction to personal communication provides students with the keys to improving their personal, academic, and professional lives through the power of human interaction and expression. The fourth edition includes new content on virtual communication scenarios, inclusive language, conflict resolution, and leadership...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

The book series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, founded by Gustav Gröber in 1905, is among the most renowned publications in Romance Studies. It covers the entire field of Romance linguistics, including the national languages as well as the lesser studied Romance languages....

The German Linguistic Studies Series is a comprehensive and outstanding forum in its field. It has borne the name of its subject in its title since the foundation of the series in the eighth decade of the last century.The series is comprehensive in the...

Shows that the work of Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835) forms a philosophy of dialogue and communication that is crucially relevant to contemporary debates in the Humanities. Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835) is the progenitor of modern linguistics and the originator of the modern teaching and...

Develop your Spanish listening skills, expand your Spanish vocabulary, and improve your Spanish pronunciation with Spanish Short Stories for Beginners.What you will get with Spanish Short Stories for Beginners: Easy Spanish stories targeted at beginners: Simple (but not boring) stories written with the most...

The Frugal Editor: Do-it-Yourself Editing Secrets From your query letter to final manuscript to the marketing of your new bestsellerWhether you are a new or experienced author, The Frugal Editor helps you present whistle-clean copy from a one-page cover letter to your entire manuscript...

This book is a guide to teach you invaluable lessons for success in business and in life. It is essential for all woman leaders and will be helpful for anyone looking to enhance personal leadership qualities. Through these pages you will find such topics...

"Still Writing offers up a cornucopia of wisdom, insights, and practical lessons gleaned from Dani Shapiro's long experience as a celebrated writer and teacher of writing. The beneficiaries are beginning writers, veteran writers and everyone in between."--Jennifer Egan From Dani Shapiro, bestselling author of...

A genre that glorifies brutish masculinity and late Victorian imperialism, boys' 'lost world' adventure fiction has traditionally been studied for its politically problematic content. While attuned to these concerns, this Element approaches the genre from a different angle, viewing adventure fiction as not just...

Combining Forms (CFs) are a major morphological phenomenon in Modern English, yet while they have been discussed in some morphological literature, no full-length study has been devoted to this topic so far. This pioneering book addresses that gap by providing a framework in which...

In this wide-ranging collection of essays, best-selling language writer Richard Lederer offers readers more of the irrepressible word play his fans can't get enough of, along with his observations on a life in letters. From teaching English to Russian fifth graders to a zany...

Award winning Japanese poet Misumi Mizuki's first book of free-verse poetry in English, with original photography. Translated by Andrew Gebert. Misumi has earned accolades such as the Nakahara Chuya Prize and the Gendai-shi Techo Prize (Modern Poetry Handbook Prize), and has written poetry for...

This book addresses innovative and new aspects of branding and advertising communication, by drawing on a broad, interdisciplinary range of theories, methods and techniques- from body image, identity and mental imagery, to self-exposure and LCM4P - intersecting with branding and advertising constructs and practices.The...

Nowadays, discourse analysis deals with not only texts but also paratexts and images; so do translation and interpreting studies. Therefore, the concept of multimodality has become an increasingly important topic in the subject areas of linguistics, discourse analysis and translation studies. However, up to...