Language Arts & Disciplines

Ever wish you had a list that could tell you how and when to check your characterization, how to set your plot structure, and why you should listen to your work-in-progress? This is the list book you've always dreamed of. Whether you are super-organized...

"Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it." George Santayana. Writing historical fiction involves more than taking a story and substituting carriages for cars. The historical novelist must do her best to understand the mindset of the people she writes about,...

Learn something new today from the wisdom of Afghan Proverbs with 'Mataluna', the much-anticipated book of Afghanistan's top Pashto Proverbs. Collected and written by Edward Zellem, the 12-time award-winning author of 'Zarbul Masalha: 151 Afghan Dari Proverbs' and 'Afghan Proverbs Illustrated'. 'Mataluna' ('Proverbs' in...

"Win Blevins has long since won his place among the West's very best." - Tony HillermanFor the first time, The 'Dictionary of the American West' includes all the voices of America's richly woven history of the West: Women, Mormons, Hispanics, Blacks, French-Canadians, mountain men,...

Writing essays is hard. Kids must organize their ideas, overcome their fear of a blank page of paper, write a good hook, connect their introduction to their conclusion, use transitions and figurative language, vary sentence types, use good vocabulary and revise. How to Write...

Author: I'heshia HandyPublisher: I'heshia HandyPublished: 10/29/2018Pages: 174Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.37dISBN: 9780692046104About the AuthorThe author is a Jamaican. She grew up amidst chilly Decembers, torrential downpours, and hot, lazy summers in the hilly landscape of Clarendon in Jamaica. She spent...

How one global organization's lingua franca mandate shaped the lives of its employees around the world For nearly three decades, English has been the lingua franca of cross-border business, yet studies on global language strategies have been scarce. Providing a rare behind-the-scenes look at...

The importance of the library, from ancient times to the digital era From Greek and Roman times to the digital era, the library has remained central to knowledge, scholarship, and the imagination. The Meaning of the Library is a generously illustrated examination of this...

From national security and social security to homeland and cyber-security, "security" has become one of the most overused words in culture and politics today. Yet it also remains one of the most undefined. What exactly are we talking about when we talk about security?...

How the digital revolution has shaped our language In the age of search, keywords increasingly organize research, teaching, and even thought itself. Inspired by Raymond Williams's 1976 classic Keywords, the timely collection Digital Keywords gathers pointed, provocative short essays on more than two dozen...

In Thinking of Others, Ted Cohen argues that the ability to imagine oneself as another person is an indispensable human capacity--as essential to moral awareness as it is to literary appreciation--and that this talent for identification is the same as the talent for metaphor....

Paul H. Weaver's News and the Culture of Lying uses hard evidence to expose the culture of lying, a propensity of news organizations to obscure the true meanings of news events and distort the public's conception of reality. News and Culture of Lying examines...

As delightful and playful as it is profound and serious, The Language of Names is an absolute original -- a fascinating book that reveals us to ourselves, that demonstrates the endless variety of ways in which names shape our daily lives. Drawing on social...

In The Leader's Edge, Sandy Linver, the well-known consultant and president of Speakeasy Inc., shows how her clients have used effective communication skills to reach their high leadership positions. The Leader's Edge isn't a how to book -- it's a where to book, about...

A breathtaking, indispensable collection featuring poetry, fiction, letters, and diaries of the world's greatest writers on the nature of grief. Death silences not only those it takes, but those it leaves behind: All too typically we can neither express our grief nor express sympathy...

The Loeb Classical Library series Fragmentary Republican Latin continues with oratory, an important element of Roman life from the earliest times, essential to running public affairs and for advancing individual careers long before it acquired literary dimensions, which happened once orators decided to write...

The Loeb Classical Library series Fragmentary Republican Latin continues with oratory, an important element of Roman life from the earliest times, essential to running public affairs and for advancing individual careers long before it acquired literary dimensions, which happened once orators decided to write...

From hidden connections in big data to bots spreading fake news, journalism is increasingly computer-generated. An expert in computer science and media explains the present and future of a world in which news is created by algorithm. Amid the push for self-driving cars and...

Arabic script remains one of the most widely employed writing systems in the world, for Arabic and non-Arabic languages alike. Focusing on naskh--the style most commonly used across the Middle East--Letters of Light traces the evolution of Arabic script from its earliest inscriptions to...

This reading of Milton juxtaposes the poet's theology and Freud's account of the Oedipus complex in ways that yield both new understanding of Milton and a model for psychoanalytic interpretation of literature. The book ranges widely through the art and life of Milton, including...