Language Arts & Disciplines

The Oxford A-Z of Grammar and Punctuation offers accessible and coherent explanations across a broad range of topics, and is an excellent first port of call for any reader seeking clear, authoritative help with grammar and punctuation. Incorporating hundreds of examples of real usage...

"No book in shorter space, with fewer words, will help any writer more than this persistent little volume." - The Boston Globe You know the author's name. You recognize the title. The advice of Strunk is as valuable today as when it was first...

This collection of columns from the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal tells stories, and tells about telling stories. They also reflect boyhood dreams . . . and foolishness, fears, beliefs, customs, traditions, and sometimes things that are no longer part of our culture but we wish were....

In Philippians: A Handbook on the Greek New Testament, Lidija Novakovic provides a foundational examination of the Greek text of the Letter to the Philippians. The analysis is distinguished by the detailed yet comprehensive attention paid to the text. Novakovic's exposition is a convenient...

Wikipedia and Academic Libraries: A Global Project contains 19 chapters by 52 authors from Brazil, Canada, Hong Kong, Ireland, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Scotland, Spain, and the United States. The chapters in this book are authored by both new and longtime members of the...

If you read one book about writing every week for a year, what would you learn?Thanks to the self-publishing revolution and events like National Novel Writing Month, the genre of writing craft books has exploded in recent years. Book editor Kristen Tate set out...

Writing a Journal will be one of the most rewarding decisions you would have ever made in your life to kick-start your passion for writing.There are 180 thought-provoking prompts in this book to keep you creative and motivated. These prompts will help you sharpen...

The blurring of entertainment, information, and persuasion is reshaping work, life, and citizenship. As a result, our relationship to media has never been so important nor so complex. By asking critical questions about what they watch, listen to, read, and use, students can be...

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to possess perfect English grammar, writing and speaking skills? If so, keep reading because you're in for a treat.So you've been reading online about all the different methods and techniques to finally call yourself an...

You read to your preschool child every day. You fill your home with books. You encourage and inspire. You're doing everything right. Yet, your child still may struggle to learn to read. Why? What can you do to ensure your child gets off to...

A New York Times New and Noteworthy BookFrom the bestselling author of Waking Up and The End of Faith, an adaptation of his wildly popular, often controversial podcast"Sam Harris is the most intellectually courageous man I know, unafraid to speak truths out in the...

What would you do if you lost your voice? How would you feel if you were isolated from the outside world?A young woman finds herself held captive in her own home, alone, and literally speechless. Learn how she finds self-confidence and transforms her life....

Each Step we take and Every action we do in Our Daily lives is a form of communication. What Distinguises us from the Rest of the species is that we can put a linguistic factor to our communciation. But when we are unable to...

Joel Sartore is a National Geographic photographer and founder of the Photo Ark. This project raises awareness of all animals. Joel wants people to care for, fall in love with, and take action to help save these animals.Author: National Geographic LearningPublisher: Heinle ELTPublished: 10/14/2019Binding...

In this rich collection, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozen essays and pieces of reporting from his long career. Threaded through them all is his concern for social justice and the people who have fought for it. The articles...

Dickens' A Christmas Carol tells the story of miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, whose response to Christmas is that anyone who celebrates it should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. In the course of the story,...

This 64-paged, large print book is a dementia-friendly adaptation of Alcott's classic story of the March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. It has been included in Dovetale Press's series of four adaptations of classic novels and a poetry collection, created for people living...

We are living through what is arguably the most challenging time for the health care industry. Glaring gaps and inequities in health persist both within and between countries, underscoring our collective failure to share the dramatic health advances of the last century equitably. At...

A fill-in book from the San Francisco Writers' Grotto, authors of the bestselling 642 Things series Focus on a single aspect of the craft of writing with help from the San Francisco Writers' Grotto. Writing Memoir starts with a foreword by New York Times...

Cu les son las t cnicas empleadas por los mejores para persuadir? Qu elementos de la comunicaci n hacen que se conquiste a una audiencia? Cu les son los momentos fundamentales en cualquier argumentaci n? Robert Cialdini nos revela las estrategias de persuasion m...