Language Arts & Disciplines

In the tradition of Eats, Shoots & Leaves and Anguished English, Common Phrases is a fascinating guide to the origins of our language. Wonderful stories reveal the real meaning of Adam's apple, nick of time, stool pigeon, armed to the teeth, raining cats and...

Not many books merit an eleventh edition, but this popular text does. Newly updated, Introduction to Cataloging and Classification provides an introduction to descriptive cataloging based on contemporary standards, explaining the basic tenets to readers without previous experience, as well as to those who...

Help early learners develop essential reading readiness skills while they learn their ABCs. Jumbo Fun with the Alphabet is your ultimate resource for teaching letter names and sounds! Over 200 pages of engaging activities help students see, hear, say, and write the 26 letters...

When the goal is supporting excellent teaching, there is no "one-size-fits-all" approach. This popular practitioner resource and text helps readers navigate the many choices involved in developing and fine-tuning a coaching program that offers the best fit for a particular school. The authors draw...

Better communication is right around the corner with Teach Your Baby to Sign.You may feel like you can't possibly be any closer with your young child, but the truth is, you can--through sign language.The gift of signing helps children communicate well before they have...

How can you become an effective advocate for intellectual freedom and patron privacy while maintaining a positive relationship with diverse elements of your community? Drawing on his experience as library director, this author advocates assuming a proactive role in every library function, from collection...

In this new edition of an important work in the philosophy of language, Nathan U Salmon, one of the leading proponents of what has come to be called the new or causal theory of reference, presents his latest thinking on this promising area of...

Author: Mark Liberman, Geoffrey K. PullumPublisher: William James & CompanyPublished: 05/18/2006Pages: 360Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.12lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.02w x 0.76dISBN: 9781590280553Review Citation(s): Shelf Awareness 01/01/0001This title is only available via back order

An essential handbook featuring never-before-published writing exercises from the acclaimed screenwriters of Raging Bull, Ali, Terminator 2, Fame, Groundhog Day, Cape Fear, Lost, True Blood, The Shield, and many other hit films and television shows. Now Write Screenwriting-the latest addition to the Now Write...

Meet Your Writing Life Coach and Mentor"If you want to take your writing to the next level, buy this book...now!" ―Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sperry, The Book Doctors and authors of The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published #1 Bestseller in Writing,...

What it means when your father dies. How it feels when summer comes. What it's like to live in a great but troubled American city. The value of wearing sunscreen. These are just a few of the topics that Mary Schmich addresses in this...

We want students to understand that their confidence and ability with public speaking can have a direct impact on their school and career success. This introductory text emphasizes both competitive events and speaking as a life skill. The book is divided into four sections:...

"The bitingly funny and fierce Gloria is one of the year's best shows...Gloria is an adrenaline rush of a show, but it also makes you think. Let's just say it hits the bull's-eye." --Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Post "Funny, blistering tragicomedy...along with a delightfully...

Take It to Your Seat Phonics Centers, Level A is an instructional must-have for PreK-K classrooms! The 13 full-color centers stored in envelopes provide engaging, independent practice of the phonics skills presented. Center topics include: visual discrimination rhyming words identifying like letters recognizing upper-...

This comprehensive phonics resource includes printables for phonemic awareness, decoding consonant and vowel sounds, syllabication, and more! Basic Phonics Skills, Level A (Grades PreK-K) features 239 reproducible skill sheets and 26 reproducible Little Alphabet Readers. The book is organized as follows: Emergent/Readiness Skills Practice:...

"Even the most useful reference guides are not always, well, shall we say, riveting. A refreshing exception is the new Broadview Guide to Writing, which is smart, helpful, and even fun to read." --Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein, authors of They Say / I...

Academic Writing, Real World Topics fills a void in the writing-across-the-curriculum textbook market. It draws together articles and essays of actual academic prose as opposed to journalism; it arranges material by topic instead of by discipline or academic division; and it approaches topics from...

There's no running out of sugar when you have this planner around! Designed especially for bakers, this themed daily planner makes a useful addition in the kitchen. If you make cakes professionally, you need this planner to organize your schedule and ensure that no...

It may be starred, beeped, and censored -- yet profanity is so appealing that we can't stop using it. In the funniest, clearest study to date, Benjamin Bergen explains why, and what that tells us about our language and brains. Nearly everyone swears-whether it's...

Specialized collections for tweens, or middle schoolers, are relatively new and becoming increasingly popular. This Practical Guide gives librarians everything they need to create such a collection. Beginning with a brief description of the early adolescent brain and developmental stages, and a history of...