Language Arts & Disciplines
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The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral ImaginationThe Call of Stories presents a study of how listening to stories promotes learning and self-discovery.Author: Robert ColesPublisher: HarperOnePublished: 01/05/1990Pages: 212Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.80dISBN: 9780395528150About the AuthorColes, Robert: - Robert Coles is a winner of the National Medal of...
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Multimodal Composing in Classrooms: Learning and Teaching for the Digital WorldTaking a close look at multimodal composing as an essential new literacy in schools, this volume draws from contextualized case studies across educational contexts to provide detailed portraits of teachers and students at work in classrooms. Authors elaborate key issues in transforming classrooms with...
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Oh, China!: An Elementary Reader of Modern Chinese for Advanced Beginners - Revised EditionOh, China! meets the needs of advanced beginners or "heritage learners" who already speak some Chinese but require instruction in reading and writing fundamentals before moving to the intermediate level. In this fully revised edition, state-of-the-art lessons go over the basics of standard Mandarin...
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How to Write Anything: A Complete GuideNeed to know how to format your résumé for that job application? How do you write a cover letter that will stand out? Wondering how to request a letter of recommendation for graduate school? Trying to craft a get-well note that will really help?...
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Just a Journalist: On the Press, Life, and the Spaces BetweenIn this timely book, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter trains an autobiographical lens on a moment of remarkable transition in American journalism. Just a few years ago, the mainstream press was wrestling with whether labeling waterboarding as torture violated important norms of neutrality and objectivity....
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Just Say NU: Yiddish for Every Occasion (When English Just Won't Do)In his New York Times bestseller, Born to Kvetch, author Michael Wex led readers on a hilariously edifying excursion through Yiddish culture and history. With Just Say Nu, he shows us how to use this remarkable language to spice up conversations, stories, presentations, arguments,...
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The Way to Write for Children: An Introduction to the Craft of Writing Children's LiteratureIn addressing the way to write for children, Joan Aiken starts at the beginning. Is writing a children's book as simple as it looks? Do you want to write for children or about them? Do you want to write a picture book for young...
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The Late Talker: What to Do If Your Child Isn't Talking YetEvery parent eagerly awaits the day his or her child will speak for the first time. For millions of mothers and fathers, however, anticipation turns to anxiety when those initial, all-important words are a long time coming. Many worried parents are reassured that their...
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Developmental Editing: A Handbook for Freelancers, Authors, and PublishersEditing is a tricky business. It requires analytical flair and creative panache, the patience of a saint and the vision of a writer. Transforming a manuscript into a book that edifies, inspires, and sells? That's the job of the developmental editor, whose desk is...
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Collins International Primary English Teacher's Book 3Collins International Primary English is a six-level, multi-component course for the international market which has been carefully developed to meet the needs of teachers and students. Collins is working with Cambridge International Examinations towards endorsement of these titles. Collins International Primary English is a...
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Collins International Primary English Student's Book 5Collins International Primary English is a six-level, multi-component course for the international market which has been carefully developed to meet the needs of teachers and students. Collins is working with Cambridge International Examinations towards endorsement of these titles. Collins International Primary English is a...
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A Novel in a Year: From First Page to Last in 52 WeeksAn essential guide for every aspiring novelist!The thought of writing a full-length novel can be daunting. But in A Novel in a Year, Louise Doughty makes a seemingly vast and unconquerable task manageable by walking aspiring authors through the different aspects of writing technique...
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The Secret Life of Words: How English Became EnglishAN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR The Secret Life of Words is a wide-ranging account of the transplanted, stolen, bastardized words we've come to know as the English languag. It's a history of English as a whole, and of the thousands of individual words,...
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The Power of MemoirA groundbreaking work for healing long-term emotional problems The Power of Memoir is a pioneering how-to book that provides a new step-by-step program to use memoir writing as a therapeutic process. By going through these steps you'll learn how to choose the significant milestones...
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Pizza, Pigs, and Poetry: How to Write a PoemHave you ever tried to write a poem about a pizza? How about a pig? How about a pigeon, penguin, potato, Ping-Pong, parrot, puppy, pelican, porcupine, pie, pachyderm, or your parents?Jack Prelutsky has written more than one thousand poems about all of these things--and...
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Where the Past Begins: A Writer's MemoirFROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR AMY TAN, A MEMOIR ON HER LIFE AS A WRITER, HER CHILDHOOD, AND THE SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FICTION AND EMOTIONAL MEMORYIn Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy...
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Live Writing: Breathing Life Into Your WordsA practical guide for how to make your writing come alive, by the bestselling author of A Writer's Notebook and the ALA Notable Book Fig Pudding.What is "live writing"? It's the kind of writing that has a current running through it--energy, electricity, juice. This...
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Winning Arguments: What Works and Doesn't Work in Politics, the Bedroom, the Courtroom, and the Classroom"Fish mines cultural touchstones from Milton to 'Married with Children' to explain how various types of arguments are structured and how that understanding can lead to victory" -- New York Times Book Review A lively and accessible guide to understanding rhetoric by the world...
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Vocal Power: Harness Your Inner Voice to Conquer Everyday Communication Challenges, with a Foreword by Michael Irvin"I was able to learn an incredible amount about my voice and about how to have great impact with more pleasure and less pain." -- Tony Robbins, New York Times bestselling author of Awaken the Giant Within Achieving Vocal Power is about making a...
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Translation and Conflict: A Narrative AccountTranslation and Conflict demonstrates that translators and interpreters participate in circulating as well as resisting the narratives that create the intellectual and moral environment for violent conflict. Drawing on narrative theory and using numerous examples from historical and contemporary conflicts, the author provides an...
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