Language Arts & Disciplines
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Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf WorldA stunning work of journalism and memoir that explores the intimate truths of the silent but articulate world of the deaf. In American Sign Language, train go sorry means missing the boat. Leah Hager Cohen uses the phrase as shorthand for the myriad missed...
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Mother Father Deaf: Living Between Sound and SilenceMother father deaf is the phrase commonly used within the Deaf community to refer to hearing children of deaf parents. These children grow up between two cultures, the Hearing and the Deaf, forever balancing the worlds of sound and silence. Paul Preston, one of...
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Articulating Reasons: An Introduction to Inferentialism (Revised)Robert B. Brandom is one of the most original philosophers of our day, whose book Making It Explicit covered and extended a vast range of topics in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of language--the very core of analytic philosophy. This new work provides an approachable...
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Fractured EnglishFrom Simon & Schuster, Fractured English is Richard Lederer is a laugh-out-loud, sidesplitting, collection of language fluffs and flubs by America's super-duper blooper snooper. A collection of language gems by the author of Anguished English includes side-tickling language bloopers under such headings as Mouths...
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Contemporary Latin American Literature: Original Selections from the Literary Giants for Intermediate and Advanced StudentsContemporary Latin American Literature reflects the wealth of great writers of Latin America over the last hundred years, including Jorge Luis Borges, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Noble Prize winners Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, and Gabriel Garcia M rquez. The selections--almost 100 works...
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Academic Word Power 4Each book in Academic Word Power 1-4 focuses on 140 word families from the Academic Word List, allowing instructors to take the guesswork out of choosing which vocabulary words are most necessary to propel ESL, Developmental English, and high school students toward success reading...
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The Plot Skeleton: a practical, bare boned approach that works for children's books, short stories, novels, screenplays, and storytellersIn writing class, our teachers made sure we understood how to write a five-paragraph theme: introduction, thesis sentence, points one, two, and three, followed by the conclusion. But rarely did any teacher tell us how to write fiction--they simply urged us to write a...
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Write Right - Right Now - The BookWrite Right - Right Now - The Book, the Authoritative Insider's Guide to Writing for Publication, for aspiring authors and entrepreneurs wanting to become subject matter experts. From idea creation, finding information, conducting interviews, and marketing, to legal and business issues; Write Right is...
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The Mythic Guide to Characters: Writing Characters Who Enchant and InspireHow do you create characters who are so compelling that they hook readers from the start? As a professor, writer, and philosopher, Dr. Antonio del Drago has immersed himself in the literary and mythological traditions of the world. His search for answers led him...
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How To Write A Book ASAP Workbook: The step-by-step guide to writing your first book fast!This workbook accompanies Garrett Pierson's book "How To Write A Book ASAP". Have you ever wanted to write a book? Have you started to write your book, but weren't able to finish it? Are you ready to become a published author? Discover inside secrets...
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The Weight of LovePat Schneider was born in the Ozark mountains of Missouri where she became intimate with fossils, creek bed grasshoppers and box turtles. After a search for work took her single mother to St. Louis, from age ten Pat lived in tenements and in an...
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Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' ManualFrom the best-selling author of Rubyfruit Jungle and Bingo, here is a writers' manual as provocative, frank, and funny as her fiction. Unlike most writers' guides, this one had as much to do with how writers live as with mastering the tools of their...
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Strong Is Your Hold: PoemsHere in paperback is the celebrated eleventh book of poems by Galway Kinnell. The book's title derives from Walt Whitman's "Last Invocation" "Strong is your hold O mortal flesh, / Strong is your hold O love." In this striking collection, Kinnell gives us poems...
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Understanding English GrammarLanguage is primarily a tool for communication, yet many textbooks still treat English grammar as simply a set of rules and facts to be memorised by rote. This new textbook is made for students who are frustrated with this approach and would like instead...
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Interactive Level 4 Student's Book with Online Content [With eBook]Interactive is an exciting four-level course for teenage learners from elementary to upper-intermediate levels (CEF A2-B2). The Level 4 Student's Book will get and keep your students talking, using real, contemporary English. 'Interaction' sections give learners the confidence to use English in real-life situations...
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Join Us for English Starter Pupil's BookJoin Us for English is a fun course for young learners aged 7-10 years. - Characters and comic stories balance real and imaginary world. - A clear, systematic structure combined with vivid illustrations which stimulate the senses for better recall. - It adapts to...
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The Way Home Level 6Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. Seven journeys which change lives for ever. A New York fashion buyer returns to her English...
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New Directions: Reading, Writing, and Critical ThinkingNew Directions is a thematic writing-skills text that bridges the gap between ESL and college writing courses. New Directions is a thematic reading/writing book aimed at the most advanced learners. It prepares students for the rigors of college-level writing by having them read long,...
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Seneca: Selected LettersThe letters of Seneca are uniquely engaging among the works that have survived from antiquity. They offer an urgent guide to Stoic self-improvement but also cast light on Roman attitudes towards slavery, gladiatorial combat and suicide. This selection of letters conveys their range and...
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Berlin Express Level 4 IntermediateAward-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. Hiro, a 20-year-old Japanese student, sits next to an old man on a train to Berlin....
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