Language Arts & Disciplines
-
Basic Spoken Chinese Practice Essentials: An Introduction to Speaking and Listening for Beginners (CD-ROM with Audio Files and Printable Pages IncludeUse this one-of-a-kind practice guide together with any Chinese book or language program, and dramatically enhance your speaking and listening skills. No matter what book or course you're using to learn Chinese, it takes a lot of practice. Here is a wealth of effective...
- CHF 13.14
- CHF 13.14
- Unit price
- per
-
The Long InterviewThe Long Interview provides a systematic guide to the theory and methods of the long qualitative interview or intensive interviewing. It gives a clear explanation of one of the most powerful tools of the qualitative researcher. The volume begins with a general overview of...
- CHF 55.24
- CHF 55.24
- Unit price
- per
-
Story Logic: Problems and Possibilties of NarrativeFeaturing a major synthesis and critique of interdisciplinary narrative theory, Story Logic marks a watershed moment in the study of narrative. David Herman argues that narrative is simultaneously a cognitive style, a discourse genre, and a resource for writing. Because stories are strategies that...
- CHF 59.08
- CHF 59.08
- Unit price
- per
-
Center Field Shot: A History of Baseball on TelevisionIn Baseball Weekly's list of things that most affected baseball in the twentieth century, television ranked second-behind only the signing of Jackie Robinson. The new medium of television exposed baseball to a genuinely national audience; altered the financial picture for teams, owners, and players;...
- CHF 32.81
- CHF 32.81
- Unit price
- per
-
From Society Page to Front Page: Nebraska Women in JournalismEileen M. Wirth never set out to be a groundbreaker for women in journalism, but if she wanted to report on social issues instead of society news, she had no alternative. Her years as one of the first women reporters at the Omaha World-Herald,...
- CHF 23.60
- CHF 23.60
- Unit price
- per
-
Babel: Around the World in Twenty LanguagesEnglish is the world language, except that most of the world doesn't speak it--only one in five people does. Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world's 7.4 billion people in their mother tongues, you would need to know no fewer...
- CHF 32.88
- CHF 32.88
- Unit price
- per
-
Unreasonable Behavior: An AutobiographyFrom the construction of the Berlin Wall through every major conflict of his adult lifetime up to the Syrian Civil War, photographer Don McCullin has left a trail of iconic images. Revised and updated after twenty-five years, Unreasonable Behavior traces the life and career...
- CHF 26.30
- CHF 26.30
- Unit price
- per
-
Lingo: Around Europe in Sixty LanguagesWhether you're a frequent visitor to Europe or just an armchair traveler, the surprising and extraordinary stories in Lingo will forever change the way you think about the continent, and may even make you want to learn a new language. Lingo spins the reader...
- CHF 22.36
- CHF 22.36
- Unit price
- per
-
The Ethics of Life WritingA pervasive culture of confession, combined with the revolution in Internet-based communication, has crowded bookstores with autobiographies and biographies and generated an unprecedented amount of personal exposure. As columnists and reviewers tell us that we live in an age of memoir, life histories are...
- CHF 63.45
- CHF 63.45
- Unit price
- per
-
Windows on Literacy Language, Literacy & Vocabulary Emergent (Science): Weather and SeasonsSingle copy of Weather and Seasons. This book shows how weather and seasons change, how weather affects people, and how changes in the weather and seasons can be observed.Author: National Geographic LearningPublisher: National Geographic SocietyPublished: 03/27/2007Pages: 16Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.12lbsISBN: 9780792260516About the AuthorNational Geographic...
- CHF 22.29
- CHF 22.29
- Unit price
- per
-
How to Speak Politely and WhyUpdated for the 21st century, How to Speak Politely and Why is a picture book with a point: proper speech and good grammar without nagging. It aims to remove "ain't" and "uh-huh" and "gimme" and "got" and a score of unfortunate nuances by a...
- CHF 22.94
- CHF 22.94
- Unit price
- per
-
Ready-To-Use Reading Proficiency Lessons & Activities: 10th Grade LevelThis volume of Ready-to-Use Reading Proficiency Lessons & Activities gives classroom teachers and reading specialists a dynamic and progressive way to meet curriculum standards and competencies at the tenth-grade level. It provides stimulating and effective ways to help students master basic reading and language...
- CHF 46.03
- CHF 46.03
- Unit price
- per
-
Hooked on English!: Ready-To-Use Activities for the English Curriculum, Grades 7-12This unique and practical resource gives junior and senior high school English teachers 186 stimulating activities that can be used to review and reinforce concepts across the English curriculum in a challenging and entertaining way. The activities have been tested with students of varying...
- CHF 46.03
- CHF 46.03
- Unit price
- per
-
Radical Cataloging: Essays at the FrontThis collection of critical and scholarly essays addresses the state of cataloging in the world of librarianship. The contributors, including Sanford Berman, Thomas Mann, and numerous front-line library workers, address topics ranging from criticisms of the state of the profession and traditional Library of...
- CHF 98.64
- CHF 98.64
- Unit price
- per
-
Writing Successful College ApplicationsToday's college admission applications involve writing more than just one essay. The various required paragraphs and statements demand skill and finesse. Writing Successful College Applications offers vital tips and step-by-step expert advice to help students create outstanding essays to succeed in all aspects of...
- CHF 22.29
- CHF 22.29
- Unit price
- per
-
Letter Perfect: The Marvelous History of Our Alphabet from A to ZA fun, lively, and learned excursion into the alphabet--and cultural history. Letters are tangible language. Joining together in endless combinations to actually show speech, letters convey our messages and tell our stories. While we encounter these tiny shapes hundreds of times a day, we...
- CHF 27.63
- CHF 27.63
- Unit price
- per
-
Cross-Cultural and Intercultural CommunicationDerived from the best-selling Handbook of International and Intercultural Communication, Second Edition, this economically priced paperback version contains only the chapters dealing with cross-cultural and intercultural communication. Cross-Cultural and Intercultural Communication provides an extensive overview of cross-cultural variations in communication and expands upon the...
- CHF 209.11
- CHF 209.11
- Unit price
- per
-
Espanol Para el Hispanohablante en los Estados Unidos, Third EditionThe objective of this book is to teach native speakers of Spanish how to write and use correctly their own language. This text is designed for Spanish speakers who also know English. Current methodology in the teaching of Spanish to Spanish speakers is based...
- CHF 190.68
- CHF 190.68
- Unit price
- per
-
My First Mandarin Word BookFeaturing first words, numbers, colors, and shapes, alongside a clear, colorful layout and bold images, this introduction to Mandarin helps young children learn basic vocabulary. An introduction for parents and teachers suggests strategies for helping children learn most effectively. A complete English-Mandarin word list...
- CHF 12.25
- CHF 12.25
- Unit price
- per
-
Materials Evaluation and Design for Language TeachingTeaching materials play a crucial role in teaching-learning. When these take the form of a textbook it is essential that it is carefully selected to meet both external requirements and the needs of the teachers, as well as allowing teacher to mediate between the...
- CHF 83.18
- CHF 83.18
- Unit price
- per