Language Arts & Disciplines

Where do our everyday words come from? The bagel you eat for breakfast, the bumf you have to wade through at the office, and the bus that takes you home again: we use these words without thinking about their origins or how their meanings...

Across the world, children are the most vulnerable population. The threats to them may vary, but wherever one looks, children are endangered and exploited. Susan Mapp examines threats to child well-being globally, investigating violations of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in...

A classic handbook for anyone who needs to write, Writing With Power speaks to everyone who has wrestled with words while seeking to gain power with them. Here, Peter Elbow emphasizes that the essential activities underlying good writing and the essential exercises promoting it...

Author: John EscottPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 05/15/2010Pages: 51Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 8.10h x 5.60w x 0.30dISBN: 9780194247115This title is only available via back order

While armies have seized enemy records and rare texts as booty throughout history, it was only during World War II that an unlikely band of librarians, archivists, and scholars traveled abroad to collect books and documents to aid the military cause. Galvanized by the...

"Do you want to write clearer, livelier prose? This witty primer will help." --The New York Times Book Review An exploration of how the most ordinary words can be turned into verbal constellations of extraordinary grace through the art of building sentences The sentence...

Would you believe ... ? A woman gets a phone call, but it is the wrong number. How does this call save her life? A man parks near a "No Parking" sign and gets a ticket. Every day he goes back to the "No...

In this volume Martin Heidegger confronts the philosophical problems of language and begins to unfold the meaning begind his famous and little understood phrase Language is the House of Being. The Dialogue on Language, between Heidegger and a Japanese friend, together with the four...

A tribute to the brilliant craftsmanship of one of our most distinguished writers, providing valuable insight into her inspiration and her method Joyce Carol Oates is widely regarded as one of America's greatest contemporary literary figures. Having written in a number of genres --...

"I spoke on the Hyde Park Anarchist Platform for eighteen years from 1965 to 1983. At one time, briefly, we had three anarchist platforms at Speakers' Comer because our views on anarchism were so different. Which is - of course - as it should...

Help adolescents learn and use the academic words that will assist them in school and beyond. The author argues that "words worth using" must matter to adolescents' authentic work in the disciplines and connect to their lived experiences. Rather than using a model of...

Voices of the Race offers English translations of more than one hundred articles published in Black newspapers in Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, and Uruguay from 1870 to 1960. Those publications were as important in Black community and intellectual life in Latin America as African American...

Confronting the rifts created by our common conceptual vocabulary for North American colonial studies How can we tell colonial histories in ways that invite intercultural conversation within humanistic fields that are themselves products of colonial domination? Beginning with a famous episode of failed communication...

Learn how to integrate book clubs into secondary school communities for transformation and inclusion so as to enhance and nurture students' literacies along with their social and emotional development. Using her extensive experiences with culturally, neurologically, and linguistically diverse students, the author provides a...

Improve your hand lettering skills with inspiring quotes With a little practice, you can create exquisite works of original art with hand lettering and modern calligraphy. Build up your skills with this guided journal, filled with meaningful quotes to practice your hand lettering and...

Shrink-wrapped set of 3 midi notebooks, each with a different design by Van Gogh. Stitched spine, with ruled and blank pages. High-quality production makes a stunning gift. Ideal for personal use too. The Vincent van Gogh: Blooms Set of 3 Midi Notebooks features a...

Everything you need to know about writing for children. If your goal is to write a successful children's book, you must take the time to learn the art of writing. If you wish to acquire the skills needed to produce a well-written book, this...

This book introduces readers to the state-of-the-art neuroscientific research that is revolutionizing our understanding of language. Interest in the brain bases of language goes back to the birth of the modern neurosciences in the late nineteenth century. Today, tools such as fMRI and EEG...

Dive into language learning with this comprehensive introduction to Vietnamese! This book teaches you to speak, read and write Vietnamese quickly through practical everyday conversations and concise notes on everything from pronunciation and tones to grammar. It also teaches you to read and write...

This is an unabridged, annotated, English-Arabic face-to-face translation of the great Damascene savant and saint Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya's (d. 751/1350) masterpiece, Madārij al-Sālikīn by Ovamir Anjum. This work on Islamic psychology aimed to rejuvenate Sufism's Qurʾanic foundations.Author: Ibn Qayyim Al-JawziyyaPublisher: BrillPublished: 01/27/2022Pages: 664Binding Type:...