Language Arts & Disciplines

An urgent and cautionary examination of the totalizing effect of smart home technology on the lives of those who live in them--and those who don't Smart homes are here--domestic spaces bristling with networked technologies that appear to enhance work, entertainment, logistics, health, and security....

Author: Mental FlossPublisher: Andrews McMeel PublishingPublished: 08/06/2024Pages: 640Binding Type: DailyISBN: 9781524892203About the AuthorMental Floss is the online destination for curious people, delivering smart, quirky content to more than 1 billion readers since 2002. Through its YouTube channel, podcasts, and four-time Webby award-winning website, Mental...

In this short book, Sue Cowley gathers together a huge variety of techniques that will all boost reading for pleasure in your school or setting. She explains a range of approaches that teachers and practitioners can use with their children, to help them become...

This book is a quick and easy way to learn the second 100 basic Chinese traditional characters. The major struggle facing all beginning Chinese language students is to learn to recognize, read and write hundreds of Chinese characters. A working knowledge of characters is...

The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality offers a thorough, systematic, and crosslinguistic account of evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the source of information on which a statement is based. In some languages, the speaker always has to specify this source - for example whether they...

This book lays out the purpose of libraries and, building upon that: creates a discursive practice within which conversations about essential political issues; details how the analysis of discourse can enable the conversations;sets forth a philosophical framework for the librarians and facilitators of the...

This book explores how Indonesian writers circulate knowledge between the Indonesian, English, and Arabic languages to enact Islamic gender justice. Drawing from ethnographic data collected in Indonesia from 2009 to 2022, this book weaves a vivid account of how scholars at an Indonesian Ph.D....

Advanced vocabulary tests with answers to accompany the popular English Vocabulary in Use Advanced Second Edition reference and practice book. 100 easy-to-use vocabulary tests for advanced learners of English. Test Your English Vocabulary in Use Advanced Second Edition book with answers can be used...

Super Safari is a three-level pre-primary course that welcomes very young children to English through stories, songs and plenty of playtime. Join Leo and his friends on an exciting adventure that welcomes children to English through colorful stories, action songs, arts and crafts, and...

Do you know what's the biggest obstacle preventing many from learning Spanish to fluency?It's a lack of vocabulary!Reading in Spanish is perhaps the most effective way to build up your vocabulary. With our book Spanish Short Stories for Beginners and Intermediate Learners, you can...

Skills for Effective Writing teaches a wide variety of discrete writing skills and offers extensive practice in each one. Skills for Effective Writing teaches these skills, such as coherence and using sources, and offers extensive practice opportunities. When students master discrete skills, all of...

Employers rank communication skills -- not technical knowledge -- as the most important qualification they look for when hiring and promoting people in their workforce. Coopman/Lull's PUBLIC SPEAKING: THE EVOLVING ART, 5th edition, helps you acquire the diverse skills you need for making effective...

Author: Daria GabryanczykPublisher: For DummiesPublished: 09/24/2024Pages: 432Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9781394249985

Take a trip across British Columbia with this enchanting collection of essays from thirty local writers. What makes wandering the vibrant land called British Columbia really special? Encounters with locals who are ready to share, over a coffee or a beer, quirky tales and...

Passages Third edition is the perfect follow-up to any four-skills program and is designed to seamlessly follow Interchange or Four Corners. It is one of the worldâ (TM)s most successful upper-level American English courses, opening the door for students to communicate with greater fluency...

Passages Third edition is the perfect follow-up to any four-skills program and is designed to seamlessly follow Interchange or Four Corners. It is one of the worldâ (TM)s most successful upper-level American English courses, opening the door for students to communicate with greater fluency...

Passages Third edition is the perfect follow-up to any four-skills program and is designed to seamlessly follow Interchange or Four Corners. It is one of the worldâ (TM)s most successful upper-level American English courses, opening the door for students to communicate with greater fluency...

This text provides a guide to strategic communications for nonprofit organizations that is rooted in the desire to serve and do good.Author: Kelly C. GagginPublisher: RoutledgePublished: 04/02/2024Pages: 184Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.41dISBN: 9781032461144About the AuthorKelly C. Gaggin is a Senior...

Nice Talking with You is a two-level oral communication series designed to get students talking. Nice Talking with You Level 2 is designed for elementary and pre-intermediate students. It contains 12 topic-based units and two review units. Topics in Level 2 relate to the...

The MHRA Style Guide has been widely used by scholarly authors writing about the Humanities since its first edition in 1971. It offers practical guidance on how to cite sources from medieval manuscripts to software and social media. Rules are provided to help working...