Language Arts & Disciplines
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Sacred Stacks: The Higher Purpose of Libraries and LibrarianshipLibrarianship as a calling is a powerful perspective. Many librarians sense the deeper meaning and higher purpose in their work, yet rarely have time to contemplate it. Maxwell's down-to-earth candor combined with scholarly insight is designed to inspire and enlighten her library peers and...
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The Library's Guide to Graphic NovelsThe circ stats say it all: graphic novels' popularity among library users keeps growing, with more being published (and acquired by libraries) each year. The unique challenges of developing and managing a graphics novels collection have led the Association of Library Collections and Technical...
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King Who RainedConfused by the different meanings of words that sound alike, a little girl imagines such unusual sights as a king who rained and the foot prince in the snow.Author: Fred GwynnePublisher: Turtleback BooksPublished: 09/01/1988Pages: 1Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 11.46h x 7.82w x 0.38dISBN: 9780833507389Audience:...
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Serving Patrons with Disabilities: Perspectives and Insights from People with DisabilitiesEnsuring accessibility is more important than ever; however, answering questions of what needs to be done and why to make a library accessible can be an uncomfortable and daunting hurdle to true inclusion. This book is a safe, nonjudgmental tool for overcoming this awkwardness,...
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Changing Signs of Truth: A Christian Introduction to the Semiotics of CommunicationWhat signals are you sending when you share the gospel? The importance of signs for communicating truth has been recognized throughout the ages. Crystal L. Downing traces this awareness from biblical texts, through figures from church history like John Wycliffe and William Tyndale, to...
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Working with Discourse: Meaning Beyond the ClauseThis second edition of the best-selling textbook Working with Discourse has been revised and updated throughout. The book builds an accessible set of analytic tools that can be used to explore how speakers and writers construe meaning through discourse. These techniques are introduced in...
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Writing about Nature: A Creative GuideOriginally published by the Sierra Club in 1995, this handbook has already helped thousands of aspiring writers, scholars, and students share their experiences with nature and the outdoors. Using exercises and examples, John Murray covers genres, techniques, and publication issues. He uses examples from...
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Perspectives on Teaching Connected Speech to Second Language SpeakersA collection of fourteen articles on connected speech of interest to teachers, researchers, and materials developers in both ESL/EFL and Japanese.Author: James Dean BrownPublisher: University of Hawaii PressPublished: 12/01/2006Pages: 291Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.21lbsSize: 9.79h x 7.04w x 0.67dISBN: 9780824831363
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Integrated Korean: Advanced Intermediate 1Audio files for this volume may be downloaded on the web in MP3 format at http: //www.kleartextbook.com. A CD is also available for purchase. The Advanced Intermediate Level texts are the third of a five-level series developed collaboratively by leading classroom teachers and linguists...
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Standardization Essentials: Principles and PracticeThis ready reference surveys the discipline of standards and standardization, defining common terms, clarifying descriptions, describing how standards could be used to restrain trade, and explaining how international trade is stimulated by the due process provisions of standards writing organizations. Containing real-world examples provided...
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Teaching Bodies: Moral Formation in the Summa of Thomas AquinasIn Teaching Bodies, leading scholar of Christian thought Mark D. Jordan offers an original reading of the Summa of Theology of Thomas Aquinas. Reading backward, Jordan interprets the main parts of the Summa, starting from the conclusion, to reveal how Thomas teaches morals by...
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Tasteful Domesticity: Women's Rhetoric and the American Cookbook, 1790-1940Tasteful Domesticity demonstrates how women marginalized by gender, race, ethnicity, and class used the cookbook as a rhetorical space in which to conduct public discussions of taste and domesticity. Taste discourse engages cultural values as well as physical constraints, and thus serves as a...
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Available Means: An Anthology Of Women'S Rhetoric(s)"I say that even later someone will remember us."-Sappho, Fragment 147, sixth century, BC Sappho's prediction came true; fragments of work by the earliest woman writer in Western literate history have in fact survived into the twenty-first century. But not without peril. Sappho's writing...
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All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter and VersificationPerfect for the general reader of poetry, students and teachers of literature, and aspiring poets, All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing is a lively and comprehensive study of versification by one of our best contemporary practitioners of traditional poetic forms. Emphasizing...
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Terrorism and the Press: An Uneasy RelationshipMany books have been written about the press and terrorism - particularly since September 11th - but this is the first press-focused exploration of their relationship. Drawing upon the history of terrorism, mass communication research, media theory, and journalism practice, this book examines how...
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Framing Public MemoryA collection of essays by prominent scholars from many disciplines on the construction of public memories The study of public memory has grown rapidly across numerous disciplines in recent years, among them American studies, history, philosophy, sociology, architecture, and communications. As scholars probe acts...
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We Are Our Language: An Ethnography of Language Revitalization in a Northern Athabaskan CommunityFor many communities around the world, the revitalization or at least the preservation of an indigenous language is a pressing concern. Understanding the issue involves far more than compiling simple usage statistics or documenting the grammar of a tongue-it requires examining the social practices...
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Physical Biology of the CellPhysical Biology of the Cell is a textbook for a first course in physical biology or biophysics for undergraduate or graduate students. It maps the huge and complex landscape of cell and molecular biology from the distinct perspective of physical biology. As a key...
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Writing Humor: Creativity and the Comic MindProviding both theory and praxis, this insightful and creative textbook explains how to write humor, comedy, satire, parody, nonsense, and both the literary and the joke monologue. Through its close analyses of short stories, sketches, essays, and scripts, it is a must-read for serious...
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Reality Bites: Rhetoric and the Circulation of Truth Claims in U.S. Political CultureFake news, alternative facts, post truth-terms all too familiar to anyone in U.S. political culture and concepts at the core of Dana L. Cloud's new book, Reality Bites, which explores truth claims in contemporary political rhetoric in the face of widespread skepticism regarding the...
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