Language Arts & Disciplines
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Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with LessYou're wasting your reader's time. Here's how to change, in just six words: Brevity is confidence. Length is fear. This guiding principle turned first Politico and then Axios into hugely influential media companies. It's also in the dna of Smart Brevity(TM), the Axios spin-off...
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The Year of My Life, Second Edition: A Translation of Issa's Oraga HaruThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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Sanskrit Sandhi and Exercises, Revised EditionThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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Write Source SkillsBook Teacher's Edition Grade 8Author: Houghton Mifflin HarcourtPublisher: Great Source Education GroupPublished: 01/04/2011Pages: 194Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 10.88h x 8.25w x 0.41dISBN: 9780547484570This title is not returnable
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Refugee Talk: Propositions on Ethics and AestheticsWhat does it mean to be a refugee? What political questions do they raise? Through what political rhetoric is their experiences parsed? The ongoing refugee crisis has sparked all these questions and more. Refugee Talk uses conversation as a research method and ethical practice...
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Dear Writer, Are You In Burnout?Chances are good, if this title caught your eye, you already know you need this book, so I'm not going to attempt to convince you.The unprecedented burnout we're collectively experiencing in the writing world today means two things. We need to know the signs...
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Neo-Aramaic and Kurdish Folklore from Northern Iraq: A Comparative Anthology with a Sample of Glossed Texts, Volume 2This comparative anthology showcases the rich and mutually intertwined folklore of three ethno-religious communities from northern Iraq: Aramaic-speaking ('Syriac') Christians, Kurdish Muslims and-to a lesser extent-Aramaic-speaking Jews. The first volume contains several introductory chapters on language, folkore motifs and narrative style, followed by samples...
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Word and Sentence Prosody: The Endangered Dialect of Koshikijima JapaneseThis is the first comprehensive work on word and sentence prosody in Koshikijima Japanese, a dialect of Japanese not fully documented in the literature. It is an endangered dialect spoken by about 2,000 speakers on a small southern island in Japan. Being separated from...
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Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Unmaking of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern AmericaRevisiting an almost-forgotten American interracial literary culture that advanced racial pluralism in the decades before the 1960s In Impermanent Blackness, Korey Garibaldi explores interracial collaborations in American commercial publishing--authors, agents, and publishers who forged partnerships across racial lines--from the 1910s to the 1960s. Garibaldi...
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Dear Writer, Are You In Writer's Block?Writer's block.Not the world's sexiest topic, right? In fact, I have no doubt this book will go largely unnoticed, because let's face it, no one wants to talk about this. Some people don't even believe it exists. (Those people are wrong, by the way...)...
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The Mercenary: A Story of Brotherhood and Terror in the Afghanistan WarA thrilling and emotional story about the bonds forged in war and good intentions gone wrong. In the early days of the Afghanistan war, Jeff Stern was scouring the streets of Kabul for a big story. He was accompanied by a driver, Aimal, who...
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Core Practices for Teaching Multilingual Students: Humanizing Pedagogies for EquityLearn how to teach multilingual students effectively and equitably with this practical and accessible resource. The authors share real-world examples from the classrooms of ESOL teachers, unpack the teachers' thinking about their instruction, and identify six core practices that are foundational to teaching multilingual...
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The Routledge Encyclopedia of Traditional Chinese CultureThe Routledge Encyclopedia of Traditional Chinese Culture offers an in-depth discussion of cultural aspects of China from the ancient period to the pre-modern era, lasting over 5,000 years, comprised of 7,000 word pieces by more than 20 world-leading academics and experts.Addressing areas such as...
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A Socially Just Classroom: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Writing Across the HumanitiesThis edited collection provides a range of transdisciplinary approaches to the teaching of writing across the Humanities through the lens of inclusion and equity in higher education. In three parts - From Disciplinary Practice to Transdisciplinary Application, The Collective We: Transparent Pedagogy in Praxis,...
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First Romanian Reader for Beginners: Bilingual for Speakers of EnglishThe book consists of Elementary and Pre-intermediate courses with parallel Romanian-English texts. The author maintains learners' motivation with funny stories about real life situations such as meeting people, studying, job searches, working etc. The method utilizes the natural human ability to remember words used...
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Writing Cultures and Literary Media: Publishing and Reception in the Digital AgeIntroduction.- Chapter 1 Convergence culture: new book concepts for new audiencesChapter 2 Futurebook critics and cultural curators in a socially networked ageChapter 3 Curses and verses: Social media and the shock of the new in poetry and criticismChapter 4 Authentic fictions: Marketing stick storiesChapter...
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Understanding the Financial Industry Through Linguistics: How Applied Linguistics Can Prevent Financial CrisisThis book is an essential read for any professional dealing with data and information challenges.The author presents a new, unique approach to broad industry issues, leveraging applied linguistics and discusses how to break barriers that exist between language and data; the aim to make...
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Research Perspectives on Social Media Influencers and Brand CommunicationResearch Perspectives on Social Media Influencers and Brand Communication examines the myriad ways in which social media and the unique characteristics of the internet have changed brand communication for both brands and consumers, focusing on the social media influencer as a brand communicator. As...
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Integrated Marketing Communications in Risk and Crisis Contexts: A Culture-Centered ApproachIntegrated Marketing Communications in Risk and Crisis Contexts is part of the Lexington Books Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) series. The authors present a culture centered model for examining risk and crisis communication within the context of IMC to provide a more robust understanding of...
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Communicating in the Anthropocene: Intimate RelationsThe purpose of Communicating in the Anthropocene: Intimate Relations is to tell a different story about the world. Humans, especially those raised in Western traditions, have long told stories about themselves as individual protagonists who act with varying degrees of free will against a...
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