Language Arts & Disciplines

The importance of reading for children cannot be underestimated. Reading for pleasure can benefit a child's education, social and cognitive development, their wellbeing, and their mental health.Reading with children can help to create a love of reading for life. Multiple studies have found a...

The importance of reading for children cannot be underestimated. Reading for pleasure can benefit a child's education, social and cognitive development, their wellbeing, and their mental health.Reading with children can help to create a love of reading for life. Multiple studies have found a...

The importance of reading for children cannot be underestimated. Reading for pleasure can benefit a child's education, social and cognitive development, their wellbeing, and their mental health.Reading with children can help to create a love of reading for life. Multiple studies have found a...

Successful negotiation requires a close understanding of their partner's culture, their feelings, habits and values. When planning to do business with suppliers and other partners in Asia, a thorough preparation is essential to avoid misunderstandings, confrontations and disappointments, and to ensure the mutually desired...

Assuring successful author/editor collaborations depends on meeting expectations regarding process, changes, money, contracts, deadlines, communications and trust. This EFA Booklet, written for both freelance editors and writers who plan to hire an editor, highlights how to set up transparent expectations so they can be...

A comprehensive modern manual on how to self-edit your book.Written by a professional editor, this book gives you a clear and easy-to-follow process that mirrors the editing that a traditionally published book undergoes.Broken down into structural, sentence-level and proofreading stages, each section is copiously...

In the late nineteenth century, a thriving immigrant population supported three German-language weekly newspapers in Arkansas. Most traces of the community those newspapers served disappeared with assimilation in the ensuing decades--but luckily, the complete run of one of the weeklies, Das Arkansas Echo, still...

Este libro te ayudar a dominar las habilidades que necesitas para hablar en p blico incluso si es introvertido o ansiosoSi eres como la mayor a de nosotros, admiras abiertamente y, tal vez envidias en secreto, a aquellos que pueden pararse sin miedo frente...

Apostrophes can be tricky, but the fun fairies in this book will help readers learn how to use them correctly. Grammar rules about apostrophes are simplified for learners in this beautifully illustrated guidebook that makes learning about apostrophes entertaining. Magical Facts boxes present interesting...

Unicorns have healing powers, but your readers will learn that they are also great at writing compound sentences. Presented here is a magical journey featuring unicorns that help students learn about joining sentences together. Engaging fact boxes provide interesting information about this mythical one-horned...

There are many rules for irregular plural nouns, but let the magical elves in this vibrant volume make learning those rules easy! Some might think that elves just make toys in Santa's workshop, but they are also experts on irregular plural nouns. Young readers...

Collective nouns may not seem all that interesting to young readers, but this volume, which features facts about mermaids, makes collective nouns extremely engaging. Let the mythical mermaids take readers on a journey of learning about different and sometimes amusing collective nouns. Even developing...

Wizards have magical powers, and they also know a lot about capitalization rules! This entertaining book combines grammar rules about when to capitalize words, with unique and engaging facts about wizards, making learning about capitalization magical. Vivid illustrations, fun fact boxes, and an enticing...

Winner of the 2007 Welty Prize In 1960, Jon Edgar and Louise "Gypsy Lou" Webb founded Loujon Press on Royal Street in New Orleans's French Quarter. The small publishing house quickly became a giant. Heralded by the Village Voice and the New York Times...

This volume is a textbook for aspiring translators of Japanese into English, as well as a reference work for professional Japanese-English translators and for translator educators. Underpinned by sound theoretical principles, it provides a solid foundation in the practice of Japanese-English translation, then extends...

Want to write novels that feel real enough to the reader to have been ripped from the headlines, whatever your genre? Think like a journalist. Looking at the questions journalists ask can help you think of the characters and events in your story as...

Los textos siguientes, compuestos por una cr nica principal y cinco variaciones, tomando el ejemplo de la m sica; corresponden al relato de la experiencia de la instalaci n fotogr fica propuesta por el fot grafo norteamericano Spencer Tunick, realizada en Caracas (Venezuela) el...

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject American Studies - Miscellaneous, grade: 2,3, University of G ttingen (Philosophische Fakult t), language: English, abstract: At the turn of the nineteenth century, the city of New York underwent a tremendous change that is regarded...

The Theological Librarian's Handbook is a multi-volume guide to the practice of theological librarianship. It is intended for use by library staff at theological and religious studies libraries who do not possess professional training in the field of library and information science. This handbook...

The last decade has seen significant global changes that have impacted the library, information, and learning services and sciences. There is now a mood to find pragmatic information solutions to pressing global challenges. Future Directions in Digital Information presents the latest ideas and approaches...