Language Arts & Disciplines

Do you want to give your readers goose bumps? Do you want to inspire nightmares? Author James Colton shares everything he's learned from over a decade of writing ghost stories, including: The Principles of Terror Discover the basic qualities that make something scary Learn...

Author: Emily StoddardPublisher: Creative AttentionPublished: 11/12/2024Pages: 92Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.24lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.22dISBN: 9798227712844This title is not returnable

Some ideas are like dreams...They come to you as does sleep.Trying to grasp at their strings only makes them drift away, because being inventive is about trust - trusting the very nature of your thoughts.It requires a certain type of letting go.Squirrel the Stone...

What you and your child will learn in this book? How to understand a writing assignment or prompt How to write paragraphs How to write a good introductory paragraph How to write good body paragraphs How to write a good concluding paragraph How to...

Written as a textbook for LIS students taking reference courses, this fully updated and revised seventh edition of Reference and Information Services: An Introduction also serves as a helpful handbook for practitioners to refamiliarize themselves with particular types and formats of sources and to...

The (potential) use of gender-inclusive language is being discussed controversially in the public sphere. Opinions on it have increasingly been voiced by individuals as well as organisations. These include state institutions, private associations, subject specialists such as linguists, and private individuals / laypeople. Views...

Author: RaynhamPublisher: OxfordPublished: 07/01/2019Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.15w x 0.33dISBN: 9780194634267

This book explores the evolution of modal constructions of necessity and obligation in New Englishes. Focusing on Singapore English, analysis of corpus data reveals lower levels of grammaticalization compared to its lexifier, British English. This trend is explained through the lenses of a "pan-stratist"...

Linguistic and Genetic (mtDNA) Connections between Native Peoples of Alaska and California: Ancient Mariners of the Middle Holocene traces the linguistic and biological connections between contemporary Aleut people of southwest Alaska and historic Utian people of central California. During the Middle Holocene Period, Aleut...

New title in the Flame Tree Blank Notebook collection, combining beautiful art with high-quality production, and featuring blank pages, a pocket at the back and two ribbon bookmarks. Perfect as a gift, or an essential personal choice for writers, note takers, travellers, students, and...

Indexing A-Z from The Chicago Manual of Style--the undisputed authority for style, usage, and grammar. In this age of searchable text, the need for an index made with human input is sometimes questioned. But a good index can do what a plain search cannot:...

From the author of the Writer's Digest book Fight Write: How to Write Believable Fight Scenes comes Fight Write, Round Two: Crafting Chaos, Combat and Crime. From a medieval siege to a modern murder scene, Fight Write, Round Two has got you covered. Divided...

SparkCharts(TM) The information you need-concisely, conveniently, and accurately. Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, these study companions and reference tools cover a wide range of college and graduate school subjects, from Business and Computer Programming to Medicine, Law, and Languages. Theyll give you...

The main purpose of these book series is to provide you an impressive and invaluable collection of English Grammar multiple-choice exercises.This book comprises different items and will take you on a beautiful journey towards improving your English.The following subjects have been created with regard...

The best all-inclusive Grade 5 comprehensive ELA workbook to prepare your student for the upcoming school year on the marketDevelop your student's skills in: Analyzing nonfiction passages in-depthReading texts from three different perspectivesUnderstanding various forms of literature, including poetry, prose, narrative, speeches, and scientific...

Author: David J. WhisenantPublisher: JtanPublished: 10/22/2024Pages: 228Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.62dISBN: 9798330441136This title is not returnable

The Voice of America (VOA) is the oldest and largest US government-funded international media organization. In 2020, Donald Trump nominated Michael Pack, a right-wing documentarian and close friend of Steve Bannon, to lead the US Agency for Global Media - the independent federal agency...

This book highlights the role of libraries and archives in preserving the memory of official-language minority communities (OLMCs) and their contribution to the vitality of these communities, particularly that of their collective memory. This reflection is based on three transversal axes. The first concerns...

Paper has become the most common writing material worldwide in the course of a two millennia history. This study provides a magisterial synthesis of recent scholarship and original insights into the origins of papermaking and its subsequent history in imperial China, including a wide...

Pangkhua is an endangered Tibeto-Burman language, spoken by about 2000 people in Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh. This volume provides a comprehensive grammatical description of the language, based on more than a year of original fieldwork in a Pangkhua village. Taking a broadly functional typological...