Language Arts & Disciplines

It was going to be a great summer on O'ahu, enjoying, working, a part timr job, while relishing time off from college life on Maui. Yet culinary student Eden Andres didn't foresee that her return to her beloved plantation home, after two years away...

Si lo que deseas es poder desenvolverte y comunicarte en ingl s, este es el curso que necesitas La nueva edici n del exitoso Curso completo de ingl s para latinos --de la prestigiosa serie Ingl s en 100 d as-- te ofrece todo...

A practical and compact guide to writing for professionals Writing is an essential skill in today's workplace. From messaging platforms and social media to traditional forms of communication like memos and reports, we rely on words more than ever. Given how much reading we...

This Cursive Workbook helps Adults of all ages to start learning to write cursive letters words and sentences to improve their handwriting.Author: Sultana PublishingPublisher: Independently PublishedPublished: 05/30/2021Pages: 106Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.22dISBN: 9798512255421This title is not returnable

A new title in the beautiful collection of mini, foiled, and ruled and blank notebooks, each pack features three designs by some of the most popular artists. Beautiful and practical, these are perfect for all art lovers! The William Kliburn Set of 3 Mini...

Have you ever talked to a salesperson, read a newspaper article, heard a politician, or listened to a podcast and then asked yourself, "What was that person really saying?" If so, you've found the right book!Where Truth Lies: A Guide to Understanding What People...

What do Wyatt Earp, Belle Gunness, Big Foot the Renegade, Billy the Kid, and Dr. H.H. Holmes, and The Black Hand have in common?They were all subjects of true crime newspaper reporting in the 1800s, and now these stories and that of many others...

As old worlds become hostile and new spaces become hospitable, many species are shifting their ranges to live in locations where they have never previously existed. Biological and sociocultural realms collide and boundaries blur, making it increasingly difficult to mark definitively who belongs and...

Academic library hiring can be a bureaucratic and exclusionary process. Inclusive hiring practices can help libraries recenter the people in the process and incorporate transparency, empathy, and accessibility. Toward Inclusive Academic Librarian Hiring Practices, rather than focusing just on how to diversify applicant pools,...

NYT and USAT bestselling author and screenwriter, Cindy Dees, brings her formidable skills as a master storyteller and master writing teacher to this encyclopedic series analyzing the major tropes used in modern commercial fiction. In this volume, Cindy explores 33 iconic internal romance tropes,...

This volume provides the first comprehensive reference work in English on the French language in all its facets. It offers a wide-ranging approach to the rich, varied, and exciting research across multiple subfields, with seven broad thematic sections covering the structures of French; the...

Iconic fashion moments from the world's most exclusive event Since 1948, The Met Gala has attracted an A-list crowd to the steps of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art on the first Monday in May each year.It's the biggest event on the fashion calendar,...

A fully updated comprehensive guide for improving your creative writing, including contributions from Ali Smith, Amy Liptrot, David Almond and Kit de WaalAuthor: Julia Bell, Paul MagrsPublisher: MacMillanPublished: 08/22/2019Pages: 416Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.80w x 1.40dISBN: 9781509868278About the AuthorJulia Bell is the...

As a young journalist at the Brazil Herald from 1979-81, Stephen G. Bloom spent his early professional years working in Rio's seedy Lapa district, surrounded by fugitives, drug runners, pornographers, and stealth CIA agents. Bloom shares the wild story of this English-language newspaper in...

This anthology collects the nine winners of the 2023 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest at UNT's Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. First place winner: Jennifer Berry Hawes for "Captive No More: One SC Man's Journey to Freedom after Years in Modern-Day Slavery," about how...

For AuthorsSo, you've been offered a book contract, or are considering going down the traditional publishing route. Congratulations! It's a bit of minefield, but this book will help you navigate the traditional publishing landscape, with chapters on: The stages of acquisition(how the book-commissioning process...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Telling Blackness begins with two simple premises: conventional models of the ways people make meaning of the world fail to account for the particularities of Blackness; and accounts of Black life often miss the significance of the smallest and subtlest acts that sustain it....

Cultivate a state of mind to help your writing flow with acclaimed writing instructor and Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Sarah Selecky.For over a decade, Sarah Selecky has been running an online writing school as a compassionate alternative to MFA programs for writers of all...

Using STEAM activities, this book places school librarians at the intersection with inquiry in an elementary school. Learners will think like a scientist and design like an engineer using an iterative process to make authentic learning connections and develop a growth mindset. Designed to...