Language Arts & Disciplines

A comprehensive, inclusive, and practical guide to preventing and managing every common source of conflict and dispute at work, whether involving leaders, managers, employees, customers, vendors, or regulators.Author: Susan S. RainesPublisher: Rlpg/GalleysPublished: 10/01/2023Pages: 494Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.35lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 1.06dISBN: 9781538177969About the...

A must-have for any teacher transitioning to the Common Core State Standards to ensure their lesson plans meet the new standard's requirements. Use this handy guide for correlating existing lesson plans to the new standards, for new lesson plans, or as a quick reference...

Discover the 60-year history of the National Catholic Reporter Publishing Company, sustaining NCR's commitment to covering the nation, the world, the Catholic Church, and the Catholic faith. From the Second Vatican Council through the era of Pope Francis, this nonprofit has served as the...

A Sanskrit Grammar Including Both the Classical Language and the Older Dialects, of Veda and Brahmana by William Dwight Whitney is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the Sanskrit language, offering readers a deep understanding of its classical form as well as its historical...

Unsparingly honest writings about America and raceOne of the most important American authors and public intellectuals of the twentieth century, Ralph Ellison had a keen and unsentimental understanding of the relationship between race, art, and activism in American life. He contended with other writers...

Take your novel to the next level.You've finished a few manuscripts, read books and articles on writing, taken some classes, attended conferences. But you still struggle with plot, or suspect that your plotting needs work.This book can help."Advanced Plotting is helping me to be...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Henry James presents here a revision of his Literary Biography expanded with six further essays illuminating what he calls the New Biography--an approach that draws on the resources of psychoanalysis, the biographer's own subjectivity, and the skills of the...

Voice/Over: A Memoir Breakout in 7 Movies opens in the rural American west, following Faith Adiele's whimsical coming of age as the only multiracial girl in a Nordic immigrant family obsessed with movies and voting. Set on one particular infamous election day, the formally-inventive...

A concise and practical manual on developing reading, writing, and critical thinking skills in tandem For college students learning how to write on scholarly subjects, writing and critical thinking go hand in hand. And yet most books on these topics are categorized separately: writing...

A definitive study compiled from essays written by many noted authors on the various facets of the art of the novel, Theory of the Novel is Philip Stevick's latest collection of impressive works. A comprehensive anthology contain 53 commentaries on the various facets of...

Author: Susumu KunoPublisher: MIT PressPublished: 04/15/1973Pages: 410Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.32lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.30w x 0.86dISBN: 9780262519281Audience: Young AdultAbout the AuthorSusumu Kuno is Professor of Linguistics, Emeritus, in the Department of Linguistics at Harvard University.

A beautiful guided journal designed to help authors take their story from concept to completed manuscript over the course of one year. The brainchild of experienced authors and entrepreneurs Mary Weber and C. J. Redwine, this step-by-step guide will help aspiring novelists grow their...

You wrote a novel. Congratulations! But don't send that query letter or hit publish yet-revise so your novel is ready for prime time. Trying to tackle all the issues in your manuscript simultaneously is an exercise in frustration. The Six-Step Revision Process is a...

This unique book is the first publication on the art of teaching Persian literature in English, consisting of 18 chapters by prominent early-career, mid-career and established scholars, who generously share their experiences and methodologies in teaching both classical and modern Persian literature across various...

Lajos Egri's The Art of Dramatic Writing is a foundational text for playwrights, screenwriters, and storytellers, offering a deep dive into the principles of crafting compelling drama. Egri emphasizes the importance of character development, conflict, and the driving force of a strong premise. Through...

Teaching Communication is an innovative series designed to help communication instructors develop a course for the first time or to guide teacher-trainers as they work with new teachers in formal classroom settings or informal mentoring sessions. Providing theoretically grounded research-based guidelines for teaching communication...

Against the backdrop of a hyper-competitive AAA industry and the perception that it is a world reserved for top programmers and hard-core 'gamers', Story Mode offers an accessible entry-point for all into writing and designing complex and emotionally affecting narrative video games. The first...

So You Want to Be on Air? A Guide to Anchoring, Hosting, Voice-overs, and More introduces readers to the most important components a dynamic on-air personality must have, including voice, body language, being on-camera, and appearance. The text underscores how each element requires dedicated...

Signaling without Saying develops game-theoretic approaches to social meaning to model the phenomenon of dogwhistles, perhaps best known from political speech. These constructions involve language that sends one message to an out-group while at the same time sending a second-often taboo, controversial, or inflammatory-message...

Demonstrating how semiotic theory and method can be applied to decoding false representations and dangerous discourses, this book explores how semiotics can be used as a potentially powerful science of conscience. Confronting the sometimes negative perception of semiotics as academically inward-looking and lacking in...