Language Arts & Disciplines
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Pleasure in Profit: Popular Prose in Seventeenth-Century JapanIn the seventeenth century, Japanese popular prose flourished as waves of newly literate readers gained access to the printed word. Commercial publishers released vast numbers of titles in response to readers' hunger for books that promised them potent knowledge. However, traditional literary histories of...
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Outlines and ImprintsOutlines and Imprints. A collection of poetry touching on the human condition.Author's note: This is a statement on discoveries when we strip down the divisible until only the indivisible remains; this is what happened when I explored beyond the self-evident and was left with...
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Ads, Fads, and Consumer Culture: Advertising's Impact on American Character and SocietyThe sixth edition of this approachable text draws on both academic and applied perspectives to offer a lively critique of contemporary advertising's effects on American character and culture. Berger explains how advertising works by employing a psycho-cultural approach, encouraging readers to think about advertisements...
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Digitization and Digital Archiving: A Practical Guide for Librarians, Second EditionTo help new archivists and genealogists with what can be a daunting process, Digitization and Digital Archiving: A Practical Guide for Librarians answers common questions, including: 1. What should be stored? 2. Where and how should it be stored? 3. How exactly is information...
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The Political Effects of Entertainment Media: How Fictional Worlds Affect Real World Political PerspectivesEntertainment media are rife with material that touches on the political. The stories with which we entertain ourselves often show us, for better or worse, that everything can be solved by the rise of an individual hero, and that the "best way" to deal...
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The Struggle Over Black Lives Matter and All Lives MatterIn The Struggle over Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter, Amanda Nell Edgar and Andre E. Johnson examine the surprisingly complex relationship between Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter as it unfolds on social media and in offline interpersonal relationships. Exploring cultural...
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The Tip of Your Tongue: A Speech Therapist's Tribute to the Power of Communication Lost and FoundThere are no words to fully describe the heartbreak of losing the ability to communicate. Only those who have experienced this loss can give us a look inside such silence. In The Tip of Your Tongue: A Speech Therapist's Tribute to the Power of...
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Der Judenstaat: Versuch einer modernen Lösung der judenfrageTheodor Herzl war ein dem Judentum zugeh riger sterreichisch-ungarischer Schriftsteller, Publizist und Journalist. 1896 ver ffentlichte er das Buch Der Judenstaat, das er unter dem Eindruck der Dreyfus-Aff re geschrieben hatte. Herzl war der berzeugung, dass Juden eine Nation seien und dass aufgrund von...
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Born to Parse: How Children Select Their LanguagesAn argument that children are born to assign structures to their ambient language, yielding a view of language variation not based on parameters defined at UG.In this book, David Lightfoot argues that just as some birds are born to chirp, humans are born to...
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Iranian and Minority Languages at Home and in DiasporaWhile the typology, syntax, and morphology of Iranian languages have been widely explored, the sociolinguistic aspects remain largely understudied. The present companion addresses this essential yet overlooked area of research in two ways: (i) The book explores multilingualism within Iran and its neighbouring countries....
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Colloquial GreekColloquial Greek: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to Greeceas it is written and spoken today. Combining a clear, practical and accessible style with a methodical and thorough treatment of the language,...
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The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius, Second Edition: An Intermediate Reader and Grammar ReviewThe second year of Latin instruction can be the most difficult for student and teacher alike. Students must remember a seemingly endless array of grammatical rules and vocabulary, and often the material to be translated seems dull and lengthy beyond endurance. P. L. Chambers...
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Insults in Classical AthensScholarly investigations of the rich field of verbal and extraverbal Athenian insults have typically been undertaken piecemeal. Deborah Kamen provides an overview of this vast terrain and synthesizes the rules, content, functions, and consequences of insulting fellow Athenians. The result is the first volume...
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Minority Women and Western Media: Challenging Representations and Articulating New VoicesMinority Women and Western Media: Challenging Representations and Articulating New Voices presents research examining media portrayals of women from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America. It provides qualitative and quantitative findings of how women are stereotyped and misrepresented not only because of their...
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Language in the Trump Era: Scandals and EmergenciesEarly in his campaign, Donald Trump boasted that 'I know words. I have the best words', yet despite these assurances his speech style has sown conflict even as it has powered his meteoric rise. If the Trump era feels like a political crisis to...
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Words Matter: Meaning and PowerHistory and current affairs show that words matter - and change - because they are woven into our social and political lives. Words are weapons wielded by the powerful; they are also powerful tools for social resistance and for reimagining and reconfiguring social relations....
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Beyond Gender Binaries: An Intersectional Orientation to Communication and IdentitiesBeyond Gender Binaries uses a feminist, intersectional, and invitational approach to understanding identities and how they relate to communication. Taking readers outside the familiar binary constructions of gender and identity, Cindy L. Griffin addresses--through a feminist intersectional lens--communication, identity, power and privilege, personhood and...
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The Birth of Language: On the Origin of Language and What It Reveals About the Future of Our SpeciesThe Birth of Language tackles one of the most difficult topics known to mankind, the origin of language. Kim shares his experiences of learning English as a second language after moving to the United States as a teenager. He then discusses Noam Chomsky's theories...
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Orange Artisan Pocket Journal (Flame Tree Journals)Artisan Pocket Journals, the new series from Flame Tree in a range of hues to suit the mood and the moment. Orange is a delightful concoction of heat, energy and citrus blossom, both fragrant and powerful. They're hand crafted with decorated edges overflowing with...
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Reputation Management: The Key to Successful Public Relations and Corporate CommunicationReputation Management is an established how-to guide for students and professionals, as well as CEOs and other business leaders. This fourth edition is updated throughout, including: new social media management techniques for the evolving age of digital media, and perspectives on reputation management in...
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