Language Arts & Disciplines

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...

This volume, a translation of book 1 of Philo of Alexandria's De vita Mosis, with introduction and commentary, aims to introduce new readers, both students and scholars, to Philo of Alexandria through what is widely considered to be one of his most accessible works...

There are plenty of easy-to-use book formatting options out there for self-publishers these days. And if all you want is a basic formatting solution, it's probably best to go with one of those.But if you ever hit a point where you want more control...

First garnering both dismissal and intrigue as "Grand Theft Horse," Rockstar Games' 2010 action-adventure Red Dead Redemption was met on its release with critical acclaim for its open-world gameplay, its immersive environments, and its authenticity to the experience of the Wild West. Well, the...

You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you? Those grim words hang over the entirety of Majora Mask, the sixth entry in the Legend of Zelda series. In his darkest adventure, Link must relive the same three days over and over again to prevent...

The change process is immensely complex. It is a journey, not a blueprint. How we make that journey in the present should be informed by our experiences in the past. This book takes the reader through that journey, traversing the stages of initiation, design,...

You Can Become a Successful Novelist Foreword by Jerry B. Jenkins This entertaining and informative book will guide a new writer through the step-by-step process of creating a novel. Co-authored by two veterans of the publishing industry they show the basic elements of plot,...

Crowning thoughts is ancient poetry written thereof immortal hands beautifully made by author joy smith in the great year of the lord 2021. This book contains the poetic elements of ancient love poems and a mixture of love and passion, and the perspective of...

This groundbreaking new work is the first full critical edition and English translation of the Hebrew book Sefer ha-Pardes [The Book of the Orchard], written at the end of the thirteenth century by the Provençal Jewish author Jedaiah ha-Penini. It is purportedly an example...

This book presents a novel overarching account of negation and negative dependencies, based on novel data from language variation, language acquisition, and language change. Negation is a universal property of natural language, but languages can significantly differ in how they express it: there is...

From the time they first met as undergraduates at Columbia College in New York City in the mid-1930s, the noted editor Robert Giroux (1914-2008) and the Trappist monk and writer Thomas Merton (1915-1968) became friends. The Letters of Robert Giroux and Thomas Merton capture...

These titles just keep getting better and better, don't they? You Need to Quit, You're in Burnout, You've Got Writer's Block... does Becca just hate people and want us all to feel bad about ourselves?Oh, no, dear writer... oh, no. Contraire mon-frere, as they...

Das vorliegende Lehrbuch soll Studierende nicht nur bei der erfolgreichen Anfertigung von Seminar- und Hausarbeiten sowie Thesen unterstützen, sondern grundsätzliche Fertigkeiten und Fähigkeiten zum objektiven, präzisen, systematischen und methodischen Arbeiten vermitteln. Es orientiert sich am Konzept der akademischen Kompetenzorientierung, welches das Problemlösen in komplexen...

As long as English continues its predominance worldwide, AngloSkilleds (those who have the advantage of English languageskills) will have predominance over AngloSkilledNots. In the strugglebetween AngloSkilleds and AngloSkilledNots, it is always the formergroup that has an advantage over the latter. It is the responsibility...

Author: Van CraenenbroeckPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 01/20/2023Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 3.96lbsISBN: 9780192865045

Eating disorders remain little understood by the public, and sensationalist stories in the media have done little to dispel simplistic and reductionist perspectives. This edited volume uses a range of language-centred approaches to provide much needed critical in-depth analysis and interdisciplinary synthesis. The book...

Stanislaw Lem was one of the greatest, and one of the most misunderstood, science fiction writers of the twentieth century. His work was both brilliant and challenging. His aliens were truly alien - beings whose thoughts are so incomprehensible to human minds that they...

Chapter 1. Introduction: the psy-self.-Part one: Tell me my self.- Chapter 2. Making strange the history of psychological discourses of the self in education.- Chapter 3. Schooling the (achieving) self.- Chapter 4. Mental disorder in school and the damaged self.- Chapter 5. Wellbeing and...

All in one Cursive Handwriting, Vocabulary, & Meanings in English Top 500 Vocabulary Words From A to Z with Meanings & Trace Cursive Words for Teens & Adults interested in improving.If you are a person who is looking to improve your vocabulary in English...

How I Taught My Kids to Read, Part II may be used to reinforce words learned through the first- grade. It is a step-by-step workbook that builds on the primer or beginning literacy words taught in How I Taught My Kids to Read, Part...