Language Arts & Disciplines

When President Obama signed the affordable health care act in 2009, the Vice President was overheard to utter an enthusiastic "This is a big f****** deal!" A town in Massachusetts levies $20 fines on swearing in public. Nothing is as paradoxical as our attitude...

When it first appeared in 1975, After Babel created a sensation, quickly establishing itself as both a controversial and seminal study of literary theory. In the original edition, Steiner provided readers with the first systematic investigation since the eighteenth century of the phenomenology and...

What happens when a man lives his life backwards, or a family owns a diamond as big as the Ritz Hotel? How can a boring girl become more popular, a careless young woman become more sensible, or a cut-glass bowl destroy a married woman's...

This resource features ready-to-go reproducible pages that target key fifth grade grammar topics-parts of speech, verb tenses, capitalization, punctuation, types of sentences, and more! Each activity includes quick teacher tips, but because most students will be able to complete these exercises independently, they are...

This pioneering book introduces students to the practice and art of creative writing and creative reading. It offers a fresh, distinctive and beautifully written synthesis of the discipline. David Morley discusses where creative writing comes from, the various forms and camouflages it has taken,...

This comprehensive course provides intermediate students (TOEFL test scores 380-480) with the skills, strategies, practice, and confidence they need to improve their scores on all sections of the paper TOEFL test, including the Test of Written English (TWE(R)). The Introductory Paper Test book features:...

This book offers over 60 activities especially suited to middle school and high school teachers who teach other subjects through English.Author: Sheelagh Deller, Christine PricePublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 05/10/2007Pages: 168Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.68lbsSize: 10.01h x 7.19w x 0.35dISBN: 9780194425780This title is only available...

The twenty-seven books of the New Testament were not the only writings produced by early Christians. Nor were they the only ones to be accepted, at one time or another, as sacred Scripture. Unfortunately, nearly all the other early Christian writings have been lost...

The seventy-eight letters in this Anthology are selected both for their intrinsic interest and to illustrate the range of functions letters performed in the ancient world. Dating from between c.500 BC and c.400 AD, they include naive and high-style, "real" and "fictitious", and classical...

The most commonly used rejection line spewed by studio executive honchos when passing on a script is, "I liked it, didn't love it." What happensto your screenplay or novel when it leaves your hands and is submitted to a studio or production company? What...

The Longman Academic Reading Series is a five-level series that prepares English language learners for academic work. High-interest readings cover a variety of subjects, including art history, nutrition, American literature, and forensics.Author: Judith Miller, Robert CohenPublisher: Pearson Education ESLPublished: 09/16/2016Pages: 272Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize:...

The art of writing is a living business, declares Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch in the Preface to this classic. Literature is not a mere science, to be studied; but an art, to be practiced. Great as is our own literature, we must consider it as...

Stookey seeks to relieve the anxiety of inexperienced leaders of public prayer and the discomfort of those with and for whom they pray in this practical guide to the art of praying in public. The book has three parts. First, Stookey offers reflections on...

Some of the Web's pithiest advice on building a successful translation practice. Translation is the grandest, most foolhardy enterprise that humans can engage in. Done right, it can also be a lucrative and intellectually satisfying career. Fire Ant & Worker Bee (Chris Durban and...

San Quentin State Prison, California's oldest prison and the nation's largest, is notorious for once holding America's most dangerous prisoners. But in 2008, the Bastille-by-the-Bay became a beacon for rehabilitation through the prisoner-run newspaper the San Quentin News. Prison Truth tells the story of...

Reading Mastery Reading/Literature Strand Grade 1, Decodable Stories Workbook: Offers short, decodable stories for students to read independently. They provide additional opportunities for students to apply the skills and vocabulary they've learned.Author: McGraw HillPublisher: McGraw-Hill CompaniesPublished: 04/07/2007Pages: 160Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 10.70h x 8.30w...

Only the most naive or tendentious among us would deny the extent and intensity of suffering in the world. Can one hold, consistently with the common view of suffering in the world, that there is an omniscient, omnipotent, perfectly good God? This book argues...

Now revised, The Story of English is the first book to tell the whole story of the English language. Originally paired with a major PBS miniseries, this book presents a stimulating and comprehensive record of spoken and written English--from its Anglo-Saxon origins some two...

It is said to be the most frequently spoken (or typed) word on the planet, more common than an infant's first word ma or the ever-present beverage Coke. It was even the first word spoken on the moon. It is "OK"--the most ubiquitous and...

In the United States, approximately one in five women experiences rape during college, and LGBTQ students experience sexual violence at even higher rates. An increasing number of interested parties, from activists and students to legislators and university administrators, are re-evaluating the role that universities...