Language Arts & Disciplines
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The Late Talker: What to Do If Your Child Isn't Talking YetEvery parent eagerly awaits the day his or her child will speak for the first time. For millions of mothers and fathers, however, anticipation turns to anxiety when those initial, all-important words are a long time coming. Many worried parents are reassured that their...
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Developmental Editing: A Handbook for Freelancers, Authors, and PublishersEditing is a tricky business. It requires analytical flair and creative panache, the patience of a saint and the vision of a writer. Transforming a manuscript into a book that edifies, inspires, and sells? That's the job of the developmental editor, whose desk is...
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A Novel in a Year: From First Page to Last in 52 WeeksAn essential guide for every aspiring novelist!The thought of writing a full-length novel can be daunting. But in A Novel in a Year, Louise Doughty makes a seemingly vast and unconquerable task manageable by walking aspiring authors through the different aspects of writing technique...
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The Secret Life of Words: How English Became EnglishAN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR The Secret Life of Words is a wide-ranging account of the transplanted, stolen, bastardized words we've come to know as the English languag. It's a history of English as a whole, and of the thousands of individual words,...
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The Power of MemoirA groundbreaking work for healing long-term emotional problems The Power of Memoir is a pioneering how-to book that provides a new step-by-step program to use memoir writing as a therapeutic process. By going through these steps you'll learn how to choose the significant milestones...
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Where the Past Begins: A Writer's MemoirFROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR AMY TAN, A MEMOIR ON HER LIFE AS A WRITER, HER CHILDHOOD, AND THE SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FICTION AND EMOTIONAL MEMORYIn Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy...
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Winning Arguments: What Works and Doesn't Work in Politics, the Bedroom, the Courtroom, and the Classroom"Fish mines cultural touchstones from Milton to 'Married with Children' to explain how various types of arguments are structured and how that understanding can lead to victory" -- New York Times Book Review A lively and accessible guide to understanding rhetoric by the world...
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Vocal Power: Harness Your Inner Voice to Conquer Everyday Communication Challenges, with a Foreword by Michael Irvin"I was able to learn an incredible amount about my voice and about how to have great impact with more pleasure and less pain." -- Tony Robbins, New York Times bestselling author of Awaken the Giant Within Achieving Vocal Power is about making a...
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Translation and Conflict: A Narrative AccountTranslation and Conflict demonstrates that translators and interpreters participate in circulating as well as resisting the narratives that create the intellectual and moral environment for violent conflict. Drawing on narrative theory and using numerous examples from historical and contemporary conflicts, the author provides an...
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Heavens to Betsy!: And Other Curious SayingsHe's as mad as a hatter Whether it's like a bump on a log or a bat out of hell, these expressions have been around forever, but we've never really known why ... until now Finally Dr. Funk explains more than 400 droll, colorful,...
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A History of the Spanish Language Through TextsA History of the Spanish Language through Texts examines the evolution of the Spanish language from the Middle Ages to the present day. Pountain explores a wide range of texts from poetry, through newspaper articles and political documents, to a Bunuel film script and...
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McGraw-Hill's Essential ESL Grammar: A Hnadbook for Intermediate and Advanced ESL StudentsMaster American English and communicate with confidence As an experienced student of English, you know the language can be a tricky one to learn with its complex grammar and its many "exceptions to the rule" rules. Written by ESL guru Mark Lester--author of Grammar...
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Ghetto: The History of a WordJust as European Jews were being emancipated and ghettos in their original form--compulsory, enclosed spaces designed to segregate--were being dismantled, use of the word ghetto surged in Europe and spread around the globe. Tracing the curious path of this loaded word from its first...
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Why Translation MattersFrom the celebrated translator of Cervantes and Garci M rquez, a testament to the power of the translator's art Why Translation Matters argues for the cultural importance of translation and for a more encompassing and nuanced appreciation of the translator's role. As the acclaimed...
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Governmental and Nonprofit AccountingFor courses in governmental and nonprofit accounting. A practice-approach that prepares you for professional government and nonprofit accounting Written through the eyes of the learner, Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting prepares you for professional government, not- for- profit accounting practice, and the CPA exam. This...
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Writing in Anthropology: A Brief GuideWriting in Anthropology: A Brief Guide applies the key concepts of rhetoric and composition-audience, purpose, genre, and credibility-to examples based in anthropology. It is part of a series of brief, discipline-specific writing guides from Oxford University Press designed for today's writing-intensive college courses. The...
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Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women ArtistsCreating Their Own Image marks the first comprehensive history of African-American women artists, from slavery to the present day. Using an analysis of stereotypes of Africans and African-Americans in western art and culture as a springboard, Lisa E. Farrington here richly details hundreds of...
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Choral RepertoireChoral Repertoire is the definitive and comprehensive one-volume presentation of the canon of the Western choral tradition. Designed for practicing conductors and directors, students and teachers of choral music, amateur and professional singers, scholars, and interested vocal enthusiasts, it is an account of the...
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Focus on Grammar 3 with MyenglishlabAuthor: Marjorie Fuchs, Margaret Bonner, Miriam WestheimerPublisher: Pearson Education ESLPublished: 09/08/2016Pages: 528Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 2.00lbsSize: 10.80h x 8.20w x 0.60dISBN: 9780133854886This title is not returnableThis title is only available via back order
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Focus on Grammar and MeaningAuthor: Luciana De Oliveira, Mary SchleppegrellPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 07/25/2015Pages: 160Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.50dISBN: 9780194000857This title is only available via back order
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