Language Arts & Disciplines
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Equity for Women in Science: Dismantling Systemic Barriers to AdvancementThe first large-scale empirical analysis of the gender gap in science, showing how the structure of scientific labor and rewards--publications, citations, funding--systematically obstructs women's career advancement. If current trends continue, women and men will be equally represented in the field of biology in 2069....
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1000 Most Important Words: For Anyone and Everyone Who Has Something to SayBased on the contention that we do not utillize speech to its fullest extent, this guide is an essential aide to unlocking our "passive" vocabularies and developing a keener appreciation of the richness of language. Indispensable For Writers, Speakers, Teachers -- Enrich your vocabulary--...
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Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric: Literally Translated with Hobbes' Analysis, Examination Questions, and an Appendix Containing the Greek DefinitionsThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Access to History: Change and Protest 1536-88: Mid-Tudor Crises?This title covers the crises that took place during 1536-88, and analyses the resulting social, political, foreign, economic and religious changes. The role and power of parlimaments during this period are also assessed, as is the nature and effect of protest and rebellion.Author: Roger...
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This Is What a Librarian Looks Like: A Celebration of Libraries, Communities, and Access to InformationIn 2014, author and photographer Kyle Cassidy published a photo essay on Slate.com called This is What A Librarian Looks Like, a montage of portraits and a tribute to librarians. Since then, Cassidy has made it his mission to remind us of how essential...
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Owning Memory: How a Caribbean Community Lost Its Archives and Found Its HistoryThis book examines the relationships between archives, communities and collective memory through both the lens of a postcolonial society, the United States Virgin Islands, a former colony of Denmark, now a United States territory, and through an archival perspective on the relationship between communities...
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Handbook of Theory and Research for the Sociology of EducationThe first of its kind, this handbook synthesizes major advances in the sociology of education over the past several decades. It incorporates both a systematic review of significant theoretical and empirical work and challenging original contributions by distinguished American, English, and French sociologists. In...
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You Should Really Write a BookEven if you don't happen to be a celebrity, this book will teach you methods for striking publishing gold--conceptualizing, selling, and marketing a memoir--while dealing with the complicated emotions that arise during the creation of your work. If you've ever been told that You...
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How to Complete and Survive a Doctoral DissertationMastering these skills spells the difference between A.B.D. and Ph.D. -refuting the magnum opus myth-coping with the dissertation as obsession (magnificent or otherwise)-the fine art of selecting a topic-writing the dissertation with publication in mind-when to stand your ground and when to prudently retreat...
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Carnal Knowledge: A Navel Gazer's Dictionary of Anatomy, Etymology, and TriviaFrom head to toe to breast to behind, Charles Hodgson's Carnal Knowledge is a delightfully intoxicating tour of the words we use to describe our bodies. Did you know: -eye is one of the oldest written words in the English language?-callipygian means having beautiful...
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Language: The Cultural Tool"The most important--and provocative--anthropological fieldwork ever undertaken." --Tom Wolfe For years, the prevailing opinion among academics has been that language is embedded in our genes, existing as an innate and instinctual part of us. In this bold and provocative study, linguist Daniel Everett argues...
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The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know about ItselfThe extraordinary history of news and its dissemination, from medieval pilgrim tales to the birth of the newspaper Long before the invention of printing, let alone the availability of a daily newspaper, people desired to be informed. In the pre-industrial era news was gathered...
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The Book in the RenaissanceA groundbreaking study of the fascinating, yet largely unknown world of books in the first great age of print, 1450-1600 The dawn of print was a major turning point in the early modern world. It rescued ancient learning from obscurity, transformed knowledge of the...
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Handwriting in America: A Cultural HistoryCopybooks and the Palmer method, handwriting analysis and autograph collecting-these words conjure up a lost world, in which people looked to handwriting as both a lesson in conformity and a talisman of individuality. In this engaging history, ranging from colonial times to the present,...
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Note-Taking Made EasyUpdated and revised edition As every student quickly learns, merely sitting through a class and paying attention is usually not sufficient to ensure good grades. The proper taking of good notes is essential. Note-Taking Made Easy tells why the student should take his or...
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Mediating Islam: Cosmopolitan Journalisms in Muslim Southeast Asia /]cjanet SteeleBroadening an overly narrow definition of Islamic journalism, Janet Steele examines day-to-day reporting practices of Muslim professionals, from conservative scripturalists to pluralist cosmopolitans, at five exemplary news organizations in Malaysia and Indonesia. At Sabili, established as an underground publication, journalists are hired for their...
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Speech Genres and Other Late EssaysSpeech Genres and Other Late Essays presents six short works from Bakhtin's Esthetics of Creative Discourse, published in Moscow in 1979. This is the last of Bakhtin's extant manuscripts published in the Soviet Union. All but one of these essays (the one on the...
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Tales of Merlin, Arthur, and the Magic Arts: From the Welsh Chronicle of the Six Ages of the WorldThe original Welsh stories of these beloved characters and their world for the first time in English The stories in Tales of Merlin, Arthur, and the Magic Arts deal with well-known figures from medieval Britain who will be familiar to many readers--though not from...
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Chambers Essential Learners' DictionaryChambers Essential Learners' Dictionary has been specially compiled for beginner students of English. Focussing on the essential vocabulary for learners of English, meanings are explained in clear, easy-to-understand language using a listed defining vocabulary, examples are given from real English, key collocations are shown...
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Race, Justice, and Activism in Literacy InstructionThis volume brings together respected scholars to examine the intersections of race, justice, and activism in direct relation to the teaching and learning of critical literacy. The authors focus on literacy praxis that reflect how students--with the loving, critical support of teachers and teacher...
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