Language Arts & Disciplines

Your spouse is a unique person, filled with amazing insights, thoughts, feelings, and experiences. Communication is key to really knowing and fully loving that person. Bestselling author and marriage counselor Gary Chapman has developed this handy tabletop resource to get you and your spouse...

Though the essay form is more than four centuries old, it's perfectly suited to the digital age--and to science writing. The Science Writers' Essay Handbook will show you how to: * Recognize and develop essay ideas* Research and report for the essay form* Organize...

Writing in Social Spaces addresses the problem of making time and space for writing in academic life and work of the professionals and practitioners who do academic writing'. Even those who want to write, who know how to write well and who have quality...

Liespotting shows how to use the latest techniques to spot deception in work and life situations.GET TO THE TRUTHPeople--friends, family members, work colleagues, salespeople--lie to us all the time. Daily, hourly, constantly. None of us is immune, and all of us are victims. According...

Author: Christina Latham-Koenig, Clive Oxenden, Paul SeligsonPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 09/15/2013Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 10.80h x 8.50w x 0.30dISBN: 9780194776158

This New York Times bestseller is an exciting and fearless investigation of language from the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature and The Sense of Style and Enlightenment Now. Curious, inventive, fearless, naughty.--The New York Times Book Review Bestselling author Steven...

Collins English Skills 1 is intended for children age 5-6 in Year 1/P2. The photocopiable activity sheets follow a repeated pattern of reading, phonics work, grammar and punctuation points, and writing. The illustrated activities are ideal for use in literacy sessions. This book was...

In this book, information literacy instructors, educators, librarians, and faculty will discover insights into both the theoretical and practical nature of metaliterate learning.Author: Trudi E. Jacobson, Thomas P. MackeyPublisher: ALA Neal-SchumanPublished: 01/10/2022Pages: 232Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.50dISBN: 9780838949443Review Citation(s): Choice...

Simplified American Sign Language in Sentence form to develop beginner level communication with deaf people who use gestures to communicate. Don Cabbage lives in El Paso, TX, and has for the last 50 years traveling across America and into other countries writing sign language...

Drawing on the authors' experiences as Black parents, researchers, teachers, and teacher educators, this timely book presents a multipronged approach to affirming Black lives and literacies. The authors believe change is needed--not within Black children, but in the way they are perceived and educated,...

In 1914, the Associated Newspapers sent correspondent Herbert Corey to Europe on the day Great Britain declared war on Germany. During the Great War that followed, Corey reported from France, Britain, and Germany, visiting the German lines on both the western and eastern fronts....

Essential Actions for Academic Writing is a writing textbook for all beginning academic students, undergraduate or graduate, to help them understand how to write effectively throughout their academic and professional careers. Essential Actions combines genre research, proven pedagogical practices, and short readings to help...

While there is a growing literature that explores the technical details of data science and the growing methodological concerns, there have been few works that explore how these changes are influencing the work of library and information specialists and faculty. This book considers the...

How can the small, isolated island of Bermuda help us to understand the early expansion of English America?First discovered by Europeans in 1505, the island of Bermuda had no indigenous population and no permanent European presence until the early seventeenth century. Settled five years...

Hailed by the New York Times as a book that "examines the role that argument has played throughout history and how it has shaped human existence." "An invigorating reflection on the nature and value of disagreement. . . . Sharp and taut. . ....

New title in the colourful Artisan Notebook collection by Flame Tree Studio, in a range of hues to suit the mood and the moment, and crafted with decorated edges overflowing with petals, teasing vines and patterns. Artisan Notebooks, the new Journals from Flame Tree...

The NGS: Mabel Royds Set of 3 Mini Notebooks features a collection of three mini, foiled notebooks with alternating lined and blank pages. Each notebook has a different beautiful design: Water Lilies, Magnolia and White Lilies. With a sturdy cover and rounded corners, they...

Learn the Arabic language with this perfectly illustrated book, ideal for the whole family, highlights 100 words to use when traveling, from food to transportation, animals and climate. Each word is accompanied by a very detailed drawing and a basic articulation guide to make...

A Braided Heart provides a friendly, personal, and smart guide to the writing life. It also offers clear and original instruction on craft elements at the forefront of today's emerging forms in creative nonfiction: from the short-short, to the braided form, to the hermit...

Enjoy the world of colorful birds as they chirp, cheep, and squawk throughout various short stories. Five different varieties of birds are used in the stories; each story focuses on the use of a certain verb. The verb tenses are printed in the color...