Language Arts & Disciplines

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"Why do we need libraries when we have Google?" Today's libraries are in jeopardy. And yes, perhaps if libraries were only book warehouses, we wouldn't need them. But libraries can be so much more than a place to check out books. In the Digital...

The Library Assistant Passbook(R) prepares you for your test by allowing you to take practice exams in the subjects you need to study. It provides hundreds of questions and answers in the areas that will likely be covered on your upcoming exam, including but...

NEW High School and College Students A Course of Study in Latin and Greek Word Roots-Designed to quickly improve high school and college students' vocabulary.-Includes 25 lessons and 375 academic and important general vocabulary words. -Improves students' performance on tests such as the GRE...

Grant writers are by nature community changemakers. They are the 20% doing 80% of the work. They are the quiet leaders, knowing how to build teams, forge community partnerships, and develop ideas into well-planned projects. Grant writers put heart and soul into everything they...

Don't worry--there's no need to stress about JLPT test prep As the founder of JLPTBootCamp.com--a test prep website with more than 300,000 annual visitors--Clayton MacKnight has helped tens of thousands of students to pass the JLPT N5 exam. Now, he's distilled his study resources...

Advanced Screenwriting, written by one of today's most active and respected screenwriting gurus, is more a collection of meditations on fine-tuning a script than a method unto itself. Among the many subjects it discusses:Author: Linda SegerPublisher: Silman-James PressPublished: 10/01/2003Pages: 236Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 8.54h...

A FLAME TREE NOTEBOOK. Beautiful and luxurious the journals combine high-quality production with magnificent art. Perfect as a gift, and an essential personal choice for writers, notetakers, travellers, students, poets and diarists. Features a wide range of well-known and modern artists, with new artworks...

Great Gift ★ Family Friendly ★ Terribly Clean one-liners Everyone loves cheesy, badly timed dad jokes because they are told by your dad, and you only get one dad, right? So, help your dad improve his collection of jokes that make will you cringe...

School is tough enough when you know how to write. Imagine being one of the 33% of students who struggle with writing letters and numbers. This inability or difficulty is called dysgraphia. Children who suffer from dysgraphia often earn the reputation of being lazy...

A Teach-Yourself Guide to Italic Handwriting The Italic Way to Beautiful Handwriting is your key to mastering the Italic hand in just minutes a day. Originally developed in the early Renaissance as a "speedwriting" technique by Papal scribes who wanted to combine beauty and...

Practice makes perfect! It's no secret that improving your Spencerian penmanship requires practice. Unfortunately, Platt Rogers Spencer published less than 30 Spencerian practice sentences. That's why this helpful workbook offers over 180 pages of all-new phrases and sentences for you to refine your lettering....

Best known as one of America's most astonishing and enduring contemporary novelists, Kurt Vonnegut was also a celebrated commencement address giver. Vonnegut never graduated from college, so his words to any class of graduating seniors always carried the delight, and gentle irony, of someone...

Author: Lajos EgriPublisher: www.bnpublishing.comPublished: 05/19/2009Pages: 138Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.38dISBN: 9781607961307

Do you envision celestial cities in distant, fantastic worlds? Do you dream of mythical beasts and gallant quests in exotic kingdoms? If you have ever wanted to write the next great fantasy or science fiction story, this all-in-one comprehensive book will show you how....

Have Fun with These Wild and Wonderful Bird Words! A murder of crows, a charm of goldfinches, a huddle of penguins--groupings of birds are more than just a "flock." Collective nouns for specific types of birds range from fascinating to funny, and this adorable...

This book provides a thorough analysis of the scientific, critical, and cultural questions at the foundation of theory-building in communication and other social sciences. Any claim to knowledge, the author explains, can be analyzed in terms of a series of characteristics: the object of...

The first work of nonfiction by Stacey D'Erasmo, author of the New York Times Notable Books Tea and The Sky Below"What is the nature of intimacy, of what happens in the space between us? And how do we, as writers, catch or reflect it...

Oh my panda! This sweet daily planner is so adorably themed that you will want to see it and carry it around with you. A daily planner is supposed to call your attention so that you will not forget to use it to write...

By now it's a given: if we're to help our ELLs and SELs access the rigorous demands of today's content standards, we must cultivate the "code" that drives school success: academic language. Look no further for assistance than this much-anticipated series from Ivannia Soto,...