Language Arts & Disciplines
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The Memoir and the Memoirist: Reading and Writing Personal NarrativeThe memoir is the most popular and expressive literary form of our time. Writers embrace the memoir and readers devour it, propelling many memoirs by relative unknowns to the top of the best-seller list. Writing programs challenge authors to disclose themselves in personal narrative....
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Death Zones and Darling Spies: Seven Years of Vietnam War ReportingChosen for 2015 One Book One Nebraska In 1961, equipped with a master's degree from famed Columbia Journalism School and letters of introduction to Associated Press bureau chiefs in Asia, twenty-six-year-old Beverly Deepe set off on a trip around the world. Allotting just two...
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Natick Dictionary: A New England Indian Lexicon (Revised)James Hammond Trumbull was a prolific New England antiquarian and linguist. In connection with his research into the Native languages of New England, his discovery that some of the languages were highly systematic enabled him to decipher the grammar and vocabulary from rough phonetic...
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Al-Jazeera: The Inside Story of the Arab News Channel That Is Challenging the WestWith more than fifty million viewers, Al-Jazeera is one of the most widely watched news channels in the world. It's also one of the most controversial. Now, journalist Hugh Miles uncovers the true story behind the Arab world's most influential outlet. Financed by one...
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Editors on Editing: What Writers Need to Know about What Editors DoSince 1962 Editors on Editing has been an indispensable guide for editors, would-be editors, and especially writers who want to understand the publishing process. Written by America's most distinguished editors, these 38 essays will teach, inform, and inspire anyone interested in the world of...
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The Thesis and the Book: A Guide for First-Time Academic AuthorsThe academic caveat Publish or Perish is not a new one, and for over a quarter of a century, The Thesis and the Book has come to the aid of graduate students in their quest for publication. The doctoral dissertation, usually the first book-length...
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Reading Can Be FunReading Can Be Fun is a children's classic by Munro Leaf, the bestselling author of Manners Can Be Fun. From the desktops of Andy and Gil Leaf: One of the most important lessons our father taught us is the value of reading. The exhilaration...
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Vocabulary for DummiesHave an interest in words? From the meaning of prefixes and suffixes to word origins and trivia, this book can help you build your vocabulary Someone just called you captious. Should you be flattered? Considering your extreme lactose intolerance, is it a good idea...
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Contemporary Stylistics: Language, Cognition, InterpretationContemporary Stylistics introduces the theoretical principles and practical frameworks of stylistics and cognitive poetics, supplying the practical skills to analyse your own responses to literary texts. Author: Alison Gibbons, Sara WhiteleyPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublished: 02/16/2018Pages: 392Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90dISBN:...
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Roman Building: Materials and TechniquesWith over 750 illustrations, Roman Buildings is a thorough and systematic examination of Roman architecture and building practice, looking at large-scale public buildings as well as more modest homes and shops. Placing emphasis on the technical aspects of the subject, the author follows the...
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Core Words for Classroom & Home: Developing Verbal Communication Skills and Augmentative and Alternative Communication (Aac) AbilitiesA Practical Guide for Parents, Teachers, and Speech-Language Pathologists Core Words for Classroom and Home is a practical resource to help parents, classroom teachers, and speech-language pathologists encourage communication skills for children who have severe communication deficits. This program offers easy-to-use activities that are...
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Freedom of the Presses: Artists' Books in the Twenty-First CenturyThe artist's book as activist tactic: a toolkitFreedom of the Presses is at once a textbook and a toolbox for using artists' books and creative publications to further community engagement and social justice projects. Far from being a staid survey of an art historical...
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Listen and Draw: Easy Drawing Activities for the EFL/ESL ClassroomListen and Draw is an EFL/ESL teacher's resource book of simple, fun, ready-to-use classroom drawing activities. You can take the book to your classroom, open to a selected page and do the activity with the class.Key features: simple drawings-no artistic talent is neededready-to-use classroom...
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Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic ProseEveryone talks about style, but no one explains it. The authors of this book do; and in doing so, they provoke the reader to consider style, not as an elegant accessory of effective prose, but as its very heart. At a time when writing...
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Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern HumanitiesA prehistory of today's humanities, from ancient Greece to the early twentieth century Many today do not recognize the word, but "philology" was for centuries nearly synonymous with humanistic intellectual life, encompassing not only the study of Greek and Roman literature and the Bible...
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Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical LexiconA one-of-a-kind reference to the international vocabulary of the humanities This is an encyclopedic dictionary of close to 400 important philosophical, literary, and political terms and concepts that defy easy--or any--translation from one language and culture to another. Drawn from more than a dozen...
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How to Write: Advice and ReflectionsUniquely fusing practical advice on writing with his own insights into the craft, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes constructs beautiful prose about the issues would-be writers are most afraid to articulate: How do I dare write? Where do I begin? What do I do...
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More Than Nature Needs: Language, Mind, and EvolutionThe human mind is an unlikely evolutionary adaptation. How did humans acquire cognitive capacities far more powerful than anything a hunting-and-gathering primate needed to survive? Alfred Russel Wallace, co-founder with Darwin of evolutionary theory, saw humans as "divine exceptions" to natural selection. Darwin thought...
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Language and Symbolic PowerThis volume brings together Pierre Bourdieu's highly original writings on language and on the relations among language, power, and politics. Bourdieu develops a forceful critique of traditional approaches to language, including the linguistic theories of Saussure and Chomsky and the theory of speech-acts elaborated...
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The Language of ThoughtIn a compelling defense of the speculative approach to the philosophy of mind, Jerry Fodor argues that, while our best current theories of cognitive psychology view many higher processes as computational, computation itself presupposes an internal medium of representation. Fodor's prime concerns are to...
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