Language Arts & Disciplines

In librarianship today, we encourage voices from our field to join conversations in other disciplines as well as in the broader culture. People who work in libraries and are sympathetic to, or directly involved in, social justice struggles have long embodied this idea, as...

Andr Cossette's Humanism and Libraries is a concise but rigorous investigation into the foundations of librarianship-its definition and its aims. Philosophical and logical in its approach, it is intended to provide solid ground and unity for professional practice. Though the work was originally published...

ENHANCE YOUR SPEED READING SKILLS THROUGH TWO EFFECTIVE TECHNIQUES: SKIMMING AND SCANNING. Skimming and scanning have very different goals, reached by very different methods. The skimming section of this book will allow you to practice reading quickly and digesting information at a rapid pace....

The Gorelets Omnibus collects all the bloody little bits of Michael Arnzen's poetry written in the past 10 years into one big volume. From the contents of the original Gorelets chapbook and his classic "refrigerator of the damned" online magnetic poetry experiment, to Arnzen's...

Many modern French speakers have come to know about the Basques through Jacques Alli res's concise, reliable book, which we now publish in English for the first time. Published in the 1970s, before the post-Franco Spanish constitution and the creation of the autonomous communities...

The scientific consensus is that our ability to understand human speech has evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. After all, there are whole portions of the brain devoted to human speech. We learn to understand speech before we can even walk, and can...

Othello: The 30-Minute Shakespeare is a gripping seven-scene interpretation of this Shakespearean masterpiece.There is a dramatic build as each successive event draws Othello closer to jealous rage. Iago convinces Othello that Desdemona has been unfaithful to him with Cassio. He plants Desdemona's handkerchief in...

The Comedy of Errors: The 30-Minute Shakespeare offers five raucous scenes from this extravaganza of mistaken identity.The abridgement begins with a dramatic physical enactment of the twins' separation at sea. The play continues with a series of foibles featuring Antipholus of Ephesus, Dromio of...

"Where do you get your ideas?" New writers ask this of pros all the time. Their answers often vary from the trite to the uncivil to the dismissive, but seldom answer. Where do ideas come from-and how do you translate them into stories? Ken...

A Blueprint For Success Without Stress, Now and In The Future. The face of publishing has changed drastically in recent years, and the twenty-first century promises to bring the most dramatic alterations to the publishing paradigm to date, calling for an overall revision of...

Author: Chris RoerdenPublisher: Bella Rosa BooksPublished: 04/01/2006Pages: 304Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 9.02h x 6.08w x 0.74dISBN: 9781933523132Award: Macavity Award - NomineeAward: Agatha Awards - WinnerAward: Anthony Awards - NomineeReview Citation(s): Foreword 05/01/2006 pg. 51Foreword 08/19/2009This title is not returnable

The problem came to a head one day as I was driving through Tokyo. While waiting for the light to change, I saw the following public service announcement on the side of a bus: Omoiyari hitonikurumani konomachini (Sympathy / toward people, toward cars /...

A guide should give clear directions and then get out of your way. In this unique collaboration, bestselling author Dan Millman and his daughter Sierra Prasada help to orient you as you advance through five universal stages of creativity: Dream, Draft, Develop, Refine, and...

Martha Rhodes is the author of two previous collections, Perfect Disappearance and At the Gate. She teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, New School University, and at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She is a founding editor...

This book is meant for tutors, classroom teachers, homeschooling parents, and anyone else who wishes to help someone acquire one of the most precious gifts attainable - the ability to read, and to read well. Learning to read should never be frustrating. This book...

Spurred by books such as Julia Cameron's "The Artist's Way" and Natalie Goldberg's "Writing Down the Bones, " interest in writing and spiritual growth is greater than ever. At the same time, personal growth books are mainstays of the bestseller lists. In "Writing Spiritual...

Amagama Enkululeko Words for Freedom: Writing Life Under Apartheid is an anthology of short fiction, poetry, narrative journalism and extracts from novels and memoirs which frames local literature as a lens through which to engage with South Africa's past. With a foreword by Zakes...

GIFT QUALITY NOTEBOOKS: The VLP Classic Notebook features an edgy, yet sophisticated and sleek design, and is easily portable and suitable for writers, students, artists, professionals and travelers.EVERYDAY USE: Suitable for everyday use, such as a daily journal, inspiration journal, morning journal, writing journal,...

Revised 2019 EditionHave you been told you use too many adverbs and clich s in your writing? Want to remedy it? Then this is the book for you.In Adverbs & Clich s in a Nutshell: Demonstrated Subversions of Adverbs & Clich s into Gourmet...

With insight and clarity, Barbara Turner-Vesselago distils the essentials of 'How To Talk About Writing' into six revolutionary discoveries. This book provides invaluable advice for all who long to respond constructively to writers who seek their input, but who don't know how or where...