Literacy category: 816 books
100 Ways to Improve Your Writing (Updated)
Proven Professional Techniques for Writing with Style and Power
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
The classic text on writing well, now refreshed and updated.
This is the one guide that anyone who writes—whether student, businessperson, or professional writer—should keep on his or her desk. Filled with professional tips and a wealth of instructive examples, 100 Ways to Improve Your...
Four-Letter Words
And Other Secrets of a Crossword Insider
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Crossword puzzle expert and champion Michelle Arnot has complied this irresistibly fun and entertaining manual filled with fascinating facts, puzzle miscellany, and surefire tips for puzzle solving. For devoted daily puzzlers, casual solvers, and fearless crossword warriors alike, this book offers...
Words of Wisdom
A New Collection of African Proverbs
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Words of Wisdom is a new collection of African proverbs - right from elder's mouth and wisdom.Many biblical proverbs have parallels in ancient Greece. “A soft answer turneth away wrath” was known to Aeschylus as well as to Solomon, and “Physician, heal thyself” (Luke 4:23) was also known to...
Transforming Learning Environments
Strategies to Shape the Next Generation
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
With the influence and pressures of the globalized economy, education systems are at a crossroads and need to find a place and/or identity that reflect new or transformed realities for learning environments. Questions such as to what extent, in what way, and how are we doing will need to be raised...
Developing Writing Teachers
Practical Ways for Teacher-Writers to Transform their Classroom Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
The premise of Developing Writing Teachers is this: When teachers of writing identify as writers, it adds a special dimension to their writing pedagogy. Practical and accessible while drawing on a range of relevant research and theory, this text is distinguished by its dual focus—on teachers as...
Signing
Signed English: A Basic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Now available as an eBook, this quick-reference dictionary is for everyone who knows, cares about, or wants to communicate with someone who is deaf or hearing impaired. Designed by Harry Bornstein and Karen L. Saulnier, two of the foremost experts on sign language, Signing features more than one thousand...
by Donna Kalmbach Phillips, Mindy Legard Larson
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Becoming a Teacher of Writing in Elementary Classrooms nurtures teachers’ identities as writers, connects to the realities of writing instruction in real and diverse classrooms, and encourages critical and creative thinking. This text is about writing instruction as a journey teachers and students...
Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire
A Study of Elite Communities
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
In Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire, William Johnson examines the system and culture of reading among the elite in second-century Rome. The investigation proceeds in case-study fashion using the principal surviving witnesses, beginning with the communities of Pliny and Tacitus...
by Robert J. Ray, Bret Norris
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Who doesn't dream of writing a novel while holding on to a day job? Robert J. Ray and coauthor Bret Norris can help readers do just that, with this proven practical and accessible step-by-step guide to completing a novel in just a year's worth of weekends. The Weekend Novelist shows writers of all...
Found in Translation
How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Translation. It’s everywhere we look, but seldom seen—until now. Found in Translation reveals the surprising and complex ways that translation shapes the world. Covering everything from holy books to hurricane warnings and poetry to peace treaties, Nataly Kelly and Jost Zetzsche offer language...
by Pavlos Lefas
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Dieses Buch vermittelt Geschichte durch Theorie und Theorie durch Geschichte. Es begreift die überwältigende Vielfalt der Architektur der Welt von den Anfängen bis heute als integralen Bestandteil der menschlichen Zivilisation und fragt unter anderem nach der Bedeutung von Konzept und Form, nach...
Revue des Deux Mondes septembre 2015
Poutine est-il notre ennemi ?
Language: French
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Poutine est-il notre ennemi ? Histoire d’une relation passionnelle entre la France et la Russie
Avec Hélène Carrère d’Encausse, Jean-Paul Clément, Hubert Védrine, Michel Eltchaninoff, Andreï Gratchev, Arnaud Kalika et Franz-Olivier Giesbert.
→ Grand entretien avec Hélène...
by Jean-Pierre Naugrette, Collectif, Eric Roussel
Language: French
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Grand entretien : Jean-Claude Michée. Peuple, people, populismes
Jean-Claude Michéa dénonce l’abandon par la gauche des classes populaires. Le philosophe explique pourquoi le peuple a disparu du champ de vision des élites et des nouvelles catégories sociales privilégiées. Il ne croit...
Beyond Decoding
The Behavioral and Biological Foundations of Reading Comprehension
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2009
What cognitive processes and skills do children draw on to make meaning from text? How are these capacities consolidated over the course of development? What puts some learners at risk for comprehension difficulties? This authoritative volume presents state-of-the-science research on the behavioral...