Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy
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Core Skills Phonics Workbook Grade K
$12.49 Add to cartThe Core Skills Phonics series guides students to become successful and confident readers. The skill-specific practice pages link phonics with spelling and reading so students build language skills th
- Series: Steck-Vaughn Core Skills Phonics
- Author: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0544267737
- Language: English
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3 Am Epiphany
$17.99 Add to cartDiscover Just How Good Your Writing Can Be
If you write, you know what it’s like. Insight and creativity – the desire to push the boundaries of your writing – strike when you least expect it. And you’- Author: Kiteley, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 05 2005
- ISBN10: 1582973512
- Language: English
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Information and Society
$15.95 Read moreA short, informal account of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex multiplicity of messages, records, documents, and data.
We live in an information society, or so we are often told. But what doe
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Buckland, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: March 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0262533383
- Language: English
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Caught’ya! Grammar with a Giggle for Middle School: Giggles in the Middle
$24.95 Add to cartJane Bell Kiester, author of the popular Caught’ya Grammar with a Giggle series, has adapted her effective and fun approach to meet the specific learning needs of middle-school students. This resourc… [more below]
- Series: Maupin House
- Author: Kiester, Jane Bell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0929895886
- Language: English
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20 Master Plots: And How to Build Them
$18.99 Add to cartGive your story a solid foundation–a plot that engages readers from start to finish!
The best stories linger in the hearts and minds of readers for decades. These tales gain their power through plots- Author: Tobias, Ronald B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 12 2012
- ISBN10: 1599635372
- Language: English
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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
$17.00 Add to cartA survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar
Why do we say “I am reading a catalog” instead of “I read a catalog”? Why do we say “do” at- Author: McWhorter, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1592404944
- Language: English
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Journalism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartJournalism entered the twenty-first century caught in a paradox. The world had more journalism, across a wider range of media, than at any time since the birth of the western free press in the eightee… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Hargreaves, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0199686874
- Language: English
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If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
$17.00 Add to cartBut we must try to find our True Conscience, our True Self, the very Center, for this is the only first-rate choice-making center. Here lies all originality, talent, honor, truthfulness, courage and c
- Author: Ueland, Brenda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: June 26 2007
- ISBN10: 1555974716
- Language: English
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On Becoming a Novelist
$15.00 Add to cartOn Becoming a Novelist contains the wisdom accumulated during John Gardner’s distinguished twenty-year career as a fiction writer and creative writing teacher. With elegance, humor, and sophistication… [more below]
- Author: Gardner, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: October 17 1999
- ISBN10: 0393320030
- Language: English
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Write for Your Life: A Guide to Clear and Purposeful Writing (and Presentations)
$16.95 Read moreHow would you create a winning pitch for your latest investment idea? Or persuasively argue for a major policy change? Or successfully ask your boss for a raise? The answer: clear and effective commun
- Author: Wheelan, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1324064463
- Language: English
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The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot
$16.00 Add to cartCharles Baxter inaugurates The Art of, a new series on the craft of writing, with the wit and intelligence he brought to his celebrated book Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction.
Fiction writer a- Series: Art Of…
- Author: Baxter, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: July 24 2007
- ISBN10: 1555974732
- Language: English
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The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song
$15.00 Add to cartWith intelligence and precision, Ellen Bryant Voigt parses out the deft and alluring shape of poetic language in The Art of Syntax. Through brilliant readings of poems by Bishop, Frost, Kunitz, Lawren
- Series: Art Of…
- Author: Voigt, Ellen Bryant
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: June 23 2009
- ISBN10: 1555975313
- Language: English
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Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
$21.00 Read moreA New York Times Editor’s Choice
The debate is ages old: Where does language come from? Is it an art
An Economist Best Book of 2010
A Financial Times Best Book of 2010
A Library Journal Best Book of 2010- Author: Deutscher, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0312610491
- Language: English
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Marbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems
$29.95 Read moreMarbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems was conceived from a poetic dialogue on how to shed light on the art and science behind the material construction of a poetry collection, and to g
- Series: Akron Poetry
- Author: Konchan, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 225
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1629222542
- Language: English
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The Least We Can Do: White Supremacy, Free Speech, and Independent Bookstores
$7.95 Read moreA bookseller is the being who is most aware of the futility of a book, and of its importance.–Hector Yç–£over
Like most of our cultural institutions and workers, bookshops and booksellers have worked
- Author: Cook, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1771964650
- Language: English
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Language vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists
$32.95 Read moreA fascinating examination of how we are both played by language and made by language: the science underlying the bugs and features of humankind’s greatest invention.
Language is said to be humankind’s- Author: Enfield, N. J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 026204661X
- Language: English
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Editing 101: Tips and Strategies for Working with Writers
$5.95 Read moreEditing is more than just crossing out words with a red pen. Helping an author shape their writing is a complex, collaborative task that can take many forms, from beta reading to proofreading. This ha… [more below]
- Author: Rogue, Lydia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 22
- Publish Date: November 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1648412750
- Language: English
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The Bonjour Effect: The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed
$20.00 Add to cartJean-Beno? Nadeau and Julie Barlow spent a decade traveling back and forth to Paris as well as living there. Yet one important lesson never seemed to sink in: how to communicate comfortably with the F… [more below]
- Author: Barlow, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 1250130271
- Language: English
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The Illustrated Book of Sayings: Curious Expressions from Around the World
$14.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Lost in Translation and Eating the Sun, a charming illustrated collection of more than fifty expressions from around the globe that explores the nuances o… [more below]
- Author: Sanders, Ella Frances
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 13 2016
- ISBN10: 1607749335
- Language: English
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Truth vs. Falsehood: How to Tell the Difference
$24.99 Read moreDiscover a simple, instantaneous technique that differentiates truth from falsehood in a matter of seconds from world-renowned author, psychiatrist, clinician, and spiritual teacher, David R. Hawkins,… [more below]
- Author: Hawkins, David R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1401945066
- Language: English
