Language: reference and general

From statistical databases to story archives, from fan sites to the real-time reactions of Twitter-empowered athletes, the digital communication revolution has changed the way sports fans relate to their favorite teams.

Avital Ronell has won worldwide acclaim for her work across literature and philosophy, psychoanalysis and popular culture, political theory and feminism, art and rhetoric, drugs and deconstruction.

Study the meaning of biblical words in the original languages without spending years learning Greek.

Writing the New Ethnography provides a foundational understanding of the writing processes associated with composing new forms of qualitative writing in the social sciences.

The Cylinder investigates the surprising proliferation of cylindrical objects in the nineteenth century, such as steam engines, phonographs, panoramas, rotary printing presses, silos, safety locks, and many more.

The Bible was written for people to read, ponder, and understand.

In this book, ethnographer and poet Michael Jackson addresses the interplay between modes of writing, modes of understanding, and modes of being in the world.

A Kansas Notable BookBrian Daldorph first entered the Douglas County Jail classroom in Lawrence, Kansas, to teach a writing class on Christmas Eve 2001.

An essential guide to cultivating joy in your professional and personal writingWriting should be a pleasurable challenge, not a painful chore.

In The Making of a Teenage Service Class, Ranita Ray uncovers the pernicious consequences of focusing on risk behaviors such as drug use, gangs, violence, and teen parenthood as the key to ameliorating poverty.

A practical and compact guide to writing for professionalsWriting is an essential skill in today's workplace.

This hands-on guide to advanced critical analysis and argumentation will help readers to communicate in way that is orderly, rigorously supported, persuasive and clear.

Thinking Chinese Translation is a practical and comprehensive course for advanced undergraduates and postgraduate students of Chinese.

In this innovative fusion of practice and criticism, Jeremy Scott shows how insights from stylistics can enrich the craft of creative writing.

This book illuminates how technique serves 'story logic,' the particular way fiction makes meaning.

This engagingly written textbook provides a unique 'hands-on' introduction to sociolinguistics, which equips readers with the tools to start their own sociolinguistic research project.

This book provides an extensive and original analysis of the way that written and spoken communication facilitates creative practice in the university art and design studio.

The second edition of this hugely successful textbook provides comprehensive coverage of a wide range of topics in theoretical and applied linguistics.

This book explores the use of English within otherwise local-language conversations by two continental European social media communities.

This book tracks the development of Exploratory Practice since the early 1990s as an original form of practitioner research in the field of English language teaching.

This concise text will help your students get to grips with the core academic skills they need to succeed at written assignments, including critical thinking, reading, note-making and assignment planning.

In this dynamic exploration of the discipline of creative writing, Graeme Harper departs from the established 'how-to' model in a personal manifesto which analyses why human beings are, and have long been, passionate about writing.

Short story publishing is flourishing in the twenty-first century and is no longer seen as a poor relation of the novel.

This book represents a meeting of queer theorists and psychoanalysts around the figure of the child.

Television drama has come to rival cinema in its sophisticated narrative form and high production values.

The insider's guide to writing high-scoring essays on the AP English Language and AP English Literature exams5 Steps to a 5: Writing the AP English Essay 2017 provides strategies for writing a standout essay on the Advanced Placement exams, along with an abundance of essay-writing practice.

Falling somewhere between childhood and adulthood, 'Youth' is a key period of transition.

This book offers a holistic practitioner and research-based perspective on English Language Teaching and teacher education in difficult circumstances.

All the ACT English and Reading practice you need-updated to match the latest exam and presented in an easy-to-use formatAchieve your highest score with 500 ACT English and Reading Questions to Know by Test Day, Third Edition.

Get the targeted practice you need to excel on the Reasoning Through Language Arts section of the GED test!

Enjoy tales from Latin America while sharpening your new language skills!

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This book is full of practical advice and useful examples to help students and engineers write clearly, accurately and impressively.

This engaging workbook will help your elementary school students build essential vocabulary skillsThis book will strengthen the vocabulary of your third, fourth, or fifth grader.

She's blonde, brave, and totally determined-she's a gutsy professional surfer who has inspired millions, and her biggest audience is teenage girls.

This book is usable to teaching the adult service, teen church and children service as well.

Striking out from my familiar path of poetry writing, this devotional continues my walk of openly sharing the challenges of mental disease.

Berbers, also known as Imazighen, are the ancient inhabitants of North Africa, but rarely have they formed an actual kingdom or separate nation state.

Under the Cover follows the life trajectory of a single work of fiction from its initial inspiration to its reception by reviewers and readers.

Socialism has been an influential force for social change for almost two centuries.

In Beyond Horatio's Philosophy: The Fantasy of Peter S.

A tough town like Olean offers a guy only so many job options: sweat in the stench of oil refinery crude, like his immigrant father does, suffer boredom in a factory job, or apprentice in a trade.

The Political Science Student Writer's Manual and Reader's Guide is a practical guide to research, reading, and writing in political science.

Over 200,000 copies of Attention Deficit Disorder in Adults, 3rd edition, have been sold.

Teens, Loss, and Grief is a self-help guide for teenagers who are struggling with bereavement and the emotional difficulties it presents.

The place and significance of Martin Luther in the long history of Christian anti-Jewish polemic has been and continues to be a contested issue.

Luther's transformational idea of justification by faith alone was often misunderstood and misrepresented in the early years of the Reformation.

For thirty years, Mark as Story has introduced readers to the rhetorical and narrative skill that makes Mark so arresting and compelling a story.

Have you ever wanted to write a book?

from the Foreword:Possibly the heartless treatment of children, from the practice of infanticide and abandonment through to the neglect, the rigors of swaddling, the purposeful starving, the beatings, the solitary confinement, and so on, was and is only one aspect of the basic aggressiveness and cruelty of human nature, of the inbred disregard of the rights and feelings of others.