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The first full-length novel by Chinese author Can Xue to appear in EnglishFive Spice Street tells the story of a street in an unnamed city whose inhabitants speculate on the life of a mysterious Madam X.

Marcel Proust's multivolume masterpiece, A la recherche du temps perdu, began to appear in 1913.

Biblical scholar Nijay Gupta explores in-depth some of the most important New Testament words, including: Righteousness, Grace, Fellowship, Holiness, Witness, and Love.

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.

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.

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.

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

Straight Talk: Oral Communication for Career Success has a fresh new approach that gives tools needed to communicate with confidence.

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 21st century and is no longer seen as a poor relation of the novel.

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.

In this engaging guide, teacher, poet and lyricist Adrian May shows how magic is a tool used by writers to generate creativity, where concepts of magic are seen as portals of creative power.

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!

Practice your reading skills in your new language-and gain valuable insights into Mexican culture and historyStories from Mexico/Historias de Mexico features Spanish and English stories side by side lado a lado to help you practice and improve your reading skills in your new language while enjoying the support of your native tongue.

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.

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.

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.

Have you ever wanted to write a book?

In a wedding having wedding speeches is normal and traditional part of the ceremony.

Tuttle Pocket Tagalog Dictionary is the most up-to-date Tagalog pocket dictionary available.

Learn the basics of the Thai language quickly with this essential book!

The Stanislavsky method for analyzing the characters in a drama, systematized for the first time and clearly explained, using the complete text of The Cherry Orchard as illustration.

This short eBook was written to assist with the writing of conclusions for papers, theses and reports, especially those in engineering.

This comprehensive Mandarin workbook can be used with any textbook or on its own to dramatically enhance your Mandarin speaking and listening skills.

Learn to read, write, and speak everyday Japanese with manga stories!

Reinforce your written Chinese with this practice book for the best-selling Tuttle Learning Chinese Characters.

Contemporary Japanese is a textbook series for beginning students of Japanese at the college or high school level.

A complete beginning language course for Modern Standard Arabic!

Learn the Mandarin Chinese characters and words in everyday use in China!