Language Arts category: 28677 books
Television, Religion, and Supernatural
Hunting Monsters, Finding Gods
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
This book examines the text of the CW network television series Supernatural, a program based in the horror genre that offers viewers myriad religious-based antagonists, through the portrayals of monsters which its two main characters “hunt” and destroy, as well as storylines based in the Bible....
Writer's Rehab
A 12-Step Program For Writers Who Can’t Get Their Acts Together
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Writer’s Rehab is filled with tough love and unvarnished truths about the business of writing. D.B. Gilles gobsmacks both experienced and aspiring writers past self-delusion and towards productivity.
"D.B. Gilles has discovered the eerie correspondences among the 12 stages of the Hero's...
The Quality Infrastructure
Measuring, Analyzing, and Improving Library Services
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
A library’s infrastructure of programs and personnel is its most valuable asset, providing the foundation for everything it does and aspires to do, which is why assessment is so vitally important. In this collection of case studies, Murphy and her team of contributors describe how quality assessment...
by Suzan D Mcginnis
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Build and manage your collection of digital resources with these successful strategies!
This comprehensive volume is a practical guide to the art and science of acquiring and organizing electronic resources. The collections discussed here range in size from small college libraries to large...
Envisioning Our Preferred Future
New Services, Jobs, and Directions
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Volume 8 of the series Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library is focused on new services, directions, job duties and responsibilities for librarians in academic libraries of the 21st century. Topics include research data management services, web services, improving web design for library interfaces,...
by Rita Pellen, William Miller
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Explore a wide variety of cooperative initiatives-at regional, statewide, and international levels!
This book examines a wide variety of cooperative efforts and consortia in libraries, both geographically and in terms of such activities as digitization and cooperative reference services. You'll...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Digital Humanities is a burgeoning field of research and education concerned with the intersection of technology and history, philosophy, linguistics, literature, music, cultural studies, and the arts. Supporting Digital Humanities for Knowledge Acquisition in Modern Libraries aims to stand at the forefront...
The March of Days
Optimistic Realism through the Seasons of Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Although Patricia M. Boyer won a scholarship to McMaster University with the highest mathematics marks in Ontario and graduated at age 19, literature and languages were her specialty. She first worked as a public librarian, next as a secondary school teacher, then as a newspaper editor. A community...
Radio Journalism in America
Telling the News in the Golden Age and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2013
This history of radio news reporting recounts and assesses the contributions of radio toward keeping America informed since the 1920s. It identifies distinct periods and milestones in broadcast journalism and includes a biographical dictionary of important figures who brought news to the airwaves....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The Children’s Television Community presents a cutting-edge analysis of the children’s television community—the organizations, major players, and approaches to programming—and gives an overview of the history, current state, and future of children’s programming. Leading children’s television...
Here for Good: Community Foundations and the Challenges of the 21st Century
Community Foundations and the Challenges of the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Community foundations bring together the resources of individuals, families, and businesses to support effective nonprofits in their communities. Over the years, foundations have come to engage community problem-solving through more than just grant-making. They have added a rich array of other activities,...
by Brian McNair, Brian McNair
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2009
News and Journalism in the UK is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the political, economic and regulatory environments of press and broadcast journalism in Britain and Northern Ireland.
Surveying the industry in a period of radical economic and technological change, Brian McNair...
by Donald Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Body Language
The Latest Body Language Guide. Learn To Read A Person Like a Book
Better communication at work or leisure is a desirable goal for everyone. With this primer on body language, you can literally read people “like a book” and react more consistently and appropriately...
True to the Language Game
African American Discourse, Cultural Politics, and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
In True to the Language Game, Keith Gilyard, one of the major African American figures to emerge in language and cultural studies, makes his most seminal work available in one volume. This collection of new and previously published essays contains Gilyard’s most relevant scholarly contributions...