Language Arts category: 28677 books
by DeMarquis Battle
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Everyone has a story. Few people have the courage to write it. In this resourceful and insightful book, author DeMarquis R. Battle shares his experience of going through the self-publishing process. Follow the blueprint as he takes you through eight critical steps to self-publishing and as he shares...
L'Arc-en-ciel de Vincent / Vincent's Rainbow
Learn Colors in French and English with Van Gogh
Language: French
Release Date: June 7, 2018
This volume combines Vincent van Gogh's love for painting and the French language in a work that can entertain and educate parents and children alike. Even-sided pages have the original painting, plus a sentence in each language describing the scene. On the odd-sided pages, thumbnails of the work...
by Gilda Williams
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
An essential handbook for students and professionals on writing eloquently, accurately, and originally about contemporary art
How to Write About Contemporary Art is the definitive guide to writing engagingly about the art of our time. Invaluable for students, arts professionals and other aspiring...
by Mark Lynn Anderson, Dudley Andrew, Michael Aronson
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2012
Film studies has been a part of higher education curricula in the United States almost since the development of the medium. Although the study of film is dispersed across a range of academic departments, programs, and scholarly organizations, film studies has come to be recognized as a field in its own...
by Milton Ferreira Verderi, Wesley L. Crane
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Free from the restraints of the structure, convention, and assumptions of realistic drama, these works show us characters with complex proven identities. Theatre in these works is not a slick metaphor for illusion. A theater is the mirror of role-playing and stereotyping gay men experience everyday....
Fighters, Girls and Other Identities
Sociolinguistics in a Martial Arts Club
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
This book examines how young people at a martial arts club in an urban setting participate and interact in a recreational social community. The author relates analyses of their interactions to discussions of relevance to the sociology of sports, anthropology and education, ultimately providing an...
Listening to the Logos
Speech and the Coming of Wisdom in Ancient Greece
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
In Listening to the Logos, Christopher Lyle Johnstone provides an unprecedented comprehensive account of the relationship between speech and wisdom across almost four centuries of evolving ancient Greek thought and teachings—from the mythopoetic tradition of Homer and Hesiod to Aristotle's treatises....
The Perfect Screenplay
Writing It and Selling It
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
They say in L.A. everybody is writing a screenplay. With The Perfect Screenplay, everybody everywhere will be writing well-presented, saleable screenplays. Packed with tips from an insider on how Hollywood operates, testing script ideas, building structure, and marketing the final screenplay, this...
Change Is Gonna Come
Transforming Literacy Education for African American Students
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
While many books decry the crisis in the schooling of African American children, they are often disconnected from the lived experiences and work of classroom teachers and principals. In Change Is Gonna Come, the authors look back to go forward, providing specific practices that K–12 literacy...
Words That Win
What to Say to Get What You Want
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
When it comes to getting what you want, communication is the key. Now Don Gabor -- Don Gabor-America's "small-talk expert" tells you what to say and how to say it so you can get what you want--from a raise at work to a better table at a restaurant. If you've ever struggled for the right...
Intimate Conversations
How to Talk to the People You Love
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
As a follow-up to his highly successful first book, How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends, Don Gabor has written Intimate Conversations: How to Talk to the People You Love, since many men and women have difficulty expressing themselves to people they already know well. Intimate conversations...
by Marie Brennan
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Have you ever:
* Held a sword?
* Taken a karate class?
* Punched another person in the face?
Even if your answer is "no," you can still write a good fight scene. In this guide, fantasy novelist Marie Brennan will show you how. Drawing on her experience with fencing, stage combat...
Creating Research Infrastructures in the 21st-Century Academic Library
Conceiving, Funding, and Building New Facilities and Staff
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Creating Research Infrastructures in the 21st-Century Academic Library: Conceiving, Funding, and Building New Facilities and Staff focuses on research infrastructures, bringing together such topics as research and development in libraries, dataset management, e-science, grants and grant writing, digital...
by Ms Joan van Emden, Lucinda Becker
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2003
Students not only need subject-specific knowledge, but they must also know how to communicate well. From that first assignment or seminar paper, to the final report, dissertation or exam, this guide provides detailed help and support with lots of examples and practical advice throughout. Continuing...