Language Arts & Disciplines Books Product Reviews and Prices

Hiroko Furo and Furo Hiroko - Turn-Taking in English and Japanese: Projectability in Grammar, Intonation and Semantics

This book examines turn-taking in English and Japanese conversations and political news interviews to investigate the relationship between ...

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$186

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Kathleen Odean - Great Books for Boys: More Than 600 Books for Boys 2 to 14

Kathleen Odean, member of the Caldecott and Newbery Award Committees, has compiled and annotated a unique collection of more than six hundred books - ...

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Latest review by MzRizz Aug 11, 2001

"According to essay writer Bruce Brooks, he believes that society makes it hard for boys who like to..." Read full review

$6

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Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux - The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry

A "teaching" guide for individuals or for groups, in or out of the classroom, to share the weekly assignments. Numerous examples of contemporary ...

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Latest review by floridasails Dec 28, 2005

"The Poet's Companion is not a handbook of rigid technique. It is not one of those quick how-to-do-it..." Read full review

$7 - $17

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Robin Dodd - From Gutenberg to Opentype: An Illustrated History of Type from the Earliest Letterforms to the Latest Digital Fonts

This lively account of the printed word draws together the histories of typography and printing into one robustly illustrated volume, and describes ...

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$16 - $20

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Henry Hitchings - The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English

The Secret Life of Words is a wide-ranging account not only of the history of English language and vocabulary, but also of how words witness history, ...

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$5 - $9

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Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers, Betty S. Flowers - The Power of Myth

Joseph Campbell, the worlds foremost authority on mythology, and Bill Moyers, one of most distinguished journalists, offer a brilliant combination of ...

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Latest review by herbyv Mar 8, 2003

"Go ahead and read it. You can learn something from it... Beware of ideas such as "Certai..." Read full review

$6 - $14

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Lynne Truss - Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference!

In a title based on the best-selling adult edition, lively, subversive illustrations show how misplacing or leaving out a comma can change the ...

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Latest review by donnamr Nov 12, 2006

"Lynne Truss has transformed part of her popular grammar book, Eats, Shoots & Leaves, into a delightf..." Read full review

$15

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Douglas R. Hofstadter - Le Ton Beau De Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language

Artificial intelligence pioneer Douglas R. Hofstadter celebrates the infinite subtleties of human creativity through language and translation in this ...

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Latest review by adamrice Sep 5, 2001

"The flipside to that is that if you think you might not like it, you probably won't. The audience fo..." Read full review

$7

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Bill Bryson - Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States

On the coattails of THE MOTHER TONGUE, this book explores specifically American issues with the English language. It is in effect a history of the ...

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Latest review by wrdnik3 Dec 5, 2011

"The United States of America is (are?) a strange, strange place – you may have heard of it. I'..." Read full review

$6

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Jason Rekulak - The Writer's Block

Free Worldwide Delivery : The Writer's Block : Paperback : Running Press : 9780762409488 : 0762409487 : 17 Apr 2001 : To counteract writer's block, ...

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Latest review by AinsleyJo Oct 24, 2005

"It had been hot'n'sticky, and I had been busy--most times, with my nights and days being turned arou..." Read full review

$9

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Simon Garfield - The Error World: An Affair With Stamps

When his life grows grim in middle age, Simon Garfield exhumes the passion of his childhood: stamp collecting that focuses on "errors"--misprints and ...

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$5

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William Shakespeare, G. Blakemore Evans, William T. Liston, Heather Dubrow, Charles H. Shattuck - The Riverside Shakespeare

The Second Edition of this complete collection of Shakespeare's plays and poems features two essays on recent criticism and ...

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Latest review by eighty8fingers Apr 9, 2002

"This is the second time I've bought the Riverside Shakespeare. The first copy unhappily ended up wi..." Read full review

$25

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Theresa Howell - A Is for Airplane/a Es Para Avion

Bright illustrations and simple text, in both English and Spanish, present the twenty-eight letters of the Spanish alphabet.

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Latest review by Bryan_Carey Jun 9, 2008

"Learning the ABCs is one of the first things parents teach children and, like learning to count, it..." Read full review

$7

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Susan Wooldridge - Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life With Words

Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge is a poet and teacher who conducts workshops privately, as well as in the California Poets in the Schools program. Her ...

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Latest review by simbilu Mar 26, 2004

"This is the single best book I have read on the creative process of poem writing. Written in an easy..." Read full review

$5

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William K. Zinsser - On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

Based on a course William Zinsser taught at Yale and his long experience as a writer, editor and teacher, On Writing Well has been ...

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Latest review by firstcontact21 Feb 17, 2006

"Introduction... First published thirty years ago in 1976, William Zinsser's On Writing Well: The Cla..." Read full review

$8

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