Language arts & disciplines

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inspiration for Writers: 101 Motivational Stories for Writers - Budding or Bestselling - from Books to Blogs

by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen & Amy Newmark

With 101 stories from published writers who stuck with it and succeeded, you will be inspired and encouraged, whether you’re an aspiring author, a blogger, or a bestselling writer.

No matter the genre, no matter...

A to Z of Arabic - English - Arabic Translation

by Ronak Husni & Daniel L. Newman

The A to Z highlights common pitfalls faced by translators working on both Arabic–English and English–Arabic texts. Each translation problem is carefully contextualized and illustrated with examples drawn...

Winchell and Runyon: The True Untold Story

by Trustin Howard

This book is about the bond between two legendary journalists, Walter Winchell and Damon Runyon, during the unforgettable era of World War II and the years following. Winchell was a popular radio personality...

Language Processing in Spanish

by Manuel Carreiras, Jos‚ E. Garc¡a-Albea & N£ria Sebasti n-Gall‚s

This book presents a set of contributions to the current flow of psycholinguistic research, with new and challenging data gathered from Spanish that may illuminate issues about the generality of language processing...

Morphological Aspects of Language Processing

by Laurie Beth Feldman

It is now well established that phonological -- and orthographic -- codes play a crucial role in the recognition of isolated words and in understanding the sequences of words that comprise a sentence. However,...

Other Children, Other Languages: Issues in the theory of Language Acquisition

by Yonata Levy

This volume investigates the implications of the study of populations other than educated, middle-class, normal children and languages other than English on a universal theory of language acquisition. Because...

Sound & Hearing: A Conceptual Introduction

by R. Duncan Luce

The major aim of this book is to introduce the ways in which scientists approach and think about a phenomenon -- hearing -- that intersects three quite different disciplines: the physics of sound sources and...

Japanese Sentence Processing

by Reiko Mazuka & Noriko Nagai

This volume is a direct result of the International Symposium on Japanese Sentence Processing held at Duke University. The symposium provided the first opportunity for researchers in three disciplinary areas...

Language and Communication in Mental Retardation: Development, Processes, and intervention

by Sheldon Rosenberg & Leonard Abbeduto

Research on language and communication development and intervention in persons with mental retardation has been conducted at a fast and furious pace during the last two decades. Past attempts to summarize this...

A Proverb in Mind: The Cognitive Science of Proverbial Wit and Wisdom

by Richard P. Honeck

SEE SHORT BLURB FOR ALTERNATE COPY... A complex, intriguing, and important verbal entity, the proverb has been the subject of a vast number of opinions, studies, and analyses. To accommodate the assorted possible...

Library 2020: Today's Leading Visionaries Describe Tomorrow's Library

by Joseph Janes

Broadly representative of important perspectives and aspects within the profession as well as featuring important voices beyond the professional realm, Library 2020 presents thought-provoking and illuminating...

Time and Project Management Strategies for Librarians

by Carol Smallwood, Jason Kuhl & Lisa Fraser

As budgets for libraries continue to shrink, the key challenge facing the 21st century librarian is finding how to do more with less. This book features more than thirty essays that provide valuable tips for...

In Translation: Translators on Their Work and What It Means

by Esther Allen & Susan Bernofsky

The most comprehensive collection of perspectives on translation to date, this anthology features essays by some of the world’s most skillful writers and translators, including Haruki Murakami, Alice Kaplan,...

No Joke: Making Jewish Humor

by Ruth R. Wisse

Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking--as well as the brilliance of comic masterworks by writers...

I Am a Pencil

by Sam Swope

A teacher discovers how reading, writing, and imagining can help children grow, change, and even sometimes survive

A few years back, children's-book writer Sam Swope gave a workshop to a third-grade class in...

Speaking of Journalism

by William Zinsser

Veteran journalist and writing teacher William Zinsser, whose books on writing have sold more than 700,000 copies, presents 11 of his most successful students discussing what it is like to work as a journalist...

Writing the Fiction Series: The Complete Guide for Novels and Novellas

by Karen S. Wiesner

What are the common pitfalls in a crafting a series, the best ways to get organized and plan it? The purpose of Writing the Fiction Series is to cover all things that need to be taken into consideration when...

Transforming Libraries, Building Communities: The Community-Centered Library

by Julie Biando Edwards, Melissa S. Robinson & Kelley Rae Unger

This book is for those moving their library beyond places to find information. Written by practicing public librarians and an academic librarian with an interest in public libraries, the book focuses on how...

The Best 100 Free Apps for Libraries

by Jim Hahn

Librarian Jim Hahn has carefully culled the over 500,000 available apps down to the 100 that are the absolute best for day-in, day-out library services. The guide covers apps from both Apple and Android devices,...

A Literary History of the Low Countries

by Theo Hermans

What was the written culture behind visual artists like Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Rubens? What made the historical novel in nineteenth-century Flanders so different from its counterpart in Holland? What was the...