Language arts & disciplines

Learn to Sign the Fun Way!: Let Your Fingers Do the Talking with Games, Puzzles, and Activities in American Sign Language

by Penny Warner

The perfect guide to signing for everyone!

Never before has learning to sign been so simple and so much fun! Whether you are a teacher or a parent, this lively self-guided book of American Sign Language (ASL)...

Watch Your Words: The Rowman & Littlefield Language-Skills Handbook for Journalists

by Marda Dunsky

The third edition of Watch Your Words—updated according to changes in AP style—is a handbook for quick classroom and newsroom use that is consistent with The Associated Press Stylebook and establishes a...

Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists

by James Geary

Both an expert and a collector, James Geary has devoted his life to aphorisms-and the last few years to organizing, indexing, and even translating them. The result is Geary's Guide, featuring aphorists like...

The Everything Guide to Getting Published

by Randy Landenheim-Gil

In "The Everything Guide to Getting Published", readers find the expert advice of industry insiders - editors, agents, and successful authors. They learn tips and tricks about submissions, how to write a killer...

The Way of Story: The Craft & Soul of Writing

by Catherine Ann Jones

Offering an integrative approach to writing all forms of narrative, this illustrated book contains evocative insights from the authors own professional journey. The emphasis on the integration of both a solid...

The No Shelf Required Guide to E-book Purchasing

by Sue Polanka

This issue of "Library Technology Reports" provides strategies, best practices, and case studies for meeting the unprecedented legal, technological, and vendor challenges that come with e-book purchasing.

Stealing Fire from the Gods: The Complete Guide to Story for Writers and Filmmakers

by James Bonnet

A revised and expanded sequel to Stealing Fire from the Gods, this 2nd edition includes important new revelations concerning the ultimate source of unity, the structures of the whole story passage, the anti-hero's...

Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners

by Michael Erard

In Babel No More, Michael Erard, “a monolingual with benefits,” sets out on a quest to meet language superlearners and make sense of their mental powers. On the way he uncovers the secrets of historical...

Exposing Prejudice: Puerto Rican Experiences Of Language, Race, And Class

by Bonnie Urciuoli

Puerto Ricans in the United States face an array of language judgments. Their linguistic differences are culturally objectified as “accents,” “mixed” or “broken language,” and “bad” versus “good”...

The Body Language of Dating: Read His Signals, Send Your Own, and Get the Guy

by Tonya Reiman

Primal instinct meets the power of choice in this go-to guide to getting the guy.

The last time you locked eyes with a gorgeous, manly specimen across the room or took a detour past the object of your affection,...

A Finnish Grammar

by Niemla. M. Clemenns

FINNISH GRAMMAR by CLEMENS NIEMI. Preface: In preparing this book my aim has not been to write a complete Finnish grammar. I have sought to present only the fundamental principles in the briefest possible way...

Screenplay Workbook: The Writing Before the Writing

by Tom Mungovan & Jeremy Robinson

An instructional manual combined with proprietary worksheets, charts and fill-in lists designed to give screenwriters a better way to focus on the task of writing a screenplay.

How To Write And Sell Great Short Stories

by Linda M James

It will not only teach you fascinating story-telling techniques, but how to market your polished short stories once they are written so that they sell world-wide!

Listening to Learn

by Sharon Grover & Lizette D. Hannegan

Listening to Learn connects audiobooks with K-12 curricula and demonstrates how the format can support national learning standards and literacy skills

Speeches That Will Leave Them Speechless

by Kathryn MacKenzie

"... a one-stop shop for all your speaking needs. If you master the concepts in this book, you will master the art of public speaking and you will be the kind of speaker others sign up and line up to see." -CRAIG...

Stalking the Story: How to Find Your Screenplay's Story with Help from TV's Greatest Detectives

by Jay Douglas

A screenplay is just a mystery waiting to be solved.

Working with the idea that writing a screenplay is a process of discovery, Stalking the Story uses the world of the detective, that prototypical master of...

Righting the Mother Tongue: From Olde English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling

by David Wolman

When did ghost acquire its silent h? Will cyberspace kill the one in rhubarb? And was it really rocket scientists who invented spell-check?

In Righting the Mother Tongue, author David Wolman tells the cockamamie...

Anonyponymous

by John Marciano

Eponymous, adj. Giving one's name to a person, place, or thing. Anonymous, adj. Anonymous. Anonyponymous, adj. Anonymous and eponymous. The Earl of Sandwich, fond of salted beef and paired slices of toast, found...

Who’s Whose?: A no-nonsense guide to easily confused words

by Philip Gooden

Who’s Whose? is an entertaining and straightforward guide to the most commonly confused words in English today, with real examples of good and bad usage to make differences crystal-clear. The Embarrassment...

Ad Infinitum

by Nicholas Ostler

The Latin language has been the one constant in the cultural history of the West for more than two millennia. It has been the foundation of our education, and has defined the way in which we express our thoughts,...