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The Louisville Review, Volume 90, Fall Edition, is the 45th anniversary issue! It features poetry, fiction, non-fiction and children's poetry from grades K-12.Poetry: Susan Ayres, Christopher Buckley, Claudia Buckholts, Elsa Cross, Olga-Maria Cruz, Angela D'Ambra, Andrea Doll, Regina Derieva, Marcia L. Hurlow, John James,...

Popular Proverbs focuses on common proverbs and their role in daily life and culture. Arabs everywhere take great pride in the Arabic language, a pride which is evident in the constant usage of proverbs in literature, the media and every-day life. Given the integral...

A Description Of This BookletSomeone once said, "A picture is worth 1,000 words". Idioms create pictures also. Idioms can be facilitators (when they help in understanding) or they can become barriers (when they confuse understanding.)What I have attempted to present in this booklet, is...

"Senor Zorro is on the road again, they say," the landlord began. "'Why do I always hear his name?" cried Sergeant Gonzales angrily. Zorro fights to help the poor and weak in California under the Spanish Governor's rule. Sergeant Gonzales has promised to catch...

This book was originally published in 1870. At the time, George Mackenzie Bacon was a medical superintendent at Cambridgeshire County Asylum (now Fulbourn Hospital) near Cambridge, England. The slim volume offers Bacon's observations on the idiosyncrasies of his patients' handwriting.Following On the Writing of...

What might English look like today, had there been no Norman Conquest?From the easy, to the 'weird and wonderful', learn about this amazing topic - with lists, 'chit-chat', headlines, signs, and names of organisations. Learn the meanings of: Overseas Ambighthouse, Thane wrayed of craft-less...

This book is for secondary subject matter teachers and administrators who work with English language learners (ELLs) in subject matter classes. It is also for college professors who prepare pre-service teachers to work with those students. The book brings together insights from linguistic, socio-cultural,...

'This is, in fact, not what you were looking for; but it's much more interesting' Terry Pratchett Much loved for its wit and wisdom since 1870, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable takes you on a captivating adventure through its trademark blend of language,...

Hone your creative writing skills with this best-selling, portable little handbook! Ideal for all levels of writing from introductory to advanced, THE COLLEGE HANDBOOK OF CREATIVE WRITING, Fourth Edition, covers all the necessary fundamentals for creative writing in the genres of fiction, poetry, and...

Test Prep Books' PSAT Prep 2021 with 3 Practice Tests: PSAT Study Guide for the College Board Exam 5th Edition Book]Made by Test Prep Books experts for test takers trying to achieve a great score on the PSAT exam.This comprehensive study guide includes: Quick...

Test Prep Books' PELLETB Test Prep California: California POST Exam Study Guide and Practice Test Questions for the PELLET B Police Officer Highway Patrol Exam [4th Edition] Taking the Pelletb test? Want to get a good score? Written by Test Prep Books, this comprehensive...

Test Prep Books' Praxis English Language Arts Content Knowledge 5038 Test Prep: Praxis 5038 Study Guide and Practice Test Questions 2nd Edition] Developed by Test Prep Books for test takers trying to achieve a passing score on the Praxis II exam, this comprehensive study...

Looking for a silver bullet to accelerate EL achievement? There is none. But this, we promise: when EL specialists and general ed teachers pool their expertise, your ELs' language development and content mastery will improve exponentially. Just ask the tens of thousands of Collaboration...

This Spanish grammar has been designed specifically for the adult with limited learning time. It covers the most important points of Spanish grammar in the clearest possible way, concentrating on the expressions that you would be most likely to use. All rules are illustrated...

Sometimes we all need a little reminder that it's going to be okay... Open The Cabinet of Calm to discover a comforting word that's equal to your troubles. The Cabinet of Calm has been designed to be picked up whenever you need a moment...

This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students. Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence. Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension. Before, during,...

This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students.Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence. Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension. Before, during, and...

This edited volume examines co-teaching and integrated service delivery for English learners (ELs). Through research and documentary accounts, it explores the collaborative instructional cycle-co-planning, co-instruction, co-assessment, and reflection practices-of co-taught programs for ELs. This volume presents current, classroom-based, practitioner-oriented research related to all aspects...

Test Prep Books' PSAT 10 Prep 2020 and 2021 with Practice Tests Includes Two PSAT 10 Practice Tests] Made by Test Prep Books experts for test takers trying to achieve higher PSAT 10 scores. This comprehensive study guide includes: Quick Overview Find out what's...

Barron's Let's Review Regents: English gives students the step-by-step review and practice they need to prepare for the Regents exam. This updated edition is an ideal companion to high school textbooks and covers all English topics prescribed by the New York State Board of...

An updated version of the popular book based on the "How to Live in Denmark" podcast, with 8 new chapters. In this fun, easy-to-read book, Kay draws on her own experience as a foreigner in Denmark when it comes to learning Danish, trying to...

Japanese language intermediate studies textbook, using various subjects and multimedia to teach the language in the context of modern trends. This top rated book is a companion to other teaching books in this series.Author: Michio Tsutsui, Shoko Emori, Yoshiro HanaiISBN-10: 4874245706ISBN-13: 9784874245705Publisher: KuroshioshuppanLanguage: JapanesePublished:...

Learn to Speak German--the Dirty Deutsch Way! If you think German is all brat and no wurst, you need to think again. German is sexier--and dirtier--than you might imagine. (Think Hamburg!) From hearts and violins to pigs and dogs, Goethe's native tongue is ripe--and...

Renowned poet and acclaimed translator Charles Martin faithfully captures Euripides's dramatic tone and style in this searing tale of revenge and sacrifice.The Medea of Euripides is one of the greatest of all Greek tragedies and arguably the one with the most significance today. A...

Understanding Language Structure, Interaction, and Variation is an introduction to the study of language and applied linguistics for students who have had a minimum of exposure to the discipline of linguistics. Using clear, easy-to-understand explanations and examples, this text avoids the in-depth theoretical coverage...

Author: Sue ArengoISBN-10: 0194239063ISBN-13: 9780194239066Publisher: Oxford University Press, USALanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2012Pages: 24Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.60w x 0.40d

This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students.Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence. Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension. Before, during, and...

The poems of The Girl Who Quit at Leviticus are, like all forms of story, about sex and death: the life force and whatever is its negation or absence. They don't want to deny the regret, rage and dread of a life, but they...

"and what if colonization could be a satirical sci-fi epic" - some imagined ghost" Fluid, otherworldly and sonically compelling, Christie's vivid poem, when they come lingers and perturbs " Author: Morgan ChristieISBN-10: 1838251618ISBN-13: 9781838251611Publisher: Black Sunflowers Poetry PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/14/2021Pages: 30Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.13lbsSize: 9.21h...

Author: West DumasISBN-10: 0194608123ISBN-13: 9780194608121Publisher: OxfordLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/31/2018Pages: 83Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.38h x 5.91w x 0.21d

Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR. Manor Hall is a dark, dark house with a mystery. Nobody can go into the music room. But one...

APEX Test Prep's SHSAT Specialized High School Admissions Prep: Study Guide and NYC SHSAT Practice Test Questions [Book Includes Detailed Answer Explanations] APEX Test Prep believes that preparing for the SHSAT exam shouldn't be harder than the test itself. To that end, we pack...

Character drives plot. Based on this principle, this book walks aspiring writers through the fascinating world of character-driven screenwriting. When a writer engages their characters, they start a process which naturally leads to the story's structure and everything else that makes for a well-written...

Often, when adults encounter children's literature, they tend to think about simplicity, fictional reality, naivit'e, and elementalism, as in "Elementary, Watson, elementary," Sherlock Holmes to his disciple, Dr. Watson. The very last things that cross the minds of skeptical adults are complexity, intricacy, shrewdly...

About Sheila Murnaghan's translation "A terrific new translation--Murnaghan's Medea is both terrifying and sympathetic, an emotionally complex portrayal that leaves the reader no simple answers." --KIRK ORMAND, author of Controlling Desires: Sexuality in Ancient Greece and RomeAuthor: EuripidesISBN-10: 0393870847ISBN-13: 9780393870848Publisher: W. W. Norton &...

Boost achievement for English learners in all subject areas! Building ELLs′ language skills while teaching content is about to get easier. Hollingsworth and Ybarra combine the best of educational theory, brain research, and data analysis to bring you explicit direct instruction (EDI): a proven...

In Small Sovereign, his second full-length collection, poet Michael Favala Goldman draws on experience as a remodeling carpenter, a jazz musician, a Danish translator, a gardener and a parent, to draw us into greater awareness of life's minute pains and victories from numerous points...

Author: J. O. CutteridgeISBN-10: 0175660018ISBN-13: 9780175660018Publisher: Oxford University Press, USALanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2014Pages: 32Format: SpiralWeight: 0.10lbsSize: 6.90h x 4.50w x 0.10d

Author: OxfordISBN-10: 0194239721ISBN-13: 9780194239721Publisher: OxfordLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2013Pages: 24Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 9.80h x 7.46w x 0.22d

Nikolai Chernyshevskii and Ayn Rand: Russian Nihilism Travels to America argues that the core commitments of the nihilist movement of the 1860's made their way to 20th century America via the thought of Ayn Rand. While mid-nineteenth-century Russian nihilism has generally been seen as...

Once upon a time, there was a student who wanted to learn English...He did everything. He did grammar exercises, he looked at lists of vocabulary, he even tried reading books for native speakers. But nothing worked, and he couldn't progress.Then, one day, he found...

An Ojibwe language coffee table book with Nana Boozhoo.Author: Michael LyonsISBN-10: 1984150294ISBN-13: 9781984150295Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/23/2018Pages: 36Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.09d

What can educators do right now, in their own classrooms, to support students of varied cultures and languages? Written for current and future teachers of ELs across various educational and geographical settings, this concise guide provides educators with specific instructional practices to promote greater...

Curriculum design does not have one best approach. It evolves over time and is shaped by student needs, collaborative input, and past experiences. A well-designed curriculum directly impacts how a teacher teaches and a student learns. Learn the basics of this fundamental skill and...

As Long as the Earth Endures is an annotated collection of almost all of the known Native texts in Miami-Illinois, an Algonquian language of Indiana, Illinois, and Oklahoma. These texts, gathered from native speakers of Myaamia, Peoria, and Wea in the 1890s and the...

Understanding Thai Language and Grammar - Take It FurtherUnderstanding the structure and grammar of the Thai language is very important since it may differ considerably from your own language.Thai is not as difficult as it seems. The common problem for foreigners who are studying...

Showcasing the voices, perspectives, and experiences of rural English teachers and students, Teaching English in Rural Communities promotes equity, diversity, and inclusivity within rural education. Specifically, this book develops a Critical Rural English Pedagogy (CREP), which draws attention to issues of power, representation, and...

The Virgin Islands Dictionary is a collection of words and phrases used frequently, naturally and enjoyably by the people who call the Virgin Islands home. Don't get me wrong, most Virgin Islanders speak English well. A growing number speak English and Spanish making that...

Dictionary of the Ponca People presents approximately five thousand words and definitions used by Ponca speakers from the late nineteenth century to the present. Until relatively recently, the Ponca language had been passed down solely as part of an oral tradition in which children...

Speaking in tongues, also known as glossolalia, has long been a subject of curiosity as well as vigorous theological debate. A worldwide phenomenon that spans multiple Christian traditions, glossolalia is both celebrated as a supernatural gift and condemned as semiotic alchemy. For some it...