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Empower Your Child, Unleash Their Potential: Discover the transformative "Kids Guide to Essential Life Skills" for children, fostering a world of growth and development. With vibrant illustrations and age-tailored language, this book introduces fundamental skills crucial for young minds to become confident individuals. What Makes It Special:Comprehensive Skill Learning: Delve into various essential topics empowering children for a well-rounded future....
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Sleight of Mouth is about the magic of words and language. Language is one of the key representational systems from which we build our mental models of the world, and has a tremendous, influence upon how we, perceive and respond, to the world around us.
As Sigmund Freud pointed out, "Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing." The right words at the right time can be uplifting, changing the course of someone's life for the better;...
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Your success in life is largely, determined by your social skills-by your ability to interact positively and effectively with others and ensure their cooperation. This interaction is greatly dependent on presenting your ideas to your direct reports, colleagues, and superiors in a cogent, clear, and convincing manner. This is where Speak Well and Prosper: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Better Presentations comes in. This book
• covers all aspects...
7124) Living at Trace
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American Chapters presents short stories in vivid and easy-to-read, 500-word chapters, perfect for English language learners internationally and adult literacy learners in countries where English is commonly used. All stories are also offered as audio books for learners who want to hear stories and hear the sounds of American English.
Living at Trace, Brian Longfield's life has somehow gone in the wrong direction. His wife has died, and he wonders...
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English is used in diplomatic contexts worldwide, including in situations where none of the interlocutors are native-speakers. This ground-breaking volume brings together the perspectives of researchers and practitioners to discuss the needs of those using and learning English for Diplomatic Purposes. Chapter authors use concepts from sociolinguistics, World Englishes, Peace Linguistics and English as a Lingua Franca. Combined with this theoretical...
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The United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 proclaimed a vision of freedom of expression exercised regardless of frontiers. Nonetheless, laws and norms regarding the freedom or limits of expression are typically established and understood at the national level. In today's interconnected world, newfound threats to free expression have suddenly arisen. How can this fundamental right be secured at a global level?
This volume brings...
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Picture Them Naked; everything you ever wanted to know about presenting and public speaking and were afraid to ask" is a conversation about public speaking and presentation skills with those who do it best - real people who speak for a living, including public speakers, presenters and trainers across industry sectors.
At the heart of this book are insights into, WHAT successful, speakers and presenters do, to achieve their results and, importantly,...
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This book explores the challenges and opportunities involved in conducting research with members of immigrant, refugee and other minoritized communities. Through first-hand reflective accounts, contributors explore community-based collaborative work, and suggest important implications for applied linguistics, educational research and anthropological investigations of language, literacy and culture. By critically reflecting on the power and limits...
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In the intricate tapestry of human existence, there exists a remarkable and awe-inspiring thread that weaves the fabric of society: our children. They are the embodiment of our hopes, the vessels of our dreams, and the carriers of our legacy. Understanding these young minds, nurturing their potential, and guiding them through the labyrinthine journey of childhood is a pursuit both profound and essential.Welcome to "Understanding Child Psychology for...
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This magnificent seven-book series delves deep into the mind and heart of one of America's most revered Presidents. Each volume offers a unique window into Lincoln's life, showcasing his unparalleled eloquence, deep humanity, and astute political acumen.
From his early speeches that echo with a young nation's dreams, to the profound depths of the Gettysburg Address and his private letters, the series paints an intimate portrait of a leader grappling...
7131) 100 Days to Better English Reading Comprehension: Intermediate-Advanced ESL Reading and Vocabular
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Improve your reading comprehension in 100 days with these lessons for intermediate-advanced English learners. Jackie Bolen has 20 years of experience teaching ESL/EFL to students in South Korea and Canada. With her help, you'll improve your English vocabulary and reading skills in no time at all! Increase your confidence in English. This book is written for intermediate-advanced English learners. These 100 reading lessons will help you . . .Have...
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This book provides a contemporary overview of work in critical ethnography that focuses on language and race/ism in education, as well as cutting edge examples of recent critical ethnographic studies addressing these issues. The studies in this book, while centred primarily on the North American context, have wide international significance and interdisciplinary reach and address a range of educational contexts across K-12 education and less formal...
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Lynzsea Sky, a twenty-something college student, tells the author her heartbreaking, disturbing, and culture-challenging life story. She speaks at first hesitantly, then with increasing clarity about sex, drugs, family life, education, tattoos, homelessness, her dreams of becoming a filmmaker, her brother's time in prison, and her mother's struggle with mental illness. The book is just the conversation; the absence of anything else makes this a groundbreaking...
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Navigate the Trail of Self-Publishing with Ease: A Comprehensive Guide to Book MarketingSelf-publishing your book is just the start of your journey. The real challenge lies in promoting your masterpiece, making it visible to the right audience, and generating sales. "The 101 of Book Marketing: A Self-Published Author's Guide" has all the answers you've been seeking.This comprehensive guide deciphers the cluttered landscape of self-publishing, offering...
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Ask just about any humanist, and you will hear that the humanities are in a crisis. Facing utilitarian approaches to education, the corporatization of the university, plummeting enrollments, budget cuts, and political critiques from right, left, and center, humanists find themselves on the defensive. Eric Hayot argues that it is time to make a positive case for what the humanities are and what they can become.
Hayot challenges scholars and students...
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English Grammar might seem difficult. It gets easier with examples and comparisons. You can master English grammar through conversational exercises. They will help you with everyday life in an English environment. The method was tested for several years on students between eleven and sixty-five years old and the results were astonishing.
This Grammar English Book offers grammar, fully explained and practiced through a variety of exercises, helps...
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The Study It Conversation series is an easy-to-use conversation-based English textbook for ESL students, language teachers and English language programs in schools or language schools. The Study It English as a Second Language Conversation series consists of 8 different levels and 8 different textbooks. It is an exciting new series for teachers interested in Mobile Learning, Project-Based Learning or Flipping the Classroom that includes built-in...
7138) Connecting Language and Disciplinary Knowledge in English for Specific Purposes: Case Studies in Law
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How are language and disciplinary knowledge connected in the English for Legal Purposes (ELP) classroom, and how far should ELP practitioners go in supporting students' acquisition of the conceptual frameworks that shape the genres they are learning? This book presents a pedagogical model for incorporating these conceptual frameworks into disciplinary language instruction and follows four focal participants as they learn to read and write new genres...
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This book argues that Linguistics, in common with other disciplines such as Anthropology and Sociology, has been shaped by colonization. It outlines how linguistic practices may be decolonized, and the challenges which such decolonization poses to linguists working in diverse areas of Linguistics. It concludes that decolonization in Linguistics is an ongoing process with no definite end point and cannot be completely successful until universities...
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Celebrate Thanksgiving with a play! Maddy loves Thanksgiving. Family, Grandpa's mashed potatoes, even a treasure hunt and roasting marshmallows – tradition is everything! But this year, her parents have different plans. Can Maddy learn to love the holiday in a new way? Discover everything you need to put on readers' theater, advanced readers' theater, or a full production with this guide and readers' theater script. Looking Glass Library is an imprint...
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