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The Everything Kids' Spelling Book
by Shelley Galloway SabgaIs it i before e except after c? Or is it the other way around? Let's face it, most children struggle with spelling. But now they have a fun and easy way to learn all the tips and tricks to spell with confidence. With this book, kids will: learn basic spelling rules, like change y to i and add es; understand punctuation, capitalization, and other technical parts of spelling; pick up helpful tricks, like putting words into songs and rhymes; learn fun games and exercises to practice spelling; study spelling lists to master even the toughest words; and more! Along with 30 fun-filled puzzles and activities, this book offers children, parents, and teachers all the tools they need to buzz with spelling success!
The Everything Movie Word Search Book
by Jennifer EdmondsonFamous lines, glamorous stars, and unforgettable characters! Movie buffs will love the latestEverythingword search book. Great film moments, characters, and locations are incorporated into 150 fun movie-based puzzles. Each jam-packed puzzle is based on a popular movie, including: Gone with the Wind Napoleon Dynamite To Kill a Mockingbird The Graduate P. S. I Love You Million-Dollar Baby Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Gamers of all ability levels will relive their favorite movies in this wordsearch book. This entertaining collection provides hours of fun for puzzlers young and old!
The Everything Parent's Guide to Common Core ELA, Grades K-5: Understand the New English Standards to Help Your Child Learn and Succeed
by Felicia DurdenTake the mystery out of Common Core ELA!Designed to be a set of national educational standards, the Common Core has been adopted by 45 states across the nation. But if you're accustomed to traditional English courses, you may be having a hard time understanding what your kids are bringing home from school--and why.With easy-to-understand examples, comprehension tips, and practice exercises, this complete guide help you understand:The reasoning behind the Common Core English Language Arts standardsWhat your child will be learning at each grade levelThe types of books and passages your child will be readingThe new requirements on nonfiction texts and the rationale behind themThe focus on finding evidence and formulating argumentsThe Everything Parent's Guide to Common Core ELA: Grades K–5 will give you the confidence you need to help your children meet the new ELA expectations for their grade level and excel at school.
The Everything Shakespeare Book
by Cork MilnerWithout question, William Shakespeare is the most celebrated and quoted writer of all time. Whether you're a long-time fan or new to his writing, The Everything Shakespeare Book, 2nd Edition will help you fully appreciate and understand Shakespeare's works. In everyday language, this book covers everything from All's Well that Ends Well to The Winter's Tale-and every play and sonnet in between, featuring:Famous quotationsBackground information on Shakespeare's life and timesAn in-depth look at the controversy over the authorship of the worksAn Elizabethan English lessonWhether you're doing research for a school paper or simply building your literary knowledge, this book is the perfect introduction to the world and works of "The Bard of Avon."Cork Millner is a Shakespeare scholar, playwright, and author of several books, including To Be or Not To Be Shakespeare. He teaches writing at the University of California and Santa Barbara City College and has been on the literary staff for the prestigious Santa Barbara Writer's Conference for 20 years. He lives in Carpinteria, CA.
The Everything Shakespeare Book (The Everything®)
by Cork MilnerWithout question, William Shakespeare is the most celebrated and quoted writer of all time. Whether you're a long-time fan or new to his writing, The Everything Shakespeare Book, 2nd Edition will help you fully appreciate and understand Shakespeare's works. In everyday language, this book covers everything from All's Well that Ends Well to The Winter's Tale-and every play and sonnet in between, featuring:Famous quotationsBackground information on Shakespeare's life and timesAn in-depth look at the controversy over the authorship of the worksAn Elizabethan English lessonWhether you're doing research for a school paper or simply building your literary knowledge, this book is the perfect introduction to the world and works of "The Bard of Avon."Cork Millner is a Shakespeare scholar, playwright, and author of several books, including To Be or Not To Be Shakespeare. He teaches writing at the University of California and Santa Barbara City College and has been on the literary staff for the prestigious Santa Barbara Writer's Conference for 20 years. He lives in Carpinteria, CA.
The Everything Sign Language Book: American Sign Language Made Easy... All new photos! (Everything®)
by Irene DukeThe appeal of American Sign Language (ASL) has extended beyond the Deaf community into the mainstream—it’s even popular as a class in high school and college. You are guided through the basics of ASL with clear instruction and more than 300 illustrations. With a minimum of time and effort, you will learn to sign: the ASL alphabet; questions and common expressions; numbers, money, and time. With info on signing etiquette, communicating with people in the Deaf community, and using ASL to aid child development, this book makes signing fun for the entire family.
The Everything Spanish Phrase Book (The Everything®)
by Cari LunaWith the increase in travel to Spanish-speaking countries as well as the rise in the Latino population in the United States, a growing number of people are in need of a quick reference to help them communicate. Sadly, most Spanish reference books contain outdated phrases organized in a manner that make it difficult to find the right words for the right situation. The Everything Spanish Phrase Book remedies these shortcomings with a practical, real-world approach to language learning that is both quick and easy to use.From ordering dinner and asking for directions to working and communicating in Latino communities, this handy guide provides readers with all they need as ellos hablan español in any setting.Organized by situation, The Everything Spanish Phrase Book contains the right words for:Traveling and making reservationsDining and shoppingSpeaking Spanish in a business settingWorking with the Latino communityFully indexed and complete with a pronunciation guide and helpful dictionaries, The Everything Spanish Phrase Book is the ideal resource for business or pleasure.
The Everything® Build Your Vocabulary Book
by Valentine Dmitriev- A smart companion for the successful Everything games and puzzle books - Features exercises and games to make improving vocabulary fun - Specially priced at $9. 95! With exercises, puzzles, and games, The Everything Build Your Vocabulary Book makes improving vocabulary and enhancing communication skills fun. Includes: - Words you need every day - Commonly misused words and phrases - Medical, scientific, business, and legal terms - Interchangeable words - Words to use in place of idioms, cliches, and slang This easy-to-follow book painlessly teaches readers those words that everyone should know to sound composed and professional--today!
The Everything® Giant Book Of Sports Word Searches
by Charles TimmermanLove the fast-paced thrill of a high-energy basketball game? Addicted to the quiet intensity of a championship golf tournament? Dig the reckless speed of auto racing? No matter your favorite, this book will satisfy your every sports-related passion. Puzzlemaster Charles Timmerman's latest collection combines the fun of word searches with the exhilaration of popular sports for the ultimate puzzling experience! This gigantic collection features hundreds of entertaining puzzles based on the world of sports, including: Basketball Football Baseball Motor sports Hockey Golf Relive your favorite sports moments while working on these popular and addictive puzzles. With more than 300 major-league word searches, it's the next best thing to the Superbowl!
The Everything® Giant Book Of Word Searches Volume 3
by Charles TimmermanEverything® puzzlemaster Charles Timmerman has put together an inspired new collection! This book is packed with more than 300 word searches. Our most popular puzzle, word searches help improve vocabulary, memory, and problem-solving skills. But most of all--they're just tons of fun! There's something to satisfy every interest with hundreds of puzzles and diverse themes, including: •Literature (Shakespeare, Alice in Wonderland, Winnie the Pooh) •Geography (Mount Everest, Boston, the Amazon River) •Movies (Charlie Chaplin, Slumdog Millionaire, Universal Studios) •History (Thomas Jefferson, the Renaissance, the Oregon Trail) •Popular culture (Wii, Sailor Moon, reality TV) •Nature (birdwatching, environmentalism, butterflies) •Music (Kiss, Jay-Z, Beethoven) If you can't get enough of these fun and engaging puzzles, this enormous collection is the perfect companion for you!
The Everything® Guide To Writing A Book Proposal
by Meg Schneider Barbara DoyenWhether you're writing self-help, memoir, or the Great American novel, you'll need a professionally prepared book proposal to sell it. In The Everything Guide to Writing a Book Proposal, author Meg Schneider and literary agent Barbara Doyen team up to provide the inside scoop on getting your name in print.
The Everything® Guide To Writing A Romance Novel
by Faye Hughes Christie CraigEvery year, thousands of romance manuscripts are submitted to publishers, but only the best are eventually published. This simple guide-written by two awardwinning romance novelists-will show readers what it takes to break into this highly competitive market and will provide them the information they need to get their manuscript out of the slush pile and onto the bookshelf. Readers will learn how to do the following techniques: build a story from premise to plot; add a fresh twist to a classic storyline; create compelling characters; write sizzling sex scenes that carry an emotional punch; research agents and markets; write a story that an editor can't reject; and promote themselves and their work. New writers, and even experienced writers, will find the solid howto information here invaluable. This is a musthave for aspiring writers who want to write the perfect love story.
The Everything® Guide To Writing Children's Books
by Lesley BoltonThe Everything® Guide to Writing Children's Books is the perfect handbook if you're looking to create a successful children's book.
The Everything® Guide To Writing Children's Books (2nd Edition)
by Luke Wallin Eva Sage GordonWriting for kids is fun and rewarding--if you can break into the competitive world of children's book publishing. With The Everything Guide to Writing Children's Books, 2nd Edition, you'll learn how to write and promote a children's book that will impress any publisher. Seasoned children's book author Luke Wallin and Eva Sage Gordon will help you build a successful career as a children's book author whether you have only a basic idea or a manuscript ready to go. This clear and concise guide helps you: Formulate an original idea, create an outline, and write the book Learn the basics of children's story-telling, from point of view to story pacing Find helpful writing workshops and conferences Design a winning book proposal, get an agent, and negotiate a contract Create a marketing and publicity plan Use professional and social networking sites to promote your book Full of eye-opening insider information and invaluable writing advice, this is the perfect book for every aspiring children's book author!
The Everything® Guide to Edgar Allan Poe
by Shelley Costa BloomfieldThe genius and orphan son of itinerant actors, Poe led a tragic life and suffered greatly—as much at his own hands as those of Fate. Yet tragedy never stopped him from writing: poems, short stories, literary journalism, and even creating a new genre, the detective story—a contribution so great that the most prestigious writing award for crime fiction, given annually by the Mystery Writers of America, bears his name. The Everything Guide to Edgar Allan Poe is a fascinating guide to the tormented genius, with critical insight into: His difficult childhood His 13-year-old bride The truth about his drug use The enduring mystery of his death Poe led a life as epic as one of his poems. In The Everything Guide to Edgar Allan Poe, you’ll learn all the deepest secrets that haunted this tortured writer, influenced his writing, and ultimately drove him to an early death.
The Everything® Guide to Writing Graphic Novels: From Superheroes to Manga-All You Need to Create and Sell Your Graphic Works
by Mark Ellis Melissa Martin EllisYou've read them, you've loved them, and now you want to write and illustrate them. The Everything Guide to Writing Graphic Novels is your shot at the big time.
The Everything® Guide to Writing Research Papers
by Cathy SpaldingThat important paper is due soon and you don't know where to start. You're out of ideas and out of time. Don't panic-- writing great research papers is not as daunting a task as you think. It's just a process'and withThe Everything Guide to Writing Research Papers, you can master that process in no time. Professional educator and writer Cathy Spalding guides you step ?by-step through the writing process'from brainstorming ideas to polishing your final work. With dozens of timesaving tips on organization, research, and revision, you'll find the actual writing easier than ever before. This easy-to-follow handbook answers all of your questions: What are the different types of research papers'and which should you write? How can you focus your research efforts, saving time and aggravation? Yikes! You're three pages short ? now what? What can you do to protect yourself from plagiarism? How do you find and cite all of your sources? Perfect for high school and college students juggling multiple assignments,The Everything Guide to Writing Research Papersshows you how to take control of your assignments ? before they take control of you!
The Everything® Kids' Knock Knock Book
by Aileen WeintraubThe Everything Kids' Knock Knock Book is full of hilarious sections such as: - Once Upon a Knock Knock- When Fun Comes a Knockin'- Tied Up in Knocks Knocks- Knock Knock Your Socks Off- Who's That Knockin'?
The Evolution of Blake’s Myth (Routledge Studies in Romanticism)
by Sheila SpectorInterpreting Blake has always proved challenging. Hermeneutics, as the on-going negotiation between the horizon of expectations and a given text, hinges on the preconceptions that structure thought. The structure, in turn, is derived from myth, a cultural narrative predicated on a particular set of foundational principles, and organized in terms of the resulting symbolic form. The primary impediment to interpreting Blake has been the failure to recognize that he and much of his audience have thought in terms of two radically different myths. In The Evolution of Blake’s Myth, Sheila A. Spector establishes the dimensions of the myth that structures Blake’s thought. In the first of three parts, she uses Jerusalem, Blake’s most complete book, as the basis for extrapolating the components of the consolidated myth. She then traces the chronological development of the myth from its origin in the late 1780s through its crystallization in Milton. Finally, she demonstrates how Blake used the myth hermeneutically, as the horizon of expectations for interpreting not only his own work, but the Bible and the visionary texts of others, as well.
The Evolution of EMI Research in European Higher Education (Routledge Studies in English-Medium Instruction)
by Joyce Kling Slobodanka Dimova Alessandra Molino Sanne LarsenThis book presents a state-of-the-art of EMI research in European higher education over the last twenty years, offering a comprehensive comparative analysis toward identifying gaps in our understanding of relevant theories, research, and practice. Molino, Dimova, Kling, and Larsen argue for the need to take stock of the progression of EMI research in European HE in order to consolidate scholarship and better inform EMI implementation in new contexts. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of EMI implementation, including policies, attitudes, language use, assessment, training, learning outcomes, identity, and intercultural communication across five different countries: Denmark, Croatia, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain. The book brings together the authors' collective work on an annotated database of over 200 resources, featuring a range of publications of varying format, type, and language, as well as information on relevant research questions, methodologies, and findings. This detailed approach allows in-depth discussions on the most widely researched areas in EMI as well as those under-explored toward outlining a way forward for future research in both the European higher education context and on a global scale. This book will be key reading for scholars working in English-medium instruction, World Englishes, English as an international language, English as a lingua franca, and applied linguistics.
The Evolution of Editorial Style in Early Modern England (New Directions in Book History)
by Jocelyn HargraveThis book provides a historical study on the evolution of editorial style and its progress towards standardisation through an examination of early modern English style guides. The text considers the variety of ways authors, editors and printers directly implemented or uniquely interpreted and adapted the guidelines of these style guides as part of their inherently human editorial practice. Offering a critical mapping of early modern style guides, Jocelyn Hargrave explores when and how style guides originated, how they contributed to the evolution of editorial practice and how they impacted the overall publishing of content.
The Evolution of English Language Learners in Japan: Crossing Japan, the West, and South East Asia (Routledge Research in Language Education)
by Yoko KobayashiThis book seeks a better understanding of the sociocultural and ideological factors that influence English study in Japan and study-abroad contexts such as university-bound high schools, female-dominant English classes at college, ESL schools in Canada, and private or university-affiliated ESL programs in Singapore and Malaysia. The discussion is based not only on data garnered from Japanese EFL learners and Japanese/overseas educators but also on official English language policies and commercial magazine discourses about English study for Japanese people. The book addresses seemingly incompatible themes that are either entrenched in or beyond Japan’s EFL context such as: Japan’s decades-long poorly-performing English education vs. its equally long-lived status as an economic power; Japanese English learners’ preference for native English speakers/norms in at-home Japanese EFL contexts vs. their friendship with other Asian students in western study-abroad contexts; Japanese female students’ dream of using English to further their careers vs. Japanese working women’s English study for self-enrichment; Japanese society’s obsession with globalization through English study vs. the Japanese economy sustained by monolingual Japanese businessmen; Japanese business magazines’ frequent cover issues on global business English study vs. Japanese working women’s magazines’ less frequent and markedly feminized discourses about English study.
The Evolution of Imagination
by Stephen T. AsmaConsider Miles Davis, horn held high, sculpting a powerful musical statement full of tonal patterns, inside jokes, and thrilling climactic phrases—all on the fly. Or think of a comedy troupe riffing on a couple of cues from the audience until the whole room is erupting with laughter. Or maybe it’s a team of software engineers brainstorming their way to the next Google, or the Einsteins of the world code-cracking the mysteries of nature. Maybe it’s simply a child playing with her toys. What do all of these activities share? With wisdom, humor, and joy, philosopher Stephen T. Asma answers that question in this book: imagination. And from there he takes us on an extraordinary tour of the human creative spirit. Guided by neuroscience, animal behavior, evolution, philosophy, and psychology, Asma burrows deep into the human psyche to look right at the enigmatic but powerful engine that is our improvisational creativity—the source, he argues, of our remarkable imaginational capacity. How is it, he asks, that a story can evoke a whole world inside of us? How are we able to rehearse a skill, a speech, or even an entire scenario simply by thinking about it? How does creativity go beyond experience and help us make something completely new? And how does our moral imagination help us sculpt a better society? As he shows, we live in a world that is only partly happening in reality. Huge swaths of our cognitive experiences are made up by “what-ifs,” “almosts,” and “maybes,” an imagined terrain that churns out one of the most overlooked but necessary resources for our flourishing: possibilities. Considering everything from how imagination works in our physical bodies to the ways we make images, from the mechanics of language and our ability to tell stories to the creative composition of self-consciousness, Asma expands our personal and day-to-day forms of imagination into a grand scale: as one of the decisive evolutionary forces that has guided human development from the Paleolithic era to today. The result is an inspiring look at the rich relationships among improvisation, imagination, and culture, and a privileged glimpse into the unique nature of our evolved minds.
The Evolution of Language
by W. Tecumseh FitchLanguage, more than anything else, is what makes us human. It appears that no communication system of equivalent power exists elsewhere in the animal kingdom. Any normal human child will learn a language based on rather sparse data in the surrounding world, while even the brightest chimpanzee, exposed to the same environment, will not. Why not? How, and why, did language evolve in our species and not in others? Since Darwin's theory of evolution, questions about the origin of language have generated a rapidly-growing scientific literature, stretched across a number of disciplines, much of it directed at specialist audiences. The diversity of perspectives - from linguistics, anthropology, speech science, genetics, neuroscience and evolutionary biology - can be bewildering. Tecumseh Fitch cuts through this vast literature, bringing together its most important insights to explore one of the biggest unsolved puzzles of human history.
The Evolution of Literature in the Americas: A Timeline and Commentary (Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture)
by Earl E. FitzThis book offers a systematic and comparative history of the evolution of literature in the Americas, from the beginning to the present day. It begins with an introduction that assesses the development of the field and then proceeds to a chapter on the literature of Pre-Columbian and indigenous America. It then moves forward chronologically, from the arrival of the Europeans (beginning in 1492) to the year 2026. Including indigenous literature, the other American literatures represented in the book are those of Canada (both Francophone and Anglophone), the United States, the Caribbean (Francophone and Anglophone), Spanish America, and Brazil. Not every book ever written in the Americas is included, of course; only those that, in the author’s estimation, offer some valid point of comparison with other American literary cultures. These points of comparison include issues of theme, genre, literary periods, literature and other disciplines, such as history, art, music, or politics, cases of influence and reception, and translation. The book’s emphasis is on viewing American literature from a hemispheric and comparative lens.