Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
$20.00 Add to cartIn his first book since the bestselling Fermat’s Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, n… [more below]
- Author: Singh, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 29 2000
- ISBN10: 0385495323
- Language: English
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Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir
$19.99 Add to cart“Memoir writers, buy this book, put it on your personal altar, or carry it with you as you traverse the deep ruts of your old road.” –Tom Spanbauer, author of The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon O… [more below]
- Author: Goldberg, Natalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 10 2009
- ISBN10: 1416535039
- Language: English
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Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish
$21.00 Add to cart- Series: Write Great Fiction Series
- Author: Bell, James Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: October 06 2004
- ISBN10: 158297294X
- Language: English
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How to Keep Your Language Alive: A Commonsense Approach to One-On-One Language Learning
$18.00 Add to cartAmid worldwide accounts of dying languages, author Leanne Hinton and a group of dedicated language activists are doing something about it: they have created a master-apprentice language program, a one
- Author: Hinton, Leanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1890771422
- Language: English
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How Fiction Works (Tenth Anniversary Edition): Updated and Expanded
$19.00 Add to cart10th anniversary revised edition with new Introduction
James Wood’s How Fiction Works is a scintillating study of the magic of fiction–an analysis of its main elements and a celebration of its lasti- Author: Wood, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1250183928
- Language: English
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Seven Drafts: Self-Edit Like a Pro from Blank Page to Book
$19.95 Add to cartWinner, 2021 Foreword INDIES award
“Brilliant, time-tested and clear” advice that will help writers at all stages, in all genres, write their very best book–and then make it better. As a freelance edi
- Author: Williams, Allison K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 194911645X
- Language: English
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Quack This Way: David Foster Wallace & Bryan A. Garner Talk Language and Writing
$24.95 Add to cartDavid Foster Wallace was at the center of late-20th-century American literature, Bryan A. Garner at that of legal scholarship and lexicography. It was language that drew them together. The wide-rangin… [more below]
- Author: Garner, Bryan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: October 26 2013
- ISBN10: 0991118103
- Language: English
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The Best American Magazine Writing 2019
$19.95 Add to cartThe Best American Magazine Writing 2019 presents articles honored by this year’s National Magazine Awards, showcasing outstanding writing that addresses urgent topics such as justice, gender, power, a
- Author: Holt, Sid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0231190018
- Language: English
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Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work
$20.00 Add to cart“Even though writing is a solitary act, when I sit with words that I trust will be read by someone, I know that I can never be truly alone.” –bell hooks, “women who write too much”
In this timeless es- Author: Hooks, Bell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 15 1999
- ISBN10: 0805059105
- Language: English
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American Sign Language for Dummies with Online Videos
$29.99 Add to cartGrasp the rich culture and language of the Deaf community
To see people use American Sign Language (ASL) to share ideas is remarkable and fascinating to watch. Now, you have a chance to enter the wond
- Series: For Dummies (Lifestyle)
- Author: Penilla, Adan R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 30 2016
- ISBN10: 1119286077
- Language: English
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Utah English
$24.95 Add to cartIs English in Utah truly unique? If so, what makes it different? Which stereotypes about how Utahns speak are completely off base and which are accurate? To answer these questions, linguist David Edd
- Author: Eddington, David Ellingson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1647691095
- Language: English
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An Admirable Point: A Brief History of the Exclamation Mark!
$17.95 Read more“Splendid exploration”–Wall Street Journal
Few punctuation marks elicit quite as much love or hate as the exclamation mark. It’s bubbly and exuberant, an emotional amplifier whose flamboyantly dramat- Author: Hazrat, Florence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1567927874
- Language: English
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Reading Magic: How your Children can Learn to Read Before School and Other Read-Aloud Miracles
$12.99 Add to cart‘Reading aloud to our babies and young children will make the entire country better off.’
Mem Fox is Australia’s best-loved picture-book author and has taught and advocated for literacy around the worl
- Author: Fox, Mem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1925883329
- Language: English
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Core Skills Phonics Workbook Grade 4
$12.49 Add to cartThe Core Skills Phonics series guides students to become successful and confident readers. The skill-specific practice pages link phonics with spelling and reading so students build language skills th
- Series: Steck-Vaughn Core Skills Phonics
- Author: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 20 2020
- ISBN10: 054426777X
- Language: English
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The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago (Or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself)
$18.00 Add to cartLongtime manuscript editor and Chicago Manual of Style guru Carol Fisher Saller has negotiated many a standoff between a writer and editor refusing to compromise on the “rights” and “wrongs” of prose … [more below]
- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Saller, Carol Fisher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 18 2016
- ISBN10: 022624007X
- Language: English
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Books Are Tremendous
$5.00 Read moreOne of the greatest gifts you can give yourself or someone else is a good book. Yet it is amazing how many of us have neglected to take advantage of the wealth of knowledge that is so conviently attai… [more below]
- Series: Life-Changing Classics
- Author: Jones, Charlie Tremendous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 67
- Publish Date: June 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0937539821
- Language: English
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The Girl in the Window and Other True Tales: An Anthology with Tips for Finding, Reporting, and Writing Nonfiction Narratives
$22.50 Read morePart anthology and part craft guide, this collection of pieces from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist offers something for readers and writers alike. Lane DeGregory loves true stories, intimate de… [more below]
- Author: Degregory, Lane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: April 05 2023
- ISBN10: 022677127X
- Language: English
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Storycraft, Second Edition: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction
$33.00 Add to cartJack Hart, master writing coach and former managing editor of the Oregonian, has guided several Pulitzer Prize-winning narratives to publication. Since its publication in 2011, his book Storycraft has… [more below]
- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Hart, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 08 2021
- ISBN10: 022673692X
- Language: English
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How to Argue with a Cat: A Human’s Guide to the Art of Persuasion
$15.99 Read moreLearn how to persuade cats–the world’s most skeptical and cautious negotiators–with this primer on rhetoric and argument from the New York Times bestselling author of Thank You for Arguing
Cats are- Author: Heinrichs, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 19 2018
- ISBN10: 163565274X
- Language: English
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The Elements of Style
$4.95 Read moreThe original edition of the most trusted writer’s guide to American English, this is the book that generations of writers have relied upon for timeless advice on grammar, diction, syntax, sentence con… [more below]
- Series: Dover Language Guides
- Author: Strunk, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: May 26 2006
- ISBN10: 0486447987
- Language: English
