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"A balanced attempt to understand the controversy over renaming a building on the campus of UC Berkeley"--

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Whether you are a professional or amateur actor, classical or popular singer, politician, public speaker, or need to present for business, church or college, The Voice Book will help you to discover how to use your voice.

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A completely original guide to the screenwriter's art - as only the writer of Blade Runner could conceive it.

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Jam-packed with proven strategies, nuts-and-bolts advice, sample queries and proposals, interviews with publishing experts, and "Hit the Gas" tips for speeding up the proposal process, The Weekend Book Proposal will show you how to succeed and prosper as a writer--and sell your books before you've even written them!

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This work, a follow-up to the author's bestselling "The Weekend Novelist," is a guide for writers of all levels to revising and reworking a first draft of their novels.

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From information about words and their uses, useful lists of things you never knew had names, palindromes, famous lines from literature and film, to bizarre test answers and much, much more, The Wonderful World of Words is bursting with truly oddball facts about words and language and will have you hooked from the very first page.

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The story of words, cultures, the OED and John Simpson, a word detective with thirty-seven years of dictionary experience and twenty years as Chief Editor of the world's most important dictionary

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YOUR COMPLETE GUIDE TO WRITING WITH GOOD STYLE.

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Clever, funny and captivating The Writing School is a memoir told by way of a fictionalised account of the author's time teaching a residential writing course deep in the British countryside. A highly original book about writing, writers and what drives us to want to put lives into words.

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Clever, funny and captivating The Writing School is a memoir told by way of a fictionalised account of the author's time teaching a residential writing course deep in the British countryside. A highly original book about writing, writers and what drives us to want to put lives into words.

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English has hundreds of everyday words that originated or acquired their meanings in unusual ways. Dictionaries don't have the space to tell all the mysteries but Dr. Funk, with humor and insight, tells the strange and intriguing stories of hundreds of words and how they came to be a part of the language.

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Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners.

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Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners.

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Does language reflect the culture of a society Is our mother-tongue a lens through which we perceive the world Can different languages lead their speakers to different thoughts This title states that contrary to the fashionable academic consensus of today, the answer to all these questions is - yes.

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An indispensable style guide of good and bad usage - an inspiring manual for all companies and communicators to speak or write properly.

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Collins Skills for the TOEIC Test: Listening and Reading is a unique skills-based exam preparation course. It has been fully updated to reflect the new TOEIC Test specifications.

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This book describes the origin and development of translanguaging. It explains the present situation in many secondary schools and the challenges which are faced by teachers, students and their parents. Concrete suggestions are offered to support teaching and learning with real examples from practice given by classroom teachers.

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This book, the fourth volume in the groundbreaking Language Acts and Worldmaking series, aims to encourage people to think about the role translators play as active agents bringing new work into the receiving culture.

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The home of trusted Turkish dictionaries for everyday language learning.

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"In this book, Yusuke Kubota and Robert Levine propose a type-logical version of categorial grammar as a viable alternative model of natural language syntax and semantics. They show that this novel logic-based framework is applicable to a range of phenomena--especially in the domains of coordination and ellipsis--that have proven problematic for traditional approaches."--