Category - Language Arts & Disciplines
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Equity for Women in Science: Dismantling Systemic Barriers to Advancement
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /The first large-scale empirical analysis of the gender gap in science, showing how the structure of scientific labor and rewards--publications, cit...
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Words Unspoken: The Science, Experience, and Treatment of Stuttering
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Stuttering is a mystery. The 99% of people who speak fluently are often shocked when they meet someone whose speech stutters and halts. What's far ...
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Circulation of Power: The Development of Public Library Infrastructure in Greater Pittsburgh, 1924-2016
HardcoverOriginal price $126.99 - Original price $126.99Original price $126.99$155.99$155.99 - $155.99Current price $155.99| /What is the public sphere, how is it best described, and what role does it play in modern life? These questions have attracted considerable attenti...
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Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The author of the acclaimed Proust and the Squid follows up with a lively, ambitious, and deeply informative book that considers the future of the ...
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Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 P
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Following on the heels of Lisa Cron's breakout first book, Wired for Story, this writing guide reveals how to use cognitive storytelling strategies...
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The Secrets of Words
HardcoverOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Two distinguished linguists on language, the history of science, misplaced euphoria, surprising facts, and potentially permanent mysteries. In The ...
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The Science of Reading: Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /For the first time, the story of how and why we have plumbed the mysteries of reading, and why it matters today. Reading is perhaps the essential ...
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Knowledge, Literacy, and Elementary Education in the Old Babylonian Period
PaperbackOriginal price $49.99 - Original price $49.99Original price $49.99$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /This book examines education as a means to explore knowledge and literacy in the Old Babylonian period. It further employs a new method to research...
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Living with Nature, Cherishing Language: Indigenous Knowledges in the Americas Through History
PaperbackOriginal price $49.99 - Original price $49.99Original price $49.99$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /This open access book explores the deep connections between environment, language, and cultural integrity, with a focus on Indigenous peoples from ...
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Museums and the Climate Crisis
PaperbackOriginal price $48.95 - Original price $48.95Original price $48.95$65.99$65.99 - $65.99Current price $65.99| /Museums and the Climate Crisis shows how museums can respond to the interrelated global climate, biodiversity and pollution crises. They have a uni...
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The Craft of Research
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /With more than three-quarters of a million copies sold since its first publication, The Craft of Research has helped generations of researchers at ...
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In his first book since the bestselling Fermat's Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and r...
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Oxygen: The molecule that made the world
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Oxygen has had extraordinary effects on life. Three hundred million years ago, in Carboniferous times, dragonflies grew as big as seagulls, with ...
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Swearing Is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"Entertaining and thought-provoking…Byrne’s enthusiasm for her esoteric subject is contagious, damn it." —Melissa Dahl, New York Times Book Revie...
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