Category - Language Arts & Disciplines
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How to Speak Midwestern
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Pittsburgh toilet, squeaky cheese, city chicken, shampoo banana, and Chevy in the Hole are all phrases that are familiar to Midwesterners but sou...
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Putting the Fact in Fantasy: Expert Advice to Bring Authenticity to Your Fantasy Writing
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A collection of essays from historians, linguists, martial artists, and other experts to help you write more compelling fantasy by getting the fa...
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Talkin' Tar Heel: How Our Voices Tell the Story of North Carolina
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Are you considered a "dingbatter," or outsider, when you visit the Outer Banks?Have you ever noticed a picture in your house hanging a little "si...
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The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00Original price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Blending the spirit of Eats, Shoots & Leaves with the science of The Language Instinct, an original inquiry into the development of that most...
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Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /An NBCC Award and Los Angeles Times Book Award finalistA New York Times Notable Book for 2011 One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year Peopl...
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A Critique of Anti-racism in Rhetoric and Composition: The Semblance of Empowerment
PaperbackOriginal price $41.99 - Original price $41.99Original price $41.99$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /This book critiques current antiracist ideology in rhetoric and composition, arguing that it inadvertently promotes a deficit-model of empowermen...
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Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $42.00 - Original price $42.00Original price $42.00$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /What a big brain we have for all the small talk we make. It's an evolutionary riddle that at long last makes sense in this intriguing book about ...
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Through Indian Sign Language: The Fort Sill Ledgers of Hugh Lenox Scott and Iseeo, 1889-1897
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00$72.99$72.99 - $72.99Current price $72.99| /Hugh Lenox Scott, who would one day serve as chief of staff of the U.S. Army, spent a portion of his early career at Fort Sill, in Indian and, la...
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Quality and Equity in Education: A Practical Guide to the Council of Europe Vision of Education for Plurilingual, Intercultural and Democratic Citizen
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /This book presents a vision of plurilingual, intercultural education, demonstrates how it can be realised in practice, and does so in a way which i...
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Dismantling Racism, One Relationship at a Time
PaperbackOriginal price $42.00 - Original price $42.00Original price $42.00$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /This cutting-edge guide to addressing racial inequities and systemic oppression presents communication as essential to improving race relations and...
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Global Language Justice
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /More than 40 percent of the world's estimated 7,100+ languages are in danger of disappearing by the end of this century. As with the decline of bio...
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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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How Racism and Sexism Killed Traditional Media: Why the Future of Journalism Depends on Women and People of Color
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00$83.99$83.99 - $83.99Current price $83.99| /An evaluative examination that challenges the media to rise above the systematic racism and sexism that persists across all channels, despite effor...
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The Power of Babel: Language and Governance in the African Experience
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Linguists estimate that there are currently nearly 2,000 languages in Africa, a staggering figure that is belied by the relatively few national lan...
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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammarWhy do we say “I am reading a catalog...
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Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Part passionate memoir, part scientific exploration, a life-changing tale set among a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in Brazil that offers a ri...
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