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2) The big book of beastly mispronunciations: the complete opinionated guide for the careful speaker
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xix, 522 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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viii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"Perhaps you're reading a book and stop to puzzle over absurd spelling rules, or you hear someone talking and get stuck on an expression, or your kid quizzes you on homework. Suddenly you ask yourself, "Wait, why do we do it this way?" You think about it, try to explain it, and keep running into walls. It doesn't conform to logic. It doesn't work the way you'd expect it to. There doesn't seem to be any rule at all. In Highly Irregular, Arika Okrent...
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Frustrated by a day full of teachers and classmates mispronouncing her beautiful name, a little girl tells her mother she never wants to come back to school. In response, the girl's mother teaches her about the musicality of African, Asian, Black-American, Latinx, and Middle Eastern names on their lyrical walk home through the city. Empowered by this newfound understanding, the young girl is ready to return the next day to share her knowledge with...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
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English
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Turning the traditional idea of an alphabet book on its head, P is for Pterodactyl is perfect for anyone who has ever been stumped by silent letters or confused by absurd homophones. This whimsical, unique book takes silent letter entries like "K is for Knight" a step further with "The noble knight's knife nicked the knave's knee." Lively illustrations provide context clues, and alliterative words help readers navigate text like "a bright white gnat...
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Get the Summary of Jay Heinrichs's Thank You for Arguing in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book."Thank You for Arguing" by Jay Heinrichs is a comprehensive guide to the art of persuasion, emphasizing the role of argument in daily life. Heinrichs shares personal anecdotes and historical references to demonstrate the strategic use of concession, the importance of rhetoric in leadership, and the effectiveness of various...
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The motor theory is about the process by which language emerged and developed and how it functions now in human speech. The concern is with both synchronic and the diachronic aspects of language, language evolving over time and differentiating over space. In English alone we have half a million words and endless syntatic complexities, as Chomsky has demonstrated. Add the multitude of other languages that exist and have existed and it is apparent that...
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142 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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This classroom and theater-tested program teaches amateur and professional actors alike how to understand and effectively communicate the poetry of Shakespeare. Organized around passages from Romeo and Juliet, a simple, three-step process is presented. In the first step, Test Your Understanding, readers learn the value of looking up words in the Oxford English Dictionary and paraphrase passages to ensure that they truly understand the words they are...
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Español
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La autora incide en temas como la fundamentación de una ética global, las posibilidades y límites de un constitucionalismo mundial y la justicia social global.
Profesora Titular de Filosofía del Derecho en la Universidad de Castilla-la Mancha (España), ha dedicado parte de su investigación al estudio de la jurisprudencia analítica británica, habiendo publicado, entre otros trabajos, la monografía Derecho y moral en John Austin (CEPC, 2001)....
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