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The publication of James Joyce's Dubliners in 1914 was the result
of ten years battling with publishers, resisting their demands to
remove swear words, real place names and much else. Although only
twenty-four when he signed his first publishing contract for the
book, Joyce already knew its worth: to alter it in any way would
"retard the course of civilization in Ireland." Joyce's aim was to
tell the truth-- to create a work of art that would reflect life in
Ireland at the turn of the last century and by rejecting euphemism,
to reveal to the Irish their unromantic reality, which would lead
to the spiritual liberation of the country. Each of the fifteen
stories offers glimpses into the lives of ordinary Dubliners-- a
death, an encounter, an opportunity not taken, a memory rekindled -
and collectively they paint a portrait of a nation.
This is the reissued Oxford Spanish Mini Dictionary - now in an
attractive new format.
Animation is one of the fastest growing mediums in the film and television world – whether it’s Frozen or Paw Patrol, Family Guy or Rick and Morty. This book is the definitive guide to storytelling for writers, directors, storyboard artists and animators. Suitable for both the student and the professional, it provides indispensable knowledge on the entire process of writing for animated movies, TV series and short films. The reader will be provided with all the tools necessary to produce professional quality scripts that will start, or further, their career in animation. Beginning with the fundamentals of ‘why animation?’ this book will lead the reader through a series of principles that will raise the level of their storytelling. These principles are tried and tested on a daily basis by the authors who have a twenty-year track record in the animation industry. Many people are trying to break into the world of writing for animation and a lot of the people who are ‘already in’ would like to get more work. The reality is that writing for animation is a very specific craft that can be learnt like any other craft. This book will give the reader both the basic and advanced techniques that will put them ahead of the rest of the field.
The story begins when some committed and curious teachers from the Red Clay Writing Project gathered into a teacher inquiry community to spend a year focusing on and documenting their experiences with one of their most disenfranchised students. By analysing and rethinking what they do in the classroom and why they do it, the authors come to re-imagine who they are as teachers and as human beings. These honest and compelling stories about connecting with one student uncover valuable insights for becoming more responsive to all students. The book introduces the Oral Inquiry Process and examines its role in fostering critical awareness among educators. Perfect for use in teacher preparation courses and professional learning groups, the text includes prompts at the end of each chapter to support teacher-writer groups, along with a suggested writing exercise.
Farsi is the official language of Iran, where over 67 million people speak its standard form. This phrase book and dictionary contains all the essential aspects of the language, detailing the alphabet and grammar, as well as listing a number of travel-oriented phrases.
The 10-lesson (5 CDs) Basic Course gives customers the chance to test drive the incredibly effective and efficient, world-famous Pimsleur Comprehensive Program. A real try it before you buy it deal. Customers will love the experience of acquiring the essential grammar and vocabulary of Hebrew during the spoken practice sessions. It is this ease of language acquisition that makes the full Comprehensive Pimsleur Program so popular and successful for adult language learners.
Totkv Mocvse/New Fire presents the work of Earnest Gouge, an important early Creek (Muskogee) author, and makes available for the first time-in Creel and English - the myths and legends of a major American Indian tribe.In 1915, Earnest Gouge was encouraged by ethnographer John Reed Swanton to record Creek legends and myths. Gouge's manuscript lay in the National Anthropological Archives for eighty-five years until two Creek-speaking sisters, Margaret McKane Mauldin and Juanita McGirt, and linguist Jack B. Martin, began translating and editing the document. In Totkv Mocvse/New Fire, Gouge's stories appear in parallel format, with the Creek text alongside the English translation. The stories cover many themes, from the humorous allegories of Rabbit, Wolf, and other personified animals, to hunting stories designed to frighten a nighttime audience in the woods. An insightful foreword by Craig Womack and Jack Martin's introduction frame the stories within Creek literature and history. Martin and Mauldin also provide brief introductions to each story, highlighting key elements of Creek culture.
The CQ Press Writing Guide for Public Policy, Second Edition, is loaded with rich real-world examples that help students master the process of translating insightful policy analysis into clear policy recommendations. Known for his conversational writing style, author Andrew Pennock offers step-by-step instructions on how to write for a variety of genres--including policy memos, briefs, op-eds, press releases, written testimony, social media, and emails--in a style that policy makers expect. Focusing on an audience-centered approach, the second edition of this award-winning book helps students learn how to create and organize an argument based on the unique needs and expectations of policy makers. The book also covers the nuts and bolts of how to write for a policy audience in specific genres, with special consideration of ethics and working with visual and technical material. The second edition features updated examples and a new chapter on writing for public speaking. Winner of the 2019 Textbook Excellence Award ("Texty") from the Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA)
Mit dem vorliegenden DRW-Band 13 sind nun über 97.000 Wortartikel auf über 20.000 Spalten gedruckt. Sie reichen in alphabetischer Folge von Aachenfahrt bis Stegrecht. Die Artikel enthalten mehr als 500.000 Belegzitate bzw. Belegstellenangaben mit insgesamt über 5,5 Millionen Wörtern. Allein der neue Band enthält über 5600 Wortartikel. Die Stadt mit ihren Komposita prägt den hinteren Teil des Bandes – insgesamt beginnen rund 800 Wortartikel mit Stadt-, womit es sich um eine der umfänglichsten Kompositareihen des ganzen Wörterbuchs handeln dürfte.
An explosive expose of the man who devoted his career to shackling democracy - and succeeded. Libertarian billionaires are using their wealth and power to drastically curtail the US democratic process, disempowering ordinary citizens whilst entrenching the influence of corporations as never before. In Democracy in Chains, award-winning historian Nancy MacLean reveals how the ideas of Nobel Prize-winning political economist James McGill Buchanan have been used to undermine the power of voters in a country whose Constitution is founded on the principle 'We the people'. Now, with Mike Pence as Vice President, this chilling movement has a loyalist in the White House, as well as supporters in the House, the Senate, a majority of state governments, and the courts. Democracy in Chains is a timely, important book, which should be read by anybody interested in the future of democracy.
The pedagogical value and real-life applicability of traditional research writing assignments has been investigated since at least the 1990s, and the increase in adoption of alternative assignments could be an indication that students are questioning their long-term benefits. Traditional research writing assignments do not always align with the goals and outcomes that students set for their education. Embracing Change: Alternatives to Traditional Research Writing Assignments collects existing alternative assignments from librarians and classroom instructors and examines their benefits and drawbacks, impact on various student populations, and the support needed to make them successful. In two parts—Analog-Driven Assignments and Technology-Driven Assignments—authors offer a wealth of insight into the theory and practice of utilizing alternative assignments. Case studies detail the development of assignments, their implementation, lessons learned, and assessment, and provide examples and reference materials for incorporating or refining your own alternative assignments. Projects covered include: how students engage with writing gray literature producing a local voting guide creating museum-level exhibit labels composing and printing original poems using a letterpress developing finding aids writing a children’s book creating infographics and lightning talk videos learning digital literacy using podcasts a variety of digital humanities projects Embracing Change is a testament to the power of interdisciplinary collaboration, highlights the value of alternative assignments, and provides librarians and educators with practical guidance for creating, implementing, and supporting alternatives to research writing assignments.
Cite Right is the perfect guide for anyone who needs to learn a new citation style or who needs an easy reference to Chicago, MLA, APA, AMA, and other styles. Each chapter serves as a quick guide that introduces the basics of a style, explains who might use it, and then presents an abundance of examples. This edition includes updates reflecting the most recent editions of The Chicago Manual of Style and the MLA Handbook. With this book, students and researchers can move smoothly among styles with the confidence they are getting it right.
Solkattu, the spoken rhythms and patterns of hand-clapping used by all musicians and dancers in the classical traditions of South India, is a subject of worldwide interest - but until now there has not been a textbook for students new to the practice. Designed especially for classroom use in a Western setting, the manual begins with rudimentary lessons in the simplest South Indian tala, or metric cycle, and proceeds step-by-step into more challenging material. The book then provides lessons in the eight-beat adi tala, arranged so that by the end, students will have learned a full percussion piece they can perform as an ensemble. Solkattu Manual includes web links to video featuring performances of all 150 lessons, and full performances of all three of the outlined small-ensemble pieces. Ideal for courses in world music and general musicianship, as well as independent study. Book lies flat for easy use.
This is the reissued Oxford French Mini Dictionary - now in an
attractive new format.
In medieval and early modern times, female visionary writers used the mode of prophecy to voice their concerns and ideas, against the backdrop of cultural restrictions and negative stereotypes. In this book, Deborah Frick analyses medieval visionary writings by Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe in comparison to seventeenth-century visionary writings by authors such as Anna Trapnel, Mary Carey, Anne Wentworth and Katherine Chidley, in order to investigate how these women authorised themselves in their writings and what topoi they use to find a voice and place of their own. This comparison, furthermore, and the strikingly similar topoi that are used by the female visionaries not only allows to question and examine topics such as authority, authorship, images of voice and body; it also breaks down preconceived and artificial boundaries and definitions.
O cinema como imagem ou contra-imagem, como narrativa ou contra-narrativa da vida real nao ficou indiferente as movimentacoes e ondas migratorias globais. Nas ultimas decadas, as representacoes de experiencias migrantes e diasporicas tem adquirido uma posicao relevante nas narrativas cinematograficas. Este livro propoe uma aproximacao teorica ao conceito do assim chamado cinema de migracao. Alem disso, acompanha as reflexoes a respeito de alguns dos exemplos mais notaveis do cinema de migracao em lingua portuguesa, analisando diversos exemplos de Portugal, Brasil, Mocambique, Angola e Cabo Verde. Finalmente, discutem-se novas tendencias como o cinema de migracao poliglota, os seus espacos intermitentes e paisagens faladas para desembocar na constatacao que sao as fronteiras que nos fazem.
A study at many levels of Scott’s long poem Coming to Jakarta, a book-length response to a midlife crisis triggered in part by the author’s initial inability to share his knowledge and horror about American involvement in the great Indonesian massacre of 1965. Interviews with Ng supply fuller information about the poem’s discussions of: a) how this psychological trauma led to an explorations of violence in American society and then, after a key recognition, in the poet himself; b) the poem's look at east-west relations through the lens of the yin-yang, spiritual-secular doubleness of the human condition; c) how the process of writing the poem led to the recovery of memories too threatening at first to be retained by his normal presentational self, and d) the mystery of right action, guided by the Bhagavad Gita and the maxim in the Gospel of Thomas that "If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you.” Led by the interviews to greater self-awareness, Scott then analyses his poem as also an elegy, not just for the dead in Indonesia, but “for the passing of the Sixties era, when so many of us imagined that a Movement might achieve major changes for a better America.” Subsequent chapters develop how human doubleness can lead to an inner tension between the needs of politics and the needs of poetry, and how some poetry can serve as a non-violent higher politics, contributing to the evolution of human culture and thus our “second nature.” The book also reproduces a Scott prose essay, inspired by the poem, on the U.S. involvement in and support for the 1965 massacre. It then discusses how this essay was translated into Indonesian and officially banned by the Indonesian dictatorship, and how ultimately it and the poem helped inspire the ground-breaking films of Josh Oppenheimer that have led to the first official discussions in Indonesia of what happened in 1965.
'these letters thus far have remained unsent, i want you to change that for me.' Embrace honesty and heal beautifully. In the letters i will never send, TikTok poet Isabella Dorta urges you to leave nothing unsaid and take comfort in moving poems on love, heartbreak, mental health and self-discovery. With beautiful line illustrations and over 100 poems written in the form of confessional letters addressed to the most influential figures in your life: Your younger self Your future self Your lover Your body Your family and more Take the ultimate step. Read, rip out, burn or send the letters out into the world. Write your own and share them with the people in your life. Just don't hold back!
Doing Honest Work in College stands on three principles: do the work you say you do, give others credit, and present your research fairly. These are straightforward concepts, but the abundance of questionable online sources and temptation of a quick copy-paste can cause confusion as to what’s considered citing and what’s considered cheating. This guide starts out by clearly defining plagiarism and other forms of academic dishonesty and then gives students the tools they need to avoid those pitfalls. This edition addresses the acceptable use of mobile devices on tests, the proper approach to sources such as podcasts or social media posts, and the limitations of citation management software.
Storyteller Tactics for Speeches, Pitch Meetings, and Everyday Life “Jonathan's unique approach is highly insightful, original and practical, delivered in a way that is instantly applicable”—Guy Fowler, Chairman, UBS Australia For entrepreneurs, creatives, business people, or anyone looking to create authentic connective moments, Winning the Room with the Winning Pitch is the public speaking book for you! Expand from a scared fumbling mess to a powerful public speaker that audiences love! Talk to win in every room. How many minutes can you hold a person’s attention? Do you find yourself rambling and losing your point? Do you get nervous before a presentation? Winning the Room with the Winning Pitch teaches public speaking skills applicable to everybody in any situation. Conquer your public speaking fears, learn how to be likable, how to present for work, how to give interesting pitch meetings, and how to—at the end of the day—be a person who wins. Become someone people trust. Give speeches, presentations, and pitch meetings like a true expert. Author Jonathan Pease (JP) is a highly respected creative director and communications expert with over 25 years in the marketing industry. In Winning the Room with the Winning Pitch, he uses his expertise to take you on a fun, fascinating, and practical tour as you become a fearless storyteller people will buy from, both emotionally and financially. Inside Winning the Room with the Winning Pitch, find: How to turn nervous energy into passion and charisma that people engage with A tight, actionable, and memorable system for how to be great at different types of speeches How to apply these skills to various settings like speeches, pitch meetings, presentations, and everyday conversations with friends and dates If you liked Cues, Everyday Business Storytelling, or Your Story Well Told, you’ll love Winning the Room with the Winning Pitch.
While the novella has existed as a distinct literary form for over four hundred years, Writing the Novella is the first craft book dedicated to creating this intermediate-length fiction. Innovative, integrated journal prompts inspire and sustain the creative process, and classic novellas serve as examples throughout. Part 1 defines the novella form and steers early decision-making on situation, character, plot, and point of view. Part 2 provides detailed directions for writing the scenic plot points that support a strong but flexible narrative arc. Appendix materials include a list of recommended novellas, publishing opportunities, and blank templates for the story map, graphs, and charts used throughout the book. By turns instructive and inspirational, Writing the Novella will be a welcome resource for new and experienced writers alike. |
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