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Book cover for "Korean Conversations and Debating" featuring five students talking to each other.

Korean Conversations and Debating:

A Language Guide for Self-Study or Classroom Use


Juno Baik, Eunjin Gye, Julie Damron

Is social media a waste of time? Is love with an artificial intelligence being possible? Gather your opinions and get ready to DEBATE IN KOREAN!

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Book cover for "Developing Advanced Proficiency in Chinese through Debate" depicting 5 students in a classroom.

Developing Advanced Proficiency in Chinese through Debate


ShuPei Wang, Yina Ma Patterson, and Lin Guo

The lesson plans in this textbook were created based on the standards of the Oral Proficiency Interview held by the American Council on the Teaching...

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Book cover of "Marianne Meets the Mormons" with an illustration of women talking to a man.

Marianne Meets the Mormons:

Representations of Mormonism in Nineteenth-Century France


Heather Belnap, Corry Cropper, and Daryl Lee

In the nineteenth century, a fascination with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made Mormons and Mormonism a common trope in French journalism...

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Book cover for "Lucretius and The End of Masculinity" with a pencil illustration of a woman.

Lucretius and the End of Masculinity


Mike Pope

This book's premise is that Lucretius intentionally provokes his imagined male audience, playfully and forcefully proving to them that they are not...

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Plautus:

Trinummus


Seth Jeppesen

In this first introduction to Plautus' Trinummus, students and non-specialists alike are guided through the themes, context, and enduring humor of this Roman comedy. The play portrays the story of an elaborate game of...

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Book cover for "Kore-eda Hirokazu: Contemporary Film Directors, with an image of several people.

Kore-eda Hirokazu:

Shared Spaces of Filmmaking


Marc Yamada

Films like Shoplifters and After the Storm have made Kore-eda Hirokazu one of the most acclaimed auteurs working today.

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Technical Communication:

A Design-Centric Approach


Jon Balzotti

Technical Communication: A Design-Centric Approach is a comprehensive textbook for introductory courses in technical communication and professional writing.

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American Kairos:

Washington National Cathedral and the New Civil Religion


Richard Benjamin Crosby

In 1792, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the first city planner of Washington, DC, introduced the idea of a "great church for national purposes."

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Methodism and the Rise of Popular Literary Criticism:

Reviewing the Revival


Brett Mcinelly

This book examines how Methodism and popular review criticism intersected with and informed...

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Here


Darlene Young

In “Here,” Darlene serves up another huge helping of her signature style. Humorous observations about small things that have a way of illustrating profound and elegant truths. Darlene has a keen sense of what is eternal about Mormonism and what is merely fluff that gets in the way of our understanding. And she knows how to invest ordinary things with eternal significance. To sample this style, we have chosen...

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Book cover for "Italian Jewish Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries" with four women standing on a staircase.

Italian Jewish Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries


Marie Orton, translator, Palgrave McMillian

Traces the contradictions between the expectations the Italian Jewish community had for women and the choices women made. Shows how the Jewish community in Italy in this era identified itself as a component of the national bourgeoisie.

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Book cover for Curriculum Development for Intensive English Programs: A Contextualized Framework for Language Program Design and Implementation with an image of a toothpick house.

Curriculum Development for Intensive English Programs:

A Contextualized Framework for Language Program Design and Implementation.


Grant Eckstein, Norman Evans, and James Hartshorn

This book provides a comprehensive, contextualized approach to curriculum creation, design, development, and...

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Perspectives on Latter-day Saint Names and Naming:

Names, Identity, and Belief


Dallin D. Oaks, editor

Perspectives on Latter-day Saint Names and Naming approaches cultural, historical, and doctrinal dimensions of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through a fresh lens that explores how...

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Book cover for "Mastering Spanish Through Global Debate" with three people discussing.

Mastering Spanish through Global Debate


Nieves Perez Knapp

Mastering Spanish through Global Debate is a one-semester textbook designed for students with Advanced-level Spanish language skills, moving toward Superior. Over the course of each chapter, students gain linguistic and rhetorical skills as they prepare to debate on broad, timely topics, including environmental...

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The Spanish Lexicon of Baseball:

Semantics, Style, and TerminologySemantics, Style, and Terminology


Robert Smead

The Spanish Lexicon of Baseball: Semantics, Style, and Terminology draws on nearly 6,000 published MLB game summaries to explore the contours of baseball terminology in Spanish.

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Dictionary of Proper Names & Foreign Words in the Book of Mormon.


John L. Gee and Stephen Ricks

This book is the first ever comprehensive study of the nearly 400 proper names and foreign words in the Book of Mormon, the results of more than ten years of...

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Book cover for "Avatar: The Last Airbender and Philosophy" with a graphic illustration of an arrow with lightning through it.

Avatar: The Last Airbender and Philosophy:

Wisdom from Aang to Zuko


Chapter by Justin White

This book brings to the fore the Eastern, Western, and Indigenous philosophies that are implicit in the show by using the tools from a wide range of philosophical traditions.

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Blossom as the Cliffrose:

Mormon Legacies and the Beckoning Wild


Edited by Karin Anderson, Danielle Blazer Dubrasky (Editor)

This book features original poems and prose by writers who are faithful, non-faithful, believers, heretics, converts and de-converts, dragged in or forced out of the Mormon faith.

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Screening Europe in Australasia:

Transnational Silent Film Before and After the Rise of Hollywood


Julie K. Allen

Through a detailed study of the circulation of European silent film in Australasia in the early twentieth century, this book challenges the historical myopia that treats Hollywood films as having always dominated global film culture.

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Positive Psychology in the Classroom

Lesson Plans for English Language Teachers


Maryann Phillips, Dan P. Dewey, Carolee Rogers, Maria Summers, Ben McMurry, and Allison Wallace Baker

Positive Psychology in the Classroom is a book of 33 lesson plans made for teaching positive psychology interventions using language learning outcomes.

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Open Canon

Scriptures of the Latter day Saint Tradition


Edited by Christine E. Blythe, Jay Burton

Open Canon breaks new ground as the first volume to examine a variety of Latter Day Saint denominations' scriptural works as a single spiritual heritage. Chapters cover both well-studied and lesser-studied works, introducing readers to scripture dictated by...

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The Title of Totonicapán


Allen Christenson

The Title of Totonicapán is a land title written by surviving members of the K’iche’ Maya nobility, a branch of the Maya that dominated the highlands of western Guatemala prior to the Spanish invasion in 1524, and it was duly signed by the ruling lords of all three major K’iche’ lineages—the Kaweqib’, the Nijayib’, and the Ajaw K’iche’s. Titles of this kind were relatively...

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Utahisms:

Unique Expressions, Inventions, Place Names & More


David Ellington Eddington

The Beehive State's iconic vistas are singular and distinctive. So too are its colloquialisms, peculiar place names and landmark firsts. Confusion from local dialect ultimately thwarted a would be robber in Salt Lake City. The proper pronunciation of Tooele might surprise visitors, while residents still debate...

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The Household of God

Families and Belonging in the Social World of the New Testament, 2022 Sperry Symposium


Lincoln H. Bluebell, Jason R. Combs, Mark D. Ellison, Cecilia M. Peek, and Frank F. Judd Jr.

An examination of the vast counsel on household conduct in the New Testament, including familial relationships, and belonging to "the household of God."

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Maynard Dixon

Searching for a Home: Painted and Poetic Imagination in the American West


Kenneth Hartvigsen

A selection of Maynard Dixon's poetry, published for the first time alongside his most beloved paintings. Essays examining Dixon’s enduring legacy, and exploring what his poetry ...

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Sublime Physick:

Essays


Patrick Madden

In twelve essays that straddle the classical and the contemporary, Madden transmutes the ruder world into a finer one, articulating with subtle humor and playfulness how science and experience about and intersect with spirituality and everyday life.

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The Writer's Hustle

A Professional Guide to the Creativity, Discipline, Humility, and Grit Every Writer Needs to Flourish


Joey Franklin

The Writer's Hustle is a comprehensive guide to all the things successful writers do when they're not sitting at the keyboard.

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What Works in Grammar Instruction


Deborah Dean

As most teachers of English now know, research shows that teaching grammar in the traditional way—through worksheets, memorizing definitions, and diagramming sentences—doesn’t work, and that teaching grammar in the context of reading and writing is a better approach.

People who understand language can make things happen. That is the point of grammar/language teaching. Not definitions. Not...

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Using Young Adult Literature to Work through Wobble Moments in Teacher Education

Literary Response Groups to Enhance Reflection and Understanding


Dawan Coombs and Jon Ostenson

This volume offers a novel approach to exploring how literary response groups can be used as part of teacher education programs to help preserve teachers navigate "wobble", moments.

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Velocipedomania:

A Cultural History of the Velocipede in France


Corry Cropper and Seth Whidden

When blacksmith Pierre Michaux affixed pedals to the front axle of a two-wheeled scooter with a seat, he helped kick off a craze known as velocipedomania, which swept France in the late 1860s.

The immediate forerunner of the bicycle, the velocipede similarly reflected changing cultural attitudes and challenged gender norms.

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Lovecraft in the 21st Century

Dead, But Still Dreaming


Edited by Antonio Alcalá Gonzalez and Carl H. Sederholm

Lovecraft in the 21st Century assembles reflections from a wide range of perspectives on the significance of Lovecraft's influence in contemporary times.

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Morphological Diversity and Linguistic Cognition


Edited by Andrea D. Sims, Adam Ussishkin, Jeff Parker, and Samantha Wray

Bringing together a team of well-known scholars, this book examines the relationship between linguistic cognition and the morphological diversity...

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A History of Chinese Classical Scholarship vol. 1


David Brian Honey

This first volume offers a close study of Confucius, that tradition's photo-classicist. This opening volume examines Confucius traditions that largely formed the views of later classicists, who regarded him as their profession's patron saint.

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El culto a la derrota:

Narrativas del fracaso en la novela histórica mexicana


Brian L. Price

This book arguments that several Mexican intellectuals resort to the tragic moments of the 19th century through the use of a series of...

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Bazaar Literature

Charity, Advocacy, and Parody in Victorian Social Reform Fiction


Leslee Thorne-Murphy

Bazaar Literature reorients our understanding of Victorian social reform fiction by reading it in light of the copious amount of literature generated for charity bazaars.

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Borderwaters:

Amid the Archipelagic States of America


Brian Russell Roberts

In Borderwaters, Brian Russell Roberts dispels continental national mythologies to advance an alternative image of the United States as an archipelagic nation.

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Clément Marot's Epistles


Clément Marot, translated by Robert J. Hudson

Clément Marot (1496–1544), a royal poet in Renaissance France who ushered in new verse forms and renewed existing ones, stands as one of the most important literary voices of the first half of the sixteenth century.

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The Alcaic Metre in the English Imagination


John Talbot

This book reveals how a remarkable ancient Greek and Latin poetic form - the alcaic meter - found its way into English poetry, and continues shaping the imagination of poets today.

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