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Baby Sign Language: More than 150 Signs Baby Can Use and Understand

Diane Ryan - Alpha; Repacking of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Baby Sign Language, 2E edition
Format: Paperback

Your baby has many wants and needs. Some you can figure out. Others need a little more patience. While your baby learns to make their requests verbally, you can teach them gestures and signs that will help bridge the gap of understanding. Baby Sign Language offers the tools and techniques...
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My Toddler's First Words: A Step-By-Step Guide to Jump-Start, Track, and Expand Your Toddler's Language

Kimberly Scanlon - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback

Is your toddler struggling to say his or her first words? Do you encourage your toddler to talk but are met with silence? Are you interested in helping your toddler express him or herself but are unsure how to do it or where to begin? Practicing speech language pathologist and bestselling...
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A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea

Don Kulick - HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Format: Hardcover

Renowned linguistic anthropologist Don Kulick first went to study the tiny jungle village of Gapun in New Guinea over 30 years ago to document how it was that their native language, Tayap, was dying. But you cant study a language without settling in among the people, understanding how they...
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Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers

Cheryl Misak - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

The full story of Frank Ramsey's extraordinary life.. When he died in 1930 aged 26, Frank Ramsey had already invented one branch of mathematics and two branches of economics, laying the foundations for decision theory and game theory. Keynes deferred to him; he was the only philosopher...
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Dao De Jing: A Qigong Interpretation

Lao Tzu - YMAA
Format: Paperback

This book examines one of the world's most enduring and influential literary works, the Dao De Jing, through the timeless art of qigong. In his words, Lao Tzu (or Laozi) , author of the Dao De Jing, embodies qigong principles, advocating the cultivation of mind and body. Only when...
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The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate

Martin Puchner - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Tracking an underground language and the outcasts who depended on it for their survival.Centuries ago in middle Europe, a coded language appeared, scrawled in graffiti and spoken only by people who were "wiz" (in the know) . This hybrid language, dubbed Rotwelsch, facilitated...
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Reading for Our Lives: A Literacy Action Plan from Birth to Six

Maya Payne Smart - Avery
Format: Hardcover

An award-winning journalist and literacy advocate provides a clear, step-by-step guide to helping your child thrive as a reader and a learner.When her child went off to school, Maya Smart was shocked to discover that a good education in America is a long shot, in ways that few parents fully...
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Bagels, Bumf, and Buses: A Day in the Life of the English Language

Simon Horobin - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

Where do our everyday words come from? The bagel you eat for breakfast, the bumf you have to wade through at the office, and the bus that takes you home again: we use these words without thinking about their origins or how their meanings have changed over time. Simon Horobin takes the reader...
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Captioning and Subtitling for d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing Audiences

Soledad Zárate - UCL Press
Format: Paperback

A comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of captioning and subtitling.. Captioning and Subtitling for d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing Audiences is a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of captioning and subtitling, with examples and exercises at the end of each chapter. Analyzing...
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Relentless Courage: Ukraine and the World at War

Carol Guzy - Blue Star Press
Format: Hardcover

From the front lines of the war in Ukraine comes this compelling collection of images from world-class photographers that captures the humanity, perseverance, and determination of the nation's fight for freedom and independence against all odds."What happened to Ukraine after Moscow's...
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