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Paper Collage Chinese Style: .
Zhu Liqun Paper Arts Museum. - Shanghai Book Traders
Format: Print book
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This beautifully illustrated guide to Chinese paper collage art demonstrates the techniques and philosophy behind this creative and fun art form.Paper collage art has a special charm. It can be as exquisite as oil painting or as freehand (xieyi) as ink wash painting. A paper collage art is a perfect... |
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The Queens' English: The LGBTQIA Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases
Chloe O. Davis
Format: Hardcover
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Do you know where "yaaaas queen!" comes from? Do you know the difference between a bear and a wolf? Do you know what all the letters in LGBTQIA stand for?The Queens' English is a comprehensive guide to modern gay slang, queer theory terms, and playful colloquialisms that... |
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The Crime Without a Name: Ethnocide and the Erasure of Culture in America
Barrett Holmes Pitner - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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In this incisive blend of personal narrative and philosophical inquiry, journalist and activist Barrett Holmes Pitner seeks a new way to talk about racism in America. Ethnocide, first coined in 1944 by Jewish exile Raphael Lemkin (who also coined the term genocide) , describes the systemic... |
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25 Great Sentences and How They Got That Way
Geraldine Woods - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A guide to the artistry that lifts a sentence from good to great.We all know the basic structure of a sentence: a subject/verb pair expressing a complete thought and ending with proper punctuation. But that classroom definition doesn't begin to describe the ways in which these elements... |
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Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
Jing Tsu - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world's most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind. In Kingdom of Characters,... |
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Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
Gretchen McCulloch - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language.Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are structured... |
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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Amanda Montell - HarperCollins B and Blackstone Publishing; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD
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The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonestown and Scientology to SoulCycle and social media gurus use language as the ultimate form of power. What makes "cults" so intriguing and frightening? What makes... |
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Translating Myself and Others
Jhumpa Lahiri
Format: Hardcover
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Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by the award-winning writer and literary translatorTranslating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator... |
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1100 Words You Need to Know: Build Your Vocabulary in just 15 minutes a day!
Richard Carriero
Format: Eighth Edition
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Over the years, thousands of students preparing for the SAT, ACT, GRE, and other standardized tests have relied on 1100 Words You Need to Know as an ideal way to strengthen their word power. With this brand-new edition, test prep expert Richard Carriero provides a fully updated and invaluable... |
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First You Write a Sentence: The Elements of Reading, Writing . . . and Life
Joe Moran - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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"Do you want to write clearer, livelier prose? This witty primer will help." - The New York Times Book Review
An exploration of how the most ordinary words can be turned into verbal constellations of extraordinary grace through the art of building sentences
The sentence is the common... |
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