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David Crystal

Bookish Words & Their Surprising Stories

This book tells the fascinating stories behind 100 everyday words that have been influenced by writing, reading and publishing books.

Multimodality and the Arts

Researchers, translators, practitioners and artists join voices in this volume to explore the profound relationship between multimodality and translation. Looking at the subject from a wide range of persp…

Writing Reimagined

Writing Reimagined responds to an urgent need to challenge prevailing norms that offer limited perspectives on what it means to write and teach writing. By providing a broad understanding of writing and f…

Ist Ist

Live In Amsterdam

John Marincola

Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography

This acclaimed and influential book examines the ways in which Greek and Roman historians claimed their authority to narrate events, and how these claims were inextricably bound up with traditions develop…

Kirsten Clark

Practical Project Management for Librarians

Librarians continue to work under budget constraints while still needing to increase the user experience and remove barriers to library resources. Learning to evaluate the best options for managing projec…

Lorna Gibb

Rare Tongues

An enthralling tour of the world's rarest and most endangered languagesLanguages and cultures are becoming increasingly homogenous, with the resulting loss of a rich linguistic tapestry reflecting unique …

Lauren Gawne

Gesture

This book provides an accessible and engaging introduction to how we use gesture in communication. Lauren Gawne explores the different categories of gesture and how they vary across cultures and languages…

Kevan A Feshami

Imagining Community in White Nationalism's Mediated Network

This book illustrates how white nationalism emerged and maintained itself as a global movement in the years after the Second World War, contending that its international scope was made possible by a netwo…

Geneviève Patte

Let Them Have Books

What role do books have in children's lives? How do libraries and librarians help foster a lifelong love of reading? Librarian and activist Geneviève Patte addresses the questions in Let Them Have Books: …

Non-Canonical English Syntax

Drawing on a range of case studies, this book presents the state of the art in research on non-canonical syntax across historical, register-based, and non-native varieties of English. It is essential read…

Platform Power and Libraries

Building on research in critical library systems studies, Platform Power and Libraries traverses the divide between library, communication, and cultural policy research in the realm of platform studies. O…

Jérôme Sueur,

Natural History of Silence

"In our busy, noisy world, we may find ourselves longing for silence. But what is silence exactly? Is it the total absence of sound? Or is it the absence of the sound created by humans--the kind of d…

Jesse Scaccia

Media Literacy and Mental Health Care Access

In this book, Jesse Scaccia argues that while courses that teach students how news, media, and social media might cause or worsen mental health issues are a promising start, media literacy education also …

Rachel Kolb

Articulate

A deaf writer's exploration of language, communication, and what it means to be articulate---and her journey to reclaim her voiceRachel Kolb was born profoundly deaf the same year that the Americans with …

Jérôme Sueur,

Natural History of Silence

"In our busy, noisy world, we may find ourselves longing for silence. But what is silence exactly? Is it the total absence of sound? Or is it the absence of the sound created by humans--the kind of d…

Benoît Leclercq, Cameron Morin

The Meaning of Constructions

This Element offers a primer for the study of meaning in a Construction Grammar approach. It reviews the main principles of meaning shared across constructionist frameworks, including its ubiquity in gram…

Hezi Brosh

The Reality of Arabic in Israel

This book offers a compelling case study on Arabic Teaching and Learning (ATL) as a foreign language within Israel's Jewish educational system. It delves into the intricate interplay among politics, pedag…

Ben Yagoda

Gobsmacked!

A spot-on guide to how and why Americans have become so bloody keen on Britishisms---for good or illThe British love to complain that words and phrases imported from America---from French fries to Awesome…