General Books


The New Well Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed Best Price: $1.00 As an English teacher, I agree with the reviews that express dismay at Ms. Gordon's...	Powerful Paragraphs (The Effective Writing Series) Best Price: $6.28 "Powerful Paragraphs" suffers from some of the same shortcomings as R-L's...	Teaching Reading to English Language Learners: A Reflective Guide Best Price: $17.92 "Truly a pleasure to read, with much helpful information." -Deb Bible, Literacy...	Making Sense of Japanese Grammar (Paper) Best Price: $15.50 This is a great book to add to your collection. It has been instrumental in my studies and I...	Readings on Second Language Acquisition Best Price: $40.00 This book has all of the classic papers for Second Language Acquisition. It's a really good...



The Playful Way to Serious Writing Best Price: $2.58 This fun book provides a lot of exercises to help further your skills, and find some new ones. I...	Children's Language: Connecting Reading, Writing, and Talk (Language and Literacy Series (Teachers College Pr)) Best Price: $20.50 This book will restore your faith in the power that good teachers have over children's...	New Interchange Student's book 3: English for International Communication (New Interchange English for International Communication) Best Price: $10.00 I have read this book and I want to review it	Secondary School Literacy Instruction Eighth Edition Best Price: $16.00 I am using this text for a graduate level class I am teaching about reading in the content area....	Untechnical Writing - How to Write About Technical Subjects and Products So Anyone Can Understand (Untechnical Press Books for Writers Series) I had to purchase this for a technical writing class. The writer's humor is a bit goofy and the...



Writing About Literature: A Guide for the Student Critic Best Price: $20.00 Special Features of the Text -Draws upon recent genre theory and "writing in the...	Reading to Learn in the Content Areas (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac ) Best Price: $47.95 This hardcover textbook was required for a college course. Since I could purchase it new on...	Bootstraps: From an American Academic of Color Best Price: $18.95 Of course, anyone who has actually read the book will know that Villanueva is from a Puerto...	The New Sufferings of Young W Best Price: $7.25 I had to read this book in a German Lit course in college about 10 years ago. I loved it. It...	Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution Best Price: $16.35 This is an extremely good book on the various branches of linguistics, and cognitive...

Improving Adolescent Literacy: Strategies at Work Best Price: $18.50 This book was a good read, but it provided even better discussions with other teachers,...	Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show Best Price: $2.85 Timely considering the fact that language, namely written generally and political especially...	Intermediate Conversational Sign Language Best Price: $31.49 This is it! The ultimate book for those of you who are past the basics, but still need help on...	Novel Ideas: Contemporary Authors Best Price: $25.01 In NOVEL IDEAS, twenty-three literary novelists interviewed by the authors share their writing...	America's Unseen Kids: Teaching English/Language Arts in Today's Forgotten High Schools Best Price: $16.65 Hal Foster and Megan Nosol speak boldly about not only the inequalities that exist in America's...

The Wadsworth Anthology of Poetry, Shorter Edition (with Poetry 21 CD-ROM) Best Price: $21.80 I love this anthology, have read it from cover to cover, and have assigned it to sophomore-level...	The Gallaudet Survival Guide to Signing Best Price: $5.19 This is a great starter book for learning ASL. I homeschool and we have learned so much from...	Struggling Adolescent Readers: A Collection of Teaching Strategies Best Price: $11.99 This compilation, comprised almost entirely of articles from the Journal of Adolescent &...	Language and Minority Rights Best Price: $50.95 This is a masterful book - perhaps the most comprehensive, nuanced, and detailed treatment of...	Standards for Reading Professionals 2003: A Reference for the Preparation of Educators in the United States Best Price: $13.00 Standards 2003 provides criteria for developing and evaluating preparation programs for reading...

Dictionary of Word Origins: The Histories of More Than 8,000 English-Language Words Best Price: $11.95 I was so impressed with the reviews of the other owners of this book. That I have decided to buy...	Introducing Translation Studies: Theories and Applications Best Price: $24.95 This introductory textbook provides an accessible overview of the key contributions to...	The Mirror Makers: A History of American Advertising and Its Creators Best Price: $24.59 Great book on the early days of Advertising and how things have changed over time. This is must...	Bilingual Grammar of English-Spanish Syntax: A Manual with Exercises and Key Best Price: $49.90 This book is an excellent source for intermediate and advanced students of Spanish, linguists...	Verbal Art As Performance Best Price: $13.95 This highly insightful and stimulating collection of relevant studies on verbal performance...

Out of the Mouths of Slaves: African American Language and Educational Malpractice Best Price: $12.00 When the Oakland, California, school board called African American English "Ebonics"...	Teaching English Through Principled Practice Best Price: $59.99 Written in a conversational style that easily engages readers, this topical book focuses on the...	A Good Man is Hard to Find (The Harcourt Brace Casebook Series in Literature) Best Price: $20.65 Designed as a casebook "for both beginning and advanced students," Asals provides an...	Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume IV, P-Sk Best Price: $84.42 I don't have the 1st volume of DARE, but most libraries I've visited have it, but rarely the...	Big Tab Board Books: My Big Alphabet Book Best Price: $5.77 Choose a tab to discover which words begin with A, B, or C. Big, durable pages and tough tabs...

Practical Stylist with Readings and Handbook, The (8th Edition) Best Price: $75.00 This is an excellent volume for teaching quality literary criticism to collegiate-level...	New Directions in Reading Instruction - Revised Best Price: $8.95 This new edition of the popular flipchart provides valuable information to help educators model...	Grammar and the Teaching of Writing: Limits and Possibilities Best Price: $10.76 Noguchi approaches the grammar topic in a very systematic way touching on many pros and cons to...	How to Read Better and Faster This is the most useful book on speed-reading I've found so far. It goes from the goals of...	Spelling Workout, G Best Price: $10.50 This product is easy to use. If you've used it once before, you won't need the teacher's...

Second Language Research: Methodology and Design (Second Language Acquisition Research) Best Price: $43.69 This book is really, really good. I liked it a lot because it is very actualised, has lots of...	Webster's New Explorer Large Print Dictionary Best Price: $41.98 My mother wanted a large print dictionary and she seemed very satisfied with this as a gift. ...	Introduction to Montague Semantics (Synthese Language Library) Best Price: $33.82 This is a good introduction to the Richard Montague's semantic theory, beginning with the...	College Writing: A Personal Approach to Academic Writing Best Price: $13.00 Writing is a varied critical and imaginative process, not a rigid adherence to a set of conventions.	The Languages of China Best Price: $25.78 I agree with the other reviewers that this book is completely engrossing. Rarely cam that be...

The WAC Casebook: Scenes for Faculty Reflection and Program Development Best Price: $19.99 The WAC Casebook: Scenes for Faculty Reflection and Program Development is an invaluable...	Brazilian Portuguese: Lonely Planet Phrasebook Best Price: $13.05 I thought this book was very good. It gave each phrase in portuguese, english and written out...	Closing the Achievement Gap: How to Reach Limited-Formal-Schooling and Long-Term English Learners Best Price: $14.82 The content of this book is not the problem, it is its poor organizational structure. It is...	Everything Baby Sign Language Book: Get an early start communicating with your baby! (Everything Series) Best Price: $8.67 This is a good introduction to signing with your baby. Along with giving you signs to use it...	The Decipherment of Linear B (Canto) Best Price: $5.00 I really liked this book as an outline of the method used to decipher the Linear B script found...

American Headway 2: Student Book Best Price: $7.00 Libro de trabajo "student book" con ejercicios prácticos, ejemplos,...	Transliterating: Show Me the English	The Hidden Alphabet (Ala Notable Children's Books. Younger Readers (Awards)) Best Price: $177.40 The concept behind this book is interesting but it's art work holds no appeal for my niece. For...	A Greek Anthology (Reading Greek) Best Price: $23.33 This book offers an ideal first reader for students of ancient Greek ready to advance beyond the...	An Introduction to Language Policy: Theory and Method (Language and Social Change) Best Price: $28.01 A collection of contributions from experts in the field, this book is for anyone who wants to...

A History of Language (Globalities) Best Price: $5.39 I rank Fischer with Pinkner and Crystal as one of those gifted writers whicn can make an onerous...	Twenty Questions for the Writer: A Rhetoric with Readings Best Price: $81.57 This book was issued to me at the beginning of my AP English class for this school year. It is...

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