Reference & Language in Nonfiction eBooks

Awful Kind

The Story of the Middlemore Children of Prince Edward Island

by Sara Underwood ...

More than 100,000 children were sent to Canada from heavily industrialized areas in Britain between 1869 and 1948 in the belief that they would have a better future. For many, their lives were bleak and lonely. They were refused the educational opportunities they would have had back home, forced to do the work of an adult, poorly fed, poorly clothed, and often unpaid.Almost 200 “orphans” were sent ... Read more

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More than 100,000 children were sent to Canada from heavily industrialized areas in Britain between 1869 and 1948 in the belief that they would have a better future. For many, their lives were bleak and lonely. They were refused the educational opportunities they would have had back home, forced to do the work of an adult, poorly fed, poorly clothed, and often unpaid.Almost 200 “orphans” were sent
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The Grown-Up's Guide to Teenage Humans

How to Decode Their Behavior, Develop Unshakable Trust, and Raise a Respectable Adult

by Josh Shipp ...

Nautilus Gold Award Winner: Parenting & FamilyA practical parenting guide to understanding teens from bestselling author and global youth advocate Josh Shipp.In 2015, Harvard researchers found that every child who does well in the face of adversity has had at least one stable and committed relationship with a supportive adult. But Josh Shipp didn’t need Harvard to know that. Once an at-risk foster ... Read more

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Nautilus Gold Award Winner: Parenting & FamilyA practical parenting guide to understanding teens from bestselling author and global youth advocate Josh Shipp.In 2015, Harvard researchers found that every child who does well in the face of adversity has had at least one stable and committed relationship with a supportive adult. But Josh Shipp didn’t need Harvard to know that. Once an at-risk foster
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The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights Law

Edited by Conor Gearty, Costas Douzinas ...

Series series Cambridge Companions to Law
Human rights are considered one of the big ideas of the early twenty-first century. This book presents in an authoritative and readable form the variety of platforms on which human rights law is practiced today, reflecting also on the dynamic inter-relationships that exist between these various levels. The collection has a critical edge. The chapters engage with how human rights law has developed ... Read more

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Human rights are considered one of the big ideas of the early twenty-first century. This book presents in an authoritative and readable form the variety of platforms on which human rights law is practiced today, reflecting also on the dynamic inter-relationships that exist between these various levels. The collection has a critical edge. The chapters engage with how human rights law has developed
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It's the Way You Say It

Becoming Articulate, Well-spoken, and Clear

by Carol A. Fleming ...

A revised and updated edition of the detailed, down-to-earth guide to speaking your mind effectively—includes useful exercises.The best, most direct way to convey your intelligence, expertise, professionalism, and personality to other people is through talking to them. But most people have no idea what they sound like. And even if they do, they don't think they can change it. It's the Way You Say ... Read more

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A revised and updated edition of the detailed, down-to-earth guide to speaking your mind effectively—includes useful exercises.The best, most direct way to convey your intelligence, expertise, professionalism, and personality to other people is through talking to them. But most people have no idea what they sound like. And even if they do, they don't think they can change it. It's the Way You Say
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The Making of a Funeral Director

by Janice J. Richardson ...

What does a funeral director do with their day?Why would one want to go into funeral service?Find out what, why and much more in this entertaining memoir from a funeral director who loved her job. ... Read more

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What does a funeral director do with their day?Why would one want to go into funeral service?Find out what, why and much more in this entertaining memoir from a funeral director who loved her job.
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Spoken Discourse

by Dr Rodney Jones ...

Series series Bloomsbury Discourse
This book provides an overview of current theories of and methods for analysing spoken discourse. It includes discussions of both the more traditional approaches of pragmatics, conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology and critical discourse analysis, and more recently developed approaches such as multimodal discourse analysis and critical sociolinguistics ... Read more

$54.99 CAD

This book provides an overview of current theories of and methods for analysing spoken discourse. It includes discussions of both the more traditional approaches of pragmatics, conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology and critical discourse analysis, and more recently developed approaches such as multimodal discourse analysis and critical sociolinguistics
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Using Words and Things

Language and Philosophy of Technology

by Mark Coeckelbergh ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
This book offers a systematic framework for thinking about the relationship between language and technology and an argument for interweaving thinking about technology with thinking about language. The main claim of philosophy of technology—that technologies are not mere tools and artefacts not mere things, but crucially and significantly shape what we perceive, do, and are—is re-thought in a way ... Read more

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This book offers a systematic framework for thinking about the relationship between language and technology and an argument for interweaving thinking about technology with thinking about language. The main claim of philosophy of technology—that technologies are not mere tools and artefacts not mere things, but crucially and significantly shape what we perceive, do, and are—is re-thought in a way
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I Love My Dad Con Yêu Bố (English Vietnamese Bilingual Children's Books)

English Vietnamese Bilingual Collection

by Shelley Admont, S.A. Publishing ...

Series series English Vietnamese Bilingual Collection
English Vietnamese Bilingual Children's book. Perfect for kids learning English or Vietnamese as their second language. Fun children's story with educational message.Jimmy the little bunny doesn't start off knowing how to ride a two-wheeler bike like his big brothers. In fact, sometimes he gets teased for it. When Dad shows Jimmy how not to be afraid to try something new, that's when the fun ... Read more

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English Vietnamese Bilingual Children's book. Perfect for kids learning English or Vietnamese as their second language. Fun children's story with educational message.Jimmy the little bunny doesn't start off knowing how to ride a two-wheeler bike like his big brothers. In fact, sometimes he gets teased for it. When Dad shows Jimmy how not to be afraid to try something new, that's when the fun
... Read more
Fabulosa!

The Story of Polari, Britain’s Secret Gay Language

by Paul Baker ...

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2019'Richly evocative and entertaining.' Guardian'A delightful read.' Tatler'An essential book for anyone who wants to Polari Bona!' AttitudePolari is a language that was used chiefly by gay men in the first half of the twentieth century. It offered its speakers a degree of public camouflage and a means of identific... ... Read more

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A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2019'Richly evocative and entertaining.' Guardian'A delightful read.' Tatler'An essential book for anyone who wants to Polari Bona!' AttitudePolari is a language that was used chiefly by gay men in the first half of the twentieth century. It offered its speakers a degree of public camouflage and a means of identific...
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Making a Global City

How One Toronto School Embraced Diversity

by Robert Vipond ...

Series series Munk Series on Global Affairs
Half of Toronto’s population is born outside of Canada and over 140 languages are spoken on the city's streets and in its homes. How to build community amidst such diversity is one of the global challenges that Canada – and many other western nations – has to face head on.Making a Global City critically examines the themes of diversity and community in a single primary school, the Clinton Street ... Read more

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Half of Toronto’s population is born outside of Canada and over 140 languages are spoken on the city's streets and in its homes. How to build community amidst such diversity is one of the global challenges that Canada – and many other western nations – has to face head on.Making a Global City critically examines the themes of diversity and community in a single primary school, the Clinton Street
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On Teaching and Writing Fiction

by Wallace Stegner ...

Wallace Stegner founded the acclaimed Stanford Writing Program-a program whose alumni include such literary luminaries as Larry McMurtry, Robert Stone, and Raymond Carver. Here Lynn Stegner brings together eight of Stegner's previously uncollected essays-including four never-before-published pieces -on writing fiction and teaching creative writing. In this unique collection he addresses every ... Read more

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Wallace Stegner founded the acclaimed Stanford Writing Program-a program whose alumni include such literary luminaries as Larry McMurtry, Robert Stone, and Raymond Carver. Here Lynn Stegner brings together eight of Stegner's previously uncollected essays-including four never-before-published pieces -on writing fiction and teaching creative writing. In this unique collection he addresses every
... Read more
The Last Mughal

The Fall of Delhi, 1857

by William Dalrymple ...

WINNER OF THE DUFF COOPER MEMORIAL PRIZE | LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE'Indispensable reading on both India and the Empire' Daily Telegraph'Brims with life, colour and complexity . . . outstanding' Evening Standard'A compulsively readable masterpiece' Brian Urquhart, The New York Review of BooksA stunning and bloody history of nineteenth-century Indi... ... Read more

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WINNER OF THE DUFF COOPER MEMORIAL PRIZE | LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE'Indispensable reading on both India and the Empire' Daily Telegraph'Brims with life, colour and complexity . . . outstanding' Evening Standard'A compulsively readable masterpiece' Brian Urquhart, The New York Review of BooksA stunning and bloody history of nineteenth-century Indi...
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Digital Curation for Libraries and Archives

by Stacy T. Kowalczyk ...

An up-to-date examination of the evolving field of digital curation and its important place in libraries, covering the major technical, social, and organizational issues surrounding curation for libraries, archives, and other information-based organizations.This book addresses the evolving field of digital curation and its important place in libraries, covering the myriad issues surrounding ... Read more

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An up-to-date examination of the evolving field of digital curation and its important place in libraries, covering the major technical, social, and organizational issues surrounding curation for libraries, archives, and other information-based organizations.This book addresses the evolving field of digital curation and its important place in libraries, covering the myriad issues surrounding
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Le papillon

by Janine Tougas ...

Illustrated by Denis Savoie ...

La série «Le lecteur débutant» comprend 30 livres et amène l’enfant plus loin dans le monde de Paul et Suzanne, de sympathiques et comiques jumeaux. Cette collection constitue un outil précieux pour le développement langagier de l’enfant. Les livres présentent des structures de phrases répétées en forme cumulative, un mélange de structures orales et écrites, des dialogues et des événements ... Read more

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La série «Le lecteur débutant» comprend 30 livres et amène l’enfant plus loin dans le monde de Paul et Suzanne, de sympathiques et comiques jumeaux. Cette collection constitue un outil précieux pour le développement langagier de l’enfant. Les livres présentent des structures de phrases répétées en forme cumulative, un mélange de structures orales et écrites, des dialogues et des événements
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The The Piano Guys Handbook - Everything You Need To Know About The Piano Guys

by Logan Stanley ...

This book is your ultimate The Piano Guys resource. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, facts, quotes and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about The Piano Guys's whole picture right away. Get countless The Piano Guys facts right at your fingertips with this essential resource.The The Piano Guys Handbook ... Read more

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This book is your ultimate The Piano Guys resource. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, facts, quotes and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about The Piano Guys's whole picture right away. Get countless The Piano Guys facts right at your fingertips with this essential resource.The The Piano Guys Handbook
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Science Communication for Scientists

Linking Strategy with Creativity, Practice, and Respect

by Laura Lindenfeld, John C. Besley, Xia Zheng, Anthony Dudo, Todd P. Newman ...

Grounded in strategic thinking and social science research, this textbook empowers students to confidently navigate skillful and effective science communication.Developed by leading science, health, and risk communication scholars, the book provides a clear, research-informed approach to communicating with audiences across the scientific community and broader society. Readers explore how to put ... Read more

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Grounded in strategic thinking and social science research, this textbook empowers students to confidently navigate skillful and effective science communication.Developed by leading science, health, and risk communication scholars, the book provides a clear, research-informed approach to communicating with audiences across the scientific community and broader society. Readers explore how to put
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The Little Book of Youth Engagement in Restorative Justice

Intergenerational Partnerships for Just and Equitable Schools

by Evelín Aquino, Anita Wadhwa, Heather Bligh Manchester ...

Series series Justice and Peacebuilding
The purpose of this book is to illuminate a theory of youth engagement in restorative justice that seeks to create systems change for more equitable schools. The authors define youth engagement in restorative justice as partnering with young people most impacted by structural injustice as changemakers in all aspects of restorative practices including community building, healing, and the ... Read more

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The purpose of this book is to illuminate a theory of youth engagement in restorative justice that seeks to create systems change for more equitable schools. The authors define youth engagement in restorative justice as partnering with young people most impacted by structural injustice as changemakers in all aspects of restorative practices including community building, healing, and the
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The Creative PhD

Challenges, Opportunities, Reflection

by Tara Brabazon, Tiffany Lyndall-Knight, Natalie Hills ...

Series series Emerald Points
Doctorates awarded based on artefact and exegeses, and enabled through creative-led research, are a minority enrolment which suffer from wildly diverse examination expectations and assumptions about quality. Widening the disciplinary parameters and currency of this kind of doctorate, The Creative PhD is the first book that challenges the standards, structure and value of this research. The authors ... Read more

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Doctorates awarded based on artefact and exegeses, and enabled through creative-led research, are a minority enrolment which suffer from wildly diverse examination expectations and assumptions about quality. Widening the disciplinary parameters and currency of this kind of doctorate, The Creative PhD is the first book that challenges the standards, structure and value of this research. The authors
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The Mueller Report: Final Special Counsel Report of President Donald Trump and Russia Collusion

by Robert Mueller, Special Counsel's Office U.S. Department of Justice, et al. ...

Final Special Counsel Report of President Donald Trump & Russia Collusion Does Robert Mueller's Report Exonerate President Donald Trump? How will this report impact the presidency? A definitive edition. Features the unabridged Special Counsel's declassified report The introduction features Attorney General William Barr's four-page summary letter to Congress Professionally formatted book—this is ... Read more

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Final Special Counsel Report of President Donald Trump & Russia Collusion Does Robert Mueller's Report Exonerate President Donald Trump? How will this report impact the presidency? A definitive edition. Features the unabridged Special Counsel's declassified report The introduction features Attorney General William Barr's four-page summary letter to Congress Professionally formatted book—this is
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488 Rules for Life

The Thankless Art of Being Correct

by Kitty Flanagan ...

"Rule no. 1: Buy this book, laugh out loud, become a better person." —Jason Alexander488 Rules for Life is not a self-help book, because it's not you who needs help—it's other people. Whether they're walking and texting, asphyxiating you on public transport with their noxious perfume cloud, or leaving one useless square of toilet paper on the roll, people just don't know the rules.But now, thanks ... Read more

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"Rule no. 1: Buy this book, laugh out loud, become a better person." —Jason Alexander488 Rules for Life is not a self-help book, because it's not you who needs help—it's other people. Whether they're walking and texting, asphyxiating you on public transport with their noxious perfume cloud, or leaving one useless square of toilet paper on the roll, people just don't know the rules.But now, thanks
... Read more
The Soo Line’s Famous Trains to Canada

by Terry Gainer ...

The Soo Line’s Famous Trains To Canada is a brief history of a small and unique Class 1 railway and its famous Canada–USA tourist trains.Initially chartered in 1883 to serve the needs of local millers in Minneapolis, the Soo would eventually come to join the Canadian Pacific line at Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, with service to Montreal. In 1888, Canadian Pacific assumed controlling interest in the ... Read more

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The Soo Line’s Famous Trains To Canada is a brief history of a small and unique Class 1 railway and its famous Canada–USA tourist trains.Initially chartered in 1883 to serve the needs of local millers in Minneapolis, the Soo would eventually come to join the Canadian Pacific line at Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, with service to Montreal. In 1888, Canadian Pacific assumed controlling interest in the
... Read more
Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Water Diplomacy

A Principled and Pragmatic Approach

Edited by Shafiqul Islam, Kevin M. Smith ...

Series series Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
This book introduces the concept of Water Diplomacy as a principled and pragmatic approach to problem-driven interdisciplinary collaboration, which has been developed as a response to pressing contemporary water challenges arising from the coupling of natural and human systems.The findings of the book are the result of a decade-long interdisciplinary experiment in conceiving, developing, and ... Read more

$88.99 CAD

This book introduces the concept of Water Diplomacy as a principled and pragmatic approach to problem-driven interdisciplinary collaboration, which has been developed as a response to pressing contemporary water challenges arising from the coupling of natural and human systems.The findings of the book are the result of a decade-long interdisciplinary experiment in conceiving, developing, and
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Technological Adaptability

Learning Technology Quickly, Instructor's Guide

by Melonie R McMichael ...

Technological adaptability is the ability to learn technology quickly and with confidence. We can expect even more need for this skill as we move into a future filled with constantly evolving technology.This workbook, designed for those who are uncomfortable with technology, will provide basic technical skills, establishing a solid foundation for the continued growth in technological adaptability ... Read more

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Technological adaptability is the ability to learn technology quickly and with confidence. We can expect even more need for this skill as we move into a future filled with constantly evolving technology.This workbook, designed for those who are uncomfortable with technology, will provide basic technical skills, establishing a solid foundation for the continued growth in technological adaptability
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Introduction to Research: Demystifying the Research Process

by Colla J. MacDonald, Emma J. Stodel, Terrie Lynn Thompson ...

This eBook is designed to introduce students and novice researchers to research concepts and processes. You are not alone if you have been assigned the task of writing a research paper or thesis proposal and do not know where to start! Even defining the research question can at first seem overwhelming. Introduction to Research: Demystifying the Research Process is designed to introduce students ... Read more

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This eBook is designed to introduce students and novice researchers to research concepts and processes. You are not alone if you have been assigned the task of writing a research paper or thesis proposal and do not know where to start! Even defining the research question can at first seem overwhelming. Introduction to Research: Demystifying the Research Process is designed to introduce students
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