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Author
Publisher
Simon Element
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In 2016, Noami Grevemberg knew she had to make a big change. Dissatisfied with her office job and her "stationary home," she decided to quit her job, sell her belongings, and set out in her 1985 Volkswagen Vanagon to pursue a life of simplicity and travel with her husband and German Shepherd by her side. In her years living full-time on the road, Noami has become an expert in all things vanlife. Living the Vanlife digs into every aspect of the lifestyle,...
Publisher
Utah State University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Strategies for implementing large- and small-scale changes in writing programs by focusing on transformations-the institutional, programmatic, curricular, and labor practices that work together to shape our teaching and learning experiences of writing and rhetoric in higher education."--
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Abbott tells what every senior researcher knows: that research is not a mechanical, linear process, but a thoughtful and adventurous journey through a nonlinear world. He breaks library research down into seven basic and simultaneous tasks: design, search, scanning/browsing, reading, analyzing, filing, and writing. He moves the reader through the phases of research, from confusion to organization, from vague idea to polished result. He teaches how...
Author
Publisher
Career Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Here is one book every job hunter needs. Fast paced, with no fluff, Winning Job Interviews is packed with strategies and techniques that are practical, market-proven, and easy to use. Combining 30 years of career expertise with equal doses of motivation and humor, Dr. Paul Powers shows you how to:
• Overcome the "deadly dozen" roadblocks that trip up the even the most-seasoned job hunter.
• Always have a great, fail-safe answer for even the most...
88) Cite right: a quick guide to citation styles--MLA, APA, Chicago, the sciences, professions, and more
Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
“Cite Right” is the perfect guide for anyone who needs to learn a new citation style or who needs an easy reference to Chicago, MLA, APA, AMA, and other styles. Each chapter serves as a quick guide that introduces the basics of a style, explains who might use it, and then presents an abundance of examples.
This edition includes updates reflecting the most recent editions of “The Chicago Manual of Style” and “The MLA Handbook”. With this...
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
For more than 50 years, this manual has been recognized as the best style manual for business professionals and students. The basic rules that apply to the most frequent problems are covered as thoroughly as the fine points of the problems that occur less often. The colorful examples and illustrations offer easy-to-follow models to help resolve the difficulties encountered in everyday communications from e-mail messages to formal reports. New features...
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
""Once upon a Time in the Twenty-First Century" is an innovative, inspirational, and unique creative writing textbook/handbook that fills many educational needs and gaps. Designed to appeal to a wide range of readers and writers - from teenagers to young adults, from grade nine through college and beyond - this volume of exercises is of inestimable value to students and teachers in the traditional classroom, a growing number of homeschoolers, others...
Author
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The earliest rock art in the Americas as elsewhere is geometric or abstract. Until now, however, no book-length study has been devoted to the deep antiquity and amazing range of geometrics and the fascinating questions that arise from their ubiquity and variety. Why did they precede representational marks? What is known about their origins and functions? Why and how did humans begin to make marks, and what does this practice tell us about the early...
Publisher
American Psychological Association
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
This user-friendly training guide includes groups of instructional exercises and practice tests on various aspects and features of the sixth edition of the "Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association."
95) Travel writing
Author
Series
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Introduces the genre, outlining competing definitions. Provides a broad historical survey from the medieval period to present day. Explores the autobiographical dimensions of the form. Looks at canonical and more marginal works, including writing by both men and women, and both colonial and postcolonial texts. Uses both British and American travelogues to consider the genre's role in shaping the history of nation.
Publisher
Association of College and Research Libraries
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
This book provides a view into the groundbreaking application of ethnographic tools and techniques to the understanding of undergraduate students and their use of information. The publication describes findings of the work at the University of Rochester River Campus Libraries and provides insight into how academic librarians might use these techniques on their own campuses.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"An intoxicating, singularly illuminating history of the Texas borderlands from their settlement through seven generations of Roger D. Hodge's ranching family. What brought the author's family to Texas? What is it about Texas that for centuries has exerted a powerful allure for adventurers and scoundrels, dreamers and desperate souls, outlaws and outliers? In search of answers, Hodge travels across his home state--which he loves and hates in shifting...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Working as a correspondent for 20/20 and Good Morning America, John Stossel confronted dozens of scam artists: from hacks who worked out of their basements to some of America's most powerful executives and leading politicians. His efforts shut down countless crooks -- both famous and obscure. Then he realized what the real problem was.
In Give Me a Break, Stossel takes on the regulators, lawyers, and politicians who thrive on our hysteria about risk...
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