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Trickster

Kick-ass Epic Fantasy and Paranormal Romance

By: Christina Bauer

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Trickster

Kick-ass Epic Fantasy and Paranormal Romance

By: Christina Bauer

“An amazing book boyfriend!” – Belle, Goodreads Aldred, the dreaded Earl of Acca, is at it again. After discovering a new kind of fighting arbor, Aldred rips open a gateway to another world called the Primeval. The earl’s goal? Release the arbor, lock in an easy kill, and show off some supposed prowess as a slayer of unusual big bads. After all, how hard can it be to kill a freaking tree? Super hard, as it turns out. The earl unleashes none other than the Contagion, an uber-evil wizard in tree form. What happens next is nothing less than a disaster. The Contagion races through the portal, steals the life force of local children, and then escapes back into the Primeval. No one wants to chase after the cruel wizard, even if destroying the Contagion means healing the injured innocents. Cue our hero, Lincoln, and his fiancée, Myla. While everyone else runs away, Myla and Lincoln break into the Primeval with a single goal: hunt down the Contagion. Unfortunately, the couple’s only guide to the strange realm is Peli, a trickster monkey who may be in the Contagion’s service. And that isn’t the only possible treachery that Myla and Lincoln face, either. Powerful forces could be deceiving our favorite couple about the very nature of who they are and what they want. Talk about tricksy. ANGELBOUND LINCOLN Stories from the perspective of Mister The Prince 1. Duty Bound 2. Lincoln 3. Trickster 4. Baculum 5. Angelfire

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Monster House Books

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1946677132

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Lincoln Collection

The story of Angelbound from Lincoln's point of vieww

By: Christina Bauer

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Lincoln Collection

The story of Angelbound from Lincoln's point of vieww

By: Christina Bauer

The first three books of the popular Angelbound Lincoln series are now in one ebook collection, including… DUTY BOUND (Book 1) As the High Prince of the demon-fighting thrax, Lincoln knows he must marry for political gain. Not that he minds. For all of his eighteen years, Lincoln’s been bound to his duty. Fighting demons is his life, and he’s never given romance a second thought. Instead, the High Prince lives for the days when he leaves his hidden realm to fight demons on Earth. Meet Mister the Prince in this novella before the events of Angelbound! LINCOLN (Book 2) When it comes to fighting demons, Prince Lincoln is the greatest warrior in the history of his people, the thrax. Now Lincoln faces his hardest fight yet…and it’s not on a traditional battlefield. Lincoln is falling in love. And the girl is part demon. In Lincoln, you can follow the secret adventures of Lincoln during the events of Angelbound! TRICKSTER (Book 3) Aldred, the dreaded Earl of Acca, is at it again. After discovering a new kind of fighting arbor, Aldred rips open a gateway to another world called the Primeval. The earl’s goal? Release the arbor, lock in an easy kill, and show off some supposed prowess as a slayer of unusual big bads. After all, how hard can it be to kill a freaking tree? Super hard, as it turns out. “I absolutely love Christina Bauer’s style, full of action, intense scenes, and characters that will test one’s imaginations to the max!” – Tome Tender Book Blog Angelbound Lincoln The story of Angelbound from Lincoln’s perspective 1. Duty Bound 2. Lincoln 3. Trickster 4. Baculum 5. Angelfire

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1946677418

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Comprehension of verb inflection in German-speaking children

By: Brandt-Kobele, Oda-Christina

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Comprehension of verb inflection in German-speaking children

By: Brandt-Kobele, Oda-Christina

Previous studies on the acquisition of verb inflection in normally developing children have revealed an astonishing pattern: children use correctly inflected verbs in their own speech but fail to make use of verb inflections when comprehending sentences uttered by others. Thus, a three-year old might well be able to say something like ‘The cat sleeps on the bed’, but fails to understand that the same sentence, when uttered by another person, refers to only one sleeping cat but not more than one. The previous studies that have examined children's comprehension of verb inflections have employed a variant of a picture selection task in which the child was asked to explicitly indicate (via pointing) what semantic meaning she had inferred from the test sentence. Recent research on other linguistic structures, such as pronouns or focus particles, has indicated that earlier comprehension abilities can be found when methods are used that do not require an explicit reaction, like preferential looking tasks. This dissertation aimed to examine whether children are truly not able to understand the connection the the verb form and the meaning of the sentence subject until the age of five years or whether earlier comprehension can be found when a different measure, preferential looking, is used. Additionally, children's processing of subject-verb agreement violations was examined. The three experiments of this thesis that examined children's comprehension of verb inflections revealed the following: German-speaking three- to four-year old children looked more to a picture showing one actor when hearing a sentence with a singular inflected verb but only when their eye gaze was tracked and they did not have to perform a picture selection task. When they were asked to point to the matching picture, they performed at chance-level. This pattern indicates asymmetries in children's language performance even within the receptive modality. The fourth experiment examined sensitivity to subject-verb agreement violations and did not reveal evidence for sensitivity toward agreement violations in three- and four-year old children, but only found that children's looking patterns were influenced by the grammatical violations at the age of five. The results from these experiments are discussed in relation to the existence of a production-comprehension asymmetry in the use of verb inflections and children's underlying grammatical knowledge.

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Universitätsverlag Potsdam

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3869562161

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Writing Technology

Studies on the Materiality of Literacy

By: Christina Haas

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Writing Technology

Studies on the Materiality of Literacy

By: Christina Haas

Academic and practitioner journals in fields from electronics to business to language studies, as well as the popular press, have for over a decade been proclaiming the arrival of the "computer revolution" and making far-reaching claims about the impact of computers on modern western culture. Implicit in many arguments about the revolutionary power of computers is the assumption that communication, language, and words are intimately tied to culture -- that the computer's transformation of communication means a transformation, a revolutionizing, of culture. Moving from a vague sense that writing is profoundly different with different material and technological tools to an understanding of how such tools can and will change writing, writers, written forms, and writing's functions is not a simple matter. Further, the question of whether -- and how -- changes in individual writers' experiences with new technologies translate into large-scale, cultural "revolutions" remains unresolved. This book is about the relationship of writing to its technologies. It uses history, theory and empirical research to argue that the effects of computer technologies on literacy are complex, always incomplete, and far from unitary -- despite a great deal of popular and even scholarly discourse about the inevitability of the computer revolution. The author argues that just as computers impact on discourse, discourse itself impacts technology and explains how technology is used in educational settings and beyond. The opening chapters argue that the relationship between writing and the material world is both inextricable and profound. Through writing, the physical, time-and-space world of tools and artifacts is joined to the symbolic world of language. The materiality of writing is both the central fact of literacy and its central puzzle -- a puzzle the author calls "The Technology Question" -- that asks: What does it mean for language to become material? and What is the effect of writing and other material literacy technologies on human thinking and human culture? The author also argues for an interdisciplinary approach to the technology question and lays out some of the tenets and goals of technology studies and its approach to literacy. The central chapters examine the relationship between writing and technology systematically, and take up the challenge of accounting for how writing -- defined as both a cognitive process and a cultural practice -- is tied to the material technologies that support and constrain it. Haas uses a wealth of methodologies including interviews, examination of writers' physical interactions with texts, think-aloud protocols, rhetorical analysis of discourse about technology, quasi-experimental studies of reading and writing, participant-observer studies of technology development, feature analysis of computer systems, and discourse analysis of written artifacts. Taken as a whole, the results of these studies paint a rich picture of material technologies shaping the activity of writing and discourse, in turn, shaping the development and use of technology. The book concludes with a detailed look at the history of literacy technologies and a theoretical exploration of the relationship between material tools and mental activity. The author argues that seeing writing as an embodied practice -- a practice based in culture, in mind, and in body -- can help to answer the "technology question." Indeed, the notion of embodiment can provide a necessary corrective to accounts of writing that emphasize the cultural at the expense of the cognitive, or that focus on writing as only an act of mind. Questions of technology, always and inescapably return to the material, embodied reality of literate practice. Further, because technologies are at once tools for individual use and culturally-constructed systems, the study of technology can provide a fertile site in which to examine the larger issue of the relationship of culture and cognition.

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Routledge

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1136687548

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The Incarnational Art of Flannery O'Connor

By: Christina Bieber Lake

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The Incarnational Art of Flannery O'Connor

By: Christina Bieber Lake

The Incarnational Art of Flannery O'Connor argues that O'Connor designed a unique asthetic to defy the Gnostic dualisms that characterize American intellectual and spiritual life. Focusing on stories with artist figures, objets d'art, child protagonists, and embodied images, Lake describes how O'Connor's fiction actively resisted romantic theories of the imagination and religious life by highlighting the epistemological necessity of the body. Ultimately O'Connor challenges the romantic and modern notion of the artist as a fire-stealing Prometheus and replaces it with a notion of the artist as a locally committed craftsman. Drawing upon M. M. Bakhtin's early essays in Art and Answerability and Toward a Philosophy of the Act, Lake illustrates O'Connor's conviction that art deliberately assigns the highest value of transcendental beauty to those beings least valued by the modern world, and challenges us to do the same. The book culminates with an original reading of Parker's Back that shows how in art, as in life, true knowledge comes to us through our own grotesque bodies and those of others. Unafraid of the mystery of being human, art can be the place where we encounter anew the world as more than what the intellect can unravel.

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Mercer University Press

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0865549435

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9780865549432

Internal Brand Management in an International Context

By: Christina Ravens

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Internal Brand Management in an International Context

By: Christina Ravens

Employees with a sound knowledge of and strong commitments to a brand are likely to display behaviors that conform to a brand’s identity, so called brand citizenship behavior. Organizations have access to various internal branding instruments that support commitment structures but multinational corporations are challenged by a diverse workforce environment. The study analyzes the relevance of these instruments across a German, Chinese and North American sample. This research further analyzes the impact of an individual’s cultural values on brand commitment which is an antecedent to brand citizenship behavior.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3658007540

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9783658007546

Voice Work

Art and Science in Changing Voices

By: Christina Shewell

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Voice Work

Art and Science in Changing Voices

By: Christina Shewell

Voice Work: Art and Science in Changing Voices is a key work that addresses the theoretical and experiential aspects common to the practical vocal work of the three major voice practitioner professions - voice training, singing teaching, and speech and language pathology. The first half of the book describes the nature of voice work along the normal-abnormal voice continuum, reviews ways in which the mechanism and function of the voice can be explored, and introduces the reader to an original model of voice assessment, suitable for all voice practitioners. The second half describes the theory behind core aspects of voice and provides an extensive range of related practical voice work ideas. Throughout the book, there are a number of case studies drawn from the author's own experiences and a companion website, providing audio clips to illustrate aspects of the text, can be found at www.wiley.com/go/shewell.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118697383

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Computational Semantics with Functional Programming

By: Jan van Eijck,Christina Unger

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Computational Semantics with Functional Programming

By: Jan van Eijck,Christina Unger

Computational semantics is the art and science of computing meaning in natural language. The meaning of a sentence is derived from the meanings of the individual words in it, and this process can be made so precise that it can be implemented on a computer. Designed for students of linguistics, computer science, logic and philosophy, this comprehensive text shows how to compute meaning using the functional programming language Haskell. It deals with both denotational meaning (where meaning comes from knowing the conditions of truth in situations), and operational meaning (where meaning is an instruction for performing cognitive action). Including a discussion of recent developments in logic, it will be invaluable to linguistics students wanting to apply logic to their studies, logic students wishing to learn how their subject can be applied to linguistics, and functional programmers interested in natural language processing as a new application area.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139490907

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9781139490900

Detector Dogs, Dynamite Dolphins, and More Animals with Super Sensory Powers

By: Cara Giaimo,Christina Couch

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Detector Dogs, Dynamite Dolphins, and More Animals with Super Sensory Powers

By: Cara Giaimo,Christina Couch

From echolocation to electroreception, find out about the super senses animals use to navigate the world--and to accomplish what humans can't do alone. As you learn about these amazing animals, you will get a chance to test out your own senses with hands-on activities"--

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Candlewick Press

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1536219126

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9781536219128

When Life Unravels

By: Christine Christina

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When Life Unravels

By: Christine Christina

We all have an UN story to tell... UNLoved UNDeserving UNWorthy UNLikeable UNQualified UNAcceptable These are the words that described how Author Christine Cristina felt about herself for the majority of her life. Have you ever felt that way too? Do these words describe the lies you have accepted about yourself because of life experiences, or perhaps you have heard people say negative, hurtful things about you and it caused you to feel this way. Words are powerful. They can build you up or tear you down. It might be something someone has said about you or how you were treated, but oftentimes, we are too quick to accept the negative words spoken over us and we accept them as truth instead of dismissing them for the lies they really are. How can we put an end to it and see ourselves the way that God sees us? In this compelling new book, Author Christine Cristina shares her personal and sometimes painful journey of how her life UNRaveled in order for her to see herself the way God intended. As Christine turned to God and His Word, she began to get a glimpse of who she really is. UNStoppable UNSinkable UNLimited UNCommon UN Forgettable UN Shakable

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Emerge Publishing Group, LLC

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1949758052

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9781949758054

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Trickster

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Lincoln Collection

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Comprehension of verb inflection in German-speaking children

Comprehension of verb inflection in German-speaking children

Writing Technology

Writing Technology

The Incarnational Art of Flannery O'Connor

The Incarnational Art of Flannery O'Connor

Internal Brand Management in an International Context

Internal Brand Management in an International Context

Voice Work

Voice Work

Computational Semantics with Functional Programming

Computational Semantics with Functional Programming

Detector Dogs, Dynamite Dolphins, and More Animals with Super Sensory Powers

Detector Dogs, Dynamite Dolphins, and More Animals with Super Sensory Powers

When Life Unravels

When Life Unravels

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