From the time that the first drawing appeared on a cave wall, human beings have had a need to communicate in writing. Early writers used pictures to express feelings and thoughts. Today, the use of written language enables us to express a wide range of emotions and ideas.
Goals include to understand the basic structure and elements of the short story, sharpen reading comprehension skills through critical reading, and give opportunities to use elements of literary style in writing.
Writing Basics, a textbook for students in grades 7-9, offers a solid introduction to writing sentences, paragraphs, and essays. This book provides excellent practice and preparation for all writing tests. Step-by-step lessons teach students how to write complete sentences, use transitions, combine ideas, and expand sentences. Students read and analyze models, then write original paragraphs using the major writing strategies: narration; description, exposition, example, definition, persuasion, comparison and contrast, cause and effect. In the last section of the text, students apply what they have learned about writing paragraphs to writing essays.
Lithium-Ion Batteries Hazard and Use Assessment examines the usage of lithium-ion batteries and cells within consumer, industrial and transportation products, and analyzes the potential hazards associated with their prolonged use. This book also surveys the applicable codes and standards for lithium-ion technology. Lithium-Ion Batteries Hazard and Use Assessment is designed for practitioners as a reference guide for lithium-ion batteries and cells. Researchers working in a related field will also find the book valuable.
Goals include to understand the basic structure and elements of the short story, sharpen reading comprehension skills through critical reading, and give opportunities to use elements of literary style in writing.
The Active Reader for Writers is a textbook for students in high school and first-year college freshman. This reader/writing text contains thirty absorbing selections from across content areas. Written by well-known authors, these models are used to teach reading and writing strategies. A perfect student text for the new SAT writing exam, and for first-year college writing courses.
Many leading American thinkers in the nineteenth century, who accepted the premises of Emersonian transcendentalism, valued the basic concept of pantheism: that God inheres in nature and in all things, and that a person could achieve a sense of belonging she or he lacked in society by seeking a oneness with all of nature. As Richard Hardack shows, however, writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville conceived of nature as everything "Other"--other than the white male Protestant culture of which they were a part. This conception of nature, then, became racialized, and the divine became associated with African American and Native American identities, as well as with femininity. In "Not Altogether Human," Hardack reevaluates transcendentalism in the context of nineteenth-century concerns about individual and national racial identity. Elucidating the influence of pantheism, Hardack draws on an array of canonical and unfamiliar materials to remap the boundaries of what has long been viewed as white male transcendental discourse. This book significantly revises notions of what transcendentalism and pantheism mean and how they relate to each other. Hardack's close analysis of pantheism and its influence on major works and lesser known writing of the nineteenth century opens up a new perspective on American culture during this key moment in the country's history.
This book presents a comparative reconstruction of the common phonology of the Chinese dialects using representative data from living dialects. The resulting phonology includes all categories and phonological distinctions that are represented in the dialect data. It departs from the tradition of using philological sources and non-Chinese borrowings as the basis for a reconstructed system. Based on a strict comparative methodology, the phonology presented encapsulates the shared phonology of the dialects and reflects the real-world distinctions and categories found in the living dialects. For example, the initials preserve the tripartite division that includes voiced obstruents seen in Wú dialects; the finals are comparatively drawn based on the collective dialect data; and the syllable codas preserve the three-way contrasts of consonant stop endings seen in the Cantonese dialects. The data presented allows readers to observe the basis for all of the distinction and categories included in the common phonology and the relationship of that phonology to all of the dialects, and as a result to identify the dialects’ disparate developments and evolution. The English translation also includes innovative elements that render it even more useful for researchers than the Chinese original. The book is primarily intended for scholars and researchers investigating the Chinese dialects and their relationships, and the history of Chinese. It is also useful for scholars of Chinese history and literature who need a handy resource providing essential information on the historical phonology of Chinese.
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