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Painfully British Haikus
by Dale Shaw'Will make everybody laugh' DOLLY ALDERTON ON THE HIGH LOWEnjoy this hilarious collection of over 200 haikus that sum up the complex, confusing and often compounding character of the British people.The Sellotape endUnlocatable it seemsChristmas is cancelledHow many gin tinsIs decreed appropriate For this train journey? The sound of a splashMy Hobnob falls to piecesMy tea is sulliedEvery houseplantSuffers a slow painful deathI am a monsterYou're at the seasideA seagull eyes your MagnumYou won't win that fight
Painless Grammar (2nd edition)
by Rebecca S. ElliottThis very approachable text combines instruction in parts of speech and sentence structure with down-to-earth examples and examination of some of the more amusing and peculiar words in the English language. A chapter on clear e-mail communication and etiquette is brand new in this edition, as are many of the author's challenging "Brain Ticklers." A helpful chapter on how to edit a school paper has also been heavily revised and updated.
Painless Grammar (Barron's Painless)
by Rebecca ElliottBarron&’s makes learning grammar fun and PAINLESS!Painless Grammar transforms dull, dry grammar rules into lighthearted, step-by-step learning and includes:Examples on constructing sentences the right way by using grammar rulesPainless tips, common pitfalls, sample sentences, and instructive tables and sidebars,&“Brain Tickler&” quizzes and answers throughout each chapter, and more.
Painless Grammar (Painless Series)
by Rebecca ElliottCombines instruction in sentence structure with examination of amusing expressions, and gives tips on email communication, editing a school paper, and more. Titles in Barron’s extensive Painless Series cover a wide range of subjects, as they are taught at middle school and high school levels. Perfect for supporting Common Core Standards, these books are written for students who find the subjects somewhat confusing, or just need a little extra help. Most of these books take a lighthearted, humorous approach to their subjects, and offer fun exercises including puzzles, games, and challenging “Brain Tickler” problems to solve. Bonus Online Component: includes additional games to challenge students, including Beat the Clock, a line match game, and a word scramble.
Painless Junior: Grammar
by Tracy Hohn Marciann Mcclarnon Donna Christina OliverioTeachers and students in third and fourth grades will value this instructive and entertaining journey to Grammar World, where kids have fun while they develop their facility in correct English usage. Grammar World is a make-believe amusement park where boys and girls are introduced in chapter one to the animals who teach them about different kinds of sentences: statements and questions, commands and exclamations, subjects and predicates, combining sentences, and how to avoid fragments and run-on sentences. Chapter two takes kids to Grammar World's rides, where they learn about nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and several other parts of speech. Chapter three takes them to the Water Park, where they learn how to use verbs. Chapter four is a dolphin show, and explanation of prepositions, prepositional phrases, conjunctions, and interjections. The fifth and final chapter is a fireworks display, in which kids learn punctuation, capitalization, abbreviations, and other details that will help them write clearly and correctly.
Painless Police Report Writing: An English Guide for Criminal Justice Professionals, Third Edition
by Barbara Frazee Joseph N. DavisWith an emphasis on relevance, this book tailors English instruction to the needs of police training and law enforcement. Taking a building block approach, the first five chapters present English grammar and the last two chapters are devoted to the police report writing process. Each chapter includes practice and review exercises that are taken from the field and assignment material that is geared to law enforcement interests. This edition features sample reports, sample forms and “war stories” that help students see how grammar and writing skills are used in their profession.
Painless Reading Comprehension (Barron's Painless)
by Darolyn "Lyn" Jones Ed.D.Learning at home is now the new normal. Need a quick and painless refresher? Barron&’s Painless books make learning easier while you balance home and school. Reading comprehension gets easier as students learn what kind of reader they are, discover how to keep facts in their head, and much more.Titles in Barron&’s extensive Painless Series cover a wide range of subjects, as they are taught at middle school and high school levels. Perfect for supporting Common Core Standards, these books are written for students who find the subjects somewhat confusing, or just need a little extra help. Most of these books take a lighthearted, humorous approach to their subjects, and offer fun exercises including puzzles, games, and challenging &“Brain Tickler&” problems to solve. Bonus Online Component: includes additional games to challenge students, including Beat the Clock, a line match game, and a word scramble.
Painless Reading Comprehension (Painless Series)
by Darolyn "Lyn" Jones Ed.D.Reading comprehension gets easier as students learn what kind of reader they are, discover how to keep facts in their head, and much more. Titles in Barron’s extensive Painless Series cover a wide range of subjects, as they are taught at middle school and high school levels. Perfect for supporting Common Core Standards, these books are written for students who find the subjects somewhat confusing, or just need a little extra help. Most of these books take a lighthearted, humorous approach to their subjects, and offer fun exercises including puzzles, games, and challenging “Brain Tickler” problems to solve. Bonus Online Component: includes additional games to challenge students, including Beat the Clock, a line match game, and a word scramble.
Painless Reading Comprehension (Painless Series) Third Edition
by Darolyn Lyn" JonesReading comprehension gets easier as students learn what kind of reader they are, discover how to keep facts in their head, and much more. Titles in Barron's extensive Painless Series cover a wide range of subjects, as they are taught at middle school and high school levels. Perfect for supporting Common Core Standards, these books are written for students who find the subjects somewhat confusing, or just need a little extra help. Most of these books take a lighthearted, humorous approach to their subjects, and offer fun exercises including puzzles, games, and challenging "Brain Tickler" problems to solve. Bonus Online Component: includes additional games to challenge students, including Beat the Clock, a line match game, and a word scramble.
Painless Speaking
by Mary ElizabethDesigned for use in middle school and high school classrooms, as well as at home, books in this series transform subjects that are normally dreaded by many students. "Painless" books take light-hearted approaches to their subjects, while addressing topics that classroom texts never get to. "Painless Speaking" explores the uniquely human act of oral communication, including elements in our culture that shape the way we speak. It explores finding one's voice, understanding the basic unit of speech communication (an utterance), learning the art of conversation, reading aloud from fiction and nonfiction texts, and instruction in public speaking, which entails composing, practicing, and delivering a speech. Students will find guidelines for self-evaluation of a public speech.
Painless Spelling (Painless Series)
by Mary Elizabeth M.Ed.A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
Painless Writing
by Jeffrey StrausserHere is practical advice that transforms essay writing into a satisfying experience for middle school and high school students. The author offers tips in enlivening writing with vivid images, smoothing out sentences, silencing the dull passive voice, and adding rhythm to writing. He also shows how to create a template that students can use when writing research papers for all subjects. In addition, students will find web site references cited throughout the text, which they can access. Brain ticklers (short quizzes) appear throughout the book with an answer key at the back.
Painless Writing (Barron's Painless)
by Jeffrey StrausserBarron's makes writing fun and PAINLESS!Painless Writing provides lighthearted, step-by-step learning and includes:Painless writing techniques with sample writing passages throughoutInstruction on expressing your thoughts clearly, enlivening your writing with vivid images, and avoiding the dull, passive voicePainless tips, common pitfalls, instructive tables,&“brain tickler&” quizzes and answers throughout each chapter, and more.
Painscapes
by Ej Gonzalez-Polledo Jen TarrThis book brings into dialogue approaches from anthropology, sociology, visual art, theatre, and literature to question what kinds of relations, frames and politics constitute pain across disciplines and methodologies. Each chapter offers a unique window onto the notoriously difficult problem of how pain is defined and communicated. The contributors reimagine the value of images and photography, poetry, history, drama, stories and interviews, not as 'better' representations of the pain experience, but as devices to navigate the complexity of pain across different physical, social, and intersubjective domains. This innovative collection provides a new access point to the phenomenon of pain and the materialities, affects, structures and institutions that constitute it. This book will appeal to readers seeking to better understand pain's complexity and the social and affective ecologies through which pain is known, communicated and lived.
Painting Modernism (SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture)
by Ivan A. SchulmanPainting Modernism demonstrates the influence of painting and sculpture on the work of the major writers of Latin American modernism. Through his analysis, Ivan A. Schulman, a foundational figure in the field, offers a concise and new interpretation of works by José Asunción Silva, Julián del Casal, Rubén Darío, José Juan Tablada, and José Martí. Traditional critical discourse on modernism has emphasized the nature of this movement in terms of its self-referentiality, fragmentation, elitist/escapist concepts, and subjective notions of cultural and aesthetic authenticity. Schulman breaks from this approach and examines these works as products of subjectively generated social/artistic practices that are inseparable from socioeconomic transformations and the chaotic cultural crises of the modern world.
Painting Women: Cosmetics, Canvases, and Early Modern Culture
by Patricia PhillippyThis original analysis of the representation and self-representation of women in literature and visual arts revolves around multiple early modern senses of "painting": the creation of visual art in the form of paint on canvas and the use of cosmetics to paint women's bodies. Situating her study in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy, France, and England, Patricia Phillippy brings together three distinct actors: women who paint themselves with cosmetics, women who paint on canvas, and women and men who paint women—either with pigment or with words. Phillippy asserts that early modern attitudes toward painting, cosmetics, and poetry emerge from and respond to a common cultural history. Materially, she connects those who created images of women with pigment to those who applied cosmetics to their own bodies through similar mediums, tools, techniques, and exposure to toxic materials. Discursively, she illuminates historical and social issues such as gender and morality with the nexus of painting, painted women, and women painters.Teasing out the intricate relationships between these activities as carried out by women and their visual and literary representation by women and by men, Phillippy aims to reveal the delineation and transgression of women's creative roles, both artistic and biological. In Painting Women, Phillippy provides a cross-disciplinary study of women as objects and agents of painting.
Painting Words: Aesthetics and the Relationship between Image and Text (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)
by Beatriz González-Moreno Fernando González-MorenoPainting Words: Aesthetics and the Relationship between Image and Text addresses the importance of dialogue between art and literature, text and image in our image-saturated era. In a globalized world, isolation and compartmentalization hinder us back, whereas the Romantic idea of belonging urges us to look beyond and to build bridges. Bearing this Romantic spirit in mind, rather than focusing on a traditional paragonal approach, this book puts forward the benefits of alliance by offering an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspective. Illustrations are included to guide the reader into comparativism and intermedial encounters, while providing an inspiring overview of the literary and visual department both in Europe and America from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. The different essays lead us through an aesthetic exploratory journey by the hand of Cervantes, Shakespeare, Felicia Hemans, Emily Eden, William Wordsworth, Edgar A. Poe, Flannery O’Connor, N. Scott Momaday, José Joaquín de Mora, Wallace Stevens and José Ángel Valente, among others. Editors, Beatriz González Moreno and Fernando González Moreno have brought together an international group of scholars around the idea of "painting words," which they define as the pictorial ability of language to stir the reader’s imagination and the way illustrators have "read" literary works over the course of centuries. Many traditional comparative studies examine literature belonging to specific time periods or movements, far less frequently do they bridge visual culture with text-- Painting Words: Aesthetics and the Relationship between Image and Text aims to do just that.
Painting the Novel: Pictorial Discourse in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction (British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century)
by Jakub LipskiPainting the Novel: Pictorial Discourse in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction focuses on the interrelationship between eighteenth-century theories of the novel and the art of painting – a subject which has not yet been undertaken in a book-length study. This volume argues that throughout the century novelists from Daniel Defoe to Ann Radcliffe referred to the visual arts, recalling specific names or artworks, but also artistic styles and conventions, in an attempt to define the generic constitution of their fictions. In this, the novelists took part in the discussion of the sister arts, not only by pointing to the affinities between them but also, more importantly, by recognising their potential to inform one another; in other words, they expressed a conviction that the theory of a new genre can be successfully rendered through meta-pictorial analogies. By tracing the uses of painting in eighteenth-century novelistic discourse, this book sheds new light on the history of the so-called "rise of the novel".
Pakistani Englishes: Syntactic Variations
by Asma IqbalThis book explores how non-native speakers, especially in postcolonial states, use English to communicate. Focusing on Pakistan, the monograph analyzes word categories, phrase and sentence structures used in the region and compares them to British English. It draws extensively from language used in the media and uses Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) parsers to develop the phrase structures for qualitative analysis and a manual approach to quantify the frequency of various types of phrases. The volume also highlights the possible reasons for the differences and locates language use in context. The volume will be of great interest to researchers, scholars, and teachers interested in linguistics, especially sociolinguistics, postcolonial studies, critical theory, media studies and World Englishes.
Palabra clave
by Alberto VitalPalabra clave nos invita a viajar, de la mano de grandes personajes, a través de diversos géneros de la literatura. Alberto Vital analiza dos grandes ámbitos de la creación. En la primera parte, se adentra en los géneros literarios, los grandes e innegables pero también los que no han sido tomados como tales: la indispensable declaración amorosa o el epíteto, entre otros. Y unos más contemporáneos como la declaración ministerial; y el género "pastilla", representado por la publicidad, las pintas en las calles y los pies de foto, que describen puntualmente la sociedad de lo inmediato en la que vivimos. También analiza los bestiarios de Jorge Luis Borges, Juan José Arreola y Julio Cortázar; y muestra al ensayo como una tabla de salvación al permitir abordar un tema desde tantas y diversas perspectivas.En la segunda parte, el autor reflexiona sobre los personajes más representativos de la literatura universal: la perspectiva infantil que se revela en el Kim de Kipling, las criaturas shakesperianas, los autores que se transforman en personajes, la conversión del poeta en un personaje o, bien, aquellos que, a la manera del joven Holden Caulfield, casise vuelven omnipresentes en la vida de los lectores. Palabra clave nos invita a descubrir cómo la Maga salta de Rayuela para convertirse en una nueva Dulcinea y Oskar Matzerath se fuga de El tambor de hojalata para ir en busca de Moby Dick. Un viaje lúdico que bien vale la pena intentar.
Palabra clave: Géneros inesperados y personajes esenciales de la literatura
by Alberto VitalPalabra clave nos invita a viajar, de la mano de grandes personajes, a través de diversos géneros de la literatura. Alberto Vital analiza dos grandes ámbitos de la creación. En la primera parte, se adentra en los géneros literarios, los grandes e innegables pero también los que no han sido tomados como tales: la indispensable declaración amorosa o el epíteto, entre otros. Y unos más contemporáneos como la declaración ministerial; y el género "pastilla", representado por la publicidad, las pintas en las calles y los pies de foto, que describen puntualmente la sociedad de lo inmediato en la que vivimos. También analiza los bestiarios de Jorge Luis Borges, Juan José Arreola y Julio Cortázar; y muestra al ensayo como una tabla de salvación al permitir abordar un tema desde tantas y diversas perspectivas. En la segunda parte, el autor reflexiona sobre los personajes más representativos de la literatura universal: la perspectiva infantil que se revela en el Kim de Kipling, las criaturas shakesperianas, los autores que se transforman en personajes, la conversión del poeta en un personaje o, bien, aquellos que, a la manera del joven Holden Caulfield, casi se vuelven omnipresentes en la vida de los lectores. Palabra clave nos invita a descubrir cómo la Maga salta de Rayuela para convertirse en una nueva Dulcinea y Oskar Matzerath se fuga de El tambor de hojalata para ir en busca de Moby Dick. Un viaje lúdico que bien vale la pena intentar.
Palabras clave para organizar textos en español: Recursos pragmáticos y discursivos
by Eladio Duque Carmen Martín de León Cristina Garcia HermosoPalabras clave para organizar textos en español: recursos pragmáticos y discursivos está dirigido a estudiantes de español como lengua extranjera –de nivel B2/ C1 (MCER) o Intermediate High/ Advanced Low (ACTFL)– que deseen mejorar la coherencia de sus textos hablados y escritos. En este libro el lector encontrará explicaciones teóricas acompañadas de numerosas actividades en las que pondrá en práctica una gran variedad de estructuras, estrategias y herramientas útiles para conectar frases y párrafos de manera eficaz.Palabras clave para organizar textos en español se fundamenta en el uso de la lengua en contextos de comunicación real. El libro puede utilizarse de manera independiente o como material de clase, ya que, además de las actividades con las que el aprendiz puede autoevaluar su progreso, también incluye actividades abiertas y juegos para trabajar en grupo.
Palabras moribundas
by Álex Grijelmo Pilar García MoutonLas palabras moribundas tienen un poder evocador que lleva hacia nuestra memoria el recuerdo de personas queridas que ya no están, épocas de nuestra vida que pasaron, utensilios perdidos, tareas superadas, antiguas modas divertidas. Este libro puede ser una especie de álbum de fotos familiares para muchas lectores que algún día utilizaron términos como chipén , pasquín, pickup, chiticalla, romadizo, almazuela, córcholis, mandil, encetar, garrotillo, mancar... o elepé o tomavistas. Pasaron por nuestras bocas y nuestros oídos, pero ¿cuánto tiempo hace que usted no oye, lee o pronuncia la palabra desgalichado? Leyendo estos vocablos y recordando sus usos aparecerán de nuevo muchas imágenes que no sospechábamos tan lejanas; y tal vez lamentemos que sus ecos se estén perdiendo. Lo que pretende este libro es que esas palabras no mueran, y que al menos revivan en la memoria de miles de lectores.
Palace of Books
by Alice Kaplan Roger GrenierFor decades, French writer, editor, and publisher Roger Grenier has been enticing readers with compact, erudite books that draw elegant connections between the art of living and the work of art. Under Grenier’s wry gaze, clichés crumble, and offbeat anecdotes build to powerful insights. With Palace of Books, he invites us to explore the domain of literature, its sweeping vistas and hidden recesses. Engaging such fundamental questions as why people feel the need to write, or what is involved in putting one’s self on the page, or how a writer knows she’s written her last sentence, Grenier marshals apposite passages from his favorite writers: Chekhov, Baudelaire, Proust, James, Kafka, Mansfield and many others. Those writers mingle companionably with tales from Grenier’s half-century as an editor and friend to countless legendary figures, including Albert Camus, Romain Gary, Milan Kundera, and Brassai,. Grenier offers here a series of observations and quotations that feel as spontaneous as good conversation, yet carry the lasting insights of a lifetime of reading and thinking. Palace of Books is rich with pleasures and surprises, the perfect accompaniment to old literary favorites, and the perfect introduction to new ones.