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Japanese Language in Use is the companion volume to Japanese Linguistics: An Introduction. Using a wide range of examples drawn from everyday life and literary texts, Japanese Language in Use introduc
Japanese Language in Use is the companion volume to Japanese Linguistics: An Introduction. Using a wide range of examples drawn from everyday life and literary texts, Japanese Language in Use introduc
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Keep up with the latest on the highly respected multisensory teaching approach to literacy with this new fourth edition, a complete update of the bestselling textbook adopted in colleges and unive
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Building on their best-selling book Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day, flipped education innovators Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams return with a book series that supp
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While there have been many books on the history of globalization to date, most have stressed economics and politics. Cultural globalization, of which the emergence of English as the world's first glob
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This encyclopedia is the first book to identify, explain and categorize more than 1,400 versions of the English Bible! This includes 407 different Bibles, 53 Old Testaments, 407 New Testaments, more t
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The Secret Language of Color Cards is your key to unlocking the extraordinary healing power of color. Featuring 45 stunning cards, each infused with a unique healing vibration, and an accompanying 84-
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Books in the Teaching English Language Learners (ELLs) across the Curriculum Series are written specifically for pre- and in- service teachers who may not have been trained in ELL techniques, but stil
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