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1) Empire of illusion: the end of literacy and the triumph of spectacle

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Chris Hedges argues that we now live in two societies: one, the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world, able to cope with complexity and to separate illusion from truth. The other, a growing majority, is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. In this "other society," comforting, reassuring images, fantasies, slogans and a celebration of violence push reality, complexity and nuance to the margins....

2) Scary Readers Theatre

Author

Barchers, Suzanne

Series

Readers Theatre

Pub. Date

1994

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Deliciously ghostly, startling, and downright scary scripts will make you and your students listen, ponder, shiver, chuckle, or even jump! Based on 30 folktales, myths, ghost stories, and legends, these reproducible scripts have been evaluated using the Flesch-Kincaid Readability Scale and range from second to fifth grade levels. Elementary, middle school, and chapter teachers will find them invaluable for enhancing the language arts program and for...

3) Made in America: an informal history of the English language in the United States

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Bryson, Bill

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Book, CD

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A linguistic history, told through anecdote and humor, of American speech and English word usage in the United States.

4) The adventure of English: the biography of a language

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Bragg, Melvyn

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"... shows us the remarkable story of the English language, from its modest beginnings around A.D. 500 as a minor guttural Germanic dialect to its current position as a truly established global language"--Jacket.

5) Proust and the squid: the story and science of the reading brain

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Wolf, Maryanne

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A developmental psychologist evaluates the ways in which reading and writing have transformed the human brain, in an anecdotal study that reveals the significant changes in evolutionary brain physiology throughout history.

6) Home Early Learning Play School

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Godfrey, Shannah B

Pub. Date

2015

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Finally! All of the Home Early Learning Play School (HELPS) activities from my series, It's Not Rocket Surgery!, are now in one place! Early reading the right way. Keep It Simple for Success (KISS your child) with The Godfrey Method. Learn how to overcome the Top Ten Myths of reading. Dress your child's mind for success. Reading is hearing with your eyes - phonics, phonics, phonics! The two most crucial things kids need, quality parent-time and excellent...

7) 499 words every college student should know: a professor's handbook on words essential to great writing and better grades

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Spignesi, Stephen J

Pub. Date

2017.

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Using easy-to-understand, informative, and often humorous explanations of every word, 499 Words Every College Student Should Know also explores how to use the words in sentences, and in proper context. The majority of these words were individually chosen because they are fairly commonplace in media, books, online, and elsewhere, and students need to be able to understand them. Knowing them in fact, using the words and making them part of their everyday...

8) The Paper Trail: an unexpected history of a revolutionary invention

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Monro, Alexander

Pub. Date

2016.

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"Comprehensively researched, vividly written, The Paper Trail traces the cultural, political, and religious revolutions that this now globally ubiquitous material set in motion when it was new to the world. Alexander Monro--who has lived in, traveled through, studied, and written about China for many years--takes us from paper's refinement in 2nd century A.D. China, where it was used to solidify social and political systems that continue to influence...