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  • How to Land a Top-Paying Oceanographers Job: Your Complete Guide to Opportunities, Resumes and Cover Letters, Interviews, Salaries, Promotions, What to Expect From Recruiters and More

    by Gaines Philip ...
    For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Oceanographers job, or to apply for a better job.What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Truth to Technique at Trial

    A Discursive History of Advocacy Advice Texts

    by Philip Gaines ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Language and Law
    From Truth to Technique addresses key questions raised by the burgeoning literature in what Philip Gaines calls advocacy advice texts-manuals, handbooks, and other how-to guides-written by lawyers for lawyers, both practicing and aspiring, to help them be as effective as possible in trial advocacy. In these texts, advice authors share principles, strategies, and techniques for persuading juries ... Read more

    $91.79 USD

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  • Storytelling for Lawyers

    by Philip Meyer ...
    Good lawyers have an ability to tell stories. Whether they are arguing a murder case or a complex financial securities case, they can capably explain a chain of events to judges and juries so that they understand them. The best lawyers are also able to construct narratives that have an emotional impact on their intended audiences. But what is a narrative, and how can lawyers go about constructing ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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    How Analogies Reveal Connections, Spark Innovation, and Sell Our Greatest Ideas

    by John Pollack ...
    A presidential speechwriter for Bill Clinton explores the hidden power of analogy to fuel thought, connect ideas, spark innovation, and shape outcomesFrom the meatpacking plants that inspired Henry Ford’s first moving assembly line to the "domino theory" that led America into Vietnam to the "bicycle for the mind" that Steve Jobs envisioned as the Macintosh computer, analogies have played a dynamic ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • What Language Is

    And What It Isn't and What It Could Be

    by John McWhorter ...
    New York Times bestselling author and renowned linguist, John McWhorter, explores the complicated and fascinating world of languages. From Standard English to Black English; obscure tongues only spoken by a few thousand people in the world to the big ones like Mandarin - What Language Is celebrates the history and curiosities of languages around the world and smashes our assumptions about "correct ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Introducing Linguistics

    A Graphic Guide

    by R. L. Trask ...
    Series Book 0 - Graphic Guides
    Covering thinkers from Aristotle to Saussure and Chomsky, "Introducing Linguistics" reveals the rules and beauty that underlie language, our most human skill. ... Read more

    $6.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Talking Back, Talking Black

    Truths About America's Lingua Franca

    by John McWhorter ...
    “Superb.” —Steven Pinker“An explanation, a defense, and, most heartening, a celebration. . . . McWhorter demonstrates the ‘legitimacy’ of Black English by uncovering its complexity and sophistication, as well as the still unfolding journey that has led to its creation. . . . [His] intelligent breeziness is the source of the book’s considerable charm.” —New Yorker“Talking Back, Talking Black is ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Southern Gaul and the Mediterranean

    Multilingualism and Multiple Identities in the Iron Age and Roman Periods

    by Alex Mullen ...
    Series series Cambridge Classical Studies
    The interactions of the Celtic-speaking communities of Southern Gaul with the Mediterranean world have intrigued commentators since antiquity. This book combines sociolinguistics and archaeology to bring to life the multilingualism and multiple identities of the region from the foundation of the Greek colony of Massalia in 600 BC to the final phases of Roman Imperial power. It builds on the ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Discourses of Men’s Suicide Notes

    A Qualitative Analysis

    by Prof Dariusz Galasinski ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Advances in Critical Discourse Studies
    Deaths by suicide are high: every 40 seconds, someone in the world chooses to end their life. Despite acknowledgement that suicide notes are social texts, there has been no book which analyzes suicide notes as discursive texts and no attempt at a qualitative discourse analysis of them. Discourses of Men's Suicide Notes redresses this gap in the literature.Focussing on men and masculinity and ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Cross-Examination in International Arbitration

    by Kaj I Hobér, Howard S. Sussman ...
    Opportunities to see expert cross-examinations are often infrequent in international arbitration and the occasions to sharpen these skills for many are rare. This book is both an invaluable teaching tool as well as a general guide to effective cross-examination in international arbitration. Based on extensive experience and insight from the authors and aided by practical examples, it provides a ... Read more

    $75.59 USD

  • Conceptions in the Code

    How Metaphors Explain Legal Challenges in Digital Times

    by Stefan Larsson ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Language and Law
    Stefan Larsson's Conceptions in the Code makes a significant contribution to sociolegal analysis, representing a valuable contribution to conceptual metaphor theory. By utilising the case of copyright in a digital context it explains the role that metaphor plays when the law is dealing with technological change, displaying both conceptual path-dependence as well as what is called non-legislative ... Read more

    $102.59 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics

    by William S-Y Wang, Chaofen Sun ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics offers a broad and comprehensive coverage of the entire field from a multi-disciplinary perspective. All chapters are contributed by leading scholars in their respective areas. This Handbook contains eight sections: history, languages and dialects, language contact, morphology, syntax, phonetics and phonology, socio-cultural aspects and neuro ... Read more

    $176.39 USD