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Grammar in Everyday Talk

Building Responsive Actions

by Sandra A. Thompson, Barbara A. Fox, Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen ...

Series Book 31 - Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics
Drawing on everyday telephone and video interactions, this book surveys how English speakers use grammar to formulate responses in ordinary conversation. The authors show that speakers build their responses in a variety of ways: the responses can be longer or shorter, repetitive or not, and can be uttered with different intonational 'melodies'. Focusing on four sequence types: responses to ... Read more

$127.09 USD

Drawing on everyday telephone and video interactions, this book surveys how English speakers use grammar to formulate responses in ordinary conversation. The authors show that speakers build their responses in a variety of ways: the responses can be longer or shorter, repetitive or not, and can be uttered with different intonational 'melodies'. Focusing on four sequence types: responses to
... Read more
Judging School Discipline

The Crisis of Moral Authority

by Richard Arum, Irenee R. Beattie, Richard Pitt, Jennifer Thompson, Sandra Way ...

Reprimand a class comic, restrain a bully, dismiss a student for brazen attire--and you may be facing a lawsuit, costly regardless of the result. This reality for today's teachers and administrators has made the issue of school discipline more difficult than ever before--and public education thus more precarious. This is the troubling message delivered in Judging School Discipline, a powerfully ... Read more

$28.79 USD

Reprimand a class comic, restrain a bully, dismiss a student for brazen attire--and you may be facing a lawsuit, costly regardless of the result. This reality for today's teachers and administrators has made the issue of school discipline more difficult than ever before--and public education thus more precarious. This is the troubling message delivered in Judging School Discipline, a powerfully
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A Song for Tomorrow

by Alice Peterson, Sandra Duncan, Luke Thompson ...

Narrated by Miranda Cook ...

Unabridged

10 hours 20 min

Tom fell in love with Alice the moment he saw her. He realises that being with her will not be easy, but she is a force of nature, a burst of sunlight in his otherwise ordinary world.Some people might look at Alice and think she has everything, but Alice knows she is not like other women. Her life is complicated, unpredictable, difficult. Alice does not like pity. All she wants to do, has ever ... Read more

$23.99 USD

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Tom fell in love with Alice the moment he saw her. He realises that being with her will not be easy, but she is a force of nature, a burst of sunlight in his otherwise ordinary world.Some people might look at Alice and think she has everything, but Alice knows she is not like other women. Her life is complicated, unpredictable, difficult. Alice does not like pity. All she wants to do, has ever
... Read more

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Last Christmas

by Greg Wise, Emma Thompson ...

Narrated by Greg Wise, Emma Thompson, David Timson, Gareth Armstrong, Heather Long, Luke Thompson, Sandra Duncan, Vivienne Rochester ...

Unabridged

5 hours 28 min

The perfect gift book, featuring the writing of Meryl Streep, Bill Bailey, Emilia Clarke, Olivia Colman, Caitlin Moran, Richard Ayoade, Emily Watson and others, to coincide with the upcoming movie Last Christmas, starring Emma Thompson, Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding.When you think back to Christmases past, what (if anything) made it magical? Looking towards the future, what would your perfect ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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The perfect gift book, featuring the writing of Meryl Streep, Bill Bailey, Emilia Clarke, Olivia Colman, Caitlin Moran, Richard Ayoade, Emily Watson and others, to coincide with the upcoming movie Last Christmas, starring Emma Thompson, Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding.When you think back to Christmases past, what (if anything) made it magical? Looking towards the future, what would your perfect
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American Justice in the Age of Innocence

Understanding the Causes of Wrongful Convictions and How to Prevent Them

by Hillary K. Valderrama, Jenniffer L. Hopgood, Sandra Guerra Thompson ...

The exoneration of more than two hundred and fifty people who have been wrongfully convicted makes it clear that Americas criminal justice system isnt foolproof. Its important to understand the causes of wrongful conviction in order to find solutions to this growing problem. Edited by one of the nations leading legal scholars and two of her top students, this collection of essays examines critical ... Read more

$8.69 USD

The exoneration of more than two hundred and fifty people who have been wrongfully convicted makes it clear that Americas criminal justice system isnt foolproof. Its important to understand the causes of wrongful conviction in order to find solutions to this growing problem. Edited by one of the nations leading legal scholars and two of her top students, this collection of essays examines critical
... Read more
Suicide: You Don't Have to Die to Live

by Sandra Gould Thompson ...

Suicide is something no one wants to talk about. The act conjures up everything that we fear. It requires that we look at our mortality.Because we confuse happiness with contentment, we aim for something unobtainable by their very nature. When we view life through the eyes of the mentally ill, it adds the unique complication of their inability to achieve either.Her own attempted suicide has ... Read more

$1.99 USD

Suicide is something no one wants to talk about. The act conjures up everything that we fear. It requires that we look at our mortality.Because we confuse happiness with contentment, we aim for something unobtainable by their very nature. When we view life through the eyes of the mentally ill, it adds the unique complication of their inability to achieve either.Her own attempted suicide has
... Read more
The Simplicity of God's Plan

It's Your Choice

by Sandra Thompson Davis ...

I have been close to my Lord Jesus and my God since age 6. I live in SE TN, USA with my husband of 47 years. We have two grown sons and four grandchildren. I am a retired teacher who writes about everything. But this book came to me by the Holy Spirit in January of 2010. I published it only because it is a book I know God wants many people to have. I never thought to have a book published until ... Read more

$8.69 USD

I have been close to my Lord Jesus and my God since age 6. I live in SE TN, USA with my husband of 47 years. We have two grown sons and four grandchildren. I am a retired teacher who writes about everything. But this book came to me by the Holy Spirit in January of 2010. I published it only because it is a book I know God wants many people to have. I never thought to have a book published until
... Read more
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Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups

by Ben Holden ...

Narrated by Ben Holden, Sandra Duncan, Luke Thompson, Gareth Armstrong, Esther Wane ...

Unabridged

12 hours 41 min

There are few more precious routines than that of the bedtime story. So why do we discard this invaluable ritual as grown-ups to the detriment of our well-being and good health?In this groundbreaking anthology, Ben Holden, editor of the bestselling Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, challenges how we think about life, a third of which is spent asleep. He deftly explores not only the science of sleep ... Read more

$27.99 USD

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There are few more precious routines than that of the bedtime story. So why do we discard this invaluable ritual as grown-ups to the detriment of our well-being and good health?In this groundbreaking anthology, Ben Holden, editor of the bestselling Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, challenges how we think about life, a third of which is spent asleep. He deftly explores not only the science of sleep
... Read more

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Hold That Knowledge

Stories about Love from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

by Gail Galloway Adams, Tony Ardizzone, Wendy Brenner, Daniel Curley, Linda LeGarde Grover, Dennis Hathaway, Hester Kaplan, Christopher McIlroy, Debra Monroe, Anne Panning, Bill Roorbach, Margot Singer, Sandra Thompson, iamak Vossoughi ...

Series series
Love, in some of the infinite ways we may know it, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction series.More than seventy volumes, which include approximately eight hundred stories, have won the Flannery O’Connor Award. This stunning trove of always engaging, often ... Read more

$25.69 USD

Love, in some of the infinite ways we may know it, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction series.More than seventy volumes, which include approximately eight hundred stories, have won the Flannery O’Connor Award. This stunning trove of always engaging, often
... Read more
Create Together

Our Voices, Our hands, Our Lives

by Sonia Thompson, Sandra Pollock ...

Create Together is an anthology ofpoetry, short prose and art created by women supported through Inspiring You CIC's 'Create Together' project. Made in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and in partnership with the National Lottery Community Fund, 'Create Together' is a place where beneficiaries could look after and support one another, and create a community of their own. We offer to all those ... Read more

$9.99 USD

Create Together is an anthology ofpoetry, short prose and art created by women supported through Inspiring You CIC's 'Create Together' project. Made in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and in partnership with the National Lottery Community Fund, 'Create Together' is a place where beneficiaries could look after and support one another, and create a community of their own. We offer to all those
... Read more
A Companion to the Works of Kim Scott

by Belinda Wheeler, Natalie Quinlivan, Nathanael Pree, Per Henningsgaard, Roger Osborne, Rosalie Thackrah, Sandra Thompson, Tony Hughes-d'Aeth, Arindam Das, Brenda Machosky0, Christine Choo1, Gillian Whitlock2, Jeanine Leane3, Lisa Slater4, Lydia Saleh Rofail5 ...

Since the mid-1980s there has been a sharp rise in the number of literary publications by Indigenous Australians and in the readership and impact of those works. One contemporary Aboriginal Australian author who continues to makea contribution to both the Australian and the global canon is Kim Scott (1957-). Scott has won many awards, including Australia's highest, the prestigious Miles Franklin ... Read more

$17.99 USD

Since the mid-1980s there has been a sharp rise in the number of literary publications by Indigenous Australians and in the readership and impact of those works. One contemporary Aboriginal Australian author who continues to makea contribution to both the Australian and the global canon is Kim Scott (1957-). Scott has won many awards, including Australia's highest, the prestigious Miles Franklin
... Read more
Eating the Fruit of Lies

A Novel

by Sandra Thompson Williams ...

Most people considered David Edwards a typical young Christian. Before his latest encounters with the supernatural, he would have agreed with them. Then his life was changed forever.David has found the love of his life. With a successful career, the blessings of both parents and a strong spiritual upbringing, there was nothing standing in his way of pursuing marriage. So, when he suddenly called ... Read more

$2.99 USD

Most people considered David Edwards a typical young Christian. Before his latest encounters with the supernatural, he would have agreed with them. Then his life was changed forever.David has found the love of his life. With a successful career, the blessings of both parents and a strong spiritual upbringing, there was nothing standing in his way of pursuing marriage. So, when he suddenly called
... Read more

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