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Description not available.Lists and illustrates gestures and explains their meanings in eighty-two countries around the world, along with information about rules of decorum and when to make eye contact and touch AUTHOR: Roger E. Axtell
PUBLISHER: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Reference 
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 | Phonics Make-&-Take Manipulatives by Joan Novelli
These adorable and easy-to-make projects include mini-puzzles to reinforce initial consonants, word wheels to teach blends, and dominoes to build an awareness of long and short vowels. Each activity will help students begin to recognize the predictable sound/letter relationships that are key to reading success. AUTHOR: Joan Novelli
PUBLISHER: Scholastic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Reference
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 | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Alfred Kazin, Barry Moser, Bob Blaisdell, Donald McKay, E. W. Kemble
Twain spent seven years writing this classic novel--the book Hemingway claimed is the basis for all American fiction. The story of Huck's and Jim's quest for freedom on a raft on the Mississippi provides a panoramic view of Southern society, which Twain saw as beset by greed, violence, and coldhearted brutality. At the end, Huck definitively abandons the conventional cant which he has been raised to believe in when he makes the decision to go to hell rather than betray his friend Jim and send him back to slavery. The book has been banned from time to time, beginning with its publication when it was deemed too subversive for children, until in the late 20th century when, despite its sympathetic attitude toward blacks and is violent denunciation of slavery, it has been branded racist largely because Twain's use of dialect and offensive language. AUTHOR: Alfred Kazin, Barry Moser, Bob Blaisdell, Donald McKay, E. W. Kemble
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Reference
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 | Baseball ABC by Florence C. Mayers
With brilliant full-color photographs, Baseball ABC introduces the young child to the great American pastime and the alphabet as well. Baseball history comes alive as readers go from A for Autograph (a ball signed by Ted Williams) to B for Bats (bats used buy Lou Gehrig and Don Mattingly) to H for Hero (action shots of Hank Aaron, Mickey Mantle, and Reggie Jackson). The evolution of equipment can be seen in M for Mask (catchers' masks from 1890 to the present) while the excitement of today's brightly lit venues is captured in N for Night Game (a blimp's eye view of Veteran's Stadium, Philadelphia). AUTHOR: Florence C. Mayers
PUBLISHER: Abrams, Harry N. Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Reference
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 | Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words by Bill Bryson
As usual Bill Bryson says it best: English is a dazzlingly idiosyncratic tongue, full of quirks and irregularities that often seem willfully at odds with logic and common sense. This is a language where 'cleave' can mean to cut in half or to hold two halves together; where the simple word 'set' has 126 different meanings as a verb, 58 as a noun, and 10 as a participial adjective; where if you can run fast you are moving swiftly, but if you are stuck fast you are not moving at all; [and] where 'colonel,' freight,' 'once,' and 'ache' are strikingly at odds with their spellings. As a copy editor for the London Times in the early 1980s, bill Bryson felt keenly the lack of an easy-to-consult, authoritative guide to avoiding the traps and snares in English, and so he brashly suggested to a publisher that he should write one. Surprisingly, the proposition was accepted, and for a sum of money carefully gauged not to cause embarrassment or feelings of overworth, he proceeded to write that book--his first, inaugurating his stellar career. Now, a decade and a half later, revised, updated, and thoroughly (but not overly) Americanized, it has become BRYSON'S DICTIONARY OF TROUBLESOME WORDS, more than ever an essential guide to the wonderfully disordered thing that is the English language. With some one thousand entries, from a, an to zoom, that feature real-world examples of questionable usage from an international array of publications, and with a helpful glossary and guide to pronunciation, this precise, prescriptive, and--because it is written by Bill Bryson--often witty book belongs on the desk of every person who cares enough about the language not to maul, misuse, or, distort it. AUTHOR: Bill Bryson
PUBLISHER: Broadway Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Reference
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 | Total Fears by Bohumil Hrabal, James Naughton
Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) was one of the most important stylists in post-war European literature. He is internationally renowned for such works as I Served the King of England, Too Loud a Solitude, and Closely Watched Trains, on which Jiri's Menzel's Oscar-winning film was based. At the beginning of 1989, after a long literary silence, Hrabal began to write short, single texts, which he considered his lyrical reportage. Giving these texts the form of letters to the muse of his later years, Hrabal chronicles the momentous events leading up to and following the velvet revolution in the palavering, stream of consciousness style for which he became famous. AUTHOR: Bohumil Hrabal, James Naughton
PUBLISHER: Twisted Spoon Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Reference
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