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|  | Speedy Spanish for Employers by Babe Hart, T. L. Hart
This book is aimed at employers who want to know how to communicate with their Spanish-speaking employees. It lists appropriate words and sentences, with phonetic translation, including verbal requests, tool names, personal information, greetings, and other basic phrases that can make the work environment more comfortable for everyone. AUTHOR: Babe Hart, T. L. Hart
PUBLISHER: Baja Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Reference 
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 | My ABC Signs of Animal Friends by Ben Bahan, Joe Dannis, Patricia Pearson
Teach both hearing and deaf children American Sign Language (ASL) through an exciting A to Z parade of colorfully illustrated animals. AUTHOR: Ben Bahan, Joe Dannis, Patricia Pearson
PUBLISHER: Dawn Sign Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Reference
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 | Writing Is an Aid to Memory by Lyn Hejinian
This volume restores to print one of the major texts of Language Poetry. Published initially in 1978, this work questions the idea of identity, presenting the voice as an ever-evolving entity. AUTHOR: Lyn Hejinian
PUBLISHER: Sun & Moon Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Reference
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 | Tuttle Kanji Cards II by Alexander Kask
Flashcards are an excellent tool for learning kanji characters. These carefully designed cards present the second 566 kanji that students of Japanese must learn to further their acquisition of the language. Each card presents all pronunciations, meanings and readings, in short, everything the student needs to master a character. AUTHOR: Alexander Kask
PUBLISHER: Tuttle Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Reference
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 | McGuffey Fifth Reader by William H. McGuffey
Since 1836, children have been delighted by these volumes filled with exotic adventures, exciting stories, beautiful poems, and funny fables. The Fifth Eclectic Reader includes selections from Washington Irving, Daniel Webster, Charles Dickens, Samuel Johnson, and Bret Harte. AUTHOR: William H. McGuffey
PUBLISHER: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Reference
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 | Visual Analogy by Barbara M. Stafford
Recuperating a topic once central to philosophy, theology, rhetoric, and aesthetics, this groundbreaking book explores the discovery of sameness in otherness. Analogy poses an intriguingly ancient and modern conundrum. How, in the face of cultural diversity, can a unique someone or something be perceived as like what it is not? This book is for anyone puzzled by why today, as Barbara Maria Stafford claims, we possess no language for talking about resemblance, only an exaggerated awareness of difference. Well-designed images, Stafford argues, reveal the mind`s intuitive leaps to connect known with unknown experience. The first of four wide-ranging chapters paints a challenging overview of several pressing contemporary issues. Cloning, legal controversies about social inequity, identity politics, electronic copying, and the mimicry of virtual reality expose the need for a nuanced theory of similitude. The second examines the historical tug-of-war between analogy and allegory, or disanalogy. Stafford provocatively suggests that, since the Romantic Era, we have been living in polarizingly allegorical times. The third roots this divisiveness within the momentous shift from a magical universe, modeled on sexual bonds, to an engineered world built of discrete automated units. Finally, recent developments in computational brain research notwithstanding, major phenomenological questions about memory, emotion, intelligence, and awareness beckon. In the fourth chapter, Stafford intervenes in the consciousness debates to propose a humanistic cognitive science with bridging/analogy at its artful core. AUTHOR: Barbara M. Stafford
PUBLISHER: MIT Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Reference
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