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    Learn Japanese with Manga VOLUME 1
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    Learn Japanese with Manga VOLUME 1

    Learn to read, write, and speak everyday Japanese with manga stories!If you enjoy manga, you'll love learning Japanese with this book. The language lessons are interspersed with entertaining manga comic strips, making it easy to learn and...
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  • Essential Japanese Phrasebook & Dictionary
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    Essential Japanese Phrasebook & Dictionary

    Essential Japanese Phrase Book & Dictionary teaches you the practical phrases and expressions needed for common, everyday interactions in Japan in a way that's clear, concise, accessible and enjoyable. Key features of this Japanese...
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    Tuttle Compact Japanese Dictionary
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    Tuttle Compact Japanese Dictionary

    The Tuttle Compact Japanese Dictionary is completely updated dictionary designed for students and business people who are living in Japan and using Japanese on a daily basis. Its greatest advantage is that it contains many recent idiomatic expressions...
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  • Periplus Pocket Japanese Dictionary
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    Periplus Pocket Japanese Dictionary

    It's never a good idea to be overly relient on technology while travelling! Look up words quickly and easily with this great travel-sized Japanese dictionary. Intended for use by tourists, students, and businesspeople travelling to Japan, Pocket Japanese...
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    Japanese For Fun Phrasebook & Dictionary
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    Japanese For Fun Phrasebook & Dictionary

    This handy Japanese phrasebook and pocket dictionary is designed for people who want to learn Japanese quickly and don't have a lot of time to study. It is designed by an experienced language teacher to be useful and easy to use. Even if you...
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  • Instant Japanese
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    Instant Japanese

    It's amazing how 100 key words and phrases provide instant communication! Do you want to speak simple Japanese but are too busy to study it? Are you visiting Japan for a short time and want an Japanese phrase book to help you communicate? If so, than...
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    A Dictionary of Japanese Food
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    A Dictionary of Japanese Food

    For everyone interested in Japanese cuisine, from those encountering it for the first time to those who have eaten and perhaps misunderstood it for years. A Dictionary of Japanese Food will prove an invaluable reference source...
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  • Making Out in Japanese
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    Making Out in Japanese

    Now in its third edition, Making Out in Japanese is your indispensable guide to contemporary Japanese as it's really spoken. This best-selling phrase book is the perfect introduction to everyday interactions in Japan,...
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    Japanese Picture Dictionary
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    Japanese Picture Dictionary

    If a picture is worth a thousand words, students of the Japanese language have everything they need in Tuttle's Japanese Picture Dictionary. Deftly illustrating the use of more than 1,500 commonly used Japanese words and phrases, author Timothy Stout...
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  • A Screenwriter's Companion
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    A Screenwriter's Companion

    "I was a writer before I knew what a writer was." -Joseph DoughertyJoseph Dougherty has been a successful playwright and television writer, producer, and director for more than thirty years. He's written for breakthrough series that have changed the way...
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  • Blimey, I'm Knackered!
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    Blimey, I'm Knackered!

    Brit Speak for Yanks!Back in 1887, Oscar Wilde wrote, "We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language." One would think, in a world homogenized by technology and social media, that differences between British...
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  • Richard III: The 30-Minute Shakespeare
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    Richard III: The 30-Minute Shakespeare

    Richard III: The 30-Minute Shakespeare This edition of Richard III features seven scenes, opening with the Duke of Gloucester's villainous "Winter of our discontent" speech and followed by his audacious wooing of Lady Anne. Queen Margaret's...
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  • Julius Caesar: The 30-Minute Shakespeare
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    Julius Caesar: The 30-Minute Shakespeare

    Age range 12+Julius Caesar: The 30-Minute Shakespeare presents eight spellbinding scenes from this timeless masterpiece. The action begins as the soothsayer warns Caesar of the Ides of March and continues as Brutus conspires against Caesar...
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  • The Two Gentlemen of Verona: The 30-Minute Shakespeare
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    The Two Gentlemen of Verona: The 30-Minute Shakespeare

    Age range 12+The Two Gentlemen of Verona: The 30-Minute Shakespeare presents six captivating scenes from this high-spirited play. Proteus pledges his love to Julia, but then falls in love with Silvia, who had planned to elope with Proteus's...
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  • Hamlet: The 30-Minute Shakespeare
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    Hamlet: The 30-Minute Shakespeare

    Age range 12+Hamlet: The 30-Minute Shakespeare offers five scenes from this enduring tragedy. The Ghost of Hamlet's father calls for vengeance, and Hamlet uses the players to prove Claudius guilty. The cutting includes the murder of Polonius,...
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  • Henry IV, Part 1: The 30-Minute Shakespeare
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    Henry IV, Part 1: The 30-Minute Shakespeare

    Age range 12+King Henry IV, Part I: The 30-Minute Shakespeare combines comedy, tragedy, and history into a rollicking six-scene drama performable in a half hour.This adaptation includes tavern revelry, highway robbery, and the telling...
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  • Othello: The 30-Minute Shakespeare
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    Othello: The 30-Minute Shakespeare

    Age range 12+Othello: The 30-Minute Shakespeare is a gripping seven-scene interpretation of this Shakespearean masterpiece.There is a dramatic build as each successive event draws Othello closer to jealous rage. Iago convinces Othello that...
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  • King Lear: The 30-Minute Shakespeare
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    King Lear: The 30-Minute Shakespeare

    Age range 12+King Lear: The 30-Minute Shakespeare renders six powerful scenes from this enduring tragedy. Starting with Lear's banishment of Cordelia, the plot advances irresistibly, featuring scenes of brother Edmund's villainous plotting and...
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  • The Comedy of Errors: The 30-Minute Shakespeare
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    The Comedy of Errors: The 30-Minute Shakespeare

    Age range 12+The Comedy of Errors: The 30-Minute Shakespeare offers five raucous scenes from this extravaganza of mistaken identity.The abridgement begins with a dramatic physical enactment of the twins' separation at sea. The play continues...
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  • Love's Labor's Lost: The 30-Minute Shakespeare
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    Love's Labor's Lost: The 30-Minute Shakespeare

    Age range 12+Love's Labor's Lost: The 30-Minute Shakespeare plays three action-packed scenes from this tale of King Navarre and his three lords, who have vowed to retire from women for three years. Naturally, the Princess of France and her three...
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  • The Merry Wives of Windsor: The 30-Minute Shakespeare
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    The Merry Wives of Windsor: The 30-Minute Shakespeare

    Age range 12+Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challenge: The complete plays are too long and complex, while scene selections or simplified language...
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  • Macbeth: The 30-Minute Shakespeare
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    Macbeth: The 30-Minute Shakespeare

    Age range 12+Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challenge: The complete plays are too long and complex, while scene selections or simplified language...
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  • VERBATIM - The Fun of Making Theatre Seriously
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    VERBATIM - The Fun of Making Theatre Seriously

    Widely studied, frequently staged-verbatim theatre is everywhere. In this new book, Mark Wheeller, the author of verbatim hitsToo Much Punch for Judy,Hard to Swallow,Missing Dan NolanandGame Over, and the most performed living playwrights in the UK,...
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    We Are Not Amused
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    We Are Not Amused

    Pronunciation governs our regional and social identity more powerfully than any other aspect of spoken language. No wonder, then, that it has attracted most attention from satirists. In this intriguing book, David Crystal shows how our feelings about...
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  • A Barrel of Monkeys
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    A Barrel of Monkeys

    Featuring pets, farmyard animals, big cats and wild beasts, this beautifully presented book is the perfect gift for animal lovers and all those with an interest in this quirky linguistic tradition.We're all familiar with 'a flock of sheep' but what are...
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  • The First English Dictionary of Slang 1699
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    The First English Dictionary of Slang 1699

    The first work dedicated solely to the subject of slang words and their meanings, this book is a lost gem originally intended to educate the polite London classes in the parlance of thieves and ruffians, should they be so unlucky as to wander into the...
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    Writing and Selling Romantic Comedy Screenplays
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    Writing and Selling Romantic Comedy Screenplays

    Writing and Selling Romantic Comedy Screenplays offers a fresh approach to creating narratives for this ever-changing genre. Moving away from rigid and limited definitions that have evolved out of mainstream genre films, the book embraces a...
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    The Craft of Professional Writing
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    The Craft of Professional Writing

    The Craft of Professional Writing is the most complete book ever written about the real-life work of being a writer. It covers topics ranging from business writing (advertising, PR) to commercial work (news reporting, feature writing, blogging,...
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  • Japanese Language Writing Practice Book
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    Japanese Language Writing Practice Book

    This beautiful notebook makes studying a pleasure!Each double page spread has squared paper on the right-hand side for practicing formation of the Japanese characters, and lined paper on the left-hand side for note taking. A ten-page reference section at...
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  • Tuttle Pocket Japanese Dictionary
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    Tuttle Pocket Japanese Dictionary

    This handy Japanese dictionary allows you to look up words quickly and easily-and be understood while speaking. Intended for use by tourists, students, and business people traveling to Japan, the Pocket Japanese Dictionary is an essential tool for...
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  • Mini Japanese Dictionary
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    Mini Japanese Dictionary

    Mini Japanese Dictionary is the most up-to-date Japanese pocket dictionary available. This dictionary is completely up-to-date with the latest vocabulary for IT, smartphones and social media. It is the perfect dictionary to take with you when...
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  • Survival Japanese
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    Survival Japanese

    A handy Japanese phrasebook and guide to the Japanese language, Survival Japanese contains basic vocabulary necessary for getting around. This book contains all the necessary words and phrases for speaking Japanese in any kind of...
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  • Writing Japanese Katakana
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    Writing Japanese Katakana

    This is an introductory guide and workbook to writing Japanese Katakana. Anybody who is able to master English, with its irregular spellings and idiosyncratic pronunciations, is more than equipped to master written Japanese. The hiragana and katakana...
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  • Writing Japanese Hiragana
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    Writing Japanese Hiragana

     Put simply, practice is the most effective method of mastering written Japanese. The large, open format of Writing Japanese Hiragana invites the student to pick up a pencil and get started! Two phonetic syllabaries,...
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    Learning Japanese Hiragana and Katakana
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    Learning Japanese Hiragana and Katakana

    Learning Hiragana and Katakana is a systematic and comprehensive Japanese workbook that can be used along with a Japanese language textbook or as a stand-alone resource to learn the Japanese alphabet ("kana"). Written Japanese combines three different...
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  • Politics and the English Language
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    Politics and the English Language

    George Orwell's essay examines the power of language to shape political ideas. It is about the importance of writing concisely, clearly and precisely and the dangers to our ability to think when language, especially political language, is...
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    Writing on the Job
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    Writing on the Job

    A practical and compact guide to writing for professionalsWriting is an essential skill in today's workplace. From messaging platforms and social media to traditional forms of communication like memos and reports, we rely on words more than ever. Given...
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  • Romeo and Juliet: The 30-Minute Shakespeare
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    Romeo and Juliet: The 30-Minute Shakespeare

    Age range 12+Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challenge: The complete plays are too long and complex, while scene selections or simplified language...
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  • A Midsummer Night's Dream: The 30-Minute Shakespeare
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    A Midsummer Night's Dream: The 30-Minute Shakespeare

    Age range 12+Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challenge: The complete plays are too long and complex, while scene selections or simplified language...
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  • The Voice Book
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    The Voice Book

    More than 30 million Americans rely on their voices for their jobs-from teachers, religious leaders, and entertainers to lawyers, executives, salespeople, and doctors. A controlled voice increases self-confidence and enhances charisma,...
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  • On Failure
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    On Failure

    Writing is, and always will be, an act defined by failure. The best plan is to just get used to it.Failure is a topic discussed in every creative writing department in the world, but this is the book every beginning writer should have on their shelf to...
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  • Beyond the Hero's Journey
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    Beyond the Hero's Journey

    **Winner, Screen Research Network Outstanding Monograph Award, 2022**Telling a story is simple, right? You take a 'hero' and send them on a 'journey'. There's a beginning, middle and an end.But what if your story doesn't fit into that basic...
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  • High-Value Writing
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    High-Value Writing

    "High-Value Writing: Real Strategies for Real-World Writing" helps readers manage the writing challenges they face at work and elsewhere in life. Many of us haven't talked about writing since school, but workplace writing has different requirements. How...
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  • The Wayward Writer
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    The Wayward Writer

    Create your liberated literary utopia When your dream and creative passion is to write, how do you succeed without selling out or selling yourself short? Ariel Gore has spent her life solving this puzzle, writing and organising her way towards a creative...
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  • From Big Idea To Book
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    From Big Idea To Book

    Structure a writing process by learning about brainstorming and drafting Want to write a book? Half the battle is finding a practice that works for you. Successful author and creativity expert Jessie Kwak is here to help you do just that-and have fun...
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    Nora Ephron
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    Nora Ephron

    Nora Ephron was one of the most popular, accomplished, and beloved writers in American journalism and film.Nora Ephron: A Biographyis the first comprehensive portrait of the Manhattan-born girlwho forged a path of her own, earning accolades and adoration...
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  • The Case Study Handbook, Revised Edition
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    The Case Study Handbook, Revised Edition

    If you're enrolled in an MBA or executive education program, you've probably encountered a powerful learning tool: the business case. But if you're like many people, you may find interpreting and writing about cases mystifying and time-consuming. In The...
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