L.S. Lowry: Market Scene (Foiled Journal)
New title in the Flame Tree Notebook collection, combining beautiful art with high-quality production, with lined pages, a pocket at the back, two ribbon bookmarks and a solid magnetic flap. Perfect as a gift, or personal choice for notetakers and journal users of all kinds. A FLAME TREE NOTEBOOK. Beautiful and luxurious the journals combine high-quality production and FSC-certified paper with magnificent art. Perfect as a gift, and an essential personal choice for writers, notetakers, travellers, students, poets and diarists. Features a wide range of well-known and modern artists, with new artworks published throughout the year. BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED. The highly crafted covers are printed in full colour, embossed then foil stamped, complemented by the luxury binding and rose red endpapers, all FSC-certified. The covers are created by our artists and designers who spend many hours transforming original artwork into gorgeous 3d masterpieces that feel good in the hand, and look wonderful on a desk or table. PRACTICAL, EASY TO USE. Flame Tree Notebooks come with practical features too: a pocket at the back for scraps and receipts; two ribbon markers to help keep track of more than just a to-do list; robust ivory text paper, printed with lines; and when you need to collect other notes or scraps of paper the magnetic side flap keeps everything neat and tidy. THE ARTIST. In his many depictions of north-west England, L.S. Lowry (1887-1976) makes industrial scenes his own, showing how industry had affected the landscape and how the inhabitants of the urban areas lived out their daily lives. This example is based on Market Scene, Northern Town (1939). THE FINAL WORD. As William Morris said, "Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Asexuality in Young Adult Fiction
The Asexual Exile trope positions asexual characters outside of society by portraying them as loners, inhuman, or adjacent to death. This research identifies trends in these portrayals by considering a corpus of 42 traditionally published novels of Young Adult fiction featuring asexual protagonists. A distant reading of this corpus finds that the Asexual Exile trope is employed in approximately two-thirds of cases. The author analyses how this trope permutates across genres, and the frequency of its endorsement and subversion by these narratives. Presenting the first extensive investigation into the Asexual Exile trope in YA fiction, this research investigates how asexual characters are Othered as not truly alive, and how these messages then rebound into necropolitical cultural understandings of asexual people as expendable. The results prompt the questions: how does the Asexual Exile trope influence Young Adult readers in the formation of their ideologies? How can publishers do better?
Curse of the Goddess
While a resurrected goddess seeks to unleash a curse on mankind, a vengeance fuelled, mythical fox assassin and a cabal of wizards stand in between peace, and wholesale destruction. Eddie and the Family travel to Venezuela to finally stop the mysterious organisation that they know as the Oddly Dressed Gentleman. En route they meet with a Succubus, a Valkyrie and the children of Angrboda in the fulfilment of an obscure prophecy. The elf kingdoms of the western realms are in disarray as the Unseelie queen moves forward with her own plot and calls for aid against the vengeful and unstoppable fox assassin. As the bodies hit the floor and secrets of the long-buried past arise to destroy what we love most, who will be left standing to keep the world safe, come the close of the first trilogy in the Rules of magic Urban Fantasy series? Read on, to find out...
Quantity in the Interpretative Realm of Language and Communication
Representing Black Girl Magic with Contemporary Picture Books
Representing Black Girl Magic with Contemporary Picture Books explores how culturally inclusive picture books centered on Black girls provide educators with opportunities to teach about race, racism, and sexism in the classroom.
Magic Words
Transform your book, short fiction, or nonfiction work into a spellbinding, prize-worthy contest winner with Magic Words: How to Enchant Judges and Conjure Contest Wins. When you apply the magic found inside, you'll produce bewitching tales that will charm readers and contest judges.Have you wondered what a contest judge really cares about when judging a contest?Magic Words provides the information every writer needs to craft prizewinning contest entries for novels, short fiction, and nonfiction work. It's a tremendous resource that disseminates the techniques judges want to see in contest submissions as well as contest-winning tips and opinions from multiple contest judges.Written by a multiple award-winning author, who has judged multitudes of writing contests, Magic Words has the answers for you. Packed with opinions and suggestions from twelve contest judges, this guide shares what you need to win. When you apply the recommended skills to your contest entries, your work will bewitch judges and conjure an enchanting contest winner.
More Than Words
A veteran writing teacher makes a "moving" (Rick Wormeli) argument that writing is a form of thinking and feeling and shows why it can't be replaced by AI In the age of artificial intelligence, drafting an essay is as simple as typing a prompt and pressing enter. What does this mean for the art of writing? According to longtime writing teacher John Warner: not very much. More Than Words argues that generative AI programs like ChatGPT not only can kill the student essay but should, since these assignments don't challenge students to do the real work of writing. To Warner, writing is thinking--discovering your ideas while trying to capture them on a page--and feeling--grappling with what it fundamentally means to be human. The fact that we ask students to complete so many assignments that a machine could do is a sign that something has gone very wrong with writing instruction. More Than Words calls for us to use AI as an opportunity to reckon with how we work with words--and how all of us should rethink our relationship with writing.
Printing Technologies and Book Production in Seventeenth-Century Japan
This Element first sets the history of printing in Japan in its East Asian context, showing how developments in China, Korea and elsewhere had an impact upon Japan. It then undertakes a re-examination of printing in seventeenth-century Japan and in particular explores the reasons why Japanese printers abandoned typography less than fifty years after it was introduced. This is a question that has often been posed but never satisfactorily answered, but this Element takes a new approach, focusing on two popular medical texts that were first printed typographically and then xylographically. The argument presented here is that the glosses relied upon by Japanese readers could be much more easily be provided when printing xylographically: since from the early seventeenth century onwards printed books customarily included glosses for the convenience of readers, this was surely the reason for the abandonment of typography.
Unprinted
This Element explores the idea of publication in media used before, alongside, and after print. It contrasts multiple traditions of unprinted communication in their diversity and particularity. This decentres print as the means for understanding publication; instead, publication is seen as an heuristic term which identifies activities these traditions share, but which also differ in ways not reducible to comparisons with printing. The Element engages with texts written on papyrus, chiselled in stone, and created digitally; sung, proclaimed, and put on stage; banned, hidden and rediscovered. The authors move between Greek inscriptions and Tibetan edicts, early modern manuscripts and AI-assisted composition, monasteries and courts, constantly questioning the term 'publication' and considering the agency of people publishing and the publics they address. The picture that transpires is that of a colourful variety of contexts of production and dissemination, underlining the value of studying 'unprinted' publication in its own right.
Women Booksellers in the Twentieth Century
The British women booksellers who built and ran successful businesses before, during, and after the Second World War have largely been forgotten. This Element seeks to reclaim some of these histories from where they lie hidden or obscured in archives, accounts of the book trade of the time, and other sources. Though they were often called 'formidable', this research reveals astonishing impact at local, national, and international levels. Divided into four main sections, the Element first gives a literature review of materials about booksellers, before giving a short context to bookselling, the book trade, and book buyers and readers of the early twentieth century. A third section examines the position of women in society at that time, including how they were viewed as part of the book trade; the final section provides histories of nine women booksellers. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Bee Brown: Wildflower Bee (Foiled Journal)
New title in the Flame Tree Notebook collection, combining beautiful art with high-quality production, with lined pages, a pocket at the back, two ribbon bookmarks and a solid magnetic flap. Perfect as a gift, or personal choice for notetakers and journal users of all kinds. A FLAME TREE NOTEBOOK. Beautiful and luxurious the journals combine high-quality production and FSC-certified paper with magnificent art. Perfect as a gift, and an essential personal choice for writers, notetakers, travellers, students, poets and diarists. Features a wide range of well-known and modern artists, with new artworks published throughout the year. BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED. The highly crafted covers are printed on foil paper, embossed then foil stamped, complemented by the luxury binding and rose red endpapers, all FSC-certified. The covers are created by our artists and designers who spend many hours transforming original artwork into gorgeous 3d masterpieces that feel good in the hand, and look wonderful on a desk or table. PRACTICAL, EASY TO USE. Flame Tree Notebooks come with practical features too: a pocket at the back for scraps and receipts; two ribbon markers to help keep track of more than just a to-do list; robust ivory text paper, printed with lines; and when you need to collect other notes or scraps of paper the magnetic side flap keeps everything neat and tidy. THE ARTIST. Bee Brown is a freelance illustrator based in Warwickshire in the UK. She has over 25 years' experience in delivering her own brand of whimsical and colourful illustration to clients all over the world. Whether she is drawing animals, people, places or her own style of hand-drawn lettering, she is always trying to infuse her work with charming details, plenty of personality and a generous helping of joy! THE FINAL WORD. As William Morris said, "Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Bee Brown: Folk Owl (Foiled Journal)
New title in the Flame Tree Notebook collection, combining beautiful art with high-quality production, with lined pages, a pocket at the back, two ribbon bookmarks and a solid magnetic flap. Perfect as a gift, or personal choice for notetakers and journal users of all kinds. A FLAME TREE NOTEBOOK. Beautiful and luxurious the journals combine high-quality production and FSC-certified paper with magnificent art. Perfect as a gift, and an essential personal choice for writers, notetakers, travellers, students, poets and diarists. Features a wide range of well-known and modern artists, with new artworks published throughout the year. BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED. The highly crafted covers are printed on foil paper, embossed then foil stamped, complemented by the luxury binding and rose red endpapers, all FSC-certified. The covers are created by our artists and designers who spend many hours transforming original artwork into gorgeous 3d masterpieces that feel good in the hand, and look wonderful on a desk or table. PRACTICAL, EASY TO USE. Flame Tree Notebooks come with practical features too: a pocket at the back for scraps and receipts; two ribbon markers to help keep track of more than just a to-do list; robust ivory text paper, printed with lines; and when you need to collect other notes or scraps of paper the magnetic side flap keeps everything neat and tidy. THE ARTIST. Bee Brown is a freelance illustrator based in Warwickshire in the UK. She has over 25 years' experience in delivering her own brand of whimsical and colourful illustration to clients all over the world. Whether she is drawing animals, people, places or her own style of hand-drawn lettering, she is always trying to infuse her work with charming details, plenty of personality and a generous helping of joy! THE FINAL WORD. As William Morris said, "Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
The Irish Writers Handbook 2025
The 2025 edition of the Irish Writers Guide contains updated publisher and resource listings, together with new pieces for writers of every genre, from children's to thrillers, from academic history to memoirs. "An essential reference tool for aspiring and accomplished authors alike" - The Irish Times
Unlocking Arabic
About This Series: Unlock Arabic: A Simple Path to MasteryThis series is designed primarily for learners who are beginning their journey in Arabic as a second language. "Unlock Arabic" will help you uncover the secrets of the Arabic language through a step-by-step approach that takes you from foundational skills to advanced proficiency. Whether you're just starting or looking to refine your abilities, this series equips you with the tools and confidence to master the language.The series is organized into four key blocks of workbooks: Block 1: Tracing the Arabic Alphabet and WordsBlock 2: Tracing the Arabic Quran ChaptersBlock 3: Arabic GrammarBlock 4: Reading ComprehensionWhether you're Muslim or non-Muslim, learning Arabic opens up incredible opportunities and brings invaluable richness to your life. As one of the Semitic languages, Arabic is one of the world's most widespread languages. It is also one of the six official languages of the United Nations and serves as the liturgical language of nearly a quarter of the planet's population. About This Activity BookThis activity book is part of Block 2 of the Unlock Arabic series, focusing on tracing Quranic text. It is designed to help you master Arabic handwriting while also enhancing your memorization, grammar, and vocabulary.Whether you're a child or an adult with a basic understanding of Arabic pronunciation and writing, this book is perfect for you! If you're a complete beginner, it's recommended to start with the Block 1 workbooks.As you trace the letters and words, be sure to pronounce them aloud. You'll notice significant improvement in your handwriting, grammar, and vocabulary. Dive in and watch your Arabic skills grow regardless of your age!Why Tracing Matters?Researches have shown that handwriting can enhance memory and understanding, helping to imprint information in the brain more effectively than typing on a computer. Handwriting also improves fine motor skills, letter recognition, spelling, grammar, memory, comprehension, creativity, and attention to detail, while strengthening the muscles in the fingers and hand.Since most Arabic language rules are derived from the Quran, tracing Quranic text not only helps improve handwriting but also effortlessly enhances grammar and vocabulary, often subconsciously!
Unlocking Arabic
About This Series: Unlock Arabic: A Simple Path to MasteryThis series is designed primarily for learners who are beginning their journey in Arabic as a second language. "Unlock Arabic" will help you uncover the secrets of the Arabic language through a step-by-step approach that takes you from foundational skills to advanced proficiency. Whether you're just starting or looking to refine your abilities, this series equips you with the tools and confidence to master the language.The series is organized into four key blocks of workbooks: Block 1: Tracing the Arabic Alphabet and WordsBlock 2: Tracing the Arabic Quran ChaptersBlock 3: Arabic GrammarBlock 4: Reading ComprehensionWhether you're Muslim or non-Muslim, learning Arabic opens up incredible opportunities and brings invaluable richness to your life. As one of the Semitic languages, Arabic is one of the world's most widespread languages. It is also one of the six official languages of the United Nations and serves as the liturgical language of nearly a quarter of the planet's population. About This Activity BookThis activity book is part of Block 2 of the Unlock Arabic series, focusing on tracing Quranic text. It is designed to help you master Arabic handwriting while also enhancing your memorization, grammar, and vocabulary.Whether you're a child or an adult with a basic understanding of Arabic pronunciation and writing, this book is perfect for you! If you're a complete beginner, it's recommended to start with the Block 1 workbooks.As you trace the letters and words, be sure to pronounce them aloud. You'll notice significant improvement in your handwriting, grammar, and vocabulary. Dive in and watch your Arabic skills grow regardless of your age!Why Tracing Matters?Researches have shown that handwriting can enhance memory and understanding, helping to imprint information in the brain more effectively than typing on a computer. Handwriting also improves fine motor skills, letter recognition, spelling, grammar, memory, comprehension, creativity, and attention to detail, while strengthening the muscles in the fingers and hand.Since most Arabic language rules are derived from the Quran, tracing Quranic text not only helps improve handwriting but also effortlessly enhances grammar and vocabulary, often subconsciously!
Unlocking Arabic
About This Series: Unlock Arabic: A Simple Path to MasteryThis series is designed primarily for learners who are beginning their journey in Arabic as a second language. "Unlock Arabic" will help you uncover the secrets of the Arabic language through a step-by-step approach that takes you from foundational skills to advanced proficiency. Whether you're just starting or looking to refine your abilities, this series equips you with the tools and confidence to master the language.The series is organized into four key blocks of workbooks: Block 1: Tracing the Arabic Alphabet and WordsBlock 2: Tracing the Arabic Quran ChaptersBlock 3: Arabic GrammarBlock 4: Reading ComprehensionWhether you're Muslim or non-Muslim, learning Arabic opens up incredible opportunities and brings invaluable richness to your life. As one of the Semitic languages, Arabic is one of the world's most widespread languages. It is also one of the six official languages of the United Nations and serves as the liturgical language of nearly a quarter of the planet's population. About This Activity BookThis activity book is part of Block 2 of the Unlock Arabic series, focusing on tracing Quranic text. It is designed to help you master Arabic handwriting while also enhancing your memorization, grammar, and vocabulary.Whether you're a child or an adult with a basic understanding of Arabic pronunciation and writing, this book is perfect for you! If you're a complete beginner, it's recommended to start with the Block 1 workbooks.As you trace the letters and words, be sure to pronounce them aloud. You'll notice significant improvement in your handwriting, grammar, and vocabulary. Dive in and watch your Arabic skills grow regardless of your age!Why Tracing Matters?Researches have shown that handwriting can enhance memory and understanding, helping to imprint information in the brain more effectively than typing on a computer. Handwriting also improves fine motor skills, letter recognition, spelling, grammar, memory, comprehension, creativity, and attention to detail, while strengthening the muscles in the fingers and hand.Since most Arabic language rules are derived from the Quran, tracing Quranic text not only helps improve handwriting but also effortlessly enhances grammar and vocabulary, often subconsciously!
Unlocking Arabic
About This Series: Unlock Arabic: A Simple Path to MasteryThis series is designed primarily for learners who are beginning their journey in Arabic as a second language. "Unlock Arabic" will help you uncover the secrets of the Arabic language through a step-by-step approach that takes you from foundational skills to advanced proficiency. Whether you're just starting or looking to refine your abilities, this series equips you with the tools and confidence to master the language.The series is organized into four key blocks of workbooks: Block 1: Tracing the Arabic Alphabet and WordsBlock 2: Tracing the Arabic Quran ChaptersBlock 3: Arabic GrammarBlock 4: Reading ComprehensionWhether you're Muslim or non-Muslim, learning Arabic opens up incredible opportunities and brings invaluable richness to your life. As one of the Semitic languages, Arabic is one of the world's most widespread languages. It is also one of the six official languages of the United Nations and serves as the liturgical language of nearly a quarter of the planet's population. About This Activity BookThis activity book is part of Block 2 of the Unlock Arabic series, focusing on tracing Quranic text. It is designed to help you master Arabic handwriting while also enhancing your memorization, grammar, and vocabulary.Whether you're a child or an adult with a basic understanding of Arabic pronunciation and writing, this book is perfect for you! If you're a complete beginner, it's recommended to start with the Block 1 workbooks.As you trace the letters and words, be sure to pronounce them aloud. You'll notice significant improvement in your handwriting, grammar, and vocabulary. Dive in and watch your Arabic skills grow regardless of your age!Why Tracing Matters?Researches have shown that handwriting can enhance memory and understanding, helping to imprint information in the brain more effectively than typing on a computer. Handwriting also improves fine motor skills, letter recognition, spelling, grammar, memory, comprehension, creativity, and attention to detail, while strengthening the muscles in the fingers and hand.Since most Arabic language rules are derived from the Quran, tracing Quranic text not only helps improve handwriting but also effortlessly enhances grammar and vocabulary, often subconsciously!
Unlocking Arabic
About This Series: Unlock Arabic: A Simple Path to MasteryThis series is designed primarily for learners who are beginning their journey in Arabic as a second language. "Unlock Arabic" will help you uncover the secrets of the Arabic language through a step-by-step approach that takes you from foundational skills to advanced proficiency. Whether you're just starting or looking to refine your abilities, this series equips you with the tools and confidence to master the language.The series is organized into four key blocks of workbooks: Block 1: Tracing the Arabic Alphabet and WordsBlock 2: Tracing the Arabic Quran ChaptersBlock 3: Arabic GrammarBlock 4: Reading ComprehensionWhether you're Muslim or non-Muslim, learning Arabic opens up incredible opportunities and brings invaluable richness to your life. As one of the Semitic languages, Arabic is one of the world's most widespread languages. It is also one of the six official languages of the United Nations and serves as the liturgical language of nearly a quarter of the planet's population. About This Activity BookThis activity book is part of Block 2 of the Unlock Arabic series, focusing on tracing Quranic text. It is designed to help you master Arabic handwriting while also enhancing your memorization, grammar, and vocabulary.Whether you're a child or an adult with a basic understanding of Arabic pronunciation and writing, this book is perfect for you! If you're a complete beginner, it's recommended to start with the Block 1 workbooks.As you trace the letters and words, be sure to pronounce them aloud. You'll notice significant improvement in your handwriting, grammar, and vocabulary. Dive in and watch your Arabic skills grow regardless of your age!Why Tracing Matters?Researches have shown that handwriting can enhance memory and understanding, helping to imprint information in the brain more effectively than typing on a computer. Handwriting also improves fine motor skills, letter recognition, spelling, grammar, memory, comprehension, creativity, and attention to detail, while strengthening the muscles in the fingers and hand.Since most Arabic language rules are derived from the Quran, tracing Quranic text not only helps improve handwriting but also effortlessly enhances grammar and vocabulary, often subconsciously!
