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The mission of the Skype an Author Network is to provide K-12 teachers and librarians a way to connect authors, books, and young readers through virtual visits. Wouldn't it be great to invite authors into your classroom or library to video chat with students before, during, and/or after reading their books? We are growing a list of authors who want to make that connection with you via Skype. Visit our Skype Overview page to learn more about Skype.

Amazon has announced that it will give authors and publishers the ability to disable the text-to-speech function on any or all of their e-books available for the Kindle 2. The Reading Rights Coalition, which represents people who cannot read print, will protest the threatened removal of the text-to-speech function from e-books for the Amazon Kindle 2 outside the Authors Guild headquarters in New York City at 31 East 32nd

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Novelinks is maintained by the Education section of the English Department at Brigham Young University. Our goal is to provide educators with quality teaching materials that will enhance classroom instruction for a wide variety of commonly taught novels in middle through secondary schools. Novelinks includes online as well as printed references to biographical, historical and critical insights on authors and their works. We also offer reading strategies and units for specific novels under the heading reading resources.

B2 ESL learners at a press conference with Irish author Jonathan Swift, who is answering questions about Gulliver's Travels.

Black Mass was born in 1963, the brain-child of Jack Nessel, who was the Drama & Literature Director at KPFA in Berkeley, the first voluntarily listener-sponsored non-commercial FM station in the world. (The BBC was compulsorily supported by a government-imposed license system.) Jack suggested the idea to Erik Bauersfeld, who taught aesthetics and philosophy at the California School of Fine Art, and had recently begun to do readings of classic and modern literature for the station. Erik was not wildly enthusiastic, but thought that it might be interesting to search out some of the best stories of the supernatural by first-rate authors who did not normally write within that genre. Obligation soon became obsession.

Author: Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?; Colonne, Guido delle, 13th cent; Benoît, de Sainte-More, 12th cent; Bergen, Henry, 1873-; Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910 Volume: 2 Subject: Troy (Extinct city) -- Romances, legends, etc Publisher: London : Published for the Early English Text Society, by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT Language: English Call number: AIF-1840 Digitizing sponsor: MSN Book contributor: Pratt - University of Toronto Collection: toronto

Author: Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?; Colonne, Guido delle, 13th cent; Benoît, de Sainte-More, 12th cent; Bergen, Henry, 1873-; Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910 Volume: 1 Subject: Troy (Extinct city) -- Romances, legends, etc Publisher: London : Published for the Early English Text Society, by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT Language: English Call number: AIF-1840 Digitizing sponsor: MSN Book contributor: Pratt - University of Toronto Collection: toronto

Language in humans has evolved culturally rather than genetically, according to a study by UCL (University College London) and US researchers. By modelling the ways in which genes for language might have evolved alongside language itself, the study showed that genetic adaptation to language would be highly unlikely, as cultural conventions change much more rapidly than genes. Thus, the biological machinery upon which human language is built appears to predate the emergence of language. According to a phenomenon known as the Baldwin effect, characteristics that are learned or developed over a lifespan may become gradually encoded in the genome over many generations, because organisms with a stronger predisposition to acquire a trait have a selective advantage. Over generations, the amount of environmental exposure required to develop the trait decreases, and eventually no environmental exposure may be needed - the trait is genetically encoded. An example of the Baldwin effect is the development of calluses on the keels and sterna of ostriches. The calluses may initially have developed in response to abrasion where the keel and sterna touch the ground during sitting. Natural selection then favored individuals that could develop calluses more rapidly, until callus development became triggered within the embryo and could occur without environmental stimulation. The PNAS paper explored circumstances under which a similar evolutionary mechanism could genetically assimilate properties of language - a theory that has been widely favoured by those arguing for the existence of 'language genes'. The study modelled ways in which genes encoding language-specific properties could have coevolved with language itself. The key finding was that genes for language could have coevolved only in a highly stable linguistic environment; a rapidly changing linguistic environment would not provide a stable target for natural selection. Thus, a biological endowment could not coevolve with p

This audio is part of the collection: 78 RPMs & Cylinder Recordings Author: Stanley Holloway Date: 1926-00-00 00:00:00

Donne's full text http://incompetech.com/authors/donne/bell.html

The Authoring Software that made these exercises is now available for purchase, contact us for further details We are also running a one-day seminar on use of the software This course material is freely available for use by teachers in any educational institution, although the copyright remains with the Department of Language Studies at London Guildhall University.

image manipulation program like Photoshop, only free! It tackles tasks such as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring

Cool Text has over 1,200 fonts available for download and browsable by categories and author. Most have credit links and a read_me.txt to show who made it and what the license restrictions might be...(they also have a gimp-powered auto-logo maker)

The Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature is a searchable database of more than 7,000 award-winning books for children. DAWCL was developed and is maintained by reference librarian Lisa Bartle. There are many ways to search the database to locate books which will appeal to your students and will meet your instructional needs. In addition to the typical search options of keyword, author, and title you will find search options like the age of the reader, historical period, genre, setting, and gender of protagonist.

"Le avventure d'Alice nel paese delle meraviglie by Lewis Carroll Help - Available eBook formats (including mobile) - Read online Bibliographic Record [help] Author Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898 Illustrator Tenniel, John, Sir, 1820-1914 Translator Pietrocòla-Rossetti, T. (Teodorico) LoC No. 44020342 LoC catalog record Title Le avventure d'Alice nel paese delle meraviglie Language Italian LoC Class PR: Language and Literatures: English literature LoC Class PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres Subject Fantasy EText-No. 28371 Release Date 2009-03-20 Copyright Status Not copyrighted in the United States. If you live elsewhere check the laws of your country before downloading this ebook. Base Directory /files/28371/ Download this ebook for free Hand-Crafted Files [help] Format [help] Encoding ¹ [help] Compression [help] Size Download Links [help] HTML none 224 KB main site mirror sites P2P HTML zip 1.44 MB main site mirror sites P2P Plain text iso-8859-1 none 169 KB main site mirror sites P2P Plain text iso-8859-1 zip 64 KB main site mirror sites P2P Computer-Generated Files [help] Format [help] Encoding ¹ [help] Size Download Links [help] EPUB (experimental) [help] 92 KB main site EPUB with images (experimental) [help] 1.44 MB main site Unicode Plain Text (experimental) [help] 171 KB main site Mobipocket (experimental) [help] 146 KB main site Mobipocket with images (experimental) [help] 1.43 MB main site Plucker (experimental) [help] 100 KB main site QiOO Mobile (experimental) [help] 124 KB main site ¹ If you need a special character set, try our online recoding service. Web site copyright © 2003-2009 Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation - All Rights Reserved. "

Every now and again, a book comes along that should be compulsory reading. This is one of those books. It is designed for students for whom English is a second language and plan to study in an English speaking country, however all students can benefit from reading relevant sections of this book. Furthermore, the authors demonstrate a thorough knowledge of this topic and an empathic understanding of the problems confronting students from a variety of countries.

Today, we're launching an initiative to help authors and publishers discover new audiences for books they've made available for free under Creative Commons (CC) licenses. Rightsholders who want to distribute their CC-licensed books more widely can choose to allow readers around the world to download, use, and share their work via Google Books.