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Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Introduces the seven symbols and their values, shows how to add and subtract to make numbers. Teaches how the symbols interact and about the bar across the top and the open box that are used for larger numbers. Shows Roman numerals in real life settings: on clocks, in books, and on buildings.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
All of the clocks at the amusement park have roman numerals instead of numbers. Abby and Ben need to keep track of the time. Young readers will learn how the children figure out how to read roman numerals. Simple text and illustrations help explain which number each roman numeral is equal to, as well as other concepts including first, second, and third.
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"The Copyeditor's Handbook is a lively, practical manual for newcomers to publishing and for experienced editors who want to fine-tune their skills or broaden their understanding of the craft. This book may be used for self-instruction or as a textbook in copyediting classes. The exercises are accompanied by answer keys and detailed line-by-line explanations. The third edition features: Updates reflecting the 16th edition of The Chicago Manual of...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"This is the very first 'teach yourself' book on palaeography, covering all the skills that the genealogist needs to read any document that might be found at any date in English archives. Taking the form of a series of graded exercises in transcription, it works backwards in time from the modern handwriting of the nineteenth century in easy stages to the 'court hands' of the medieval period, focusing on records that are of particular interest to family...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Unstuffy, hip, and often funny, The Copyeditor's Handbook has become an indispensable resource both for new editors and for experienced hands who want to refresh their skills and broaden their understanding of the craft of copyediting. This fourth edition incorporates the latest advice from language authorities, usage guides, and new editions of major style manuals, including The Chicago Manual of Style. It registers the tectonic shifts in twenty-first-century...
Publisher
Barrons Educational Series, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Provides equivalents in the Spanish spoken in both Spain and Latin America for a hundred thousand words and expressions in American English, along with numerals, symbols, abbreviations, cultural tips, and guides to Spanish and English grammar.
7) Synesthesia
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"An accessible, concise primer on the neurological trait of synesthesia-vividly felt sensory couplings-by a founder of the field. One in twenty-three people carry the genes for the synesthesia. Not a disorder but a neurological trait, like perfect pitch, synesthesia creates vividly felt cross-sensory couplings. A synesthete might hear a voice and at the same time see it as a color or shape, taste its distinctive flavor, or feel it as a physical touch....
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Continuum
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"There are so many Latin phrases in everyday use that often we use them without understanding the background and context within which they were actually used. 'Carpe diem'; 'Stet'; 'Memento mori'; 'Et tu Brute' - examples would fill a book. And often these phrases are also used in English translation: 'The die is cast'; 'crossing the Rubicon'; 'Rome was not built in a day'. Many of these phrases are humorous, but they are also a rich source of wisdom:...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Documents are milestones and markers of human activity, part of who and what we are. Our story can be told through the objects, profound and trivial, famous and forgotten, by which we remember and are remembered. Documents That Changed the Way We Live examines dozens of compelling stories that describe these documents; their creation, motivation, influence, importance, historical and social context, provenance; and their connections to contemporary...
Author
Publisher
Ulysses Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In this type, tap and swipe world, you have few opportunities to write in cursive. As a result, your skills diminish. Then, when the critical moment arises and you need to personally write something in your own hand, the results are not very impressive. In fact, they're embarrassingly bad. Relearn the beautiful art of cursive handwriting! -- from Amazon.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Discover how the ancient Egyptians used math to build the pyramids, explore shapes in sport, and see how nature is surrounded by numbers. Meet the mathematicians who brought numbers to life, then build a city using pi and amaze your friends with math magic by trying the at-home experiments."--
Author
Publisher
Flowerpot Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Have you ever wondered how people counted to 100 before modern numbers were invented? A basic explanation of Roman numerals, examples of how they are used today, and step-by-step guides on how to use them are explored through diagrams, photos, and informative and engaging text in this newest addition to the How Do series"--
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