Author: Makayla Bryant
Publisher: Attrition
ISBN: 9780578676678
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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At the age of sixteen, every teenager must go through a process called The Assessment to determine which Quadrant would be an acceptable fit. Tabitha Nix, a rule follower, is hesitant about listening to her father's wishes about her trying to make it into Fidelity, a Quadrant based on government and loyalty. She's accepted into Ardent, the most daring and audacious Quadrant. The Quadrant that just so happens to be surviving off the bloodshed of innocent Graduates in a test known as The Attrition. In Ardent, Tabitha is forced to learn how to fight with and without a weapon, something she's fearful of doing. Her trainers in Ardent push her to the point where she's determined to know why they are training the Graduates this way. She is even willing to break the rules to find out what everyone's hiding from her. She discovers something she wished she never had. In the Ardent test, The Attrition, Tabitha is forced to kill and murder to survive. She questions everything she knows about the four Quadrants, and everyone around her. Who can she trust? Can she even trust herself? What other lies have been fed to her by her father and the government? The answers Tabitha finds uproot more problems in the four Quadrants than she ever imagined and she's forced to make a choice-comply and keep her family safe or rebel and threaten the existence of the only world she's known.
Author: Hubertus H. Weltens
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3111395936
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 153
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Language acquisition is a human endeavor par excellence. As children, all human beings learn to understand and speak at least one language: their mother tongue. It is a process that seems to take place without any obvious effort. Second language learning, particularly among adults, causes more difficulty. The purpose of this series is to compile a collection of high-quality monographs on language acquisition. The series serves the needs of everyone who wants to know more about the problem of language acquisition in general and/or about language acquisition in specific contexts.
Author: William Philpott
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1468312316
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
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A history of World War I and an analysis of its causes & effects, plus how the conflict was fought. The Great War of 1914–1918 was the first mass conflict to fully mobilize the resources of industrial powers against one another, resulting in a brutal, bloody, protracted war of attrition between the world’s great economies. Now, one hundred years after the first guns of August rang out on the Western front, historian William Philpott reexamines the causes and lingering effects of the first truly modern war. Drawing on the experience of front line soldiers, munitions workers, politicians, and diplomats, War of Attrition explains for the first time why and how this new type of conflict was fought as it was fought; and how the attitudes and actions of political and military leaders, and the willing responses of their peoples, stamped the twentieth century with unprecedented carnage on—and behind—the battlefield. War of Attrition also establishes link between the bloody ground war in Europe and political situation in the wider world, particularly the United States. America did not enter the war until 1917, but, as Philpott demonstrates, the war came to America as early as 1914. By 1916, long before the Woodrow Wilson’s impassioned speech to Congress advocating for war, the United States was firmly aligned with the Allies, lending dollars, selling guns, and opposing German attempts to spread submarine warfare. War of Attrition skillfully argues that the emergence of the United States on the world stage is directly related to her support for the conflagration that consumed so many European lives and livelihoods. In short, the war that ruined Europe enabled the rise of America. Praise for War of Attrition A Wall Street Journal Best Non-Fiction Book of 2014 “An incisive, colorful book. . . . War of Attrition succeeds both as an argument and a gripping narrative.” —Geoffrey Wawro, author of A Mad Catastrophe “Philpott argues persuasively that the stunning victories of the last hundred days of the war were the result of a steep learning curve necessitated by earlier bloodbaths.” —The Wall Street Journal “An astute examination by an expert war historian that sifts through the collective theatres of attrition in this unprecedented slaughter.” —Kirkus Reviews
Author: Monika S. Schmid
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks
ISBN: 0198793596
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 657
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This volume is the first handbook dedicated to language attrition, the study of how a speaker's language may be affected by crosslinguistic interference and non-use. Topics covered include theoretical implications, psycho- and neurolinguistic approaches, linguistic and extralinguistic factors, L2 attrition, and heritage languages.
Author: Dr. Jnaneshwar Pai Maroor
Publisher: Archers & Elevators Publishing House
ISBN: 9386501341
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Author: S. G. Night
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781482712957
Category : Demonology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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They came by night. We couldn't stop them. Io burned. It is the 107th year of the Fourth Age. Our conquerors, the Demonic Dominion, have solidified their rule over our homeland. The Humans are in shackles. The Elves are in exile. And we, Io's proud Majiski battle-mages, are standing at extinction's edge. The mighty Grey Wall has sealed us all inside the Demons' cruelty...and after a hundred long years, the world beyond is all but forgotten. The Genshwin are all that remain of the Majiski: just a few hundred survivors sequestered in an underground fortress-masters of shadow and steel. In secret, they work against the Dominion. But how much can three hundred Majiski really expect to accomplish? Especially when their Patriarch is keeping more secrets than the Demons themselves. Racath Thanjel is the best the Genshwin have to offer. He's young, fast, strong, and brilliant...and constantly at odds with his Patriarch's rules of discretion. But something's changed. Soon, Racath finds himself swept up into a spider web of conspiracies, lost knowledge, and the prophetic pages of ancient scripture. And now, all his hopes depend upon a girl with golden hair, an aging Majiski warrior, and a sword wrought by God Himself....
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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428976469
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 79
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Author: Lynne Hansen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195352645
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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This volume introduces the study of language attrition--the forgetting of language. In this first collection devoted to second language attrition, the contributors focus on contexts of loss where Japanese is either the attriting language, or the replacing language. Bringing together research to substantiate previous hypotheses in the field, this book offers new theoretical and practical insights for those interested in language change.
Author: Dr. Azadeh Asgari
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300191503
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 89
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This study widens the horizon of vocabulary attrition on foreign language researchers since it investigates attrition of English as a foreign language both in those who exceed the period of non-use and those who are still exposed to the language to examine whether or not the latter undergoes attrition.
Author: Joseph C. Hermanowicz
Publisher: Algora Publishing
ISBN: 087586189X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Hermanowicz asks an important question: Why do college student departure rates vary among elite institutions of higher learning in the United States? This book breaks new ground as this question has not been previously explored in an empirical way. An empirical treatment of this question is important both theoretically and practically. This volume makes a substantial contribution to the voluminous body of literature on college student departure. John M. Braxton Professor of Education, Department of Leadership, Policy and Organizations, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University
