linguists

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Employing linguistics

thinking and talking about careers for linguists
Explores the unique skills and mindset trained linguists bring to diverse career fields--including branding, technology, and healthcare. Offers reflection questions and tasks for professional linguists on recognizing the relevance and value of their training and skills and how to leverage them on the job market.
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Careers in the US Marine Corps

2016
The US Marine Corps offers a wide array of career opportunities. Comments from men and women who have served in the military, current statistics and forecasts, and realistic descriptions provide a useful look at Marine Corps jobs ranging from combat engineers to avionics technicians to military police.

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2013
Emily Ruff belongs to a secret organization whose "poets" can break down individuals by psychographic markers in order to take control of their thoughts. Then she makes a catastrophic mistake and falls in love, breaking her organization's rules.

The right word

Roget and his thesaurus
2014
A picture book biography of Peter Mark Roget, the creator of Roget's Thesaurus, one of the most widely used reference books ever published.

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Emily Ruff belongs to a secretive, influential organization whose "poets" can break down individuals by psychographic markers in order to take control of their thoughts. Then she makes a catastrophic mistake and falls in love with Wil Jamieson who holds the key to a secret war between rival factions of "poets." In order to survive, Wil must journey to the toxically decimated town of Broken Hill, Australia, as the world crashes toward a Tower of Babel event which would leave all language meaningless.

That hideous strength

a modern fairy-tale for grown-ups
2003

Temple

2002
Professor William Race is called in by the U.S. Army to translate an ancient manuscript which holds the key to the location of an Indian icon which could be used as the basis for a terrifying new weapon.

The bitter sea

coming of age in a China before Mao
2008

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a novel
2013
Emily Ruff belongs to a secret organization whose "poets" can break down individuals by psychographic markers in order to take control of their thoughts. Then she makes a catastrophic mistake and falls in love, breaking her organization's rules.

The companions

2004
Linguist Paul Delis has been enlisted by the Planetary Protection Institute to explore the planet Moss for potential development and profit, and while exploring the planet with his half-sister, they uncover evidence of a ancient civilization that once populated the remote planet.

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