ReadThisPlease Volume 1, Editions 1 - 6: Read Short Stories

Cano, Sheila; Gaboo; Bird, Steven; Rexregys, Casimirr; Lewis, B G; Trularin; Moody, Adrienne S; Pryce, Thomas; Reisner, Bruce; Scott, Sarah

ISBN 10: 0980920167 / ISBN 13: 9780980920161

Published by Sage Press, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: ReadThisPlease Volume 1, Editions 1 - 6: Read Short Stories
• Publisher: Sage Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0980920167
• ISBN 13: 9780980920161
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Volume One is our first book of short stories---for commuters, for your coffee break, lunch hour, or any time you need a quick, quality tale. ReadThisPlease covers a variety of subjects, such as romance, nature, family, drama, and humor with over eighty quality literary shorts for your reading pleasure. Now you can carry your own personal copy of Steven Bird's prosaic Pacifica, Sheila Cano's eerie The Saltchuck, Thomas Pryce's Running Out of Time, M Dawn's Truth Hurts and The Greenhouse, B G Lewis' Muse and Prota Caprine, Bruce Reisner's Gangle, Gaboo's Gina's Boudoir and other street level prose. Short stories, poems, prose---get the editions, read them aloud to friends, and win acclaim for your intuitive reading choice. This is our first print compilation... ever. ReadThisPlease.com is an online periodical showcasing selected stories, poems and articles posted on a theme semi-regularly. Find daily stories, articles, photos, and interaction at Now.readthisplease.com. If words are footprints... lead on! (Cover thumbnail pic posts automatically in two weeks.)

About the Author

Steven Bird is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Melbourne, and Senior Research Associate in the Linguistic Data Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania. He completed a PhD on computational phonology at the University of Edinburgh in 1990, supervised by Ewan Klein. He later moved to Cameroon to conduct linguistic fieldwork on the Grassfields Bantu languages under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics. More recently, he spent several years as Associate Director of the Linguistic Data Consortium where he led an R&D team to create models and tools for large databases of annotated text. At Melbourne University, he established a language technology research group and has taught at all levels of the undergraduate computer science curriculum. In 2009, Steven is President of the Association for Computational Linguistics.