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Hachette Livre - BNF Grammaire de la Langue Soureth Ou Chaldéen
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£19.57
Hachette Livre - BNF Système Perfectionné de Conjugaison Des Verbes
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£11.53
Hachette Livre - BNF de la Prononciation Et de l'Orthographe
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£11.00
Hachette Bled Poche Conjugaison
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£8.05
Larousse Kingfisher Chambers Essais
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£9.00
Editions Flammarion Le grand theatre du monde
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£17.66
Cle International Grammaire progressive du français Niveau
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£37.00
Books on Demand L'empoisonneuse
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£8.99
Books on Demand Éloge de la Folie: un pamphlet d'Érasme pour
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£16.05
Yukibooks 100 mots opposés en anglais: Imagier bilingue
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£10.95
Yukibooks 100 eerste woorden in het pools: Tweetalig
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£10.40
Yukibooks Mes 100 premiers mots en anglais
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£10.95
Yukibooks Le prime 100 parole in turco: Libro illustrato
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£10.95
Yukibooks 100 nombres, formes et couleurs en polonais:
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£10.40
Yukibooks 100 eerste woorden in het frans: Tweetalig
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£10.95
Yukibooks I primi 100 animali in turco: Libro illustrato
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£10.95
Yukibooks 100 premiers animaux en turc: Imagier bilingue
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£10.40
Yukibooks 100 eerste dieren in het frans: Tweetalig
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£10.40
Yukibooks 100 eerste dieren in het engels: Tweetalig
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£10.40
Yukibooks 100 groenten en fruit in duits: Tweetalig
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£9.38
Yukibooks 100 eerste dieren in het pools: Tweetalig
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£10.40
Yukibooks 100 eerste dieren in het duits: Tweetalig
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£10.95
Yukibooks 100 groenten en fruit in pools: Tweetalig
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£10.40
Yukibooks 100 groenten en fruit in engels: Tweetalig
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£999.99
Yukibooks 100 mots contraires en turc: Imagier bilingue
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£10.95
Yukibooks 100 frutti e verdure in turco: Libro illustrato
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£10.95
Yukibooks 100 eerste dieren in het spaans: Tweetalig
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£10.40
Yukibooks 100 parole opposte in turco: Libro illustrato
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£10.40
Yukibooks 100 groenten en fruit in spaans: Tweetalig
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£10.40
Yukibooks Imparare il francese - 150 parole con pronunce -
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£12.30
Yukibooks 100 fruits et légumes en turc: Imagier bilingue
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£10.95
Yukibooks Apprendre le turc - Animaux: Imagier pour enfants
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£9.68
Yukibooks Aprender turco - 150 palabras con pronunciación -
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£12.30
Yukibooks Imparare l'inglese - 150 parole con pronunce -
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£12.30
Yukibooks Imparare lo spagnolo - 150 parole con pronunce -
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£12.30
Yukibooks Imparare il tedesco - 150 parole con pronunce -
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£999.99
Yukibooks Imparare il turco - 150 parole con pronunce -
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£12.30
Yukibooks 100 mots contraires en russe: Imagier bilingue
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£10.19
Yukibooks Imparare l'olandese - 150 parole con pronunce -
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£12.30
PN Books The Genesis of Digital Gold: A Comprehensive Look
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£10.44
Assimil German
Book SynopsisHere is the all-new edition of our German method, one of the most popular courses in our catalogue. Structural evolution in the language and the apparition of new terms and turns of phrase made this German method necessary. It also takes Austrian idiom into account. By dint of working conscientiously and regularly, you will learn everyday vocabulary in a matter of months, as well as the basic grammar rules underpinning the language. Very soon, this beautiful language will sound familiar to you, thanks to around 100 dialogues from everyday life presented in this work. Available un this box set with 3 audio CD and 1 MP3 audio download. The recordings include all the texts in German for each lesson and the translation exercises from the book. These progressively more challenging texts have been recorded by professional native speakers. 1 book + 3 audio CDs + Downloadable MP3 files.
£62.89
Assimil La Grammaire Du Japonais
Book SynopsisA 320-page book.
£30.59
Springer Nature Switzerland AG English After RP: Standard British Pronunciation
Book SynopsisThis book concisely describes ways in which today's standard British English speech differs from the upper-class accent of the last century, Received Pronunciation, which many now find old-fashioned or even comic. In doing so it provides a much-needed update to the existing RP-based descriptions by which the sound system of British English is still known to many around the world.The book opens with an account of the rise and fall of RP, before turning to a systematic analysis of the phonetic developments between RP and contemporary Standard Southern British (SSB) in vowels, consonants, stress, connected speech and intonation. Topics covered include the anti-clockwise vowel shift, the use of glottal stops, 'intrusive r', vocal fry and Uptalk. It concludes with a Mini Dictionary of well over 100 words illustrating the changes described throughout the book, and provides a chart of updated IPA vowel symbols.This book is an essential resource for anyone interested in British pronunciation and sound change, including academics in phonetics, phonology, applied linguistics and English language; trainers of English teachers; English teachers themselves; teachers of voice and accent coaches; and students in those areas.Table of Contents‘A concise, readable and teachable framework. It will be invaluable not only to teachers of EFL, but also to everyone teaching or studying linguistics and phonetics, speech and drama, and speech and language therapy. It is a book I wish I had written myself – but I don’t think I would have been able to make such a good job of it’—From the Foreword by J.C. Wells, Emeritus Professor of Phonetics, University College London, UK‘The subject of the phonetics of the standard English accent has been in the doldrums, and most pronunciation materials in current use are outdated. English After RP – whose author is ideally qualified – sets out the groundwork for a complete rethink. I believe the book will establish itself as an essential foundation for new directions in the phonetics of English.’—Peter Roach, Emeritus Professor of Phonetics, University of Reading, UKThis book concisely describes ways in which today's standard British English speech differs from the upper-class accent of the last century, Received Pronunciation, which many now find old-fashioned or even comic. In doing so it provides a much-needed update to the existing RP-based descriptions by which the sound system of British English is still known to many around the world. The book opens with an account of the rise and fall of RP, before turning to a systematic analysis of the phonetic developments between RP and contemporary Standard Southern British (SSB) in vowels, consonants, stress, connected speech and intonation. Topics covered include the anti-clockwise vowel shift, the use of glottal stops, 'intrusive r', vocal fry and Uptalk. It concludes with a Mini Dictionary of well over 100 words illustrating the changes described throughout the book, and provides a chart of updated IPA vowel symbols. This book is an essential resource for anyone interested in British pronunciation and sound change, including academics in phonetics, phonology, applied linguistics and English language; trainers of English teachers; English teachers themselves; teachers of voice and accent coaches; and students in those areas.Geoff Lindsey is Honorary Lecturer in Linguistics, and Director of the Summer Course in English Phonetics, at University College London, UK. He works internationally as a pronunciation and accent tutor and is co-editor of the online dictionary CUBE. He has also worked in film and TV as a writer and director.
£21.84
Springer Nature Switzerland AG Platforms, Protests, and the Challenge of
Book SynopsisThis book examines the recent evolution of online spaces and their impact on networked democracy. Through an illuminating mix of theoretical and methodological analysis, contributors provide an understanding of how a range of individuals and groups, including activists and NGOs, governments and griefers, are using digital technologies to influence public debates. Contributions consider these phenomena in a global contemporary context, providing within the same volume rigorous examinations of the design of digital platforms for deliberation, users’ attempts to manipulate those platforms, and the ways activists and governments are responding to emerging threats to democratic discourse. Providing diverse, global case studies, this collection is a valuable tool for academics within and beyond the fields of new media, communication, and information policy and governance.Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. Platform Utopianism after Democracy.- 3. Inside the Swarm: Cognition, Conformity, and the Affective Instruments of the Social Web.- 4. The Unfulfilled Promise of Digital Networks: Heterogeneity in the Effect of Technology on Collective Action Mobilization.- 5. Social Media Effects: Hijacking Democracy and Civility in Civic Engagement.- 6. Reasons of the Heart: Political Applications of Emotion Analytics.- 7. Cyber Creeps: The Alt-right and the Evolution of Social Media Hatemakers.- 8. Third Spaces, Sequencing, and Intertextuality: (De)Constructing Misinformation and Fake News.- 9. Subverting the Platform Flexibility of Twitter to Spread Misinformation.- 10. Creation of an Alt-Left Boogeyman: Information Economics and the Emergence of ‘Antifa’.- 11. Tweeting Inequity: @realDonaldTrump and the World Leader Exception.- 12. Extrapolating Ideological Divisions in the Indian Public Sphere through Online Twitter Conversations.- 13. Digital Solidarity in Times of Crisis: The Case of Greece.- 14. #Metoo in China: Affordances and Constraints of Social Media Platforms.- 15. Trump Daddy.- 16. Censorship and Digital Dissent in the Kashmir Conflict.- 17. The Fifth Estate Joins the Debate: The Political Roles of Live Commentary in the First Televised Presidential Debate of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.- 18. “Just Don’t Put It on Our Mauna”: Sovereignty and Algorithms in Digital Democracy.
£89.99
Springer Nature Switzerland AG Cultural Conceptualizations in Language and
Book SynopsisThe book comprises a selection of papers concerning the general theme of cultural conceptualizations in language. The focus of Part 1, which includes four papers, is on Metaphor and Culture, discussing general as well as language-specific metaphoricity.Part 2, which also includes three papers, is on Cultural Models, dealing with phenomena relating to family and home, nation and kinship, blood, and death in different cultures. Six papers in Part 3, which refers to questions of Identity and Cultural Stereotypes, both in general language and in literature, discuss identity in native and migration contexts and take up motifs of journey and migration, as well as social and cultural stereotypes and prejudice in transforming contexts. Three papers in the last Part 4 of the book, Linguistic Concepts, Meanings, and Interaction, focus on the semantic interpretation of the changes and differences which occur in their intra- as well as inter-linguistic contexts. Table of ContentsCultural metaphors for the nation: conceptualisation of its BODY and/or PERSON.- Why is death the end of the game and what game is it in the first place? – the universality and variation of the LIFE IS A GAME and DEATH IS THE END OF THE GAME metaphors in languages and cultures around the world.- On Patterns of Conceptual Construal in Tok Pisin.- The red pill, unicorns and white knights: cultural symbolism and conceptual metaphor in the jargon of online incel communities.- Iconic nature of board game rules and instructions.- Kazakh Cultural Models of family and home in contrast.- Family networking of bilingual couples: Between shock and acceptance.- Framing the conceptualization of obesity in online Chinese and British quality newspapers: a corpus-assisted study.- From the Theatre-in-the-Round to the Theatre of the Oppressed- a Process of Forming Interaction.- Changes in the Stereotype of Italians in Polish Students of Italian Philology.- The theme of journey in the modern (migration) German literature.- Trans(de)formations- Migrant Traumas in Aga Maksimowska’s Giant.- The ethnos of the Volhynia Germans in the patriotic book Die deutschen Siedlungen in Wolhynien by Alfred Karasek and Kurt Lück, and in the collective volume Das Buch vom großen Treck by Otto Engelhardt Kyffhäuser – from the study of language islands to national socialist propaganda.- Austrian and German identity in contemporary Slavic Osijek.- Can prejudice be overcome with the help of the social ecological model?.- The formal development and the grammaticalization of the verb wollen.- Conceptualizng modality: A case study of Polish modal verbs.- Semantic Compositionality of Compounds in the Cognitive and Construction Grammar Frameworks: A Comparative Study of Korean and Polish Compounds.
£85.49
Springer Nature Switzerland AG Quantified Storytelling: A Narrative Analysis of
Book SynopsisThis book interrogates the role of quantification in stories on social media: how do visible numbers (e.g. of views, shares, likes) and invisible algorithmic measurements shape the stories we post and engage with? The links of quantification with stories have not been explored sufficiently in storytelling research or in social media studies, despite the fact that platforms have been integrating sophisticated metrics into developing facilities for sharing stories, with a massive appeal to ordinary users, influencers and businesses alike. With case-studies from Instagram, Reddit and Snapchat, the authors show how three types of metrics, namely content metrics, interface metrics and algorithmic metrics, affect the ways in which cancer patients share their experiences, the circulation of specific stories that mobilize counter-publics and the design of stories as facilities on platforms. The analyses document how numbers structure elements in stories, indicate and produce engagement and become resources for the tellers’ self-presentation. This book will be of interest to students and scholars working in the fields of narrative and social media studies, including narratology, biography studies, digital storytelling, life-writing, narrative psychology, sociological approaches to narrative, discourse and sociolinguistic perspectives.Trade Review“Georgakopoulou, Iversen, & Stage invite readers to rethink concepts such as narrative, interaction, tellership, and tellability, as well as the active role of numbers IN and AS social media stories. … The book stands for an imperative necessity to reflect about equating participation in digital media with democratization, engaging readers in new narrative formats and the pervasive way quantification has entered our lives. It mobilizes a rethinking of key concepts, contributing to storytelling research and social media studies.” (Meiriane Martins Aguiar, Language in Society, Vol. 51 (3), 2022)Table of ContentsChapter 1: Analyzing Quantified Stories on Social Media.- Chapter 2: Measuring and Narrating the Disrupted Self on Instagram.- Chapter 3: Making Memes Count: Platformed Rallying on Reddit.- Chapter 4: Curating Stories - Curating Metrics: Directives in the Design of Stories.- Chapter 5: Conclusion.
£52.24
Springer Nature Switzerland AG Teachers Can Be Financially Fit: Economists’
Book SynopsisThis book uses relatable case studies to dispense practical financial advice to educators. Written by an expert team of four award-winning economics educators, the book provides an engaging narrative specifically designed for teachers and their unique financial needs. Educators are attracted to the teaching profession for numerous reasons. Prospective teachers enter the profession believing it offers a certain level of job security and good benefits, usually including a defined-benefit, state-funded pension. But things are changing. Pensions vary widely from state to state and even within school districts. Many private schools do not offer even basic 403(b) saving plans and, when they do, they are often not very generous. Much the same can be said of many charter schools and private colleges and universities. The book consists of fourteen chapters covering a comprehensive group of topics specifically curated for educators teaching at the K-12 and university level, including saving for retirement, managing debt, investment strategies, and real estate. Each chapter begins with a case study of an educator in a specific financial situation, which sets the scene for the introduction and explanation of key concepts. The chapters include a Q&A section to address common questions and conclude with a “Financial 911” focusing on a financial emergency related to the chapter topic. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Yes, Teachers Can Be Financially Fit.- Chapter 2: Spending and Saving: A Guide for Teachers.- Chapter 3: Earning Extra Income.- Chapter 4: Teachers’ Wheels: Cars and Transportation.- Chapter 5: Walls and a Roof: Housing for Teachers.- Chapter 6: Managing Credit and Debt.- Chapter 7: Investment Basics for Teachers.- Chapter 8: Retirement for Public School Teachers.- Chapter 9: Saving for Retirement: Options for Charter and Private School Teachers.- Chapter 10: The Higher Education Connection.- Chapter 11: Educators and Insurance.- Chapter 12: Unconventional Risk Management.- Chapter 13: Teachers in a Market Economy.- Chapter 14. Don’t Keep It a Secret.
£16.99
Springer Nature Switzerland AG Research Methodology and Scientific Writing
Book SynopsisThis book presents a guide for research methodology and scientific writing covering various elements such as finding research problems, writing research proposals, obtaining funds for research, selecting research designs, searching the literature and review, collection of data and analysis, preparation of thesis, writing research papers for journals, citation and listing of references, preparation of visual materials, oral and poster presentation in conferences, and ethical issues in research . Besides introducing library and its various features in a lucid style, the latest on the use of information technology in retrieving and managing information through various means are also discussed in this book. The book is useful for students, young researchers, and professionals.Table of Contents
£67.49
