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Book SynopsisThe 52 project started with a simple idea: Write a poem a week. Start now. Keep going. This book brings together the 52 prompts written by poet Jo Bell and by guest poets, so that you can pick up the challenge yourself. With poems to illustrate each prompt, it's an anthology as well as a book of lively and engaging exercises for all poets.

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Book SynopsisWhether smashed on toast or hailed as a superfood, the avocado has taken the world by storm, but what are the environmental and social impacts of this trendy fruit?This book does not seek to demonise the avocado and its many enthusiasts. Instead, it will illuminate consumers on the often unseen impacts of foods. A staple of cafes, restaurants, homes, and social media channels, demand for the avocado has grown exponentially over the past thirty years. From an everyday crop in South and Central America to a global phenomenon, this drastic change in demand has many consequences for people and the planet. As demand grows, so does the need for more land, with land clearances threatening habitats and biodiversity. As production grows, so does global distribution and the impacts that air and sea travel have on the environment. The shift from a local to a global product disturbs the local food system, raising serious questions around food sovereignty and food justice and the importanTrade Review"This book is a desperately needed examination into the extensive impact that our food system has on our planet."Randy Hayes, Founder of Rainforest Action Network"Every food that we eat has an impact on our planet and our society. The Avocado Debate is a timely consideration of the journey of one fruit."Vicki Hird, author of Rebugging the Planet"The Avocado Debate is a much-needed examination of the far-ranging impact that one food can have on our society and our planet."Rob Percival, author of The Meat Paradox"Honor Eldridge’s exploration of questions around global food trade and sustainability is both needed and timely." Patrick Holden, Founder of the Sustainable Food Trust"The Avocado Debate highlights the complexity of the fruit’s production and the environmental and social impact that they have on our planet"Professor Ruben Sommaruga, Professor of Ecology at the University of InnsbruckTable of Contents1. The American Pear: The History of the Avocado 2. Commercially Viable: The Creation of the Hass Avocado3. Superfood: The Nutritional Value of Avocados4. Avocado Toast: Social Media, Marketing, and Influence5. Green Gold: The Creation of NAFTA and the Resistance of US Producers6. Holy Guacamole: Impact of NAFTA on Mexican Food Systems7. New Markets: Regional Challenges to Mexico’s Avocado Monopoly 8. The High Seas: The Global Avocado Trade and Shipping9. Growing Orchards: Land-use Change and Biodiversity Loss from Avocado Cultivation 10. Embedded Water: How Avocados Impact Water and the Potential Policy Solutions11. Vida Campesina: Mexican Agroecology and Food Sovereignty 12. Cartel Control: Narcotics, Criminality, and Avocados13. Alternative Guacamole: Shifting Consumption Patterns14. Assurance: Certifying Avocados and the Role of Technology15. A New Generation: Genetics and Novel Breeding of Avocados

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 About This Book 1 Foolish Assumptions 3 Icons Used in This Book 3 Beyond the Book 4 Where to Go from Here 4 Part 1: So you want to write for Pictures 5 Chapter 1: Introducing the Art of Screenwriting 7 In The Mind’s Eye 7 Developing the Writer’s Mind 8 Approaching Screenwriting as a Craft 9 Finding Your Screenplay’s Story 9 Working through the Writing Process 10 Formatting Your Screenplay 11 Constructing Your First Draft 11 Rewriting Your Script 12 Adapting Your Screenplay from an Outside Source 13 Selling Your Screenplay to Show Business 13 Chapter 2: Preparing to Think Visually 15 Is It Cinema? Considering Other Mediums 15 Is it a screenplay or a novel? 16 Is it film or theater? 17 Is it a movie, visual art, or poetry? 17 It’s probably a screenplay if 18 What You See Is What You Get: The Visual Life of a Screenplay 20 Crafting images from the outside in 21 Crafting images from the inside out 22 Chapter 3: Diving Into the Screenwriter’s Mind 25 Finding Your Feet: How to Learn From Other Writers 26 Reading for dramatic intent 27 Recognizing a screenplay’s genre 28 Art and Life: What’s the Difference? 30 Developing an Artistic Sensibility 31 What a writer sees 32 What a writer hears 33 What a writer remembers and what a writer forgets 34 Recognizing a Story When You See One 36 Identifying the call to write 36 The four important P’s of story 37 Finding an opening image 37 Chapter 4: Approaching Screenwriting as a Craft 39 Invoking the Muse: Examining the Creative Process 40 Imagination: Your Creative Arsenal 41 Flexing the imagination 42 Putting the imagination to work 43 Identifying your writing voice 47 Craft: A Vehicle for Your Imagination 49 Form 50 Technique 50 Discipline 54 Part 2: Breaking down the elements of a story 57 Chapter 5: Unpacking Your Idea 59 I Have This Great Idea Now What? 59 Identifying your interest in the idea 60 Documenting your interest in the idea 61 Getting to Know Your Audience 63 Matching the story to the audience 63 Connecting with your audience 66 Knowing What Happened Before Your Story Began: Creating the Backstory 68 Identifying the elements of a backstory 68 Developing a screenplay through backstory 70 Identifying the Tone of Your Piece 71 Establishing Your Story’s Time Clock 72 Deciding When to Start Your Story 74 Getting to Know Aristotle: A Dramatist’s Best Friend 76 What’s It All About?: Writing an Effective Synopsis 77 Chapter 6: Plot Part I: Beginnings 81 Crafting an Eye-Opening Opener 82 What to show first: person, place, or thing? 82 Conflict: What’s wrong with this picture? 85 Possible ways to begin your story 86 Three Compelling (and Contrasting) Movie Beginnings 87 Jaws 88 Lady Bird 88 Moonlight 89 Chapter 7: Plot Part II: Middles 91 Muddling through the Middle 92 From Lights to Camera to . . . ACTION! 93 Action versus activity 94 Revisiting the story’s time clock 95 Status: Where’s the Upper Hand? 96 What’s Your Problem? Introducing Conflicts and Obstacles 99 Exposition: From Clunky to Creative 101 Sharing info the characters know 101 Sharing info the characters may not know 103 Determining What to Write from What You’ve Written 104 Three Compelling (and Contrasting) Movie Middles 106 Jaws 106 Lady Bird 107 Moonlight 108 Chapter 8: Plot Part III: Endings 111 Are We There Yet? How to Know When You’re Done 112 Tracking the change: What’s different now? 113 Crafting your story’s conclusion 117 Danger Will Robinson: Threats to an Otherwise Healthy Plot 120 Would that really happen? The probable versus the possible 120 Scenes where nothing happens: Two final threats to watch for 123 Ultimate Success: Tracking Three Movies through Their Triumphant Conclusions 125 Jaws 125 Lady Bird 125 Moonlight 126 Chapter 9: Character Building 127 Portrait of a Person: Constructing a Physical World 128 Your character’s physical being 128 Your character’s physical environment 131 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Constructing an Internal World 135 Dreams, desires, and passions 136 Your character’s engine: Needs versus wants 137 Talents and expertise 138 Internal obstacles 139 Your character’s argument 140 From the Inside Out: Making the Inner World Visible 142 Balancing character dialogue with character action 142 Crafting concrete character goals 143 Providing character opportunities 143 Establishing routines that change 144 Forcing your characters to choose 144 Using a mentor 145 Using a narrator 146 Crafting secondary characters 146 Chapter 10: Delivering Dynamic Dialogue 147 Diction: What’s in a Word? 148 Isn’t versus ain’t: Diction’s determining factors 149 The highs and the lows of language 153 Name That Tune: Crafting Your Character’s Music 156 Sound 101: Using poetry as a guide 157 Fascinating rhythm: Crafting your script’s pulse 158 Letting the Listener Lead 161 Putting It Together: Characters in Conversation 163 Setting the scene 163 Dialogue do’s and don’ts 165 Chapter 11: The Nontraditional Film 173 Breaking with Tradition: Other Ways to Get the Job Done 174 Tinkering with Time 175 Song and Dance: The Movie Musical 177 How much music is too much music? 178 Original musicals 179 Musical adaptations 181 One Click Away: Writing a Web Series 183 Show me the money! 185 Tackling the pre-production work for a web series 186 Getting involved in web series production 189 Successfully steering the web series post-production process 190 Scripting the Short (Film) 192 Finding the Festival for You 193 Chapter 12: Maintaining an Audience’s Trust 195 Screenwriting and Ethics 196 Screenwriting and Responsibility 197 What are you willing to put your name on? 197 The immunity factor 198 Is this story for you? Appropriation and authenticity 200 A Gift for Gab: How to Conduct a Meaningful Interview 203 Preparing for an interview 203 Setting up an interview 204 Conducting an interview 205 Part 3: Turning your story into a script 207 Chapter 13: Mapping Out Your Screenplay 209 Conceptualizing Your Concept 210 How to Treat Your Treatment 212 Before you begin 213 Putting it on the page 214 Exploring the Ins and Outs of an Outline 217 One beat at a time 218 Filling in the gaps 220 Crafting the conclusion 221 What to Do When the Outline’s Through 222 Chapter 14: Surviving Writer’s Block 225 Moving from Panic to Peace 226 The top reasons for writer’s block 227 A survival guide 230 Reevaluating Your Routine 231 Seeking Outside Help 233 Chapter 15: Formatting Your Screenplay 235 How the Screenplay Looks on the Page 236 Formatting a title page 236 Setting up the seven components of a page 237 Setting your typeface and margins 238 Spacing your script correctly 239 Making your computer work for you 243 Creating a PDF 244 Making Your Format Flow 246 Cinematic description 246 Character introductions 248 Transitional directions 252 Camera concerns 255 Sample Scenes 260 Chapter 16: Putting It Together: Structuring Your First Draft 261 Traversing the Three-Act Structure 262 Act I: Introductions 263 Your opening moments 263 The first fifteen pages 264 The inciting incident 265 Plot point one 266 Act II: Salting the Wound 266 Know where the action is 268 The about-face 270 The midpoint 270 Plot point two 270 Act III: The Final Frontier 271 The climax 272 The resolution 273 A Note on Subplots 273 Variations on the Routine 276 The five-act structure 276 The eight-sequence structure 277 Chapter 17: Take Two: Rewriting Your Script 279 Downshifting between Drafts 279 How to work when you’re not working 280 Your first time back: Read-through #1 282 A second glance: Read-through #2 284 Back in the Saddle Again: Rewrites 291 Recruiting a Reader 293 Capitalizing on Your Critique 294 Chapter 18: Adaptation and Collaboration: Two Alternate Ways to Work 297 Procuring Primary Material 298 Knowing when you need a copyright 298 Comprehending copyrights 298 Procuring permission 299 Assessing how much to adapt 301 Navigating between Forms 302 From fiction to film 302 From stage to screen 305 From meter to movies 307 Mastering the Process of Adaptation 308 How to approach an original work 308 What to do when you’re stuck 310 Studying the Art of Collaboration 311 What to look for in a writing Partner 311 How to approach collaboration 312 Learning collaboration from the pros 313 Part 4: Selling your script to show business 317 Chapter 19: Before You Send It: Pre-Marketing Considerations 319 Understanding the “Biz” in Showbiz 320 Getting to know the players: The Hollywood hierarchy 320 Getting to know the buyers: The studio hierarchy 322 Getting a “grip”: Hollywood jargon 324 Preparing Yourself for the Biz 327 Putting on a happy face: The art of attitude 327 Organizing your records 328 Reaching out to the right resources 331 Setting personal goals 333 Polishing the Copy You Send 334 Checking last-minute details 334 Finessing your front page 336 Protecting Your Work 336 Registering with the Writers Guild of America 336 Pursuing the “poor-man’s copyright” 337 Chapter 20: Getting Your Screenplay Noticed 339 Designing Your Own Package 340 Highlighting the universal 341 Gaining the competitive edge 342 Considering the reader 343 Preparing to Pitch 344 Perfecting the teaser pitch 345 Selling the story pitch 346 Finding a Manager or Agent 348 Approaching an Agent or Manager 349 Sending a query 351 Pitching Your Script without an Agent 354 What to Do When They Say Yes 356 Meeting with an agent 357 Meeting with executives 358 Looking Ahead: Upon Achieving Success 359 A Final Note 360 Part 5: The Part of Tens 361 Chapter 21: Ten Screenwriters You Should Know 363 Sofia Coppola 364 Nora Ephron 365 William Goldman 366 Charlie Kaufman 367 Spike Lee 368 John Logan 370 Jordan Peele 372 Issa Rae 373 Taika Waititi 374 Phoebe Waller-Bridge 376 Chapter 22: Ten Screenwriting Myths 379 I Have to Live in Los Angeles to Write Screenplays 379 I Have to Go to Grad School to Learn How to Write 380 If I Can Write for Film, I Can Write for TV 381 I Haven’t Written Before and It’s Too Late to Start 382 Writing Is a Lonely Profession 383 Hollywood Has No Ethics; It’ll Ruin the Integrity of My Script 383 It’s Not What I Know; It’s Who I Know That Matters 384 I Have Too Many Obligations to Be a Writer 385 I’m Only as Successful as the Last Screenplay I Sold 386 I’m Not Talented Enough to Be a Writer 386 Appendix A: Sample scenes and online Resources 387 Index 405

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Book SynopsisChristopher J Hodson is Chief Security Officer for Cyberhaven where he oversees all facets of security to protect Cyberhaven customers and employees, including cloud and application security, security operations, and risk management. In addition, Chris serves as a board advisor at the workforce development platform, Cybrary, and is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Information Security. He has previously held CISO positions with Contentful, Zscaler, and Tanium. He is a guest lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London where he also holds a master's degree in computer and information systems security.Trade Review"This is an excellent book. Christopher Hodson writes as he speaks, with passion and clear understanding of a profession of which he has extensive experience and loves. Cyber Risk Management is extremely well researched and provides the reader with a simple-to-follow, guided journey through the cyber issues we face and the approaches we should be taking to cope with them. Hodson's pragmatic style demystifies complex issues making this a great read for both experienced security professionals and non-professionals alike. This is required reading for anyone who wants to intelligently manage cyber risk, whether a CISO, CFO or CEO!" * Amanda Finch, CEO, Chartered Institute of Security Professionals *"In the fast-paced world of cybersecurity, Cyber Risk Management is a guiding light. This book combines expertise with a friendly touch, making it easy for readers to tackle security challenges, no matter their technical background. Christopher Hodson has a knack for unravelling cybersecurity jargon and presenting complex ideas in a way that anyone can understand. He effortlessly blends theory with practical examples, ensuring readers not only grasp the basics but also gain insights into real-world scenarios. Throughout the book, Hodson expertly covers the essentials of cybersecurity risk management, offering a solid framework for prioritizing threats, spotting vulnerabilities, and implementing effective controls. His conversational tone and patient approach make this book a valuable resource for both seasoned practitioners and newcomers." * Dana Wolf, CEO and Co-Founder, YeshID *"Everyone in the cybersecurity universe is experiencing a pace of change and complexity which is simply unprecedented. Christopher Hodson has captured our universe as it is today. He covers the meteoric rise of LLMs and changes in social appetite to technology, with the keen insight, deep expertise and humour that we expect from him. He gives us a reason to feel optimistic about these changes. Whilst so much is changing, the importance of understanding cybersecurity remains paramount and constant." * Phil Owen MBE, VP/Chief Security Officer, Telus Health *"Cyber Risk Management serves as both a valuable playbook for security leaders building out their programs, and a much-needed reference for their key business and technical partners across the organization. Christopher Hodson reinforces and enriches each topic by drawing upon a diverse set of examples from emerging technologies, geopolitical and regulatory forces, historical events, and noteworthy incidents." * Ryan Kazanciyan, CISO, Wiz *Table of Contents Section - PART ONE: Contextualizing cybersecurity risk; Chapter - 01: Why now? The only constant is change; Chapter - 02: Technologies and security challenges; Chapter - 03: Data breaches; Section - PART TWO: Cybersecurity programme management; Chapter - 04: What are cybersecurity and cybercrime?; Chapter - 05: Establishing a cybersecurity programme; Section - PART THREE: Actors, events and vulnerabilities; Chapter - 06: Threat actors; Chapter - 07: Threat events; Chapter - 08: Vulnerabilities; Chapter - 09: Controls; Section - PART FOUR: Conclusion: the cybersecurity risk equation explained; Chapter - 10: Cyber risk management: a conclusion;

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Book SynopsisElena Pykhova is an award-winning risk expert, author, international trainer and educator. She is founder of boutique risk management consultancy The OpRisk Company, which specializes in board - and executive - level advice on effective risk management practices. She runs public and in-house training courses in the UK and internationally for world-leading organizations such as the Euronext Academy. She is founder of a think tank, Best Practice Operational Risk Forum, former Chair of the Operational Risk Expert Panel for the Association of Foreign Banks, and Director for Education at the Institute of Operational Risk.

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Book SynopsisHani Nabeel is the Chief Behavioural Scientist at iPsychTec, a people analytics and behavioural science company. He has over 20 years' experience in talent management consulting and quantitative behavioural research. He is an in-demand conference speaker and industry writer on all aspects of culture measurement, people analytics and behavioural science. He is based in London, UK.

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Book SynopsisThis essential reference for oenophiles -- long used as the go-to text for the prestigious Master Sommelier examination -- is the most comprehensive guide to the world of wine, featuring authoritative information on the history, culture, geography, and taste of vintages around the globe. Fully updated and revised for the first time since 2011, this new 800-page edition of Sotheby's Wine Encyclopedia reflects the most recent trends in the dynamic world of wine, written by experts around the globe.  Beautifully illustrated with more than 400 images and 100 brand new National Geographic maps, this definitive guide is arranged geographically to highlight the regions and climates that produce the best vintages. From the countries of Southeast Europe to the Eastern Mediterranean, each page is packed with information on flavor notes, vineyard profiles, tasting room guides, grape know-how, and special information on unique varietals. T

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Book SynopsisThe Workbook contains a wide variety of review and practice exercises and covers all of the language areas in the corresponding Students' Book unit. It also contains regular review sections to help learners consolidate what they have learned. Upper Intermediate: Global Scale of English 57-68Table of Contents Unit 1 New Things Unit 2 Issues Unit 3 Stories Unit 4 Downtime Unit 5 Ideas Unit 6 Age Unit 7 Media Unit 8 Behaviour Unit 9 Trouble Unit 10 Culture Audio scripts Answer key

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Book SynopsisA rallying call for extending human rights beyond our physical selvesand why we need to reboot rights in our data-intensive world. Winner of the 2024 Balsillie Prize for Public Policy Shortlisted, 2024 Lionel Gelber PrizeOur data-intensive world is here to stay, but does that come at the cost of our humanity in terms of autonomy,community, dignity, and equality? In We, the Data, Wendy H. Wong argues that we cannot allow that to happen. Exploring the pervasiveness of data collection and tracking, Wong reminds us that we are all stakeholders in this digital world, who are currently being left out of the most pressing conversations around technology, ethics, and policy. This book clarifies the nature of datafication and calls for an extension of human rights to recognize how data complicate what it means to safeguard and encourage human potential.As we go about our lives, we are co-creating data through what we do. We must embrace that these data are a part of who we are, Wong explains, even as current policies do not yet reflect the extent to which human experiences have changed. This means we are more than mere subjects or sources of data by-products that can be harvested and used by technology companies and governments. By exploring data rights, facial recognition technology, our posthumous rights, and our need for a right to data literacy, Wong has crafted a compelling case for engaging as stakeholders to hold data collectors accountable. Just as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights laid the global groundwork for human rights, We, the Data gives us a foundation upon which we claim human rights in the age of data.

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Book SynopsisThroughout its long history in Western art, canvas has played an influential role in the creative process. From the Renaissance development of oil painting on canvas to the present day-through Impressionism, Abstract Expressionism, and other art historical movements-the use of canvas has enhanced the scale of painting, freedom of brushwork, and spontaneity in technique. This book recounts some of that rich history in relation to corresponding developments in conservation practice. Rather than concentrating on the familiar concerns of cleaning and varnish removal, this volume considers the preservation of a painting's structure. By focusing on recent studies on the fundamental nature of canvas and its mechanisms of deterioration, the book explains new approaches to the conservation of both contemporary and historical art-including reversible, passive, and preventive treatments, particularly with respect to lining. Written by Stephen Hackney, a conservation practitioner and leader in conservation research, On Canvas is the first book to take a comprehensive look at this important subject and is destined to become an invaluable resource for the field.

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Book SynopsisThis book traces the fascinating history of how and why ancient Mesoamerican objects have been collected. It begins with the pre-Hispanic antiquities that first entered European collections in the sixteenth century as gifts or seizures, continues through the rise of systematic collecting in Europe and the Americas during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and ends in 1940—the start of Europe’s art market collapse at the outbreak of World War II and the coinciding genesis of the large-scale art market for pre-Hispanic antiquities in the United States. Drawing upon archival resources and international museum collections, the contributors analyze the ways shifting patterns of collecting and taste—including how pre-Hispanic objects changed from being viewed as anthropological and scientific curiosities to collectible artworks—have shaped modern academic disciplines as well as public, private, institutional, and nationalistic attitudes toward Mesoamerican art. As many nations across the world demand the return of their cultural patrimony and ancestral heritage, it is essential to examine the historical processes, events, and actors that initially removed so many objects from their countries of origin.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Art of Ancient Mesoamerica, Collections Forged before 1940 - Mary E. Miller From the Market to the Museum: Nineteenth-Century Circulation, Display, and Scholarly Study of Mesoamerican Artifacts in Italy and Beyond - Davide Domenici “An Idol, a Human Crane, an Incrusted Frilly Blue Mosaic Work Once Made for Magic Oracles”: Curious Things from Mexico in Early German Collections, 1525–1835 - Viola König Ciriaco González Carvajal and Archaeological Collectionism in Late Bourbon New Spain - Leonardo López Luján The Objects of History and the History of Objects - Matthew H. Robb The Chapultepec Castle Chimalli: A Habsburg-Repatriated Aztec Ocelot- Hide Shield - Laura Filloy Nadal and María Olvido Moreno Guzmán Collections and Recollections of “the Greatest of Nineteenth-Century Don Quixotes”: Maximilian I’s Imperial Legacy in the Yale Peabody Museum - Brooke Loukkala Beyond the Bazaar: The Making of the Archaeological Collection at the National Museum of Mexico - Miruna Achim National Guardians and Imperial Contenders: The Development of Mexico’s Archaeological Inspectorate - Adam T. Sellen Lost at the Exposition: The Missing Collection of the First National Museum of Guatemala - Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos Casting for Quirigua: Edgar L. Hewett, the School of American Archaeology and Ancient American Research, 1907–1916 - Khristaan D. Villela Maya on the Mersey: Thomas Gann and Collecting in Early Twentieth- Century Britain - Andrew D. Turner “American Antiquities for an American Museum”: Frederick Church, Luigi Petich, and the Founding Decades of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1870–1914) - Joanne Pillsbury World Collecting Mesoamerican Art before 1940: A New World of Latin American Antiquities Imperialist Ambitions, Black Gold, and Stone Figures: Collecting Huastec Sculptures before 1940 - Kim N. Richter Branding West Mexico: How Collectors and Dealers Reshaped the Archaeological Discourse - Christopher S. Beekman Changing Geographies of the Mesoamerican Antiquities Market circa 1940: Pierre Matisse and Earl Stendahl - Megan E. O’Neil Afterword: Object Amnesia and the Archive - Megan E. O’Neil

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Book SynopsisForget everything you’ve heard about adult language learning: evidence from cognitive science and psychology prove we can learn foreign languages just as easily as children.An eye-opening study on how adult learners can master a foreign lanugage by drawing on skills and knowledge honed over a lifetime.Adults who want to learn a foreign language are often discouraged because they believe they cannot acquire a language as easily as children. Once they begin to learn a language, adults may be further discouraged when they find the methods used to teach children don't seem to work for them. What is an adult language learner to do? In this book, Richard Roberts and Roger Kreuz draw on insights from psychology and cognitive science to show that adults can master a foreign language if they bring to bear the skills and knowledge they have honed over a lifetime. Adults shouldn't try to learn as children do; they should learn like adults. R

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Book SynopsisBased on Daniel C. Snell’s original workbook and informed by his decades of teaching, this new and improved textbook provides an introductory course in basic cuneiform signs. Using a method of repetition that asks the student to actively produce the signs as well as passively read them, it efficiently teaches more than one hundred basic signs in their Neo-Assyrian forms, all of which have been chosen for their recurrence and usefulness to the student. The workbook includes instructions and drills, frequent quizzes to reinforce retention, and notes that both provide context about the ancient cultures that used cuneiform and introduce modern scholarly conventions.Designed for beginning students of cuneiform languages and cultures, A New Workbook of Cuneiform Signs is an easy and intuitive way to learn cuneiform. It is a valuable resource for students and teachers alike.

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates teacher and student boredom from the perspective of the teacher and illustrates how thinking about different aspects of this negative emotion might enhance reflective practices. It consists of seven chapters. The first four (Chapters 1-4) are devoted to the role of positive and negative emotions in L2 learning, conceptualizations of boredom, theories accounting for this negative emotion, and a brief overview of student and teacher boredom-related studies carried out in educational psychology and L2 education. The second part (Chapters 5-6) is empirical in nature. It reports on a mixed-methods investigation which tapped learner and teacher boredom from the perspective of EFL secondary school practitioners. It focused on: (1) teacher-perceived causes of learners' boredom, (2) causes of teachers' own boredom, (3) ways in which teachers confront student boredom in the classroom, (4) ways in which teachers deal with their own boredom, (5) factors that underpin teacher and student boredom, (6) ways of combating student and teacher boredom. The third part of the book (Chapters 6-7) integrates teachers' recommendations with outcomes of previous research to propose a reflective practice model of dealing with boredom in the classroom as well as strategies that can be employed to minimize teacher boredom.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Emotions in the language classroom Chapter 2: Conceptualizing boredom Chapter 3: Perspectives on boredom, its causes and solutions Chapter 4: Researching boredom in L2 learning and teaching Chapter 5: Boredom in the L2 classroom: Listening to teachers’ voices Chapter 6: Integrating theory and practice: Reflective practice with respect to boredom Chapter 7: Awareness-raising activities stimulating reflection on L2 boredom Conclusion Appendix 1: Teacher Boredom Questionnaire Appendix 2: A Lesson Report

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Book SynopsisBerwick and Chomsky draw on recent developments in linguistic theory to offer an evolutionary account of language and humans' remarkable, species-specific ability to acquire it.“A loosely connected collection of four essays that will fascinate anyone interested in the extraordinary phenomenon of language.”—New York Review of BooksWe are born crying, but those cries signal the first stirring of language. Within a year or so, infants master the sound system of their language; a few years after that, they are engaging in conversations. This remarkable, species-specific ability to acquire any human language—“the language faculty”—raises important biological questions about language, including how it has evolved. This book by two distinguished scholars—a computer scientist and a linguist—addresses the enduring question of the evolution of language.Robert Berwick and Noam Chomsky explain that unti

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Book SynopsisA short, accessible primer on human memory, its workings, feats, and flaws, by two leading psychological researchers.Why do we vividly recall a traumatic childhood event but forget where we left our keys five minutes ago? How can a scent take us back fifty years while a colleague’s name eludes us? In this compact introduction, two leading psychological researchers describe memory—how it works and why it sometimes doesn’t; how it can be tricked, trained, or improved; and what changes with time. In a manner as engaging as it is informative, Fergus Craik and Larry Jacoby explain the strengths and weaknesses of memory. They trace evolving ideas about memory’s function and present a down-to-earth account of modern views. Citing the latest research, they outline the processes for acquiring and retrieving memories and explore the distinction between conscious and unconscious processes. With insights into the workings of the brain, Craik and

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Book SynopsisA major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback. Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator—often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another—he first gained an audience with his pithy essays on mass culture and then went on to produce some of the most suggestive and stimulating cultural criticism of the late twentieth century, including Empire of Signs, The Pleasure of the Text, and Camera Lucida. In 1976, this one-time structuralist outsider was elected to a chair at France’s preeminent Collège de France, where he chose to style himself as a professor of literary semiology until his death in 1980. The greater part of Barthes’s published writings has been available to a French audience since 2002, but now, translator Chris Turner presents a collection of essays, interviews, prefaces, book reviews, and other journalistic material for the first time in English and divided into five themed volumes. Volume three, Masculine, Feminine, Neuter, consists of his writing on literature, covering his peers and influences, writers in French and other languages, contemporary and historical writers, and world literature. Trade Review"Given the diversity of these pieces in terms of history and content, it is crucial that the translator has made a good job of briefly contextualizing all the pieces and that the translations understand, especially in relation to the gendering that operates in the French language and to some of the more recondite references, that the renderings into English need, periodically, the helping-hand of an attuned and scholarly – that is experienced – editor and translator of Barthes." * H-France Review *Table of ContentsPre-Novels Recovering the Unburies Treasure (On Popular Poetry) The Man-Eater (On Zola’s Nana) Maupassant and the Physics of Misfortune The Cathedrals of Novels (On Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame of Paris) Round Table Discussions New Pathways of Literary Criticism in France A Personal Statement on Robbe-Grillet The Two Sociologies of the Novel Alain Girard: ‘The Diary’ Parallel Lives Pleasure in Language Edoardo Sanguineti Preface (to Ecyclopédie Bordas, Volume VIII) Preface (to Jacques Prévert, Fatras) Argument and Prospectus: A Letter to Philippe Roger Preface (to Ecyclopédie Bordas, Volume IX) Interview-Preface to Littérature occidentale From Them to Us ‘It All Comes Together’ Masculine, Feminine, Neuter

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Book SynopsisNew title in the Flame Tree Blank Notebook collection, combining beautiful art with high-quality production, and featuring blank pages, a pocket at the back and two ribbon bookmarks. Perfect as a gift, or an essential personal choice for writers, note takers, travellers, students, and poets.A FLAME TREE NOTEBOOK. Beautiful and luxurious the journals combine high-quality production with magnificent art. Perfect as a gift, and an essential personal choice for writers, notetakers, travellers, students, poets and diarists. Features a wide range of well-known and modern artists, with new artworks published throughout the year. BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED. The highly crafted covers are embossed and foil stamped, complemented by the luxury binding and rose red end-papers. The covers are created by our artists and designers who spend many hours transforming original artwork into gorgeous 3d masterpieces that feel good in the hand, and look wonderful on a desk or table.P

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Book SynopsisA concise, accessible introduction to language endangerment and why it is one of the most urgent challenges of our times. 58% of the world's languagesor, approximately 4,000 languagesare endangered. When we break this figure down, we realize that roughly ten percent of languages have fewer than ten language keepers. And, if one language stops being used every three months, this means that in the next 100 years, if we do nothing, 400 more languages will become dormant. In Endangered Languages, Evangelia Adamou, a specialist of endangered languages and a learner of her own community language, Nashta, offers a sobering look at language endangerment and what is truly lost when a language disappears from usage. Combining recent advances from the Western scientific traditionfrom the fields of linguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, language attrition, population genetics, and natural language processingand insights from Indigenous epistemology, theory, and ethics, Adamou examin

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Book SynopsisA reformatted miniature edition of one of the Museum's bestselling gift books

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Book SynopsisAdvice, strong opinions, and personal revelations by the world's greatest writers - exclusively researched for this new bookTrade Review"The ideal keepsake for readers, writers and everyone who appreciates the exquisite power of words... Inspirational."—Artsbeat"The perfect recipe to get the creative juices flowing... Contains hundreds of insightful quotes by famous writers and personalities, from Jane Austen to Julian Barnes, Leo Tolstoy to Patti Smith, Virginia Woolf to Henry David Thoreau... [From] motivational to purely relatable."—CentMagazine.co.uk"Not just another book of trite quotes... Unlike much of this genre, it offers both useful advice and insight... Every Day A Word Surprises Me takes a very simple, not to say hackneyed format, and makes something really quite entertaining and useful out of it... Thanks to some imaginative categorisation and sourcing that takes in published interviews, private journals and letters, any writer will find something of use here... Thanks to the provision of proper sources for all the quotes, including links to web pages for many, they become starting points for further investigation... The book becomes a gateway to as rich an investigation of the art of writing as the reader wishes to make it. This is a book that will benefit from being read with a smartphone in one hand, ready for background googling and link following."—CreativeReview.co.uk"As an antidote to creative block, Phaidon has sought to collect 700 quotes in order to guide readers through the most existential questions about life and love, self-doubt, booze, and the everlasting haunt of rejection... Other than outworn 'inspirational quotes' on websites like Goodreads or Brainyquote, the pocket-size guide mainly contains exclusive words extracted from little-known letters, memoirs and personal notebooks." —DazedDigital.com"A prolonged witty publication, containing quotes of the ego and arrogance. But to my surprise I found a collection of over 700 insightful quotes by writers through the ages and from across the globe... By page three I already had seven friends that I wanted to pass this book onto once I had finished it... A delightful book with its mix of font's throughout, irregular type size and hardback cover it's a graphic nerds' dream... Every Day a Word Surprises Me is one of those rare books containing no images that you will want to come back to time and time again."—55factory.net"The varied typography on every page makes it all the more readable and fun to dip into."—Mature Times"This collection is full of its own surprises and hard earned advice, communicated with the eloquence and clarity that only the world's finest writers could summon... inspirational and insightful."—Project Calm"This is the perfect coffee table or bedside table book: to take and give, or to borrow, to re-read often and without a precise scheme."—Slow-Words.com"An inspiring collection of selected wisdom fom a host of well-known and iconic writers... On a wide variety of subjects, feelings and experience."—The Essential Journal"Discussed in the back page column NB, with much focus on 'authorial advice'."—TLS (Times Literary Supplement)"In this compilation, striking imagery, insightful humour and paradoxical wisdom abound... The thematic structure makes for many rewarding contrasts of both attitude and tone.. There is plenty of witty brevity here... Variety of presentation is everything. Through a range of font forms, cases, sizes and layouts, the design reflects and enhances the one or message of the words in question... While there are countless websites offering "inspirational writer quotes" for free, these kinds of details more than justify the duration of collection quotes in book form."—TLS (Times Literary Supplement)

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Book SynopsisConquer that blank page staring back at you! 301 Writing Ideas is a guided journal designed to get you writing right away, so you spend less time pondering and more time expressing your true thoughts and feelings. Whether you want to journal your thoughts and feelings, improve your writing skills, or write a novel, let the 301 diverse questions inspire you to get your thoughts out of your head and onto the page. And with so many prompts, you can turn your writing into a daily practice that may even become a lifelong habit. Prompts include: Describe a moment in time when you wished you could disappear. What was the last thing that made you cry? Do you feel fulfilled by your work? Why or why not? Write about a song that reminds you of a time from childhood. With lots of space to write, this journal has a minimal design that will allow your prose to shine and the prompt text to recede into the

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Book SynopsisThe charming 160-page Mushroom Journal is perfect for recording your thoughts and creative ideas.

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Book SynopsisJapanese Hiragana & Katakana Practice Pad provides an enjoyable and motivating way for the learner to have practice in writing the syllables of the Japanese hiragana and katakana writing systems. There are a total of 365 practice sheets—one per day for a year of learning, or more than one per day for faster progress!—as well as basic instructions and extra sheets of blank squared paper for extra practice. The syllables are introduced in a logical order, along with their equivalents in the Roman alphabet and several examples, and practice is given in using them to write simple, useful Japanese language words. Word-stroke diagrams are provided for each character. Structured space around the edge of each page allows the user first to trace the shapes on top of the models, and then write the syllables independently. This volume will provide a good foundation for anybody interested in mastering the basic kana syllables essential for learning Japanese.

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Book SynopsisA skillfully updated edition of The F-Word which renders a comprehensive portrait of English''s most notorious and colorful word. No word has generated more uses, more creative euphemisms, and more strong opinions than fuck. Jesse Sheidlower''s historical dictionary, now in print for over 25 years, charts the uses of fuck and its many permutations, from absofuckinglutely to zipless fuck. It illustrates every sense of every entry with quotations, from the earliest that can be found to a recent example, showing exactly how the word has been used throughout history.This new edition is not just a minor update but a comprehensive revision of Sheidlower''s groundbreaking text for the internet age. Major new discoveries push back the known history of fuck by almost two hundred years. Sheidlower also considers rapidly changing attitudes towards the use of fuck in public discourse. The volume includes over 2,500 new quotations; over 150 new antedatings (earlier examples of existing entries, improving our understanding of the word''s development); and over 150 entries, including high-profile recent uses such as AF ''as fuck'', fuckboi, and the group of expressions of the sort to give no fucks or zero fucks given.

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Book SynopsisComprehensibility is considered central to successful communication (Munro & Derwing, 1995a, 2007). Yet, despite the crucial role it plays in communication and the contribution it makes towards the assessment of spoken language ability, comprehensibility has occupied an ambiguous position in language testing. At times, it is feature-driven, taking a linguistically-atomistic approach with little reference to context or communicative purpose, treating comprehensibility as an abstract construct made up only of linguistic components. At other times, the assessment of comprehensibility is an intuitive action, relying on a holistic sense of understanding by the assessor and rarely going beyond the speaker's utterances to include listener characteristics. The lack of a perspective that encompasses broader linguistic and socio-pragmatic factors that contribute to achieving meaning in spoken language has motivated us to propose the current manuscript as an approach to understanding, defining and assessing comprehensibility. In this monograph, we argue that conceptualising comprehensibility as a multidimensional construct and adopting a broader perspective to understanding and analysing it for communication purposes would benefit the fields of second language assessment and second language acquisition.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Comprehensibility at the Phonological Level 3. Comprehensibility at Discourse / Text Level 4. Comprehensibility at a Pragmatic Level 5. Comprehensibility and Fluency 6. Technology and Comprehensibility 7. Teaching towards a Comprehensibility Goal 8. Conclusion Appendices 1. Cambridge B2 First Speaking Task 2. TOEFL iBT Speaking 3. IELTS Descriptors 4. Fluency Indicators 5. Examples of Tests

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