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Johns Hopkins University Press The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book fills a gap. Finally, someone who has been entrusted with the evaluation, acquisition, and use of digital objects has summarized his tasks from a technical perspective in a well-thought-out text and backed up theory . . . [Owens] manages to guide the readers in an understandable and clear way through unfamiliar terrain. The book is therefore recommended to all beginners in this area, but also "old hands" will recognize many of their own experiences or maybe learn something else.—Dr. Kai Naumann, ArchivarTrevor Owens has written a thoughtful and thought-provoking book . . . Owens provides important guidance on taking a step back to gain perspective on what one is trying to accomplish with the preservation of a digital object or collection. That is, to see preservation not merely as a technological process to be applied to all objects, but as a craft to be applied as appropriate in the context of particular digital collections and their archival purpose.—Larry Weimer, Head of Archival Processing, New York Historical Society, Metropolitan ArchivistThe Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation is a thoughtful, well-written, and extremely readable book. Owens draws from many cultures and disciplines to illustrate and define how we have preserved and will continue to preserve digital information.—Sharmila Bhatia, Mid-Atlantic ArchivistAnyone looking for an approachable introduction to digital preservation, or a new perspective on persistent digital quandaries, will find something useful in this book.—Archival IssuesA thoughtful guide that will launch a thousand preservation projects. It will inspire many historians not only to approach their sources in productive new ways, but also to better appreciate the sophisticated contributions of those who tend the archives on which we depend. It is highly recommended.—American Historical ReviewAnyone looking for an approachable introduction to digital preservation, or a new perspective on persistent digital quandaries, will find something useful in this book.—Carli Lowe, San José State University, Archival IssuesTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Beyond Digital Hype and Digital AnxietyChapter 1. Preservation's Divergent LineagesChapter 2. Understanding Digital ObjectsChapter 3. Challenges and Opportunities of Digital PreservationChapter 4. The Craft of Digital PreservationChapter 5. Preservation Intent and Collection DevelopmentChapter 6. Managing Copies and FormatsChapter 7. Arranging and Describing Digital ObjectsChapter 8. Enabling Multimodal Access and Use Chapter 9. Tools for Looking ForwardNotesBibliography Index
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American Psychological Association Essentials of DescriptiveInterpretive Qualitative
Book SynopsisThis practical, step-by-step guide explains the most important principles for using a generic approach to descriptive-interpretive qualitative research. Table of ContentsSeries Foreword by Clara E. Hill and Sarah Knox1. Why a Generic Descriptive-Interpretive Approach to Qualitative Research?2. Designing the Study3. Data Collection4. A Framework of Key Modes of Qualitative Data Analysis5. Writing the Manuscript6. Methodological Integrity7. Summary and ConclusionsAppendix. Example StudiesReferences
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University of Toronto Press Language Capitalism Colonialism
Book SynopsisHeller and McElhinny reinterpret sociolinguistics for the twenty-first century with an original approach to the study of language that is situated in the political and economic contexts of colonialism and capitalism. In the process, they map out a critical history of how language serves, and has served, as a terrain for producing and reproducing social inequalities. The authors ask how, and by whom, ideas about language get unevenly shaped, offering new perspectives that will excite readers and incite further research for years to come.Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Preface: Hope Chapter 1: Language, Capitalism, Colonialism: Walking Backward into the Future 1.1 Language and Inequality: A Wary Approach to a Red Thread World 1.2 Red Flags: Keywords, Hegemonies, Ideologies, and Warty Genealogies 1.3 Language Out of Place 1.4 Knotted Histories: Following the Threads through the Book 1.5 The End of the Beginning PART I: LANGUAGE, INTIMACY, AND EMPIRE Chapter 2: Language and Imperialism I: Conversion and Kinship 2.1 "The First Nations Bible Translation Capacity-Building Initiative" 2.2 Colonialism, Imperialism, Postcolonialism, Decolonization 2.3 Intimacy and Connection Across Five Continents 2.4 Reduced to and by Christian Love: Missionary Linguistics 2.5 Family Trees, Comparative Philology and Secular Religion Chapter 3: Language and Imperialism II: Evolution, Hybridity, History 3.1 "Mixing Things Up" 3.2 Imperialism and Industrial Capitalism 3.3 Evolutionary Theory: Language and/as Race 3.4 Slavery, Plantation, Labour, Trade, and "Mixed" Languages 3.5 Americanist Anthropology: The Limits of Cultural Critiques of Evolutionary Racism American Modern: Assimilating Blackness, Disappearing Indigeneity American Primitive: Extracting Language 3.6 Linguistic Relativity, Colonial Ambivalence, and Modern Alienation PART II: THE CONTRADICTIONS OF LANGUAGE IN INDUSTRIAL CAPITALISM Chapter 4: Language and European Notions of Nation and State: 4.1 "Le Symbole" 4.2 The Emergence of the Nation-State in Europe 4.3 Markets and Liberal Democracy 4.4 Making Subjects Through Language Regimentation: Census, Standardization, Literacy Standardization: Grammars, Dictionaries, Canons, Pedagogies 4.5 Language and Differential Citizenship 4.6 Creating Peripheries 4.7 Regulating Relations in Industrial Capitalism 4.8 Making Scientific Linguistic Expertise Chapter 5: Internationalism, Communism, and Fascism: Alternative Modernities 5.1 "Visions of the Future" 5.2 Peace, Geopolitics, and International Auxiliary Languages 5.3 Making Communist Linguistics Marrism The Bakhtin Circle From Language as Action to Language as Tool in the Cold War 5.4. Language and Fascism National Socialism in Germany Language and Race: Yiddish and Esperanto Race, Propaganda, and Mass Media 5.5 Fault Lines PART III: BRAVE NEW WORLDS: LANGUAGE AS TECHNOLOGY, LANGUAGE AS TECHNIQUE Chapter 6: The Cold War: Surveillance, Structuralism, and Security 6.1 "Black Out" 6.2 Battles for Hearts and Minds 6.3 The Investigation of Linguists During the McCarthy Period 6.4 Suspicious Words, Suspicious Minds The Prague Linguistics Circle Fear of the Translator 6.5 Infrastructure and Institutionalization: Communication Studies, Area Studies, Linguistics, Applied Linguistics 6.6 Machine Translation and the Rise of Syntax Rational and Universal Principles for Linguistic Analysis: Late Structuralist Linguistics Freedom, Creativity, and Human Nature: The Rise of Generative Linguistics 6.7 Nineteen Eighty-Four as a Weapon of the Cold War Chapter 7: On the Origins of 'Sociolinguistics': Democracy, Development and Emancipation 7.1 "A Dialectologist in India" 7.2 Engineering Language: Literacy, Standardization, and Education 7.3 Language Policy and Planning: Technocratic Solutions 7.4 Domestic Development and American Sociolinguistics Challenging "Deficit": Three Approaches Fear of the Political 7.5 Challenging Consensus Feminist Linguistics Difference and Domination: Anti-Racist Critiques 7.6 Pidgins, Creoles, and New Nationalisms 7.7 The Rise of Sociolinguistics in Europe: Class and Conflict 7.8 The End of the Trente Glorieuses Chapter 8: Language in Late Capitalism: Intensifications, Unruly Desires, and Alternative Worlds 8.1 "Nayaano-nibii maang Gichigamiin" 8.2 Late Capitalism: The Expanding Reach of the Market and the Neoliberal State 8.3 Language, Inequality, and Ideology 8.4 Managing Your Assets: Language Quality, Linguistic Diversity, and Citizenship 8.5 Brave New Selves: "I am a Business, Man!" 8.6 Affect, Authenticity, and Embodiment 8.7 Recapturing the Commons 8.8 Reclamation, Redress, Refusal, and Reimagining 8.9 This is How We Hope References Index
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University of Toronto Press Long Night at the Vepsian Museum
Book SynopsisThis book takes readers to the village of Sheltozero in northern Russia. It highlights a tiny community of indigenous people called Veps, known colloquially as the forest folk for their intense closeness and affiliation with the forests in their ancestral territories. Davidov uses a tour of the local museum to introduce a cast of human and non-human characters from traditional Vepsian culture, while journeying through various eras under Russian, Finnish, Soviet, and post-Soviet rule. In the process, she explores how contemporary political struggles mesh with traditional beliefs, illustrating how Veps make meaning of their history and unfolding future. A documentary entitled Museum Night is available for instructors who wish to incorporate it into their teaching. Trade Review"Long Night at the Vepsian Museum is an ethnography that documents the history and current cultural struggles of the Veps people, a Finno-Ugric speaking minority community that lives in Russia’s Karelia region, on the border with Finland." -- Samantha Lomb * EuropeNow *"Long Night at the Vepsian Museum, is a well-written and engaging contribution to the literature on Post-Soviet Russia and indigenous cultural production. Moreover, the book’s accessibility and clean prose will make it of interest to not only scholars of these fields, but also undergraduate educators looking for a snappy and thought-provoking syllabus addition." -- A. Lorraine Kaljund * EuropeNow *"By juxtaposing relations between Veps craftspeople and the czarist and soviet states with traditions of reciprocity with master spirits that ensured Karelia’s natural bounty, Davidov offers an altogether new paradigm for understanding Indegeneity in the modern world." -- E. J. Vajda * Choice Connect, June 2018 vol. 55 # 10 *"One of Davidov’s strengths lies in the place that she chose as a base for fieldwork: the local museum. Despite the idea that such institutions present only rigid, official discourses about real and lively cultures, what Davidov successfully reveals is that behind the facade of public exhibitions, there is an important vein of hidden and non-official cultural knowledge transfer and production taking place." -- Tatiana Safonova * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"Long Night at the Vepsian Museum represents a solid analysis of Veps ‘resource biography’ which connects landscape, industry, and practices of remembering as intertwined local resources. This book would be particularly relevant for anthropology students due to the author’s valuable self-reflections on the nature of fieldwork and ‘collaborative ethnography.’" -- Anna Varfolomeeva, Tyumen State University * Anthropology of East Europe Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Forest Folk 2. Vepsian Cosmologies 3. Spruce Eyelashes and Blue Eyes of Lakes 4. The Bad Masters 5. The Long Night of Museums 6. Conclusion
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Pearson Education Limited Gold Experience B1 Workbook without key
Book SynopsisA workbook focused specifically on all the vocabulary and grammar areas taught in the Students’ Book and is suitable for both use in the classroom or homework.
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University of Toronto Press Voicing Identity
Book SynopsisWritten by leading Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, Voicing Identity examines the issue of cultural appropriation in the contexts of researching, writing, and teaching about Indigenous peoples. This book grapples with the questions of who is qualified to engage in these activities and how this can be done appropriately and respectfully.The authors address these questions from their individual perspectives and experiences, often revealing their personal struggles and their ongoing attempts to resolve them. There is diversity in perspectives and approaches, but also a common goal: to conduct research and teach in respectful ways that enhance understanding of Indigenous histories, cultures, and rights, and promote reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.Bringing together contributors with diverse backgrounds and unique experiences, Voicing Identity will be of interest to students and scholars studying Indigenous issues as well as Table of ContentsIntroduction John Borrows and Kent McNeil 1. Su-taxwiye: Keeping My Name Clean Sarah Morales 2. At the Corner of Hawks and Powell: Settler Colonialism, Indigenous People, and the Conundrum of Double Permanence Keith Carlson 3. Look at Your "Pantses": The Art of Wearing and Representing Indigenous Culture as Performative Relationship Aimée Craft 4. Indigenous Legal Traditions, De-sacralization, Re-sacralization, and the Space for Not-Knowing Hadley Friedland 5. Mino-audjiwaewin: Choosing Respect, Even in Times of Conflict Lindsay Borrows 6. How Could You Sleep When Beds Are Burning? Cultural Appropriation and the Place of Non-Indigenous Academics Felix Hoehn 7. Who Should Teach Indigenous Law? Karen Drake and A. Christian Airhart 8. Reflections on Cultural Appropriation Michael Asch 9. Turning Away from the State: Cultural Appropriation in the Shadow of the Courts John Borrows 10. Voice and Indigenous Rights Robert Hamilton 11. Guided by Voices? Perspective and Pluralism in the Constitutional Order Joshua Nichols 12. NONU WEL,WEL TI,Á NE TȺ,EȻEȽ: Our Canoe Is Really Tippy kQwa'st'not and Hannah Askew 13. Sharp as a Knife: Judge Begbie and Reconciliation Hamar Foster 14. On Getting It Right the First Time: Researching the Constitution Express Emma Feltes 15. Confronting Dignity Injustices Sa’ke’j Henderson Contributors
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Faithlife Corporation Reading for Comprehension: An Introductory
Book SynopsisWhat's the best way to learn a new language? By approaching it not as a series of facts to memorize but as something alive, with a personality you can get to know and tendencies you can sometimes predict. Designed for long-term retention, Learning Biblical Hebrew focuses on helping students understand how the language works and providing a solid grounding in Hebrew through extensive reading in the biblical text. Introduces advanced concepts in a form accessible to beginning students. Focuses on historic patterns and changes that minimize memorization. Focuses on how the language works for long--term retention. Encourages mastery of paradigms from a handful of representative forms. Includes extensive translation from the third week of class. Prepares students for translation of unedited biblical texts by the end of first semester. Emphasizes reading comprehension rather than decoding. Promotes a strong oral component to enhance language competence. Written for first-year and second-year Hebrew students, this grammar is laid out to present comprehensive concepts to first-year students and then to aid in review and deeper understanding for second-year students. Though written for Hebrew competency, Learning Biblical Hebrew is well suited for students with different learning styles and objectives.
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GMC Publications Outdoor Photographer of the Year: Portfolio III
Book SynopsisA stunning collection of the winning, commended and shortlisted photographs from the 2017 Outdoor Photographer of the Year competition. Outdoor Photographer of the Year (Portfolio III) presents a stunning collection of the winning, commended and shortlisted photographs from the 2017 Outdoor Photographer of the Year competition. Featuring over 150 images from entrants based all around the world, it captures the magnificent diversity of our planet. The annual competition, organized by Outdoor Photography magazine and now in its seventh year, last year received over 17,000 entries from more than 50 countries. Judged by some of the most respected names in the outdoor photography community, the contest attracts and curates the most inspiring images in adventure, travel, landscape, wildlife and nature. This year's overall winner will receive a Fjallraven bursary to the value of £3,000, to put together their own dream package of outdoor equipment. The runner-up will receive a £1,000 bursary, and the category winners will all get a superb Fjallraven Kaipak 38 backpack and £200. The book is divided into the nine categories of the competition, including At the Water's Edge, Wildlife Insight, Live the Adventure and Spirit of Travel. A brand new category for this year is View from Above, which will celebrate aerial landscape photography, whether captured by a drone or from other types of aircraft. A breathtaking variety of images is accompanied by detailed captions and technical information, creating a collection of extreme environments and exceptional photography that will inspire outdoor photographers and adventure enthusiasts alike. Outdoor Photographer of the Year was launched alongside the awards ceremony and exhibition at The Photography Show at the NEC in March this year. The images will be showcased through international media and online coverage, alongside the social media of Outdoor Photography magazine, The Photography Show and competition sponsors Fjallraven. Also available: Outdoor Photographer of the Year: Portfolio I, Outdoor Photographer of the Year: Portfolio II
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IBS Books English-Swedish & Swedish-English One-to-One
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Fernand Nathan Corriges debutant complet A1.1
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Springer International Publishing AG English for Writing Research Papers
Book SynopsisPublishing your research in an international journal is key to your success in academia. This guide is based on a study of over 1000 manuscripts and reviewers' reports revealing why papers written by non-native researchers are often rejected due to problems with English usage and poor structure and content. With easy-to-follow rules and tips, and examples taken from published and unpublished papers, you will learn how to: prepare and structure a manuscript increase readability and reduce the number of mistakes you make in English by writing concisely, with no redundancy and no ambiguity write a title and an abstract that will attract attention and be read decide what to include in the various parts of the paper (Introduction, Methodology, Discussion etc) highlight your claims and contribution avoid plagiarism discuss the limitations of your research choose the correct tenses and style satisfy the requirements of editors and reviewers This edition has two completely new chapters covering machine translation and using AI tools (e.g. chatbots, paraphrasers, editing tools) to improve and correct the English of a text. Other titles in this series: Grammar, Usage and Style Grammar, Vocabulary, and Writing Exercises (three volumes) 100 Tips to Avoid Mistakes in Academic Writing and Presenting English for Presentations at International Conferences English for Academic Correspondence English for Interacting on Campus English for Academic CVs, Resumes, and Online Profiles English for Academic Research: A Guide for TeachersAdrian Wallwork is the author of more than 40 English Language Teaching (ELT) and English for Academic Purposes (EAP) textbooks. He has trained several thousand PhD students and researchers from 50 countries to write papers. He edits research manuscripts through his own proofreading and editing agency. Table of ContentsChapter 1 Planning and Preparation 1.1 Why should I publish? How do I know whether my research is worth publishing? 1.2 Should I write the initial draft in my own language rather than writing it directly in English? 1.3 Which journal should I choose? 1.4 How do I know what style and structure to use? 1.5 What preparation do I need to do? 1.6 How can I create a template? 1.7 Writing style: how do I keep the referees happy? 1.7 In what order should I write the various sections? 1.8 How can I highlight my key findings? 1.9 How can I improve the chances of my paper not only being published, but also being read, understood and cited? 1.10 I know that the recommendations in this book about writing simply and clearly will improve the readability of my paper, but my professor ... 1.11 Summary Chapter 2 Word order and sentence length 2.1 Basic word order in English: subject + verb + object + indirect object 2.2 Place the subject before the verb 2.3 Keep the subject and verb close to each other 2.4 Avoid inserting parenthetical information between the subject and the verb 2.5 Don’t separate the verb from its direct object 2.6 Put the direct object before the indirect object 2.7 Don’t use a pronoun (it, they) before you introduce the noun that the pronoun refers to 2.8 Locate not before the main verb, but after auxiliary and modal verbs 2.9 Locate negations near the beginning of the sentence 2.10 Deciding where to locate an adverb 2.11 Put adjectives before the noun they describe 2.12 Deciding where to put new and old information within a sentence 2.13 Analyse why and how long sentences are created 2.14 Learn how to break up a long sentence 2.14 Summary Chapter 3 Structuring Paragraphs 3.1 Elegance vs Effectiveness 3.2 Choose the most relevant subject to put it at the beginning of a sentence that opens a new paragraph 3.3 First paragraph of a new section - begin with a mini summary plus an indication of the structure 3.4 Deciding where to put new and old information within a paragraph 3.5 Link each sentence by moving from general concepts to increasingly more specific concepts 3.6 Present and explain ideas in the same (logical) sequence 3.7 Break up long paragraphs 3.8 How to structure a paragraph: an example 3.9 Summary Chapter 4 Being Concise and Removing Redundancy 4.1 Being concise is not just an option 4.2 Write less and you will make fewer mistakes in English, and your key points will be clearer 4.3 Cut any unnecessary generic words 4.4 Consider deleting abstract words and phrases 4.5 Prefer verbs to nouns 4.6 Choose the shortest expressions 4.7 Cut redundant adjectives 4.8 Cut pointless introductory phrases and unnecessary link words 4.9 Be concise when referring to figures and tables 4.10 Consider reducing the length of your paper 4.11 Summary Chapter 5 Avoiding ambiguity, repetition, and vague language 5.1 Use a simple and accessible style 5.3 Beware that pronouns are probably the greatest source of ambiguity 5.4 Avoid replacing key words with synonyms and clarify ambiguity introduced by generic words 5.5 Restrict the use of synonyms to non-key words 5.6 Be as precise as possible 5.7 Choose the least generic word 5.8 Use punctuation to show how words and concepts are related to each other 5.9 Defining vs non defining clauses: that vs which / who 5.10 Clarifying which noun you are referring to when which, that, who and the -ing form 5.11 - ing form vs. subject + verb 5.12 Avoiding ambiguity with the - ing form: use by and thus 5.13 Uncountable nouns 5.14 Definite and indefinite articles 5.15 Referring backwards: the dangers of the former, the latter 5.16 Referring backwards and forwards: the dangers of above, below, previously, earlier, later 5.17 Use of respectively to disambiguate 5.18 Distinguishing between both … and, and either … or 5.19 Talking about similarities: as, like, unlike 5.20 Differentiating between from and by 5.21 Be careful with Latin words 5.22 False friends 5.23 Be careful of typos 5.24 Summary Chapter 6 Clarifying and Highlighting 6.1 Why is it so important highlight and differentiate my findings in relation to the findings of other research groups? 6.2 Check your journal’s style - first person or passive 6.3 How to form the passive and when to use it 6.4 Use the active form when the passive might be ambiguous 6.5 Consider starting a new paragraph to distinguish between your work and the literature 6.6 Ensure you use the right tenses to differentiate your work from others, particularly when your journal prohibits the use of we 6.7 For journals that allow personal forms, use we to distinguish yourself from other authors 6.8 Make good use of references 6.9 Avoid long blocks of text 6.10 When you have something really important to say, make your sentences shorter than normal 6.11 Other means of attracting the reader’s eye and keeping their attention 6.12 Show your paper to a non-expert and get them to underline your key findings 6.13 Summary Chapter 7 Discussing your limitations 7.1 What are my limitations? Should I mention them? 7.2 Recognize the importance of 'bad data' 7.3 How to avoid losing credibility 7.4 Be constructive in how you present your limitations 7.5 Clarify exactly what your limitations are 7.6 Anticipate alternative interpretations of your data 7.7 Refer to other authors who experienced similar problems 7.8 Tell the reader that with the current state-of-the-art this problem is not solvable 7.9 Explain why you did not study certain data 7.10 Don't end your paper by talking about your limitations 7.11 Summary Chapter 8 Readability 8.1 You are responsible for enabling your readers to understand what you have written 8.2 Basic rules of readability 8.3 Place the various elements in your sentence in the most logical order possible: don’t force the reader to have to change their perspective 8.4 Don't force readers to hold a lot of preliminary information in their head before giving them the main information 8.5 Try to be as concrete as possible as soon as possible 8.6 When drawing the reader's attention to something use the least number of words possible 8.7 State your aim before giving the reasons for it 8.8 Be as specific as possible 8.9 Avoid creating strings of nouns that describe other nouns 8.10 Be careful how you use personal pronouns and avoid stereotyping 8.11 Summary Chapter 9 Chatbots 9.1 What are the key things I need to know about chatbots? 9.2 What prompts (instructions) can I use to get a chatbot to fulfill my request? 9.3 How can I see the changes that the bot has made? What can I learn from the list of changes generated? 9.4 What good corrections do chatbots make? 9.5 What can’t GPT do? Is it a good idea to pre-edit my original text that I wrote in English? 9.6 What kinds of grammar mistakes does a bot currently fail to correct? 9.7 What kinds of errors will a bot probably never be able to correct? 9.8 What the most dangerous errors that chatbots make when revising a text in English? 9.9 What are the dangers of modifying the chatbot’s version? Is there a solution? 9.10 What decisions do I need to make before rejecting a change made by GPT? 9.11 Will a chatbot negatively affect my writing style? 9.12 How can I assess whether the bot’s version is actually better than my original version? 9.13 Using AI to generate a rebuttal letter 9.14 When not to use a bot to generate / correct an email 9.15 How easy is it to tell that a text has been generated by artificial intelligence? 9.16 Is using a chatbot an act of plagiarism? 9.17 Summary Chapter 10 Automatic translation 10.1 How does this chapter differ from the chapter on translation (Chapter 16) in the companion volume on Grammar, Usage and Style? 10.2 Should I use machine translation? Which application? 10.3 Pre-editing: how to improve the chances of getting an accurate automatic translation 10.4 Grammar and vocabulary areas where MT may be more accurate than you 10.5 Typical areas where automatic translators may make mistakes in English if your language is not a major language 10.6 Areas where machine translation will not help you even if your language is a major language 10.7 The dangers of using machine translation 10.8 How can I combine my use of machine translation with a chatbot? 10.9 Will I still improve my level of English if I use machine translators and chatbots? 10.10 Do NOT use an automatic translator to check your English 10.11 A note for EAP teachers 10.12 Summary Chapter 11 Titles 11.1 How important is my title? 11.2 How can I generate a title? 11.3 Should I try to include some verbs in my title? 11.4 How will prepositions help to make my title clearer? 11.5 Are articles (a / an, the) necessary? 11.6 Will adjectives such as innovative and novel attract attention? 11.7 What other criteria should I use to decide whether to include certain words or not? 11.8 How should I punctuate my title? What words should I capitalize? 11.9 How can I make my title shorter? 11.10 How can I make my title sound more dynamic? 11.11 Can I use my title to make a claim? 11.12 Are questions in titles a good way to attract attention? 11.13 When is a two-part title a good idea? 11.14 How should I write a title for a conference? 11.15 What is a running title? 11.16 Is using an automatic spell check enough? 11.17 Using a chatbot to generate or improve your title 11.18 Summary: How can I assess the quality of my title? Chapter 12 Abstracts: Standard types 12.1 What is an abstract? When should I write it? 12.2 How important is the Abstract? 12.3 Where is the Abstract located? What are ‘highlights’? 12.4 How should I select my key words? 12.5 What is a structured abstract? 12.6 What style should I use: personal or impersonal? 12.7 How should I begin my Abstract? 12.8 How much background information should I give? 12.9 What tenses should I use? 12.10 Why and how should I be concise? 12.11 What should I not mention in my Abstract? 12.12 How can I ensure that my Abstract has maximum impact? 12.13 How can chatbots help me improve my Abstract? 12.14 Summary: How can I assess the quality of my Abstract? Chapter 13 Abstracts: Particular types 13.1 I have never written an Abstract before. I don’t know where to start. Could I chatbot help me? 13.2 Social and behavioral sciences. How should I structure my abstract? How much background information? 13.3 I am a historian. We don't necessarily get 'results' or follow a specific methodology. What should I do? 13.4 I am writing an abstract for a presentation at a conference. What do I need to be aware of? 13.5 How do I write an abstract for a work in progress that will be presented at a conference? 13.6 What is an Extended Abstract? 13.7 What is a video abstract? How can I make one? 13.8 My aim is to have my paper published in Nature. Is a Nature abstract different from abstracts in other journals? 13.9 I know I need to end my Abstract with a view of the big picture. How can I use a chatbot to suggest to me what the implications of my research are? 13.10 How do journal editors and conference review committees assess the abstracts that they receive? 13.11 Summary Chapter 14 Introduction 14.1 What is an Introduction? 14.2 How should I structure it? How long should it be? 14.3 How does an Introduction differ from an Abstract? 14.4 How should I begin my Introduction? 14.5 How should I structure the rest of the Introduction? 14.6 What tenses should I use? 14.7 How long should the paragraphs be? 14.8 How should I outline the structure of the rest of my paper? 14.9 My research area is not a ‘hard’ science. Are there any other ways of beginning an Introduction? 14.10 Can a chatbot help me to write my Introduction? 14.11 Summary: How can I assess the quality of my Introduction? Chapter 15 Writing a Review of the Literature 15.1 I need to write a Review Paper. How should I structure my Abstract? What are my aims and conclusions? 15.2 How should I structure my review of the literature in my Introduction to my paper? 15.3 How should I begin my literature review? How can I structure it to show the progress through the years? 15.4 What is the clearest way to refer to other authors? Should I focus on the authors or their ideas? 15.5 How can I talk about the limitations of previous work and the novelty of my work in a constructive and diplomatic way? 15.6 How can I reduce the amount I write when reporting the literature? 15.7 In my review I need mention what other authors have written. How should I do this? 15.8 How can I quote directly from other papers? 15.9 How can I use a bot to help me paraphrase? 15.10 How to quote from another paper by paraphrasing 15.11 Paraphrasing: a simple example 15.12 Paraphrasing: how it can help you write correct English 15.13 What are some more quick tips for writing a review paper? 15.14 How should I conclude a Review Paper? 15.15 Summary: How can I assess the quality of my Literature Review? Chapter 16 Methods 16.1 What is a Method’s section? 16.2 Are there any ways that a chatbot could help me with my Methods section? 16.3 How should I structure the Methods? 16.4 What style: should I use the active or passive? What tenses should I use? 16.5 How should I begin the Methods? 16.6 My methods use a standard / previous procedure. Do I need to describe the methods in detail? 16.7 Should I describe everything in chronological order? 16.8 How many actions / steps can I refer to in a single sentence? 16.9 How can I reduce the number of words but avoid my Methods appearing like a series of lists? 16.10 What potential errors of grammar and syntax do I need to be careful of? 16.11 What other points should I include in the Methods? How should I end the Methods? 16.12 Summary: How can I assess the quality of my Methods section? Chapter 17 Results 17.1 What is a Results section? 17.2 How should I structure the Results? 17.3 How should I begin the Results? 17.4 What tenses and style should I use when reporting my Results? 17.5 Should I report any negative results? 17.6 How can I show my readers the value of my data, rather than just telling them? 17.7 How should I comment on my tables and figures? 17.8 What more do I need to know about commenting on tables? 17.9 How can I use a chatbot to help me write the Results section? 17.10 What about legends and captions? 17.11 My research was based on various surveys and interviews. How should I report quotations from the people we interviewed? 17.12 Summary: How can I assess the quality of my Results section? Chapter 18 Discussion 18.1 What is a Discussion? 18.2 How should I structure the Discussion? 18.3 Active or passive? What kind of writing style should I use? 18.4 How should I begin the Discussion? 18.5 Why and how should I compare my work with that of others? 18.6 How can I give my interpretation of my data while taking into account other possible interpretations that I do not agree with? 18.7 How can I use seems and appears to admit that I have not investigated all possible cases? 18.8 What about the literature that does not support my findings - should I mention it? 18.9 How can I show the pitfalls of other works in the literature? 18.10 Should I discuss the limitations of my research? 18.11 How can I be more concise? 18.12 How can I use a chatbot to help me with my Discussion? 18.13 What are the dangers of using a chatbot to help me write my Discussion? 18.14 How long should the paragraphs be? 18.15 How should I end the Discussion if I have a Conclusions section? 18.16 How should I end the Discussion if I do not have a Conclusions section? 18.17 Summary: How can I assess the quality of my Discussion? Chapter 19 Conclusions 19.1 What is the purpose of the Conclusions section? 19.2 What tenses should I use? 19.3 I have no idea how to write a Conclusions section. Is there a quick way that a chatbot could help me? 19.4 How should I structure the Conclusions? 19.5 How can I differentiate my Conclusions from my Abstract? 19.6 How can I differentiate my Conclusions from my Introduction and from the last paragraph of my Discussion? 19.7 How can I increase the impact of the first sentence of my Conclusions? 19.8 I don’t have any clear Conclusions, what can I do? Should I mention my limitations? 19.9 How can I end my Conclusions? 19.10 To be honest, I don’t really know what the implications of my research are or what possible avenues for future research there are. How could a chatbot help me? 19.11 How should I write the Acknowledgements? 19.12 Summary: How can I assess the quality of my Conclusions? Chapter 20 The Final Check 20.1 How good is my paper? 20.2 Use AI to check your paper, then print it out 20.3 Check your paper for readability 20.4 Always have the referee in mind 20.5 What to do if your paper is subject to a 'blind' review 20.6 Be careful with cut and pastes 20.7 Make sure everything is consistent 20.8 Check that your English is suitably formal 20.9 Don’t underestimate the importance of spelling mistakes 20.10 Write a good letter / email to accompany your manuscript 20.11 Keep an open mind and deal with rejections in a positive way 20.12 Take the editor's and reviewers' comments seriously 20.13 A final word from the author: Let's put a bit of fun into scientific writing! 20.14 Summary of this chapter 20.15 Summary of the entire book: 10 key concepts
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The Chinese University Press English-Cantonese Dictionary: Cantonese in Yale
Book SynopsisEnglish-Cantonese Dictionary is a handy, user-friendly dictionary which emphasises the Cantonese spoken dialect. It is designed to help users find the best word or phrase in Cantonese to express the meaning of an English word or expression. It features: over 15,000 entries of the most commonly used words and phrases; a brief introduction to Cantonese pronunciation in accordance with the Yale System of Romanization; a comparative chart of four different systems of Romanization; and grammatical notes for beginners.
£18.66
The Chinese University Press Crossing Borders: Sinology in Translation Studies
Book SynopsisThis edited volume investigates translations from the languages of China into the languages of Western societies, from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Rather than focusing solely on the activity of translation, the authors extend their explorations to cover the contexts within which the translators worked from different perspectives, touching on various aspects of the institutional and intellectual backgrounds that informed their writings. Studies of translation from literary Chinese into English constitute the majority of the contributions, but the volume is also illuminated by excursions into Latin, French and Italian, while the problems of translating the Naxi script are confronted as well. In addition, the wider context of the rendering of Chinese into other languages is explored through a survey of recent Japanese translation series. Throughout the volume, translation is presented not simply as a linguistic exercise but rather as a key element in world history, well worthy of further interdisciplinary investigation.Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction by T. H. BARRETT Conflicting Interpretations on the Collected Statutes of the Ming Dynasty: The Debate between Navarrete and Brancati on the Ritual to Confucius in Canton in 1668 - Thierry MEYNARD Beijing as a Missionary Translation Center in the Eighteenth Century - Eugenio MENEGON Thomas Manning (1772–1840): Spiritual Intuitions and Sinological Visions in the Case of an English Eccentric - Edward WEECH Learning and Outcomes in Early Anglophone Sinological Translation: The Case of Thomas Manning (1772–1840) - T. H. BARRETT Two Cousins: Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat’s and Stanislas Julien’s Translations of Yu jiao li - Roland ALTENBURGER Sinologists as Diplomatic Translators: Robert Thom (1807–1846) in the First Opium War and His Translation of the Supplementary Treaty (Treaty of the Bogue), 1843 - Lawrence Wang-chi WONG When Sinology Encountered Ethnology: S. Wells Williams’ Translation of Chinese Death Rituals in Jiali Tieshi Jicheng - Siyang SHUAI The First Translations of Daoist Religious Texts - Benjamin PENNY Literary Translation and Sinological Knowledge: The Case of Herbert Allen Giles’ (1845–1935) Gems of Chinese Literature (1884) - Lingjie JI A Literary Experiment of “Mahayana Christianity”: On Timothy Richard’s English Translation of Xiyouji - Xiaofang WU Widow as Trustee: George Jamieson’s Translation of Qing Widow “Inheritance Rights” - Rui LIU Translations of Chinese Fiction in Italy at the End of the Nineteenth Century - Alessandra BREZZI “Naxiology” and Translation in the Works of Joseph Rock - Duncan POUPARD Forging a New Epistemology about Philosophy and Science: Joseph Needham’s Translation of Zhu Xi’s Concept of Li 理 - I-Hsin CHEN Appendix: Sinology in Japan and the Translation of Chinese Texts - Joshua FOGEL Contributors
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Columbia University Press Better Presentations
Book SynopsisDesigned for presenters of scholarly or data-intensive content, Better Presentations details essential strategies for developing clear, sophisticated, and visually captivating presentations. With a range of clear examples for what to do (and what not to do), Jonathan Schwabish shares the best techniques to display work and win over audiences.Trade ReviewMany smart people often become selfish idiots when they give a presentation. Jon's much-needed book is a must read for just about anyone asked to share some slides. -- Seth Godin, author of Really Bad Powerpoint Do us all a favor: read this book before your next presentation. From font size to data visualization, Schwabish guides you through creating a presentation that will both hold your audience's attention and effectively deliver information. -- Susan Dynarski, University of Michigan Modern scholars spend many hours a week watching or giving presentations; every one of us should be forced to practice the wisdom of Jonathan Schwabish's wonderful short book. I thought I had mastered this craft and imposed my mastery on others, but I learned so much from Better Presentations that from now on, I'll just say "Read the book!" -- Robert E. Hall, Stanford University Your work can shape the future only when others understand you. You can show how your ideas matter if you master the fundamentals of communication, and this book shows how to do just that. -- Carmen Simon, author of Impossible to Ignore If you are a scientist or scholar who doesn't care about designing beautiful slides for your presentations, you are doing it wrong. Elegance, clarity, and good visual composition make your messages understandable. In this concise book, Jonathan Schwabish outlines simple but essential rules of design and data visualization that anybody can benefit from. Apply them, and I guarantee that you will never again see a bored face in your audience. -- Alberto Cairo, University of Miami, author of The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication Data visualization has provided a new set of powerful tools to help analysts communicate their ideas more clearly and effectively. Jon Schwabish helped to pioneer the use of these tools in the policy community, and Better Presentations is full of valuable insights that teach his approach to others. Both new and experienced analysts would benefit immensely from reading this book. -- Douglas Elmendorf, former director of the Congressional Budget OfficeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I. Designing Your Presentation 1. Theory, Planning, and Design 2. Color 3. Type Part II. Building Your Presentation 4. The Text Slide 5. The Data Visualization Slide 6. The Image Slide 7. The Scaffolding Slides Part III. Giving Your Presentation 8. Presenting 9. The Technical Nitty Gritty Conclusions Further Readings References
£20.00
Harvard University Press Memory Speaks
Book SynopsisAs immigrants and others are engulfed by dominant societies, the connection to their ancestral tongues is routinely severed. Julie Sedivy takes on the science and politics of language loss, offering lessons for the renewal and preservation of heritage languages, alongside her own moving story of language loss and accompanying personal crisis.Trade ReviewAt once an eloquent memoir, a wide-ranging commentary on cultural diversity, and an expert distillation of the research on language learning, loss, and recovery. * The Economist *Engrossing and poignant. -- Irina Dumitrescu * Times Literary Supplement *Engagingly describes the disorienting and sometimes shattering experience of feeling one’s native language atrophy as a new language takes hold…[A] beautifully written book…Sedivy elegantly captures why the language(s) we use are so dear to us and how they play a central role in our identities. If we believe multilingualism is valuable, then we must work to preserve language contexts while embracing linguistic diversity. -- Fernanda Ferreira * Science *As a child trying to fit in with her new surroundings, Sedivy quickly forgot much of her Czech…Relearning Czech as an adult offered redemption, and Sedivy’s book is in part an account of how through that act of learning she has found ways to bind disparate aspects of her identity…Beyond the striking anecdotes from her own biography, Sedivy’s book is at its best when she brings insights from psycholinguistics to the page. -- Gavin Francis * New York Review of Books *In this insightful and informative analysis, Julie Sedivy examines what happens to memory, dreams, and even the sense of self when you enter another language. It is a book which speaks to the condition of countless people who have changed language and culture in our globalized world. -- Eva Hoffman, author of Lost in Translation: A Life in a New LanguageJulie Sedivy’s book is not just a study of what it means to cradle more than one language or more than one culture, perhaps even more than one identity—it is a profound elegy to memories that endure despite displacement and the many time zones that define our lives. -- André Aciman, author of Homo Irrealis: Essays[A] moving and deeply personal account…Sedivy also makes a case for saving endangered languages…The connection between language and memory is…beautifully rendered…An astute, thoughtful volume. * Publishers Weekly *With implications for communities and identities, Memory Speaks is an astute linguistic investigation, showing that language is something both in people and of them. * Foreword Reviews (starred review) *One of the finest books I have ever read about language: a wise and humane amalgam of poetry and scientific rigor, rooted in Julie Sedivy’s deeply-felt personal experience. Full of compassion and sharp-edged insights, Memory Speaks will touch all of us who care about the tongues we speak and about the countless tongues now falling into oblivion. -- Mark Abley, author of Spoken Here: Travels among Threatened LanguagesAt last, a go-to book on bilingualism and why it matters. One part science and one part personal history, Sedivy’s book guides us through the eternal question of how we handle two or more languages. It leaves us monolinguals looking deprived rather than as the default. -- John H. McWhorter, author of Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter—Then, Now, and ForeverBeautifully told. It is also packed with a tour of the science on bilingualism, in which [Sedivy] is an expert, as well as the controversial topic of how one’s native language influences thought. As if that were not enough for this fascinating book, she…illuminates what is lost when a language dies. * The Economist *Fascinating…In a panoramic vista of how we inhabit language and how it inhabits us, with openness and curiosity, Sedivy studies the process of losing one’s language and also provides several paths to reviving and reclaiming one’s lost self. -- Aqsa Ijaz * Dawn *A graceful blend of personal memoir with the author’s scholarly field of psycholinguistics, Memory Speaks offers generalist readers an opportunity to appreciate the marvelous complexity of human language—an ancient technology that our digital age’s most hyped AI, telematics and algorithms have yet to match. You don’t need to be an academic linguaphile—or even an everyday Wordle enthusiast—to reap rewards from this provocative book. -- Christine Wiesenthal * Alberta Views *
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Princeton University Press Dictionary of Untranslatables
Book SynopsisSuitable for students, scholars, and general readers interested in the multilingual lives of some of our most influential words and ideas, this title covers close to 400 important philosophical, literary, and political terms that defy easy translation between languages and cultures. It includes terms from more than a dozen languages.Trade ReviewWinner of a 2015 Outstanding Reference Sources Award, Reference and User Services Association, American Library Association One of The Guardian's Best Books of 2015, selected by Hari Kunzru One of The Times Literary Supplement's Books of the Year 2014, chosen by David Wootton One of The Times Higher Education Supplement's Books of the Year 2014, chosen by Robert S. C. Gordon One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014 "[W]hat may be the weirdest book the twenty-first century has so far produced... [T]his is a considerable and entertaining book, full of odd words beautifully, at times owlishly, annotated."--Adam Gopnik, New Yorker "[An] extraordinary book... Many of the entries are illuminating, but what is most fascinating about the book is its partial vision of a fragment of European culture, through the dissection of its philosophical vocabulary."--Tim Crane, Times Literary Supplement "[A] cornucopia of lexical trajectories and semantic adventures across a wide variety of languages and histories... As for the achievement of Emily Apter, Jacques Lezra and Michael Wood in orchestrating the English edition, that qualifies as heroic ... this book is another valuable reminder that a philosophy that ignores its own history, that pretends to operate as if it had no history, is self-impoverishing."--Christopher Prendergast, London Review of Books Praise for the French edition: "This dictionary's great idea is to address European philosophy from the point of view of translation... [It] attains its goal by putting this principle to work: one cannot always translate a foreign concept in one word, but one can always explain it. And when one has grasped the explanation, one has acquired the concept."--Le Figaro Litteraire Praise from the French edition: "A dictionary cannot be summarized. One great lesson, nevertheless, which can be distilled from this one (it can be gathered in the masterworks of the entries 'Traduire' ['Translate'] and 'Langues et traditions' ['Languages and traditions']), is that no language is born a philosophical one. It becomes philosophical, as it engages in exchanges with other languages. Philosophical language is impure language, and a national philosophy cannot, therefore, exist. This conviction can perhaps be one of the meanings of the unity of Europe, to which the Vocabulaire renders homage, and service."--Vincent Aubin, Le Figaro (review translated by Mark Jensen) "[I]nteresting reading. The Dictionary of Untranslatables is a wonderful addition to my language library... [A] book to savor and think about and to learn in the broader sense of learning. For anyone interested in language, in words, and the scope of meaning that a word can encompass, I recommend the Dictionary of Untranslatables."--Rich Adin, American Editor "[G]reat success... By preserving the specificity of words in their source languages, but then proceeding though so many near-synonyms in other tongues, the Dictionary bridges this ideological divide, providing a different way of understanding what it is to be in, and between, languages."--Tom Bunstead, Independent on Sunday "[Y]ou should equip yourself with this extraordinary book... You could probably, and profitably, spend your life reading this book... The volume offers a detailed and up-to-date map of abstract thinking, from the classical age to now."--Douglas Kerr, South China Morning Post "The Dictionary of Untranslatables, newly translated from the French original, wears its modest megalomania well. An 11-year project involving some 150 contributors and comprising more than 400 entries, the Dictionary suggests comparison with Volume XI of the First Encyclopedia of Tlon, described by Borges as 'a vast and systemic fragment of the entire history of an unknown planet.' The planet in question here is what we usually call 'continental philosophy.'... [A] heady universe of speculative thinking about the meaning of life, the history of ideas, the fate of mankind, and so on... [T]he Dictionary is revealing for the way it sketches, lexically, a set of parallel but alternate intellectual traditions. What language teachers call 'false friends' are everywhere, inspiring a constant alertness to nuance... Scrupulous and difficult, it's everything that the Internet, which wants everything to talk 'frictionlessly' with everything else, is not. No dreams of universal translation here--enjoy the friction. Use it for bibliomancy, the lost art of divination by book (with scripture or Virgil or Homer or Hafiz)."--Ross Perlin, New Inquiry "A vast, lovingly detailed translator's note to western philosophy... This fascinating book belongs to the interesting-in-itself side."--George Miller, Le Monde Diplomatique "[This] is an invaluable reference for students, scholars, and general readers interested in the multilingual lives of some of our most influential words and ideas... It has already provided me with several pleasurable evenings of educational reading adventures, and promises many more for the future. A superb gift for English-speaking writers, linguists, verbivores and linguaphiles."--GrrrlScientist "The Dictionary demonstrates how much vitality and endurance these languages gain from the dialogue they engage in with other world languages--a dialogue structured and catalyzed by relations of power... As the Dictionary of Untranslatables amply documents, the academy's effects on language are every bit as far-reaching as those of colonialism, trade, and pop culture. The etymologies here are at once precise and profligate, proliferating across terms like Abstraction and Acedia, Drive and Disegno, Erscheinung and Essence, Melancholy and Mimesis, Praxis and Pravda... The struggle for clarity appears nowhere in ideal form but is always a thing unfolding in the world, a compound of ideology, politics, oppression, fear, desire--of all that is lost, and found, in translation."--Matthew Battles, Barnes and Noble Review "[A]stonishingly successful ... entertaining and revealing ... strikingly complete and correct... [A] fascinating book... The translation of European 'philosophy' into American 'theory' has probably been the most consequential event in American intellectual life in the last fifty years, but it has entailed a great deal of 'mistranslation.'... The Dictionary of Untranslatables, in addition to its other pleasures, has a great deal to teach American scholars of the humanities about the depth and complexity of the languages and discourses we've picked up only recently--and a few powerful suggestions about what we may find waiting when we choose to turn back to our own."--Michael Kinnucan, Asymptote "Dictionary of Untranslatables is a treasury of linguistic and philosophical paradoxes, both absorbing and diverting."--Alexander Adams, Spiked Review of Books "[T]his erudite volume is indispensable for advanced European philosophy, literature, and translation studies."--Choice "Dictionary of Untranslatables is one of the most solid, wide-ranging, and remarkable books of our time. Very few will ever read it cover to cover, but anyone who dips into it with a little background in the philosophical tradition, and a desire to learn more about what life is actually about, will be rewarded many times over for the effort."--John Toren, Rain Taxi Review of Books "All dictionaries are encyclopedias in disguise. But the Dictionary of Untranslatables is one of the most remarkably discursive works of reference I have encountered... [T]his giant tome, edited by Barbara Cassin, is ... a bonanza for anyone interested in the history of ideas--a kind of miniature Enlightenment."--Henry Hitchings, Wall Street Journal "This astoundingly erudite work instantly asserts itself as one of the high points in European scholarship."--James W. Underhill, Translation Studies "This is an essential volume for every university library."--Michel Petheram, Reference Reviews "A remarkable achievement--truly a cause for wonder."--Matthew Walker, Slavic and East European JournalTable of ContentsPreface vii Introduction xvii How to Use This Work xxi Principal Collaborators xxiii Contributors xxv Translators xxxiii Entries A to Z 1 Reference Tools 1269 Index 1275
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Princeton University Press Politics of Piety
Book SynopsisProvides an analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2005 Victoria Schuck Award, American Political Science Association Honorable Mention for the 2005 Albert Hourani Book Award, Middle East Studies Association "Mahmood's book is a tour de force that provides an alternative prism through which we may understand the women's mosque movement in Egypt."--Cynthia Nelson, Middle East JournalTable of ContentsPreface to the 2012 Edition ix Preface xxi Acknowledgments xxv Note on Transcription xxix CHAPTER 1: The Subject of Freedom 1 CHAPTER 2: Topography of the Piety Movement 40 CHAPTER 3: Pedagogies of Persuasion 79 CHAPTER 4: Positive Ethics and Ritual Conventions 118 CHAPTER 5: Agency, Gender, and Embodiment 153 Epilogue 189 Glossary of Commonly Used Arabic Terms 201 References 205 Index 225
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Princeton University Press Guardrails
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Princeton University Press Tracks and Signs of the Animals and Birds of
Book SynopsisAn illustrated field guide that enables you to easily identify the tracks and signs left by a wide variety of mammal and bird species found in Britain and Europe, covering behaviors ranging from hunting, foraging, and feeding to courtship, breeding, and nesting. It includes informative descriptions of mammal species along with distribution maps.Trade Review"If anyone has a particular interest in learning how to track animals they should buy this book. If on the other hand they are someone who likes to understand the countryside and delve below the surface more than a little, this book will help them to do just that in a handy-sized, nonscientific, and highly readable guide."--Phil Slade, Another Bird Blog "[B]y far the best book on the subject I've ever seen ... beautifully illustrated."--Dick Warner, Irish Examiner "[Focuses] on helping you identify the signs species leave behind, and these are especially useful for tough-to-tell-apart, cryptic, or nocturnal species."--Kate Jones, New Scientist "[C]oncise and punchy ... [Olsen] manages to pack an awful lot into these pages, and the result is as thorough a survey of European tracks and signs as you could wish for in a book that's still small and light enough for you to consider taking out into the field... [The book makes] lavish use of colour photos, and there's a pleasingly equal weight given to different species, and to the different aspects of the subject being dealt with."--Matt Merritt, Birdwatching Magazine "I cannot praise Tracks and Signs highly enough. It is not only the finest guide to tracking I've ever held in my hands, it is one of the most attractive and informative books on natural history I've ever seen. This guide will prove invaluable to those who already take an interest in tracking and wish to gain more experience. It is also an important tool to promote the field art of tracking in Europe, a region where tracking as a zoological method can use all the support it can get. I also wish to emphasize that this is not only a book for European (and British) naturalists. I definitely recommend it to naturalists in North America and East Asia as well. Yes, it is that good."--Jochen Roeder, 10,000 Birds "[T]his is a lovely book to dip into and learn something new each time. It may not work as a conventional 'in the field guide' but will be invaluable to identify tracks and signs from photographs at home. The drawings and photographs are excellent throughout and the text is clear and concise. I would recommend this book to anyone with an active interest in nature."--Mike King, Gloster Birder "[A] great field guide to take out with you on country walks, as well as to use for study at home... [A] very attractive book with detailed information and wonderful photography. The layout is clear and easy to follow and there's a wealth of information in there."--Kate Bradbury, English Garden "A lavishly illustrated book, packed with colour photographs... [T]his book is the start of many possible wildlife adventures and really gets the adrenalin flowing!"--Biggest Twitch "[A]n excellent book which has rekindled my interest in tracking down more mammals and looking more carefully for the signs of birds. This book is certainly highly recommended... [T]his book will be on the packing list for all our tours in future."--Biggest Twitch "[I]t's a fascinating, high-quality, good value and very informative book that I'd happily recommend to anyone with an interest in the subject, and I'm looking forward to test-driving it in the North Yorkshire forests this winter."--Mark James Pearson, Birding Frontiers "Brown et al. will doubtless already be known to many as a reliable guide to the tracks and signs of birds. Those wishing to extend their knowledge of the subject to include mammals should certainly examine a copy of Olsen."--M.G.W., IBIS "This excellent guide should enable the observer to easily identify the tracks and signs left by a wide variety of our native birds and mammals. I must emphasize the high quality of the outstanding colour photographs."--Bryan Sage, Country-Side "For me one of the great strengths of this book is that reading it--even just browsing through it--has heighten my awareness of what is around me. I always kept an eye out for tracks and signs--but since spending a bit of time with this book I find myself noticing much more--and referring back to it often when I've discovered something new to narrow down the options."--Calvin Jones, Ireland's Wildlife "This is a very well-produced, abundantly illustrated guide to the tracks and signs of 175 species of European mammals and birds, bound in a field-friendly, flexible cover... [T]here is much to enjoy here, from the new illustrations to the excellent photographs. A useful addition to the literature on tracks and signs, which adds to the previously available guides."--Curious Naturalist "[I]f you are looking for something comprehensive for Britain and Europe, this is the book for you... Although advertised as a field guide, this book would be a good addition to a library as a reference book on all tracks and signs."--Helen Ashton, Reference ReviewsTable of ContentsPreface 5 Mammal tracks 6 Antlers 18 Bird tracks 22 Scat 35 Carnivores 35 Carnivore scat 36 Scat of smaller mammals 38 Scat of larger rodents 8 Scat of larger herbivores 40 Bird droppings 43 Feeding signs on trees 46 Fray marks on trees 57 Holes in trees, ant heaps, etc 59 Gnawed branches 62 Feeding signs on mushrooms 64 Feeding signs on turnips 65 Feeding signs on spruce cones 66 Feeding signs on pine cones 68 Feeding signs on hazelnuts 68 Feeding signs on walnuts 71 Feeding signs on rose hips 72 Feeding signs on cherry stones 73 Feeding signs on apples 74 Nests and dens 76 Pellets 82 Owl pellets 82 Raptor pellets 84 Gull, cormorant, heron, and stork pellets 85 Wader, crow, and jay pellets 87 Skulls in pellets 89 Other skulls and bones 91 Round nests 92 Feathers 96 Raptor feeding signs 100 Trails 104 Brown Bear 106 Wolverine 109 Wolf and domestic dog 111 Lynx 115 Iberian Lynx 117 Wildcat 118 Arctic Fox 120 Red Fox 122 Raccoon Dog 127 Raccoon 130 Eurasian Badger 132 European Beaver 136 North American Beaver 142 Coypu 143 Muskrat 144 Northern Water Vole 147 Southern Water Vole 151 Water Shrew 151 Otter 154 American Mink 157 European Mink 160 Western Polecat 161 Pine Marten 163 Beech Marten 165 Stoat 167 Weasel 169 Brown Hare 171 Mountain Hare 174 Rabbit 176 Red Squirrel 179 Grey Squirrel 183 Flying Squirrel 184 Alpine Marmot 185 European Souslik 187 Black Rat 188 Brown Rat 189 House Mouse 192 Yellow-necked Mouse 195 Wood Mouse 199 Striped Field Mouse 200 Harvest Mouse 202 Northern Birch Mouse 204 Common Dormouse 205 Garden Dormouse 207 Edible Dormouse 209 Bank Vole 211 Field Vole 213 Common Vole 215 Norway Lemming 216 Wood Lemming 218 Grey-sided Vole 219 Root Vole 220 Common Mole 221 Western Hedgehog 223 Algerian Hedgehog 226 Common Shrew 226 Bats 229 Horses 231 Cattle 232 Wild Boar 233 Elk 237 Red Deer 241 White-tailed Deer 246 Fallow Deer 247 Sika Deer 250 Reeve's Muntjac 251 Roe Deer 253 Reindeer 258 Musk Ox 261 Mouflon 263 Chamois 265 Domestic sheep 266 Goats 267 Seals 268 Sea turtles 269 Photo credits 270 Index of species 271
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Princeton University Press The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism
Book SynopsisWith more than 5,000 entries totalling over a million words, this dictionary of Buddhism in English covers terms from all of the canonical Buddhist languages and traditions: Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. It also includes an appendix of Buddhist lists, a timeline, six maps, and two diagrams.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2015 Dartmouth Medal, Reference and User Services Association of the American Library Association One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles Top 25 Academic Books for 2014 "Buddhism's ancient history and depth of culture are reflective in this volume's extensiveness... Owing to the length and breadth of this volume, this will supersede previously published titles such as Damien Keown's Oxford Dictionary of Buddhism."--Ray Arnett, Library Journal (Starred Review) "One of the take-a ways is how we're just scratching the surface on what we have translated into English. I almost regret the decision I made about 25 years ago not to shift my focus from training to learning languages so I could be a Buddhist scholar. Particularly, I was struck by how little I know about the Korean tradition! Except for Buswell's work, there's still very little translated into English, as far as I know."--Dosho Port, Wild Fox Zen "As the most comprehensive collection of discrete Buddhist terms available, this resource is an outstanding addition to available reference sources... Highly recommended for theological, academic, and large public libraries."--Christopher McConnell, Booklist "[T]he dictionary includes an impressive set of reference tools... Much more than a compilation of the philosophies of elite Buddhist figures, the Dictionary deepens our understanding of local traditions and their unique approaches to Buddhist practice, offering glimpses into the many Buddhisms and Buddhist belief systems that have developed over the past two and a half millennia. Both professional and amateur scholars will want to keep The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism within easy reach."--Rory Lindsay, Buddhadharma "This encyclopedic dictionary by Buswell and Lopez likely will become an essential resource for students and scholars of Buddhism. It has over 5,000 entries varying in length from a paragraph to a full page."--Choice "This Dictionary of Buddhism ... deserves recognition as a highly useful and worthwhile contribution to the field. Its breadth of coverage and its clear and convenient style of presentation make it a valuable reference source for researchers, teachers, and students in Buddhist Studies, and for more general readers as well."--Choong Mun-keat, Reviews of Books "This is a one-of-a-kind reference book that will not be replicated in this generation's lifetime."--Brad Lee Eden, Reference Reviews "The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism is a huge contribution to the field of Buddhist studies in English... The ease with which concepts can be searched and connected, the ambitious scope, accessible writing style, and detailed scholarship combine to make this single volume dictionary an invaluable reference tool for scholars, students, and practitioners of Buddhism."--Leesa S. Davis, Sophia "Thoroughly enjoyable to anyone who wants to know anything and everything about Buddhism... The Dictionary offers a sense of completeness and comprehensiveness in understanding taxonomies and terminologies used in Buddhism."--Anup Kumar Das, International Institute for Asian Studies NewsletterTable of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments ix Conventions xi Transcription Systems xiii Asian Historical Periods xv Timeline of Buddhism xix Maps Cradle of Buddhism xxv Ancient India xxvi Ancient China xxvii Japan and Korea xxviii Tibet xxix Routes of Chinese Pilgrims xxx Mount Sumeru World System (overview) xxxi Mount Sumeru World System (side view) xxxii Entries A-Z 1-1063 List of Lists 1065 Cross-References by Language Chinese Cross-References 1103 Japanese Cross-References 1135 Korean Cross-References 1177 Pali Cross-References 1219 Sanskrit Cross-References 1229 Tibetan Cross-References 1231 Tibetan Phonetic Cross-References 1259
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Princeton University Press Oceanic Birds of the World
Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of British Birds' Best Bird Books of 2019""An inspiration for future seabirding trips, a knowledge base for more familiar species, and a sheer delight to drool over the amazing images of gadfly petrels, alcids, albatrosses and storm petrels … anyone with an interest in seabirds needs to buy this guide."---Mark Newsome, BirdGuides"A remarkable bird guide; it contains an unusual depth of ornithological and taxonomic knowledge combined with field expertise, organized in a readable manner that focuses almost entirely on bird identification. It is full of visual identification goodies and smart observations, facts and maps, up-to-date taxonomy and hundreds of photographs." * 10,000 Birds Book Review *"It is excellent, the text is comprehensive and ID features do get pointed out. . . Series world birders will want this on their bookshelves as will dedicated sea watchers." * Fat Birder *"How often have you read a fieldguide from cover to cover within two weeks? For me the anser is: once. In case of this one. . . . buy it!"---Rinse van der Vliet, Dutch Birding"This book will undoubtedly set a new standard for many years to come."---Michael Scott, Conservation Biology"This is an excellent book . . . . A celebration of the diversity and beauty of the world’s seabirds. . . . It is indeed a major achievement to have photographed so many of them and to present them in one publication. This is a ‘must have’ addition to any keen birder’s library."---Nic Hallam, IBIS Book Reviews
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Princeton University Press The Politics of Language
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Princeton University Press The Mathematics of Secrets
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In The Mathematics of Secrets, Joshua Holden takes the reader on a chronological journey from Julius Caesar’s substitution cipher to modern day public-key algorithms and beyond. . . . Written for anyone with an interest in cryptography." —Noel-Ann Bradshaw, Times Higher Education "Complete in surveying cryptography. . . . This is a marvelous way of illustrating the use of simple mathematics in an important application that has triggered the wit of the designers and the ingenuity of the attackers since antiquity." —Adhemar Bultheel, European Mathematical Society "The best book I have seen on this subject." —Phil Dyke, Leonardo Reviews "This is a fascinating tour of the mathematics behind cryptography, showing how its principles underpin the ways that different codes and ciphers operate. . . . While it’s all about maths, the book is accessible—basic high school algebra is all that’s needed to understand and enjoy it." —Cosmos Magazine
£15.19
Princeton University Press Writing with Pleasure
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""This book will be valuable for any writers—not only academics—who wish to experience more pleasure in their writing. Sword's engaging and personable writing style makes the book a pleasure to read." * Choice Reviews *
£22.50
Princeton University Press Research Design in the Social Sciences
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£40.50
Princeton University Press You Are Not Expected to Understand This
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""[An] intriguingly human collection of articles . . . [from] contributors, including programmers, technologists, historians, journalists and academics."---Andrew Robinson, Nature"A wonderful book. . . . The writing is clear, and you don’t need to know anything about computers to understand pretty much every line of this book. A must-read!"---Jonathan Shock, Mathemafrica"A highly relevant collection of short essays. . . . [You Are Not Expected to Understand This] is intended to develop readers' appreciation for the critical role of software in their lives." * Choice *
£16.14
Princeton University Press Birds of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book will be a useful asset for anyone visiting [Puerto Rico]."---Keith Betton, British Birds
£18.00
Princeton University Press Zero to Birth
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Using an expository style, interspersed with first-person accounts of his own research, Harris provides an authoritative synopsis of developmental neuroscience."---R. Douglas Fields, Science"[Zero to Birth] really is a masterpiece in terms of how much information is packed into this average sized book."---Nicole Barbaro, Bookmarked Reads"The story of how this development takes place is filled with as much drama as any Shakespearian plot. There are accounts of self-love and selfless cooperation, suicide and cannibalism, rivalry and survival of the fittest. All on the cellular level. And, fortunately for readers who are not experts in the field, the style makes the story comprehensible and engaging."---Gunnel Minett, Breathwork Science"Highly illuminating."---Andrew Robinson, Nature
£19.80
Princeton University Press Literature for a Changing Planet
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Erudite and provocative."---Oliver Balch, Financial Times "A book about climate and storytelling that is not only upbeat but downright jaunty."---Aaron Matz, New York Review of Books"A stirring manifesto, and Puchner’s arguments are impressive. He effectively inspires fresh ways of reading, and climate-minded bookworms, especially, will find plenty to savor." * Publishers Weekly *"This cogent, passionate text argues for a comprehensive reenvisioning of our relationship with the natural world to mitigate the accelerating climate crisis.. . . . [Literature for a Changing Planet is a] challenging, important work of literary criticism [that] stretches our ideas of what it is to be human and where we fit in the natural world." * Foreword Reviews *"Martin Puchner’s Literature for a Changing Planet is an urgent call for rereading the stories that have shaped our world. . . . This text will be most useful to teachers of world literature looking to diversify their reading lists and pedagogical practices. It will be useful to literary critics seeking to newly engage with ecocriticism. And it just might prompt a new generation of writers—and spoken-word artists—to create the works that will move us into health and balance with the small blue marvel that is our species’ only home."---Greg Brown, World Literature Today
£15.19
Princeton University Press Yellowstones Birds
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Library Journal Best Science & Technology Book of the Year""Revelatory. The birds, the park, but also the science behind it make this book an outstanding resource."---Robert Eagan, Library Journal, starred review"[Rich] in its coverage of birds, from residents to casual migrants."---David Gascoigne, Travels with Birds"It’s a great read. A lot of really fascinating information."---Hannah Buschert, Bird Nerd Book Club"This is an impressive book about those birds."---Mark Avery, Mark Avery blog
£27.00
Princeton University Press Gulls of Europe North Africa and the Middle East
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Birdwatcher's Yearbook Best Bird Book of the Year""Third Place for the 2022 BB/BTO Best Bird Book of the Year, British Birds and the British Trust for Ornithology""[An] excellent Princeton University Press guide."---Stuart Winter, Sunday Express"[The book] lays bare the intricacies of the moult and aging of gulls, but in such a simple and comprehendible way that it is impossible not to glean valuable information even on the first read through."---Brian Robertson, Scottish Birds"No matter what your experience of gulls might be, there is certainly plenty to learn in the book . . . . An excellent book and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in identifying gulls, whatever their ability."---Brian Small, British Birds"The authors are among the foremost experts on this taxing group, and have pioneered research into identifying distinctions among many of the most cryptic species. This book is a distillation of that knowledge and experience . . . . Highly recommended."---Dominic Mitchell, Birdlife Magazine"A landmark for future photo ID guides."---David W.McAllister, Highland Naturalist"This is one of the best books I have seen so far on gulls, and it is packed with identification tips and features, and excellent, clear and concise pictures. . . . It is a great reference book to check any field notes made later and is set out in an easy-to-follow format which is a welcome change. I thoroughly recommend this book to the beginner and expert alike."---Neville Davies, Gwent Wildlife Trust"An analytical as well as a holistic approach to identification pointing out the detail as well as the broader picture."---Steven Rutherford, British Naturalists Association"[A] must have book. . . . ‘Gulls’ deserves to find a place on any serious birders book shelf."---Phil Slade, Another Bird Blog"[An] excellent and easy to paw over book."---Bo Beolens, Fat Birder"The most up-to-date and comprehensive gull guide available. . . . After a few spotting sessions armed with this book you may be tempted to become a larophile."---Eric Brown, News Shopper"An excellent reference source."---Gordon Hamlett, Birdwatcher's Yearbook"With 45 illustrated species and subspecies and nearly 1400 images, this superb book looks like one of the most complete guides on this topic and cannot be missed by Gull experts. . . . A little gem!"---Gaia Bazzi, Avocetta: Journal of Ornithology "This well-written and researched book is easy to read for both expert and beginner alike, with chapters that flow well and finish with a concise conclusion at the end. . . . An excellent resource detailing the ecology of this amazing bird."---Dave Grant, IBIS Book Reviews
£31.50
Princeton University Press The Perils of Interpreting
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Kenshur Prize, Bloomington Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies""Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize""Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize, McGill University""A History Today Book of the Year""Harrison digs equally in Chinese and European archives, finding abundant vivid material from which to reconstruct [Li and Staunton’s] stories, weaving them together to rewrite the opening chapter of Sino–British relations as a series of unfortunate events in which a word, a look or a gesture could alter the course of the encounter. . . . An invigorating re-vision. . . . Harrison’s strength is in narrating lives lived and reminding us that the consequences were never preordained."---Timothy Brook, Times Literary Supplement"Today the fiasco of 1793 is the postulate for an elaborate paradigm that is supposed to explain China’s decline in power in the 19th century. . . . But the paradigm is problematic: it isn’t only ahistorical but, as Henrietta Harrison suggests in The Perils of Interpreting, it focuses on the wrong people."---Pamela Crossley, London Review of Books"Harrison could not have picked two more fascinating men to focus her book on. Both Li and Staunton lived truly extraordinary lives and the reader is led vividly through each. . . . Not only is The Perils of Interpreting an empathetic portrait of two men, it also deftly reveals the critical importance of translation and of interpreters—for without them neither cross-cultural interactions nor cross-cultural understanding can even begin."---Sarah Bramao-Ramos, History Today"Often the most readable books on Chinese history are those that use detailed accounts of the lives of individuals to illuminate the great events of their time. Oxford professor Henrietta Harrison’s The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire is a fine example, providing a fresh description of the 1793 embassy from Britain’s King George III to the Manchu Qianlong emperor through the eyes of those who mediated, rather than those of the principals."---Peter Neville-Hadley, South China Morning Post Magazine"[The Perils of Interpreting] reads like a swashbuckling adventure novel. . . . [A] vivid reconstruction of an era."---John Krich, Nikkei Asia"[The Perils of Interpreting] takes a familiar story—the deteriorating diplomacy between Britain and Qing China from the 1793 Macartney Mission and the Opium War—and masterfully retells it through the lives of two translators." * History Today *"[Harrison’s] prose is pictorial and vivacious, effortlessly carrying the reader into a new domain of empathy and historical awareness. The unique and intimate stories of translators offer an antidote to simplistic accounts. . . . The result is a book that thoroughly transforms what we know about Sino-British encounters leading up to the Opium War."---Jenny Huangfu Day, Journal of Chinese History"Marvelous."---Haun Saussy, Journal of the American Oriental Society"The Perils of Interpreting offers extraordinarily fresh information deftly crafted into a narrative embracing biography, imperial history, maritime history, British political history, religious history, and the history of Chinese and British relations. Harrison, an adroit storyteller, designed the book as a chronologically told story of two men, two cultures, and two imperial powers attempting to communicate between worlds. . . . Harrison’s attention to interpretation, its delicacy, its omissions as well as its expressions reveals how power inheres in language, and power is as much in the hands of translators as in the hands of leaders of state. This fascinating, deeply researched, highly informed account is microhistory at its very best."---Carla Mulford, The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer"Harrison’s rich book opens up so many lines of inquiry that it is bound to produce a wealth of follow-up studies. Let us hope that they will be as eye-opening and enjoyable to read."---Eun Kyung Min, Eighteenth-Century Studies"Fascinating."---Hamish Gobson, Think Scotland
£31.50
Princeton University Press The Perils of Interpreting The Extraordinary
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Kenshur Prize, Bloomington Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies""Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize""Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize, McGill University""A History Today Book of the Year""Harrison digs equally in Chinese and European archives, finding abundant vivid material from which to reconstruct [Li and Staunton’s] stories, weaving them together to rewrite the opening chapter of Sino–British relations as a series of unfortunate events in which a word, a look or a gesture could alter the course of the encounter. . . . An invigorating re-vision. . . . Harrison’s strength is in narrating lives lived and reminding us that the consequences were never preordained."---Timothy Brook, Times Literary Supplement"Today the fiasco of 1793 is the postulate for an elaborate paradigm that is supposed to explain China’s decline in power in the 19th century. . . . But the paradigm is problematic: it isn’t only ahistorical but, as Henrietta Harrison suggests in The Perils of Interpreting, it focuses on the wrong people."---Pamela Crossley, London Review of Books"Harrison could not have picked two more fascinating men to focus her book on. Both Li and Staunton lived truly extraordinary lives and the reader is led vividly through each. . . . Not only is The Perils of Interpreting an empathetic portrait of two men, it also deftly reveals the critical importance of translation and of interpreters—for without them neither cross-cultural interactions nor cross-cultural understanding can even begin."---Sarah Bramao-Ramos, History Today"Often the most readable books on Chinese history are those that use detailed accounts of the lives of individuals to illuminate the great events of their time. Oxford professor Henrietta Harrison’s The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire is a fine example, providing a fresh description of the 1793 embassy from Britain’s King George III to the Manchu Qianlong emperor through the eyes of those who mediated, rather than those of the principals."---Peter Neville-Hadley, South China Morning Post Magazine"[The Perils of Interpreting] reads like a swashbuckling adventure novel. . . . [A] vivid reconstruction of an era."---John Krich, Nikkei Asia"[The Perils of Interpreting] takes a familiar story—the deteriorating diplomacy between Britain and Qing China from the 1793 Macartney Mission and the Opium War—and masterfully retells it through the lives of two translators." * History Today *"[Harrison’s] prose is pictorial and vivacious, effortlessly carrying the reader into a new domain of empathy and historical awareness. The unique and intimate stories of translators offer an antidote to simplistic accounts. . . . The result is a book that thoroughly transforms what we know about Sino-British encounters leading up to the Opium War."---Jenny Huangfu Day, Journal of Chinese History"Marvelous."---Haun Saussy, Journal of the American Oriental Society"The Perils of Interpreting offers extraordinarily fresh information deftly crafted into a narrative embracing biography, imperial history, maritime history, British political history, religious history, and the history of Chinese and British relations. Harrison, an adroit storyteller, designed the book as a chronologically told story of two men, two cultures, and two imperial powers attempting to communicate between worlds. . . . Harrison’s attention to interpretation, its delicacy, its omissions as well as its expressions reveals how power inheres in language, and power is as much in the hands of translators as in the hands of leaders of state. This fascinating, deeply researched, highly informed account is microhistory at its very best."---Carla Mulford, The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer"Harrison’s rich book opens up so many lines of inquiry that it is bound to produce a wealth of follow-up studies. Let us hope that they will be as eye-opening and enjoyable to read."---Eun Kyung Min, Eighteenth-Century Studies"Fascinating."---Hamish Gobson, Think Scotland
£17.09
Princeton University Press The Voices of Nature
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The breadth of research is impressive, as is the direct language used to express the complicated sciencebehind sound itself. . . . Sounds may not leave a fossil record, but Mathevon's research will."---Tina Panik, Library Journal, starred review"Mathevon delivers fascinating insights into animal communication. . . . This will change how readers hear the animals around them." * Publishers Weekly *"There's no one better than Mathevon to tell us about how diverse animals talk with one another and here's what he had to say about his new landmark, fact-based book, which is a lot of fun to read. His enthusiasm is contagious!"---Marc Bekoff, Psychology Today"The language flows easily and important scientific concepts, often complex in nature, are seamlessly woven into an entertaining story."---David Gascoigne, Travels with Birds"A significant contribution to the art of aural animal science."---Eric Brown, News Shopper: Wild Things"This is an excellent book full of fascinating facts, full of detail, but always very readable."---Patricia MacDuff, British Naturalists Association Bulletin"Excellent."---Marc Weidenbaum, The Wire
£25.20
Pluto Press Learning Disobedience
Book SynopsisA new addition to the growing body of work on radical pedagogies, decolonial options and decolonising the universityTrade Review'Murrey and Daley take no prisoners in their sharp decolonial analysis, they are not apologetic in their decolonial critique development, and they are fired up in their envisioning of the future. 'Learning Disobedience' is far from a post-development treatise, it is a work of dismantlement of that which harms humanity in the name of humanity.' -- Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, author of 'Beyond the Coloniality of Internationalism: Reworlding the World from the Global South''This is the book we’ve all been waiting for to divest from Development Studies. It engages the abolitionist imperative as imaginable, intelligible, and doable; as a labour of love, solidarity and abundance rather than refusal or 'cancel culture'.' -- Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa, Assistant Professor in Human Rights and Politics, Department of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science'Invites us to abolish development, not as simple rejection, but as a life-affirming pathway into liberation and freedom beyond coloniality. Development is violence actively producing impoverishment, epistemic dispossession, and erasing peoples of the Global South knowledges, experiences, and sensibilities. Through a plurality of African intellectual anticolonial and decolonial archives and musical soundtracks of liberation, Murrey and Daley enacts a practice of epistemic disobedience that refuses colonial heteropatriarchal and racial global imaginaries of international aid and humanitarian interventions. Full of intellectual energy and radical love for the learning possibilities of autonomy, communities of struggle and marronage … a must-read’ -- Dr Rosalba Icaza, Professor of Global Politics, Feminisms and Decoloniality, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, NetherlandsTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Learning Disobedience from the Heart of Empire 1. Coloniality, Racial Logics and the Ethos of International Development 2. Impoverishment is an Active Process: Capitalism and Development 3. Development and Violence/Development as Violence 4. Development Without the Peoples of the Global South 5. Resistance and Autonomous Spaces Beyond the NGO: Marronage, Social Movements and Hashtag Dissent 6. Critiquing Heteronormativity and the Male Gaze: Queering Development and Beyond 7. Decolonizing the State and Reworlding: Global Imaginaries of Liberated Futures 8. Beyond Tokenism: Pluriversals and Decolonizing Solidarity for Thriving and Dignified Futures Conclusions Index
£20.69
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC History of the Caucasus
Book SynopsisChristoph Baumer is a leading explorer and historian of Central Asia, Tibet and the Caucasus has written many well-received books in the fields of history, religion, archaeology and travel. These include The Church of the East: An Illustrated History of Assyrian Christianity (2006), Traces in the Desert: Journeys of Discovery across Central Asia (2008), China's Holy Mountain: An Illustrated Journey into the Heart of Buddhism (2011) and the seminal History of Central Asia in four volumes (20122018), all published by I.B.Tauris.Dr Baumer is President of the Society for the Exploration of EurAsia, Senior Research Fellow at the Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences, and a member of the Explorers' Club, New York, the Royal Asiatic Society, the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Society for Asian Affairs, London. He is a recipient of the prestigious Sir Percy Sykes Memorial Medal, awarded to him by the Royal Society for Asian Affairs in 2015.Trade ReviewIt’s a splendid achievement – informed, considered and clear … There’s certainly no shortage of fascinating material … Baumer enthrals us … Once in a while there comes along a book by a fellow explorer that you wish to heaven you’d had the wherewithal and body of knowledge to write yourself. This is such a book. -- Benedict Allen * The Spectator *Covering the last millennium of the region’s history, this scholarly yet atlas-sized, sumptuously illustrated volume tells the story of a too-often overlooked corner of our continent with impressive even-handedness. Part coffee-table browser, part detailed history, this is a valuable telling of a turbulent history. -- Charlie Connelly * New European *This book, based on over a thousand sources, is a worthy successor to volume one, completing an overview running from prehistory to the present day. Baumer’s austere prose is free from the nationalism and ethnocentricity that, he warns, infect many accounts of the region’s history. His book is an extraordinary achievement. -- John Mann * Literary Review *In Christoph Baumer the Caucasus has a capable chronicler willing to plunge into even the most convoluted aspects of its past and emerge to present a clear-eyed account of a many-layered, often labyrinthine story … Baumer has a knack for distilling extensive research from a wide range of sources about complicated and often recondite topics into a highly readable narrative. * Geographical *Splendidly illustrated … [Readers] will be well rewarded to plunge in and learn from Baumer’s thorough and insightful narrative. -- David Chaffetz * Asian Review of Books *[L]avishly illustrated yet surprisingly affordable combination of colourful coffee-table book and detailed historical survey aimed at the general reader. * Iran and the Caucasus *The second volume of Christoph Baumer’s extraordinary History of the Caucasus traces the history of the region from 1050 BC up to the modern age, brought to life through more than 200 colour images and maps. * Choice *This superb, sweeping history of the Caucasus in the modern period promises to be the new standard set text in its field. * Alex Marshall, University of Glasgow, UK *Table of ContentsI. A Fragmented Identity: An Introduction to Contemporary Ethnic and Political Conditions in the Caucasus II. In the Wake of International Great-Power Politics 1.The Golden Age of Georgia 2.The Mongol incursions and supremacy III. The Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia 1.Semi-independent Armenian warlords and Muslim Armenian viziers 2.The Rubenids of Cilicia: From principality to kingdom 3.The Kingdom of Cilician Armenia IV. The South Caucasus under Turkmen, Ottoman and Iranian Safavid Domination 1.Georgia and the devastations of Timur-e Lang 2.The partition of Georgia Excursus: The Armenian catholicosate’s return to Etchmiadzin and a renewed schism 3.The South Caucasus as battleground for eight Ottoman–Safavid wars 4.The South Caucasus under Safavid rule Excursus: The Armenian Mekhitarist congregation 5.A brief reunification of Kartli and Kakheti and the foundation of independent khanates V. First Russian Advances into the North Caucasus 1. The defence pact of 1557 between Kabarda and Russia 2. The Cossacks and the first Russian military lines 3. Mongol Kalmyks in the North-Eastern Caucasus VI. The Caucasus under Russian Rule 1.From the Treaty of Georgievsk (1783) to the annexation of Georgia in 1801 2.Iran’s interlude with Napoleon and Russia’s conquest of the South Caucasian khanates and sultanates 3.The resistance of North Caucasian mountain peoples 3.1Yermolov’s first offensives north of the Greater Caucasus 3.2The jihad of the imams 3.3The conquest, resettlement and expulsion of the Circassians 4.Russian administration and the rise of nationalism 5.The Russian conquest of former West Armenia 1877–78 Excursus: Oil-drilling at Baku and the Nobel brothers 6.The emergence of nationalist and social-revolutionary parties, Armenian massacres and ethnic unrest 6.1Armenian nationalist and socialist parties in the Russian and Ottoman empires 6.2Georgian socialists 6.3Pan-Turkism and socialism in the South Caucasian Muslim provinces VII. A Short-Lived Independence and Foreign Interventions 1.World War I, the Armenian Genocide and the collapse of the Russian Empire 2.The Transcaucasian Republic, the declaration of independence of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia, and foreign interventions 2.1The short-lived Transcaucasian Republic 2.2Ethnic and social conflicts in Georgia 2.3The Republic of Armenia 2.4The race for Baku 2.5War in Karabakh, Nakhchivan, Zangezur and Kars 2.6Armenia and the Paris Peace Conference 3.The Russian Civil Wars 1917–1920 and the short-lived North Caucasian states VIII. Under Soviet Rule 1.Soviet consolidation of power, collectivization and Stalin’s purges 2.Operation Edelweiss: The battle for the Caucasus in World War II Excursus: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s master spy 3.Deportations and the start of the Cold War 4.Political stagnation and the rise of nationalism IX. Independence in the South Caucasus 1.The disintegration of the Soviet Union 2.The Armenian declaration of independence and the issue of Karabakh 3.The Azerbaijani declaration of independence and the development of the oil and gas industry 4.The First Karabakh War 1992–1994 5.Georgian independence and the South Ossetian and Abkhazian wars X. Autonomy and Failed Independence in the North Caucasus 1. The northern region: Rostov, Krasnodar, Adygea, Stavropol and Kalmykia 2. The western and central region: Karachay-Cherkessia, Kabardino-Balkaria, North Ossetia–Alania and Ingushetia 3. The eastern region: Chechnya and Dagestan XI. The Caucasus in the Twenty-First Century 1.Republics and regions of the northern Caucasus 2.The independent republics in the southern Caucasus 2.1Azerbaijan 2.2The Second Karabakh War, 27 September–10 November 2020 2.3Armenia 2.4Georgia 2.4.1The Georgian–Russian War, 7–12 August 2008 2.4.2Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia since the 2008 war 3.Outlook Appendices Notes Bibliography List of Maps Photo credits Acknowledgements Indexes Concepts People Places
£999.99
Johns Hopkins University Press The Bees of the World
Book SynopsisAccented with color plates of select bees, The Bees of the World will continue to be the world's best reference on these diverse insects.Trade ReviewThe author has produced a new definitive world taxonomic treatise on this large group of insects and is to be congratulated. British Journal of Entomology and Natural History 2008Table of ContentsPreface to the Second EditionPreface to the First EditionAbbreviations1. About Bees and This Book2. What Are Bees?3. The Importance of Bees4. Development and Reproduction5. Solitary versus Social Life6. Floral Relationships of Bees7. Nests and Food Storage8. Parasitic amd Robber Bees9. Body Form, Tagmata, and Sex Difference10. Structures and Anatomical Terminology of Adults11. Structures and Terminology of Immature Stages12. Bees and Sphecoid Wasps as a Clase13. Bees as a Monophyletic Group14. The Origins of Bees from Wasps15. Classification of the Bee-Sphecoid Clade16. Bee Taxa and Categories17. Methods of Classification18. The History of Bee Classificatinos19. Short-Tongued versus Long-Tongued Bees20. Family-Level Phylogeny and the Proto-Bee21. The Higher Classification of Bees22. Fossil Bees23. The Geological History of Bees24. Diversity and Abundance25. Disperal26. Biogeography27. Reduction or Loss of Structures28. New and Modified Structures29. Family-Group Names30. Explanation of Taxonomic Accounts in Sections 36 to 12131. Some Problematic Taxa32. The Identification of Bees33. Key to the Families, Based on Adults34. Notes on Certain Couplets in the Key to Families (Section 33)35. Practical Key to Family-Group Taxa, Based on Females36. Family Stenotritidae37. Family Colletidae38. Subfamily Colletinae39. Tribe Paracolletini40. Tribe Colletini41. Tribe Scraptrini42. Subfamily Diphaglossinae43. Tribe Caupolicanini44. Tribe Diphaglossini45. Tribe Dissoglottini46. Subfamily Xeromelissinae47. Subfamily Hylaeinae48. Subfamily Euryglossinae49. Family Andrenidae50. Subfamily Alocandreninae51. Subfamily Andreninae52. Subfamily Panurginae53. Tribe Protandrenini54. Tribe Panurgini55. Tribe Nolanomelissini56. Tribe Melitturgini57. Tribe Protomeliturgini58. Tribe Perditini59. Tribe Calliopsini60. Subfamily Oxaeinae61. Family Halictidae62. Subfamily Rophitinae63. Subfamily Nomiinae64. Subfamily Nomioidinae65. Subfamily Halictinae66. Tribe Halictini67. Tribe Augochlorini68. Family Melittidae69. Subfamily Dasypodainae70. Tribe Dasypodaini71. Tribe Promelittini72. Tribe Sambini73. Subfamily Meganomiinae74. Subfamily Melittinae75. Family Megachilidae76. Subfamily Fideliinae77. Tribe Pararhophitini78. Tribe Fideliini79. Subfamily Megachilinae80. Tribe Lithurgini81. Tribe Osmiini82. Tribe Anthidiini83. Tribe Dioxyini84. Tribe Megachilini85. Family Apidae86. Subfamily Xylocopinae87. Tribe Manueliini88. Tribe Xylocopini89. Tribe Ceratinini90. Tribe Allodapini91. Subfamily Nomadinae92. Tribe Hexepeolini93. Tribe Brachynomadini94. Tribe Nomadini95. Tribe Epeolini96. Tribe Ammobatoidini97. Tribe Biastini98. Tribe Townsendiellini99. Tribe Neolarrini100. Tribe Ammobatini101. Tribe Caenoprosopidini102. Subfamily Apinae103. Tribe Isepeolini104. Tribe Osirini105. Tribe Protepeolini106. Tribe Exomalopsini107. Tribe Ancylini108. Tribe Tapinotaspidini109. Tribe Tetrapediini110. Tribe Ctenoplectrini111. Tribe Emphorini112. Tribe Eucerini113. Tribe Anthophorini114. Tribe Centridini115. Tribe Rhathymini116. Tribe Ericrocidini117. Tribe Melectini118. Tribe Euglossini119. Tribe Bombini120. Tribe Meliponini121. Tribe ApiniLiterature CitedAddendaIndex of TermsIndex of Taxa
£141.10
Kogan Page Ltd Fundamentals of Operational Risk Management
Book SynopsisDr Simon Ashby is Associate Professor of Financial Services at Vlerick Business School, based in Brussels, Belgium. Prior to this he was Associate Professor at Plymouth Business School, UK and worked as a financial regulator and a senior risk manager in a number of top UK financial institutions. He is a Fellow and former Chairman of the Institute of Operational Risk (IOR) and a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Risk, Banking and Financial Services at the University of Nottingham.The IRM is a world leading professional body for risk management, driving excellence in managing risk to ensure organizations are ready for opportunities and threats of the future.Trade Review"Simon Ashby is very well placed through his long association with the Institute of Operational Risk to write what will prove to be the definitive book on operational risk. He challenges us to expand our understanding of operational risk to encompass 'unpredictable outcomes of the efficiency and effectiveness of operations.' Using a series of compelling case studies, he brings the subject alive. It is sobering to see how many of the selected case studies had underlying cultural drivers. I found the section on risk culture particularly practical in its insights to monitoring and taking action. The approach to operational risk event data establishes the benefits of learning from past events and ensuring recurrence is prevented, which surely is the essence of any robust approach to operational risk." * Alex Hindson, Chief Risk & Sustainability Officer, Argo Group *"This is an excellent book, serving as an effective pragmatic tool for risk practitioners working in all three lines across the world, as well as a good guide for the academics in operational risk." * Dominic Wu, Director, Risk Management BCT Group *"Simon Ashby presents a very well structured, research-based and informative guide to operational risk management. This excellent book covers every key topic, from embedding risk culture to conducting scenario analysis. A remarkably rewarding source for practitioners." * Elena Pykhova, Director and Founder, The OpRisk Company *"It is becoming more and more clear that operational risk models are of limited use, while taking behavioural elements into account in risk culture, governance etc. is of tremendous importance. This book sets absolutely the right focus - and numerous case studies confirm that Simon is not just a seasoned academic, but very familiar with the important details of practical implementation as well. Really worthwhile reading!" * Prof. Dr. Thomas Kaiser, Professor Kaiser Risk Management Consulting & Goethe University *Table of Contents Chapter - 01: Understanding operational risk - Key concepts and management objectives; Chapter - 02: Embedding operational risk management; Chapter - 03: Categorizing operational risks; Chapter - 04: Risk culture; Chapter - 05: Risk appetite; Chapter - 06: Operational risk governance; Chapter - 07: Risk and control self-assessments; Chapter - 08: Operational loss events; Chapter - 09: Operational risk indicators; Chapter - 10: Scenario analysis and stress testing; Chapter - 11: Organizational resilience; Chapter - 12: Regulating operational risk
£42.74
Kogan Page Ltd Talent Intelligence
Book SynopsisToby Culshaw is the Talent Intelligence Leader at Worldwide Amazon Stores, leading a diverse global team of economists, consultants, business analysts and researchers in talent intelligence. Previously, he was Global Head of Talent Intelligence and Executive Recruitment Research at Royal Philips, the Dutch health technology group. He was named by Recruiter Magazine as one of the 11 Most Influential In-house Recruiters in 2017 and has consistently ranked every year from 2019 until 2023 and is an international speaker on sourcing, executive research and talent intelligence. Based in Brighton, UK he is also the founder of the Talent Intelligence Collective, a Talent Intelligence Mentor at Udder and a co-host of the Talent Intelligence Collective Podcast.Trade Review"Toby Culshaw wrote an insightful book to help you execute your talent strategy. What I like most about Talent Intelligence is how actionable it is. Toby shares years of his learnings and experience, and he explains in detail how you can apply it yourself through practical steps." * Anita Lettink, Keynote speaker and adviser on the future of work, partner at Strategic Management Centre and founder of HRTechRadar *"This is the first comprehensive discussion on Talent Intelligence I have seen. This is a topic much discussed, but little understood. Toby has finally given us a clear definition and a practical way to implement this powerful process." * Kevin Wheeler, Founder, The Future of Talent Institute *"Wow, from the maestro of TI, Toby himself. I was honoured when asked to read the book and comment and it is jam-packed with practical advice and real examples of talent intelligence in all its forms. A must read for business leaders and HR leaders alike who want to drive smarter business decisions. To quote from the book "the shifting mindset of operational to strategic is critical". Loved all of it - I will be buying the book for every member of our team for sure." * Alison Ettridge, Founder, Stratigens *"It's all about the data and the insights we can draw from it. I've felt this for a long time and this book and the work Toby has done confirms to me that this is a game changer! In an ever changing and highly competitive world the notion and discipline of talent intelligence is, for me, an essential part of an integrated talent strategy not only to compete but to win." * Denise Haylor, Former CHRO Royal Philips, Flextronics, Managing Director & Partner Boston Consulting Group *"Toby is a recognized & trusted expert in talent intelligence. Over the years he's proven to be one of the key leaders in this developing field. It's exciting to see how TI is developing and becoming more recognized as a valuable source of meaningful and actionable insights business leaders can leverage. In this text he brings together these experiences and a wide range of sources, it's a thorough essay on TI space and key reading for anyone interested in developing this knowledge." * Giles Harden, SVP People at INFARM *"Toby Culshaw and his insight on the function of Talent Intelligence as described in this text takes on and excels at creating a lexicon and foundational set of practices in the young and ever-growing space of Talent Intelligence. Creating a process is plenty hard, as is scoping a business case for change - both of which are in this text - yet defining a language for others to use in years to come is even harder. I am looking forward to applying many of these principles and labels to the products and services I use for the public and private sector companies we serve. Other leaders in recruiting, workforce planning, and analytics should review this lexicon and render into their own work so we can advance this ecosystem together as colleagues." * Andrew Gadonmski, Managing Director, Aspen Analytics *"The most inclusive and comprehensive work on Talent Intelligence I've seen to date. Toby's book captures the art and science of this continually evolving craft and emerging technology platforms complete with concrete and impactful examples. A must read for all leaders who see their competitive advantage coming from deeply understanding and acting on distilled insights from the internal and external talent landscape." * Cortney Erin, Vice President, Global Talent Acquisition Microsoft *"Timely and comprehensive examination of an often under-explored but critical area of talent strategy. Toby manages to come up with with something for everyone - from early to late adopters - as well as write a bit of a love letter to the subject." * Teresa Wykes, Global Head of Talent Intelligence, SAP *Table of Contents Chapter - 00: Introduction; Chapter - 01: Context; Chapter - 02: Types of Intelligence; Chapter - 03: The great debate; Chapter - 04: Building the case for Talent Intelligence; Chapter - 05: What type of work can TI functions support?; Chapter - 06: Metrics for Success and KPIs; Chapter - 07: Where to sit TI function within organizations; Chapter - 08: Talent Intelligence Maturity Model; Chapter - 09: Tooling and Resources; Chapter - 10: Potential structures of Talent Intelligence teams; Chapter - 11: Roles and skills needed in teams; Chapter - 12: Career pathing; Chapter - 13: In House and partner landscape; Chapter - 14: Examples of use of talent intelligence; Chapter - 15: What does good look like?; Chapter - 16: What is the future of Talent Intelligence?; Chapter - 17: Tales from the trenches; Chapter - 18: Well that’s a wrap
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Teaching Children to Listen in Primary Schools
Book SynopsisTeaching Children to Listen in Primary Schools contains a wealth of interventions to improve listening skills across the school. It is perfect for classrooms where poor listening is an increasing barrier to teaching as the resultant distractible behaviour can make it difficult for the rest of the class to pay attention. Specialist speech and language therapists Liz Spooner and Jacqui Woodcock present activities to develop children''s key listening skills, as well as a rating scale to assess pupils on each of the four rules of good listening looking at the person who is talking; sitting still; staying quiet; and listening to all the words. They offer advice on using these findings to inform individual education plans. Liz and Jacqui also look at why listening is important and offer 40 games to encourage children to become good listeners. This practical guide not only contains photocopiable resources, assessment and teaching suggestions with clear and concise explanations
£22.49
O'Reilly Media Semantic Modeling for Data
Book SynopsisIn this practical and comprehensive field guide, author Panos Alexopoulos takes you on an eye-opening journey through semantic data modeling as applied in the real world. You’ll learn how to master this craft to increase the usability and value of your data and applications.
£53.99
Stanford University Press Who Wrote This?: How AI and the Lure of
Book SynopsisWould you read this book if a computer wrote it? Would you even know? And why would it matter? Today's eerily impressive artificial intelligence writing tools present us with a crucial challenge: As writers, do we unthinkingly adopt AI's time-saving advantages or do we stop to weigh what we gain and lose when heeding its siren call? To understand how AI is redefining what it means to write and think, linguist and educator Naomi S. Baron leads us on a journey connecting the dots between human literacy and today's technology. From nineteenth-century lessons in composition, to mathematician Alan Turing's work creating a machine for deciphering war-time messages, to contemporary engines like ChatGPT, Baron gives readers a spirited overview of the emergence of both literacy and AI, and a glimpse of their possible future. As the technology becomes increasingly sophisticated and fluent, it's tempting to take the easy way out and let AI do the work for us. Baron cautions that such efficiency isn't always in our interest. As AI plies us with suggestions or full-blown text, we risk losing not just our technical skills but the power of writing as a springboard for personal reflection and unique expression. Funny, informed, and conversational, Who Wrote This? urges us as individuals and as communities to make conscious choices about the extent to which we collaborate with AI. The technology is here to stay. Baron shows us how to work with AI and how to spot where it risks diminishing the valuable cognitive and social benefits of being literate.Trade Review"There is no question who wrote this—a lesson in itself to the reader. Who but the prolific Naomi S. Baron can bring a linguistic analysis, a philosophical scalpel, and historical breadth to some of the most difficult questions about the very purpose of written language for the future of humanity?"—Maryanne Wolf, author of Reader, Come Home"Who Wrote This? is unique in bringing together linguistics and AI in a confident and illuminating way, adeptly deconstructing techie accounts in plain English. I've never seen anything like it. A book for anyone professionally or amateurly involved in writing."—David Crystal, author of Internet Linguistics"Addressing the fluency and fabrications of chatbots based on large language models, Baron dispels the hype and roots AI writing in a long history of efforts to automate thought and its evaluation. Insightful and witty, comprehensive and entertaining."—Frank Pasquale, author of The Black Box Society"Naomi S. Baron's timely, insightful, and carefully documented account of the history and current state of AI text generation focuses on two essential themes: writers have always depended on technology, and machines will never replace writers."—Dennis Baron, author of You Can't Always Say What You Want"In this must-read book, Naomi S. Baron takes a broad historical and philosophical perspective on our rapid implementation of AI. With her customary rigor, Baron examines AI's potential, but also explores the unintended consequences of its uncritical adoption."—Adriaan van der Weel, author of Changing Our Textual Minds"Understanding the difference between AI- and human-written text is part of understanding what it means to be human. This fascinating book shows us how."—Natalia I. Kucirkova, author of Children Reading for Pleasure in the Digital Age"This timely work interweaves wit and wisdom, laying bare the implications of why authorship matters, and astutely evaluating the gains and losses of partnering with AI. Informed decisions are key, and Baron empowers us to make them."—Lynne Bowker, author of De-mystifying Translation"If you have ever wondered, in this age of chatbots and other hair-raising challenges posed by AI, where writing came from, where it's going, and who will benefit, Naomi S. Baron's Who Wrote This? offers a timely and incisive response."—Andrea Lunsford, author of Let's Talk"Authoritative, insightful, and a joy to read, Who Wrote This? is an invaluable source for everyone trying to understand what is happening to our modes of writing, and therefore thinking, in the time of AI."—Anne Mangen, Norwegian Reading Centre, University of Stavanger"Like a doctor dispensing a terminal diagnosis, Ms. Baron is calm, empathetic and desperate to find a bright side."—Dominic Green, The Wall Street JournalTable of ContentsPrologue: Human Writers Meet the AI Language Sausage Machine 1. The Journey to Literacy 2. Why Humans Write—and Rewrite 3. English Comp and Its Aftermath 4. The Dream of Language Machines 5. The Natural Language Processing Sausage Machine 6. Machine Translation Rises Again 7. Machines Emerge as Authors 8. AI Comes for the Writing Professions 9. The Creative Side of AI 10. AI as Jeeves 11. Human–AI Symbiosis 12. Do We Always Welcome AI? Coda: Why Human Authorship Matters
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Speak Not: Empire, Identity and the Politics of
Book SynopsisA New Yorker Best Book of 2022 A Globe & Mail Book of the Year "A stimulating work on the politics of language." LA Review of Books As globalisation continues languages are disappearing faster than ever, leaving our planet’s linguistic diversity leaping towards extinction. The science of how languages are acquired is becoming more advanced and the internet is bringing us new ways of teaching the next generation, however it is increasingly challenging for minority languages to survive in the face of a handful of hegemonic ‘super-tongues’. In Speak Not, James Griffiths reports from the frontlines of the battle to preserve minority languages, from his native Wales, Hawaii and indigenous American nations, to southern China and Hong Kong. He explores the revival of the Welsh language as a blueprint for how to ensure new generations are not robbed of their linguistic heritage, outlines how loss of indigenous languages is the direct result of colonialism and globalisation and examines how technology is both hindering and aiding the fight to prevent linguistic extinction. Introducing readers to compelling characters and examining how indigenous communities are fighting for their languages, Griffiths ultimately explores how languages hang on, what happens when they don’t, and how indigenous tongues can be preserved and brought back from the brink.Trade ReviewThis history of endangered languages assesses the political causes of their precariousness. * The New Yorker *A welcome addition to critiques of empire and studies of language and politics. Part history, part memoir, part policy critique, the volume succeeds at telling a universal tale through particular stories, including characters who remind us that the languages we speak – and speak not – are the worlds in which we live, and that such worlds are worth fighting for. -- David Moscrop * The Globe & Mail *Speak Not is an astute, well-researched, and often scholarly meditation on the forces that drive marginal languages out of existence in favor of dominant metropolitan tongues ... [a] stimulating work on the politics of language. -- Oliver Farry * LA Review of Books *A lucid and timely account of languages under threat around the world… illuminating in the extreme. -- Kang Hyun-kyung * The Korea Times *Griffiths is spot on: the survival of many languages—and perhaps the identities that go with them—depends on politics. * Asian Review of Books *Speak Not teases out both differences and similarities between [Griffiths’] examples, be that in the racial dimension or level of state violence in their oppression, with both sensitivity and passion. * Buzz *As languages throughout the world continue to disappear at an alarming rate, James Griffiths' book could not be more relevant. Focusing mainly on the historical trajectories of Welsh, Hawaiian and Cantonese, Griffiths chronicles the contentious and often bloody struggles faced by these languages, weaving the strands of history, culture and linguistics into a fascinating and highly readable narrative. Languages die for many reasons, but the book's central message is that language demise is not merely the natural consequence of modernization and mass media, but is often the result of a calculated authoritarian strategy that sees a common language as a guarantor of political unity. Speak Not is not merely a lament at the loss of the planet's linguistic diversity, but is also a positive record of how the courage and perseverance of beleaguered language communities can preserve and even revive their native tongues. * David Moser, author of "A Billion Voices: China's Search for a Common Language" *Speak Not is a beautifully narrated and intensely smart global history of how languages are destroyed. From Hong Kong to Wales, Hawaii to South Africa, Griffiths artfully guides us through intimate stories of people fighting over decades, often in vain, to protect their linguistic heritage and identities, stories that, when taken together, reveal an oft-unexplored aspect of the "disasters wrought" by colonialism, nationalism, and global inequality. Yet within Griffiths powerful critique of language destruction is a story of hope: a glimpse into a world in which language revitalization is possible. * Dr. Gina Anne Tam, Trinity University, San Antonio, USA *This commendable undertaking adds to the literature highlighting the constitutive role that centuries of imperial rule have played in the modern world. ... Speak not ends with a powerful call to action. * International Affairs *Table of ContentsEPIGRAPH INTRODUCTION PART ONE: WELSH 1. Blue Books 2. Fire and Fury 3. Signs of Change 4. Bilingual Nation INTERLUDE: AFRI-CAN’T PART TWO: HAWAIIAN 5. The Princess Who Was Promised 6. Sandwiched Islands 7. I Mua Kamehameha 8. Ke Ea Hawaii 9. Road Closed Due to Desecration INTERLUDE: THE OLD, NEW TONGUE PART THREE: CANTONESE 10. Dialectics 11. A Chinese Alphabet 12. Common Tongue 13. ‘Cantonese Gives You Nasal Cancer’ 14. Sounds of Separatism 15. Language Plateau EPILOGUE AUTHOR’S NOTE NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
£12.34
Octopus Publishing Group You Got This: 52 Courageous Cards to Help You
Book SynopsisThis empowering deck of 52 cards is here to remind you that you can think big and keep your cool - no matter what life throws at you You can do whatever you set your mind to. Whether that's chasing your dreams or changing the world, this colourful deck of inspiring words and motivational quotes will help you conquer any doubts and setbacks, making it the perfect companion on your quest to greater resilience and unshakeable confidence. These eye-catching cards and pocket-size booklet come complete with a beautiful wooden stand so that you can display them anywhere you choose. For a powerful boost of self-belief, use these reminders to brighten up your room, your desk or wherever else you like. Simply pick a card, and let it fill you with inner strength! These stirring thoughts are sure to energize your outlook and set you on your way to achieving your ambitions. Stay fearless - because you got this!
£17.27
Vintage Publishing The Essential Chomsky
Book SynopsisIn a single volume, the seminal writings of the world's leading philosopher, linguist and critic, and author of the bestselling Who Rules the World‘The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know’ Noam ChomskyNoam Chomsky's writings on politics and language have established him as one of the most original and wide-ranging political and social critics of our time, and as perhaps the leading dissident voice in the United States.The Essential Chomsky brings together selections from his most important writings, from his groundbreaking critique of B.F. Skinner to his bestselling works Hegemony or Survival and Failed States, concerning subjects ranging from critiques of corporate media and U.S. interventionism to intellectual freedom and the political economy of human rights. Featuring a collection of twenty-five pieces of writing spanning six decades, this is an unparalleled and comprehensive overview of Chomsky's thought.‘Chomsky is arguably the most important intellectual alive’ New York TimesTrade ReviewChomsky ranks with Marx, Shakespeare, and the Bible as one of the ten most quoted sources in the humanities-and is the only writer among them still alive. * Guardian *Chomsky is arguably the most important intellectual alive. * New York Times *Noam Chomsky is one of the most significant challengers of unjust power and delusions; he goes against every assumption about American altruism and humanitarianism. -- Edward SaidNot to have read [Chomsky] is to court genuine ignorance. * Nation *A rebel without a pause. -- Bono
£15.00
Cornelsen Verlag GmbH & Co Das Leben in Teilbanden Kurs und Ubungsbuch A1
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Tuttle Publishing Japanese Kanji for Beginners: (JLPT Levels N5 &
Book SynopsisThe method that's helped thousands in the U.S. and Japan learn Japanese successfully.The Japanese language has two primary writing systems, kanji characters—which are based on Chinese characters and hiragana and katakana—a mnemonic based alphabet. This handy book teaches you a new mnemonics-based method to read and write the 430 highest-frequency kanji characters. Along with its sister book: Japanese Hiragana and Katakana for Beginners it provides a complete introduction to written Japanese.Japanese Kanji for Beginners contains everything you need to learn the kanji characters required for the Advanced Placement Japanese Language and Culture Exam. It is designed for high school or college students as well as independent learners. The kanji learned in this book carefully adhere to those introduced in every significant Japanese language textbook. Key features of Japanese Kanji for Beginners include: The 430 highest-frequency kanji characters 44 simple, easy-to-follow lessons Concise information on kanji elements, readings and pronunciations Extensive exercises, drills, and writing practice Downloadable flash cards, practice quizzes and extra exercises Online audio with native speaker pronunciations and readings
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Ediciones SM Ele Actual Cuaderno de ejercicios CD A2 Book CD
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