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Cle International Grammaire progressive du francais Niveau
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£16.10
Harper Perennial Steering the Craft
Book SynopsisFrom the celebrated Ursula K. Le Guin, "a writer of enormous intelligence and wit, a master storyteller" (Boston Globe), the revised and updated edition of her classic guide to the essentials of a writer's craft. Completely revised and rewritten to address modern challenges and opportunities, this handbook is a short, deceptively simple guide to the craft of writing. Le Guin lays out ten chapters that address the most fundamental components of narrative, from the sound of language to sentence construction to point of view. Each chapter combines illustrative examples from the global canon with Le Guin's own witty commentary and an exercise that the writer can do solo or in a group. She also offers a comprehensive guide to working in writing groups, both actual and online. Masterly and concise, Steering the Craft deserves a place on every writer's shelf.
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POLISH-COURSES.COM, Iwona Stempek Polski Krok po Kroku. Volume 1: Student's
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Klett (Ernst) Verlag,Stuttgart Deutsch echt einfach Ubungsbuch A1 mit Audios
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£17.99
HarperCollins Publishers Italian Gem Dictionary
Book SynopsisThe home of trusted Italian dictionaries for everyday language learning.With 40,000 words and phrases and 60,000 translations packed into this Collins Gem Italian to English and English to Italian dictionary, you'll have everything you need to know on the go.All the latest words reflecting changes in modern lifestyle are included in this small Italian dictionary, plus notes about life in Italy and top tips on commonly confused words. This is the perfect choice for travellers, students and business people. An essential, user-friendly travel Phrasefinder is included, along with a handy menu-reader ensuring you always get what you expect from a meal out.A clear layout, useful examples, and language and cultural notes makes this Collins Italian Gem dictionary ideal for school and a great companion to GCSE Italian.For more on Italian language usage, the Collins Italian Essential Dictionary (9780008270759) or the Italian Pocket Dictionary (9780008183646) are available for purchase.
£5.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Doing Research
Book SynopsisGary Thomas is Professor of Inclusion and Diversity at the University of Birmingham, UK, having previously worked as a teacher and an educational psychologist.Table of ContentsPART 1: Planning PART 2: Groundwork PART 3: Building a scaffold PART 4: Fieldwork: finding the data PART 5: Analysing the data PART 6: Writing up research.
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Channel View Publications Ltd A Parents' and Teachers' Guide to Bilingualism
Book SynopsisIn this accessible guide to bilingualism in the family and the classroom, Colin Baker delivers a realistic picture of the joys and difficulties of raising bilingual children. The Q&A format of this book makes it the natural choice for the busy parent or teacher who needs an easy reference guide to the most frequently asked questions. This revised edition includes more information on bilingualism in the digital age, and incorporates the latest research in areas such as neonatal language experience, multilingualism, language mixing and the effect that siblings have on family language choice.Trade ReviewBaker's well-organised and informative writing is relevant to the parents and teachers of ANY bilingual child – he carefully considers issues from every angle, not just the norm. An easily-accessible, inspiring read which arms us with the confidence to make raising and teaching our bilingual children a success! -- Cheryl Sánchez, The Bilingual Bookshop, www.thebilingualbookshop.comThis is the number one resource for any parent in a multilingual family. This revised edition is now even better than before with new sections on the latest developments (e.g. the internet, stuttering and translanguaging) and the great question and answer format allows you to read as much or as little as you want – a boon for busy parents. The text is written in a very straightforward style and is accessible, practical and the recommendations are feasible for almost all families. Nonetheless, years of study and personal experience feed into the text which is subtly nuanced and emotionally intelligent. If you are only going to buy one book, this is the one you should buy. -- Claire Thomas, Waltham Forest Bilingual Group, UKSound advice given with erudition and simplicity is hard to come by. Once again Baker has put his encyclopedic knowledge on bilingualism to the service of parents and teachers. Every parent and teacher, no matter their circumstances, will feel their needs addressed in the sensible and generous information and guidance that Baker provides in this book. -- Ofelia García, City University of New York, USATable of ContentsAcknowledgements An Introduction to the Fourth Edition Introduction Section A. Family Questions Section B. Language Development Questions Section C. Questions About Problems Section D. Reading and Writing Questions Section E. Education Questions Section F. Concluding Questions Glossary Index
£999.99
Pearson Education Speak UppInt 2E Flexi SBK1 MEL Pk
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Semantics
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Preface Abbreviations and Symbols Part I Preliminaries 1 Semantics in Linguistics 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Semantics and Semiotics 1.3 Three Challenges in Doing Semantics 1.4 Meeting the Challenges 1.5 Semantics in a Model of Grammar 1.5.1 Introduction 1.5.2 Word meaning and sentence meaning 1.6 Some Important Assumptions 1.6.1 Reference and sense 1.6.2 Utterances, sentences, and propositions 1.6.3 Literal and non-literal meaning 1.6.4 Semantics and pragmatics 1.7 Summary 2 Meaning, Thought, and Reality 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Reference 2.2.1 Types of reference 2.2.2 Names 2.2.3 Nouns and noun phrases 2.3 Reference as a Theory of Meaning 2.4 Mental Representations 2.4.1 Introduction 2.4.2 Concepts 2.4.3 Necessary and sufficient conditions 2.4.4 Prototypes 2.4.5 Relations between concepts 2.4.6 Acquiring concepts 2.5 Words, Concepts, and Thinking 2.5.1 Linguistic relativity 2.5.2 The language of thought hypothesis 2.5.3 Thought and reality 2.6 Summary Part II Semantic Description 3 Word Meaning 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Words and Grammatical Categories 3.3 Words and Lexical Items 3.4 Problems with Pinning Down Word Meaning 3.5 Lexical Relations 3.5.1 Homonymy 3.5.2 Polysemy 3.5.3 Synonymy 3.5.4 Opposites (antonymy) 3.5.5 Hyponymy 3.5.6 Meronymy 3.5.7 Member–collection 3.5.8 Portion–mass 3.6 Derivational Relations 3.6.1 Causative verbs 3.6.2 Agentive nouns 3.7 Lexical Typology 3.7.1 Polysemy 3.7.2 Color terms 3.7.3 Core vocabulary 3.7.4 Universal lexemes 3.8 Lexical Change 3.8.1 Introduction 3.8.2 Lexical shifts in meaning 3.8.3 System shifts in meaning 3.9 Summary 4 Sentence Relations and Truth 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Logic and Truth 4.3 Necessary Truth, A Priori Truth, and Analyticity 4.4 Entailment 4.5 Presupposition 4.5.1 Introduction 4.5.2 Two approaches to presupposition 4.5.3 Presupposition failure 4.5.4 Presupposition triggers 4.5.5 Presuppositions and context 4.5.6 Pragmatic theories of presupposition 4.6 Summary 5 Sentence Semantics 1: Situations 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Situation Types 5.2.1 States 5.2.2 Dynamic situation types 5.2.3 A system of situation types 5.2.4 Tests for situation types 5.4 Aspect 5.4.1 Aspect and tense 5.4.2 Comparing aspect across languages 5.4.3 Aspect and situation type 5.5 Modality and Mood 5.5.1 Modality 5.5.2 Mood 5.6 Evidentiality 5.7 Negation 5.7.1 Introduction 5.7.2 Clausal negation 5.7.3 Constituent negation 5.7.4 Metalinguistic negation 5.7.5 Polarity 5.8 Summary 6 Sentence Semantics 2: Participants 6.1 Introduction: Classifying Participants 6.2 Thematic Roles 6.3 Grammatical Relations and Thematic Roles 6.4 Verbs and Thematic Role Grids 6.5 Problems with Thematic Roles 6.6 The Motivation for Identifying Thematic Roles 6.7 Causation 6.8 Voice 6.8.1 Passive voice 6.8.2 Comparing passive constructions across languages 6.8.3 Middle voice 6.9 Classifiers and Noun Classes 6.9.1 Classifiers 6.9.2 Noun classes 6.10 Summary 7 Meaning and Context 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Deixis 7.2.1 Spatial deixis 7.2.2 Grammaticalization of context 7.2.3 Extensions of spatial deixis 7.2.4 Person deixis 7.2.5 Social deixis 7.3 Reference and Context 7.4 Knowledge as Context 7.4.1 Discourse as context 7.4.2 Background knowledge as context 7.4.3 Mutual knowledge 7.4.4 Giving background knowledge to computers 7.5 Information Structure 7.5.1 The information status of nominals 7.5.2 Focus and topic 7.5.3 Information structure and comprehension 7.6 Inference 7.7 Speech Act Semantics 7.7.1 Introduction 7.7.2 Austin's Speech Act Theory 7.7.3 Evaluating performative utterances 7.7.4 Explicit and implicit performatives 7.7.5 Statements as performatives 7.7.6 Three facets of a speech act 7.7.7 Indirect speech acts 7.7.8 Understanding indirect speech acts 7.7.9 Speech acts: a summary 7.8 Summary Part III Theoretical Approaches 8 Meaning Components 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Lexical Relations in CA 8.2.1 Binary features 8.2.2 Redundancy rules 8.3 Katz's Semantic Theory 8.3.1 Introduction 8.3.2 The Katzian dictionary 8.3.3 Projection rules 8.4 Grammatical Rules and Semantic Components 8.4.1 The methodology 8.4.2 Thematic roles and linking rules 8.5 Talmy's Typology of Motion Events 8.6 Jackendoff's Conceptual Structure 8.6.1 Introduction 8.6.2 The semantic components 8.6.3 Localist semantic fields 8.6.4 Complex events and states 8.6.5 THINGS: Semantic classes of nominals 8.6.6 Cross-category generalizations 8.6.7 Processes of semantic combination 8.7 Pustejovsky's Generative Lexicon 8.7.1 Event structure 8.7.2 Polysemy and Qualia Structure 8.8 Problems with Components of Meaning 8.9 Summary 9 Formal Semantics 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Model-Theoretical Semantics 9.3 Translating English into a Logical Metalanguage 9.3.1 Introduction 9.3.2 Simple statements in predicate logic 9.3.3 Quantifiers in predicate logic 9.3.4 Some advantages of predicate logic translation 9.4 The Semantics of the Logical Metalanguage 9.4.1 Introduction 9.4.2 The semantic interpretation of predicate logic symbols 9.4.3 The domain 9.4.4 The denotation assignment function 9.5 Checking the Truth-Value of Sentences 9.5.1 Evaluating a simple statement 9.5.2 Evaluating a compound sentence with ∧ “and” 9.5.3 Evaluating sentences with the quantifiers ∀ and ∃ 9.6 Word Meaning: Meaning Postulates 9.7 Natural Language Quantifiers and Higher-Order Logic 9.7.1 Restricted quantifiers 9.7.2 Generalized quantifiers 9.7.3 The strong/weak distinction and existential there sentences 9.7.4 Monotonicity and negative polarity items 9.7.5 Section summary 9.8 Intensionality 9.8.1 Introduction 9.8.2 Modality 9.8.3 Tense and aspect 9.9 Dynamic Approaches to Discourse 9.9.1 Anaphora in and across sentences 9.9.2 Donkey sentences 9.9.3 DRT and discourse anaphora 9.10 Summary 10 Cognitive Semantics 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Categorization 10.2.1 The rejection of classical categories 10.2.2 Embodiment and image schemas 10.2.3 Linguistic and encyclopedic knowledge 10.3 Polysemy 10.3.1 Prepositions 10.3.2 Modal verbs 10.4 Metaphor 10.4.1 Introduction 10.4.2 Conceptual Metaphor Theory 10.4.3 Features of metaphor 10.4.4 The influence of metaphor 10.5 Metonymy 10.6 Mental Spaces 10.6.1 Connections between spaces 10.6.2 Referential opacity 10.6.3 Presupposition 10.6.4 Conceptual integration theory 10.6.5 Section summary 10.7 Langacker's Cognitive Grammar 10.7.1 Nouns, verbs, and clauses 10.7.2 Construal 10.8 Construction Grammar 10.9 Summary 11 Inferential Pragmatics 11.1 Introduction 11.2 Propositions 11.3 Beyond propositions: Grice's conversational implicature 11.3.1 Introduction 11.3.2 Grice's maxims of conversational cooperation 11.4 Generalizing the Gricean Maxims 11.4.1 Horn's Q and R principles 11.4.2 Levinson's Q, I and M principles 11.5 Contextualism 11.5.1 Sentence and proposition mismatches 11.5.2 Gradable adjectives 11.5.3 Unexpressed temporal reference 11.5.4 Quantifier domain restriction 11.5.5 Cardinal numbers 11.5.6 Section summary 11.6 Relevance Theory 11.6.1 Introduction 11.6.2 Explicatures 11.6.3 Higher level explicatures 11.6.4 Implicatures 11.6.5 Implicature and explicature 11.6.6 Implicated premises and implicated conclusions 11.7 Lexical Pragmatics 11.7.1 Introduction 11.7.2 Polysemy and context 11.7.3 Microsenses and contextual modulation 11.7.4 Neo-Gricean lexical pragmatics 11.7.5 Lexical pragmatics in Relevance Theory 11.7.6 Section summary 11.8 Summary Solutions to Exercises Glossary Index
£39.85
Max Hueber Verlag Schritte Plus Neu sechsbandige Ausgabe
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£27.07
Kodansha America, Inc Japanese For Busy People 1 - The Workbook For The
Book SynopsisThis Workbook for Volume 1 (intended for both kana and romanised editions) includes exercise conversations from the textbook,short dialogues, target dialogues, and additional materials, many of which are accompanied by illustrations. The downloadable audio resources are designed for to enhance and augment the listening and speak ing exercises, and offer an ideal tool for private lessons, for the classroom, or for independent in dividual study. The workbook provides ample speaking and lis tening practice in the form of illustrated exercis es that call on learners to construct dialogues and role-play in Japanese. Illustrations combine with the conversation, which proceeds at a natural pace in audio recordings, to help learners feel as if they are actually experiencing each situation. Through repeated oral and listening practice, learners will come to acquire the rhythm of real life Japanese conversation. The illustrations greatly enhance the learning process and help students to memoris
£18.70
Cambridge University Press Cambridge Primary Path Level 2 Students Book with My Creative Journal Cue Cards and eBook
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£999.99
Cambridge University Press Cambridge Primary Path Foundation Activity Book with Digital Pack
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£27.57
Columbia University Press Sources of Japanese Tradition Abridged 1600 to
Book SynopsisA collection of English-language readings on Japan. Containing materials on history, society, politics, education, philosophy, and religion, this book features an introduction to Japanese civilization. It covers the Tokugawa period to 1868 and addresses the spread of neo-Confucianism and Buddhism and the initial encounters of Japan and the West.Table of ContentsPreface Explanatory Note Chronology Contributors Part V. Japan, Asia, and the West 35. The Meiji Restoration, by Fred G. Notehelfer 36. Civilization and Enlightenment, by Albert Craig 37. Popular Rights and Constitutionalism, by James Huffman 38. Education in Meiji Japan, by Richard Rubinger 39. Nationalism and Pan-Asianism 40. The High Tide of Prewar Liberalism, by Arthur E. Tiedemann 41. Socialism and the Left, by Andrew Barshay 42. The Rise of Revolutionary Nationalism, by Marius Jansen 43. Empire and War, by Peter Duus Part VI. Postwar Japan 44. The Occupation Years, 1945-1952, by Marlene Mayo 45. Democracy and High Growth, by Andrew Gordon Part VII. Aspects of the Modern Experience 46. The New Religions, by Helen Hardacre 47. Japan and the World in Cultural Debate 49. Thinking with the Past: History Writing in Modern Japan, by Carol Gluck Bibliography Index
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University of California Press The Art Museum from Boullee to Bilbao
Book SynopsisOffers a framework for understanding contemporary debates as they have evolved in Europe and the United States. From the visionary museums of Boullee in the eighteenth century to the new Guggenheim in Bilbao and beyond, this book explores various aspects of museum theory and practice: ideals and mission; architecture; the public and commercialism.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Ideals and Mission Architecture Collecting, Classification, and Display The Public Commercialism Restitution and Repatriation Conclusion Appendix Notes List of Illustrations Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Concise GreekEnglish Lexicon of the New
Book SynopsisOf interest to ministers, seminarians, translators, and students of biblical Greek, this title offers definitions or explanations in idiomatic English for all Greek terms. It features entries that include basic etymological information, short renderings, information on usage, and plentiful biblical references as well as Greek terms.Trade Review"A standard reference for biblical scholars." - Publishers Weekly "This is a rare instance in which it may well be impossible to praise too highly either Danker or the volume that he has produced." - Michael W. Holmes, Religious Studies Review"
£52.25
Oxford University Press Oxford Bookworms Library Level 5 Do Androids
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Cambridge University Press Cambridge Primary Path Level 5 Students Book with My Creative Journal Cue Cards and eBook
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£35.28
HarperCollins Publishers Easy Learning English Idioms
Book SynopsisThe home of trusted English learner''s dictionaries for everyday language learning.Collins Easy Learning English Idioms is an easy-to-use guide to the most common English idioms, designed for everyone who wants to improve their knowledge of English.With simple and clear explanations, this helpful, and often fun guide will help you understand what English idioms, such as ''the cat''s whiskers'' and ''step up to the plate'' really mean.Examples from the Collins corpus show how key idioms are used in everyday English and usage notes explain where idioms come from and how they should be used.Idioms are displayed in an accessible and easy-to-use format, making this an indispensible tool for anyone who wants to speak and write fluent and idiomatic English.
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Penguin Books Ltd How NOT to Write a Novel
Book SynopsisHoward Mittelmark is the author of Age of Consent. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post and other publications. Sandra Newman is the author of the novels Cake and The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done. Her writing has appeared in Harper's and Granta, amongst others.Trade ReviewThis writing how-to should carry a warning: it's the kind of book one reads at the expense of all other responsibilities. * Library Journal *A great resource and a fun read with a lot of solid advice for would-be novelists. * Publishers Weekly *
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Random House Publishing Group The Bantam New College Latin English Dictionary
Book SynopsisWith unique features for maximum clarity and convenience, this newly expanded edition of a respected classic offers students, teachers, and scholars alike an updated reference to the Latin language—both written and oral—that is unsurpassed in affordability, dependability, and ease of use.
£8.65
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Talk in Action
Book SynopsisTalk in Action examines the language, identity, and interaction of social institutions, introducing students to the research methodology of Conversation Analysis. Features a unique focus on real-world applications of CA by examining four institutional domains: calls to emergency numbers, doctor-patient interaction, courtroom trials, and mass communication, Provides a theoretical and methodological overview of the roots of CA, reviewing the main developments and findings of research on talk and social institutions conducted over the past 25 years Showcases the significance of this subject to everyday events, making it ideal for students coming to the field for the first time Written by two leading figures in the field of Conversation Analysis Trade Review"More specifically, this book provides an excellent recapitulation of empirical work in four key areas of institutional talk." (Journal of Sociolinguistics, 1 February 2013) "Lastly, as a more general recommendation, I should say that anyone interested in the intersection of context, identity and talk-in interaction would not be spending their time poorly by exploring some of the chapters in this exceptionally well-designed book, and I feel it is safe to say that this book will remain the go-to foundational text for Institutional Conversational Analysis for some time to come." (Journal of Language and Politics, 2012) "As a whole, Talk in Action: Interactions, Identities and Institutionsis a highly recommended, state-of-the-art book for researchers who wish to explore naturally occurring processes and self-construction in face-to-face and telephone institutional communication." (Discourse and Communication, 1 November 2012) "As such, this volume provides a valuable guide to analytical tools for understanding institutional talk. Useful for students and emerging scholars of CA and institutional talk, this volume sheds light on both the analytical approach and conceptual themes that are relevant within these domains and beyond." (Discourse Studies, 2012) "By providing crisp, cogent, and compelling introductions to the fundamentals of CA, these books by Sidnell and Heritage & Clayman will undoubtedly not only help teachers create 'Aha' experiences for their students (Tannen 1984), but also attract and inspire future generations of conversation analytic scholars." (Language in Society, 2011) "Among the great assets of this publication is the comprehensive coverage of research on the areas in focus, conversation analytic or otherwise. This makes the book a perfect starting point for anyone interested in institutional interaction of the varieties described here. True to its conversation analytic roots, the book manages to combine this large-scale overview of the literature with detailed analysis, which is always highly relevant and revealing. This book is an impressive scholarly achievement, spanning a vast amount of research and a wide variety of institutional settings. Any student of talk -- institutional or otherwise -- will find this an indispensable source of conversation analytic insight." (Linguist List, November 2010) "Heritage's and Clayman's book is a comprehensive introduction to the conversation analytic approach to institutional talk, focusing on emergency telephone calls, doctor-patient interactions, interaction in court, and news interviews / mass communication . . .overall, however, this book is an impressive scholarly achievement, spanning a vast amount of research and a wide variety of institutional settings. Any student of talk - institutional or otherwise - will find this an indispensable source of conversation analytic insight." (Linguist List, 1 November 2010)Table of Contents1 Introduction 1 Part 1 Conversation Analysis and Social Institutions 5 2 Conversation Analysis: Some Theoretical Background 7 3 Talking Social Institutions into Being 20 4 Dimensions of Institutional Talk 34 Part 2 Calls for Emergency Service 51 5 Emergency Calls as Institutional Talk 53 6 Gatekeeping and Entitlement to Emergency Service 69 7 Emergency Calls under Stress 87 Part 3 Doctor–Patient Interaction 101 8 Patients’ Presentations of Medical Issues: The Doctor’s Problem 103 9 Patients’ Presentations of Medical Issues: The Patient’s Problem 119 10 History Taking in Medicine: Questions and Answers 135 11 Diagnosis and Treatment: Medical Authority and Its Limits 154 Part 4 Trials, Juries, and Dispute Resolution 171 12 Trial Examinations 173 13 Jury Deliberations 186 14 Informal Modes of Dispute Resolution 200 Part 5 News and Political Communication 213 15 News Interview Turn Taking 215 16 Question Design in the News Interview and Beyond 227 17 Answers and Evasions 245 18 Interaction en Masse: Audiences and Speeches 263 19 Conclusion 280 Transcript Symbols 283 References 288 Index of Names 304 Index of Subjects 309
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Cengage Learning, Inc Medical Terminology for Health Professions Spiral
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface. 1. Introduction to Medical Terminology. 2. The Human Body in Health and Disease. Word Part Review. 3. The Skeletal System. 4. The Muscular System. 5. The Cardiovascular System. 6. The Lymphatic and Immune Systems. 7. The Respiratory System. 8. The Digestive System. 9. The Urinary System. 10. The Nervous System and Mental Health. 11. Special Senses: The Eyes and Ears. 12. Skin: The Integumentary System. 13. The Endocrine System. 14. The Reproductive Systems. 15. Diagnostic Procedures, Pharmacology and Complimentary Medicine. Comprehensive Medical Terminology Review. Appendix A: Word Parts: Prefixes, Combining Forms and Suffixes. Appendix B: Abbreviations and their Meanings. Appendix C: Pathology and Procedures. Flash Cards.
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Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co Fabulae Syrae
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Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co Lingua Latina - Exercitia Latina II: Exercises
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Cambridge University Press Cambridge English First 1 for Revised Exam from
Book SynopsisFour authentic Cambridge English Language Assessment examination papers for the revised Cambridge English: First (FCE) exam from 2015 These examination papers for the 2015 revised Cambridge English: First (FCE) exam provide the most authentic exam preparation available, allowing candidates to familiarise themselves with the content and format of the exam and to practise useful exam techniques. The Student's Book with answers is perfect for independent exam practice. The accompanying Audio CDs contain the recordings for the Listening test. The Student's Book is also available as a 'without answers' edition for classroom use. The Audio CDs are also available separately.
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Columbia University Press Sources of Chinese Tradition
Book SynopsisFeatures source readings on history, society, and thought in China. This book aims to bring together source texts from more than three centuries of Chinese history, with opening essays by China authorities providing context for readers not familiar with the period in question. It covers Sino-Western contacts in the 17th century.Trade ReviewIf I were asked to recommend only one book for anyone who wishes to know something about Chinese culture, I would name, with a moment of hesitation, this new edition of Sources of Chinese Tradition. -- Ying-shih Yu, Gordon Wu 1958 Professor of Chinese Studies and professor of history, Princeton UniversityTable of Contents5. The Maturation of Chinese Civilization and New Challenges to Chinese Tradition 25: The Chinese Tradition in Retrospect Huang Zongxi's Critique of the Chinese Dynastic System Waiting for the Dawn: A Plan for the Prince On the Prince On Ministership On Law Establishing a Prime Minister Schools The Selection of Scholar-Officials, Part 2 Lo Liuliang's Radical Orthodoxy Commentaries on the Four Books Principle in the Mind-and-Heart Principles, Desires, and Rites The Neo-Confucian Critique of Dynastic Rule Government: From the Top Down or Ground Up? Late Confucian Scholarship: Wang Fuzhi, by Ian MacMorran Cosmological Foundations Wang's "Revision" of Orthodox Neo-Confucianism Historical Trends The Justification of Social and Cultural Divisions The Preservation of Chinese Political and Cultural Integrity Gu Yanwu, Beacon of Qing Scholarship True Learning: Broad Knowledge and a Sense of Shame Preface to Record of the Search for Antiquities On the Concentration of Authority at Court On Bureaucratic Local Administration, ca. 1660, by William Rowe The Han Learning and Text Criticism Dai Zhen and Zhang Xuecheng, by Lynn Strure Dai Zhen's Text-Critical Moral Philosophy, by L. Strure Letter to Shi Zhongming Concerning Scholarship, by L. Strure Letter in Reply to Advanced Scholar Peng Yunchu, by John Ewell Zhang Xuecheng's Philosophy of History, by L. Strure "Virtue in the Historian" "Virtue in the Writer" Women's Learning, by Susan Mann Cui Shu and the Critical Spirit Foreword to the Essentials of the Record of Beliefs Investigated Han Learning and Western Learning The Qing Version of Neo-Confucian Orthodoxy Village Lectures and the Sacred Edict The Sacred Edict 26: Popular Values and Beliefs, by David Johnson Ensemble Performance Ritual A Procession on the Birthday of the Sanzong God The Great Sai Ritual of Zhangzi County, Shanxi The Refining Fire Ritual of Shenze Village, Zhejiang The Attack on Hell, a Popular Funeral Ritual, by John Lagerwey Opera Mulian Rescues His Mother Guo Ju Buries His Son Solo Performances Verse "Woman Huang Explicates the Diamond SItra" "Song of Guo Mountain" Prose Sacred Edict Lecturing Chantefable "The Precious Scroll [Baojuan] on the Lord of the Stove" Written Texts Scriptures "The True Scripture of the Great Emperor" Tracts Selections from The Twenty-four Exemplars of Filial Piety 27: Chinese Responses to Early Christian Contacts, by David Mingello Li Zhizao: Preface to The True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven Xu Guangqi: A Memorial in Defense of the [Western] Teaching Yang Guangxian's Critique of Christianity Yang Guangxian: I Cannot Do Otherwise, by Budeyi, John D. Young Zhang Xingyao and the Inculturation of Christianity An Examination of the Similarities and Differences Between the Lord of Heaven Teaching [Christianity] and the Teaching of the Confucian Scholars 28: Chinese Statecraft and the Opening of China to the West Chen Hongmou and Mid-Qing Statecraft, by William Rowe On Substantive Learning On Universal Education On Women's Education On the Duties of an Official On Governance by Local Elites Statecraft in the Grain Trade and Government-Controlled Brokerages, by Pierre-Etienne Will A Memorial on Grain Prices, the Grain Trade, and Government-Controlled Brokerages Hong Liangji: On Imperial Malfeasance and China's Population Problem, by K. C. Liu Letter to Prince Cheng Earnestly Discussing the Political Affairs of the Time, 1799 China's Population Problem The Deterioration of Local Government The Roots of Rebellion Gong Zizhen's Reformist Vision, by K. C. Liu On the Lack of Moral Fiber Among Scholar-Officials Institutional Paralysis and the Need for Reform The Scholar-Teacher and Service to a Dynasty Respect for the Guest Wei Yuan and Confucian Practicality, by K. C. Liu The Learning of Statecraft Wei Yuan: Preface to Anthology of Qing Statecraft Writings, by Huangchao jingshi wenbian Criteria for Anthology of Qing Statecraft Writings Learning and the Role of Scholar-Officials On Governance, by Philip Kuhn The Pursuit of Profit On Institutional Progress in History On Merchants and Reform On Taxation and the Merchants On Reform of the Tribute-Rice Transport System, 1825 On Reform of the Salt Monopoly The Western Intrusion Into China The Lesson of Lin Zexu Letter to the English Ruler Letter to Wu Zixu on the Need for Western Guns and Ships Wei Yuan and the West Preface to Military History of the Qing Dynasty (Shengwujixu), 1842, by K. C. Liu Preface to Illustrated Gazetteer of the Maritime Countries 29: The Heavenly Kingdom of the Taipings The Book of Heavenly Commandments, by Tiantiao shu A Form to Be Observed in Repenting Sins The Ten Heavenly Commandments A Primer in Verse, by Youxue shi Praising God Praising Jesus Christ Praising Parents The Imperial Court The Way of a King The Way of the Minister The Way of the Family Paradise The Taiping Economic Program The Principles of the Heavenly Nature, by Tianqing daolishu 6. Reform and Revolution 30: Moderate Reform and the Self-Strengthening Movement, by K. C. Liu Feng Guifen: On the Manufacture of Foreign Weapons On the Adoption of Western Learning Principle Versus Practicality? The Self-Strengtheners' Rebuttal, 1867 Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang: On Sending Young Men Abroad to Study Xue Fucheng: On Reform Zhang Zhidong: Exhortation to Learn United Hearts The Three Mainstays or Bonds Rectifying Political Rights Following the Proper Order [On Reform] 31: Radical Reform at the End of the Qing Wang Tao on Reform Yan Fu on Evolution and Progress, by Don Price "On Strength" Kang Youwei and the Reform Movement Confucius As a Reformer How Confucius Founded His Teaching in Order to Reform Institutions The Six Classics Were All Written by Confucius to Reform Institutions The Three Ages The Need for Reforming Institutions The Grand Commonality [The Historical Evolution of] Democracy, from Less to More, Presages One World If We Wish to Attain One World of Complete Peace-and-Equality, We Must Abolish the Family The Abolition of Boundaries Conservative Reactions, by Chester Tan Chu Chengbo: Reforming Men's Minds Comes Before Reforming Institutions Zhu Yixin: Fourth Letter in Reply to Kang Youwei Ye Dehui: The Superiority of China and Confucianism, by Tan Sitong The Study of Humanity Reform Edict of January 29, 1901, by Douglas Munay Liang Qichao Renewing the People The Meaning of "Renewing the People" On Public Morality On Progress "The Consciousness of Rights", by Peter Zarrow "The Concept of the Nation", by P. Zarrow Liang Qichao and the New Press, by Joan Judge Inaugural Statement for the Eastern Times, by Shibao, J. Judge Advocates of Script Reform, by Victor Mair Song Shu: Illiteracy in China Lu Zhuangzhang's Attempt at Romanization Shen Xue's Universal Script Wang Zhao's "Mandarin Letters" Zhang Binglin's Revolutionary Nationalism, by P. Zarrow Letter Opposing Kang Youwei's Views on Revolution 32: The Nationalist Revolution Sun Yat-sen and the Nationalist Revolution Hu Hanmin "The Six Principles of the People's Report" 1. Overthrow of the Present Evil Government 2. Establishment of a Republic 3. Land Nationalization Sun Yat-sen The Three People's Principles The Principle of Democracy The People's Livelihood The Three Stages of Revolution Democracy and Absolutism: The Debate Over Political Tutelage Luo Longji: What Kind of Political System Do We Want? Jiang Tingfu: "Revolution and Absolutism" Hu Shi: "National Reconstruction and Absolutism" 1. Is Absolutism a Necessary Stage for National Reconstruction? 2. Why Did Centuries of Absolute Government Fail to Create a National State in China? Chiang Kai-shek: Nationalism and Traditionalism Chiang Kai-shek: Essentials of the New Life Movement The Object of the New Life Movement The Content of the New Life Movement Conclusion China's Destiny Social Effects [of the Unequal Treaties] Moral Effects Psychological Effects The Decisive Factor in China's Destiny Jiang Jingguo (Chiang Ching-kuo): The Republic of China in Taiwan The Evolution of Constitutional Democracy in Taiwan Implementing "The Three People's Principles" 33: The New Culture Movement, by Wing-tsit Chan The Attack on Confucianism Chen Duxiu: "The Way of Confucius and Modern Life" The Literary Revolution Hu Shi: "A Preliminary Discussion of Literary Reform" Chen Duxiu: "On Literary Revolution" Hu Shi: "Constructive Literary Revolution Literature of National Speech" A National Speech of Literary Quality The Doubting of Antiquity Gu Jiegang: Preface to Debates on Ancient History (1926) A New Philosophy of Life Chen Duxiu: The True Meaning of Life Hu Shi: "Pragmatism" The Pragmatism of James The Fundamental Concepts of Dewey's Philosophy The Debate on Science and the Philosophy of Life Zhang Junmai: "The Philosophy of Life" Ding Wenjiang: "Metaphysics and Science" Wu Zhihui: "A New Concept of the Universe and Life Based on a New Belief" Hu Shi: Science and Philosophy of Life The Controversy Over Chinese and Western Cultures Liang Qichao: "Travel Impressions from Europe" Liang Shuming: Chinese Civilization vis-...-vis Eastern and Western Philosophies Reconstructing the Community Hu Shi: Our Attitude Toward Modern Western Civilization Sa Menwu, He Bingsong, and Others: Declaration for Cultural Construction on a Chinese Basis Hu Shi: Criticism of the "Declaration for Cultural Construction on a Chinese Basis" Radical Critiques of Traditional Society, by Peter Zarrow He Zhen: "What Women Should Know About Communism" Women's Revenge Han Yi: "Destroying the Family" 34: The Communist Revolution The Seedbed of the Communist Revolution: The Peasantry and the Anarcho-Communist Movement, by Peter Zarrow Liu Shipei: "Anarchist Revolution and Peasant Revolution" Li Dazhao: The Victory of Bolshevism Mao's Revolutionary Doctrine "Report on an Investigation of the Hunan Peasant Movement" "The Question of Land Redistribution" The Chinese Revolution and the Chinese Communist Party The Mass Line On New Democracy The Dictatorship of the People's Democracy 35: Chinese Communist Praxis Liu Shaoqi: How to Be a Good Communist Mao Zedong: The Rectification Campaign Report of the Propaganda Bureau of the Central Committee on the Zhengfeng Reform Movement, April 1942 Wang Shiwei: "Wild Lily" Liu Shaoqi: On Inner-Party Struggle Mao Zedong: Combat Liberalism Mao Zedong: On Art and Literature Wang Shiwei: "Political Leaders, Artists" Ding Ling: "Thoughts on March 8, 1942" 36: The Mao Regime Establishment of the People's Republic Mao Zedong: "Leaning to One Side" Mao Zedong: "Stalin Is Our Commander" Guo Moruo: Ode to Stalin"Long Live Stalin" on his seventieth birthday 1949, by Chao-ying Fang Ji Yun: "How China Proceeds with the Task of Industrialization" (1953) Li Fuqun: "Report on the First Five-Year Plan for Development of the National Economy of the People's Republic of China in 1953-1957, July 5 and 6, 1955" Changes in Mid-Course Mao Zedong: "The Question of Agricultural Cooperation," July 31, 1955 Mao Zedong: "On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People" Liu Binyan: A Higher Kind of Loyalty Intellectual Opinions from the Hundred Flowers Period Mao Zedong: Remarks at the Beidaihe Conference, August 1958 Peng Dehuai: "Letter of Opinion" to Mao Zedong on the Great Leap Forward, July 1959 Wu Han: "Hai Rui Scolds the Emperor," June 19, 1959 The Cultural Revolution The Sixteen Points: Guidelines for the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong "What Have Song Shuo, Lu Ping, and Peng Peiyun Done in the Cultural Revolution?" Red Guard Memoirs Wang Xizhe, Li Zhengtian, Chen Yiyang, Guo Hongzhi: "The Li Yi Zhe Poster," November 1974 7. The Return of Stability and Tradition 37. Deng's "Modernization" and Its Critics, by (R. Lufrano) The Turn to Stability and Modernization Zhou Enlai: "Report on the Work of the Government," delivered on January 13, 1975, at the First Session of the Fourth National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China CommuniquC of the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, December 22, 1978 Yu Qiuli: "The Relationship Between Politics and Economics" "Uphold the Four Basic Principles," Speech by Deng Xiaoping, March 30, 1979 "Building Socialist Spiritual Civilization," letter from Li Chang, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, to a member of the Party Central Committee, December 1980 Office of the CCP Dehong Dai Nationality and Qingbo Autonomous Zhou Committee: "Several Questions in Strengthening and Perfecting the Job Responsibility Systems or Agricultural Production," November 7, 1980 Early Critiques of the Deng Regime Publication Statement, Beijing Spring Magazine, January 1979 Wei Jingsheng: The Fifth ModernizationDemocracy, 1978, by (Kristina Torgeson) Democracy or New Dictatorship, Explorations, March 1979 Wall Poster from the April Fifth Forum Hu Ping: "On Freedom of Speech," written for his successful 1980 campaign to become Beijing University's delegate to the Haidian District People's Assembly Wang Ruoshui: "Discussing the Question of Alienation" Wang Ruoshui: "In Defense of Humanism" Assessing the New Policies Deng Xiaoping: "Build Socialism with Chinese Characteristics" Chen Yun: Speech given at the Chinese Communist National Representative Conference, September 23, 1985 New Demands for Change and Democracy Fang Lizhi: Democracy, Reform, and Modernization Fang Lizhi: "Reform and Intellectuals," talk given in 1986 Fang Lizhi: "The Social Responsibility of Today's Intellectuals," speech given at Beijing University, November 4, 1985 Li Xiaojiang: "Awakening of Women's Consciousness" The New Authoritarianism Wu Jiaxiang: "An Outline for Studying the New Authoritarianism," May 1989 Rong Jian: "Does China Need an Authoritarian Political System in the Course of Modernization?" May 1989 Yan Jiaqi: "How China Can Become Prosperous" 38. Twentieth-Century Christianity in China, by Julia Ching Ma Xiangbo Religion and the State, by Ruth Hayhoe Religion and Culture, by R. Hayhoe Zhao Zichen "Present-Day Religious Thought and Life in China" Leadership and Citizenship Training Wu Yaozong "The Present-Day Tragedy of Christianity" "The Reformation of Christianity" The Christian Manifesto Wang Mingdao We, Because of Faith Wu Jingxiong: Christianity and Chinese Tradition "Beyond East and West" "The Lotus and the Mud" 39: Reopening the Debate on Chinese Tradition The New Confucians Xiong Shili, by Tu Weiming Manifesto for a Reappraisal of Sinology and the Reconstruction of Chinese Culture Mou Zongsan's Confucian Philosophy, by John Berthirong The Sensitivity and Steadfastness of Humaneness (ren) Feng Youlan: "Chinan Ancient Nation with a New Mission" The Continuing Critique of Tradition Bo Yang: "The Ugly Chinaman" Sun Longji: "The Deep Structure of Chinese Culture" Su Xiaokang and Wang Luxiang: "River Elegy," a television documentary Li Zehou: "A Reevaluation of Confucianism", by Woeilien Chong Gu Mu: Confucianism as the Essence of Chinese Tradition
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Random House USA Inc Several Short Sentences About Writing
Book SynopsisAn indispensable and distinctive book that will help anyone who wants to write, write better, or have a clearer understanding of what it means for them to be writing, from widely admired writer and teacher Verlyn Klinkenborg. Klinkenborg believes that most of our received wisdom about how writing works is not only wrong but an obstacle to our ability to write. In Several Short Sentences About Writing, he sets out to help us unlearn that “wisdom”—about genius, about creativity, about writer’s block, topic sentences, and outline—and understand that writing is just as much about thinking, noticing, and learning what it means to be involved in the act of writing. There is no gospel, no orthodoxy, no dogma in this book. Instead it is a gathering of starting points in a journey toward lively, lucid, satisfying self-expression.
£15.30
HarperCollins Publishers Collins Gem Spanish Phrasebook Dictionary
Book SynopsisYou will never be lost for words in your travels around Spain and the Spanish islands again! Your ideal pocket-sized travel companion and the accompanying free ebook will ensure that you can say what you need in Spanish with ease and confidence.Reliable, portable and easy-to-use, this phrasebook is an indispensable travel companion as you deal with the situations that crop up every day on holiday; from finding a chic hotel, or hiring a car to explore the countryside, to choosing a local delicacy from the menu, and, of course, shopping for souvenirs.With helpful travel information and cultural tips, plus a 3000-word dictionary, make sure you don't go anywhere without this little book an essential guide to speaking and understanding Spanish when travelling in Spain and the Spanish islands.Access your free ebook at collins.co.uk/ebooks. You will need to register to access your content, instructions can be found on this link.Trade ReviewAmazon customer reviews of Collins Gem Phrasebooks: "They are easily navigable with colour coding for different sections. My favourite bit, though - which I couldn't do without - is the awesome menu reader! They're really discreet for bringing out at the dinner table, pretty much fitting in your hand, and avoiding the truly obvious tourist look!" "Ideal as a quick reference guide split in to logical topics. The pronunciation support really helps too. I have managed to string a few words together already and have been understood." "Much smaller than the usual Berlitz guides but equally useful."
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HarperCollins Publishers Easy Learning English Conversation Book 2
Book SynopsisThe home of trusted English learner''s dictionaries for everyday language learning.Collins Easy Learning English Conversation: Book 2 is a unique guide to communicating in English. Building on the phrases and vocabulary learnt in Book 1, it has been specially designed for intermediate-level learners who want to communicate successfully and with confidence in everyday situations, at work, or when travelling or studying.The text consists of 14 units, each illustrating the language used in a particular situation. The topic-based units cover the language learners need in everyday situations, but also language for more formal situations, such as a seminar or business meeting.Each section contains a list of the most useful phrases, with information on where and when they should be used, and a short sample of a conversation, showing the learner how a typical conversation flows in English.An audio CD contains all the conversations from the book, and allows the user to practice what they have l
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Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co A Companion to Roma Aeterna: Based on Hans
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Zondervan Zondervan Illustrated Bible Dictionary
Book SynopsisThe Zondervan Illustrated Bible Dictionary was created to help you get more out your study of the Bible. Containing over 7,200 entries, 500 full-color photographs, charts, and illustrations, 75 full-color maps, and a Scripture index, the Zondervan Illustrated Bible Dictionary is a wonderful resource for Bible study.
£42.75
Oxford University Press Oxford Bookworms Library Level 2 Northanger Abbey
Book SynopsisCatherine Morland, seventeen, is spending the summer in Bath. It is a new world for Catherine, who has never left her home village before. There are dances, visits to the theatre, her new friends Isabella Thorpe and Eleanor Tilney ... and Eleanor''s brother Henry, who is tall and funny, and who she likes at once.For Catherine, who reads novels, life is about love and adventure. So when she is invited to Northanger Abbey, the Tilney''s home, it seems full of mystery to her. But soon Catherine begins to learn a few lessons about real life - about who her friends are, and why, for some people, money and a place in society are more important than love.Trade ReviewThe most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story.
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Edelsa Grupo Didascalia, S.A. DELE escolar A1
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Inner Traditions Bear and Company Ensouling Language: On the Art of Nonfiction and
Book Synopsishe first comprehensive work on nonfiction as an art form • Shows how nonfiction, especially how-to and self-help, can take on the same power and luminosity as great fiction • Develops processes to reliably induce the dreaming state from which all writing comes • Teaches the skill of analogical thinking that is the core perceptual tool for writers • Explores the subtle techniques of powerful writing, from inducing associational dreaming in the reader, to language symmetry, sound patterning, foreshadowing, feeling flow, and more Approaching writing as a sacred art, Stephen Buhner explores the core of the craft: the communication of deep meaning that feeds not just the mind but also the soul of the reader. Tapping into the powerful archetypes within language, he shows how to enrich your writing by following “golden threads” of inspiration while understanding the crucial invisibles essential to the art of both fiction and nonfiction: how to craft language with feeling and vision, employ altered states of mind to access the writing trance, clear your work by recognizing the powerful sway of clichéd thinking and hidden baggage, and intentionally generate duende--that physical/emotional response to art that gives you chills, opens up unrecognized aspects of reality, or simply resonates in your soul. Covering some very practical aspects of writing such as layering and word symmetry, the author also explores the inner world of publishing--what you really will encounter when you become a writer. He then shows how to develop a powerful and engaging book proposal based on understanding the proposal as a work of fiction--the map is never the territory, nor is the proposal the book that it will become. This book, written using all the techniques discussed within it, offers a powerful, experiential journey into the heart of writing. It does for nonfiction what John Gardner’s books on writing did for fiction. It is one of the most significant works on writing published in our time.Trade Review"Ensouling Language is Stephen Harrod Buhner at his most spellbinding and enchanted. Every sentence is infused with a livingness that is rare in today's nonfiction. More than simply a book about writing, it is about wielding power--and responsibility--of language itself. Stephen encourages us to breathe the Breath of Life into the words we write, to call forth such a deep richness of meaning that it transmits feeling from the writer to the reader like some otherworldly telepathy. If you can feel you can write, write in this way, turning otherwise empty leaden words into golden Ensouling Language." * Daniel Vitalis, June 2010 *"Buhner's book describes how any writer, even one writing about, say, adobe walls, can achieve the sense of expansion--of traveling into larger worlds--that has always marked the best art. And although the subject is nonfiction, what Buhner has to say applies to serious writing of any kind." * Akshay Ahuja, The Occasional Review, May 2010 *“The most subversive book on writing I have ever encountered--and the most important.” * Herbie Brennan, New York Times bestselling author of Faerie Wars *“If Lao-tzu and Emerson could have a dialogue on writing, they would welcome the company of this remarkable book.” * William Howarth, author of Walking with Thoreau *“Stephen Harrod Buhner has produced a manifesto and guide to bring American writing back from the cages of the academy and release the power of language into the streets and wildernesses where the wild things live. If you love to read, if you like to write, you have finally come to the right place.” * Charles Bowden, author of Murder City, recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction and the *“Stephen Buhner’s Ensouling Language invites you to sit down for 23 cups of coffee and talk about the mystic journey of the writer, the solitary pilgrim, the witness yearning to tell the world indelible stories that cannot be known by any other voice than yours. If you are a teacher, a writer, a friend of a writer, this book will offer companionship in this life quest. This book harvests lessons from a writer and helpless lover of books who is old in experience but young in perennial devotion.” * Kim Stafford, director of Northwest Writing Institute and William Stafford Center, Lewis & Clark Col *“Ensouling Language is a fierce and generous meditation on the writer’s life. Fierce, because Stephen Buhner goes right at prevailing commercial and academic assumptions about literature. For him, writing is above all a portal into vividness, compassion, and discovery. Generous, because he weaves his own quest as a writer into his reflections about the art of nonfiction. Books, in both the reading and the writing, have absorbed him for a lifetime. And the connections he conveys here are always arresting, sometimes extravagant in their intensity, and very often funny. As a writer and a teacher, I’ve learned more from Buhner’s book than from anything I’ve read about writing since the works of John Gardner and William Stafford. I’m truly grateful to him for having written it.” * John Elder, Professor and Director of Breadloaf School of English, Middlebury College, and author of *“I can’t easily imagine a more useful book on the craft of writing. Covering all the steps--from glimpsing a first, furtive idea foraging in the mind’s brambles to tracking that idea and coaxing it to unfurl on the page, from finding the right words to securing the right publisher--this volume also, in the process, transforms your take on the universe. For Buhner brings all his inspired lunacy to bear, illustrating his passionate insights with lively stories and poems and with glimmering nuggets from other authors, fashioning this instructive, how-to book into a breathing compendium of word magic.” * David Abram, author of Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology and The Spell of the Sensuous, winner o *"Provocation is Buhner's mission in this unusually passionate and delving writer's guide. The author of books about plants, healing, indigenous culture, and the environment, Buhner not only tackles the art of writing with conviction, vigor, expertise, and a touch of devilry but also outspokenly advocates for the maligned form of "genre nonfiction.". . . Buhner sagely covers technical matters and the pragmatic business of book proposals and such, albeit not without lambasting corporate publishing. But his is a heroic view of writing." * Donna Seaman, Booklist, September 2010 *“Stephen Buhner writes with passion and perception about the entire range of the writer’s experience. He shows us in detail how to write, issues of craft and art, but also how a writer lives--the commitment, the dreaming, the business, the way a writer uncovers secrets on many levels, even how a writer loves and hates.” * Rachel Pollack, author of Godmother Night, recipient of the World Fantasy and the Arthur C. Clarke a *“Stephen Harrod Buhner has counted ‘beacoup coups’ in penning Ensouling Language. As history almost unanimously attests, writing well about writing is at best a rarity, perhaps mythic, a yeti of sorts. But Buhner’s flair, sage advice, and most of all his passion for writing touches every sentence. The book brings writing to life and will add life to any author’s own words.” * David Cremean, past president, Western Literature Association *“If you want a kind of deep ecology for nonfiction writing, a practical guide ingrained with the spirits of William Stafford and Federico García Lorca too, Ensouling Language is your book. Its pages, studded with samples and suggestions, come via the author’s fresh and liberating voice, opening up the ‘imaginal world’ we cannot do without.” * John Felstiner, professor of English, Stanford University, and author of Can Poetry Save the Earth? *"For readers and writers who are tired of hearing the same advice that writing instructors and editors have been handing down through the ages, however, Buhner's mystical (some might say touchy-feely) approach to writing may well be what the doctor ordered." * Small Press Review, September 2010 *" . . . Ensouling Language is an important book that encourages inner reflection before and during writing as well as focusing on the feelings of the reader. The technical proponents of publishing are addressed and intertwined throughout giving the writer a glimpse into the 'heart of writing'." * Irene Watson, Reader Views, October 2010 *“Ensouling Language is a richly engaging book written for everyone who has been deeply touched by something they have read and wishes to write like that too.” * East West Bookshop, April 2011 *“The American writer, Stephen Harrod Buhner, author of the iconic Ensouling Language: On the Art of Non-fiction and the Writer’s Life - and an inspiration to our editors - also appeals for openness to these wellsprings of creativity. He challenges the arid and mechanical quality of much non-fiction writing, and the danger of much creative writing being afflicted in the same way, because of the formulaic teaching on American MFAs in particular. For Buhner, as for Edward Bond, there is urgent need in our time of writing, in any genre, that - to adapt Buhner’s own words - attempts to extend awareness “further than society wants it to go” - a view strongly endorsed by our editors.” * The Lampeter Review, May 2011 *“Writing as a mystical experience, a transcendent art-form, is presented by Buhner with all the mystery and inspiration of a personal passion. As he writes about the ability of language to take life on the page, so his own writing quickens, transporting the reader to the realms of poetic spirit. This book is both a tribute to the craft of language and example of the same at its most delicate level. Buhner guides the reader through the process of accessing the necessary mind to write from the heart, and he does so from his own heart-felt devotion to the art. It is both a practical hand-book and mystical treatise, instilled with the spirit of many of the subtlest writers, poets and critics whose approach to writing and life brings to mind the faint scent of incense on the still desert plain” * Jonathan Dawson, Holisitc Network Ireland *“This is a book I can highly recommend, not only for aspiring writers, but for anyone who wants to engage the world deeply and recognizes the value of words in the exchange.” * Karl Schlotterbeck, The Henge of Keltria *“The point Buhner is making is vital: that whatever genre we’re writing, whether we’re a graduate from an MFA program or not, writers must never dissociate from their feelings or the feeling of their words. Given the passionate spirit in which Ensouling Language was written, it is sure to resonate with many readers, and is certainly worth a read by anyone who wishes to become a published author.” * Lisa McSherry, Facing North, October 2013 *Table of ContentsBefore Buying This Book I--The Touch of a Golden Thread 1. The Bookman 2. The Secret All Beginning Writers Want to Know II--Inhabiting the Word 3. On the Art of Nonfiction 4. You Must Begin with Something Deeper in the Self 5. “The Road of Feeling” 6. “It Burns the Blood Like Powdered Glass” 7. The Skill of Duende 8. Following Golden Threads III--Dreaming and the Journey to the Imaginal 9. “A Certain Adjustment of Consciousness” 10. “The Secret Kinesis of Things” 11. Aisthesis 12. Synaesthetic Writing and the Beginnings of Analogical Thought 13. Analogical Thinking 14. The Dreamer and the “Secret Room where Dreams Prowl” 15. The Imaginal Realm 16. Poesis IV--On Technique The First Draft, Revision, Clarity, and Refinement 17. The First Draft and the Beginnings of Revision 18. Problems and Further Revisioning 19. Clichéd Thinking and Killing the Genuine 20. Hidden Baggage 21. Some Subtle Refinements of the Art 22. Grammar Nazis and Editors-from-Hell 23. Some Final Words on the Writing Life Epilogue The Appendices--On the Business of Writing Appendix A. The People in Publishing and the Business End of the Profession Appendix B. The Art of the Book Proposal (Training in the Big Lie) Appendix C. Further Reading, Resources, and Recommendations Notes Bibliography Index
£17.09
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss und Der Begriff des
Book SynopsisHeinrich Meiers Dialog unter Abwesenden hat wie kein anderes Buch der letzten Jahrzehnte die internationale Debatte über Carl Schmitt und die Politische Theologie verändert. 1988 erschienen, bestimmte es zum ersten Mal das Zentrum und den Zusammenhang von Schmitts Werk als Politische Theologie. Die 3. Auflage enthält neben dem Epilog von 1988, der sich mit Derridas Politik der Freundschaft auseinandersetzt, ein neues Nachwort.
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Random House USA Inc Video Game Storytelling
Book SynopsisProvides developers with comprehensive, but easy-to-follow advice for facilitating the creation of compelling storylines in popular and narratively successful video games. This book aims to instill an understanding and appreciation of the basic storytelling principles that are essential for producing truly memorable video games.Trade ReviewEvery once in a while I end up reading a book that should be read by almost everyone that I know – whether they actually need to or not. Video Game Storytelling: What Every Developer Needs to Know About Narrative Techniques (published by Watson-Guptill) is one of those books. [It] is a great resource not only for budding writers, but it should also serve as a very important reference for everyone who holds a position in the ever-expanding videogame industry. -- Toronto Thumbs[This] book piqued our interest to an exceptional degree. 'Video Game Storytelling: What Every Developer Needs To Know About Narrative Techniques' is perfect for anyone who is a Developer, wants to get into game development, anyone who is a fiction writer, or anyone who wants to have a greater understanding and appreciation of the fictional game worlds we so much enjoy. -- Digital Mayhem RadioI found it to be both interesting and entertaining, using real-life examples taken from very popular movies and games that most people will be readily familiar with. I feel that Evan Skolnick has a lot to share and I really wish I had the opportunity to attend one of his talks. I would recommend Video Game Storytelling to anyone involved in the game development process - or anyone hoping to get into game development. -- Game Vortex If you’re the kind of gamer who likes to peek behind the curtain of video game development – and you don’t mind picking up a book once in a while – I recommend the new Video Game Storytelling by industry veteran Evan Skolnick. The book is aimed primarily at game developers, but it’s fascinating stuff for anyone interested in games as a storytelling medium. -- News & Observer Skolnick broke down the basic structure of video game storytelling into various parts that highlighted the importance of each and how they could be applied to video games. There’s a lot of information that’s covered, but presented straight-forwardly with plenty of examples of how it was all used previously. Overall, I enjoyed this book and I recommend it to anyone who wants to read it. -- Our Thoughts Precisely The reader is also introduced to the term ludology, or the study of games. Taken from the Latin verb ludere ‘to play’ it is used and expanded on to introduce even the more erudite terminology of, “ludonarrative harmony/dissonance.” Simply put, it describes how story can make or break the player’s gaming experience. It is worth buying the book just to read how Skolnick defines this with concrete examples from past and existing games. -- Gameindustry.comTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I - Basic Training 1. Conflict: The Fuel of Story 2. The Three-Act Structure 3. The Monomyth 4. Characters and Arcs 5. Exposition 6. Believability 7. Dialogue Part II - In the Trenches 8. Team Leadership 9. Overall Game Design 10. Game Character Development 11. Level and Mission Development 12. Environments 13. Engineering the Story 14. Audio 15. Quality Assurance (QA) Afterword Return with the Elixir Appendix I Sample Character Description Document Appendix II Sample Environment Description Document Acknowledgments Index
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Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Cesky, Prosím II: Czech for Foreigners
Book SynopsisThese new editions of the first universal textbooks for studying Czech as a foreign language employ a strictly communication-based format that requires no mediating language and thus is ideal for users of all mother tongues. Fresh and modern in their approach, these books systematically develop all language skills—reading, speaking, listening, and writing—using engaging illustrations and texts that emphasize the natural dialogical character of the language as used in everyday speech. Jitka Cvejnová’s extensive experience teaching intensive, immersive classes and introducing foreign learners to the Czech world through language also enables her to enrich the books with valuable sociocultural context. Consequently the only Czech language textbooks based on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages levels, they are ideal for use in both short-term and long-term courses.Česky, prosím II, which meets to requirements for level A2, continues to derive grammar rules directly from presented texts. Also introducing life and culture in the Czech Republic, it consists of a textbook with grammar overview, a workbook, and two audio CDs.
£30.00
Tuttle Publishing Indonesian for Beginners
Book SynopsisSelamat datang! Learn to read, write, and speak Indonesian!
£14.39
Tuttle Publishing JLPT Study Guide: The Comprehensive Guide to the
Book SynopsisDon't worry—there's no need to stress about JLPT test prep! As the founder of JLPTBootCamp.com—a test prep website with more than 300,000 annual visitors—Clayton MacKnight has helped tens of thousands of students to pass the JLPT N5 exam. Now, he's distilled his study resources and tips into a handy must-have volume for anyone prepping for this important language test.MacKnight's complete study package fully prepares the exam-taker by providing: Clear and simple grammar lessons with sample sentence patterns Printable vocabulary, Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji flash cards Over 300 sample test questions Three printable practice tests (all with answer keys and free online audio recordings for the listening portions) Exam-takers can stop worrying and take the uncertainty out of exam prep because the JPLT Study Guide shows them exactly what to expect—and how to pass the test with flying colors!The Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) is the standardized test taken by everyone who wants to study or work in Japan.Trade Review"Learning a second language can open up the world in many ways… Japanese can be difficult, but it is also mostly phonetic, which is a definite plus, and when you set yourself a measurable goal, you have something to work towards, which is where the JLPT Study Guide comes into play." -- Castle View Academy blog
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Oxford University Press Dominoes Three The Count of Monte Cristo
Book SynopsisNow with new illustrations.Marseille, France, 1815. It is Edmond Dantès'' wedding day. But his enemies have other plans, and Edmond is arrested and sent to the terrible island prison of Château d''If. For fourteen long years he waits for the right moment to escape. And now Edmond is a rich man, with many disguises, and a new name. The Count of Monte Cristo begins his revenge... Word count: 18,222CEFR: B1
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Buruj Lil Tibaa Wal Nashr Wal Tawzi At-Takallum Arabic Teaching Set -- Starter Level:
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Random House USA Inc The Black Swan Second Edition
Book SynopsisThe most influential book of the past seventy-five years: a groundbreaking exploration of everything we know about what we donâ??t know, now with a new section called â??On Robustness and Fragility.â?A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives. Why do we not acknowledge the phenomenon of black swans until after they occur? Part of the answer, according to Taleb, is that humans are hardwired to learn specifics when they should be focused on generalities. We concentrate on things we already know and time and time again fail to take into consideration what we d
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Oxford University Press Headway Beginner Students Book with Online
Book SynopsisTrusted worldwide. Inspired by you. Updated with new texts, topics and themes, Headway fifth edition provides fresh and relevant English instruction that is tailored to your students' needs.NEW TO THIS EDITIONTeach practical, real life English that is relevant to your students' lives with new topics and themes grounded in today's realityBring unit topics to life with the new unit opener page which includes inspiring photographs and accompanying video introductions, to engage students with the topicDownload and adapt material for your students with the Teacher's Resource Centre which provides all your Headway resources, stored in one placeOnline practice enables students to revisit activities from previous lessons, do extra skills practice, and check their progress with instant feedback.Find out more here
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Haynes Publishing Group Kawasaki KZ ZX Zn 10001100Cc
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Peterson's Guides,U.S. 501 Russian Verbs
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