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Book SynopsisThis new annotated critical edition is the first to provide the original Spanish text along with a substantial and authoritative introduction in English, as well as maps and tables relating to nineteenth-century Cuba, a vocabulary list, and suggestions for further reading. -- .Table of Contents1. Introduction2. Sab3. Appendicesi. Map and figuresii. Life and works of Gomes de Avellanedaiii. A description of Puerto Principe, 1840iv. 'El cantico del esclavo'BibliographyTemas de discusion; Temas de debateSelected vocabulary

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Book SynopsisWhat is 'Hispanic Studies'? This companion gives a concise and accessible overview of the discipline as taught today and suggests new directions for future developments. 'Hispanic Studies' is broadly concerned with the languages and cultures of the vast 'Hispanic' world, extending chronologically from Roman Hispania to today, and geographically from Roman Hispania to today, and geographically from California in the North to Patagonia in the South, and from Majorca in the East to the Andes in the West.This essential book provides all the necessary introductory information on the subject and will be especially useful for students who have already started courses in Spanish / Hispanic Studies, or who are considering doing so in the future.Written by a team of leading scholars each with established teaching experience this collection of short essays explores topics as diverse as the history of the Spanish language, Islamic Andalusia, race and class in the Spanish Golden Age, Catalan nationalism, the Madrid 'movida', Latin America cinema, tango in Argentina, Evita Pern, 'testimonio' and the cultural significance of the US-Mexican border. The emphasis is on literature and texts, including film and photography. In addition, the book includes time-lines, summary boxes adn suggestions for further reading.Trade ReviewThe book successfully presents the field of Hispanic Studies as complex, dynamic and exciting, with authoritative contributions from an array of distinguished scholars.Modern Language Review" This book explicitly addresses today's undergraduate of Hispanic Studies in the U.K .... the editor tells the prospective reader that the aim is "to give you a relatively quick and easy entry into Hispanic Studies as it stands today".....It achieves its goal through a generally succinct and readable discourse". Forum for Mdern Language Studies Vol: 43 No. 3Table of ContentsWhat is Hispanic Studies?LanguageMedieval Spanish StudiesGolden Age Studies: Spain and Spanish America in the 16th and 17th CenturiesSpain and Spanish America in the 18th and 19th CenturiesTwentieth-century SpainCatalan, Galician, BasqueMexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and the AndesThe Southern ConeSpanish and Latin American CinemaBeyond Hispanic Studies? Interdisciplinary approaches to Spain and Latin AmericaStudent CommentsTime Chart.

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Book SynopsisThe development of international wildlife law has been one of the most significant exercises in international law-making during the last fifty years. This second edition of Lyster's International Wildlife Law coincides with both the UN Year of Biological Diversity and the twenty-fifth anniversary of Simon Lyster's first edition. The risk of wildlife depletion and species extinction has become even greater since the 1980s. This new edition provides a clear and authoritative analysis of the key treaties which regulate the conservation of wildlife and habitat protection, and of the mechanisms available to make them work. The original text has also been significantly expanded to include analysis of the philosophical and welfare considerations underpinning wildlife protection, the cross-cutting themes of wildlife and trade, and the impact of climate change and other anthropogenic interferences with species and habitat. Lyster's International Wildlife Law is an indispensable reference work fTrade Review'The book closes on a cliff-hanger moment just before the events of the Tenth COP to the CBD, at which it was revealed - to nobody's surprise - that the international community had roundly failed to meet its 2010 commitments in halting global biodiversity loss. The reasons behind this collective failure are admirably covered in this excellent and highly recommended text, which shares the cautious optimism of the original in the potential of multilateral action to effect a genuine improvement in the conservation status of biodiversity … With this second edition, symbolically coinciding with a crucial year for international biodiversity law, the authors have produced a worthy successor to Lyster's celebrated original work.' Richard Caddell, Journal of Environmental LawTable of ContentsPart I. Foundations of International Wildlife Law: 1. The historical evolution of international wildlife law; 2. Wildlife and the international legal system; 3. The philosophical foundations of international wildlife law; 4. Implementation and enforcement of international wildlife law; Part II. Species Regulation: 5. Fish; 6. The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling; 7. Birds; Part III. Regional Wildlife Regulation: 8. The Convention on Nature Protection and Wildlife Preservation in the Western Hemisphere; 9. The African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources; 10. The Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats; 11. Polar regions; 12. Other regional and sub-regional arrangements; Part IV. Global Wildlife Regulation: 13. The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands; 14. World Heritage Convention; 15. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora; 16. The Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals; Part V. Biological Diversity: A New Perspective on Wildlife Regulation: 17. The Biodiversity Convention and biosafety protocol; 18. Deserts, forests and mountains; Part VI. Cross-Sectoral Issues in Wildlife Regulation: 19. Wildlife and trade; 20. Wildlife and welfare; 21. Wildlife and pollution; Part VII. Conclusion: 22. Final reflections.

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Book SynopsisIt’s April in Antarctica and, in places so remote that they can only be seen by satellites, lines of Emperor Penguins appear in search of the perfect ice for raising their chicks. A wise old Empress has returned to the ice at Halley Bay year after year; with the help of her mate, she works to protect her newly-laid egg against the bitter winter. But a changing climate is making the Antarctic Ocean warmer – winds are stronger and storms are fiercer... With luminous illustrations and an introduction by climate scientist Dr Phil Trathan, this is the true story of how the Emperor penguin colony at Halley Bay was disrupted after the sea ice collapsed, and how it’s necessary to protect the environment so that these extraordinary survivors will continue to be found in the Antarctic for generations to come. "Nicola Davies is one of the best children's writers in the business." Huffington Post

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Book Synopsis* Provides a comprehensive and current picture of the field of Applied Linguistics. * Contains 32 newly commissioned articles that examine both the applications of linguistics to language data and the use of real world language to ameliorate social problems.Trade Review“Handsomely produced, and very attractive visually. The editors, Alan Davies and Catherine Elder, are leading experts in applied linguistics and they have assembled a strong group of contributors to the enterprise… The Handbook of Applied Linguistics should be in every academic library, and I would recommend that applied linguists look at it, note specific chapters of interest, and read over those chapters carefully… Because of the depth allowed for each chapter, there is much thought-provoking material and many ideas that may challenge as well as support established positions.” Language Teaching Research “In the vast quarry of theories and interdisciplinary investigations of applied linguistics this rigorous and scholarly book is an authoritative guide to the focal issues. It provides both original and important contributions to the literature as well as signposts to the future.” John C. Maher, International Christian University, Tokyo “In its forty years of activity, applied linguistics has been concerned to define itself, its extent, and its relations with related fields. This handbook, edited by Davies and Catherine Elder, brings the issues up-to-date, providing not just a clear account of current work in the branches of the field by thirty of the best-known practitioners, but a cogent perspective justifying treating applied linguistics as an independent and united discipline.” Bernard Spolsky, Bar-Ilan University “This is a linguistically sophisticated, pedagogically sound, research oriented, interdisciplinary approach at defining applied linguistics as a discipline in its own right that should be in every applied linguist's library. A vade mecum.” James E. Alatis, Georgetown University “Davies and Elder are to be congratulated for the Handbook in Applied Linguistics. The handbook reflects the historical evolution of thinking in applied linguistics, its emerging dimensions, and successfully captures the nature of an internal critique of applied linguistics within applied linguistics. Because applied linguistics is firmly embedded within western applied linguistics, the handbook book forces us to reflect on the nature non-western applied linguistics might take.” Sinfree Makoni, Pennsylvania State UniversityTable of ContentsList of Figures viii List of Tables ix Notes on Contributors x Acknowledgments xvi General Introduction Applied Linguistics: Subject to Discipline? 1 Alan Davies and Catherine Elder Part I Linguistics-Applied (L-A) 17 Introduction to Part I 19Alan Davies Section 1 1 Language Descriptions 25Anthony J. Liddicoat and Timothy J. Curnow 2 Lexicography 54Alan Kirkness Section 2 3 Second Language Acquisition and Ultimate Attainment 82David Birdsong 4 Language Corpora 106Michael Stubbs 5 Discourse Analysis 133Hugh Trappes-Lomax Section 3 6 British Sign Language 165Rachel Sutton-Spence and Bencie Woll 7 Assessing Language Attitudes: Speaker Evaluation Studies 187Howard Giles and Andrew C. Billings 8 Language Attrition 210Monika S. Schmid and Kees de Bot 9 Language, Thought, and Culture 235Claire Kramsch 10 Conversation Analysis 262Rod Gardner Section 4 11 Language and the Law 285John Gibbons 12 Language and Gender 304Susan Ehrlich 13 Stylistics 328John McRae and Urszula Clark Section 5 14 Language and Politics 347John E. Joseph 15 World Englishes 367Kingsley Bolton Section 6 16 The Philosophy of Applied Linguistics 397Kanavillil Rajagopalan Part II Applied-Linguistics (A-L) 421 Introduction to Part II 423Catherine Elder Section 7 17 The Native Speaker in Applied Linguistics 431Alan Davies 18 Language Minorities 451John Edwards 19 Research Methods for Applied Linguistics: Scope, Characteristics, and Standards 476James Dean Brown Section 8 20 Second Language Learning 501William Littlewood 21 Individual Differences in Second Language Learning 525Rod Ellis 22 Social Influences on Language Learning 552Gary Barkhuizen 23 Literacy Studies 576Eddie Williams Section 9 24 Fashions in Language Teaching Methodology 604Bob Adamson 25 Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) 623Paul Gruba 26 Language Teacher Education 649Richard Johnstone 27 The Practice of LSP 672Helen Basturkmen and Catherine Elder 28 Bilingual Education 695Heather Lotherington Section 10 29 Language Maintenance 719Anne Pauwels 30 Language Planning as Applied Linguistics 738Joseph Lo Bianco 31 Language Testing 763Tim McNamara Section 11 32 Critical Applied Linguistics 784Alastair Pennycook Index 808

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Book SynopsisIt's April in Antarctica and, in places so remote that they can only be seen by satellites, lines of Emperor Penguins appear in search of the perfect ice for raising their chicks. A wise old Empress has returned to the ice at Halley Bay year after year; with the help of her mate, she works to protect her newly-laid egg against the bitter winter. But a changing climate is making the Antarctic Ocean warmer winds are stronger and storms are fiercer... With luminous illustrations and an introduction by climate scientist Dr Phil Trathan, this is the true story of how the Emperor penguin colony at Halley Bay was disrupted after the sea ice collapsed, and how it's necessary to protect the environment so that these extraordinary survivors will continue to be found in the Antarctic for generations to come.Nicola Davies is one of the best children''s writers in the business. Huffington PostTrade ReviewThis remarkable picture book tells how a male emperor penguin keeps an egg warm through winter while a female is away hunting fish. It captures the astonishing challenge of survival. -- Nicolette Jones * Watch Out For, Sunday Times *Breathtaking images and powerful, resonant text. -- Imogen Russell-Williams * Children and Teens Roundup, Guardian *Expansive and poignant non-fiction title, gorgeously illustrated * The Bookseller *Not just a non-fiction title that will tell its readers more about this most beautiful of creatures, the emperor penguin, this is also a title that is full of luminous illustrations that you will want to spend time with, pondering over the beauty and harshness of the Antarctic landscapes. * Armadillo Magazine *A breathtaking insight into the lives of emperor penguins in our changing world. * Juno *

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Book SynopsisThe focus of this book is two-fold. First it traces the expansive geographical spread of the language commonly referred to as Spanish. This has given rise to multiple hybrid formations over time emerging in the clash of multiple cultures, languages and religions within and between great empires (Roman, Islamic, Hispano-Catholic), each with expansionist policies leading to wars, huge territorial gains and population movements. This long history makes Hispanophone culture itself a supranational, trans-imperial one long before we witness its various national cultures being refashioned as a result of the transnational processes associated with globalization today. Indeed, the Spanish language we recognise today was ‘transnational’ long before it was ever the foundation of a single nation state. Secondly, it approaches the more recent post-national, translingual and inter-subjective ‘border-crossings’ that characterise the global world today with an eye to their unfolding within this long trans-imperial history of the Hispanophone world. In doing so, it maps out some of the contemporary post-colonial, decolonial and trans-Atlantic inflections of this trans-imperial history as manifest in literature, cinema, music and digital cultures. Contributors: Christopher J. Pountain, L.P. Harvey, James T. Monroe, Rosaleen Howard, Mark Thurner, Alexander Samson, Andrew Ginger, Samuel Llano, Philip Swanson, Claire Taylor, Emily Baker, Elzbieta Slodowska, Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián, Henriette Partzsch, Helen Melling, Conrad James and Benjamin Quarshie.Trade Review“This book will be a welcome and important contribution to the ongoing re-shaping of Modern Languages in the UK, with an appeal and impact that goes far beyond.”Chris Harris, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool UniversityTable of ContentsTable of ContentsIntroductionSection 1: LanguageChapter 1 Christopher J. Pountain: Transnational dimensions in the history of SpanishChapter 2 L.P. Harvey: Arabic in the Iberian PeninsulaChapter 3 James T. Monroe: The First Chapter in Ibero-Romance Literatures: The ḫarja-s (kharjas)Chapter 4 Rosaleen Howard: Indigenous people of the Andes through languageSection 2: TemporalitiesChapter 5 Mark Thurner: The Names of Spain and Peru: Notes on the Global Scope of the HispanicChapter 6 Alexander Samson: Time, Empire and the Transnational in the Early Modern Spanish WorldChapter 7 Andrew Ginger: Modern, Modernity, Modernism, and the Transnational; Or, Goodbye to All That?Chapter 8 Samuel Llano: Flamenco as Palimpsest: Reading through hybriditySection 3: SpatialitiesChapter 9 Philip Swanson: The Where is Latin America?: Imaginary Geographies and Cultures of Production and ConsumptionChapter 10 Claire Taylor, Thea Pitman: Digital Culture and Post-Regional Latin AmericanismChapter 11 Emily Baker: From ‘Imagined’ to ‘Inoperative’ Communities: The Un-working of National and Latin American Identities in Contemporary FictionChapter 12 Elzbieta Slodowska: Post-Soviet (Re)collections: From Artifact to Artifice in the Wake of the ‘Special Period’ in CubaChapter 13 Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián: Amphibious Visualities: Transnational Archipelagos of Recent Latin American CinemaSection 4: SubjectivitiesChapter 14 Henriette Partzsch: The Transnational Space of Women’s Writing in Nineteenth-century SpainChapter 15 Helen Melling: Envisioning African-descent Confraternities in early nineteenth-century Lima, PeruChapter 16 Conrad James: Dominican Trans: Frank Báez’s Global PoeticsChapter 17 Benjamin Quarshie: ‘Signos y cicatrices comunes’: Queerness, Disability, and Pedro Lemebel’s Poetics and Politics of EmbodimentList of Contributors

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Book SynopsisThe focus of this book is two-fold. First it traces the expansive geographical spread of the language commonly referred to as Spanish. This has given rise to multiple hybrid formations over time emerging in the clash of multiple cultures, languages and religions within and between great empires (Roman, Islamic, Hispano-Catholic), each with expansionist policies leading to wars, huge territorial gains and population movements. This long history makes Hispanophone culture itself a supranational, trans-imperial one long before we witness its various national cultures being refashioned as a result of the transnational processes associated with globalization today. Indeed, the Spanish language we recognise today was ‘transnational’ long before it was ever the foundation of a single nation state. Secondly, it approaches the more recent post-national, translingual and inter-subjective ‘border-crossings’ that characterise the global world today with an eye to their unfolding within this long trans-imperial history of the Hispanophone world. In doing so, it maps out some of the contemporary post-colonial, decolonial and trans-Atlantic inflections of this trans-imperial history as manifest in literature, cinema, music and digital cultures. Contributors: Christopher J. Pountain, L.P. Harvey, James T. Monroe, Rosaleen Howard, Mark Thurner, Alexander Samson, Andrew Ginger, Samuel Llano, Philip Swanson, Claire Taylor, Emily Baker, Elzbieta Slodowska, Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián, Henriette Partzsch, Helen Melling, Conrad James and Benjamin Quarshie.Trade Review“This book will be a welcome and important contribution to the ongoing re-shaping of Modern Languages in the UK, with an appeal and impact that goes far beyond.”Chris Harris, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool UniversityTable of ContentsTable of ContentsIntroductionSection 1: LanguageChapter 1 Christopher J. Pountain: Transnational dimensions in the history of SpanishChapter 2 L.P. Harvey: Arabic in the Iberian PeninsulaChapter 3 James T. Monroe: The First Chapter in Ibero-Romance Literatures: The ḫarja-s (kharjas)Chapter 4 Rosaleen Howard: Indigenous people of the Andes through languageSection 2: TemporalitiesChapter 5 Mark Thurner: The Names of Spain and Peru: Notes on the Global Scope of the HispanicChapter 6 Alexander Samson: Time, Empire and the Transnational in the Early Modern Spanish WorldChapter 7 Andrew Ginger: Modern, Modernity, Modernism, and the Transnational; Or, Goodbye to All That?Chapter 8 Samuel Llano: Flamenco as Palimpsest: Reading through hybriditySection 3: SpatialitiesChapter 9 Philip Swanson: The Where is Latin America?: Imaginary Geographies and Cultures of Production and ConsumptionChapter 10 Claire Taylor, Thea Pitman: Digital Culture and Post-Regional Latin AmericanismChapter 11 Emily Baker: From ‘Imagined’ to ‘Inoperative’ Communities: The Un-working of National and Latin American Identities in Contemporary FictionChapter 12 Elzbieta Slodowska: Post-Soviet (Re)collections: From Artifact to Artifice in the Wake of the ‘Special Period’ in CubaChapter 13 Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián: Amphibious Visualities: Transnational Archipelagos of Recent Latin American CinemaSection 4: SubjectivitiesChapter 14 Henriette Partzsch: The Transnational Space of Women’s Writing in Nineteenth-century SpainChapter 15 Helen Melling: Envisioning African-descent Confraternities in early nineteenth-century Lima, PeruChapter 16 Conrad James: Dominican Trans: Frank Báez’s Global PoeticsChapter 17 Benjamin Quarshie: ‘Signos y cicatrices comunes’: Queerness, Disability, and Pedro Lemebel’s Poetics and Politics of EmbodimentList of Contributors

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Book SynopsisThe struggles for independence in Latin America during the first half of the nineteenth century were accompanied by a wide-ranging debate about political rights, nationality and citizenship. In South American Independence, Catherine Davies, Claire Brewster and Hilary Owen investigate the neglected role of gender in that discussion. Examining women writers from Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Colombia, the book traces the contradictions inherent in revolutionary movements that, while arguing for the rights of all, remained ambivalent, at best, about the place of women. Through studies of both published and unpublished writings, South American Independence reveals the complex role of women in shaping the vexed ideologies of independence.Trade ReviewA novel, original, suggestive, and profoundly thought-provoking study of Latin American independence. I genuinely think this is a classic in the making. Will Fowler, University of St AndrewsThe authors should be praised for in covering several hitherto unknown or forgotten texts, mainly those written by women, as well as for a cautious analysis of these and the scholarly literature written on the subject. ...a valuable contribution to the study if gender roles and female agency in the first half of the nineteenth century in Latin America, and a fine example of the important of an interdisciplinary approach to Latin American independence.Hispanic American Historical Review, Volume 88, No. 3This book offers an appealing blend of history and literary criticism, with the added benefit on an important focus on women and gender, a theme long neglected in studies of South American Independence. It could be used successfully in upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in history, literature and Latin American studies. And it goes without saying that for scholars of the independence era it is an important addition to bibliographies and book-shelves.Latin American Studies, Volume 41Table of Contents List of plates Acknowledgements Part I 1. South American Independence: War, Liberty, Gender, Text 2. Figuring the Feminine: The Writings of Simón Bolivar (1783-1830) 3. Troped Out of History: Gender Slippage and Woman in the Poetry of Andrés Bello 4. Competing Masculinities and Political Discourse: The Writings of Esteban Echeverria (1805-51) 5. Satirised Woman and Counter-Strategies Part II 6. Women, War and Spanish American Independence 7. Women, Letter-Writing and the Wars of Independence in Chile 8. Gender, Patriotism and Social Capital: Josefa Acevedo and Mercedes Martin 9. Gender and Revolution in Southern Brazil: Restitching the Farroupilha Revolt in the Works of Delfina Benigna da Cunha and Ana de Barandas 10. Juana Manso (1819-75): Women in History 11. Conclusions: South America, Gender, Politics, Text Bibliography Index

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