Language: reference and general

By focusing on the textually mediated reactions of local residents, social movements, and media producers to policy changes implemented in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, this book studies the development of literacy as a tool to mobilize, perform, and disseminate protest.

Everything aspiring authors need to write, publish, and sell a children's book Everyone loves a children's book and many dream about writing one.

This book powerfully sets out the case for Transitional Safeguarding, a new approach to protection and safeguarding designed to address the needs and behaviours of young people in their mid-teens to mid-twenties who are falling between gaps in current systems, with often devastating results.

Earl Weaver put his best defensive players on the field early in the game rather than make late-inning defensive replacements, and he didn't like to bunt, figuring if you played for only one run that's all you'd get.

The Art of Experience provides an interdisciplinary analysis of selected plays from Ireland's premier female playwright, Marina Carr.

This book presents state-of-the-art research into English-medium instruction (EMI) in European higher education over the last 20 years, offering a comprehensive comparative analysis toward identifying gaps in our understanding of relevant theories, research, and practice.

The study of French culture has long ceased to be purely centred on literature.

A fascinating exploration of the urbanism at the heart of Utopian thinkingThe vision of Utopia obsessed the nineteenth-century mind, shaping art, literature, and especially town planning.

This book combines autoethnographic reflections, poetry, and photography with the aim to bridge the gap between creative practice and scholarly research.

Get the targeted practice you need to excel on the Reasoning Through Language Arts section of the GED test!

Die geheime Botschaft der Buchstaben und Zahlen.

Language and Identity in the Arab World explores the inextricable link between language and identity, referring particularly to the Arab world.

Fascinating, wide-ranging, hugely knowledgeable - an indispensable guide and a beguiling education William BoydPacked with insights and advice - just the inspiration to start writing!

Durante su etapa de formacion academica, Santiago David Gualapuro Gualapuro formo parte del Programa de Diversidad Etnica de la Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ y obtuvo el titulo de Ingenieria Agroempresas.

The Routledge Course in Mandarin Chinese is a two-year undergraduate course for students with no prior background in Chinese study.

Colloquial Croatian provides a step-by-step course in Croatian as it is written and spoken today.

First published in 1919, this volume provides a detailed linguistic breakdown of the Bantu language family of Central and Southern Africa.

Norwegian: An Essential Grammar is a reference guide to the most important aspects of contemporary Norwegian as used by native speakers.

Du français médiéval au français moderne, l’organisation de la phrase a connu des changements importants.

Bringing together a diverse range of writers, The Science of Story is the first book to ask the question: what can contemporary brain science teach us about the art and craft of creative nonfiction writing?

Critical Service Learning Toolkit offers a strengths-based, interdisciplinary approach to promoting social competence while enhancing emotional and academic skill development.

This book examines a dramatic rise of nonviolent youth movements on the eve of national elections in Eastern Europe.

The author of Christ at the Checkpoint analyzes the appeal of Pentecostalism, from the belief in miracles to tongue-talking to the prosperity gospel.

From our first ABCs to the Book of Revelation’s statement that Jesus is “the Alpha and Omega,” we see the world through our letters.

While teaching writing to undergraduate science students, Gilpin and Patchet-Golubev discovered that although many relatively sophisticated manuals for scientific writing exist, most are aimed at mainly professionals or specialists and are of little practical use to the majority of students.

Filled with helpful checklists, charts, and suggestions for further reading, this practical, comprehensive, and multidisciplinary guide takes readers through the entire case-writing process, including skills for writing both teaching cases and research cases.

This volume deals specifically with escape and evasion in the Netherlands, Belgium and France, an operation in which the author himself was directly involved, and discusses the role which these lines of escape played in the lives of airmen who were forced to bail out over enemy territory.

Helps students and instructors read and appreciate this extraordinary piece of historical writing about Nero''s infamous reign as emperor.

The desire to create, to write, to fulfil our artistic dreams is a powerful human need.

Describing Prescriptivism provides a topical and thought-provoking analysis of linguistic prescriptivism in British and American English, from a historical as well as present-day perspective.

What was the first language, and where did it come from?

These are exciting times for creative writing.

AP Teachers' #1 Choice!

Translation and Multimodality: Beyond Words is one of the first books to explore how translation needs to be redefined and reconfigured in contexts where multiple modes of communication, such as writing, images, gesture, and music, occur simultaneously.

Unique, Powerful Way All Believers Can Experience BreakthroughIn the Bible, Moses sang.

Ausführlich und wissenschaftlich fundiert werden Orthografie, Phonologie, Morphologie, Syntax und Wortbildung der rumänischen Sprache dargestellt.

English Grammar might seem difficult.

The Penguin Writers' Guides series provide authoritative, succinct and easy-to-follow guidance on specific aspects of written English.

This book provides readers with an introductory understanding of English language and English grammar.

Au travail, dans vos loisirs ou dans vos activités quotidiennes, une posture qui ne respecte pas la mécanique naturelle du corps peut faire grandement obstacle au bien-être.

Colloquial Norwegian provides a step-by-step course in Norwegian as it is written and spoken today.