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'Paris, 4 July 2003: My first Tour de France. I had never seen a bike race. I had only vaguely heard of Lance Armstrong. I had no idea what I was doing there. Yet, that day I was broadcasting live on television. I fumbled my way through a few platitudes, before summing...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-06-02
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The King's English is Kingsley Amis's authoritative and witty guide to the use and abuse of the English language. A scourge of illiteracy and a thorn in the side of pretension, Amis provides indispensable advice about the linguistic blunders and barbarities that lie in...
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Penguin
Parution :
2011-06-02
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The language of crime has a long and venerable history - in fact, the first collection of words specifically used by criminals, Hye-Way to the Spittel House, dates from as early as 1531. Jonathon Green is our national expert on slang, and in Crooked Talk he looks at...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2011-06-02
ePub
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Your hands-on, friendly guide to writing young adult fiction With young adult book sales rising, and bestselling authors like J.K. Rowling and Stephenie Meyer exploding onto the scene, aspiring YA writers are more numerous than ever. Are you interested in writing a...
Editeur :
For Dummies
Parution :
2011-06-01
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This is a guide for prospective "best men" which aims to answer the anxieties about making the speech. It offers advice on speech-making essentials, great openings, strong middles, big finishes, plus putting it all together and delivering the speech itself.
Editeur :
How to Books
Parution :
2011-06-01
ePub
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Ring!Ring!Ring! The Fire Fighters are coming.A house is on fire and the Fire Fighters are on their way to save the day. DK Readers will help your child learn to read and encourage a life-long love of reading whilst learning all about brave Fire Fighters! DK Readers are...
Editeur :
Dorling Kindersley
Parution :
2011-06-01
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"Be in no doubt: the beer was drunk but the man drank the beer.""We must avoid vulgarities like 'front up'. If someone is 'fronting up' a television show, then he is presenting it."Simon Heffer's incisive and amusingly despairing emails to colleagues at the The Daily...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2011-05-31
ePub
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Looking for a Spanish course that really works fast? Look no further. In just 35 minutes a day for six weeks, Elisabeth Smith will teach you the 450 most useful words and expressions that you need. Whether you're going on holiday, looking to brush up lost language...
Editeur :
Teach Yourself
Parution :
2011-05-27
ePub
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Competence encompasses or overlaps with notions of efficiency, success, accountability, excellence and self-justification. This collection explores ways in which individuals, teams or groups in organizations discursively present themselves as competent to perform...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-05-26
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Tips on writing to consumers and business-to-business Create captivating, results-oriented, sales-generating copy Need to produce winning copy for your business? This fast, fun guide takes you through every step of a successful copywriting project, from direct mail,...
Editeur :
For Dummies
Parution :
2011-05-04
ePub
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Spoken language understanding (SLU) is an emerging field in between speech and language processing, investigating human/ machine and human/ human communication by leveraging technologies from signal processing, pattern recognition, machine learning and artificial...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2011-05-03
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A collection of essays from scholars around the globe examining the ethical issues and problems associated with some of the major areas within contemporary international communication: journalism, PR, marketing communication, and political rhetoric.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-05-03
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There can be few subjects of such widespread interest and fascination to anyone who reads as the strange ways of languages. In this wonderfully entertaining and fascinating book, John McWhorter introduces us to 'the natural history of language': from Russonorsk, a...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2011-04-30
ePub
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Astronomy is not just a subject unto itself. We all look at the sky, and it has always been a fertile source of guidance and inspiration in art, music, and literature. This book explores the sky’s appearances in music and art, but focuses most on the sky’s enormous...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-04-30
ePub
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The Secrets to Writing Great Comedy will show you how to unlock yourinner anarchist and write fantastic comedy, using a combination ofpractical exercises and creative inspiration. Whatever your preferredgenre, from sitcom to sketch show, you will fi nd guidance on...
Editeur :
Teach Yourself
Parution :
2011-04-29
ePub
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Dieser Band enthält die überarbeiteten Fassungen von Vorträgen, die auf einer Tagung an der Universität Jena am 15. und 16. Dezember 2006 gehalten wurden. Themenschwerpunkte waren die Kommunikation in der Frühen Neuzeit im Allgemeinen und die Kommunikation unter...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-04-28
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This book is about the integration into English of the five nominal suffixes -ment, -ance, -ation, -age and -al, which entered Middle English via borrowings from French, and which now form abstract nouns by attaching themselves to various base categories, as in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-04-27
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MAGGIE ALDERSON, novelist, philosopher of fashion and arbiter of style, brings us a new collection of her much-loved Style Notes column. Find out why men hate shopping and why women love wearing clothes men hate. Share the frustration of the search for the perfect...
Editeur :
E-Penguin
Parution :
2011-04-27
ePub
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Mit diesem Buch wird ein kurzer Einblick in ausgewählte Themen der deutschsprachigen Übersetzungswissenschaft im westlichen Kontext vermittelt, der für die fachinterne Diskussion grundlegend ist. Dabei werden Fragen wie die ihrer Interdisziplinarität erörtert, u. a. wie...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-04-26
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Seit ihrer Parteigründung im Jahr 1980 haben sich die Grünen sukzessive von einer systemkritischen Bewegungspartei zu einer Parlamentspartei traditionellen Typs entwickelt. Die Arbeit schließt eine Forschungslücke, indem sie einen detaillierten Überblick darüber...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-04-26
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