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From an award-winning BBC journalist, this moving book turns the testimony of an accidental hero into a timeless story about the awakening of human courage and conscience.'I can hardly begin to describe to you what I saw as our boat approached the source of that...
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Penguin
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2016-09-29
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In 1991 Andrew Solomon faced down tanks in Moscow with a band of Russian artists protesting the August coup. We find him on the quest for a rare bird in Zambia in 1998, and in Greenland in 2001 researching widespread depression among the Inuit.In 2002 he was in...
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Vintage Digital
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2016-09-29
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Sprachpflege, Sprachnorm und Sprachpurismus... Begriffe wie diese verbinden wir unmittelbar mit dem Französischen, das von der Renaissance ausgehend in verschiedenen Etappen — zunächst durch Sprachausbau, später durch die präskriptive Definition des bon usage — zu einer...
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innsbruck university press
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2016-09-29
Collection :
Studien des Interdisziplinären Frankreich-Schwerpunkts
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Bei der Klassifizierung von Adjektiven sind zahlreiche Varianten möglich. Eine grobe Einteilung in lexikalisch-semantischer Hinsicht ist die Unterscheidung von Qualitäts- und Relationsadjektiven. Sowohl im Deutschen als auch im Französischen und Russischen scheint diese...
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innsbruck university press
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2016-09-29
Collection :
Studien des Interdisziplinären Frankreich-Schwerpunkts
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This volume brings together a selection of pivotal articles published in the hundred years since the launch of the journal Neophilologus. Each article is accompanied by an up-to-date commentary written by former and current editors of the journal. The commentaries...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-09-27
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This book offers an in-depth account of social media, journalism and collective memory through a five-year analysis of Weibo, a leading Chinese micro-blogging platform, and prism of transitional China in a globalizing world. How does society remember public events in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-27
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This book presents evaluation cases from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) context, investigating the various facets of evaluation in different parts of the MENA region and beyond. In 19 chapters, it explores cases from Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Sudan, Syria,...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-09-27
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This is a teacher’s resource book tailor-made for EFL teachers who want to bring Shakespeare into their classes. It includes forty innovative lesson plans with ready-to-use worksheets, hands-on games and student-oriented activities that help EFL learners achieve higher...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-09-23
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Die Autorin untersucht das Chinabild, das inländisch und international durch die Eröffnungszeremonie der Olympischen Spiele 2008 in Beijing vermittelt wurde.Die Volksrepublik nutzte diese markante Gelegenheit interkultureller Repräsentation, um der Weltöffentlichkeit...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-09-21
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This book offers new insights on how senior business women in Middle Eastern and Western companies use language for effective leadership in their respective management meetings. The book explores six case studies of women leaders, three in UK companies and three in a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2016-09-20
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This book unites a range of approaches to the collection and digitization of diverse language corpora. Its specific focus is on best practices identified in the exploitation of these resources in landmark impact initiatives across different parts of the globe. The...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-19
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This book sets out to uncover and discuss the curricular, pedagogical as well as cultural-political issues relating to ideological contradictions inherent in the adoption of English as medium of instruction in Japanese education. Situating the Japanese adoption of EMI...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-17
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Winner of the 2017 James W. Carey Media Research Award
James W. Carey, by the time of his death in 2006, was a towering figure in communication research in the U.S. In this book, Pooley provides a critical introduction to Carey’s work, tracing the evolution of his...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-09-16
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Who Wrote the Memoirs of Jean Monnet? presents the only account of the thirty years spent by Jean Monnet, the "Father of Europe," creating his memoirs. Based on numerous interviews with Monnet’s collaborator, Francois Fontaine, and many others, the book reveals the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-09-15
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This book breaks through formalistic traditions to propose a new generic structure analytical framework for academic writing. The integrated approach, taking lessons from cognitive linguistics and structuralism, offers a foundation for establishing research and pedagogy...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-14
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This book focuses on the ways in which English language arts (ELA) pre-service and in-service teachers have developed - or may develop - instructional effectiveness for working with English language learners (ELL) in the secondary English classroom.Chapter topics are...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-13
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This book examines linguistic expressions of emotion in intensional contexts and offers a formally elegant account of the relationship between language and emotion. The author presents a compelling case for the view that there exist, contrary to popular belief, logical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-13
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Umfassender Überblick zum Verlagswesen. Der bewährte Band führt anschaulich in sämtliche Bereiche und Aspekte des Wirtschaftsbetriebs Verlag ein: von der deutschen Verlagsgeschichte, den verschiedenen Verlagsformen, Rechtsrahmen und Wirtschaftsprinzipien über den Aufbau...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-09-12
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This volume explores the evolution of the language of museum communication from 1950 to the present day, focusing on its most salient tool, the press release. The analysis is based on a corpus of press releases issued by eight high-profile British and American museums,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-08
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This handbook offers an in depth and comprehensive state of the art survey of the linguistic domains of modality and mood. An international team of experts in the field examines the full range of methodological and theoretical approaches to the many facets of the...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-09-08
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