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Master's Thesis from the year 2008 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, grade: 1,0 (A), Carthage College, Wisconsin (Department of Education), course: Master of Education, 56 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The main purpose of this study is to demonstrate how new...

This book provides an overview of the current state of video analysis, including the most recent developments in this rapidly growing field. It covers various methodological approaches. The authors address practical and technical questions and potential problems arising during the research process....

This second edition includes updated stories, examples, research, and theories to reflect cultural and professional changes 2. Contains two new chapters: "School-Age Care: Leadership Connections with Schools and Communities" and "Nurturing Leadership in Children" 3. Combines leadership...

Written over the course of four decades, Francois-ReneÅL de Chateaubriand’s epic autobiography has drawn the admiration of Baudelaire, Flaubert, Proust, Roland Barthes, Paul Auster, and W. G. Sebald. In this unabridged section of the Memoirs, spanning the years 1768 to 1800, Chateaubriand looks...

"A remarkable work which will remain a document of the first rank for the historian of mechanics." — Louis de BroglieIn this masterful synthesis and summation of the science of mechanics, Rene Dugas, a leading scholar and educator at the famed Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, deals with the evolution...

The Dancer, a trilogy of novels, recounts the tumultuous days of Indonesia in the mid 1960s. In luscious descriptive language, author Ahmad Tohari describes a village community struggling to adapt to a rapidly changing world. The Dancer highlights the lives of Srintil, a dancer, and Rasus, a bewildered...

The Meditations, one of the key texts of Western philosophy, is the most widely studied of all Descartes' writings. This authoritative translation by John Cottingham, taken from the much acclaimed three-volume Cambridge edition of the Philosophical Writings of Descartes, is based upon the best available...

Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation [which accounts for it] that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but [consists in the fact]...

Provocations contains a little of everything from Kierkegaard’s prodigious output: his famously cantankerous (yet wryly humorous) attacks on what he calls the “mediocre shell” of conventional Christianity, his brilliantly pithy parables, his wise (and witty) sayings. Most significantly, it brings...

Although somewhat overshadowed by Wellington's main campaign in the north, the Alcantara raid was an outstanding success. The primary objective of alarming and distracting the French forces in Spain was achieved. Furthermore, the raiders also succeeded in preventing a French incursion into Portugal...

I want to inspire you to live a new life... Personal stylist Hayden Fox loves her job. She hopes to help her newest client, sweet, pretty Caroline, find confidence and a new perspective with a total lifestyle change. And Hayden is all about solving other people's problems--until she's confronted...

This book is a reflection on what is was like to grow up in a traditional Chinese family in Malaya and Singapore in the l930's and 1940's and the cultural differences between that environment and life in Australia after moving there in 1954 for further education and employment, especially as Australia...

Au cours d'un voyage d'affaires en Amérique, Raymond Deblain, célibataire invétéré, épouse la belle Rhéa, fille d'Elias Panton, riche industriel de Philadelphie. À son retour en France, il la présente à son ami et voisin, le docteur Plemen, éminent médecin de la ville de Vermel. Rhéa...

Extrait : Trois officiers de marine sont debout sur la plate-forme de l'escalier de bois qui conduit à la plage. Une baleinière, montée par une douzaine d'hommes, se balance à trente mètres du rivage. On a laissé glisser, à mi-longueur du câble, le chalet mauresque, blanc et bleu, mobile sur...