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Bilingual Grammar of English-Spanish Syntax
With Exercises and a Glossary of Grammatical Terms
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
This third edition of this text presents the major grammatical contrasts between English and Spanish in a simple and direct manner that is ideal for teachers of either language. This book addresses difficult grammatical topics for the English speaker, such as the question of aspect (preterit/imperfect)...
Drugged Out
Globalisation and Jamaica's Resilience to Drug Trafficking
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
To penetrate the United States and Britain's markets with illicit drugs, Jamaican traffickers employed diverse and novel transportation methods and techniques in the post-1990 era that were more sophisticated than the trafficking of the 1980's. This transformation was particularly due to traffickers...
The (Well) Informed Piano
Artistry and Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
The (Well) Informed Piano addresses the technical, musical, artistic, ethical, and philosophical issues in piano methodology. Adding a new perspective and approach criteria to piano methodology, this book is essential reading for musicians, teachers, scholars, and music students. This text maintains...
The Passage from Youth to Adulthood
Narrative and Cultural Thresholds
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
The Passage from Youth to Adulthood explores a society unanchored from culturally-endorsed rites of passage. Pierluca Birindelli analyzed self-narrations of Italian young adults still living with their parents and longer autobiographies written by university students, measuring his impressions against sociological, psychological and anthropological studies.
Aesthetic Genesis
The Origin of Consciousness in the Intentional Being of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Aesthetic Genesis, the author argues for a reversal of the most fundamental tenet of phenomenology-namely, that all consciousness is intentional (that is, directed toward an object). Mitscherling suggests, as a new 'Copernican hypothesis,' that intentionality (i.e., directionality) gives rise to...
Communicating Across Cultures
A Coursebook on Interpreting and Translating in Public Services and Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Communicating Across Cultures: A Coursebook on Interpreting and Translating in Public Services and Institutions is a manual which addresses the complex task of interpreting and translating through reflection and practice. The book originated from discussions with those who perform the work of an intermediary...
by Floyd Merrell, María Teresa DePaoli
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Las culturas y civilizaciones latinoamericanas has been updated. This textbook not only describes the history of Latin America, but it sets a mood that allows the reader to get a genuine sense of the languages, cultures, and civilizations of this complex and colorful land. It provides an account of...
The Geography of Southeast Asia
A Scholarly Bibliography and Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
In The Geography of Southeast Asia, Rumney discusses an area that has long been of interest to geographers and other academics. As interest in Southeast Asia has grown, particularly over the past forty years, the volume and variety of scholarly publications on the varied geographical aspects of the...
Nuns Without Cloister
Sisters of St. Joseph in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
Nuns Without Cloister explores one of the first and most innovative among the non-cloistered women's congregations established after the Council of Trent. Under the aegis of a Jesuit missionary, the first Sisters of St. Joseph envisioned a direct role for religious women in the secular society of...
The Will and its Brain
An Appraisal of Reasoned Free Will
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
In 1964–1965, Hans Helmut Kornhuber and Lüder Deecke achieved a scientific breakthrough with the discovery of the Bereitschaftspotential (BP), or readiness potential. In The Will and its Brain, Kornhuber and Deecke present evidence that proves we can record activity from the human brain occurring...
Shakespeare's Spiral
Tracing the Snail in King Lear and Renaissance Painting
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
Shakespeare's Spiral aims to explore a figure forgotten in the dramatic texts of Shakespeare and in Renaissance painting: the snail. Taking as its point of departure the emergence of the gastropod object/subject in the text of King Lear as well as its iconic interface in Giovanni Bellini's painting...
Borderlands
Ethnographic Approaches to Security, Power, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Borderlands are often seen as zones of instability, uncertainty, marginality, and danger. Yet, they increasingly attract the attention of ethnographers as a unique lens through which to view the intersections of the national, transnational, and global forces that shape the securities and insecurities...
by Justin Charlebois
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
This book draws on the concepts of hegemonic and nonhegemonic masculinities as well as emphasized and oppositional femininities to chronicle and illuminate the construction of gender in Beverly Hills, 90210. The book argues that not only delegitimized but also legitimated forms of masculinity and...
Information Communication Technology (ICT) Integration to Educational Curricula
A New Direction for Africa
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Information Communication Technology (ICT) Integration to Educational Curricula serves as a standard textbook in graduate and senior level undergraduate classes in colleges and universities to contribute to the existing mass communication and ICT literature. The textbook offers a multi-discipline...