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The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Latin - Paperback

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by Sarah Knight (Editor), Stefan Tilg (Editor)From the dawn of the early modern period around 1400 until the eighteenth century, Latin was still the European language and its influence extended as far as Asia and the Americas. At the same time, the production of Latin writing exploded thanks to book printing and new literary and cultural dynamics. Latin also entered into a complex interplay with the rising vernacular languages. This Handbook gives an accessible survey of the main genres, cont...

Legal Translation Outsourced - Paperback

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by Juliette R. Scott (Author)As a result of globalization, cross-border transactions and litigation, and multilingual legislation, outsourcing legal translation has become common practice. Unfortunately, over-reliance on such outsourcing has given rise to significant dangers, including information asymmetry, goal divergence, and risk. Legal Translation Outsourced provides the only current reference on commercial legal translation performed outside institutions. Juliette Scott casts a critical...

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by Sanford Kaye (Author)Most writing is done under pressure. An executive has to produce a three-page position paper by tomorrow at nine. A department head suddenly has to write a one-page action memo by noon. A graduate student has a twenty-page research paper due in a week. Yet, while most students andprofessionals write under pressure--with limited time, limited space, and a supervisor or instructor to please--few approach the task systematically. In Writing Under Pressure, Sanford Kaye, a...

Bel Canto: The Teaching of the Classical Italian Song-Schools, Its Decline and Restoration - Paperback

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by Lucie Manen (Author), Lucie Man?n (Author), Brian Trowell (With)Lucie Manén's career--as lieder and opera singer and physiotherapist--uniquely qualified her to write this manual. Here are the findings of her extensive investigations into the "lost" art of Bel Canto, its history, and its techniques. Number of Pages: 88 Dimensions: 0.24 x 8.48 x 5.46 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: December 03, 1987

Oxford Bookworms Library: Pocahontas: Level 1: 400-Word Vocabulary - Paperback

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by Tim Vicary (Author)This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students. Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence. Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension. Before, during, and after reading activities included in the back of each book strengthen student comprehension. Audio v...

Public Relations in Practice - Paperback

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by Kate Kurtin (Author)Bring guest lectures into the classroom with Public Relations in Practice, a collection of practitioner stories that takes students behind the scenes of the industry. It offers a series of case studies by PR professionals from diverse areas of the field that give students a snapshot of daily life in that area of PR. This approach moves beyond the reach of a traditional textbook by presenting the personal and practical characteristics needed to succeed in the field. Thes...

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News on the Right: Studying Conservative News Cultures - Paperback

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by Anthony Nadler (Volume Editor), A. J. Bauer (Editor)From the National Review to Breitbart, from Fox News to Rush Limbaugh, conservative news is an inescapable feature of modern politics. Since the early days of mass communication, right-wing media producers have blended reporting with commentary, narrating the news of the day from a perspective informed by conservative worldviews and partisanship. News on the Right seeks to initiate a new interdisciplinary field of scholarly research focus...

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Oxford Handbook of Arabic Linguistics - Paperback

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by Jonathan Owens (Author)Arabic is one of the world's largest languages, spoken natively by nearly 300 million people. By strength of numbers alone Arabic is one of our most important languages, studied by scholars across many different academic fields and cultural settings. It is, however, a complex language rooted in its own tradition of scholarship, constituted of varieties each imbued with unique cultural values and characteristic linguistic properties. Understanding its linguistics holi...

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Highly Recommended: English for the Hotel and Catering Industryworkbook - Paperback

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by Trish Stott (Author), Rod Revelle (Author)This is a practical course for younger trainees in the hospitality and catering industry. Number of Pages: 64 Dimensions: 0.18 x 10.77 x 8.66 IN Publication Date: October 14, 2005

Boundary Spanners of Humanity: Three Logics of Communications and Public Diplomacy for Global Collaboration - Paperback

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by R. S. Zaharna (Author)Written by a leading scholar of public diplomacy, Boundary Spanners of Humanity introduces a pan-human vision of communication that can revolutionize how we collaborate to solve global problems. Never before has humanity enjoyed better technological capabilities for interconnection than today. Ironically, rather than benefiting from the global pool of human resources and intellectual wealth to solve shared problems, nations are experiencing public discord and global ...

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Let's Go 5 Student Book with Audio CD: Language Level: Beginning to High Intermediate. Interest Level: Grades K-6. Approx. Reading Level: K-4 - Hardcover

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by Ritsuko Nakata (Author), Karen Frazier (Author), Barbara Hoskins (Author) Dimensions: 0.14 x 10.89 x 8.49 IN Publication Date: January 02, 2012

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Let's Go 2 Student Book with CD: Language Level: Beginning to High Intermediate. Interest Level: Grades K-6. Approx. Reading Level: K-4 [With CD (Audi - Paperback

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by Ritsuko Nakata (Author), Karen Frazier (Author), Barbara Hoskins (Author) Number of Pages: 78 Dimensions: 0.2 x 10.8 x 8.3 IN Publication Date: October 09, 2011

Social Injustice and Public Health - Paperback

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by Barry S. Levy (Editor)"An invaluable primer on how inequity breeds ill health" -New England Journal of Medicine AN ESSENTIAL WORK ON SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH, NOW UPDATED AND EXPANDED This newly revised edition of the classic text is a comprehensive, up-to-date resource for understanding and addressing the profound impacts of social injustice on public health. Across chapters from experts in health and medicine, readers learn to recognize both the threads of inequity and the health im...

American English File 2e 1 Teacher Book: With Testing Program - Paperback

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by Christina Latham-Koenig (Author), Clive Oxenden (Author), Paul Seligson (Author) Dimensions: 0.6 x 11.6 x 8 IN Publication Date: September 15, 2013

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American English File Second Edition: Level 1 Workbook: With Ichecker - Hardcover

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by Christina Latham-Koenig (Author), Clive Oxenden (Author), Paul Seligson (Author) Dimensions: 0.3 x 10.6 x 8.6 IN Publication Date: September 15, 2013

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American English File Second Edition: Level 4 Workbook: With Ichecker [With CD (Audio)] - Paperback

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by Christina Latham-Koenig (Author), Clive Oxenden (Author) Number of Pages: 77 Dimensions: 0.2 x 10.6 x 8.3 IN Publication Date: April 21, 2013

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American English File Second Edition: Level 2 Workbook: With Ichecker - Hardcover

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by Christina Latham-Koenig (Author), Clive Oxenden (Author), Paul Seligson (Author) Dimensions: 0.2 x 10.6 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: July 25, 2013

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by Joe McVeigh (Author)This series that helps students to think critically and succeed academically. With new note-taking skills, an extended writing syllabus and authentic video in every unit, this book equips students for academic success better than ever. This book helps students to measure their progress, with clearly stated unit objectives that motivate students to achieve their language learning goals. Seamlessly integrated online content allows teachers to truly implement blended learn...

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by Chester G. Starr (Author) Number of Pages: 264 Dimensions: 0.5 x 5.9 x 8.9 IN Publication Date: November 15, 1971

The New Oxford Guide to Writing - Paperback

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by Thomas S. Kane (Author)Many books on writing tell you how to think more creatively, how to conjure up an idea from scratch. Many, once you have an idea, show you how to express it clearly and elegantly. And many handbooks offer reliable advice on the use of commas, semicolons, and so forth. But The New Oxford Guide to Writing does all three, so that no matter where you find yourself in the writing process--from the daunting look of a blank page, to the rough draft that needs shaping, to th...

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by Kaja Silverman (Author) Number of Pages: 320 Dimensions: 0.69 x 7.99 x 5.34 IN Publication Date: December 13, 1984

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by Peter Elbow (Author)In Writing Without Teachers, well-known advocate of innovative teaching methods Peter Elbow outlines a practical program for learning how to write. His approach is especially helpful to people who get "stuck" or blocked in their writing, and is equally useful for writing fiction, poetry, and essays, as well as reports, lectures, and memos. The core of Elbow's thinking is a challenge against traditional writing methods. Instead of editing and outlining material in the in...

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by Edward P. J. Corbett (Author), Robert J. Connors (Author)Developed from the very popular fourth chapter of the authors' Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student, 4th ed., Style and Statement is a concise introduction to the components of effective style as they were first defined by classical rhetoricians and as they apply to writing today. An essential reference for students and all writers, it incorporates numerous lively exercises that emphasize the contemporary applications of classi...

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The Plain English Approach to Business Writing - Paperback

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by Edward P. Bailey (Author)In offices across America, the Masters of Gobbledygook are hard at work. They're bombarding in-boxes with those long, confusing memos that colleagues don't have the patience to read--and bosses don't have the time to rewrite. They use words like "commence" or "prior to" instead of "begin" or "before." They bury their main point somewhere in the last paragraph--and take two pages to get there. Everybody knows one of them; in fact, you may even be one of them. But no...

Field Guide for Science Writers: The Official Guide of the National Association of Science Writers (Revised) - Paperback

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by Deborah Blum (Editor), Mary Knudson (Editor), Robin Marantz Henig (Editor)This is the official text for the National Association of Science Writers. In the eight years since the publication of the first edition of A Field Guide for Science Writing, much about the world has changed. Some of the leading issues in today's political marketplace - embryonic stem cell research, global warming, health care reform, space exploration, genetic privacy, germ warfare - are informed by scientific ideas...

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Overcoming Your Alcohol or Drug Problem: Effective Recovery Strategies Therapist Guide - Paperback

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by Dennis C. Daley (Author), G. Alan Marlatt (Author)This expanded edition of the successful Graywind title, Managing Your Drug and Alcohol Problem: Therapist Guide provides an evidence-based treatment protocol for all types of substance use disorders. Designed to accompany the Managing Your Addictive Behavior: Workbook, Second Edition, this guide provides clinicians with valuable strategies for working with substance use disorders by focusing on specific issues involved in both stopping sub...

The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style - Paperback

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by Bryan A. Garner (Author)What's the singular of paparazzi? Is graffiti singular or plural? What about kudos? Should I say empathic or empathetic? Is it a couple of dozen or a couple dozen? What's the correct pronunciation of concierge? Or schism? Or flaccid? In this book of crisp, precise, and often witty pronouncements on modern American English, Bryan Garner decisively answers these and thousands of other questions that bedevil those who care about the language. Garner draws on massive ev...

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The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men Through Rubber Soul - Paperback

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by Walter Everett (Author)The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul is a comprehensive, chronologically-ordered study of every aspect of the group's musical life--composition, performance, recording and reception histories--from its beginnings in 1956 through 1965. Richly authoritative interpretations from every available reliable musical document are interwoven through a documentary study of many thousands of audio, video, print, and multimedia sources. The text will enabl...

How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics - Paperback

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by Calvert Watkins (Author)In How to Kill a Dragon Calvert Watkins follows the continuum of poetic formulae in Indo-European languages, from Old Hittite to medieval Irish. He uses the comparative method to reconstruct traditional poetic formulae of considerable complexity that stretch as far back as the original common language. Thus, Watkins reveals the antiquity and tenacity of the Indo-European poetic tradition. Watkins begins this study with an introduction to the field of comparative Ind...

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by Elizabeth Mertz (Author)In this linguistic study of law school education, Mertz shows how law professors employ the Socratic method between teacher and student, forcing the student to shift away from moral and emotional terms in thinking about conflict, toward frameworks of legal authority instead.Author BiographyElizabeth Mertz is Senior Researcher, American Bar Foundation and Professor of Law, Wisconsin Law School. Number of Pages: 336 Dimensions: 0.85 x 9.24 x 6.18 IN Illustrated: Yes P...

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by Euripides (Author), Michael Collier (Editor), Georgia Machemer (Editor)The Greek Tragedy in New Translations series is based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves, or who work in collaboration with poets, can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of the great Greek writers. These new translations are more than faithful to the original text, going beyond the literal meaning in order to evoke the poetic intensity and rich metaphorical texture ...

Liberty for All Middle/High School Teaching Guide, a History of Us: Teaching Guide Pairs with a History of Us: Book Five - Paperback

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by Chip Brady (Author), Phil Roden (Author), Deborah Parks (Author)The teaching guides developed for Middle/High schools were created to support 8th grade American history content standards and learning frameworks. They present concise menus of ideas for teachers working with developing critical thinkers. Where the Elementary level teaching guides focus on comprehension, the Middle/High School level teaching guides emphasize critical thinking and drawing connections. The core of each chapter ...