Developing Writing Skills in Portuguese provides intermediate and advanced level students with the necessary skills to become competent and confident writers in the Portuguese language. Each chapter covers a specific kind of writing and is designed to help students tackle the material in small units.
Stress, whether an unconscious undercurrent in your life or a rampage of emotions, can make you sick if you don't manage it. You want to tame the tension in your life, but you don't know how. Write Your Stress Away is the place to start. The book introduces you to the revolutionary Write To Be Well four-step method proven to bring relief from stress and optimize your health, simply by writing. The book describes the research behind the method,...
Kirsten Malmkjær argues that translating can and should be considered a valuable art form.This work proposes a complete rethinking of the concepts of creativity and originality, as applied to translation and is vital reading for advanced students and researchers in translation studies and comparative literature.
This volume compares the cinemas of Iran and Turkey in terms of the presence and absence of women on both sides of the camera. From a critical point of view, it provides detailed readings of works by both male and female film-makers, emphasising issues facing women's film-making.
Once Upon a Time is a collection of essays in the philosophy of literature with two central themes: the significance of story -telling for us and the question of whether the novel, perhaps the art form most closely associated with story-telling, is a legitimate source of human knowledge. Leading philosopher of art Peter Kivy explores why human beings are so enthralled by being told stories and whether story-telling is a significant source of k...
Once Upon a Time is a collection of essays in the philosophy of literature with two central themes: the significance of story -telling for us and the question of whether the novel, perhaps the art form most closely associated with story-telling, is a legitimate source of human knowledge. Leading philosopher of art Peter Kivy explores why human beings are so enthralled by being told stories and whether story-telling is a significant source of k...
This book provides information on how to rebuild Volkswagen air-cooled engines with in-depth disassembly, cleaning and inspection, component preparation, final assembly, and history about these cars."--Provided by publisher.
Designing Robots, Designing Humans brings together a group of international researchers to explore the different ways that robots and humans engage with one another, offering a new and innovative opportunity for understanding our future with robots.
Endlich eine richtige Familie! Als Mister Dog bei Kai und Sarah und ihren drei Kindern einzieht, wird es richtig aufregend für den riesigen Zottelhund. Zusammen mit den Kindern erkundet er die Nachbarschaft, macht Spielplätze unsicher und lernt die hübsche Labradorhündin Kimba kennen. Mister Dog genießt sein neues Leben als Familienhund - wäre da nur nicht dieser nervige Papagei mit dem komischen Namen »Dassweeder«, der von dem Neuankömmling a...
International Film Stars
Series edited by R. Barton Palmer and Homer B. Pettey
Great Cinematic Performances Volume 2: International
Edited by Murray Pomerance and Kyle Stevens
'Mustering a wide array of voices and perspectives, these gamechanging volumes provide a welcome scholarly corrective to the scandalous undervaluation of actors, acting and performance that has prevailed in cinema studies for far too long. This collection promises to s...
This two-volume set presents detailed interpretations of singular performances by several of the most compelling actors in cinema history. This volume focuses on American cinema, including case studies of key performances from actors like Bette Davis, Irene Dunne, Whoopi Goldberg, Cary Grant, Oscar Isaac, Jack Nicholson and Al Pacino.
An Introduction to Applied Linguistics provides a complete, authoritative and up-to-date overview of the state of the field. Divided into three sections the book covers: a description of language and language use, essential areas of enquiry, and the four skills and testing. The Third Edition of this textbook provides an extended survey of a central element of Applied Linguistics over 17 chapters, 2 brand-new chapters on Multilingualism and For...
Maps the new Islamic authority platforms emerging in the West and their relationship with older centres of learning in a three-fold typology: Neo-Traditionalists, Neo-Legalists, and Neo-Conservatives.
The name Mallarmé has become a tool for the praise and condemnation of poetry. In French philosophy, he is associated with the intoxicating idea of poetry as politically efficacious, and the counter-charge of effete elitism. In this lively and impressive re-telling, we see how this poet becomes a magnet for a stunning cascade of delirious praise and vilification. Robert Boncardo convincingly shows that despite the insights of the French obsess...
Analyses the recent, sweeping changes to Scottish criminal evidence law and its likely future
Scottish criminal evidence law has recently undergone various major, primarily reactive changes and there is more reform on the way. This book gathers leading experts in the field to analyse these changes, discern any patterns and ask what they mean for the future of Scottish criminal evidence law.
The areas affected include: police questioning of su...
The Concept of Conversation traces the way the rise of conversation spread out from the history of rhetoric to include the histories of friendship, the court and the salon, the Republic of Letters, periodical press and women.
Why do we assign nationalities to philosophies? Building on Jacques Derrida's unpublished seminars on philosophical nationalism, Oisin Keohane claims that national philosophies are a variant of some form of cosmo-nationalism: a strain of nationalism that uses, rather than opposes, ideas in cosmopolitanism to advance the aims of one nation.
