A fascinating exploration of the role of the bookseller through the ages, from antiquity to the present day. An essential read for all book lovers....Lasīt vairāk
This compact book is a guide for social workers and social work students to integrate climate resilience and adaptation into their work in order to cope with a degenerating climate and increasing vulnerability. It is a forward-looking, practical, an...Lasīt vairāk
This book provides readers with a new angle to understand the progress of legal construction in China, by making a comprehensive and interdisciplinary analysis of the translation of laws and regulations in China from the perspective of national gove...Lasīt vairāk
This book investigates the processes and products of the language work of social media influencers (SMIs) and copywriters in the advertising industry....Lasīt vairāk
In this origin story of humanity, scientific expert Madeleine Beekman makes the case that human language evolved to solve an existential problem for our ancestors: caring for extremely premature infants....Lasīt vairāk
This bright and fun activity book contains engaging activities designed to practise and consolidate core phonics skills and learning from school, at home....Lasīt vairāk
Through a mixed research synthesis of high-quality empirical studies, Jackson and Takahashi examine both widely reported and understudied psychological factors underlying foreign language learning in Japan, with an ecological approach framing the an...Lasīt vairāk
Learn how to read with truly decodable non-fiction for older readers in need of support to build reading confidence, while learning more about the world around them. This learn-to-read series for 9-12 year-olds comprises 12 truly decodabl...Lasīt vairāk
What is language? Where did it come from? How do babies learn it from scratch? How do we pick up languages beyond our mother tongue? This eye-opening book answers big questions about language and the mind, explaining how we use and understand langua...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009587396)
What is language? Where did it come from? How do babies learn it from scratch? How do we pick up languages beyond our mother tongue? This eye-opening book answers big questions about language and the mind, explaining how we use and understand langua...Lasīt vairāk
This book offers a localised cultural approach to understanding (im)politeness behaviour in Mexico, thereby making a meaningful contribution to the study of pragmatics. It combines theory and practice to examine contextualised relational conduct, wi...Lasīt vairāk
This book contributes to the current research area by achieving an understanding of the organization of our academic activities and by finding evidence for the generic conditioning of texts on the linguistic strata. Drawing on a functional theory, t...Lasīt vairāk
This one-of-a-kind resource allows readers to compare the two major New Testament manuscript traditions and see how they inform English translations, revealing to English-only readers something they could never see before: which differences among Bib...Lasīt vairāk
The trusted guide to honing your public policy writing skills and making a significant impact on the world, thoroughly updated and expanded.Effective policy writing holds the transformative power to inspire action, shape public opini...Lasīt vairāk
This book presents a novel, alignment-based evaluation framework that tackles a persistent challenge in natural language processing (NLP): how to fairly and accurately evaluate systems when preprocessing steps such as tokenization and sentence bound...Lasīt vairāk
The volume explores the concept of paradigm in word-formation, focusing on its applicability to Slavic morphology, with an emphasis on Czech. It examines word-formation without derivational affixes, referred to as conversion in line with the current...Lasīt vairāk
The ultimate guide to sushi in a handy pocket format!Do you know the names of all the sushi at a conveyor-belt sushi restaurant? Or the kinds of fish they use, where they come from and what they taste like?Whether youre...Lasīt vairāk
This striking pocket hardback edition presents Aristotles classic treatise on the art of persuasion, featuring gold cover embossing and gilded page-edges.In ancient Greece, rhetoric was at the centre of public life. Many writer...Lasīt vairāk
A fascinating collection of rarely seen journalism and other writings by Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond series.Ian Fleming was best known for bringing to life the legendary character of James Bond, one of the most be...Lasīt vairāk
Alternative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition: Second Edition is the eagerly awaited, expanded update of a landmark text. This volume explores alternative perspectives on second language acquisition, offering a critical challenge to...Lasīt vairāk
Alternative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition: Second Edition is the eagerly awaited, expanded update of a landmark text. It explores alternative perspectives on second language acquisition, offering a critical challenge to the domi...Lasīt vairāk
Comprehensively rewritten and updated, this new edition of the leading textbook on Dubbing provides a solid overview of the world of dubbing and is fundamentally interactive in approach. Comprehensively rewritten and updated...Lasīt vairāk
Comprehensively rewritten and updated, this new edition of the leading textbook on Dubbing provides a solid overview of the world of dubbing and is fundamentally interactive in approach. Comprehensively rewritten and updated...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Michigan State University Press, ISBN-13: 9781611865660)
Our political landscape is crowded with competing voicesclaims, demands, grievances, and even acts of violenceall made in the name of some idea of the people. This powerful concept has been wielded both to assert democratic sovereignty and to...Lasīt vairāk
