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Doing applied linguistics. Enabling transdisciplinary communication
How can students be empowered to communicate professionally – as translators, journalists and CCOs? How can professionals engaged in crucial language interactions do the same – pilots, nurses, lawyers and many others? This volume gives answers to these questions, providing insights into critical situations and good practices from many years of research and teaching in a practice-oriented, r…
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- 9783110496604
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- viii, 251 p.; 22 cm.
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- De Gruyter Collection
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- 418 DOI d
Materiality, techniques and society in pottery production : the technological…
Daniel Albero Santacreu presents a wide overview of certain aspects of the pottery analysis and summarizes most of the methodological and theoretical information currently applied in archaeology in order to develop wide and deep analysis of ceramic pastes. The book provides an adequate framework for understanding the way pottery production is organised and clarifies the meaning and role of the …
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- 9783110410204
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- X< 324 p.
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- 738.2 ALB m
IEA international computer and information literacy study 2018 assessment fra…
This open-access book presents the assessment framework for IEA’s International Computer an Information Literacy Study (ICILS) 2018, which is designed to assess how well students are prepared for study, work and life in a digital world. The study measures international differences in students’ computer and information literacy (CIL): their ability to use computers to investigate, create, pa…
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- 9783030193898
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- vi, 74p. : ill.
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- 028.7 INT i
Evolutionary theory: fringe or central to psychological science
The computational theory of mind, which views the brain as an information processor that operates on cognitive representations, is central to modern cognitive psychology and is the dominant perspective from which brain function is conceptualized and studied. Evolutionary Psychology (EP) is the application of evolutionary theory to understanding human behaviour and cognition. Unlike other core P…
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- 9782889199204
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- 62 p.; 22 cm
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- 155.7 SUL e
The everyday life of an algorithm
This open access book begins with an algorithm–a set of IF…THEN rules used in the development of a new, ethical, video surveillance architecture for transport hubs. Readers are invited to follow the algorithm over three years, charting its everyday life. Questions of ethics, transparency, accountability and market value must be grasped by the algorithm in a series of ever more demanding for…
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- 9783030005788
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- ix, 151p. : ill.
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- 303.483 NEY e
On Ancient Grammars of Space : Linguistic Research on the Expression of Spati…
This volume presents new research by the Topoi group "The Conception of Spaces in Language" on the expression of spatial relations in ancient languages. The six articles in this volume discuss static and dynamic aspects of the spatial grammars of Ancient to Medieval Greek, Akkadian, Hittite, and Hieroglyphic Ancient Egyptian, as well as field data on eight modern languages (Arabic, Hebrew, Engl…
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- 9783110311358
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- xxvi, 327 p.
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- Topoi – Berlin Studies of the Ancient World/Topoi – Berliner Studien der Alten Welt
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- 401.9 KUT o
Visualising facebook : a comparative perspective
Since the growth of social media, human communication has become much more visual. This book presents a scholarly analysis of the images people post on a regular basis to Facebook. By including hundreds of examples, readers can see for themselves the differences between postings from a village north of London, and those from a small town in Trinidad. Why do women respond so differently to becom…
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- 9781911307402
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- IX, 225 p.
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- Why We Post
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- 004.0846 MIL v
Disability in the industrial revolution
The Industrial Revolution produced injury, illness and disablement on a large scale and nowhere was this more visible than in coalmining. Disability in the Industrial Revolution sheds new light on the human cost of industrialisation by examining the lives and experiences of those disabled in a sector that was vital to Britain’s economic growth. Although it is often assumed that industrialisat…
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- 978152612577
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- 241 p.; 22 cm
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- Disability History
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- 303.64 BLA d
War, strategy and history: essays in honour of Prof. Robert O'neill
This is a collection of essays in honour of eminent Professor Robert O’Neill. Each chapter was written by prominent academics and practitioners who have had a professional connection with Professor O’Neill during his long and distinguished career. The overarching themes running throughout the book are war, strategy and history. All the essays are shaped by the role that Professor O’Neill …
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- 9781760460235
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- xi, 312p.: ill.
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- 355.02 MAR w
Language in the digital era. Challenges and perspectives
This collected volume brings together the contributions of several humanities scholars who focus on the evolution of language in the digital era. The first part of the volume explores general aspects of humanities and linguistics in the digital environment. The second part focuses on language and translation and includes topics that discuss the digital translation policy, new technologies and s…
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- 9783110472059
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- 270 p.; 22 cm
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- 410 LAN l
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