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Culture and Development in a Globalizing World
Routledge | March 30, 2006 | ISBN-10: 0415348765 | 296 pages | PDF | 1.4 MB
Using recent research on development projects around the world, this book argues that culture has become an explicit tool and framework for development discourse and practice. Providing a theoretical and empirically informed critique, this informative book includes conceptual overviews and case studies on topics such as:
* development for indigenous people
* natural resource management
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Critical Theory Since Plato
Publisher: Wad.sw.orth Publi.shing 2004 | 1560 Pages | ISBN: 0155055046 | PDF | 56 MB
CRITICAL THEORY SINCE PLATO is a chronologically-arranged anthology that presents a broad survey of the history and development of literary criticism and theory in Western culture. Written by two well-known scholars in the field of literary study, this well-respected text puts an emphasis on the individual contributors to the development of literary criticism, from Plato and Aristotle to the present....
Tune Up Your French (repost)
Mc G–H | 2009 | ISBN: 0071627952 | PDF | 288 pages | 12 MB
Tune Up Your French offers you an entertaining and practical way to hone your French-language conversation skills. This book is structured around numerous key areas for improvement, covering everything from tricky grammatical structures to gestures, slang, and humor. In each area, key phrases are presented in “Top Ten” lists, including everyday expressions for filling pauses, icebreakers, and...
Longman English Grammar Practice for intermediate students (with key) {repost}
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group | ISBN: 0582045002 | edition 1990 | PDF | 302 pages | 9.1 mb
*Flexible — the material can be used in any order, depending on students’ needs. *Clearly organised — the Contents list, internal cross-referencing and comprehensive Index helps students select the areas of study required. *Easy to use — grammatical information is given in short, manageable amounts, immediately followed by practice exercises. *Adaptable — each item is...
A Cure For The Common Word: Remedy Your Tired Vocabulary with 3,000 + Vibrant Alternatives to the Most Overused Words (repost)
Mc G-H | 2007 | ISBN: 0071493301 | Pages: 224 | PDF | 12 MB
Make your ailing vocabulary go from merely good to exceptionally splendid and stupendous!
Your brain holds an impressive vocabulary of more than 20,000 words, but chances are you only use a small fraction of them. That fraction is usually filled with worn-out oldies that have lost their impact, such as interesting, good, and nice.. Now you can rejuvenate your vocabulary and rehab your verbal skills...
“Essential Words for the TOEFL” by Steven J. Matthiesen
Barron's Essential Words Series, 4th Edition
Presents exercises and vocabulary lists containing definitions and example sentences of words featured highly in the Test of English as a Foreign Language, as well as a reading section practice exam.
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Modernism and the Theater of Censorship
Oxford University Press | February 22, 1996 | ISBN-10: 0195097025 | 256 pages | PDF | 16.44 MB
Adam Parkes investigates the literary and cultural implications of the censorship encountered by several modern novelists in the early twentieth century. He situates modernism in the context of this censorship, examining the relations between such authors as D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Radclyffe Hall, and Virginia Woolf and the public controversies generated by their fictional explorations of modern...
Practical Chinese for Official Functions (with MP3)
Publisher: Sinolingua | 2009 | ISBN-10: 7802004071 | ISBN-13: 978 7802004078 | English/Chinese | PDF+MP3 | 216 pages | 79.84 MB
“Practical Chinese for Official Functions , through the official activities of an international organization in China named Edu , helps learners understand and learn the knowledge and skills needed for official business in China .
The course is designed for expatriates at intermediate Chinese level who are engaged in official business in embassies , companies , UN agencies and missions of international...
Verb Movement and the Syntax of Kashmiri
Publisher: Springer | 1999 | ISBN-10: 0792360338 | ISBN-13: 978 0792360339 | English/Kashmiri | PDF | 302 pages | 23.92 MB
“This book investigates the phenomenon of verb-second in a language outside the Germanic family, a relatively unknown and unanalyzed Indo-Aryan language called Kashmiri. Kashmiri is unique in that it exhibits both the German/Dutch type of verb-second as well as the Yiddish/Icelandic type. The comparative theoretical treatment adopted in this book serves three functions. First, it provides an opportunity...
Women Writers in the United States
Oxford University Press | May 9, 1996 | ISBN-10: 0195090535 | 504 pages | PDF | 16.5 MB
Pick any year in this chronology and you will find an array of interesting and revealing information….this is a fascinating work….this work is a valuable source of contextualized information about women’s writing and women’s lives. It is suitable for academic and large public library collections or any library with an interest in women’s cultural studies.
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