Claudia: 2015 books
Chinese Demystified
A Self-Teaching Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2010
Learning Chinese is a no-brainer with Demystified
Chinese Demystified walks you step by step through the fundamentals and moves on to more advanced topics. Each chapter concludes with a self-test that allows you to track your progress, and a comprehensive final exam at the end of the book gives...
by Esma Dilli, Elizabeth Akesson, Claudia Krebs
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Lippincott Illustrated Reviews: Neuroscience presents essential coverage of this core basic science discipline within an integrated framework, bringing neuroanatomy and neurophysiology together and demonstrating how they are applied in a clinical context.
Hyperbole in English
A Corpus-based Study of Exaggeration
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
Non-literal language is ubiquitous in everyday life, and while hyperbole is a major part of this, it has so far remained relatively unexplored. This volume provides the first investigation of hyperbole in English, drawing on data from genres such as spoken conversation, TV, newspapers, and literary...
Daffodil Altar Lace Filet Crochet Pattern
Complete Instructions and Chart
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Daffodil Altar Lace is a beautiful filet crochet lace pattern, originally written by Helena Aaberg in 1930. The daffodil, a symbol of rebirth; grape vines for the True Vine; and crosses make this lace perfect for Easter season. Includes the Christogram "IHS", or monogram for the name of...
by Claudia Ross, Pei-Chia Chen, Baozhang He
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The Routledge Course in Mandarin Chinese is a two-year undergraduate course for students with no prior background in Chinese study. Designed to build a strong foundation in both the spoken and written language it develops all the basic skills such as pronunciation, character writing, word use and...
by Donald S. Kachur, Judith A. Stout, Claudia L. Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Engaging Teachers in Classroom Walkthroughs is a practical guide to planning and implementing brief but focused classroom observations that involves teachers in every step of the process. Drawing from their study of 40 schools in the United States and Canada, the authors show how administrators and...
Redrawing Nations
Ethnic Cleansing in East-Central Europe, 1944-1948
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2001
After World War II, some 12 million Germans, 3 million Poles and Ukrainians, and tens of thousands of Hungarians were expelled from their homes and forced to migrate to their supposed countries of origin. Using freshly available materials from Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Czechoslovak, German, British,...
Conversational Languages Quick and Easy
Boxset #1-4: Conversational French, Conversational Italian, Conversational Spanish, Conversational Portuguese
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Have you always wanted to learn how to speak French, Italian, Spanish, or Portuguese but simply didn’t have the time?
Well if so, then, look no further. You can hold in your hands one of the most advanced and revolutionary method that was ever designed for quickly becoming conversational in a language....
Witchcraft Medicine
Healing Arts, Shamanic Practices, and Forbidden Plants
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
An in-depth investigation of traditional European folk medicine and the healing arts of witches
• Explores the outlawed “alternative” medicine of witches suppressed by the state and the Church and how these plants can be used today
• Reveals that female shamanic medicine can...
He's Almost a Teenager
Essential Conversations to Have Now
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
A Guide to Meaningful Parent-Son Conversations
Do you know what your son really thinks about girls, school, God, his future? It's not easy to be sure, is it? Boys aren't known for being great communicators, especially entering their teen years. How do you connect with him on the things that...
Biotechnology
An Illustrated Primer
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Now presented in large format, the new Schmid is the ideal primer in biotechnology. The two-page layout with one page being a full color figure and the opposite page being explanatory text is the ideal combination between rapid visual-based learning with in depth information.
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Identity, Media, and Democracy in Chile
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
The election of Michelle Bachelet, the first female president of Chile, brought to the public sphere topics such as gender, inequality, and the legacy of seventeen years of military rule. Former dictator Augusto Pinochet instructed Chileans to “for-get” and move on, but this is complicated because...
High Literacy in Secondary English Language Arts
Bridging the Gap to College and Career
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2018
This volume culls scholarship on both what high literacy is and how it is developed. It embraces the call put forth by Langer and Applebee (2016) that high literacy must continue to be our aim and to see more research analyzing and identifying how teachers might promote literacy practices that promote...
In/visible War
The Culture of War in Twenty-first-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
In/Visible War addresses a paradox of twenty-first century American warfare. The contemporary visual American experience of war is ubiquitous, and yet war is simultaneously invisible or absent; we lack a lived sense that “America” is at war. This paradox of in/visibility concerns the gap between...