Mackiewicz: 8 books

Originally published in 1932, the author, a Polish journalist, in this book directs his hostility against the fundamentals of Bolshevism, but nonetheless achieves impartiality. With regard to Russian culture, Soviet Russia appears to the author as the home of an almost Victorian puritanism. Daily...

*‘Unacceptable, foul, disastrous, inappropriate, or awkward: Not a Good Look!’ An absurdist portrait of modern Australian life, NaGL uses the conventions of clowning, vaudeville, Brecht and Dadaism and delivers a buoyant, uncharmed appraisal of a nation. Old Uncle Chuck rings the...

Writing centers in universities and colleges aim to help student writers develop practices that will make them better writers in the long term and that will improve their draft papers in the short term. The tutors who work in writing centers accomplish such goals through one-to-one talk about writing....

Write efficient GIS applications using PostGIS - from data creation to data consumption About This Book Learn how you can use PostGIS for spatial data analysis and manipulation Optimize your queries and build custom functionalities for your GIS application A comprehensive guide with hands-on...

Talk about Writing: The Tutoring Strategies of Experienced Writing Center Tutors offers a book-length empirical study of the discourse between experienced tutors and student writers in satisfactory conferences. It analyzes writing center talk, focusing on tutors’ verbal strategies, at the macro-...

In the last 15 to 20 years, writing centers have placed greater importance on tutor training, focusing on teaching tutors best practices in fostering student writers’ engagement and writing skills. Writing Center Talk over Time explores the importance of writing center talk and demonstrates the...

A family of three generations is guided through their last hours. With fear, loathing and existential guilt all present in the perverse relationships, can Everyman realign these individuals so warped and deranged? Bizarre and fun yet hideously confronting, will Everyman lure everyone around a pole where there is nothing a good dance won’t fix?

Das Buch setzt sich mit der Problematik der interkulturellen Motivation unter den polnischen und US-amerikanischen DaF-Lernenden auseinander. Die interkulturelle Motivation ist ein potentieller Teil des Motivationskomplexes, wobei das Wechselspiel zwischen der Eigenkultur und der Kultur des Zielsprachenlandes...