Fifteen exquisite tales from one of the world'd greatest writers of the short storyInnovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera. All are revelations of the unspoken, half-understood emotions that make up everyday experience - from the blackly comic 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel', and the short, sh...

An Introduction to Museum Archaeology provides a comprehensive survey and synthesis of all aspects of current museum practice in relation to the discipline of archaeology. Drawing heavily on examples it deconstructs the different challenges posed by trying to tell archaeological stories in museum buildings, and on related sites. The final section sums up the state of museum archaeology in the early 21st century and discusses the major issues it is currently confronting.

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Professional English in Use Medicine contains 60 units covering a wide variety of medical vocabulary. Topics include diseases and symptoms, investigations, treatment, examining and prevention. The book also introduces general medical vocabulary related to parts and functions of the body, medical and para-medical personnel, education and training, research, and presentations.

Professional English in Use Medicine has been carefully researched using the Institute for Applied Language Studies med...

A guide for professionals who use groups to help people. It provides exercises for use in practice; guidance on evaluating the outcomes of group work; and, models for group supervision. It shows practitioners how to create group culture and how to maintain this culture in spite of the challenges, tensions and difficulties that arise within groups.

Ethnography is one of the chief research methods in sociology, anthropology and other cognate disciplines in the social sciences. This book provides an unparalleled, critical guide to its principles and practice.

The Change Handbook is the only book that provides a view into a wide variety of change methods from around the worldThis new edition is updated with the latest change methods, including cutting-edge technologies that have emerged since the first edition was published.Key features- This new edition replaces now outdated methods with full descriptions of several popular, new change methods that have emerged since the book's original publication- There are currently no other books on the market...

Contrived. Disingenuous. Phony.

Inauthentic. Do your customers use any of these words to describe what you sell--or how you sell it? If so, welcome to the club. Inundated by fakes and sophisticated counterfeits, people increasingly see the world in terms of real or fake.

They would rather buy something real from someone genuine rather than something fake from some phony. When deciding to buy, consumers judge an offering's (and a company's) authenticity as much as--if not more than--price, qua...

Gives an account of the emergence of progressive religious thinkers and organisations on the 'religious left'. This book offers an analysis of the cultural roots, key ideas and organisational structures of this faith, assessing its significance in the changing moral and religious landscape of contemporary western society.

Come è nato l'italiano, e attraverso quali strade ha raggiunto la sua attuale fisionomia? Il volume offre una risposta sintetica ma esauriente a queste e a molte altre domande. Le vicende fonetiche, morfologiche e sintattiche che dal latino hanno portato all'italiano e ad altri volgari d'area italiana (milanese, veneziano, romanesco, napoletano, siciliano) sono presentate, nei loro aspetti essenziali, in una ricostruzione in cui nulla - neppure la conoscenza del latino - viene dato per già ...