This publication provides essential reading for any language teacher. Pupil engagement in the language-learning process is key to success, and with this in mind the authors provide a comprehensive list of ideas as well as explaining the underlying principles of successful language-learning. Neil Jones, Assistant HeadteacherLearning a language, especially in a class or group, is an intensely practical subject.

Active participation by students is the key to successful language learning at any a...

This is a collection of short stories which bring to life the sounds and smells of Mexico - with breathtaking range and authority, whose characters give life to the varied life on both sides of the Mexican border. From a young girl revealing secrets only an eleven-year-old can know, to a witch woman circling above the village on a pre-dawn flight, the women in these stories offer tales of pure discovery, filled with moments of infinite and intimate wisdom.

For one-semester undergraduate or graduate courses in accounting information systems. Accounting Information Systems delivers the most unprecedented coverage of each major approach to teaching AIS, giving instructors the opportunity to reorder chapters and focus the material to suit their individual course needs. The 15th Edition, Global Edition covers all of the most recent updates in AIS, including how developments in IT affect business processes and controls, the effect of recent regulator...

Radiology Lecture Notes is a succinct yet thorough introduction to the essential imaging techniques used in various clinical situations. This fully revised and updated new edition presents the fundamental core knowledge of film interpretation, specialised radiological investigations, and procedures for imaging specific problems. The book explores common diseases and disorders complemented by good quality radiology images and full-colour illustrations.

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Learn to identify, select, implement, and adapt market-driven business strategies for profitable growth in competitive markets

In Strategic Market Management, David Aaker and Christine Moorman deliver an incisive, practical, and up-to-date guide for identifying, selecting, implementing, and adapting market-driven business strategies in increasingly complex, dynamic, and crowded markets. The authors provide the concepts, frameworks, tools, and best practice case studies required to develop cap...

Ideal for courses in multiple disciplines, the third edition of this award-winning text has been revised and updated with new topics, examples, and guiding questions to introduce each chapter’s sections. Patricia Leavy presents a practical guide to the full range of arts-based research (ABR) genres--narrative inquiry, fiction-based research, poetry, music, dance, theatre, film, and visual art. Each genre-specific chapter is paired with an exemplary research article or online video link (at ...

1885. Disparition de Hugo. Apparition de Germinal. Voici, dans la France moderne et industrielle, les " Misérables " de Zola. Ce roman des mineurs, c'est aussi l'Enfer, dans un monde dantesque, où l'on " voyage au bout de la nuit ". Mais à la fin du prodigieux itinéraire au centre de la terre, du fond du souterrain où il a vécu si longtemps écrasé, l'homme enfin se redresse et surgit dans une révolte pleine d'espoirs. C'est la plus belle et la plus grande œuvre de Zola, le poème de...

Awarded the Literature Prize of the VCIThis comprehensive textbook describes the synthesis, characterization and technical and engineering applications of polymers. Polymers are unique molecules and have properties different from any other class of materials. We encounter them in everyday life, not only in the form of the well-known, large-volume plastics such as PE or PP or the many other special polymers, some of which are very specifically modified but also in nature as polymeric biomolecu...

Es ist spontane Entscheidung. Die Fahrkarte von Moskau nach Berlin kostet nur 96 Rubel, er braucht kein Visum, und außerdem lockt das Abenteuer - kurzerhand packt Wladimir Kaminer seine Sachen und reist im Sommer 1990 nach Deutschland. Berlin erweist sich schnell als ganz besondere Stadt. Hier trifft Wladimir seine zukünftige Frau Olga, ruft die Russendisko ins Leben und bringt sich mit dem russischen Lehrbuch "Deutsches Deutsch zum Selberlernen" eine neue Sprache bei. Mit hintergründigem ...