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Aunt Ida Clare (Hardcover)
Michele McCarthy; Illustrated by Kerri-Jean Malmsten
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R807
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Aunt Iva Story (Hardcover)
Michele McCarthy; Illustrated by Kerri-Jean Malmsten
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ELT: The Basics
Michael McCarthy, Steve Walsh
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R678
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- A clear, non-jargonistic introduction to the basics of English
language teaching (ELT), covering the history of ELT, main
concepts, basic terminology, key knowledge and skills - With a
range of pedagogical features such as reflection points, further
reading, and a glossary, this accessible guide will be engaging for
all beginning students and teachers of ELT and TESOL - A concise
and up-to-date guide to the key concepts of language and the
learning and teaching of language, written by established authors
with decades of international ELT experience
This open access book presents fresh ethnographic work from the
regions of Africa and Melanesia-where the popularity of charismatic
Christianity can be linked to a revival and transformation of
witchcraft. The volume demonstrates how the Holy Spirit has become
an adversary to the reconfirmed presence of witches, demons, and
sorcerers as manifestations of evil. We learn how this is
articulated in spiritual warfare, in crusades, and in healing or
witch-killing raids. The contributors highlight what happens to
phenomena that people address as locally specific witchcraft or
sorcery when re-molded within the universalist Pentecostal
demonology, vocabulary, and confrontational methodology.
This book is an introduction to the mathematical theory of
design for articulated mechanical systems known as linkages. The
focus is on sizing mechanical constraints that guide the movement
of a work piece, or end-effector, of the system. The function of
the device is prescribed as a set of positions to be reachable by
the end-effector; and the mechanical constraints are formed by
joints that limit relative movement. The goal is to find all the
devices that can achieve a specific task. Formulated in this way
the design problem is purely geometric in character. Robot
manipulators, walking machines, and mechanical hands are examples
of articulated mechanical systems that rely on simple mechanical
constraints to provide a complex workspace for the end- effector.
The principles presented in this book form the foundation for a
design theory for these devices. The emphasis, however, is on
articulated systems with fewer degrees of freedom than that of the
typical robotic system, and therefore, less complexity. This book
will be useful to mathematics, engineering and computer science
departments teaching courses on mathematical modeling of robotics
and other articulated mechanical systems.
This new edition includes research results of the past decade on
the synthesis of multi loop planar and spherical linkages, and the
use of homotopy methods and Clifford algebras in the synthesis of
spatial serial chains. One new chapter on the synthesis of spatial
serial chains introduces numerical homotopy and the linear product
decomposition of polynomial systems. The second new chapter
introduces the Clifford algebra formulation of the kinematics
equations of serial chain robots. Examples are use throughout to
demonstrate the theory."
Has a focus on British English but with reference to a wide range
of varieties of English which will ensure the book is relatable to
students and those with an interest in English vocabulary around
the world. Includes a range of features such as a glossary of key
terms, cartoons and illustrations, further reading, reflection
points, interesting "factoids" and international examples which
makes it an engaging read for students. This book assumes no
knowledge of linguistics and fills a gap in the market for a
plain-speaking guide focusing on the basics of vocabulary.
This volume gathers the latest fundamental research contributions,
innovations, and applications in the field of design and analysis
of complex robotic mechanical systems, machines, and mechanisms, as
presented by leading international researchers at the 1st USCToMM
Symposium on Mechanical Systems and Robotics (USCToMM MSR 2020),
held in Rapid City, South Dakota, USA on May 14-16, 2020. It covers
highly diverse topics, including soft, wearable and origami robotic
systems; applications to walking, flying, climbing, underground,
swimming and space systems; human rehabilitation and performance
augmentation; design and analysis of mechanisms and machines;
human-robot collaborative systems; service robotics; mechanical
systems and robotics education; and the commercialization of
mechanical systems and robotics. The contributions, which were
selected by means of a rigorous international peer-review process,
highlight numerous exciting and impactful research results that
will inspire novel research directions and foster multidisciplinary
research collaborations among researchers from around the globe.
A vivid, richly informative biography of the medieval entrepreneur,
social reformer and 'influencer' at court. The extraordinary story
of Richard Whittington, from his arrival in London as a young boy
to his death in 1423, against a backdrop of plague, politics and
war; turbulence between Crown, City and Commons; and the
unrelenting financial demands of Richard II, Henry IV and Henry V,
to whom Whittington was mercer, lender and fixer. A man determined
to follow his own path, Whittington was a significant figure in
London's ceaseless development. As a banker, Collector of the Wool
Custom, King's Council member and four-time mayor, Whittington
featured prominently in the rise of the capital's merchant class
and powerful livery companies. Civic reformer, enemy of corruption
and author of an extraordinary social legacy, he contributed to
Henry V's victory at Agincourt and oversaw building works at
Westminster Abbey. In London, Whittington found his 'second'
family: a mentor, Sir Ivo Fitzwarin, and an inspirational wife in
Fitzwarin's daughter Alice. Today's Dick Whittington pantomimes,
enjoyed by millions, have a grain of truth in them, but the real
story is far more compelling-minus that sadly mythical cat.
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ELT: The Basics
Michael McCarthy, Steve Walsh
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R2,622
Discovery Miles 26 220
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- A clear, non-jargonistic introduction to the basics of English
language teaching (ELT), covering the history of ELT, main
concepts, basic terminology, key knowledge and skills - With a
range of pedagogical features such as reflection points, further
reading, and a glossary, this accessible guide will be engaging for
all beginning students and teachers of ELT and TESOL - A concise
and up-to-date guide to the key concepts of language and the
learning and teaching of language, written by established authors
with decades of international ELT experience
In the early 1980s the author was asked to investigate the newly
discovered wreck of the Xantho, an iron screw steamship active off
the Australian coast during the period 1848 to 1872, and to develop
a strategy to stop the looting that was occurring at the site. This
relatively straightforward assignment turned into a long-term
research program for applying maritime archaeology to the
conservation of iron-hulled wrecks.
Concrete is ubiquitous and unique, found in every developed and
developing country. Indeed, there are no alternatives to concrete
as a volume construction material for infrastructure. This raises
important questions of how concrete should be designed and
constructed for cost effective use in the the short and long term,
and to encourage further radical development. Equally, it must be
environmentally friendly during manufacture, in an aesthetic
presentation in structures and in the containment of harmful
materials. The central theme of the Congress is "Concrete in the
Service of Mankind", under which five self-contained Conferences,
each dealing with a particular aspect, are planned. The Congress
offers opportunity to discuss how to improve and extend this
service to mankind using responsible exploitation, underwritten by
sound technical understanding and research base. It brings together
the shared skills and experience of the various disciplines
involved in the construction process world wide. This major
publication continues the tradition established by Dundee
University of organizing major international conferences every
three years dealing with some aspect of concrete and also
Co-authored by three anthropologists with long-term expertise
studying Pentecostalism in Vanuatu, Angola, and Papua New
Guinea/the Trobriand Islands respectively, Going to Pentecost
offers a comparative study of Pentecostalism in Africa and
Melanesia, focusing on key issues as economy, urban sociality, and
healing. More than an ordinary comparative book, it recognizes the
changing nature of religion in the contemporary world - in
particular the emergence of "non-territorial" religion (which is no
longer specific to places or cultures) - and represents an
experimental approach to the study of global religious movements in
general and Pentecostalism in particular.
21st Century Kinematics focuses on algebraic problems in the
analysis and synthesis of mechanisms and robots, compliant
mechanisms, cable-driven systems and protein kinematics. The
specialist contributors provide the background for a series of
presentations at the 2012 NSF Workshop. The text shows how the
analysis and design of innovative mechanical systems yield
increasingly complex systems of polynomials, characteristic of
those systems. In doing so, it takes advantage of increasingly
sophisticated computational tools developed for numerical algebraic
geometry and demonstrates the now routine derivation of polynomial
systems dwarfing the landmark problems of even the recent past. The
21st Century Kinematics workshop echoes the NSF-supported 1963 Yale
Mechanisms Teachers Conference that taught a generation of
university educators the fundamental principles of kinematic
theory. As such these proceedings will provide admirable supporting
theory for a graduate course in modern kinematics and should be of
considerable interest to researchers in mechanical design, robotics
or protein kinematics or who have a broader interest in algebraic
geometry and its applications.
Has a focus on British English but with reference to a wide range
of varieties of English which will ensure the book is relatable to
students and those with an interest in English vocabulary around
the world. Includes a range of features such as a glossary of key
terms, cartoons and illustrations, further reading, reflection
points, interesting "factoids" and international examples which
makes it an engaging read for students. This book assumes no
knowledge of linguistics and fills a gap in the market for a
plain-speaking guide focusing on the basics of vocabulary.
Co-authored by three anthropologists with long-term expertise
studying Pentecostalism in Vanuatu, Angola, and Papua New
Guinea/the Trobriand Islands respectively, Going to Pentecost
offers a comparative study of Pentecostalism in Africa and
Melanesia, focusing on key issues as economy, urban sociality, and
healing. More than an ordinary comparative book, it recognizes the
changing nature of religion in the contemporary world - in
particular the emergence of "non-territorial" religion (which is no
longer specific to places or cultures) - and represents an
experimental approach to the study of global religious movements in
general and Pentecostalism in particular.
This volume gathers the latest fundamental research contributions,
innovations, and applications in the field of design and analysis
of complex robotic mechanical systems, machines, and mechanisms, as
presented by leading international researchers at the 2nd USCToMM
Symposium on Mechanical Systems and Robotics (USCToMM MSR), held in
Rapid City, South Dakota, USA on May 19-21, 2022. It covers highly
diverse topics, including soft, wearable and origami robotic
systems; applications to walking, flying, climbing, underground,
swimming and space systems; human rehabilitation and performance
augmentation; design and analysis of mechanisms and machines;
human-robot collaborative systems; service robotics; mechanical
systems and robotics education; and the commercialization of
mechanical systems and robotics. The contributions, which were
selected by means of a rigorous international peer-review process,
highlight numerous exciting and impactful research results that
will inspire novel research directions and foster multidisciplinary
research collaborations among researchers from around the globe.
This book tracks the political history and specific political
actions associated with the diffusion of state-level marijuana
decriminalization. It provides an integrated chronology of policy
diffusion to show how social and cultural changes have impacted the
shift from anti- to pro-marijuana political platforms. The main
contributions are an interdisciplinary approach to analyzing policy
learning and evolution, an overview of the political history of
marijuana criminalization, a clear synthesis of the medical
literature on cannabis effects, and a supply and demand analysis of
legal and illegal marijuana markets in America. For scholars of
criminal justice, law, political science, policy studies, sociology
and addiction, it provides an amalgam of the diverse and divergent
extant research on marijuana.
Innovations and Challenges in Grammar traces the history of common
understandings of what grammar is and where it came from to
demonstrate how 'rules' are anything but fixed and immutable. In
doing so, it deconstructs the notion of 'correctness' to show how
grammar changes over time thereby exposing the social and
historical forces that mould and change usage. The questions that
this book grapples with are: Can we separate grammar from the other
features of the language system and get a handle on it as an
independent entity? Why should there be strikingly different
notions and models of grammar? Are they (in)compatible? Which one
or ones fit(s) best the needs of applied linguists if we assume
that applied linguists address real-world problems through the lens
of language? And which one(s) could make most sense to
non-specialists? If grammar is not a fixed entity but a set of
usage norms in constant flux, how can we persuade other
professionals and the general public that this is a positive
observation rather than a threat to civilised behaviour? This book
draws upon both historical and modern grammars from across the
globe to provide a multi-layered picture of world grammar. It will
be useful to teachers and researchers of English as a first and
second language, though the inclusion of examples from and
occasional references to other languages (French, Spanish, Malay,
Swedish, Russian, Welsh, Burmese, Japanese) is intended to broaden
the appeal to teachers and researchers of other languages. It will
be of use to final-year undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral
students as well as secondary and tertiary level teachers and
researchers in applied linguistics, second language acquisition and
grammar pedagogy.
In this book Michael McCarthy and Ronald Carter describe the
discoursal properties of language and demonstrate what insights
this approach can offer to the student and teacher of language. The
authors examine the relationship between complete texts, both
spoken and written, and the social and cultural contexts in which
they function. They argue that the functions of language are often
best understood in a discoursal environment and that exploring
language in context compels us to revise commonly-held
understandings about the forms and meanings of language. In so
doing, the authors argue the need for language teachers, syllabus
planners and curriculum organisers to give greater attention to
language as discourse.
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