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Communicative competence is an essential language skill, the
ability to adjust language use according to specific contexts and
to employ knowledge and strategies for successful communication.
This unique text offers a multidisciplinary, critical,
state-of-the-art research overview for this skill in second
language learners. Expert contributors from around the world lay
out the history of the field, then explore a variety of theoretical
perspectives, methodologies, and empirical findings, and
authoritatively set the agenda for future work. With a variety of
helpful features like discussion questions, recommended further
reading, and suggestions for practice, this book will be an
invaluable resource to students and researchers of applied
linguistics, education, psychology, and beyond.
In this edited volume, experts on conflict resolution examine the
impact of the crises triggered by the coronavirus and official
responses to it. The pandemic has clearly exacerbated existing
social and political conflicts, but, as the book argues, its
longer-term effects open the door to both further conflict
escalation and dramatic new opportunities for building peace. In a
series of short essays combining social analysis with informed
speculation, the contributors examine the impact of the coronavirus
crisis on a wide variety of issues, including nationality, social
class, race, gender, ethnicity, and religion. They conclude that
the period of the pandemic may well constitute a historic turning
point, since the overall impact of the crisis is to destabilize
existing social and political systems. Not only does this systemic
shakeup produce the possibility of more intense and violent
conflicts, but also presents new opportunities for advancing the
related causes of social justice and civic peace. This book will be
of great interest to students of peace studies, conflict
resolution, public policy and International Relations.
There is no clear-cut causal relationship between international
trade, agricultural expansion and tropical deforestation.
Academics, policy-makers and the public are all tempted by
simplistic solutions to complex problems. In order to establish the
true causal factors involved in this critical area of environmental
decline, the authors of this study present case studies ranging
over three continents. Utilizing statistics, it is shown that the
focus of analysis of deforestation must be applied as much to the
misguided policies of national and regional authorities as to the
forces of trade and globalization. Further, it demonstrates that we
must adopt a critical perspective on the historical context of
human use of forest areas, looking at issues such as systems of
land tenure. The primary aim of the book is to highlight the need
to seek solutions in far-reaching institutional and policy reforms
adapted to specific socio-economic and ecological contexts, if the
problem of tropical deforestation is to be tackled effectively.
This volume offers an introduction to the field of second language
acquisition with a particular focus on second language Spanish. It
connects key issues in the acquisition of Spanish as a second
language to theoretical and empirical issues in the field of second
language acquisition more generally by exemplifying central
concepts in second language acquisition through the exploration of
the most widely researched structures and most recent developments
in the field of second language Spanish. It is written for a
non-specialist audience, making it suitable for advanced
undergraduate and graduate courses and readers, while its treatment
of recent empirical developments also makes it of interest to
researchers in second language Spanish as well as allied fields.
Communicative competence is an essential language skill, the
ability to adjust language use according to specific contexts and
to employ knowledge and strategies for successful communication.
This unique text offers a multidisciplinary, critical,
state-of-the-art research overview for this skill in second
language learners. Expert contributors from around the world lay
out the history of the field, then explore a variety of theoretical
perspectives, methodologies, and empirical findings, and
authoritatively set the agenda for future work. With a variety of
helpful features like discussion questions, recommended further
reading, and suggestions for practice, this book will be an
invaluable resource to students and researchers of applied
linguistics, education, psychology, and beyond.
Including over 37,000 entries compiled by a team of expert
Yiddish linguists, Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary
surpasses all its predecessors in the number of words and rich
selection of idioms, examples of usage, and coverage of stylistic
levels and dialect forms. The user-friendly entries include words
for standard and literary as well as contemporary colloquial and
conversational usage and a wide range of terms from all sources of
Yiddish, including those of Hebraic-Aramaic, Slavic, and Romance as
well as Germanic origin. The lexical corpus comes directly from the
highly acclaimed Dictionnaire Yiddish-Francais by Yitskhok Niborski
and Bernard Vaisbrot, published by the Bibliotheque Medem in Paris
in 2002. Augmented by an extensive user's guide, this volume is an
indispensable resource for students, teachers, translators, and
readers of Yiddish."
This volume offers an introduction to the field of second language
acquisition with a particular focus on second language Spanish. It
connects key issues in the acquisition of Spanish as a second
language to theoretical and empirical issues in the field of second
language acquisition more generally by exemplifying central
concepts in second language acquisition through the exploration of
the most widely researched structures and most recent developments
in the field of second language Spanish. It is written for a
non-specialist audience, making it suitable for advanced
undergraduate and graduate courses and readers, while its treatment
of recent empirical developments also makes it of interest to
researchers in second language Spanish as well as allied fields.
Professors and Their Politics tackles the assumption that
universities are ivory towers of radicalism with the potential to
corrupt conservative youth. Neil Gross and Solon Simmons gather the
work of leading sociologists, historians, and other researchers
interested in the relationship between politics and higher
education to present evidence to the contrary. In eleven meaty
chapters, contributors describe the political makeup of American
academia today, consider the causes of its liberal tilt, discuss
the college experience for politically conservative students, and
delve into historical debates about professorial politics. Offering
readable, rigorous analyses rather than polemics, Professors and
Their Politics yields important new insights into the nature of
higher education institutions while challenging dogmas of both the
left and the right.
In this edited volume, experts on conflict resolution examine the
impact of the crises triggered by the coronavirus and official
responses to it. The pandemic has clearly exacerbated existing
social and political conflicts, but, as the book argues, its
longer-term effects open the door to both further conflict
escalation and dramatic new opportunities for building peace. In a
series of short essays combining social analysis with informed
speculation, the contributors examine the impact of the coronavirus
crisis on a wide variety of issues, including nationality, social
class, race, gender, ethnicity, and religion. They conclude that
the period of the pandemic may well constitute a historic turning
point, since the overall impact of the crisis is to destabilize
existing social and political systems. Not only does this systemic
shakeup produce the possibility of more intense and violent
conflicts, but also presents new opportunities for advancing the
related causes of social justice and civic peace. This book will be
of great interest to students of peace studies, conflict
resolution, public policy and International Relations.
This book is about dark matter's particle nature and the
implications of a new symmetry that appears when a hypothetical
dark matter particle is heavy compared to known elementary
particles. Dark matter exists and composes about 85% of the matter
in the universe, but it cannot be explained in terms of the known
elementary particles. Discovering dark matter's particle nature is
one of the most pressing open problems in particle physics. This
thesis derives the implications of a new symmetry that appears when
the hypothetical dark matter particle is heavy compared to the
known elementary particles, a situation which is well motivated by
the null results of searches at the LHC and elsewhere. The new
symmetry predicts a universal interaction between dark matter and
ordinary matter, which in turn may be used to determine the event
rate and detectable energy in dark matter direct detection
experiments. The computation of heavy wino and higgsino dark matter
presented in this work has become a benchmark for the field of
direct detection. This thesis has also spawned a new field of
investigation in dark matter indirect detection, determining heavy
WIMP annihilation rates using effective field theory methods. It
describes a new formalism for implementing Lorentz invariance
constraints in nonrelativistic theories, with a surprising result
at 1/M^4 order that contradicts the prevailing ansatz in the past
20 years of heavy quark literature. The author has also derived new
perturbative QCD results to provide the definitive analysis of key
Standard Model observables such as heavy quark scalar matrix
elements of the nucleon. This is an influential thesis, with
impacts in dark matter phenomenology, field theory formalism and
precision hadronic physics.
This book is about dark matter's particle nature and the
implications of a new symmetry that appears when a hypothetical
dark matter particle is heavy compared to known elementary
particles. Dark matter exists and composes about 85% of the matter
in the universe, but it cannot be explained in terms of the known
elementary particles. Discovering dark matter's particle nature is
one of the most pressing open problems in particle physics. This
thesis derives the implications of a new symmetry that appears when
the hypothetical dark matter particle is heavy compared to the
known elementary particles, a situation which is well motivated by
the null results of searches at the LHC and elsewhere. The new
symmetry predicts a universal interaction between dark matter and
ordinary matter, which in turn may be used to determine the event
rate and detectable energy in dark matter direct detection
experiments. The computation of heavy wino and higgsino dark matter
presented in this work has become a benchmark for the field of
direct detection. This thesis has also spawned a new field of
investigation in dark matter indirect detection, determining heavy
WIMP annihilation rates using effective field theory methods. It
describes a new formalism for implementing Lorentz invariance
constraints in nonrelativistic theories, with a surprising result
at 1/M^4 order that contradicts the prevailing ansatz in the past
20 years of heavy quark literature. The author has also derived new
perturbative QCD results to provide the definitive analysis of key
Standard Model observables such as heavy quark scalar matrix
elements of the nucleon. This is an influential thesis, with
impacts in dark matter phenomenology, field theory formalism and
precision hadronic physics.
This book introduces Root Narrative Theory, a new approach for
narrative analysis, decoding moral politics, and for building
respect and understanding in conditions of radical disagreement.
This theory of moral politics bridges emotion and reason, and,
rather than relying on what people say, it helps both the analyst
and the practitioner to focus on what people mean in a language
that parties to the conflict understand. Based on a simple idea-the
legacy effects of abuses of power-the book argues that conflicts
only endure and escalate where there is a clash of interpretations
about the history of institutional power. Providing theoretically
complex but easy-to-use tools, this book offers a completely new
way to think about storytelling, the effects of abusive power on
interpretation, the relationship between power and conceptions of
justice, and the origins and substance of ultimate values. By
locating the source of radical disagreement in story structures and
political history rather than in biological or cognitive systems,
Root Narrative Theory bridges the divides between reason and
emotion, realism and idealism, without losing sight of the
inescapable human element at work in the world's most devastating
conflicts. This book will be of much interest to students of
conflict resolution, peace studies and International Relations, as
well as to practitioners of conflict resolution.
This book introduces Root Narrative Theory, a new approach for
narrative analysis, decoding moral politics, and for building
respect and understanding in conditions of radical disagreement.
This theory of moral politics bridges emotion and reason, and,
rather than relying on what people say, it helps both the analyst
and the practitioner to focus on what people mean in a language
that parties to the conflict understand. Based on a simple idea-the
legacy effects of abuses of power-the book argues that conflicts
only endure and escalate where there is a clash of interpretations
about the history of institutional power. Providing theoretically
complex but easy-to-use tools, this book offers a completely new
way to think about storytelling, the effects of abusive power on
interpretation, the relationship between power and conceptions of
justice, and the origins and substance of ultimate values. By
locating the source of radical disagreement in story structures and
political history rather than in biological or cognitive systems,
Root Narrative Theory bridges the divides between reason and
emotion, realism and idealism, without losing sight of the
inescapable human element at work in the world's most devastating
conflicts. This book will be of much interest to students of
conflict resolution, peace studies and International Relations, as
well as to practitioners of conflict resolution.
How many people have migrated from central and Eastern Europe since
the 1989 revolutions? Are fears of mass migration from eastern
Europe well-founded? What are the causes and effects, in both the
sending and receiving countries, of such population movements? What
are the policy reactions in the East and the West and how is this
phenomenon likely to develop and to be regulated over the near
future? These are some of the key questions addressed in this book
by sixteen east and west European experts on international
migration.
How many people have migrated from central and Eastern Europe since
the 1989 revolutions? Are fears of mass migration from eastern
Europe well-founded? What are the causes and effects, in both the
sending and receiving countries, of such population movements? What
are the policy reactions in the East and the West and how is this
phenomenon likely to develop and to be regulated over the near
future? These are some of the key questions addressed in this book
by sixteen east and west European experts on international
migration.
On December 28, 1894, the day before the fourth anniversary of the
massacre at Wounded Knee, Lakota chief Two Sticks was hanged in
Deadwood, South Dakota. The headline in the Black Hills Daily Times
the next day read ""A GOOD INDIAN"" - a spiteful turn on the
infamous saying ""The only good Indian is a dead Indian."" On the
gallows, Two Sticks, known among his people as Can Nopa Uhah,
declared, ""My heart knows I am not guilty and I am happy.""
Indeed, years later, convincing evidence emerged supporting his
claim. The story of Two Sticks, as recounted in compelling detail
in this book, is at once the righting of a historical wrong and a
record of the injustices visited upon the Lakota in the wake of
Wounded Knee. The Indian unrest of 1890 did not end with the
massacre, as the government willfully neglected, mismanaged, and
exploited the Oglala in a relentless, if unofficial, policy of
racial genocide that continues to haunt the Black Hills today. In
From Wounded Knee to the Gallows, Philip S. Hall and Mary Solon
Lewis mine government records, newspaper accounts, and unpublished
manuscripts to give a clear and candid account of the Oglala's
struggles, as reflected and perhaps epitomized in Two Sticks's life
and the miscarriage of justice that ended with his death. Bracketed
by the run-up to, and craven political motivation behind, Wounded
Knee and the later revelations establishing Two Sticks's innocence,
this is a history of a people threatened with extinction and of one
man felled in a battle for survival hopelessly weighted in the
white man's favor. With eyewitness immediacy, this rigorously
researched and deeply informed account at long last makes plain the
painful truth behind a dark period in U.S. history.
The Greek poetry of the archaic period that we call elegy was
composed primarily for banquets and convivial gatherings. Its
subject matter consists of almost any topic, excluding only the
scurrilous and obscene. In this completely new Loeb Classical
Library edition, Douglas Gerber provides a faithful translation of
the fragments and significant testimonia that have come down to us,
with full explanatory notes.
Most substantial in this volume is the collection of elegiac
verses to which Theognis' name is attached. Drinking and
merry-making are frequent themes in these poems; there are also
more reflective and philosophic pieces and love poems. Together
they offer an interesting picture of an aristocratic man's views
about life, friendship, fate, and daily concerns. Also notable in
this volume is the martial verse of the Spartan Tyrtaeus and the
poetry of Solon, Athens' famous lawmaker.
The work analyzes the impact and implementation of international
humanitarian law in judicial and quasi judicial bodies. Moreover,
acknowledging the high impact domestic jurisdictions have in the
configuration of international law, the book does not rest only in
an analysis of the international jurisprudence, but delves also
into the question of how domestic courts relate to international
humanitarian law issues.
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British crime drama starring Griffith Jones, Ursula Howells and
Honor Blackman. When the body of a wealthy woman, identified as
Lucille Ainsworth (Howells), is discovered in Hampstead Heath it
appears there are many possible motives and suspects for her murder
and it's the job of Detective Inspector Marshall (Ewen Solon) to
solve the mystery. Her husband, banker Robert Ainsworth (Jones),
had suspected her of being unfaithful and had begun to follow her,
placing him firmly in Marshall's sights and making him compelled to
prove his innocence.
Red state vs. blue state. Republican vs. Democrat. Fox News vs.
"The Daily Show." The so-called culture wars have become such a
fixture of American politics that dividing the country into rival
camps seems natural and political gridlock seems inevitable.
Entering the fray, Solon Simmons offers an intriguing twist on the
debate: Our disagreements come not from unbridgeable divides, but
from differing interpretations of a single underlying American
tradition--liberalism. Both champions of traditional liberal
values, Republicans have become the party of individual freedom
while Democrats wear the mantle of tolerance. Lost in this battle
of sides is the third pillar of liberalism--equality.
Simmons charts the course of American politics through the episodes
of "Meet the Press." On the air since 1945, "Meet the Press"
provides an unparalleled record of living conversation about the
most pressing issues of the day. In weekly discussions, the people
who directly influenced policy and held the reins of power in
Washington set the political agenda for the country. Listening to
what these people had to say--and importantly how they said
it--"Meet the Press" opens a window on how our political parties
have become so divided and how notions of equality were lost in the
process.
Telling the story of the American Century, Simmons investigates
four themes that have defined politics and, in turn, debate on
"Meet the Press"--war and foreign affairs, debt and taxation, race
struggles, and class and labor relations--and demonstrates how
political leaders have transformed these important political issues
into symbolic pawns as each party advocates for their own
understanding of liberty, whether freedom or tolerance. Ultimately,
with "The Eclipse of Equality," he looks to bring back to the
debate the question lurking in the shadows--how can we ensure the
protection of a peaceful civil society and equality for all?
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Inspired by classic video games of the '80s and '90s, this clever board book sets out to level up the ABCs. Within these pages lies an alphabet adventure, rendered entirely in striking 8-bit artwork. Young gamers will love guiding their daring hero through the story to learn new words, discover hidden pictures, and find the missing treasure in an epic quest that will have kids and adults ready to press restart!
Ecosystem Service Potentials and Their Indicators in Postglacial
Landscapes: Assessment and Mapping provides valuable guidance for
anyone involved with ecosystem service potential monitoring, use
and management-from landscape ecologists and environmental
managers, to policymakers and environmental economists. The book
highlights effective measurement tools for evaluating the overall
potential of ecosystem services from multiple perspectives.
Beginning with an introduction to ecosystem services and the
theoretical assumptions and objectives associated with their
assessment, the book goes on to outline interdisciplinary methods
of evaluation and analysis that are fully supported and illustrated
throughout using an insightful case study focused on Wigry National
Park. A range of different spatial reference units are also
discussed, followed by chapters on both analytical and synthetic
approaches to identifying service supply potential. In addition,
the use of services and the impact of these uses on the assessment
of potential is included, along with a discussion of the future
shape of ecosystem service assessment.
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