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College Latin An Intermediate Course
ISBN: PB: 9780300190922, Yale University Press, February 2015
512 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
By providing a much-needed grammar review, along with a variety of readings that will suit the tastes of many different teaching preferences, this textbook will help students make the transition from beginning Latin to the intermediate level. The boo...
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£45,00
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Attica: Intermediate Classical Greek Readings, Review, and Exercises
ISBN: PB: 9780300178760, Yale University Press, February 2014
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 6 black&white illus.
Effective as either a primary or secondary textbook, "Intermediate Greek" fills a gap in the available materials by simultaneously providing a much-needed grammar review and an introduction to primary texts that the students will be working with in t...
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£34,00
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On the Beat of Truth A Hearing Daughter's Stories of Her Black Deaf Parents
ISBN: PB: 9781563685521, Gallaudet University Press, June 2013
184 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 25 photos
As an African American woman born in 1943, Maxine Childress Brown possessed a unique vantage point to witness the transformative events in her parents' lives. Both came from the South – her father, Herbert Childress, from Nashville, TN, and her mothe...
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£22,50
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French in Action, Workbook, Part 1 A Beginning Course in Language and Culture: The Capretz Method
ISBN: PB: 9780300176124, Yale University Press, April 2013
520 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm
Since it was first published, "French in Action: A Beginning Course in Language and Culture – The Capretz Method" has been widely recognized in the field as a model for video-based foreign-language instructional materials. The third edition has been...
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£35,00
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French in Action, Textbook, Part 1 A Beginning Course in Language and Culture: The Capretz Method
ISBN: HB: 9780300176100, Yale University Press, February 2013
376 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 1120 scattered illus.
Since it was first published, "French in Action: A Beginning Course in Language and Culture – The Capretz Method" has been widely recognized in the field as a model for video-based foreign-language instructional materials. The third edition has been...
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£53,00
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Deaf Children in China
ISBN: PB: 9781563683398, Gallaudet University Press, February 2013
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
To learn how Chinese parents raise their deaf children, Alison Callaway in 1994 conducted extensive research in the city of Nanjing. There, she interviewed the parents of 26 deaf children while also carefully analyzing a large collection of letters w...
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£52,50
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Tacit and Explicit Knowledge
ISBN: PB: 9780226004211, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
200 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 tables, 3 halftones, 7 line illus.
Much of what humans know we cannot say. And much of what we do we cannot describe. For example, how do we know how to ride a bike when we can't explain how we do it? Abilities like this were called "tacit knowledge" by physical chemist and philosophe...
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£19,50
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Japanese/Korean Linguistics Volume 19
ISBN: PB: 9781575866185, ISBN: HB: 9781575866192, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2012
547 pp., 22.9x15 cm
Japanese and Korean are typologically similar languages, and a linguistic phenomenon in the former often has a counterpart in the latter. The papers in this volume are from the nineteenth Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, which was held at the...
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£31,00
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£64,00
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Little Book of Language
ISBN: PB: 9780300170825, Yale University Press, March 2011
272 pp., 21.1x14 cm, 40 illus.
With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms springing up almost daily, an understanding of the origins and currency of language has never seemed more relevant. In this charming volume, a narrative history written explicitly for a youn...
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£9,99
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Accountability-Based Reforms The Impact on Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students
ISBN: HB: 9781563684852, Gallaudet University Press, February 2011
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, tables, figures
For years, school reform efforts targeted either students in regular education or those with special needs, but not both. As a result of the No Child Left Behind legislation (NCLB) and its focus on accountability, administrators established policies...
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£41,50
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