Author: James E. Alatis
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 9781589018143
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The essays in this volume explore communication across cultures using an interdisciplinary approach to language teaching and learning, mediated by the growing field of educational linguistics. Topics include the use of English as a medium of wider communication and the growth of national varieties of English throughout the world. An international array of distinguished contributors includes scholars from China, Great Britain, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Nigeria, Singapore, Taiwan, Ukraine, and the United States. This collection suggests that language diversity is a unifying force in a globally interdependent world.
Bird on a Wire
Author: Kate Gordon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781760128586
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From the illustrator who brought you The Ricker Racker Club and The Dress-Up Box comes a picture book about a pack of arrogant characters in a race to the top, and a duck who cleverly brings them back to reality.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781760128586
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From the illustrator who brought you The Ricker Racker Club and The Dress-Up Box comes a picture book about a pack of arrogant characters in a race to the top, and a duck who cleverly brings them back to reality.
Bird On a Wire
Author: Theresa Gattung
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 1869792955
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Inside the high pressure, brutalising CEO world with New Zealand's highest profile businesswoman. No woman has ever risen as far in the corporate world as former Telecom CEO Theresa Gattung. Her appointment, at a young age and from the marking ranks, astounded the country, and her leadership of the big telco that Kiwis love to hate was never far from the headlines. This no-holds-barred memoir tells of her ambition, her determination, and her rise to business power. It tells of the highs of running a vitally important company such as Telecom and also the lows, as the company struggled with an Australian telco acquisition, shareholder pressure, antagonism from the government, battles with its telco competitors and changing technology. After seven years she felt she'd given her all. The personal toll of those tough years at the top had been significant and Gattung is frank about how she had to rebuild her life with a clear focus. Bird on a Wire is a candid, engaging and inspirational story that points the way to new ways of leadership and running businesses.
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 1869792955
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Inside the high pressure, brutalising CEO world with New Zealand's highest profile businesswoman. No woman has ever risen as far in the corporate world as former Telecom CEO Theresa Gattung. Her appointment, at a young age and from the marking ranks, astounded the country, and her leadership of the big telco that Kiwis love to hate was never far from the headlines. This no-holds-barred memoir tells of her ambition, her determination, and her rise to business power. It tells of the highs of running a vitally important company such as Telecom and also the lows, as the company struggled with an Australian telco acquisition, shareholder pressure, antagonism from the government, battles with its telco competitors and changing technology. After seven years she felt she'd given her all. The personal toll of those tough years at the top had been significant and Gattung is frank about how she had to rebuild her life with a clear focus. Bird on a Wire is a candid, engaging and inspirational story that points the way to new ways of leadership and running businesses.
Two Birds on a Wire
Author: Coral Vass
Publisher: Koala Books
ISBN: 9781742761619
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Little Bird Blue and Little Bird Black refuse to share! Each wants to sit on the wire alone in this funny rhyming story.
Publisher: Koala Books
ISBN: 9781742761619
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Little Bird Blue and Little Bird Black refuse to share! Each wants to sit on the wire alone in this funny rhyming story.
Rabbit Trails
Author: Will Wyckoff
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781511813655
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Not known to young Jake McGee, a pact with God might have caused his grandfather to mysteriously disappear while he hiked alone in the PA State Game Lands near his home. Search teams found nothing. All of the McGee family eventually resigned itself to life without Gramps...everyone except seven-year-old Jake. Straight through his MIDDLE SCHOOL years he covertly searched for the answers he needed. When he discovered his Grandmother McGee was TELEPATHIC, and when he discovered the girl next door was more than just a girl, his middle school years kicked into a higher gear. Rabbit Trails is a middle school tale recalled by Jake after his teenage years have passed. He shares not only preternatural surprises about his grandparents, but also subtle discoveries regarding his own ADOLESCENCE and the BULLYING he endured as well. The powers of Divine Intervention, family, and friendship are paramount
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781511813655
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Not known to young Jake McGee, a pact with God might have caused his grandfather to mysteriously disappear while he hiked alone in the PA State Game Lands near his home. Search teams found nothing. All of the McGee family eventually resigned itself to life without Gramps...everyone except seven-year-old Jake. Straight through his MIDDLE SCHOOL years he covertly searched for the answers he needed. When he discovered his Grandmother McGee was TELEPATHIC, and when he discovered the girl next door was more than just a girl, his middle school years kicked into a higher gear. Rabbit Trails is a middle school tale recalled by Jake after his teenage years have passed. He shares not only preternatural surprises about his grandparents, but also subtle discoveries regarding his own ADOLESCENCE and the BULLYING he endured as well. The powers of Divine Intervention, family, and friendship are paramount
Leonard Cohen
Author: Philippe Girard
Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
ISBN: 9781770464896
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
A captivating, revealing biography of the legendary musician and poet Leonard Cohen opens in Los Angeles on the last night of the man’s life in 2016. Alone in his final hours, the beloved writer and musician ponders his existence in a series of flashbacks that reveal the ups and downs of a storied career. A young Cohen traded in the promise of steady employment in his family’s Montreal garment business for the unlikely path of a literary poet. His life took another sharp turn when, already in his thirties, he recorded his first album to widespread international acclaim. Along the way he encountered a who’s who of musical luminaries, including Lou Reed, Nico, Janis Joplin, and Joni Mitchell. And then there’s Phil Spector, the notorious music impresario who held a gun to Cohen’s head during a coke-fueled, all-night recording session. Later in Cohen’s life, there’s the story of "Hallelujah," one of his most famous songs, and its slow rise from relative obscurity when first recorded in the 1980s to its iconic status a decade later with covers by John Cale and Jeff Buckley. And the period when Cohen went broke after his manager embezzled his lifetime savings, which ironically sparked an unlikely career resurgence and several worldwide tours in the 2000s. Written with careful attention to detail and drawn with a palette of warm, lush colors by the Quebec-based cartoonist Philippe Girard, Leonard Cohen is an engaging portrait of a cultural icon.
Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
ISBN: 9781770464896
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
A captivating, revealing biography of the legendary musician and poet Leonard Cohen opens in Los Angeles on the last night of the man’s life in 2016. Alone in his final hours, the beloved writer and musician ponders his existence in a series of flashbacks that reveal the ups and downs of a storied career. A young Cohen traded in the promise of steady employment in his family’s Montreal garment business for the unlikely path of a literary poet. His life took another sharp turn when, already in his thirties, he recorded his first album to widespread international acclaim. Along the way he encountered a who’s who of musical luminaries, including Lou Reed, Nico, Janis Joplin, and Joni Mitchell. And then there’s Phil Spector, the notorious music impresario who held a gun to Cohen’s head during a coke-fueled, all-night recording session. Later in Cohen’s life, there’s the story of "Hallelujah," one of his most famous songs, and its slow rise from relative obscurity when first recorded in the 1980s to its iconic status a decade later with covers by John Cale and Jeff Buckley. And the period when Cohen went broke after his manager embezzled his lifetime savings, which ironically sparked an unlikely career resurgence and several worldwide tours in the 2000s. Written with careful attention to detail and drawn with a palette of warm, lush colors by the Quebec-based cartoonist Philippe Girard, Leonard Cohen is an engaging portrait of a cultural icon.
Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1994: Educational Linguistics, Cross-Cultural Communication, and Global Interdependence
Author: James E. Alatis
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 9781589018143
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The essays in this volume explore communication across cultures using an interdisciplinary approach to language teaching and learning, mediated by the growing field of educational linguistics. Topics include the use of English as a medium of wider communication and the growth of national varieties of English throughout the world. An international array of distinguished contributors includes scholars from China, Great Britain, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Nigeria, Singapore, Taiwan, Ukraine, and the United States. This collection suggests that language diversity is a unifying force in a globally interdependent world.
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 9781589018143
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The essays in this volume explore communication across cultures using an interdisciplinary approach to language teaching and learning, mediated by the growing field of educational linguistics. Topics include the use of English as a medium of wider communication and the growth of national varieties of English throughout the world. An international array of distinguished contributors includes scholars from China, Great Britain, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Nigeria, Singapore, Taiwan, Ukraine, and the United States. This collection suggests that language diversity is a unifying force in a globally interdependent world.
The Pisan Cantos
Author: Ezra Pound
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811215589
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
At last, a definitive, paperback edition of Ezra Pound's finest work.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811215589
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
At last, a definitive, paperback edition of Ezra Pound's finest work.
Bird on a Wire
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion picture plays
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion picture plays
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Year on the Wing
Author: Tim Dee
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 141656036X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Birds -- those "upgiven ghosts" who shape our skies -- and their many styles of flying have inspired us for centuries. Tim Dee became enthralled with birds as a young boy, and their allure has informed how he perceives time as well as how he sees the world and his place in it. Compelling and poetic, A Year on the Wing is a month-by-month account of following these magnificent creatures, on land, at sea, and in the air, over the course of one "dew-dipped year." A memoir of the author's life as well as of the birds' migrations, the book draws on memories of forty years of observing birds as Dee explores the ideas and feelings that birds awaken in their flying, breeding, and dying. A Year on the Wing is also a significant chronicle of Dee's rich reading of a gorgeous literary tradition about birds -- from Aristotle to Thomas Hardy, Dante to Pound, Wordsworth to Ted Hughes -- as well as naturalists' writings that train a scientific eye on these elusive creatures. With a poet's marvelous commingling of nature and language, Dee finds meaning and a fascinating beauty in the quiver of a redstart's tail, elegizes the thrilling skydiving stoop of the once-endangered, now resurgent peregrine falcon, and reflects on the nocturnal restlessness of migrant woodcocks that is suggestive of how nature encodes us all. A Year on the Wing brings us as close as possible to birds, as we seek to understand the unique connection between us and them as well as our separation from them and, by extension, our estrangement from all of nature. Watching birds instills a renewed sense of wonder, getting us airborne and expanding our horizons. This vicarious liftoff does us good in a way hard to define but incontestably felt. It also makes us ever aware of our place on the ground. Dee homes in on those moments when the gap narrows between humans and birds, when birds' freedom gives us our own, making our lives more vibrant and alive. The first book from an exciting new literary voice, this beautifully written memoir celebrates birds and the inspiration they provide through their twice-yearly winged migrations.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 141656036X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Birds -- those "upgiven ghosts" who shape our skies -- and their many styles of flying have inspired us for centuries. Tim Dee became enthralled with birds as a young boy, and their allure has informed how he perceives time as well as how he sees the world and his place in it. Compelling and poetic, A Year on the Wing is a month-by-month account of following these magnificent creatures, on land, at sea, and in the air, over the course of one "dew-dipped year." A memoir of the author's life as well as of the birds' migrations, the book draws on memories of forty years of observing birds as Dee explores the ideas and feelings that birds awaken in their flying, breeding, and dying. A Year on the Wing is also a significant chronicle of Dee's rich reading of a gorgeous literary tradition about birds -- from Aristotle to Thomas Hardy, Dante to Pound, Wordsworth to Ted Hughes -- as well as naturalists' writings that train a scientific eye on these elusive creatures. With a poet's marvelous commingling of nature and language, Dee finds meaning and a fascinating beauty in the quiver of a redstart's tail, elegizes the thrilling skydiving stoop of the once-endangered, now resurgent peregrine falcon, and reflects on the nocturnal restlessness of migrant woodcocks that is suggestive of how nature encodes us all. A Year on the Wing brings us as close as possible to birds, as we seek to understand the unique connection between us and them as well as our separation from them and, by extension, our estrangement from all of nature. Watching birds instills a renewed sense of wonder, getting us airborne and expanding our horizons. This vicarious liftoff does us good in a way hard to define but incontestably felt. It also makes us ever aware of our place on the ground. Dee homes in on those moments when the gap narrows between humans and birds, when birds' freedom gives us our own, making our lives more vibrant and alive. The first book from an exciting new literary voice, this beautifully written memoir celebrates birds and the inspiration they provide through their twice-yearly winged migrations.
Leonard Maltin's 2009 Movie Guide
Author: Leonard Maltin
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780452289789
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1668
Book Description
Offers readers a comprehensive reference to the world of film, including more than ten thousand DVD titles, along with information on performers, ratings, running times, plots, and helpful features.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780452289789
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1668
Book Description
Offers readers a comprehensive reference to the world of film, including more than ten thousand DVD titles, along with information on performers, ratings, running times, plots, and helpful features.