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- The notion of discourse type is directly linked to the notion of discourse community: while discourse type represents the thematic (referential) component of discourse production, discourse community represents its social context. What is specific about discourse revealing its transformational nature is that the relations between the form and the content of the unit studies are reciprocal. While discourse...
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- The book „Universal Spinning” is a methodological handbook devoted to an innovative variant of classic spinning cycling involving activation of the muscles of shoulder girdle, abdomen and back while pedaling. Besides theoretical findings, the publication contains 166 authors' own exercises aimed at improving the effectiveness of wholesome training.
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- The book does not recreate the reality but, metaphorically speaking, it causes the readers to forget the reality while reading and understanding the text. But if they record this process of forgetting, they will be able to remember it and then, perhaps, immerse in the reality addressed by this book...
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- Culinary culture is a vital element of the Jewish identity—while enhancing the sense of belonging to a community, it testifies to Jewish distinctiveness. Shaped over millennia in different locations all across the globe, it has remained very diverse until today. That is why the tale about Jewish food is simultaneously a tale about Jewish religion, culture and history.
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- The book is aimed at those who want to investigate translation-related problems and write a Master’s thesis that is an academic thesis as part of their second cycle of studies in the European Higher Education Area. This target audience may be enlarged to include Bachelor’s degree students (the first level) for whom certain remarks and chapters in the book will be equally pertinent. The...
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- The aim of the book is to analyze the emerging market of online education in software programming. Traditional on-campus computer studies programs are not enough to upskill the masses of people who will need to transfer to technology jobs or jobs which are enriched with technology components. Therefore, new methods of software programming education are currently being tested in various ways. Most of...
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- The World English Bible is an update of the American Standard Version (ASV) of the Holy Bible. Its style, while fairly literally translated, is in informal, spoken English. The WEB is designed to sound good and be accurate when read aloud. Key features of the World English Bible: * The Majority Text used as the basis for the New Testament, * God’s Proper Name in the Old Testament translated as “Yahweh”, *...
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- China at the beginning of the 21st century intrigues many researchers around the world. The problems discussed within this volume provide the readers with a background of most vital issues in modern China. They are related to the challenges of the Chinese society and state's international skirmishes, which is depicted by the book's division into two separate parts. While the first part provides the...
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- The present work deals with the notion of the Internet as a teaching medium, describing extensively various aspects of the teachinig process, such as available Internet-based activity formats (chapter 1), tools for possible use in an Internet classroom (chatpers 2 and 3) and Internetassisted language skills instruction (chapter 4). The issue of designing Internet-based language teaching, both on the...
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- The aim of this book is to shed light on the processes and mechanisms by which the national identity of Buryats (their homeland split by state borders, their diaspora scattered far and wide across Russia, Mongolia, and China) has been shaped under contemporary social conditions and within international political systems. The volume at hand constitutes an attempt to analyze 21st century transformations...
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- This volume, entitled Nostalgia, Guilt and Shame: interdisciplinary approaches and edited by Prof. Wojciech Owczarski and Dr. Ricardo Rato Rodrigues, brings together a well-structured, detailed and consistently well-substantiated series of essays. The promise in the title, that of interdisciplinarity, is fully kept as the book consists of contributions from diverse academic disciplines. The book recognizes...
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- The aim of this book is to shed light on the processes and mechanisms by which the national identity of Buryats (their homeland split by state borders, their diaspora scattered far and wide across Russia, Mongolia, and China) has been shaped under contemporary social conditions and within international political systems. The volume at hand constitutes an attempt to analyze 21st century transformations...
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- Almost 50 years since the emergence of community-based tourism (CBT) confusion about this concept and its practices persist. This book is a modest attempt by the author to clarify CBT concepts and practices by consolidating his previous work on various aspects of CBT. The book actively promotes a CBT approach and proposes various strategies to advance and expand it. At the same time the book proposes...
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- Latin has been widely used for around 2000 years as a tool for preparing medical professionals’ nomenclature. In 2018, the WHO released the 11th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD). The basic version of ICD-11 is in English, while other language versions are currently being prepared. The authors conducted an analysis of the English-Latin translation process and proposed a...
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- The book Socio-political Alternatives in Central Europe (SPACE) is firstly innovative in character while being in its entirety devoted to the organisations and social movements operating within the area that lies between the state and society; organisations which constitute a challenge to those subjects active within mainstream politics, first and foremost for existing political parties. The editors...
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- A rapid development in the fi eld of materials, installations and construction technologies has been observed for decades. Consequently, the research carried out in terms of various categories allows for the implementation and application of many innovative solutions to the construction. The construction development is primarily determined by the availability of new materials and their application,...
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- Pierwsza monografia, w której przeanalizowano zagadnienia związane z wybranymi miastami i regionami w kontekście nauczania cudzoziemców języka polskiego. Autorzy zastanawiają się nad możliwościami wykorzystywania tematyki lokalnej, jej wpływem na poznawanie kultury w rozumieniu narodowym oraz nad tym, w jaki sposób kształtuje ona postrzeganie kraju jako spójnego „tworu kulturowego” i zróżnicowanego...
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- Valentine For a Dead Lady, an introduction to Mel D. Ames's classic intrepid and daring Detective Cathy Carruthers. In the male dominated world of hard-boiled detectives, Ames's genre changing Lieutenant Carruthers pioneered a new exciting direction with these fast-paced tales of vice and villainy. Originally published in Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, Ames’s stories evoke the golden era of short crime...
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- The old 1970s trend of suburban husbands and wives having consensual sex with other married couples is alive in Montreal. For her fortieth birthday, Valerie Matthews gave herself the sex life she deserved and joined the not-so-secret Swap Club with her husband Ryan. One year later, determined to hold on to the excitement they discovered, Val and Ryan decide to embark on year two in Swap Club, hoping...
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- This monograph should be of interest to a wide range of readers because money, banks and business have been an integral part of history of all societies as well as an experience shared by each one of us. The book is divided into two parts - the more extensive part one comprises: - several texts that follow advancement of capitalist economy in 18th and 19thcentury Britain with all the concurrent developments...
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