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Teaching Translation from Spanish to English : Worlds Beyond Words
While many professional translators believe the ability to translate is a gift that one either has or does not have, Allison Beeby Lonsdale questions this view. In her innovative book, she demonstrates how teachers can guide their students by showing them how insights from communication theory, discourse analysis, pragmatics, and semiotics can illuminate the translation process. Using Spanish t…
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- 9780776603995
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- Didactics of Translation
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- 400 BEE t
Deformation and Failure Mechanism of Excavation in Clay Subjected to Hydrauli…
This book presents the latest experimental and numerical analysis work in the field of ground deformation and base instability of deep excavations in soft clay subjected to hydraulic uplift. The authors? latest research findings, based on dimensional analyses, well-instrumented full-scale field tests, systematic coupled-consolidation finite element analyses and centrifuge tests are reported. Th…
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- 1
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- 9783662465073
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- XIV, 156
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- Advanced Topics in Science and Technology in China
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- 413
Impact Craters in South America
A complete and updated catalogue of impact craters and structures in South America from 2014 is presented here. Approximately eighty proven, suspected and disproven structures have been identified by several sources in this continent. All the impact sites of this large continent have been exhaustively reviewed: the proved ones, the possible ones and some very doubtful. Many sites remain without…
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- 978-3-319-13092-7
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- X, 104
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- SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences
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- 415 IMP
God and Mental Causation
This book lies at the intersection of philosophy of mind and philosophy of religion and operates on the assumption that dialogue between the two disciplines can be fruitful. In particular it focuses on how debates in the philosophy of mind regarding the nature of mental causation relate to debates in the philosophy of religion regarding divine action, creaturely causation, and existence of God…
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- 978-3-662-47425-9
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- XIV, 100
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- -
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- 100
Creating Models in Psychological Research
This concise reference serves as a companion to traditional research texts by focusing on such essentials as model construction, robust methodologies and defending a compelling hypothesis. Designed to wean Master's and doctorate-level students as well as new researchers from their comfort zones, the book challenges readers to engage in multi-method approaches to answering multidisciplinary ques…
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- 1
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- 9783319157535
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- XXI, 126
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- SpringerBriefs in Psychology
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- 150
Practicing Professional Ethics in Economics and Public Policy
This volume explores the professional ethics of addresses the varied ethical needs of the professional economists and public policy professionals. Using terms and methods familiar to the reader, the book goes beyond the typical narrative of economics and morality to walk the professional through the process of ethical decision-making. Designed to be easy to navigate and applicable to everyday…
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- 978-94-017-7306-5
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- XII, 297
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- 174 SEA p
Atheist Identities - Spaces and Social Contexts
The essays in this book not only examine the variety of atheist expression and experience in the Western context, they also explore how local, national and international settings may contribute to the shaping of atheist identities. By addressing identity at these different levels, the book explores how individuals construct their own atheist—or non-religious—identity, how they construct com…
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- 978-3-319-09602-5
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- VII, 219
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- Boundaries of Religious Freedom: Regulating Religion in Diverse Societies
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- 297.284
Politics of Religion/ Religions of Politic
The liberal enlightenment as well as the more radical left have both traditionally opposed religion as a reactionary force in politics, a view culminating in an identification of the politics of religion as fundamentalist theocracy. But recently a number of thinkers—Agamben, Badiou, Tabues and in particular Simon Critchley—have begun to explore a more productive engagement of the religious …
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- 978-94-017-9448-0
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- XIII, 191
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- Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures
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- 297.272 WEL p
Living on the Land Indigenous Women's Understanding of Place
An extensive body of literature on Indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing has been written since the 1980s. This research has for the most part been conducted by scholars operating within Western epistemological frameworks that tend not only to deny the subjectivity of knowledge but also to privilege masculine authority. As a result, the information gathered predominantly reflects the types o…
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- 9781771990417.01
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- 228 pages
Information Systems Architecture and Technology: Proceedings of 36th Internat…
This four volume set of books constitutes the proceedings of the 36th International Conference Information Systems Architecture and Technology 2015, or ISAT 2015 for short, held on September 20–22, 2015 in Karpacz, Poland. The conference was organized by the Computer Science and Management Systems Departments, Faculty of Computer Science and Management, Wroclaw University of Technology, Polan…
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- 978-3-319-28559-7
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- XIV, 243
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- Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
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- 621 INF
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