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Bilingual Language Proficiency : A Comparative Study
This book investigates the role native language plays in the process of acquiring a second language within a bilingual educational model. The research presented is based on a 2 year longitudinal study of students in a bilingual school. Particular attention is paid to the development of academic language proficiency. Performance in both languages was compared between two groups of peers learning…
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- Vol. 17
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- 9783830923176
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- -
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- -
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- 400 DUA b
Early Greek Alphabetic Writing : A Linguistic Approach
Despite the flourishing of epichoric studies on the Archaic Greek scripts in the 1960s, embodied by archaeologists Lilian Hamilton Jeffery and Margherita Guarducci, most scholarship on early alphabetic writing in Greece has focused on questions around the origin of ‘the Greek alphabet’ instead of acknowledging the diversity of alphabetic systems that emerged in Geometric and Archaic times. …
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- -
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- 9780000000845
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- -
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- 411 AST e
Identity and Theatre Translation in Hong Kong
In this book, Shelby Chan examines the relationship between theatre translation and identity construction against the sociocultural background that has led to the popularity of translated theatre in Hong Kong. A statistical analysis of the development of translated theatre is presented, establishing a correlation between its popularity and major socio-political trends. When the idea of home, o…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-662-45540-1
- Collation
- XI, 231
- Series Title
- New Frontiers in Translation Studies
- Call Number
- 400 CHA i
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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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780776603995
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- -
- Series Title
- 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
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783662465073
- Collation
- XIV, 156
- Series Title
- Advanced Topics in Science and Technology in China
- Call Number
- 413
Government Austerity and Socioeconomic Sustainability
This short book integrates the imperatives of public debt sustainability with those of socioeconomic sustainability in the context of budget austerity measures. It is argued that poverty, inequality and unemployment problems should be integral aspects of policy frameworks for austerity and fiscal stability. The economics of austerity in much of economic analysis remains narrowly focused and lop…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-04234-3
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- VII, 44
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- -
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Governance of Hospitals in Central and Eastern Europe
This book presents a novel view of healthcare system transition in post-communist countries. It is the first region-wide comparative study of hospital governance in Eastern Europe. Comprehensive new material shows the evolution and significance of governance, complementing recent publications on the topic from industrialised countries. Throughout the book, governance is described and substantia…
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- -
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- 978-981-287-765-9
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- Health Economics
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- -
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- 330 SOW g
Gold Nanostars Synthesis, Properties and Biomedical Application
This Brief focuses on the synthesis, functionalization techniques, optical properties and biomedical application of gold nanostars (GNS). Various facilities of gold nanostars synthesis as well as functionalization of GNS with PEG, organic dyes, bioactive compounds are discussed. The authors discuss physical origin of the Localized Surface Plasmon Resonances and the way the nano-environment affe…
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- -
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- 978-3-319-20767-4
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- XV, 80
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- -
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- 621 CHI g
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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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-13092-7
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- X, 104
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences
- Call Number
- 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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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-662-47425-9
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- XIV, 100
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- -
- Call Number
- 100
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