Kategória: Könyvtárosok ajánlásával

Dracula : Essays on the Life and Times of Vlad the Impaler

This book includes a wide range of studies on the life and times of Vlad III Dracula by leading historians and scholars from around the world. It presents a diversity of viewpoints, allowing the reader to understand the different historical perspectives with which Vlad is viewed in modern historiography. It also includes a wealth of supplementary materials, essential for anyone interested in learning about the life of Vlad the Impaler: translations of important documents concerning his reign; a genealogy of the family of Vlad the Impaler, translations from Turkish and Byzantine chronicles referring to the controversial Wallachian prince; a chronology, and an extensive bibliography of works on the life and times of Vlad the Impaler.

Rewriting Language : How Literary Texts Can Promote Inclusive Language Use

Inclusive language remains a hot topic. Despite decades of empirical evidence and revisions of formal language use, many inclusive adaptations of English and German continue to be ignored or contested. But how to convince speakers of the importance of inclusive language? Rewriting Language provides one possible answer: by engaging readers with the issue, literary texts can help to raise awareness and thereby promote wider linguistic change.

Mobilizing Others : Grammar and Lexis Within Larger Activities

Requesting, recruitment, and other ways of mobilizing others to act have garnered much interest in Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics. This volume takes a holistic perspective on the practices that we use to get others to act either with us, or for us. It argues for a more explicit focus on ‘activity’in unpacking the linguistic and embodied choices we make in designing mobilizing moves.

Hispanic Contact Linguistics : Theoretical, Methodological and Empirical Perspectives

This volume comprises cutting edge research on language contact and change. The chapters present a wide scope of settings in which Spanish is in contact with other languages, such as Catalan, English, and Quechua; a large breadth of geographical areas (e.g., United States, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina); and varied participant groups, ranging from dialect contacts, second-language learners and heritage speakers to balanced bilinguals and code-switchers.

Address in Portuguese and Spanish : Studies in Diachrony and Diachronic Reconstruction

The volume provides the first systematic comparative approach to the history of forms of address in Portuguese and Spanish, in their European and American varieties. Both languages share a common history—e.g., the personal union of Philipp II of Spain and Philipp I of Portugal; the parallel colonization of the Americas by Portugal and Spain; the long-term transformation from a feudal to a democratic system—in which crucial moments in the diachrony of address took place.

Gárdonyi Géza: Ida regénye

Kíváncsi vagy, hogy milyen az, amikor édesapád egy társkereső hirdetést ad fel rólad? És az, amikor a nevén kívül szinte semmit sem tudsz a férjedről? Milyen lehet a pénzéért feleségül venni egy nőt? Mi lehet a vége egy ilyen érdekkapcsolatnak: válás vagy szerelem? Ha érdekel egy olyan történet, ami választ ad ezekre a kérdésekre, mindenképp tudom ajánlani az Ida régényét.

Dancing Queen : Marie De Médicis’ Ballets at the Court of Henri IV

Under glittering lights in the Louvre palace, the French court ballets danced by Queen Marie de Médicis prior to Henri IV’s assassination in 1610 attracted thousands of spectators ranging from pickpockets to ambassadors from across Europe. Drawing on newly discovered primary sources as well as theories and methodologies derived from literary studies, political history, musicology, dance studies, and women’s and gender studies, Dancing Queen traces how Marie’s ballets authorized her incipient political authority through innovative verbal and visual imagery, avant-garde musical developments, and ceremonial arrangements of objects and bodies in space.

Hitting Pause : 65 Lecture Breaks to Refresh and Reinforce Learning

Pauses constitute a simple technique for enlivening and enhancing the effectiveness of lectures, or indeed of any form of instruction, whether a presentation or in an experiential setting. This book presents the evidence and rationale for breaking up lectures into shorter segments by using pauses to focus attention, reinforce key points, and review learning. It also provides 65 adaptable pause ideas to use at the opening of class, mid-way through, or as closers.

Hargittai Balázs, Hargittai István: A marslakók bölcsessége

Ez a könyv öt híres tudósról szól, akik hasonló pályát futottak be a huszadik század rögös körülményei között. Hargittai Balázs és Hargittai István könyve az öt tudós írásaiból vett idézeteken keresztül mutatja be nézeteiket, érzéseiket és bölcsességüket, amihez a szerzők megjegyzéseket is fűznek. Mindezek együtt magával ragadó, emlékezetes és időnként provokatív olvasmányt nyújtanak.

Kodály in the Second Grade Classroom : Developing the Creative Brain in the 21st Century

Since the mid-twentieth century, Zoltán Kodály’s child-developmental philosophy for teaching music has had significant positive impact on music education around the world, and is now at the core of music teaching in the United States and other English speaking countries. The Kodály Today handbook series is the first comprehensive system to update and apply the Kodály concepts to teaching music in elementary school classrooms. Kodály in the Second Grade Classroom provides teachers with a step-by-step road map for developing children’s performance, creative movement, and literacy skills in an organic and thoughtful manner.