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Written in a clear and accessible style, David Barton and Carmen Lee look at language online from a variety of perspectives, providing a solid theoretical grounding, an outline of key concepts, and practical guidance on doing research. Chapters cover topical issues including the relation between online language and multilingualism, identity, education and multimodality. The book concludes by looking at how to carry out research into online language use.
This is a vital read for anyone new to studying online language and an essential textbook for undergraduates and postgraduates working in the areas of new media, literacy and multimodality within language and linguistics courses.
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Now in its 4th edition, Susan M. Gass' key textbook has been fully revised and updated to include the latest developments in the field including, new sections on using learner corpora, semantics and morphosyntax (within formal approaches to SLA), sociocultural approaches, gesture, priming research, and chaos theory.
Second Language Acquisition 4th edition retains the features that students found useful in the current edition but also provides new pedagogical tools that encourage students to reflect upon the experiences of second language learners. As with previous editions, discussion questions and problems at the end of each chapter help students apply their knowledge, and a glossary defines and reinforces must-know terminology.
This clearly-written, comprehensive, and current textbook is the ideal textbook for the introductory SLA course in second language studies, applied linguistics, linguistics, TESOL, and language education programs.
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Additional resources for both instructors and students can be accessed here via the accompanying website.
* Mike Long is a Professor of SLA, at the University of Maryland
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Now in its second edition, Ian Frederick Finseth has updated and revised this excellent Civil War companion, exploring how literature, poetry and the documentation of history, shaped the way in which the American Civil War is remembered.
With selections from Louisa May Alcott, Walt Whitman, Sidney Lanier, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Kate Chopin, and many more, Finseth’s careful arrangement of texts remains an indispensable resource for readers who seek to understand the impact of the Civil War on the culture of the United States.
*Colleen G. Boggs is Associate Professor of English at Dartmouth College
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In this exciting new addition to our Critical Moments in American History series, author Katie Oxx brings alive the nativist movement through the use of trial transcripts and newspaper articles, poems, and personal narratives. Oxx draws close attention to the religious dimensions of nativism, illuminating the history of exclusion and the formative clashes between religious groups.
A companion website supports the text providing images, primary doucments, recommended weblinks and a timeline. Follow this link to view sample pages.
*Edward J. Blum is co-author of The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America
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]]>Routledge and the Association of Law Teachers would like to congratulate Emily Allbon and Sanmeet Kaur Dua on winning The Routledge/ALT Teaching Law with Technology Prize in 2013. Their collection of online skills tutorials Learnmore won out against stiff competition at this year’s ALT conference, where the robust and interactive panel session with Emily, Sanmeet and Aston University’s Odette Hutchinson was a particular highlight.
The competition was particularly strong this year, highlighting Emily and Sanmeet's achievement in winning the prize to which the prize committee can attest:
The technology used and developed by the Learnmore team allows students to access, in a user friendly and accessible form, at anytime and from any location, some of the foundational and fundamental legal conventions including research, case citations, mooting skills and tips, to name a few. The website is sleek and very professional; it is interactive and dynamic. Learnmore is a very worthy winner of the inaugural Teaching Law with Technology Prize from the Association of Law Teachers and Routledge. - Rebecca Huxley Binns, Chair, Association of Law Teachers
‘I am delighted to congratulate Emily and Sanmeet on their win, their fabulous website, and their inspirational commitment to student learning. It has been a wonderful first year for the prize with an incredibly strong field of entrants, and I am very proud to have had the opportunity to be involved. Projects such as Learnmore really showcase the possibilities for innovation, using technology in a thoughtful and engaged way that builds on collaboration with and feedback from students to create resources that will help them to succeed.’
- Emma Nugent, Commissioning Editor, Routledge Law
On winning the prize, Emily and Sanmeet had this to say about their experience:
We were delighted to be shortlisted for the ALT Learning with Technology award. It really gave us a chance to take stock of what we have achieved using technology on the Learnmore website to help students learn essential legal skills. It has been a valuable experience to see what innovations have been developed at other institutions and to see value being placed on the use of technology for real purpose in teaching and learning.
Having the opportunity to present the resource to colleagues at the annual ALT conference was fantastic for us and opened our eyes to the impact that this website has had on colleagues and students in other law schools. It has always been a priority of ours to develop a resource that is available freely to law students across institutions so that they can learn from it, contribute to it and take ownership of their learning. It has also been encouraging to see that our approach in involving students in the creation of resources was well-regarded. - Emily Allbon and Sanmeet Kaur Dua winners of the 2013 The Routledge/ALT Teaching Law with Technology Prize
Shortlisted entries from Odette Hutchinson at Aston University for the integrated use of technology in teaching and Kim Blackie at Northumbria for webcast infrastructure ensured that this was a strong first year for the prize. Odette had this to say on taking part:
This prize is a wonderful opportunity for educators to showcase innovative and effective approaches to technology enhanced legal education. It was an honour to be a finalist this year; the winning project Lawbore is an outstanding resource one that I will be recommending to my own students! - Odette Hutchinson, Senior Lecturer in Law at Aston University, finalist for the 2013 The Routledge/ALT Teaching Law with Technology Prize, Law Teacher of the Year 2013
Entries for the 2014 Prize are now open. For further information please visit the 2014 Prize website or contact law@routledge.com with the subject line ‘Teaching Law with Technology'
]]>Cinematic products in the twenty-first century increasingly emerge from, engage with, and are consumed in cross-cultural settings. While there have been a number of terms used to describe cinematic forms that do not bear allegiance to a single nation in terms of conceptualization, content, finance and/or viewership, this volume contends that "crossover cinema" is the most apt contemporary description for those aspects of contemporary cinema on which it focuses. This contention is provoked by an appreciation of the cross-cultural reality of our post-globalization twenty-first century world.
This volume both outlines the history of usage of the term and grounds it theoretically in ways that emphasize the personal/poetic in addition to the political. Each of the three sections of the volume then considers crossover film from one of three perspectives: production, the texts themselves, and distribution and consumption.
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Are We ‘Chasing Our Own Tail’ on the Circular Economy?
By Philip Monaghan, author of How Local Resilience Creates Sustainable Societies.
Wow. What a seminal year for sustainable development and corporate responsibility it has been, for bad as well as good.
The corporate scandals came thick and fast – ranging from News Corporation hacking the phones of victims of serious crime through to Barclays manipulating market interest rates at a time of tax-payer funded bank bailouts. Political power brokers also continued to fail to strike a deal when the world needed them most – with the earlier disappointment of Rio+20 in Rio de Janeiro being followed by them kicking the can down the road once more at COP18 in Doha. Despite this, some ‘big ticket’ initiatives continued to gain momentum. One notable campaign by the likes of the Aldersgate Group and Ellen Macarthur Foundation is for the business community to step up and fill a leadership void by supporting the switch to a Circular Economy in order to reverse unviable patters of consumption. Another is the ongoing promotion of the Smart Cities concept by likes of The Climate Group and LSE Cities to ensure an age of rapid urbanisation is sustainable. Both have great merit and in fact have a common thread in their focus on stronger resource efficiency being able to save the day.
But, we will look back again in twelve months time and curse another missed opportunity? In short, are we chasing our own tail when it comes to solutions such as the circular economy?
The cold hard truth is that, despite sector growth that bucks the recession trend, not only is the green economy uncompetitive when pitched against the (heavily subsidised) brown economy, it is not a serious rival to other green issues such as street litter. How so? Well, because at the end of the day, there is a marked difference between what is important and what is a priority. Yes, adapting to extreme weather or tackling food supply shortages at some point in the near or distant future is important. But it is not as important as paying your mortgage or ensuring your kids go to the best school and have a better life than yourself. In fact, for many, climate adaptation tomorrow is not as important as a clean street is today.
So what has this got to do with the circular economy and smart cities? Well, their well-intentioned focus on stronger resource efficiency may be seriously misplaced. Yes, avoiding industrial waste through closed loop product engineering or reducing energy demand through smart grid infrastructure makes best use of scarce resources. But so what? Saving money, process innovations or boosting resource security should not be confused as the end goal. These are all important, but only as pathways to the real priority outcome: creating more desirable livelihoods. That is, to succeed these campaigns need to make the connection between stronger resource efficiency an quality housing and sanitation in slums, creating job opportunities for the youth unemployed, boosting neighbourhoods’ capacity for self help, and so on.
By linking the circular economy and smart city concepts to close to home issues like these, then and only then, we will be able to rewire the current flawed economic framework and construct a new, resilient model. For CSR and sustainability practitioners in 2013, be they at Timberland or New York City, this means being able to see the synergies and navigate the connections between the circular economy, sustainable urbanisation and the practical needs and hopes and dreams of everyday people. Failing to do so, means these great ideas will otherwise go the same way as the Sinclair C5 car or Betamax video recorder – relics we point at and giggle about in the museum.
Philip Monaghan is founder & CEO of Infrangilis (a consultancy and think-tank on resiliency strategies).
It's an exciting, human portrait of a modernizing Japan going to war and thereby staking its very existence on a desperate bid for glory in East Asia.
During Shiba Ryōtarō’s lifetime, his books regularly became best-sellers. Clouds above the Hill, now in its 20th printing, has sold 18 million copies. The novel is currently being serialized in a lavish production on Japanese television.
Shiba devoted an entire decade of his life to this extraordinary blockbuster, which features Japan's emergence onto the world stage by the early years of the twentieth century.
The translation will be published in four volumes. The first two are out now, and volumes 3 and 4 will be published in November 2013.
Download the Cloudes above the Hill leaflet.
For more information about these titles, please feel free to email Kathryn.Reavill@tandf.co.uk
Developed for students in telecommunications management, media management, and the business of media, this text helps future media professionals understand the relationship and convergence patterns between the broadcast, cable television, telephony, and Internet communication industries.
The second edition includes updated research throughout , including material on major business and technology changes and the importance of digital lifestyle reflected in E-commerce and personalized media selection, such as Netflix and iTunes, and the growing importance of Facebook and social networking from a business perspective. Also included with this edition is a new and robust companion website that includes discussion questions, exercises, further readings, all of the book’s tables and figures, video links and an RSS feed.
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Written in partnership with Chally Group Worldwide, the new editions of Contemporary Selling and Sales Force Management continue to set the standard for the most up-to-date and student-friendly selling textbook available anywhere today.
We are pleased to be able to offer you the chance to claim 20% off these titles by simply entering the discount code GDC71 at the checkout when you purchase online.
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Key features of the book include:
•Screenshots of contemporary Web sites that will allow students to understand how writing for and linking to other layers of a Web site should work
•Flow charts that describe how Web site architecture and navigation works
•Parsing exercises in which students break down information into subsets to demonstrate how Web site architecture can be usable and scalable
•Detailed step-by-step descriptions of how to use basic technologies such as file transfer protocols (FTP)
•Hands-on projects for students to engage in that allow them to connect the various components in the text
•A companion website with downloadable code and additional pedagogical features.
Writing for the Web prepares students to work in professional roles, as it facilitates understanding of architecture and arrangement of written content of an organization’s texts.
Presenting information from major cases, rules, regulations, and legal documents in a concise and readable form, this book helps current and prospective media professsionals understand the complex realm of law and regulation. Students will learn how to avoid common legal pitfalls and anticipate situations that may have potential legal consequences.
This sixth edition provides annotated cases with margin notes, and new chapters address such timely issues as media ownership, freedom of information, entertainment rights, and cyber law. A companion website provides additional materials for students and instructors.
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