ilość książek w kategorii: 91575
Theoretical Morphology: Approaches in Modern Linguistics
ISBN: 9780123220462 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Theoretical Morphology provides a comprehensive and coherent treatment of contemporary morphological research and theory. A variety of theoretical paradigms are reviewed and illustrated by specific topics of debate within the field. The twenty-one chapters are divided into sections on inflection, function, historical/area studies, mapping to other components, and morphophonology.
Theoretical Morphology provides a comprehensive and coherent treatment of contemporary morphological research and theory. A variety of theoretical par...
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458,76 zł |
Operations Research for Libraries and Information Agencies: Techniques for the Evaluation of Management Decision Alternatives
ISBN: 9780124245204 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. This book is intended for those in the library community with an understanding of library processes and a desire to actually make use of scientific management techniques. The emphasis is on presenting insights into which tool may be appropriate for particular problems, not on the isolated understanding of theoretical issues. It does not require an extensive mathematical background. It shows well-developed examples of solving library problems and features chapter summaries and questions for further study.
This book is intended for those in the library community with an understanding of library processes and a desire to actually make use of scientific ma...
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630,17 zł |
Language Contact in the American Deaf Community
ISBN: 9780124580404 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 161 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Started in 1986 as a project to simply describe the linguistic and sociolinguistic features of contact signing and to determine if this type of signing is aptly labeled a pidgin, this book blossomed in depth as the authors' data increased. The initial narrow goals of the book expanded and now project a much larger picture of language contact in the American deaf community."We were forced...to consider issues somewhat broader than those addressed by the (initial) project," writes Lucas in the preface. The result is a superbly-researched text, documenting the tireless efforts of Lucas and Valli...
Started in 1986 as a project to simply describe the linguistic and sociolinguistic features of contact signing and to determine if this type of signin...
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371,37 zł |
Information Services for Innovative Organizations
ISBN: 9780124650305 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This well-written guide for the design and management of information services is tailored to suit the needs of students in information services management, both in schools of library and information science and in schools of business management. It is also intended for practitioners, librarians and other managers - who provide information to services in business, industry, and government, either from within an organization or as external consultants and contractors. In addition this book will assist those managers of computer and communications facilities. This book offers a sound basis for...
This well-written guide for the design and management of information services is tailored to suit the needs of students in information services manage...
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1314,32 zł |
Understanding Reference Transactions: Transforming an Art into a Science
ISBN: 9780125877800 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. The goal of this book is to improve reference service in libraries and information centers, by improving the accuracy of answering capabilities. The authors provide a detailed analysis of the question-answering process and methods of evaluating the completeness, usefulness, user satisfaction, and accuracy of the information provided. This is an important contribution to library studies, and it will be a useful textbook for teaching references courses in library schools. Powerful research models help explain what is happening in the reference transaction. It encompasses a comprehensive review...
The goal of this book is to improve reference service in libraries and information centers, by improving the accuracy of answering capabilities. The a...
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506,28 zł |
Journalistic Ethics: Moral Responsibility in the Media
ISBN: 9780131825390 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Journalistic Ethics: Moral Responsibility in the Media examines the moral rights and responsibilities of journalists to provide what Dale Jacquette calls truth telling in the public interest. With 31 case studies from contemporary journalistic practice, the book demonstrates the immediate practical implications of ethics for working journalists as well as for those who read or watch the news. This case-study approach is paired with a theoretical grounding, and issues include freedom of the press, censorship and withholding sensitive information for the greater public good, protection of...
Journalistic Ethics: Moral Responsibility in the Media examines the moral rights and responsibilities of journalists to provide what Dale Jacquette ca...
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301,86 zł |
The Portable Renaissance Reader
ISBN: 9780140150612 / Angielski / Miękka / 1977 / 768 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Essential passages form the works of more than 100 fifteenth-and sixteenth-century thinkers and writers, including Erasmus, Cervantes, Boccaccio, Montaigne, Bodin, Durer, Machiavelli, Guicciardini, Rabelais, Leonardo, Cellini, Copernicus, Galileo, Savonarola, Luther, and Calvin.
Essential passages form the works of more than 100 fifteenth-and sixteenth-century thinkers and writers, including Erasmus, Cervantes, Boccaccio, Mont...
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133,78 zł |
An Exaltation of Larks: The Ultimate Edition
ISBN: 9780140170962 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An "exaltation of larks"? Yes! And a "leap of leopards", a "parliament of owls", an "ostentation of peacocks", a "smack of jellyfish", and a "murder of crows"! For those who have ever wondered if the familiar "pride of lions" and "gaggle of geese" were only the tip of a linguistic iceberg, James Lipton has provided the definitive answer: here are hundreds of equally pithy, and often poetic, terms unearthed by Mr. Lipton in the Books of Venery that were the constant study of anyone who aspired to the title of gentleman in the fifteenth century. When Mr. Lipton's painstaking research revealed...
An "exaltation of larks"? Yes! And a "leap of leopards", a "parliament of owls", an "ostentation of peacocks", a "smack of jellyfish", and a "murder o...
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86,31 zł |
One Continuous Mistake: Four Noble Truths for Writers
ISBN: 9780140195873 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This approach to the creative process of writing comes from a Zen Buddhist perspective. The classic Zen teachings help both novice and experienced writers to develop relaxed alertness, avoid distraction and develop a daily writing routine.
This approach to the creative process of writing comes from a Zen Buddhist perspective. The classic Zen teachings help both novice and experienced wri...
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103,57 zł |
The Runner's Literary Companion: Great Stories and Poems about Running
ISBN: 9780140253535 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A collection of the best writing on running for anyone who loves reading as much as running, or who just loves to run.
This inspiring collection of forty-eight short stories and poems brimming with courage, fear, pain, hope, and elation offers an intimate glimpse of the runner s art and heart. The very best writing about running is here, yet the selections aren t simply about the physical challenge of going just one more mile or knocking off another second. Here you ll find a love story, two war tales, a horror story, several murder mysteries, and a surreal comedy by such authors as... A collection of the best writing on running for anyone who loves reading as much as running, or who just loves to run.
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94,94 zł |
Sociolinguistics: An Introduction to Language and Society
ISBN: 9780140289213 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The way we talk is deeply influenced by our class, sex and ethnic background. It can also have a profound effect on how we are perceived by others. In this fully updated new edition of a classic text, Peter Trudgill explores the evidence - and the huge implications for social and educational policy.
The way we talk is deeply influenced by our class, sex and ethnic background. It can also have a profound effect on how we are perceived by others. In...
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59,20 zł |
On Teaching and Writing Fiction
ISBN: 9780142001479 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Stegner brings together eight previously uncollected essays--including four never-before-published pieces--on writing fiction and teaching creative writing. In this unique collection he addresses every aspect of fiction writing from the writer's vision to his or her audience to the recognizable truth it seeks finally to reveal.
Stegner brings together eight previously uncollected essays--including four never-before-published pieces--on writing fiction and teaching creative wr...
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103,57 zł |
The Story of English: Third Revised Edition
ISBN: 9780142002315 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Now revised, The Story of English is the first book to tell the whole story of the English language. Originally paired with a major PBS miniseries, this book presents a stimulating and comprehensive record of spoken and written English--from its Anglo-Saxon origins some two thousand years ago to the present day, when English is the dominant language of commerce and culture with more than one billion English speakers around the world. From Cockney, Scouse, and Scots to Gulla, Singlish, Franglais, and the latest African American slang, this sweeping history of the English language is the...
Now revised, The Story of English is the first book to tell the whole story of the English language. Originally paired with a major PBS miniser...
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129,47 zł |
Backstory: Inside the Business of News
ISBN: 9780143034636 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It is said that journalism is a vital public service as well as a business, but more and more it is also said that big media consolidation; noisy, instant opinions on cable and the Internet; and political -bias- are making a mockery of such high-minded ideals. In Backstory, Ken Auletta explores why one of America's most important industries is also among its most troubled. He travels from the proud New York Times, the last outpost of old-school family ownership, whose own personnel problems make headline news, into the depths of New York City's brutal tabloid wars and out across...
It is said that journalism is a vital public service as well as a business, but more and more it is also said that big media consolidation; noisy, ins...
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103,57 zł |
78 Reasons Why Your Book May Never Be Published and 14 Reasons Why It Just Might
ISBN: 9780143035657 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For the hundreds of thousands who buy writers guides every year, at last there s one that tells the ugly truth: writers who can t get published are usually making a lot of mistakes. This honest, often funny, book shows them how to identify their own missteps, stop listening to bad advice, and get to work. Drawing on his experience as founding editor of MacAdam/Cage, Pat Walsh gives writers what they need specific, straightforward feedback to help them overcome bad habits and bad luck. He avoids the optimistic, sometimes misleading directions often found in publishing how-to books and presents...
For the hundreds of thousands who buy writers guides every year, at last there s one that tells the ugly truth: writers who can t get published are us...
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103,57 zł |
Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite
ISBN: 9780143036838 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. What do suicidal pandas, doped-up rock stars, and a naked Pamela Anderson have in common? They re all a heck of a lot more interesting than reading about predicate nominatives and hyphens. June Casagrande knows this and has invented a whole new twist on the grammar book. Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies is a laugh-out-loud funny collection of anecdotes and essays on grammar and punctuation, as well as hilarious critiques of the self-appointed language experts.
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What do suicidal pandas, doped-up rock stars, and a naked Pamela Anderson have in common? They re all a heck of a lot more interesting than reading ab...
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103,57 zł |
Confessions of a High School Word Nerd: Increase Your SAT Verbal Score While Laughing Your Gluteus Off
ISBN: 9780143038368 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Effortlessly acquire an SAT vocabulary through hilarious high school essays
Every year, 9 million American students expend large amounts of time and energy preparing for proficiency and entrance exams like the SAT, ACT, PSAT, and SSAT with a heap of vocabulary flash cards and a fat volume of repetitive practice tests. Each one of them, along with their parents and teachers, wishes that there was a less painful way to prepare for test day. There is, and this book is the solution: a collection of ten well-written, entertaining essays by recent college-graduates-turned-writers that... Effortlessly acquire an SAT vocabulary through hilarious high school essays
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103,57 zł |
Buckley: The Right Word
ISBN: 9780156005692 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Buckley s provocative observations on the use and abuse of English, gathered for the first time in a single volume - a veritable cornucopia of language and logic that belongs in every library (Library Journal). Edited by Samuel S. Vaughan.
" Buckley s provocative observations on the use and abuse of English, gathered for the first time in a single volume - a veritable cornucopia of languag...
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94,90 zł |
The Lexicon: A Cornucopia of Wonderful Words for the Inquisitive Word Lover
ISBN: 9780156006163 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This boon to logophiles, culled from Buckley: The Right Word, presents the author s most erudite, outre, and interesting words - from prehensile and sciolist to rubric and histrionic - complete with definitions, examples, and usage notes. Introduction by Jesse Sheidlower; illustrations by Arnold Roth.
" This boon to logophiles, culled from Buckley: The Right Word, presents the author s most erudite, outre, and interesting words - from prehensile and s...
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64,69 zł |
Words Fail Me: What Everyone Who Writes Should Know about Writing
ISBN: 9780156010870 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A fun, focused guide to making words work for you
Whether you are working on the novel that's been in the back of your mind for years or simply facing an increasing demand to write well at work or school, the fact remains: we all write more often these days, be it reports, e-mails, blog posts, or texts. But despite the increase in written communication, the fundamentals of good writing have been lost. Grammar maven Patricia T. O'Conner comes to the rescue with the most painless, practical, and funny writing book ever written. In short, snappy chapters filled with crystal-clear examples,... A fun, focused guide to making words work for you
Whether you are working on the novel that's been in the back of your mind for years or simply fac... |
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69,01 zł |