Author : Mia Couto
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 17,83 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
An extraordinary portrait of an Africa country after a civil war.
Author : Filipe Delfim Santos
Publisher : Springer
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 31,17 MB
Release : 2017-01-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9463007415
"In this book, the author contributes to genre theory, space theory (suggesting allotopia for heterotopia, or describing hypertopia versus hypotopia), the study of authorship, the formation and education novels, and develops such concepts as Leidensgeschichte or the Telemachus complex. Based on Portuguese writer José Régio’s novel A Drop of Blood (1945), he studies the cultural meaning of the immersion paradigm in education and some historical and anthropological features of boarding schools and other institutions of confinement. This book is of interest to those studying the philosophy of education, masculinist nineteenth-century educational theories—in particular about masculine friendships—the place of the Bildungsroman in genre theory, Foucault’s ideas on ‘other spaces’, and the implications of narcissism, melancholia, and nostalgia for the trauma narrative."
Author : Mark Davies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 950 pages
File Size : 30,61 MB
Release : 2007-11-29
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 113411091X
An invaluable tool for learners of Portuguese, this Frequency Dictionary provides a list of the 5000 most commonly used words in the language. Based on a twenty-million-word collection of Portuguese (taken from both Portuguese and Brazilian sources), which includes both written and spoken material, this dictionary provides detailed information for each of the 5000 entries, including the English equivalent, a sample sentence, and an indication of register and dialect variation. Users can access the top 5000 words either through the main frequency listing or through an alphabetical index. Throughout the frequency listing there are also thrity thematically-organized ‘boxed’ lists of the top words from a variety of key topics such as sports, weather, clothing and relations. An engaging and highly useful resource, A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese will enable students of all levels to get the most out of their study of Portuguese vocabulary. Former CD content is now available to access at www.routledge.com/9780415419970 as support material. Designed for use by corpus and computational linguists it provides the full text in a format that researchers can process and turn into suitable lists for their own research work.
Author : Édouard Glissant
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 29,8 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780472066292
A major work by this prominent Caribbean author and philosopher, available for the first time in English
Author : Paul Cloke
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 45,59 MB
Release : 2006-01-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780761973324
'This is a unique interpretation of rural issues that will become essential reference for students, scholars, politicians, developers and rural activists...' - Imre Kovach, President, European Society for Rural Sociology, Research director, Institute for Political Sciences, Budapest
Author : Carlos Augusto Montalto Jesus
Publisher :
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 16,56 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Macao
ISBN :
Author : Edith Grossman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 18,57 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300163037
"Why Translation Matters argues for the cultural importance of translation and for a more encompassing and nuanced appreciation of the translator's role. As the acclaimed translator Edith Grossman writes in her introduction, "My intention is to stimulate a new consideration of an area of literature that is too often ignored, misunderstood, or misrepresented." For Grossman, translation has a transcendent importance: "Translation not only plays its important traditional role as the means that allows us access to literature originally written in one of the countless languages we cannot read, but it also represents a concrete literary presence with the crucial capacity to ease and make more meaningful our relationships to those with whom we may not have had a connection before. Translation always helps us to know, to see from a different angle, to attribute new value to what once may have been unfamiliar. As nations and as individuals, we have a critical need for that kind of understanding and insight. The alternative is unthinkable"."--Jacket.
Author : Mark Davies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1457 pages
File Size : 21,35 MB
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1134874537
A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish has been fully revised and updated, including over 500 new entries, making it an invaluable resource for students of Spanish. Based on a new web-based corpus containing more than 2 billion words collected from 21 Spanish-speaking countries, the second edition of A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish provides the most expansive and up-to-date guidelines on Spanish vocabulary. Each entry is accompanied with an illustrative example and full English translation. The Dictionary provides a rich resource for language teaching and curriculum design, while a separate CD version provides the full text in a tab-delimited format ideally suited for use by corpus and computational linguistics. With entries arranged both by frequency and alphabetically, A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish enables students of all levels to get the most out of their study of vocabulary in an engaging and efficient way.
Author : Edward Granville Browne
Publisher :
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 46,27 MB
Release : 2013-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781258657147
The FitzPatrick Lectures Delivered At The College Of Physicians In November 1919 And November 1920.
Author : Robert Stickgold
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 48,49 MB
Release : 2010-05-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0123757223
Sleep is the natural state of bodily rest, common to all mammals and birds and also seen in many reptiles, amphibians and fish. For most species, regular sleep is essential for survival, yet the specific purposes of sleep are still only partly clear and are the subject of intense research. This volume is comprised of the editors' selection of the most relevant articles on sleep from the Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, resulting in the first comprehensive collection of introductory articles on the neuroscience of sleep. Articles explore sleep's impact on neural functioning, sleep disorders, the relation between sleep and other clinical disorders, a look at sleep from a developmental perspective, and more. - Chapters offer impressive scope with topics addressing neural functioning, disorders, development, and more, carefully selected by one of the most preeminent sleep researchers - Richly illustrated in full color with over 100 figures - Contributors represent the most outstanding scholarship in the field, with each chapter providing fully vetted and reliable expert knowledge
