ENCICLOPEDIA VISUAL DE LOS DEPORTES (Color-Libro+CDROM)


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Hoy en día las actividades deportivas han despertado gran interés en muchas personas, de modo que se han convertido en una parte importante de nuestra vida. La Enciclopedia visual de los deportes es la obra de consulta perfecta para cualquier persona interesada en los deportes, incluso para aquellos que lo practican o son simplemente espectadores consuetudinarios de alguna disciplina deportiva. En esta obra el lector encontrará toda la información que necesite saber sobre el particular; desde datos históricos sobre algún acontecimiento deportivo, hasta reglamentos, técnicas y tácticas deportivas, así como marcas mundiales e incluso habilidades que se requieren para desarrollar algún deporte, incluyendo el equipamiento. Además, el lector encontrará programas de entrenamiento atlético, así como la preparación psicológica que necesita para alcanzar la excelencia y un máximo rendimiento. En un solo volumen el lector encontrará toda la información disponible sobre todos los deportes, incluso los nuevos y que probablemente le gustaría conocer. Desde el jockey hasta el patinaje artístico, desde el canotaje hasta el paracaidismo, el mundo entero del deporte en nuestras manos. Contenido del CD ROM - Más de 100 animaciones - Imágenes en tres dimensiones - 298 disciplinas Olímpicas




New Insights in the History of Interpreting


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Who mediated intercultural exchanges in 9th-century East Asia or in early voyages to the Americas? Did the Soviets or the Americans invent simultaneous interpreting equipment? How did the US government train its first Chinese interpreters? Why is it that Taiwanese interpreters were executed for Japanese war crimes? Bringing together papers from an international symposium held at Rikkyo University in 2014 along with two select pieces, this volume pursues such questions in an eclectic exploration of the practice of interpreting, the recruitment of interpreters, and the challenges interpreters have faced in diplomacy, colonization, religion, war, and occupation. It also introduces innovative use of photography, artifacts, personal journals, and fiction as tools for the historical study of interpreters and interpreting. Targeted at practitioners, scholars, and students of interpreting, translation, and history, the new insights presented in the ten original articles aim to spark discussion and research on the vital roles interpreters have played in intercultural communication through history. Now Open Access as part of the Knowledge Unlatched 2017 Backlist Collection.




A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish


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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.




The House of the Governor


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Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques


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This convenient, money-saving package includes Potter and Perry's Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques, 7th edition, and Mosby's Nursing Video Skills 3.0 - Student Online Version.




The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms


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Searchable database of over 1,900 terms used in the wide variety of visual media that makes up the art world.




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The Columbia Gazetteer of the World: A to G


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A geographical encyclopedia of world place names contains alphabetized entries with detailed statistics on location, name pronunciation, topography, history, and economic and cultural points of interest.




Interpreting


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This volume is concerned with the profession and discipline of interpretation. The range of perspectives presented in this collection of essays exemplifies the rich diversity of the profession as we know it today. Interpreting has been known to exist through the ages, though it was not necessarily considered a profession as such. We can attribute the current standing of the practice, in large part, to the historical circumstances which determined it and the efforts of those who responded to the need for communication within these circumstances. In the same way, our anticipation of future needs and the measures we are taking to prepare our next generation of interpreters to meet them will undoubtedly shape the direction our profession takes in the 21st century. The contributors to this volume are practicing interpreters, teachers of interpretation, and administrators.




Keys to the 21st Century


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Since September 1997, UNESCO's Analysis and Forecasting Office has been arranging a series of "Twenty-First Century Talks," each of which brings together two or three leading scientists, intellectuals, creators or decision-makers from all parts of the world. The Office also organized the first "Twenty-First Century Dialogues" in September 1998, in which 60 international participants took part in discussions on the general theme of "Will the Twenty-First Century Take Place?" This text represents an anthology of the contributions made to these future-oriented discussions, up to the ninth session of the "Talks" held in June 1999. Topics include population, biotechnologies, pollution, energy, the food supply, culture, pluralism, education, democracy, human rights, women, childhood, work, urban living, globalization, poverty, and human conflicts. No subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR