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This book provides a practical introduction to Business English for new and experienced teachers, and deals with a range of issues from needs analysis and course planning to testing and evaluation.

Travel narratives abound in French cinema since the 1980s. This study delineates recurrent travel tropes in films such as departures and returns, the chase, the escape, nomadic wandering, interior voyages, the unlikely travel, rituals, pilgrimages, migrants' narratives and emergencies, women's travel, and healing narratives.

In Louisiana, every bite of food and each turn of phrase is an expression of cultural literacy. Correctly pronouncing "Tchoupitoulas" or "Atchafalaya," knowing the difference between the first Governor Long and the second one, being able to spot the artwork of Caroline Durieux,...

Recovering the history of the revolutionary Jewish tradition Jewish radicals manned the barricades on the avenues of Petrograd and the alleys of the Warsaw ghetto; they were in the vanguard of those resisting Franco and the Nazis. They originated in Yiddishland, a vast expanse of Eastern Europe...

Foreign aid and overseas military intervention have been important and controversial political topics for over a decade. The government’s controversial target to spend 0.7 per cent of national income on foreign aid has been widely welcomed by some, but strongly criticised by others. Furthermore,...

Dès sa deuxième représentation, Le Barbier de Séville étourdit Paris de jeunesse et de gaieté. Un vieux tuteur difficile à duper, une pupille fine mouche, un aristocrate prétentieux et, pour mener la danse, le valet le plus insolent, rusé et spirituel de notre répertoire. Un provocateur...

Elle est professeur de théâtre, il est son élève. Elle a un mari, trois enfants adolescents, une vie apparemment rangée de bourgeoise de province. Elle aime les grands auteurs, il veut devenir écrivain. Elle aime les mini-jupes, il aime ses jambes. Elle le trouve brillant, il veut l’épouser. Elle...

This pragmatic guide spells out how to use motivational interviewing (MI) to have productive conversations about behavior change with adolescents and young adults in any clinical context. Filled with vivid examples, sample dialogues, and "dos and don'ts," the book shows how conducting MI...

«Lentement mais assurément, alors que je voulais écrire sur les autres, je n’ai pu faire autrement que de me retrouver sur le chemin du retour sur soi. Tous les chemins y mènent quand on a eu ou qu’on a un cancer. J’ai cette chance immense d’avoir reçu en cadeau à ma naissance la capacité...

If you're among the millions of grandparents raising grandchildren today, you need information, support, and practical guidance you can count on to keep your family strong. This is the book for you. Learn effective strategies to help you cope with the stresses of parenting the second time around,...

"Son existence fut plus qu'un roman" Née en 1778, Marie-Thérèse Charlotte de France, fille de Louis XVI et Marie-Antoinette, avait un destin tout tracé, à commencer par une enfance heureuse et dorée au Château de Versailles, régie par une éducation stricte et raffinée. Mais les...

Media Management: A Casebook Approach provides a detailed consideration of the manager’s role in today’s media organizations, highlighting critical skills and responsibilities. Using media-based cases that promote critical thinking and problem-solving, this text addresses topics of key concern...

Paris, Septembre 2054. Un dessinateur de BD raté découvre Il Pennello, un pinceau qui donne du talent à celui qui l'utilise. Il possède également le pouvoir de donner la vie à ce qui est dessiné. Mais jouer avec la vie, n'est-ce pas jouer avec le feu ? En cette année 2054, Anton, dessinateur...

Marc Chagall was born into a strict Jewish family for whom the ban on representations of the human figure had the weight of dogma. A failure in the entrance examination for the Stieglitz School did not stop Chagall from later joining that famous school founded by the Imperial Society for the Encouragement...