Watch your mouth é um dicionário de vulgarismos, insultos, xingamentos, palavrões e o caramba a quatro, em inglês. Com definições explícitas, o dicionário vai satisfazer a sua curiosidade e ajudá-lo a entender significados reais sem asteriscos ou beeps! Este é um dicionário que traz todas aquelas palavras e expressões que você gostaria de saber o que significam, mas não tem coragem de perguntar ao seu professor ou simplesmente não as encontra em dicionários comuns.
Mark Wilson presents a series of explorations of our strategies for understanding the world. "Physics avoidance" refers to the fact that we frequently cannot reason about nature in the straightforward manner we anticipate, but must seek alternative policies that allow us to address the questions we want answered in a tractable way. Within both science and everyday life, we find ourselves relying upon thought processes that reach useful answers in opaque and roundabout manners. Conceptual innovators are often puzzled by the techniques they develop, when they stumble across reasoning patterns that are easy to implement but difficult to justify. But simple techniques frequently rest upon complex foundations—a young magician learns how to execute a card-guessing trick without understanding how its progressive steps squeeze in on a proper answer. As we collectively improve our inferential skills in this gradually evolving manner, we often wander into unfamiliar explanatory landscapes in which simple words encode physical information in complex and unanticipated ways. Like our juvenile conjurer, we fail to recognize the true strategic rationales underlying our achievements and may turn instead to preposterous rationalizations for our policies. We have learned how to reach better conclusions in a more fruitful way, but we remain baffled by our own successes. At its best, philosophical reflection illuminates the natural developmental processes that generate these confusions and explicates their complexities. But current thinking within philosophy of science and language works to opposite effect by relying upon simplistic conceptions of "cause", "law of nature", "possibility", and "reference" that ignore the strategic complexities in which these concepts become entangled within real life usage. To avoid these distortions, better descriptive tools are required in philosophy. The nine new essays within this volume illustrate this need for finer discriminations through a range of revealing cases, of both historical and contemporary significance.
Teaching Social Studies to Multilingual Learners in High School: Connecting Inquiry and Visual Literacy to Promote Progressive Learning explores effective strategies for teaching social studies to diverse learners. The centerpiece is a visual literacy framework that integrates inquiry, primary source analysis, and visual literacy to provide a progressive learning sequence to meet the varied needs of learners. The visual literacy framework brings together related aspects of progressive, sequential learning into a cohesive whole. It has an adaptable structure that allows teachers to customize learning activities to meet individual student needs. The progressive learning sequence has varied modes of learning that help teachers move students from basic to proficient to advanced levels of support. The book is organized into two related parts. The first three chapters provide important content and context on social studies, multilingual learner education, and the visual literacy framework. The remaining chapters discuss civics, U.S. history, world history, geography, and economics and social sciences. Each chapter defines the subject area, briefly traces its development as a high school subject over time, and then offers classroom exercises for using the visual literacy framework in these disciplines. The exercises are plotted so that differing levels of the visual literacy framework are explored throughout the book.
Mais de 100 piadas em inglês que colocam o humor a serviço da aprendizagem. Glossário específico com tradução para o português. Abordagem lexical com destaque para expressões, expressões idiomáticas, expressões adverbiais e gírias em inglês. Para brasileiros que querem aprender inglês de forma divertida.
State-by-State Guide to Commercial Real Estate Leases is the only reference that cuts through the tangle of state laws and gathers togetherand—in one two volume setand—the essential information you need to know. It's all presented in a unique instant-access format that's quick and easy to use. With the new Sixth Edition of State-by-State Guide to Commercial Real Estate Leases, your days of fumbling through multiple titles for the valuable information you need are over. Built around 51 comprehensive charts, State-by-State Guide to Commercial Real Estate Leases reviews the relevant statutes in each state that regulate every facet of commercial real estate leasing. It gives you the statutes themselves, plus commentary explaining how they are used, case law, citations of authority, and more. Whether you're in private practice or part of an in-house legal group, this ready reference to relevant statutes is sure to help you: Cut down research time Spot possible problems early and correct or work around them Avoid costly and embarrassing mistakes Protect yourself, your company, and/or your clients at every step State-by-State Guide to Commercial Real Estate Leases is written by the top real estate lawyers in each stateand—pre-eminent practitionersand—so you can be sure itand’s authoritative and accurate. Each expert contributor has researched over 100 specific aspects of commercial real estate leasingand—from assignments and subleases to tenant's obligations and attorneys' feesand—to bring you the most complete and up-to-date coverage available anywhere today.
Destinada a estudantes de língua inglesa e àqueles que utilizam esse idioma em seu ambiente de trabalho ou lazer, esta obra apresenta os erros mais cometidos em inglês pelos brasileiros e traz as alternativas corretas ou mais adequadas para cada situação. O erro é apresentado nesta obra dos professores Mark G. Nash e Willians Ramos Ferreira, não como algo negativo, mas como um fenômeno inerente ao processo de aprendizagem. Com mais de 400 verbetes, o Michaelis Dicionário de Erros Comuns do Inglês traz exemplos de uso, sempre acompanhados da tradução em português, além de uma explicação clara e objetiva sobre o erro, a qual ajudará o leitor a memorizar o problema e a não mais cometê-lo.
Conhecer os phrasal verbs é essencial para o domínio do inglês, pois eles são parte integrante, na língua escrita ou falada, do discurso formal e informal desse idioma. Embora haja milhares de phrasal verbse surjam novos a todo momento, principalmente nas áreas de informática, de ciências e na linguagem coloquial, eles raramente constam dos dicionários de língua, apesar de serem tema relevante e específico do inglês. Por isso, o Michaelis Dicionário de Phrasal Verbs foi especialmente preparado para brasileiros que estudam esse idioma e para aqueles que o utilizam em leitura e comunicação, inclusive na atividade profissional. Elaborado pelos professores Clóvis Gregorim e Mark G. Nash, este dicionário abrange mais de 1.800 phrasal verbs usados frequentemente na comunicação do dia a dia, indicando sua transitividade e dando traduções ou equivalências claras e objetivas. Além disso, traz exemplos contextualizados que facilitam a compreensão desses verbos em revistas, jornais, romances, letras de músicas, filmes, programas de televisão etc.
An introduction to the theory and practice of optometry in one succinct volume. From the fundamental science of vision to clinical techniques and the management of common ocular conditions, this book encompasses the essence of contemporary optometric practice. Now in full colour and featuring over 400 new illustrations, this popular text which will appeal to both students and practitioners wishing to keep up to date has been revised significantly. The new edition incorporates recent advances in technology and a complete overview of clinical procedures to improve and update everyday patient care. Contributions from well-known international experts deliver a broad perspective and understanding of current optometric practice. A useful aid for students and the newly qualified practitioner, while providing a rapid reference guide for the more experienced clinician. Comprehensive and logical coverage detailing the full spectrum of optometric practice in one volume. Succinctly covers the basics of anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, investigative techniques and clinical management of common eye conditions to provide key topics likely to be met in clinical practice. Discusses the full range of refractive correction, from spectacles and contact lenses to surgical treatment. Includes chapters on the management of special populations, including paediatric, elderly, low vision and special needs patients. Heavily illustrated throughout with key diagrams and images to support the text. Complete restructuring of contents into three sections: basic sciences, clinical techniques and patient management. Full colour throughout with over 400 illustrations. Many new chapters reflecting the changes in optometric practice and technology over the last 20 years, including new imaging and diagnostic procedures and methods of ocular treatment and refractive correction. Now includes internationally renowned authors from around the world. Details a full range of refractive and management approaches for patient care.
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