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Thinking Sociolinguistically

How to Plan, Conduct and Present Your Research Project

By: Paul McPherron,Trudy Smoke

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Thinking Sociolinguistically

How to Plan, Conduct and Present Your Research Project

By: Paul McPherron,Trudy Smoke

This is a practical guide to planning, conducting and presenting a sociolinguistic research project. Written in an accessible and engaging style, the book begins with a brief review of what sociolinguists study and how they study it, before guiding students step-by-step through the research process. It presents a range of qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis methods, including surveys, interviews and corpora, supported by examples from both published researchers and student projects. Drawing on the experiences of their own students, the authors provide supportive guidance on common areas of difficulty, such as framing questions, selecting participants and interpreting data. The final part shows you how to organise and write up your findings. Chapters are further enriched with hands-on activities and discussion questions. This is an essential companion for budding sociolinguistic researchers with a desire to understand the linguistic landscapes around them and communicate their findings to others.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137605987

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Internationalizing Teaching, Localizing Learning

An Examination of English Language Teaching Reforms and English Use in China

By: Paul McPherron

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An Examination of English Language Teaching Reforms and English Use in China

By: Paul McPherron

Based on ethnographic and policy data collected over a ten-year span at a university in the People’s Republic of China, this book analyses the history of English Language Teaching (ELT) polices in Chinese higher education. The book uses the university as a lens in which to investigate the creative imaginations and divergent (re)appropriations of teaching methods, learning materials, and language use in the Chinese ELT context. Book chapters move beyond mere descriptions of tensions and point to the local understandings and practices of English teachers (both local and foreign) and students. Working together, these teachers and students are constantly articulating new social and political conditions and meanings outside and inside given discourses and traditions of ELT. The book’s main argument is that these multiple stakeholders must be given a more prominent role in shaping policy and curriculum at universities and other English language contexts around the world.

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Springer

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1137519541

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9781137519542

Reconstructing Archaeological Sites

Understanding the Geoarchaeological Matrix

By: Panagiotis Karkanas,Paul Goldberg

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Reconstructing Archaeological Sites

Understanding the Geoarchaeological Matrix

By: Panagiotis Karkanas,Paul Goldberg

A guide to the systematic understanding of the geoarchaeological matrix Reconstructing Archaeological Sites offers an important text that puts the focus on basic theoretical and practical aspects of depositional processes in an archaeological site. It contains an in-depth discussion on the role of stratigraphy that helps determine how deposits are organised in time and space. The authors — two experts in the field — include the information needed to help recognise depositional systems, processes and stratigraphic units that aid in the interpreting the stratigraphy and deposits of a site in the field. The book is filled with practical tools, numerous illustrative examples, drawings and photos as well as compelling descriptions that help visualise depositional processes and clarify how these build the stratigraphy of a site. Based on the authors’ years of experience, the book offers a holistic approach to the study of archaeological deposits that spans the broad fundamental aspects to the smallest details. This important guide: Offers information and principles for interpreting natural and anthropogenic sediments and physical processes in sites Provides a framework for reconstructing the history of a deposit and the site Outlines the fundamental principles of site formation processes Explores common misconceptions about what constitutes a deposit Presents a different approach for investigating archaeological stratigraphy based on sedimentary principles Written for archaeologists and geoarchaeologists at all levels of expertise as well as senior level researchers, Reconstructing Archaeological Sites offers a guide to the theory and practice of how stratigraphy is produced and how deposits can be organised in time and space.

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John Wiley & Sons

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111901641X

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9781119016410

The British Palaeolithic

Human Societies at the Edge of the Pleistocene World

By: Paul Pettitt,Mark White

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The British Palaeolithic

Human Societies at the Edge of the Pleistocene World

By: Paul Pettitt,Mark White

The British Palaeolithic provides the first academic synthesis of the entire British Palaeolithic, from the earliest occupation (currently understood to be around 980,000 years ago) to the end of the Ice Age. Landscape and ecology form the canvas for an explicitly interpretative approach aimed at understanding the how different hominin societies addressed the issues of life at the edge of the Pleistocene world. Commencing with a consideration of the earliest hominin settlement of Europe, the book goes on to examine the behavioural, cultural and adaptive repertoires of the first human occupants of Britain from an ecological perspective. These themes flow throughout the book as it explores subsequent occupational pulses across more than half a million years of Pleistocene prehistory, which saw Homo heidelbergensis, the Neanderthals and ultimately Homo sapiens walk these shores. The British Palaeolithic fills a major gap in teaching resources as well as in research by providing a current synthesis of the latest research on the period. This book represents the culmination of 40 years combined research in this area by two well known experts in the field, and is an important new text for students of British archaeology as well as for students and researchers of the continental Palaeolithic period.

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Routledge

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1136496777

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Practical and Theoretical Geoarchaeology

By: Paul Goldberg,Richard I. Macphail,Chris Carey,Yijie Zhuang

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Practical and Theoretical Geoarchaeology

By: Paul Goldberg,Richard I. Macphail,Chris Carey,Yijie Zhuang

Practical and Theoretical Geoarchaeology, Second Edition, provides an invaluable and vastly updated overview of geoarchaeology and how it can be used effectively in the study of archaeological sites and contexts. Taking a pragmatic and functional approach, this book presents: a fundamental, broad-based perspective of the essentials of modern geoarchaeology in order to demonstrate the breadth of the approaches and the depth of the problems that it can tackle. the rapid advances made in the area in recent years, but also gives the reader a firm grasp of conventional approaches. covers traditional topics with the emphasis on landscapes, as well as anthropogenic deposits and site formation processes and their investigation. provides guidelines for the presentation of field and laboratory methods and the reporting of geoarchaeological results. essential reading for archaeology undergraduate and graduate students, practicing archaeologists and geoscientists who need to understand and apply geoarchaeological methodologies, and help foster the dialog among diverse researchers investigating archaeological sites. Practical and Theoretical Geoarchaeology, Second Edition, is an ideal resource for undergraduate and graduate students in archaeology, and a great practical reference for practicing archaeologists and geoscientists who need to understand and apply geoarchaeological methodologies internationally.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119413192

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9781119413196

Rewriting Nature

The Future of Genome Editing and How to Bridge the Gap Between Law and Science

By: Paul Enríquez

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Rewriting Nature

The Future of Genome Editing and How to Bridge the Gap Between Law and Science

By: Paul Enríquez

Rewriting Nature is a cogent, riveting interdisciplinary exploration of the law, science, and policy of emerging genome-editing technology.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108475701

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Bitter Crop

The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year

By: Paul Alexander

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Bitter Crop

The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year

By: Paul Alexander

A revelatory look at the tumultuous life of a jazz legend and American cultural icon In the first biography of Billie Holiday in more than two decades, Paul Alexander—author of heralded lives of Sylvia Plath and J. D. Salinger—gives us an unconventional portrait of arguably America’s most eminent jazz singer. He shrewdly focuses on the last year of her life—with relevant flashbacks to provide context—to evoke and examine the persistent magnificence of Holiday’s artistry when it was supposed to have declined, in the wake of her drug abuse, relationships with violent men, and run-ins with the law. During her lifetime and after her death, Billie Holiday was often depicted as a down-on-her-luck junkie severely lacking in self-esteem. Relying on interviews with people who knew her, and new material unearthed in private collections and institutional archives, Bitter Crop—a reference to the last two words of Strange Fruit, her moving song about lynching—limns Holiday as a powerful, ambitious woman who overcame her flaws to triumph as a vital figure of American popular music.

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Knopf

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059331591X

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9780593315910

Applied Soils and Micromorphology in Archaeology

By: Richard I. Macphail,Paul Goldberg

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Applied Soils and Micromorphology in Archaeology

By: Richard I. Macphail,Paul Goldberg

This book uniquely focuses on all aspects of archaeological soil micromorphology, based upon the authors' joint sixty years of worldwide studies.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107011388

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Homo Sapiens Rediscovered

The Scientific Revolution Rewriting Our Origins

By: Paul Pettitt

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Homo Sapiens Rediscovered

The Scientific Revolution Rewriting Our Origins

By: Paul Pettitt

Who are we? How do scientists define Homo sapiens, and how does our species differ from the extinct hominins that came before us? This illuminating book explores how the latest scientific advances, especially in genetics, are revolutionizing our understanding of human evolution. Paul Pettitt reveals the extraordinary story of how our ancestors adapted to unforgiving and relentlessly changing climates, leading to remarkable innovations in art, technology and society that we are only now beginning to comprehend. Drawing on twenty-five years of experience in the field, Paul Pettitt immerses readers in the caves and rockshelters that provide evidence of our African origins, dispersals to the far reaches of Eurasia, Australasia and ultimately the Americas. Popular accounts of the evolution of Homo sapiens emphasize biomolecular research, notably genetics, but this book also draws from the wealth of information from specific excavations and artefacts, including the authors own investigations into the origins of art and how it evolved over its first 25,000 years. He focuses in particular on behaviour, using archaeological evidence to bring an intimate perspective on lives as they were lived in the almost unimaginably distant past.

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Thames & Hudson

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0500777497

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9780500777497

Modeling Atmospheric and Oceanic Flows

Insights from Laboratory Experiments and Numerical Simulations

By: Thomas von Larcher,Paul D. Williams

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Modeling Atmospheric and Oceanic Flows

Insights from Laboratory Experiments and Numerical Simulations

By: Thomas von Larcher,Paul D. Williams

Modeling Atmospheric and Oceanic Flows: Insights from Laboratory Experiments and Numerical Simulations provides a broad overview of recent progress in using laboratory experiments and numerical simulations to model atmospheric and oceanic fluid motions. This volume not only surveys novel research topics in laboratory experimentation, but also highlights recent developments in the corresponding computational simulations. As computing power grows exponentially and better numerical codes are developed, the interplay between numerical simulations and laboratory experiments is gaining paramount importance within the scientific community. The lessons learnt from the laboratory–model comparisons in this volume will act as a source of inspiration for the next generation of experiments and simulations. Volume highlights include: Topics pertaining to atmospheric science, climate physics, physical oceanography, marine geology and geophysics Overview of the most advanced experimental and computational research in geophysics Recent developments in numerical simulations of atmospheric and oceanic fluid motion Unique comparative analysis of the experimental and numerical approaches to modeling fluid flow Modeling Atmospheric and Oceanic Flows will be a valuable resource for graduate students, researchers, and professionals in the fields of geophysics, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, climate science, hydrology, and experimental geosciences.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118855930

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9781118855935

Internationalizing Teaching, Localizing Learning

An Examination of English Language Teaching Reforms and English Use in China

By: Paul McPherron

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An Examination of English Language Teaching Reforms and English Use in China

By: Paul McPherron

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Springer

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1137519541

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The Time of My Life

By: Paul C. Hedberg,Randall Anderson

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The Time of My Life

By: Paul C. Hedberg,Randall Anderson

Biography of Paul C. Hedberg

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Thinking Sociolinguistically

Thinking Sociolinguistically

Internationalizing Teaching, Localizing Learning

Internationalizing Teaching, Localizing Learning

Reconstructing Archaeological Sites

Reconstructing Archaeological Sites

The British Palaeolithic

The British Palaeolithic

Practical and Theoretical Geoarchaeology

Practical and Theoretical Geoarchaeology

Rewriting Nature

Rewriting Nature

Bitter Crop

Bitter Crop

Applied Soils and Micromorphology in Archaeology

Applied Soils and Micromorphology in Archaeology

Homo Sapiens Rediscovered

Homo Sapiens Rediscovered

Modeling Atmospheric and Oceanic Flows

Modeling Atmospheric and Oceanic Flows

Internationalizing Teaching, Localizing Learning

Internationalizing Teaching, Localizing Learning

The Time of My Life

The Time of My Life

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