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Stories of There and Then

Tales and memories from a 2013 intergenerational writing course

By: Arlene McAllister,Brigid Murphy,Dan Redmond,Kay Philpott,Kieran Dunne,Michael Morris,Michael O'Sullivan,Nuala Smith,Vera Hickey

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Stories of There and Then

Tales and memories from a 2013 intergenerational writing course

By: Arlene McAllister,Brigid Murphy,Dan Redmond,Kay Philpott,Kieran Dunne,Michael Morris,Michael O'Sullivan,Nuala Smith,Vera Hickey

Stories of There and Then is a collection of short memoir pieces written by senior writers, all participants in a memoir writing class. The stories all belong to a specific place and time –Ireland in the first half of the 20th century–, and deal with themes of loss, courage, and the beauty of everyday life through memories of childhood.

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Wooden House Publishing

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1910564001

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9781910564004

Documenting and Assessing Learning in Informal and Media-Rich Environments

By: Jay Lemke,Robert Lecusay,Michael Cole,Vera Michalchik

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Documenting and Assessing Learning in Informal and Media-Rich Environments

By: Jay Lemke,Robert Lecusay,Michael Cole,Vera Michalchik

Today educational activities take place not only in school but also in after-school programs, community centers, museums, and online communities and forums. The success and expansion of these out-of-school initiatives depends on our ability to document and assess what works and what doesn't in informal learning, but learning outcomes in these settings are often unpredictable. Goals are open-ended; participation is voluntary; and relationships, means, and ends are complex. This report charts the state of the art for learning assessment in informal settings, offering an extensive review of the literature, expert discussion on key topics, a suggested model for comprehensive assessment, and recommendations for good assessment practices.

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165

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MIT Press

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026252774X

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9780262527743

The Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Competence in a Study Abroad Context

By: Vera Regan,Martin Howard,Isabelle Lemée

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The Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Competence in a Study Abroad Context

By: Vera Regan,Martin Howard,Isabelle Lemée

Drawing on cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of a range of sociolinguistic variables in L2 French, this volume explores the relationship between 'study abroad' and the acquisition of sociolinguistic variation patterns by the advanced second language learner. Within a variationist paradigm, the findings illuminate a number of issues in relation to the role of speaker identity, gender, and L2 exposure and contact.

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180

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Multilingual Matters

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1847691560

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9781847691569

Language Practices and Identity Construction by Multilingual Speakers of French L2

The Acquisition of Sociostylistic Variation

By: Vera Regan

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Language Practices and Identity Construction by Multilingual Speakers of French L2

The Acquisition of Sociostylistic Variation

By: Vera Regan

Modern French Identities focuses on the French and Francophone writing of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, whose formal experiments and revisions of genre have combined to create an entirely new set of literary forms. The series publishes studies of individual authors and artists, comparative studies and interdisciplinary projects.

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200

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Peter Lang

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3039115693

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9783039115693

Desire Life Now

Overcoming Your Roots to Live the Desired Life

By: Vera Bonse

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Desire Life Now

Overcoming Your Roots to Live the Desired Life

By: Vera Bonse

Desire Life Now depicts my life struggles, my mistakes, my weaknesses, disappointments, betrayals, rejections, and dealings with family foundations; my triumphant journey in the discovery of myself, my purpose, and destiny in the midst of all the chaos. My overcoming to become the person I am today came with me finding God who is reflected and manifested in my image as I am his child.

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388

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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1098025717

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9781098025717

EigenArchitecture

By: Ludger Hovestadt,Vera Bühlmann

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EigenArchitecture

By: Ludger Hovestadt,Vera Bühlmann

This book shifts the frame of reference for today’s network- and structure oriented discussions from the applied computational tools of the 20th century back to the abstractness of 19th century mathematics. It re-reads George Boole, Richard Dedekind, Hermann Grassmann and Bernhard Riemann in a surprising manner. EigenArchitecture argues for a literacy of the digital, displacing the role of geometrical craftsmanship. Thus, architecture can be liberated from today’s economical, technocratic and bureaucratic straight jackets: from physicalistic optimization, sociological balancing, and ideological naturalizations. The book comprises a programmatic text on the role of technology in architecture, a philosophical text on the generic and on algebraic articulation, and six exemplary projects by postgraduate students in 2012 at the Chair for Computer Aided Architectural Design at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

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128

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Birkhäuser

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3990436279

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9783990436271

Comprehensive Cosmetic Skincare in Cosmetic Dermatology & Skincare Practice

By: Elena Hernandez-Jimenez,Vera Albanova

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Comprehensive Cosmetic Skincare in Cosmetic Dermatology & Skincare Practice

By: Elena Hernandez-Jimenez,Vera Albanova

Comprehensive skincare with the help of cosmetic products is the key to maintaining health and youthfulness. Even the most unproblematic skin needs care with properly selected cosmetic products that preserve the skin's own resources and help resist external influences that accelerate aging. Moreover, any popular injection or physical treatment can give maximum effect only if the patient consistently follows a professional and home-based skincare regimen. This is the responsibility of the skincare practitioner, who must be able to not only perform the cosmetic procedure but also help select and explain to the patient the importance of using suitable products for their skin type. This book is dedicated to a detailed review and justification of the importance of all stages of cosmetic care for different skin types — preparation with cleansers and exfoliants, intensive action aimed both at stimulating metabolic processes in the skin and solving various aesthetic problems (e.g., rejuvenation, whitening), and completion of procedures with active cosmetic agents, thereby consolidating the results and increasing the renewed skin's protective potential. We explain in detail how classic and modern products work and why they can be used in some cases and are undesirable in others. We further discuss the most common questions that arise from skincare practitioners and their patients. In addition, separate sections of the book are devoted to skincare for the eyelids, lips, and hands. The book is useful to all professionals working with skin — long-time specialists and novice skincare practitioners, dermatologists, and consultants in selling skincare products, as well as students. In addition, it is of interest to all people who want to have healthy and youthful skin — the publication will expand their understanding of what a beautician does, and why it is so important to provide the necessary care for the skin, and, of course, what exactly it should be.

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183

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Cosmetics & Medicine Publishing LLC

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1970196173

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9781970196177

The Bioarchaeology of Artificial Cranial Modifications

New Approaches to Head Shaping and its Meanings in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and Beyond

By: Vera Tiesler

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The Bioarchaeology of Artificial Cranial Modifications

New Approaches to Head Shaping and its Meanings in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and Beyond

By: Vera Tiesler

The artificial shaping of the skull vault of infants expresses fundamental aspects of crafted beauty, of identity, status and gender in a way no other body practice does. Combining different sources of information, this volume contributes new interpretations on Mesoamerican head shaping traditions. Here, the head with its outer insignia was commonly used as a metaphor for designating the “self” and personhood and, as part of the body, served as a model for the indigenous universe. Analogously, the outer “looks” of the head and its anatomical constituents epitomized deeply embedded worldviews and longstanding traditions. It is in this sense that this book explores both the quotidian roles and long-standing ideological connotations of cultural head modifications in Mesoamerica and beyond, setting new standards in the discussion of the scope, caveats, and future directions involved in this study. The systematic examination of Mesoamerican skeletal series fosters an explained review of indigenous cultural history through the lens of emblematic head models with their nuanced undercurrents of religious identity and ethnicity, social organization and dynamic cultural shift. The embodied expressions of change are explored in different geocultural settings and epochs, being most visible in the centuries surrounding the Maya collapse and following the cultural clash implied by the European conquest. These glimpses on the Mesoamerican past through head practices are novel, as is the general treatment of methodology and theoretical frames. Although it is anchored in physical anthropology and archaeology (specifically bioarchaeology), this volume also integrates knowledge derived from anatomy and human physiology, historical and iconographic sources, linguistics (polisemia) and ethnography. The scope of this work is rounded up by the transcription and interpretation of the many colonial eye witness accounts on indigenous head treatments in Mesoamerica and beyond.

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281

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461487609

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9781461487609

French in Canada

Language Issues

By: Maeve Conrick,Vera Regan

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French in Canada

Language Issues

By: Maeve Conrick,Vera Regan

This book analyses comprehensively the complex linguistic situation in Canada focusing particularly on the position of the French language at both national and provincial levels. Language issues in Canada are of great interest to linguists and sociolinguists for many reasons, not least because of Canada's policy of official bilingualism (Official Languages Act, 1969). The authors address a wide range of topics of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of French and Linguistics as well as readers with a specialist interest in Canadian or Quebec Studies. Individual chapters discuss the historical background to the presence of French in Canada, language policy and planning at federal and provincial levels, the changing linguistic landscape of Canada in the twenty-first century, the multilingual community, language contact, code-switching, immersion education and the language of the L2 speaker, the dynamics of French in Canada, language variation and change. The status of French in Canada is of relevance to all researchers with an interest in multilingualism, a crucial issue in this era of globalisation. The authors bring their expertise as linguists to bear on a subject which is of considerable importance internationally as well as within Canada.

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