Sachs, Wolfgang:The Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge As Power
- Taschenbuch 2009, ISBN: 9781856490436
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Paperback / softback. New. English L2 Reading: Getting to the Bottom uses research-based insights to examine bottom-up skills in reading English as a second language. This fourth edition… Mehr…
Paperback / softback. New. English L2 Reading: Getting to the Bottom uses research-based insights to examine bottom-up skills in reading English as a second language. This fourth edition clearly presents core concepts alongside their practical applications to teaching contexts, with updated research findings, a new focus on metalinguistic awareness, and new resources for students. The text's pedagogical features help readers connect linguistic details and psycholinguistic theory with practical explanations and teaching suggestions. Pre-reading Questions challenge readers to analyze their own experiences. Study Guide Questions allow readers to review, discuss, and assess their knowledge. Discussion Questions elaborate on themes in each chapter, while the new Language Awareness Activities help develop metalinguistic awareness. Three Appendices provide tables that list the graphemes and the phonemes of English, as well as a brand-new dictionary pronunciation guide. New to the Fourth Edition: Substantially revised and updated research on linguistics New, evidence-based models on the reading process Language Awareness Activities that highlight metalinguistic awareness Word study examples in each chapter For teachers, teacher trainers, reading researchers, or anyone interested in teaching reading, this popular, comprehensive, myth-debunking text provides clear and practical guidance towards effectively supplementing top-down teaching approaches with bottom-up reading strategies., 6, New York, N.Y.: Random House, 1978. First Edition [stated]. Hardcover. Fair/1-inch tear in the dust jacket and into the spine. xxx, 845, [5] pages. Ex-library with the usual library markings. Stamp on fep. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. Tear/hole in DJ spine and into the book's spine. Includes bibliography and index Explains the origin of each term, how and by whom and for what purposes it has been used or twisted, as well as its perceived and real significance. Revised and updated, with scores of completely new entries added to produce an indispensable guide to the political language being used and abused in America today. Readers will come away not only with a fuller understanding of particular words but also a richer knowledge of how politics works, and fails to work, in America. Written by William Safire, the language maven we most readily turn to for clarity, guidance, and penetrating, and lacerating wit. The New Language of Politics (1968), developed into what Zimmer called Safire's "magnum opus," Safire's Political Dictionary. William Lewis Safir (December 17, 1929 - September 27, 2009), better known as William Safire, was an author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He was a long-time syndicated political columnist for The New York Times and the author of "On Language" in The New York Times Magazine, a column on popular etymology, new or unusual usages, and other language-related topics from its inception. This widely acclaimed study of the words and phrases that make up the language of American politics has now been completely revised and greatly expanded, bringing a total of almost half a million words. To lexicographers, the era of the Watergate vocabulary was a Golden Age of Political Coinage--bringing words like Cover-Up, Stonewalling, Deep-Six, and Twisting Slowly, Slowly in the Wind into the language. This latest edition follow the emergence of the latest -isms--Racism, Elitism, and Sexism--and tracks the origin of Pie in the Sky to labor legend Joe Hill. With wit and scholarship, columnist Safire defines and explores the origins of term that have burst into the American language through politics., Random House, 1978, 2, Washington DC: United States War Department, 1945. Later printing [1952]. Wraps. Very good. [2], 116, [2] pages. Illustrations. References. Cover and pages have minor wear and soiling. This manual reflects the state of knowledge, the state of practice, and the state of tool technology at the end of the Second World War. This copy, printed in 1952, demonstrates that this was also the case during the height of the Korean War. This manual is published for the information of arms and services charged with care of hand tools. It is intended to serve as a guide and ready source of definite information for personnel having some previous knowledge in the operations covered. The efficiency of a mechanic and the tools he uses are determined to a great extent by the condition in which that mechanic keeps the tools. Likewise a mechanic can be judged by the manner in which he handles and cares for tools. Micrometers, or any other precision tool, must be handled with a careful, delicate touch and precision, commensurate with the extreme accuracy with which these tools are capable of measuring. There is a place for every tool and he keeps each tool in its place. He carefully wipes his tools clean and dry before he places them in the tool box. If he does not expect to use a tool again for some time he lubricates it to prevent rusting. NOTE: When storing tools under conditions of extreme humidity, moisture or salt air, it may be desirable to use preservative lubricating oil (medium) instead of the preservative lubricating oil (special) or engine oil (SAE 10) prescribed in this manual for normal conditions. A hand tool is any tool that is powered by hand rather than a motor. Categories of hand tools include wrenches, pliers, cutters, files, striking tools, struck or hammered tools, screwdrivers, vises, clamps, snips, hacksaws, drills, and knives. Outdoor tools such as garden forks, pruning shears, and rakes are additional forms of hand tools. Portable power tools are not hand tools. Hand tools have been used by humans since the Stone Age when stone tools were used for hammering and cutting. During the Bronze Age tools were made by casting the copper and tin alloys. Bronze tools were sharper and harder than those made of stone. During the Iron Age iron replaced bronze, and tools became even stronger and more durable. The Romans developed tools during this period which are similar to those being produced today. In the period since the industrial revolution, the manufacture of tools has transitioned from being craftsperson made to being factory produced. A large collection of British hand tools dating from 1700 to 1950 is held by St Albans Museums. Most of the tools were collected by Raphael Salaman (1906-1993), who wrote two classic works on the subject: Dictionary of Woodworking Tools and Dictionary of Leather-working Tools. David Russell's vast collection of Western hand tools from the Stone Age to the twentieth century led to the publication of his book Antique Woodworking Tools. The American Industrial Hygiene Association gives the following categories of hand tools: wrenches, pliers, cutters, striking tools, struck or hammered tools, screwdrivers, vises, clamps, snips, saws, drills and knives., United States War Department, 1945, 3, Orient Longman. Very Good/Very Good. 2000. Hard Cover. 1856490432 (R41) ., Orient Longman, 2000, 3<
