Teach with complete confidence using the world's favorite English course 328 pages Worked examples or Exercises Richards Jack C ...

Interchange Fourth Edition is a four-level series for adult & young-adult learners of English from the beginning to the high-intermediate level Student's Book Level 2 builds on the foundations established in Level 1 for accurate & fluent communication extending grammatical lexical & functional skills The Student's Book contains 16 teaching units progress checks additional Interchange activities & a Grammar Plus section that provides additional grammar explanations & practice Included is a Self-study DVD-ROM that provides the full class video & extra practice with vocabulary grammar speaking listening & reading ...

Interchange Fourth Edition is a four-level series for adult & young-adult learners of English from the beginning to the high-intermediate level The Interchange Fourth Edition interleaved spiral-bound Teacher's Edition with Assessment Audio CDCD-ROM Level 2 features complete teaching instructions optional activities audio scripts language summaries & Student's Book & Workbook answer keys The Assessment CDCD-ROM provides a complete assessment program including oral & written quizzes as well as mid-term & final tests in printable PDF & Microsoft Word formats ...

Teach with complete confidence using the world's favorite English course 328 pages Worked examples or Exercises Richards Jack C ...

Teach with complete confidence using the world's favorite English course 368 pages Worked examples or Exercises Richards Jack C ...

Routledge Applied Linguistics is a series of comprehensive textbooks providing students & researchers with the support they need for advanced study in the core areas of English language & Applied Linguistics Each book in the series guides readers through three main sections enabling them to explore & develop major themes within the discipline Section A Introduction establishes the key terms & concepts & extends readers' techniques of analysis through practical application Section B Extension brings together influential articles sets them in context & discusses their contribution to the field Section C Exploration builds on knowledge gained in the first two sections setting thoughtful tasks around further illustrative material This enables readers to engage more actively with the subject matter & encourages them to develop their own research responses Throughout the book topics are revisited extended interwoven & deconstructed with the reader's understanding strengthened by tasks & follow-up questions This highly-successful text introduces & explores the dynamic area of intercultural communication & the updated third edition features new readings by Prue Holmes Fred Dervin Lei Guo & Summer Harlow Miriam Sobre-Denton & Nilanjana Bardhan which reflect the most recent developments in the field refreshed & expanded examples & exercises including new material on the world of business radicalisation & cultural fundamentalism extended discussion of topics which include cutting-edge material on cosmopolitanism immigrants' intercultural communication & cultural travel revised further reading Written by experienced teachers & researchers in the field Intercultural Communication Third edition provides an essential textbook for advanced students studying this topic ...

The 2nd edition of this successful book has several new features The calibration discussion of the basic LIBOR market model has been enriched considerably with an analysis of the impact of the swaptions interpolation technique & of the exogenous instantaneous correlation on the calibration outputs A discussion of historical estimation of the instantaneous correlation matrix & of rank reduction has been added & a LIBOR-model consistent swaption-volatility interpolation technique has been introduced The old sections devoted to the smile issue in the LIBOR market model have been enlarged into a new chapter New sections on local-volatility dynamics & on stochastic volatility models have been added with a thorough treatment of the recently developed uncertain-volatility approach Examples of calibrations to real market data are now considered The fast-growing interest for hybrid products has led to a new chapter A special focus here is devoted to the pricing of inflation-linked derivatives The three final new chapters of this second edition are devoted to credit Since Credit Derivatives are increasingly fundamental & since in the reduced-form modeling framework much of the technique involved is analogous to interest-rate modeling Credit Derivatives -- mostly Credit Default Swaps (CDS) CDS Options & Constant Maturity CDS
- are discussed building on the basic short rate-models & market models introduced earlier for the default-free market Counterparty risk in interest rate payoff valuation is also considered motivated by the recent Basel II framework developments
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MIGHTY BATTLES! REVOLUTION! DEATH! WAR! (AND HIS SONS TERROR & PANIC & DAUGHTER CLANCY) The oldest & most inscrutable empire on the Discworld is in turmoil brought about by the revolutionary treatise What I did on My Holidays Workers are uniting with nothing to lose but their water buffaloes Warlords are struggling for power War (and Clancy) are spreading throughout the ancient cities And all that stands in the way of terrible doom for everyone is Rincewind the Wizard who can't even spell the word 'wizard' Cohen the barbarian hero five foot tall in his surgical sandals who has had a lifetime's experience of not dyingand a very special butterfly ...

'A foot on the neck is nine points of the law' There are many who say that the art of diplomacy is an intricate & complex dance There are others who maintain that it's merely a matter of who carries the biggest stick The oldest & most inscrutable (not to mention heavily fortified) empire on the Discworld is in turmoil brought about by the revolutionary treatise What I did on My Holidays Workers are uniting with nothing to lose but their water buffaloes; warlords are struggling for power
- & what the nation wants to avoid terrible doom for everyone is a wizard Rincewind is not the Disc's premier wizard
- in fact he can't even spell wizard'
- but no-one specified whether competence was an issue & they do have a very big stick Mighty Battles! Revolution! Death! War! (And his sons Terror & Panic & daughter Clancy)


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Vast interior spaces have become ubiquitous in the contemporary city The soaring atriums & concourses of mega-hotels shopping malls & transport interchanges define an increasingly normal experience of being inside' in a city Yet such spaces are also subject to intense criticism & claims that they can destroy the quality of a city's authentic life on the outside' Interior Urbanism explores the roots of this contemporary tension between inside & outside identifying & analysing the concept of interior urbanism & tracing its history back to the works of John Portman & Associates in 1960s & 70s America Portman
- increasingly recognised as an influential yet understudied figure
- was responsible for projects such as Peachtree Center in Atlanta & the Los Angeles Bonaventure Hotel developments that employed vast internal atriums to define a world of possibilities not just for hotels & commercial spaces but for the future of the American downtown amid the upheavals of the 1960s & 70s The book analyses Portman's architecture in order to reconsider major contexts of debate in architecture & urbanism in this period including the massive expansion of a commercial imperative in architecture shifts in the governance & development of cities amid social & economic instability the rise of postmodernism & critical urban studies & the defence of the street & public space amid the continual upheavals of urban development In this way the book reconsiders the American city at a crucial time in its development identifying lessons for how we consider the forces at work & the spaces produced in cities in the present

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