Download or read book Drunk in Charge of a Foreign Language written by Matt Rothwell and published by Matt Rothwell. This book was released on 2007 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drunk in Charge of a Foreign Language (The Diary of a Spanish Misadventure) documents the author's (mis)adventures throughout a three month camping tour of Spain, before and after an earth shattering announcement from his wife.

Download or read book Drunk written by Edward Slingerland and published by Little, Brown Spark. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An "entertaining and enlightening" deep dive into the alcohol-soaked origins of civilization—and the evolutionary roots of humanity's appetite for intoxication (Daniel E. Lieberman, author of Exercised). While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol and other intoxicants, none have offered a comprehensive, convincing answer to the basic question of why humans want to get high in the first place. Drunk elegantly cuts through the tangle of urban legends and anecdotal impressions that surround our notions of intoxication to provide the first rigorous, scientifically-grounded explanation for our love of alcohol. Drawing on evidence from archaeology, history, cognitive neuroscience, psychopharmacology, social psychology, literature, and genetics, Drunk shows that our taste for chemical intoxicants is not an evolutionary mistake, as we are so often told. In fact, intoxication helps solve a number of distinctively human challenges: enhancing creativity, alleviating stress, building trust, and pulling off the miracle of getting fiercely tribal primates to cooperate with strangers. Our desire to get drunk, along with the individual and social benefits provided by drunkenness, played a crucial role in sparking the rise of the first large-scale societies. We would not have civilization without intoxication. From marauding Vikings and bacchanalian orgies to sex-starved fruit flies, blind cave fish, and problem-solving crows, Drunk is packed with fascinating case studies and engaging science, as well as practical takeaways for individuals and communities. The result is a captivating and long overdue investigation into humanity's oldest indulgence—one that explains not only why we want to get drunk, but also how it might actually be good for us to tie one on now and then.

Download or read book Alcohol safety Public Information Materials Catalog 8 written by Ann C. Grimm and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Alcohol Blackout written by Donal F. Sweeney and published by Robert Liston. This book was released on 2011-01-17 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you sometimes drink and can't remember, this book may save your life! This is the first book ever written to explain blackouts, which occur far more frequently than anyone believes. A must read, whether you drink or not. A must read: If you drink and sometimes can't remember...If you live with or know someone who blacks out...If you ride in a car driven by such a person...If you are a policeman or paramedic dealing with him...If you are a doctor or nurse in an emergency room...If you are a lawyer prosecuting or defending a blacked out person. You will learn: How to recognize the blacked out person is unconscious and has no idea what he or she is doing...How to cope with him or her...How to protect the blacked out person and yourself from harm...How to drink to prevent blackouts...Why blackouts are a huge and misunderstood problem for the Law and Society...And More. Based on two decades of study, author Donal F. Sweeney, M.D., is a Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine.

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Download or read book Report of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30 1896 written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report of an Inspection of the Several Branches of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers written by United States. War Dept. Inspector General's Office and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Social Identities and Multiple Selves in Foreign Language Education written by Damian J. Rivers and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within foreign language education contexts across the globe, inadequate attention has been paid to documenting the dynamics of identity development, negotiation and management. This book looks at these dynamics in specific relation to otherness, in addition to attitudinal and behavioural overtones created through use of the term 'foreign' (despite its position as an integral marker in language acquisition discourse). This book argues that individual identities are multidimensional constructs that gravitate around a hub of intricate social networks of multimodal intergroup interaction. The chapters pursue a collective desire to move the notion of identity away from theoretical abstraction and toward the lived experiences of foreign language teachers and students. While the identities entangled with these interactions owe a significant measure of their existence to the immediate social context, they can also be actively developed by their holders. The collection of chapters within this book demonstrate how foreign language education environments (traditional and non-traditional) are ideal locations for the development of a sophisticated repertoire of discursive strategies used in the formulation, navigation, expression and management of social identities and multiple selves.

Download or read book The Acquisition of Chinese as a First and Second Language written by Xiaohong Wen and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, through highly selective and rigorous review processes, has collected eight empirical studies showcasing research advances in multiple domains including child first language, adult additional language, and heritage language acquisition. The studies are theoretically motivated and have adopted a spectrum of innovative methodological strategies to achieve a broader understanding of the nature of learning and the learning process. The volume encompasses a wide range of contents: 1) The L1 and L2 acquisition of syntax, semantics, phonetics, and the syntax-discourse interface; 2) Data comparisons across different learner groups: L1 Chinese children, L2 Chinese learners, and Chinese heritage speakers; 3) Acquisition of language skills: speaking, listening, and writing; and last but not least, 4) Instructional interventions including consciousness-raising and metacognitive strategy training. The volume is intended to bridge the gap between research and instruction by helping teachers understand their students and their learning. Informed by research, teachers can opt for appropriate pedagogical approaches and instructional conditions for their students. The volume is guest-edited by Xiaohong Wen, Professor in Applied Linguistics and Chinese language Acquisition at the University of Houston.

Download or read book Studies on Learning and Teaching Chinese as a Second Language written by Xiaohong Wen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies on Learning and Teaching Chinese as a Second Language represents the current advances in the field. It showcases theoretically motivated empirical studies and diverse methods used for a better understanding of how Chinese language is acquired as a second or foreign language. This contributes to L2 acquisition research in general and L2 Chinese specifically. Furthermore, this research is useful for teachers seeking to understand their students’ learning processes and adjust their pedagogical approach for more effective instruction. The book bridges the gap between research and instruction by providing pedagogical implications rooted in empirical findings.

Download or read book The Acquisition of the German Case System by Foreign Language Learners written by Kristof Baten and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book on the acquisition of the German case system by foreign language learners. It explores how learners in their interlanguage progress from the total absence to the presence of a case system. This development is characterized by an evolvement from marking the argument’s position to marking the argument’s actual function. Theoretically couched within Processability Theory, the book deals with the feature unification and the mapping processes involved in case marking, and critically examines previous findings on German case acquisition. Empirically, the book consists of longitudinal data of 11 foreign language learners of German, which was collected over a period of 2 years. This book will be useful to anyone interested in the acquisition of German and in the acquisition of case systems in general.

Download or read book Holy Intoxication to Drunken Dissipation written by Barbara Y. Butler and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, peoples throughout the Andes brewed beer from corn and other grains, believing that this alcoholic beverage, called asua, was a gift from the gods, a drink possessing the power to mediate between the human and divine. Consuming asua to intoxication was a sacred tradition that humans and spirits shared, creating reciprocal joy and ties of mutual obligation. When Butler began research in Huaycopungo, Ecuador, in 1977, ceremonial drinking was causing hardship for these Quichua-speaking people. Then, in 1987, a devastating earthquake was interpreted as a message from God to end the ritual obligation to get drunk. Holy Intoxication to Drunken Dissipation examines how the defense of drinking and getting drunk ended abruptly as the people of Otavalo re-evaluated their traditional religious life and their relationship with the wider Ecuadorian society, and defended a renewed traditional indigenous culture with increasing pride. This account presents both the local people's views of their struggles and a more general analysis of the factors involved, and concludes with thoughts about how their culture will adapt in the future.

Download or read book The Drink Tank 300 written by and published by Office Supply Publishing. This book was released on with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 300th issue of The Drink Tank, including contributions from around the world. Edited by Christopher J Garcia and James Bacon,

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Download or read book Medievalism Multilingualism and Chaucer written by M. Davidson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In new readings of medieval language attitudes and identities, this book concludes that multilingualism informed masculinist discourses, which were aligned against the vernacular sentiment traditionally attributed to Langland and Chaucer.

Download or read book In the Drink written by Kate Christensen and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining sly humor with an urban edge, Kate Christensen's In the Drink tells the story of a resolutely clear-eyed young woman who makes a complete mess of her life, and lives to tell the tale. The novel's heroine is the smart, pretty, underemployed, and single Claudia Steiner, personal secretary to Genevieve del Castellano, a terrifying, glamorous semi-lunatic who has it in for her for reasons she can't even begin to fathom. William, her best friend, considers Claudia his pal, his confidante, his sidekick in matters amatory, which would be fine if she weren't desperately in love with him herself. Further complicating matters is Claudia's old lover John Threadgill, an unpublished epic poet whose marriage to a Romanian stripper named Rima hasn't kept him from trying to seduce Claudia at every opportunity. Claudia came to New York City fresh out of college, buoyed along by her dream of becoming a journalist. But her starry-eyed notion of Claudia Steiner, Reporter on the Beat, quickly vanished into the ozone when she couldn't muster the requisite hard-bitten, white-hot urgency, the chain-smoking, the yelling, and the cutthroat story-mongering. Now, at the age of twenty-nine, she finds herself adrift in the city, careening dangerously from catastrophe to catastrophe. Desperately trying to keep her head above water, Claudia has little to rely on but a wry sense of humor, a keen appreciation of the medicinal properties of whiskey, and something more subtle--a persistent little flame of belief in herself, which makes a happy ending seem possible even in this most unforgiving of cities. Hilarious, compassionate, and keenly observed, In the Drink is the enormously entertaining debut of a startlingly talented young writer. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Kate Christensen's Blue Plate Special.