Download or read book How Many Languages Do We Need written by Victor Ginsburgh and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-04 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the global economy, linguistic diversity influences economic and political development as well as public policies in positive and negative ways. It leads to financial costs, communication barriers, divisions in national unity, and, in some extreme cases, conflicts and war--but it also produces benefits related to group and individual identity. What are the specific advantages and disadvantages of linguistic diversity and how does it influence social and economic progress? This book examines linguistic diversity as a global social phenomenon and considers what degree of linguistic variety might result in the greatest economic good. Victor Ginsburgh and Shlomo Weber look at linguistic proximity between groups and between languages. They describe and use simple economic, linguistic, and statistical tools to measure diversity's impact on growth, development, trade, the quality of institutions, translation issues, voting patterns in multinational competitions, and the likelihood and intensity of civil conflicts. They address the choosing of core languages in a multilingual community, such as the European Union, and argue that although too many official languages might harm cohesiveness, efficiency, and communication, reducing their number brings about alienation and disenfranchisement of groups. Demonstrating that the value and drawbacks of linguistic diversity are universal, How Many Languages Do We Need? suggests ways for designing appropriate linguistic policies for today's multilingual world.

Download or read book Wisdom for the Soul of Black Folk written by Roderick Terry and published by Gnosophia Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another book of quotations? Indeed there are numerous excellent extant anthologies of quotations, but these tend to be very broad, with a bias toward classical and well-known authors; those works which document the contributions of Black authors have tended to focus on African-Americans, considerable as their output is. Undeniable recognition of this prevalence is reflected in the title of the present volume which pays homage to W. E. B. Du Bois? classic work and in the preponderance of entries from American sources. Nevertheless, effort has been made to cast a wider net to capture under-represented and unfamiliar voices. Khemetic texts preserved in papyri and stelae are the earliest literature to have survived, followed by the writings of North African Romans and Ethiopian philosophers and clerics, and the lately recovered Timbuktu manuscripts from their repositories in the desert sands of Mali. The Transatlantic slave experience gave rise to the slave narratives and abolitionist literature from both sides of the Atlantic, which remained predominant right up to the 20th century. Post-Emancipation under colonial rule and white domination, Black poetry and prose emerged, adhering to prevailing standards, evidenced typically in the work of Phillis Wheatley and the sonnets of Claude McKay. With the Civil Rights and Black Power movements would come iconoclastic expressions of protest and identity. There is a sizeable body of literature by Black authors from Africa and the diaspora who speak to universal values and eternal verities. This anthology of their work focuses on the inner life, on personal development and self-actualization. 3000 quotations have been selected to inspire, enlightenand encourage; they have been arranged in 200 psycho-spiritual categories and in chronological order. The resulting timeline of thought in itself is useful and instructive as it demonstrates very clearly the evolution of consciousness evident in the contemporary thinking on particular subjects. Like its predecessor, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing, this volume contains a full biographical index and bibliographical references. Much of the material is anthologized here for the first time.

Download or read book Born a Crime written by Trevor Noah and published by One World. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than one million copies sold! A “brilliant” (Lupita Nyong’o, Time), “poignant” (Entertainment Weekly), “soul-nourishing” (USA Today) memoir about coming of age during the twilight of apartheid “Noah’s childhood stories are told with all the hilarity and intellect that characterizes his comedy, while illuminating a dark and brutal period in South Africa’s history that must never be forgotten.”—Esquire Winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor and an NAACP Image Award • Named one of the best books of the year by The New York Time, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Esquire, Newsday, and Booklist Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle. Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother—his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life. The stories collected here are by turns hilarious, dramatic, and deeply affecting. Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being thrown from a moving car during an attempted kidnapping, or just trying to survive the life-and-death pitfalls of dating in high school, Trevor illuminates his curious world with an incisive wit and unflinching honesty. His stories weave together to form a moving and searingly funny portrait of a boy making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time, armed only with a keen sense of humor and a mother’s unconventional, unconditional love.

Download or read book Nelson Mandela Quote Bullet Journal Language Journal If You Talk to a Man in a Language He Understands That Goes to His Head If You Talk to Him in His Own Language That Goes to His Heart written by Cierra Smith and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspirational quote by Nelson Mandela: "If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart." The quote is perfect for language lovers, aspiring polyglots, bi-linguists, language teachers, language students, and lovers of literature. An inspirational reminder for anyone who needs motivation to continue learning a foreign language. This is a 128-page bullet journal, made just for your creative endeavors. Minimalist dotted grid pages for you fill in your goals, plans, reminders, and accomplishments as needed. A productivity planner you can use the whole year without worrying of running out of space or awkwardly pre-made planner pages. Great for boss babes also looking for a language journal to track their foreign language progress and/or bilingual journey. You deserve a bullet journal that'll serve as constant daily inspiration to fuel your desire to learn. A bullet journal that understands your inner passion when it comes to educating and bettering yourself. This bullet journal was hand-designed by an aspiring polyglot, and the creator of https://www.culturedsimplicity.com -- a website created to make the language learning process as enjoyable and naturally simple for atypical language learners. This bullet journal is sized as an A5 journal, the most popular size, meaning it's big enough to write to your heart's desire but small enough to easily transport.

Download or read book Key Topics in Second Language Acquisition written by Vivian Cook and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook offers an introductory overview of eight hotly-debated topics in second language acquisition research. It offers a glimpse of how SLA researchers have tried to answer common questions about second language acquisition rather than being a comprehensive introduction to SLA research. Each chapter comprises an introductory discussion of the issues involved and suggestions for further reading and study. The reader is asked to consider the issues based on their own experiences, thus allowing them to compare their own intuitions and experiences with established research findings and gain an understanding of methodology. The topics are treated independently so that they can be read in any order that interests the reader.

Download or read book Body Language from Head to Toe written by Per-Olof Hasselgren and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a physician, Body Language – from Head to Toe is a “dictionary” of American idioms and other expressions that contain the name of a body part. The use of body part-related expressions is both interesting and fun. This book contains about 2,000 such idioms, words, and expressions, such as “with the back against the wall,” “brainstorming,” “sweet tooth,” and “tongue in cheek.” Says author Per-Olof Hasselgren, “As a surgeon, I understand the importance of anatomy and the knowledge of organs and tissues. This book reflects my longstanding interest in idioms and other expressions referring to body parts, and it ‘connects’ anatomy with the spoken and written language.” This book was written for three main reasons. First, anatomy matters, particularly in surgery. During the last several years, collecting such expressions became a hobby for the author. Second, as someone moving to this country from another part of the world, Dr. Hasselgren is interested in the peculiarities of the American language. Idioms, slang, and other expressions are specific for any given language and quite often cannot be directly translated. Third, when one starts to be aware of them, written and spoken body language can become quite entertaining.

Download or read book Hamda S Ashes written by Ghassoub Bani Kanaan and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a little boy grows up in Palestine, he has no idea that his mothers unconditional love is already paving the road for his success later in life. When he is thirteen, his hardworking mother suddenly dies, leaving Alghadanfar alone and with no other choice but to attend a military boarding school while his father and his new wife live mostly on charity. Four years later, Alghadanfars life forever changes when his country is occupied by Israel and he is left homeless, seemingly doomed to enter lifes wild arena whether he is ready or not. After the invasion, Alghadanfar escapes on foot with others to the River Jordan in a dangerous journey to reach the only place he knows, his boarding school on the eastern side of the river. As he is led to his first brush with death and onto a new path in life, he must rely on his survival instincts, his mothers shadow, and her prayers to become empowered to overcome the many obstacles that stand in his way.

Download or read book Leader to Leader LTL Volume 76 Spring 2015 written by Bruce Rosenstein and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get insightful articles on leadership, management, and strategy written by today's leaders with this award-winning journal. Brought to you by the Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute, Leader to Leader brings together a peerless selection of world-class executives, best-selling management authors, top consultants, and respected social thinkers. Leader to Leader poses provocative questions that challenge your leadership assumptions and provides compelling evidence powerful enough to change your leadership thinking while offering thoughtful analysis of complex leadership issues.

Download or read book Brilliant Self Confidence written by Mike McClement and published by Pearson UK. This book was released on 2012-12-27 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone can build lasting, unshakable confidence and go after the life they really want to live. Whether it’s making a career change, finding a romantic partner or meeting new people, Brilliant Self-confidence is packed with all the advice necessary to help you develop the confidence and motivation to be successful, so you can change your approach to life forever and start transforming your life today. BRILLIANT OUTCOMES • Feel motivated, positive and confident • Learn to exploit your strengths and embrace opportunities • Find out how to overcome setbacks • Assert yourself and go after the life you want

Download or read book Wisdom for the Soul written by Larry Chang and published by Gnosophia Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing

Download or read book Delicious Words written by Jieun Kiaer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-29 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As societies across the globe are becoming increasingly interwoven at an unprecedented speed and across an impressive scope, so too is the world of food, allowing the English language to develop an ever-widening culinary vocabulary. This book examines the lives of such words in today’s discourse on eating and drinking, focusing on foreign - particularly East Asian - influences on culinary terms in English, and how words are born and evolve in a modern transcultural environment. Through the lens of culinary words, this book demonstrates that foreign-origin and hybrid words, previously considered marginal, have become a main source of new imports into our daily lexicon. With case studies from Japan to Mongolia, Hong Kong to Korea, China to Vietnam, and beyond, this book examines how more and more words are becoming borderless and forming their own new global identities. By showcasing some lesser-known regional cuisines, alongside staple dishes that many of us already know and love, this book offers a wide range of examples in order to illustrate the metamorphosis of the manner in which we engage with food words. This book will be of interest to general readers, as well as those who are engaged in East Asian studies, English linguistics, intercultural communication studies, translation studies, and lexicography.

Download or read book The Modern Languages Teacher s Handbook written by Gill Ramage and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This user-friendly handbook for busy teachers contains up-to-date advice on a range of topics including: • Planning outstanding lessons • Teaching the four key language skills• Stretching able and talented students• Including and engaging students with weaker skills• Using ICT to advance language skills and build international links• Teaching modern languages at post 16 There is also a companion website containing links to useful resources and websites. This book is invaluable for trainees, newly qualified teachers and more experienced practitioners looking for practical ideas and strategies to motivate and engage learners in modern languages.

Download or read book Chadwick s Cultivated Circumstances Experience is sometimes priceless written by Charles A. Chadwick Jr. and published by Charles A. Chadwick Jr.. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chadwick’s Cultivated Circumstances is a small publication that carries a big punch. It explains how experience can sometimes be priceless. In the year of 2021, we all had to live through the pandemic from Covid-19. Did anyone wonder, how much experience was gained on an individual level and as a society? What was learned and how did people survive or surviving their created or uncreated circumstances? Did people use their own new or past experiences to get them through this interesting time period? Worldwide pandemic or not many have to work for a living. Along the way of working some people may question or examine their worth. Worth can be defined as the value equivalent to that of someone or something under consideration; the level at which someone or something deserves to be valued or rated. How did people feel being deemed as an Essential or Non-essential worker? After being classified, some people were indeed laid off and found themselves without employment. After hearing and seeing some people lose their jobs, author Charles Chadwick thought hard about his own working experiences and career pathway. As he reflected off his previous and current employment, he thought about how he has survived off his skills. With a push for minimum wage to be pushed up to $15.00 per hour, when some people are without work is a deep question, but who has the answers? If and when it does happen who knows what the outcome could be? In the meantime, Charles wants to encourage everybody to get some type of experience instead of speculating if or when the minimum wage will ever be pushed up. There are millions of Americans who carry massive student loan debt and racking up more bills! If a student or person can transition into the trade industry they can learn a lifetime worth of earning skills! In this short book, Charles will show how anyone who has gained experience can cultivate success through their circumstances. He will explain how some of his success was found through and because of the experience he gained throughout his life. If a person has experience, they can survive and thrive even in challenging hard economic times. His methodology is clear, concise, and easy to follow. His anecdotes and words of wisdom keep readers engaged throughout the journey as he explains how the ins-and-outs of getting and obtaining experience. Chadwick's Cultivated Circumstances is a must-read guide for anyone who wants to bring more value to the job market.

Download or read book Digital Skill Development for Industry 4 0 written by P Kaliraj and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2024-09-30 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Industry 4.0, is changing the world, and digital transformation technology tools have impacted every walk of life. The nature of work and careers is changing fast – and in the future, the right skills will be prized over academic qualifications. Students must develop various skills, especially technology skills, to become the workforce of the future; the onus of developing these skills falls on educational institutions. The development of innovation and ideation skills in students is a must for them to productively contribute to a future economy. They should have the capability to translate ideas into solutions, products, and systems that are scalable, practically feasible, and adaptable. To prepare students for this digital world, Digital Skill Development for Industry 4.0 contains chapters on developing: Professional skills, cognitive learning Critical thinking skills among modern learners Motivation and student engagement Invoking interest of students Student engagement in e-learning Contextual learning Experimental learning Multidisciplinary learning The book is written for the academic and administrative community of universities and colleges who intend to equip their modern learners with the skills of Industry 4.0. It is also useful as a reference for undergraduate and postgraduate courses, as well as doctoral programs. The book can also serve as a comprehensive reference guide for researchers in the development of tools incorporating new skills and technologies. Practitioners who are interested in introducing digital skill development for Industry 4.0 and its tools to solve real‐world problems can also use this book.

Download or read book The Language of Trust written by Ingrid Christensen and published by New Degree Press. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trust is the glue making communication possible, and a tool leaders must use to expand their skills and grow their businesses. In The Language of Trust: Communicate to Build Meaningful Relationships in Business and Life, Ingrid Christensen provides an impactful and essential guide to the crucial ingredient that makes relationships, businesses, and communication tick: trust. This bookdeep dives into the precise practice of taking meaning from one language and translating it into another, proliferating your ability to connect with people all over the world, no matter what language they speak. Throughout The Language of Trust, you will learn how to nourish relationships and communicate authentically to build confidence and deepen human connection. Once you learn about developing an organizational identity, cultivating trust with others, and prioritizing time for personal development, you’ll get to do the work for yourself. As a leader, your ability to cultivate trust both at work and home will have a profound impact on your personal and professional life. Trust directly impacts everything—it’s the key to unlocking one’s purpose, connection, resilience, and growth. Trust is a practice that offers transformation and The Language of Trustshows you how.

Download or read book Human Rights in Children s Literature written by Jonathan Todres and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can children grow to realize their inherent human rights and respect the rights of others? This book explores this question through children's literature from Peter Rabbit to Horton Hears a Who! to Harry Potter. The authors investigate children's rights under international law - identity and family rights, the right to be heard, the right to be free from discrimination, and other civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights - and consider the way in which those rights are embedded in children's literature. This book traverses children's rights law, literary theory, and human rights education to argue that in order for children to fully realize their human rights, they first have to imagine and understand them.

Download or read book Shri Krishna The Divine Manipulator written by Shrikant Prasoon and published by Pustak Mahal. This book was released on 2011 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: