Download or read book Gharial Conservation in Nepal written by Tirtha Man Maskey and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Red Hot Book of Spanish Slang written by Mary McVey Gill and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2006-10-18 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't sound like una momia--add a little sizzle to your Spanish! If someone called you tragaldabas would you be insulted or flattered? If you shouted ¡Mota! in the street, would you expected to get a cab or get arrested? Thanks to The Red-Hot Book of Spanish Slang and Idioms, you'll always know your tejemaneje (scheme) from your merequetengue (mess) no matter where you find yourself in the Spanish-speaking world. Five thousand words and phrases--plus helpful hints as to what's cordial and what's vulgar--keep you in sync with Spanish slang. Spanish to English niños popis (upper-class kids) Spoiled brats Contigo ni a China me voy. (I'm not even going to China with you) You're impossible La cruda (rawness) Hangover English to Spanish Ugly as sin ser un espantapájaro (to be a scarecrow) To be lucky tener leche (to have milk) Why are you staring at me? ¿Tengo monos en la cara? (Do I have monkeys on my face?)

Download or read book Translation in the Digital Age written by Michael Cronin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translation is living through a period of revolutionary upheaval. The effects of digital technology and the internet on translation are continuous, widespread and profound. From automatic online translation services to the rise of crowdsourced translation and the proliferation of translation Apps for smartphones, the translation revolution is everywhere. The implications for human languages, cultures and society of this revolution are radical and far-reaching. In the Information Age that is the Translation Age, new ways of talking and thinking about translation which take full account of the dramatic changes in the digital sphere are urgently required. Michael Cronin examines the role of translation with regard to the debates around emerging digital technologies and analyses their social, cultural and political consequences, guiding readers through the beginnings of translation's engagement with technology, and through to the key issues that exist today. With links to many areas of study, Translation in the Digital Age is a vital read for students of modern languages, translation studies, cultural studies and applied linguistics.

Download or read book Crocodilian Biology and Evolution written by Gordon Clifford Grigg and published by Surrey Beatty and Sons. This book was released on 2001 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume grew out of a conference Crocodilian Biology and Evolution which was held at the University of Queensland in July 1998, with significant support from the (then) Department of Zoology" - Introd.

Download or read book Ritual and Power in Stone written by Julia Guernsey and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient Mesoamerican city of Izapa in Chiapas, Mexico, is renowned for its extensive collection of elaborate stone stelae and altars, which were carved during the Late Preclassic period (300 BC-AD 250). Many of these monuments depict kings garbed in the costume and persona of a bird, a well-known avian deity who had great significance for the Maya and other cultures in adjacent regions. This Izapan style of carving and kingly representation appears at numerous sites across the Pacific slope and piedmont of Mexico and Guatemala, making it possible to trace political and economic corridors of communication during the Late Preclassic period. In this book, Julia Guernsey offers a masterful art historical analysis of the Izapan style monuments and their integral role in developing and communicating the institution of divine kingship. She looks specifically at how rulers expressed political authority by erecting monuments that recorded their performance of rituals in which they communicated with the supernatural realm in the persona of the avian deity. She also considers how rulers used the monuments to structure their built environment and create spaces for ritual and politically charged performances. Setting her discussion in a broader context, Guernsey also considers how the Izapan style monuments helped to motivate and structure some of the dramatic, pan-regional developments of the Late Preclassic period, including the forging of a codified language of divine kingship. This pioneering investigation, which links monumental art to the matrices of political, economic, and supernatural exchange, offers an important new understanding of a region, time period, and group of monuments that played a key role in the history of Mesoamerica and continue to intrigue scholars within the field of Mesoamerican studies.

Download or read book Barrio Rhythm written by Steven Joseph Loza and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hit movie La Bamba (based on the life of Richie Valens), the versatile singer Linda Ronstadt, and the popular rock group Los Lobos all have roots in the dynamic music of the Mexican-American community in East Los Angeles. With the recent "Eastside Renaissance" in the area, barrio music has taken on symbolic power throughout the Southwest, yet its story has remained undocumented and virtually untold. In Barrio Rhythm, Steven Loza brings this hidden history to life, demonstrating the music's essential role in the cultural development of East Los Angeles and its influence on mainstream popular culture. Drawing from oral histories and other primary sources, as well as from appropriate representative songs, Loza provides a historical overview of the music from the nineteenth century to the present and offers in-depth profiles of nine Mexican-American artists, groups, and entrepreneurs in Southern California from the post-World War II era to the present. His interviews with many of today's most influential barrio musicians, including members of Los Lobos, Eddie Cano, Lalo Guerrero, and Willie chronicle the cultural forces active in this complex urban community.

Download or read book 5 Language Visual Dictionary written by Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 2003 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vocabulary guide that presents color photos of everyday objects and tasks with labels in English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian, grouping words and phrases in fifteen categories, including health, food, and leisure.

Download or read book The Lowland Maya Postclassic written by Arlen F. Chase and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1985-03-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection represents a major step forward in understanding the era from the end of Classic Maya civilization to the Spanish conquest.

Download or read book The Social Photo written by Nathan Jurgenson and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A set of bold theoretical reflections on how the social photo has remade our world. With the rise of the smart phone and social media, cameras have become ubiquitous, infiltrating nearly every aspect of social life. The glowing camera screen is the lens through which many of seek to communicate our experience. But our thinking about photography has been slow to catch-up; this major fixture of everyday life is still often treated in the terms of art or journalism. In The Social Photo, social theorist Nathan Jurgenson develops bold new ways of understanding photography in the age of social media and the new kinds of images that have emerged: the selfie, the faux-vintage photo, the self-destructing image, the food photo. Jurgenson shows how these devices and platforms have remade the world and our understanding of ourselves within it.

Download or read book Year Zero written by Ian Buruma and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Year Zero is a remarkable book, not because it breaks new ground, but in its combination of magnificence and modesty.” —Wall Street Journal A marvelous global history of the pivotal year 1945 as a new world emerged from the ruins of World War II Year Zero is a landmark reckoning with the great drama that ensued after war came to an end in 1945. One world had ended and a new, uncertain one was beginning. Regime change had come on a global scale: across Asia (including China, Korea, Indochina, and the Philippines, and of course Japan) and all of continental Europe. Out of the often vicious power struggles that ensued emerged the modern world as we know it. In human terms, the scale of transformation is almost impossible to imagine. Great cities around the world lay in ruins, their populations decimated, displaced, starving. Harsh revenge was meted out on a wide scale, and the ground was laid for much horror to come. At the same time, in the wake of unspeakable loss, the euphoria of the liberated was extraordinary, and the revelry unprecedented. The postwar years gave rise to the European welfare state, the United Nations, decolonization, Japanese pacifism, and the European Union. Social, cultural, and political “reeducation” was imposed on vanquished by victors on a scale that also had no historical precedent. Much that was done was ill advised, but in hindsight, as Ian Buruma shows us, these efforts were in fact relatively enlightened, humane, and effective. A poignant grace note throughout this history is Buruma’s own father’s story. Seized by the Nazis during the occupation of Holland, he spent much of the war in Berlin as a laborer, and by war’s end was literally hiding in the rubble of a flattened city, having barely managed to survive starvation rations, Allied bombing, and Soviet shock troops when the end came. His journey home and attempted reentry into “normalcy” stand in many ways for his generation’s experience. A work of enormous range and stirring human drama, conjuring both the Asian and European theaters with equal fluency, Year Zero is a book that Ian Buruma is perhaps uniquely positioned to write. It is surely his masterpiece.

Download or read book Listen n Learn Spanish with Your Favorite Movies written by Scott Thomas and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2009-11-13 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s a thumbs-up for this movie-inspired guide to learning Spanish Pop in a movie in your DVD player Turn on the Spanish soundtrack in the DVD options menu Open up Listen ‘n’ Learn Spanish with Your Favorite Movies, and relax as you learn core Spanish vocabulary and phrases It is as easy as that to learn thousands of essential Spanish terms and expressions. You follow along using the book to decipher difficult Spanish passages while watching (and listening!) to a movie’s Spanish soundtrack. Listen ‘n’ Learn Spanish with Your Favorite Movies features comprehensive language notes and translations for: “The Fox and the Hound,” “March of the Penguins,” “The Absent-Minded Professor,” “Tarzan,” “Eight Below,” “Home Alone,” “Holes,” “Rocky III,” “Eragon,” “Hoosiers,” “The Chronicles of Narnia,” “The Princess Bride,” “Anne of Green Gables,” “Finding Nemo,” “The Incredibles,” and “Mary Poppins.” These films are all family favorites and can be easily rented from Netflix or other rental stores.

Download or read book To Build a Fire written by Jack London and published by The Creative Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the experiences of a newcomer to the Yukon when he attempts to hike through the snow to reach a mining claim.

Download or read book Spanish English Bilingual Visual Dictionary written by DK and published by Dorling Kindersley Ltd. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The DK Spanish-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary introduces the vocabulary of the modern world through themed chapters filled with full-colour photographs and artworks which display and label all elements of everyday life. With sections ranging from home and work to leisure and the environment, every item is clearly labelled in Spanish with the translation directly below. The Spanish-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary is a colourful and stimulating learning resource ideal for all levels and ages. With more than 6,000 terms annotated, the illustrations in the dictionary provide a quick and intuitive route to learning a language, defining the words visually so it is easier to remember them. Learning Spanish has never been easier!

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Download or read book Listening to Salsa written by Frances R. Aparicio and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pulsing beats of salsa, merengue, and bolero are a compelling expression of Latino/a culture, but few outsiders comprehend the music's implications in larger social terms.

Download or read book The Connector Manager written by Jaime Roca and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best managers work smarter, not harder After conducting a unique global study of over 9,000 people, analysts at the world-leading sales research firm Gartner identified four distinct types of manager. Incredibly, they found one type consistently performs far better than the rest, and it wasn’t the one they were expecting. Connector Managers understand that it’s not enough for managers to just encourage and teach employees themselves, and that providing constant coaching to employees can actually be detrimental to their independent development. Instead, by connecting employees to others in the team or organisation, Connector Managers can help their employees develop a range of skills beyond their own areas of expertise. Although the four types of managers are more or less evenly distributed, employees with Connector Managers perform significantly better than others. Employees with Always-on Managers who provide constant feedback and coaching perform significantly worse. Drawing on their ground-breaking data-driven research, as well as in-depth case studies and extensive interviews with thousands of managers, you’ll discover what behaviours define Connector Managers and how you can use them yourself to build brilliant, powerhouse teams.

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