Michael Freeman's Perfect Exposure: The Professional's Guide to Capturing Perfect Digital Photographs
Clear, direct and guaranteed, the perfect exposure method looks at the way professionals work, and lays out the decisions and sequences with absolute clarity, while incorporating the latest, powerful post-processing techniques. Chosing the exposure for a photograph is infinitely complex and one of photography's most absorbing paradoxes because it affects everything in the image and its effect on the viewer.
Language, Culture, and Mind: Natural Constructions and Social Kinds
Based on fieldwork carried out in a Mayan village in Guatemala, this book examines local understandings of mind through the lens of language and culture. It focuses on a variety of grammatical structures and discursive practices through which mental states are encoded and social relations are expressed: inalienable possessions, such as body parts and kinship terms; interjections, such as 'ouch' and 'yuck'; complement-taking predicates, such as 'believe' and 'desire'; and grammatical categories such as mood, status and evidentiality.
Interpreting in the 21st Century. Challenges and Opportunities
This book contains a selection of papers presented at the First Forlì Conference on Interpreting Studies, which saw the participation of leading researchers in the field. It offers a comprehensive overview of the current situation and future prospects in interpretation studies, and in the interpreting profession at the beginning of a new century. Topics addressed include not only theoretical and methodological issues, but also applications to training and quality.
This informative resource explores the purposes of homework and how teachers and school administrators can create more inventive and meaningful assignments. Through numerous examples of math homework assignments, Annette Raphel demonstrates how homework can reinforce skills, prepare students for classroom discussions, and inspire their mathematical creativity.
About Teaching Mathematics: A K-8 Resource (3rd Edition)
A compendium of more than 240 classroom-tested lessons, this essential resource helps teachers build student understanding and skills and understand how children best learn math. In this third edition, Marilyn Burns has completely revised the first section to reflect what she has learned over the years from her classroom experience with students and her professional development experience with teachers.
