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Green Building: Guidebook for Sustainable Architecture
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Green Building: Guidebook for Sustainable ArchitectureGreen Building: Guidebook for Sustainable Architecture

An important consideration for energy-efficient buildings is their primary energy requirements over the entire life cycle. How to determine this? What integrative factors influence the performance of a healthy and sustainable building? This, while it may be important for clients and architects to know, is frequently not very transparent.
 
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Translation in French and Francophone Literature and Film
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Translation in French and Francophone Literature and Film

The papers collected in the current volume are intended to add to the growing body of scholarship in the field of Translation Studies and to increase scholarly awareness of translation — in short, to make translation more “visible.” The variety of critical approaches represented here testifies to the current diversity of the field, from feminist translation practices to issues surrounding nationalism, postcoloniality,and globalization, to accounts of  of personal translational and editorial practices, to analyses of the marketing of translations in the United States.
 
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Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative
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Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative

Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become a classic introduction to the major elements of a comprehensive theory of narrative texts. In this second edition, Professor Bal broadens the spectrum of her theoretical model, updating the chapters on literary narrative and adding new examples from outside the field of literary studies. Some specific additions include discussions on dialogue in narrative, translation as transformation (including translation between different media), intertextuality, interdiscursivity, and the place of the subject in narratology.

 
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How to Land a Top-Paying Construction Managers Job
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How to Land a Top-Paying Construction Managers Job For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Construction Managers job, or to apply for a better job.
What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most important points. With this book, you'll be able to revise your application into a much stronger document, be much better prepared and a step ahead for the next opportunity.
 
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Unlocking Your Creative Power: How to Use Your Imagination to Brighten Life, to Get Ahead
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Unlocking Your Creative Power: How to Use Your Imagination to Brighten Life, to Get AheadUnlocking Your Creative Power: How to Use Your Imagination to Brighten Life, to Get Ahead

Your Creative Power is a guide to harnessing and expressing your creative potential and leadership in the workplace.
 
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