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Learning from Mickey, Donald and Walt: Essays on Disney's Edutainment Films
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Learning from Mickey, Donald and Walt: Essays on Disney's Edutainment FilmsThroughout its long and colorful history, Walt Disney Studios has produced scores of films designed to educate moviegoers as well as entertain them. These productions range from the True-Life Adventures nature documentaries and such depictions of cutting-edge technology as Man in Space and Our Friend the Atom, to wartime propaganda shorts (Education for Death), public-health films (VD Attack Plan) and coverage of exotic cultures (The Ama Girls, Blue Men of Morocco).  Each of the essays in this volume focuses on a different type of Disney "edutainment" film. Together they provide the first comprehensive look at Walt Disney's ongoing mission to inform and enlighten his worldwide audience.
 
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Businessworld - 6 October 2014
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Businessworld - 6 October 2014Businessworld - 6 October 2014

BW I BUSINESSWORLD is the largest selling and the highest circulated business magazine in India. The core values of the magazine are rigorous and unbiased reporting, a laser-focus on trends and issues that will impact your business and life.Well of the magazine contains the big in-depth stories and interviews, that focuses on the key business trends and issues that govern your future, or help you navigate the present better.
 
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High-Impact Instruction: A Framework for Great Teaching
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High-Impact Instruction: A Framework for Great TeachingHigh-Impact Instruction: A Framework for Great Teaching

Best-selling author Jim Knight presents the high-leverage strategies that make the biggest difference in student learning. Featuring checklists, numerous observation tools, and online videos of teachers implementing the practices, this revolutionary book focuses on the three areas of high-impact instruction:
 
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Variation and Change: Pragmatic perspectives
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Variation and Change: Pragmatic perspectivesThe ten volumes of the Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While the other volumes select specific philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, cultural, interactional, or discursive angles, this sixth volume focuses on the dynamic aspects of language and reviews the relevant developments in variationist and diachronic scholarship.
 
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Perfecting Your English Pronunciation
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Perfecting Your English PronunciationReduce your accent when pronouncing English, with the expertise from an acclaimed specialist in the area
Developed by acclaimed speech consultant and accent specialist Susan Cameron, Perfecting Your English Pronunciation features her successful method, which focuses on the anatomical placement of sound and on the musculature used in articulation. Where other accent reduction/English pronunciation products rely on solely mimicking of audio sounds, this work focuses visually, audibly, and narratively on the physical ability to speak English, noting that many sounds of English may be difficult for you because some tongue positions used in English may not be used in your native language.
 
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