Is giving a presentation an easy task? In this book, the author unpacks this seemingly simple task to show the complexity that underlies it. Examining the academic presentation as a case in point, the author details when things go according to plan from the perspective of the listening audience and shows how seminar presenters interact with the audience and objects around them to produce a coherent whole that is the academic presentation.
All around is a three-level series for children in primary schools with one to three teaching periods of English per week. This series focuses primarily on the teaching as a foreign language.
While the term “culture wars” often designates the heated arguments in the English-speaking world spiraling around race, the canon, and affirmative action, in fact these discussions have raged in diverse sites and languages. Race in Translation charts the transatlantic traffic of the debates within and between three zones—the U.S., France, and Brazil. Stam and Shohat trace the literal and figurative translation of these multidirectional intellectual debates, seen most recently in the emergence of postcolonial studies in France, and whiteness studies in Brazil.
The Week – for curious minds who want an intelligent and independent view of the world. Designed for the way today's busy executives and thought leaders live, The Week curates over a thousand media sources from around the world to offer a true global and balanced perspective on the issues today-all in a concise, readable package.
The Week – for curious minds who want an intelligent and independent view of the world. Designed for the way today's busy executives and thought leaders live, The Week curates over a thousand media sources from around the world to offer a true global and balanced perspective on the issues today-all in a concise, readable package.
