Brain, Mind and the Signifying Body is an exploration of a multimodal theory of cognitive science. Using linguistic theories first developed by Saussure and more latterly by M. A. K. Halliday, Paul Thibault analyses how social and biological systems interact to produce meaning. This fascinating study will be of interest to undergraduates and academics researching cognitive linguistics and advanced semiotics. The book engages with the current dialogue between the human and life sciences to ask questions about the relationship between the physical, biological aspects of a human being, and the sociocultural framework in which a human being exists.
The making and consuming of tourism takes place within a complex social milieu, with competing actors drawing into the product peoples history, culture and lifestyles. Culture and people thus become part of the tourism product. The implications are not fully understood, though the literature ranges the arguments along a continuum with culture being described on one hand as vulnerable and fixed, waiting to be impacted by tourism and on the other being seen as vibrant and perfectly well capable of dealing with globalization and modernity trends.
Games That Boost Performance tackles head-on the challenge of how we progress from being strong individual contributors to being effective team members. While the content of the games can easily be adapted to any industry, the underlying themes of all these games reinforce the importance of learning to work together in order to achieve our goals. It is not simply a matter of adeqaute capitalization, good leadership, or reliable infrastructure. Improved performance rests on the ability of every team to boost the performance of its individual members and its performance as a collective unit.
When we embarked on our respective careers as freelance writers we knew how to research and we knew how to write.But nothing really prepared us for the experience of life in the marketplace—approaching editors, being rejected, getting published and finally being paid.
As teachers, each year we looked for the book that would provide our students with a good overview of writing feature articles for a range of publications. We wanted a book that was pitched at people like us, with a keen interest in writing and a desire to break into the industry.
We wanted to read interviews with people who write, buy and publish feature articles. We wanted a book that distilled everything that the beginning writer of feature articles needs to know. Here it is.
