As emotion and emotional experience are a daily occurrence, they have always been key topics of study for psychologists. Now in its fifth edition, The Psychology of Emotion is a classic student text on the subject. This textbook offers a comprehensive guide to all the main theories and concepts of emotion, and relates these back to everyday life, using examples that everyone can identify with.
For students trying to make sense of performativity and related concepts such as the speech act, ‘ordinary language’, and iterability, and for those seeking to understand the place of these ideas in contemporary performance theory, this clear guide will prove indispensable. Performativity offers not only a path through challenging critical terrain, but a new understanding of just what is at stake in the exploration of this field.
ESL Grammar & English Composition (SparkCharts)
SparkCharts - 2004 Edition - created by Harvard students for students everywhere - serve as study companions and reference tools that cover a wide range of high school, college, and graduate themes.
Good refresher guide before taking a basic English test for students new to the English language.
Want to get a battle-droid's-eye view of the inside of an AAT battle tank? Care to see what Darth Maul's hiding in the trunk of his sinister-looking Sith Infiltrator? You're in luck: the crew that brought us the super-cool Star Wars Visual Dictionary and the Incredible Cross-Sections for the first movie trilogy is back. Boy wonder archaeologist-author David West Reynolds has put together another Incredible Cross-Sections guide, this time pulling apart the vehicles and vessels in Episode I: The Phantom Menace.
As the world economy continues to respond to increasing globalization, the problems that individual businesses have been forced to deal with have grown in number and complexity. Virtually every one of those problems shares a common element: In a truly global economy, businesses that are unable to operate effectively in a multinational environment will not achieve the economies of scale they need in order to remain competitive.
Exploring a range of researchable themes within tourism, this book addresses theoretical perspectives and established concepts of the major topics in the subject of tourism. It provides a theory-based discussion and applied explanation of themes such as environmental, cultural, urban, rural, festival and sports tourism, supported by a range of international case studies and debates. This broad, introductory guide directs readers towards further research and discussion, and is an essential reference for students and researchers in tourism and leisure.
