Настоящее пособие является методическим и содержит материал, который знакомит с обычаями и культурой ведения бизнеса в США, а также со структурой и некоторыми особенностями работы американских компаний.

American Business Practices and Culture is a study material divided into small units. Each unit covers a particular business activity and cultural information. The objective of the study material is to help students learn American business practices and culture as they are used by busines people in their everyday working life in different business settings and situations.

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.

Classrooms provide extremely varied settings in which learning may take place, including teacher-led conversations, small group unguided discussions, individual problem solving or computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL).

 Unity comes from the fact that researchers belong to a common adventure - changing school practices and norms. This adventure is moved by societal ideals of reason and equity. Contexts for learning are not immutable givens. Researchers are interested in implementing certain practices or instilling certain norms

This pioneering book reveals how the music classroom can draw upon the world of popular musicians' informal learning practices, so as to recognise and foster a range of musical skills and knowledge that have long been overlooked within music education. It investigates how far informal learning practices are possible and desirable in a classroom context; how they can affect young teenagers' musical skill and knowledge acquisition; and how they can change the ways students listen to, understand and appreciate music as critical listeners, not only in relation to what they already know, but beyond.

Minds on Music: Composition for Creative and Critical Thinking

This book offers both a rationale for the presence of composition in the music education program and a thorough review of what we know of children's compositional practices to date.