Описание: This text shows how and why so much business advice is flawed, and how managers and executives can better evaluate advice. It reviews an array of business advice from the best thinkers and consultants and concludes that as appealing as their ideas may be, most of them are not workable.
Описание: Many “translation solutions” (often called “procedures,” “techniques,” or “strategies”) have been proposed over the past 50 years or so in French, Chinese, Russian, Ukrainian, English, Spanish, German, Japanese, Italian, Czech, and Slovak. This book analyzes, criticizes and compares them, proposing a new list of solutions that can be used in training translators to work between many languages. The book also traces out an entirely new history of contemporary translation studies, showing for example how the Russian tradition was adapted in China, how the impact of transformational linguistics was resisted, and how scholarship has developed an intercultural metalanguage over and above the concerns of specific national languages. The book reveals the intensely political nature of translation theory, even in its most apparently technical aspects. The lists were used to advance the agendas of not just linguistic nationalisms but also state regimes – this is a history in which Hitler, Stalin, and Mao all played roles, Communist propaganda and imperialist evangelism were both legitimized, Ukrainian advances in translation theory were forcefully silenced in the 1930s, the Cold War both stimulated the application of transformational grammar and blocked news of Russian translation theory, French translation theory was conscripted into the agenda of Japanese exceptionalism, and much else.
Описание: This is a new account, of how, in the early 1900s, the French-born surgeon Alexis Carrel (1873-1944) set the groundwork for the later success in human organ transplantation, and gained America`s first Nobel Prize in 1912.
Описание: This is a new account, of how, in the early 1900s, the French-born surgeon Alexis Carrel (1873-1944) set the groundwork for the later success in human organ transplantation, and gained America`s first Nobel Prize in 1912.
Автор: Kelly Jourdyn Название: Flawed Perfection: An Eve Sumptor Novel ISBN: 0615868452 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780615868455 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 1638.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Wilson Donnell Название: Hypocrites in His Midst: A Story about Flawed Human Beings ISBN: 0692026487 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780692026489 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2888.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In the Saint Louis housing projects of the 1940s and 1950s, Wilton Latso is known as a lot of things, but nobody would dare call him a hypocrite. A tough guy with a heart of gold, he may have issues controlling his Irish temper, but he's never broken a promise or turned his back on a friend-even while maintaining the fast-driving and hard-drinking lifestyle of his young adulthood.
And with a wife and four kids by the age of twenty-one and five by age twenty-four, he's constantly struggling to keep food on the table and a roof over their heads any way he can.
But when he isn't burying himself in his work or hanging out with his street gang friends, he's struggling with the conservative, evangelical Christian values he was brought up with-views he previously respected but that his caring nature has forced him to look at with a skeptical eye.
Hypocrites in His Midst is based on the true story of a juvenile delinquent raised in a neighborhood fraught with violence and poverty and how he came to be a business owner, a voice for the independent working class, and an all-around nice guy.
A historical overview of the census race question--and a bold proposal for eliminating it
America is preoccupied with race statistics--perhaps more than any other nation. Do these statistics illuminate social reality and produce coherent social policy, or cloud that reality and confuse social policy? Does America still have a color line? Who is on which side? Does it have a different "race" line--the nativity line--separating the native born from the foreign born? You might expect to answer these and similar questions with the government's "statistical races." Not likely, observes Kenneth Prewitt, who shows why the way we count by race is flawed.
Prewitt calls for radical change. The nation needs to move beyond a race classification whose origins are in discredited eighteenth-century race-is-biology science, a classification that once defined Japanese and Chinese as separate races, but now combines them as a statistical "Asian race." One that once tried to divide the "white race" into "good whites" and "bad whites," and that today cannot distinguish descendants of Africans brought in chains four hundred years ago from children of Ethiopian parents who eagerly immigrated twenty years ago. Contrary to common sense, the classification says there are only two ethnicities in America--Hispanics and non-Hispanics. But if the old classification is cast aside, is there something better?
What Is Your Race? clearly lays out the steps that can take the nation from where it is to where it needs to be. It's not an overnight task--particularly the explosive step of dropping today's race question from the census--but Prewitt argues persuasively that radical change is technically and politically achievable, and morally necessary.
Among all the commercial "learning systems" on the market today, how many are advertised as "research-based?" Perhaps it would be easier to count those that are not. Such claims are so widespread that they are seldom taken seriously by experienced educators. At times, however, marketing becomes clever enough to cut through the skepticism. The more extravagant the promises, it seems, the more credible the product becomes. This book tells the story of one such case: the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol, or SIOP.(R)
Imagine a program developed by an obscure research center. SIOP starts out as a modest tool for evaluating the effectiveness of instruction for children whose English is limited, but soon morphs into something much more ambitious. It now purports to be a detailed "lesson planning and delivery approach" for grades K-12, aligned with state standards and tests. Simultaneously, it outlines a comprehensive design for teacher training and evaluation. Acquired by a major publisher, SIOP is advertised as "field tested ... scientifically validated ... a proven pedagogical approach to teaching both content knowledge and language skills that] has helped to instruct millions of students." The program's market is expanded far beyond the classrooms of English language learners. It is promoted as an effective model for English-proficient students as well, appropriate not only for K-12 but also for early childhood education, foreign language instruction, GED and adult English programs, and even two-way bilingual education.
There are old-time patent medicines that made fewer claims. Is SIOP a truly miraculous pedagogy - good for whatever ails you? Or is it a classic example of "research-based" hype?
The Trouble with SIOP(R) was inspired by a chorus of complaints from teachers, who are increasingly required to apply the model by top-down directives. Recognizing that SIOP has thus far faced limited critical scrutiny, authors James Crawford and Sharon Adelman Reyes set out to determine:
First, is this rigid approach, which requires teachers to incorporate "30 features and eight components" into every lesson, necessary to foster English acquisition and academic achievement? Or does SIOP, as a classic transmission model, impose a straitjacket on creative teaching and learning? Are there better ways to "shelter" and "scaffold" instruction?
Second, does this heterogeneous mixture of methodologies and strategies reflect a coherent educational philosophy, consistent with research on second language acquisition? Or is SIOP essentially a grab-bag of "best practices," with a heavy emphasis on behaviorist methods?
Finally, does research on this program support the lavish claims made on its behalf? Or is the What Works Clearinghouse at the U.S. Department of Education correct in concluding that none of the studies conducted thus far have demonstrated SIOP's effectiveness?
The answers provided by The Trouble with SIOP(R) should interest those concerned not only with the education of English language learners, but also with the pernicious impact of commercial pedagogies in American classrooms.
Автор: Mason Shekia, Rountree Ni`kay Название: Flawed and All ISBN: 069270339X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780692703397 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 1724.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
