Los vocabularios de T&P Books buscan ayudar a aprender, memorizar y repasar palabras de idiomas extranjeros. El vocabulario contiene mas de 7000 palabras comunmente usadas y organizadas de manera tematica. Aspectos claves del vocabulario: Las palabras se organizan segun el significado, no el orden alfabetico Las palabras se presentan en tres columnas para facilitar los procesos de repaso y auto-evaluacion Los grupos de palabras se dividen en pequenas secciones para facilitar el proceso de aprendizaje El vocabulario ofrece una transcripcion sencilla y conveniente de cada palabra extranjera. Este vocabulario contiene 198 temas que incluyen: Conceptos Basicos, Numeros, Unidades de Medidas, los Verbos mas Importantes, la Hora, el Calendario, el Dia y la Noche, Meses, Estaciones, los Viajes, el Hotel, Exploracion del Paisaje, la Ciudad, Compras, Ropa y Accesorios, Productos Cosmeticos, Experiencias Cotidianas, el Telefono, Conversaciones Telefonicas, Idiomas Extranjeros, las Comidas, Restaurantes, la Familia Nuclear, la Familia Extendida, el Cuerpo Humano, la Medicina, las Drogas, Accesorios, Muebles, Interiores de Casas, los Aparatos Domesticos, la Tierra, el Tiempo, el Mar, el Oceano, las Montanas, los Rios, el Bosque, los Desastres Naturales, la Fauna, Animales Silvestres, Pajaros, la Flora, los Paises del Mundo y mas... Este vocabulario de T&P Books: Se recomienda como ayuda adicional a cualquier curso de idiomas. Capta las necesidades de aprendices de idiomas de nivel principiante y avanzado. Conveniente para uso cotidiano, practica de revision y actividades de auto-evaluacion.

Working with Specialized Language: a practical guide to using corpora introduces the principles of using corpora when studying specialized language. The resources and techniques used to investigate general language cannot be easily adopted for specialized investigations. This book is designed for users of language for special purposes (LSP). Providing guidelines and practical advice, it enables LSP users to design, build and exploit corpus resources that meet their specialized language needs. Highly practical and accessible, the book includes exercises, a glossary and an appendix describing relevant resources and corpus-analysis software. Working with Specialized Language is ideal for translators, technical writers and subject specialists who are interested in exploring the potential of a corpus-based approach to teaching and learning LSP.

This introduction to neurolinguistics is intended for anybody who wants to acquire a grounding in the field. It was written for students of linguistics and communication disorders, but students of psychology, neuroscience and other disciplines will also find it valuable. The introductory section presents the theories, models and frameworks underlying modern neurolinguistics. Then the neurolinguistic aspects of different components of language – phonology, morphology, lexical semantics, and semantics-pragmatics in communication – are discussed. The third section examines reading and writing, bilingualism, the evolution of language, and multimodality. The book also contains three resource chapters, one on techniques for investigating the brain, another on modeling brain functions, and a third that introduces the basic concepts of neuroanatomy and neurophysiology. This text provides an up-to-date linguistic perspective, with a special focus on semantics and pragmatics, evolutionary perspectives, neural network modeling and multimodality, areas that have been less central in earlier introductory works.

This brilliant and revolutionary theory of multiple intelligences reexamines the goals of education to support a more educated society for future generations. Howard Gardner’s concept of multiple intelligences has been hailed as perhaps the most profound insight into education since the work of Jerome Bruner, Jean Piaget, and even John Dewey. Here, in The Disciplined Mind, Garner pulls together the threads of his previous works and looks beyond such issues as charters, vouchers, unions, and affirmative action in order to explore the larger questions of what constitutes an educated person and how this can be achieved for all students. Gardner eloquently argues that the purpose of K–12 education should be to enhance students’ deep understanding of the truth (and falsity), beauty (and ugliness), and goodness (and evil) as defined by their various cultures. By exploring the theory of evolution, the music of Mozart, and the lessons of the Holocaust as a set of examples that illuminates the nature of truth, beauty, and morality, The Disciplined Mind envisions how younger generations will rise to the challenges of the future—while preserving the traditional goals of a “humane” education. Gardner’s ultimate goal is the creation of an educated generation that understands the physical, biological, and societal world in their own personal context as well as in a broader world view. But even as Gardner persuasively argues the merits of his approach, he recognizes the difficulty of developing one universal, ideal form of education. In an effort to reconcile conflicting educational viewpoints, he proposes the creation of six different educational pathways that, when taken together, can satisfy people’s concern for student learning and their widely divergent views about knowledge and understanding overall.

Focusing on how to provide clean water for all - one of the key Millennium Development Goals, this book integrates technical and social perspectives. A broad, international range of case studies are provided, from developed, middle income and developing countries, in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

Marco Armiero is Senior Researcher at the Italian National Research Council and Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technologies, Universitat Aut(noma de Barcelona. He has published extensively on-Italian environmental history and edited Views from the South: Environmental Stories from the Mediterranean World. --