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  • Mind and Context in Adult Second Language Acquisition

    Methods, Theory, and Practice

    by Cristina Sanz, Rusan Chen, Rebecca Adams, Akiko Fujii, Alison Mackey, Ronald P. Leow, Michael T. Ullman, Heidi Byrnes, Bill VanPatten, Harriet Wood Bowden0, Catherine A. Stafford1, Melissa A. Bowles2, Rebekha Abbuhl3, Kara Morgan-Short4 ...
    How do people learn nonnative languages? Is there one part or function of our brains solely dedicated to language processing, or do we apply our general information-processing abilities when learning a new language? In this book, an interdisciplinary collaboration of scholars and researchers presents an overview of the latter approach to adult second language acquisition and brings together, for ... Read more

    $47.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Abraham's Adventure

    A Curious Tortoise Finds His Way Home

    by Alison Adams ...
    Abraham's Adventure: A Curious Tortoise Finds His Way HomeBy: Alison AdamsAbraham was a pet tortoise who yearned for adventure. For years, he went to Kindergarten with his parent and owner- a teacher. In her classroom, Abe could roam ( with a balloon attached) as students worked, or join them on the rug during snack and story time. He even went outside at recess on the playground to wander on warm ... Read more

    $15.00 USD

  • Artificial Knowing

    Gender and the Thinking Machine

    by Alison Adam ...
    Artificial Knowing challenges the masculine slant in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) view of the world. Alison Adam admirably fills the large gap in science and technology studies by showing us that gender bias is inscribed in AI-based computer systems. Her treatment of feminist epistemology, focusing on the ideas of the knowing subject, the nature of knowledge, rationality and language, are ... Read more

    Was $57.99 USD Now $51.99 USD

  • A History of Forensic Science

    British beginnings in the twentieth century

    by Alison Adam ...
    Series series Routledge SOLON Explorations in Crime and Criminal Justice Histories
    How and when did forensic science originate in the UK? This question demands our attention because our understanding of present-day forensic science is vastly enriched through gaining an appreciation of what went before. A History of Forensic Science is the first book to consider the wide spectrum of influences which went into creating the discipline in Britain in the first part of the twentieth ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Best British Short Stories 2018

    by Nicholas Royle, Owen Booth, Kelly Creighton, Colettte de Curzon, Mike Fox, M. John Harrison, Tania Hershman, Brian Howell, Jane McLaughlin, Alison MacLeod, Jo Mazelis, Wyl Menmuir, Adam O'Riordan, Iain Robinson, C. D. Rose, Adrian Slatcher, William Thirsk-Gaskill, Chloe Turner, Lisa Tuttle, Conrad Williams, Eley Williams ...
    Series series Best British Short Stories
    The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its eighth year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's brief is wide ranging, covering anthologies, ... Read more

    $10.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • New Earth Histories

    Geo-Cosmologies and the Making of the Modern World

    Edited by Alison Bashford, Emily M. Kern, Adam Bobbette ...
    A kaleidoscopic rethinking of how we come to know the earth.This book brings the history of the geosciences and world cosmologies together, exploring many traditions, including Chinese, Pacific, Islamic, South and Southeast Asian conceptions of the earth’s origin and makeup. Together the chapters ask: How have different ideas about the sacred, animate, and earthly changed modern environmental ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Virtual Gender

    Technology, Consumption and Identity Matters

    Edited by Alison Adam, Eileen Green ...
    As yet there has been relatively little published on women's activities in relation to new digital technologies. Virtual Gender brings together theoretical perspectives from feminist theory, the sociology of technology and gender studies with well designed empirical studies to throw new light on the impact of ICTs on contemporary social life.A line-up of authors from around the world looks at the ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Crime and the Construction of Forensic Objectivity from 1850

    Edited by Alison Adam ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book charts the historical development of 'forensic objectivity' through an analysis of the ways in which objective knowledge of crimes, crime scenes, crime materials and criminals is achieved. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, with authors drawn from law, history, sociology and science and technology studies, this work shows how forensic objectivity is constructed through detailed crime ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • A Christmas Carol: A BabyLit® Colors Primer

    by Jennifer Adams ...
    Illustrated by Alison Oliver ...
    Series series BabyLit®
    Take a walk with the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come in Little Master Dickens’ A Christmas Carol: A BabyLit Colors Primer. See old Jacob Marley shaking silver chains, gold stars shining around the Ghost of Christmas Past, and a red scarf keeping Tiny Tim warm. This bright retelling of a Christmas classic will scare any “bah, humbug” feelings away. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    How Should a Person Be?

    A Novel

    by Sheila Heti ...
    Narrated by Sheila Heti, Adam Hammond, Alison Deon, Amanda Nkeremihigo, Caleb Stull, James F. Dunnigan, James Harkness, Laura di Vilio, Leonard Rebick, Margaux Williamson0, Michael Ross Albert1, Misha Glouberman2, Stephen Joffe3, Wai Kin Chan4 ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 36 min

    A raw, startling, genre-defying novel of friendship, sex, and love in the new millennium—a compulsive read that's like "spending a day with your new best friend" (Bookforum) This program is read by the author.Reeling from a failed marriage, Sheila, a twentysomething playwright, finds herself unsure of how to live and create. When Margaux, a talented painter and free spirit, and Israel, a sexy and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Dracula: A BabyLit® Counting Primer

    by Jennifer Adams ...
    Illustrated by Alison Oliver ...
    Series series BabyLit®
    Meet 2 friends, Mina and Lucy, and the 5 heroes who try to save them from the dreaded Count Dracula in Dracula: A BabyLit Counting Primer. Make sure you’re wearing a necklace of 10 garlic flowers as you count wolves, ships, tombstones, and boxes full of soil in this witty retelling of Little Master Stoker’s classic Gothic tale. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Hospital Diaries of James Mudie Blackie - May to August 1950

    A first hand account at the dawn of the NHS

    by James Mudie Blackie, John Oxenford, Alison Tolfree ...
    Summer, 1950. James Mudie Blackie is unwell and is admitted to Edgware General Hospital. It’s the dawn of the NHS and he knows he has a long road to recovery. He is in no doubt that he will recover. But what will he find there? How will he react in the face of unknown challenges? What will everyday life be like? To while away the time, he starts to keep a diary. A raw, unfiltered first-hand ... Read more

    $7.19 USD