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  • The Timewaster Letters

    by Robin Cooper ...
    For several years, Robin Cooper has been plaguing department stores, hotels, associations, fan clubs and a certain children's book publisher with his letters. From Prince Charles to the Peanut Council, Harrods to the British Halibut Association - no one is safe. So who is Robin Cooper? Architect, thimble designer, trampoline tester and wasp expert, Robin Cooper is all of these things - it just ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Types and the Structure of Meaning

    Issues in Compositional and Lexical Semantics

    by Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Robin Cooper, Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Peter Sutton ...
    Series series Elements in Semantics
    Addresses the role of structure in semantic analysis from the perspective of theories of meaning using rich theories of types. Also relates the theory of frames to these type theories as introducing, to some extent, similar structure into semantic analysis. The authors show how a structured approach is necessary to appropriately analyse phenomena in areas as diverse as lexical semantics and the ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Peace and Conflict Studies Research

    A Qualitative Perspective

    by Laura L. Finley ...
    Series series Peace Education
    This edited book is a new and valuable resource for students, teachers, and practitioners, providing a detailed exploration of how qualitative research can be applied in the field of peace and conflict studies. This book explores considerations and components of designing, conducting, and reporting qualitative research in this field, and also provide exemplars of recent empirical research in peace ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Finding the Mind

    by Robin Cooper ...
    Buddhism points to your mind as a way to understand and transform your experience. But, as Robin Cooper explains, it takes an exploratory approach, it asks you to seek: it is not a revelation of religious truths. The Buddha saw that we are all in a tough predicament. We are constantly anxious about what we lack and what we may lose, and in chasing security we easily cause pain to others. The ... Read more

    $8.18 USD

  • Supply Chain Development for the Lean Enterprise

    Interorganizational Cost Management

    by Robin Cooper ...
    Four questions determine whether a company is using interorganizational cost management.Does your firm set specific cost-reduction objectives for its suppliers?Does your firm help its customers and/or suppliers find ways to achieve their cost-education objectives?Does your firm take into account the profitability of its suppliers when negotiating component pricing with them?Is your firm ... Read more

    $101.99 USD

  • Target Costing and Value Engineering

    by Robin Cooper, Regine Slagmulder ...
    What would happen if everyone in your company followed a disciplined approach to cost reduction? Go ahead -- imagine it. What would it look like? How can it be done?The answer -- smart cost management.Effective cost management must start at the design stage. As much as 90-95% of a product's costs are added in the design process. That is why effective cost management programs focus on design and ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Evolving Mind

    by Robin Cooper ...
    A study of the evolution of consciousness from the simplest organism, through the self-aware human being, to enlightenment. Viewing recent theories from a Buddhist standpoint, the book sees evolution as a process of perpetual self-transcendence. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    The Timewaster Diaries

    A Year in the Life of Robin Cooper

    by Robin Cooper ...
    Narrated by Paul Whitehouse ...

    Abridged

    3 hours 38 min

    Rita fell down the stairs at twenty-two minutes past midnight.'Robin Cooper, author of the TIMEWASTER LETTERS and RETURN OF THE TIMEWASTER LETTERS, turns his hand to diary writing in this hilarious new novel. All the absurdity, bad luck and boundless optimism of his previous books are here, as we discover the man behind the letters.The year starts badly for Robin, losing his job for sending so ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    by Garth Marenghi ...
    Narrated by Garth Marenghi ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - TerrorTome

    Unabridged

    8 hours 14 min

    From the mind of horror master Garth Marenghi: a masterful multi-volume horror masterpiece thirty years in the making...Dare you crack open the TerrorTome? (Mind the spine)When horror writer Nick Steen gets sucked into a cursed typewriter by the terrifying Type-Face, Dark Lord of the Prolix, the hellish visions inside his head are unleashed for real. Forced to fight his escaping imaginati... ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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    The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

    the most hopeful, charming and cosy novel to curl up with

    by Becky Chambers ...
    Narrated by Patricia Rodriguez Rodriguez ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Wayfarers

    Unabridged

    15 hours 41 min

    The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience!SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONThe beloved debut novel that will restore your faith in humanityWhen Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The ship, which has seen better days, offers her everything she could ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Pragmatics

    by Stephen C. Levinson ...
    Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    Those aspects of language use that are crucial to an understanding of language as a system, and especially to an understanding of meaning, are the acknowledged concern of linguistic pragmatics. This textbook provides a lucid and integrative analysis of the central topics in pragmatics - deixis, implicature, presupposition, speech acts, and conversational structure. A central concern of the book is ... Read more

    $78.79 USD

  • Figurative Language

    by Eve Sweetser, Barbara Dancygier ...
    Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    This lively introduction to figurative language explains a broad range of concepts, including metaphor, metonymy, simile, and blending, and develops new tools for analyzing them. It coherently grounds the linguistic understanding of these concepts in basic cognitive mechanisms such as categorization, frames, mental spaces, and viewpoint; and it fits them into a consistent framework which is ... Read more

    $45.99 USD