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    Oh, For a Home of Rest! (Unabridged)

    Unabridged

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    In the bustling Victorian era, Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney embarks on a poignant journey in "Oh, For a Home of Rest!" This captivating memoir chronicles her experiences as a young Quaker woman navigating the complexities of marriage, motherhood, and the relentless pursuit of a sanctuary amidst life's storms. Through her introspective reflections and vivid descriptions, Gurney paints a vivid ... Read more

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  • Future Science Fiction Digest Issue 8

    Series Book 8 - Future Science Fiction Digest
    Issue 8 of FUTURE SF is themed Medical SF and guest-edited by RM Ambrose.Table of contents:"Second Generation" by Julie Nováková (Czech Republic)"Panoptes" by Eliza Victoria (Philippines)"Keloid Dreams" by Simone Heller (Germany)"Chrysalis" by David Brin (USA)"The Post-Conscious Age" by Su Min (China) translated by Nathan FariesNon-fiction:The Other Reel review column by Paul Levinson ... Read more

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  • Teaching English for Specific Purposes

    Series series English Language Teacher Development
    How does English for specific purposes (ESP) differ from English for general purposes?Explore the key features of ESP and the important role of students in this type of language learning. Learn the different types of ESP, various materials that can be incorporated into a course, and the roles of teachers and students. Read about four key topics within ESP: needs analysis, genre, specialized ... Read more

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    Web localization is a cognitive, textual, communicative and technological process by which interactive web texts are modified to be used by audiences in different sociolinguistic contexts.Translation and Web Localization provides an in-depth and comprehensive overview into this emerging field of study. The book covers the key areas and main theoretical and practical approaches of the subject, ... Read more

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  • Design Methodology

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    This book is addressed to students and teachers in design degrees and researchers interested in logical thinking of design. Just like any other discipline, design must accredit its rational fundamentals to refer the conditions of knowledge that determine it as a specific object of study. Methodology is a bridge between the general principles of doing and knowing. The analysis of the design ... Read more

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  • Machine Translation

    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    A concise, nontechnical overview of the development of machine translation, including the different approaches, evaluation issues, and major players in the industry.The dream of a universal translation device goes back many decades, long before Douglas Adams's fictional Babel fish provided this service in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Since the advent of computers, research has focused on ... Read more

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  • Linguistics for the Age of AI

    A human-inspired, linguistically sophisticated model of language understanding for intelligent agent systems.One of the original goals of artificial intelligence research was to endow intelligent agents with human-level natural language capabilities. Recent AI research, however, has focused on applying statistical and machine learning approaches to big data rather than attempting to model what ... Read more

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  • Interactive Tasks

    Series series The Routledge E-Modules on Contemporary Language Teaching
    This module on interactive tasks provides teachers with an overview of the nature of communication and explores the ways in which interactive tasks can promote communicative exchanges among students and teachers. The module provides guidelines for developing tasks, along with examples and options for their use in various types of language courses, including beginning level language classes, as ... Read more

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  • The Art and Science of Documentation Management

    As information becomes increasingly accessible through newly-introduced technologies, the human mind seeks a more comprehensive interpretation of the world in which we live. In order to manage this information overload, we must carefully reconsider our attitude towards documentation. While acknowledging the value of the standard guidebooks' hard rules on documentation management, Tonfoni advocates ... Read more

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  • Corpora in Translator Education

    The use of language corpora as a resource in linguistics and language-related disciplines is now well-established. One of the many fields where the impact of corpora has been growing in recent years is translation, both at a descriptive and a practical level. The papers in this volume, which grew out of presentations at the conference Cult2k (Bertinoro, Italy, 2000), the second in the series ... Read more

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