Download e-book for kindle: Language as a Local Practice by Alastair Pennycook

Language as a neighborhood perform addresses the questions of language, locality and perform as a manner of relocating ahead in our realizing of the way language operates as an built-in social and spatial job. by way of taking every one of those 3 components – language, locality and perform – and exploring how they relate to one another, Language as an area perform opens up new methods of considering language.

Six Canonical Projects by Rem Koolhaas: Essays on the - download pdf or read online

Rem Koolhaas has been a part of the overseas avant-garde because the nineteen-seventies and has been named the Pritzker structure Prize for the yr 2000. This booklet, which builds on six canonical Koolhaas tasks, lines the discursive perform in the back of the layout tools utilized by Koolhaas and his workplace OMA.

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Dieses Buch vermittelt Geschichte durch Theorie und Theorie durch Geschichte. Es begreift die überwältigende Vielfalt der Architektur der Welt von den Anfängen bis heute als integralen Bestandteil der menschlichen Zivilisation und fragt unter anderem nach der Bedeutung von Konzept und shape, nach dem Unterschied zwischen Architektur und Spektakel oder nach der Gültigkeit des Dogmas "less is more".

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This absolutely revised re-creation presents suggestion at the identification, assessment and help of bilingual rookies and assists practitioners in picking the variation among literacy problems because of bilingualism or multilingualism and dyslexia. a necessary textual content for workers improvement, it contains cutting edge techniques in know-how and instructing programmes useful to multilingual newcomers and recommendation on studying extra languages.