New PDF release: Language as a Local Practice

Language as a neighborhood perform addresses the questions of language, locality and perform as a manner of relocating ahead in our figuring out of ways language operates as an built-in social and spatial job. by way of taking each 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 pondering language.

Download e-book for kindle: Six Canonical Projects by Rem Koolhaas: Essays on the by Ingrid Böck

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 publication, which builds on six canonical Koolhaas initiatives, lines the discursive perform at the back of the layout tools utilized by Koolhaas and his place of work OMA.

Download e-book for kindle: Architecture: A historical Perspective by Pavlos Lefas

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".

Multilingualism, Literacy and Dyslexia: Breaking down by Lindsay Peer,Gavin Reid PDF

This absolutely revised new version presents recommendation at the identification, assessment and help of bilingual inexperienced persons and assists practitioners in picking the adaptation among literacy problems because of bilingualism or multilingualism and dyslexia. a vital textual content for employees improvement, it comprises cutting edge methods in know-how and educating programmes valuable to multilingual newcomers and suggestion on studying extra languages.