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Colloquial Welsh: The Complete Course for Beginners (Colloquial Ser.)
by Gareth KingColloquial Welsh provides a step-by-step course in Welsh as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Welsh in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required. Key features include: • progressive coverage of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills • structured, jargon-free explanations of grammar • an extensive range of focused and stimulating exercises • realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of scenarios • useful vocabulary lists throughout the text • additional resources available at the back of the book, including a full answer key, a grammar summary and bilingual glossaries Balanced, comprehensive and rewarding, Colloquial Welsh will be an indispensable resource both for independent learners and students taking courses in Welsh. Audio material to accompany the course is available to download free in MP3 format from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. Recorded by native speakers, the audio material features the dialogues and texts from the book and will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills.
Colloquial Yiddish
by Lily KahnSpecially written by an experienced teacher, Colloquial Yiddish offers a step-by-step approach to Yiddish as it is spoken and written today. Colloquial Yiddish provides the first widely available, easily accessible, comprehensive Yiddish course designed primarily for the twenty-first-century international English-speaking independent learner and suitable for use in Yiddish classes worldwide. Each unit presents numerous grammatical points that are reinforced with a wide range of exercises for regular practice. A full answer key can be found at the back as well as useful vocabulary summaries throughout. Key features include: graded development of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills realistic and entertaining dialogues jargon-free and clearly structured grammatical explanations a range of dynamic and appropriate supporting exercises supplementary texts presenting many of the most significant and relevant aspects of Yiddish culture. By the end of this rewarding course you will be able to communicate confidently and effectively in Yiddish in a broad range of situations. Course components: The complete course comprises the book and audio materials. These are available to purchase separately in paperback, ebook, CD and MP3 format. The paperback and CDs can also be purchased together in the great-value Colloquials pack. Paperback: 978-0-415-58019-9 (please note this does not include the audio) CDs: 978-0-415-58020-5 eBook: 978-0-203-85120-3 (please note this does not include the audio, available to purchase from http://ebookstore.tandf.co.uk/audio_viewbooks.aspx) MP3s: 978-0-415-58021-2 (available to purchase from http://ebookstore.tandf.co.uk/audio_viewbooks.aspx) Pack: 978-0-415-58022-9 (paperback and CDs)
Colloquial Yoruba: The Complete Course for Beginners (Colloquial Ser.)
by Antonia Yetunde SchleicherColloquial Yoruba: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to Yoruba as it is written and spoken today. Combining a clear, practical and accessible style with a methodical and thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Yoruba in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required. Colloquial Yoruba is exceptional; each unit presents a wealth of grammatical points that are reinforced with a wide range of exercises for regular practice. A full answer key, a grammar summary, bilingual glossaries and English translations of dialogues can be found at the back as well as useful vocabulary lists throughout. Key features include: A clear, user-friendly format designed to help learners progressively build up their speaking, listening, reading and writing skills Jargon-free, succinct and clearly structured explanations of grammar An extensive range of focused and dynamic supportive exercises Realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of narrative situations Helpful cultural points explaining the customs and features of life in Nigeria An overview of the sounds of Yoruba Balanced, comprehensive and rewarding, Colloquial Yoruba is an indispensable resource both for independent learners and students taking courses in Yoruba. Audio material to accompany the course is available to download free in MP3 format from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. Recorded by native speakers, the audio material features the dialogues and texts from the book and will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills.
Color and Mastering for Digital Cinema
by Glenn KennelColor and Mastering for Digital Cinema explores the implications for motion picture post production processes and changes required to the supporting equipment and software. While a new concept to the motion picture community, the selection of the wide gamut, output-referred XYZ color space for digital cinema distribution is based on decades of color science and experience in other industries. The rationale for choosing XYZ and the other color encoding parameters is explained and the book also provides a full case study of the development of DLP Cinema® projectors by Texas Instruments. Finally, this book explores how the XYZ color encoding concept can be extended to support enhanced display technologies in the future.This book contains:* Brilliant 4-color illustrations that compliment the color science explanations * Never before published industry information from author Glenn Kennel, a world leader in digital cinema color technology * Descriptions of key issues and background on decisions that were made in the standardization processBy Glenn Kennel, Glenn Kennel is VP/GM of Feature Film Services at Laser Pacific Media Corporation, a leading provider of a full range of post production services for television and feature film. Recently, he worked for the DLP Cinema group of Texas Instruments in a role that included technology and business development. Previously, in a twenty year career with Kodak, he led the development of the Cineon digital film scanners and laser recorders and the prototype HDTV telecine that became the Spirit Datacine. As a consultant, he helped DCI draft the technical specifications for digital cinema. Kennel also chairs the SMPTE DC28 Color ad hoc group and the DC28.20 Distribution working group. He is a SMPTE Fellow and has received the SMPTE Journal Award. He is also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Colors, Backgrounds, and Gradients
by Eric A. MeyerOne advantage of using CSS3 is that you can apply colors and backgrounds to any element in a web document, create your own gradients, and even apply multiple backgrounds to the same element. This practical guide shows you many ways to use colors, backgrounds, and gradients to achieve some pretty awesome effects.Short and sweet, this book is an excerpt from the upcoming fourth edition of CSS: The Definitive Guide. When you purchase either the print or the ebook edition of Colors, Backgrounds, and Gradients, you'll receive a discount on the entire Definitive Guide once it's released. Why wait? Learn how to bring life to your web pages now.Define foreground colors for a border or element with the color propertyCombine foreground and background colors to create interesting effectsPosition and repeat one or more images in an element's backgroundFix an image to a screen's viewing area, rather than to the element that contains itUse color stops to define vertical, horizontal, and diagonal linear gradientsCreate spotlight effects, circular shadows, and other effects with radial gradients
The Colors of Culture: The Beauty of Diverse Friendships
by MelindaJoy Mingo05How diverse are your friendships? We are living in a time where fear and mistrust among people of different cultural and ethnic groups is becoming the norm rather than the exception. It appears that cultural and racial divides are expanding rather than shrinking. What can we do? We can learn to see every human being from God's perspective and value their experiences even when we don't understand them. To truly connect with people who are different from us will take the grace of God, compassion, and empathy. It will mean risking everything that we think we know about other cultures to initiate small steps toward befriending others. In The Colors of Culture, MelindaJoy Mingo models reaching across cultures. Through vivid stories spanning several countries, Mingo shows the beauty of diverse friendships in her life. She takes risks and learns from her mistakes, recognizing that relationships are worth the cost.
Combating Hate: A Framework for Direct Action (Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation)
by Billie MurrayThe United States has a hate problem. In recent years, hate speech has led not only to deep division in our politics but also to violence, murder, and even insurrection. And yet established constitutional jurisprudence holds that all speech is protected as “content neutral” and that the proper democratic response to hateful expression is not regulation but “more speech.” So how can ordinary citizens stand up to hate groups when the state will not?In Combating Hate, Billie Murray proposes an answer to this question. As a participant in anti-racist and anti-fascist protests, including demonstrations against the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and the Westboro Baptist Church, Murray witnessed firsthand the limitations of the “more speech” approach as well as the combative tactics of anti-fascist activists. She argues that this latter group, commonly known as antifa, embodies a radically different strategy for combating hate, one that explodes the myth of content neutrality and reveals hate speech to be a tactic of fascist organizing with very real, highly anti-democratic consequences. Drawing on communication theory and this on-the-ground experience, Murray presents a new strategy, which she calls “allied tactics,” rooted in the commitment to affirm, support, and even protect those who are the victims of hate speech.Engaging and sophisticated, Combating Hate contends that there are concrete ways to fight hate speech from the front lines. Murray’s urgent argument that we reconsider how to confront and fight this blight on American life is essential reading for the current era.
Combating Security Challenges in the Age of Big Data: Powered by State-of-the-Art Artificial Intelligence Techniques (Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications)
by Zubair Md. Fadlullah Al-Sakib Khan PathanThis book addresses the key security challenges in the big data centric computing and network systems, and discusses how to tackle them using a mix of conventional and state-of-the-art techniques. The incentive for joining big data and advanced analytics is no longer in doubt for businesses and ordinary users alike. Technology giants like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and companies like Uber, Airbnb, NVIDIA, Expedia, and so forth are continuing to explore new ways to collect and analyze big data to provide their customers with interactive services and new experiences. With any discussion of big data, security is not, however, far behind. Large scale data breaches and privacy leaks at governmental and financial institutions, social platforms, power grids, and so forth, are on the rise that cost billions of dollars. The book explains how the security needs and implementations are inherently different at different stages of the big data centric system, namely at the point of big data sensing and collection, delivery over existing networks, and analytics at the data centers. Thus, the book sheds light on how conventional security provisioning techniques like authentication and encryption need to scale well with all the stages of the big data centric system to effectively combat security threats and vulnerabilities. The book also uncovers the state-of-the-art technologies like deep learning and blockchain which can dramatically change the security landscape in the big data era.
Combative Politics: The Media and Public Perceptions of Lawmaking
by Mary Layton AtkinsonFrom the Affordable Care Act to No Child Left Behind, politicians often face a puzzling problem: although most Americans support the aims and key provisions of these policies, they oppose the bills themselves. How can this be? Why does the American public so often reject policies that seem to offer them exactly what they want? By the time a bill is pushed through Congress or ultimately defeated, we’ve often been exposed to weeks, months—even years—of media coverage that underscores the unpopular process of policymaking, and Mary Layton Atkinson argues that this leads us to reject the bill itself. Contrary to many Americans’ understandings of the policymaking process, the best answer to a complex problem is rarely self-evident, and politicians must weigh many potential options, each with merits and drawbacks. As the public awaits a resolution, the news media tend to focus not on the substance of the debate but on descriptions of partisan combat. This coverage leads the public to believe everyone in Washington has lost sight of the problem altogether and is merely pursuing policies designed for individual political gain. Politicians in turn exacerbate the problem when they focus their objections to proposed policies on the lawmaking process, claiming, for example, that a bill is being pushed through Congress with maneuvers designed to limit minority party input. These negative portrayals become linked in many people’s minds with the policy itself, leading to backlash against bills that may otherwise be seen as widely beneficial. Atkinson argues that journalists and educators can make changes to help inoculate Americans against the idea that debate always signifies dysfunction in the government. Journalists should strive to better connect information about policy provisions to the problems they are designed to ameliorate. Educators should stress that although debate sometimes serves political interests, it also offers citizens a window onto the lawmaking process that can help them evaluate the work their government is doing.
Come Autopubblicare un Romanzo con gli Amici
by Aj Tipton Benedetta AlciatoSei pronto a divertirti e guadagnare autopubblicando con gli amici? Scrivere può essere un lavoro difficile, solitario se fatto da soli. Ma non deve essere per forza così. Ti offriamo un metodo di autopubblicazione collaborativo e divertente. Se stai iniziando a conoscere il mondo dell’autopubblicazione, o hai già iniziato, questa è la guida per te! Come Autopubblicare Romanzi con gli Amici è un progetto indispensabile per trasformare le tue idee di storia in lavori pubblicati. Vogliamo salvarti dalla frustrazione e solitudine di provare a fare tutto da solo. AJ Tipton è un team di grande successo nell’autopubblicazione, ed abbiamo l’intenzione di rivelarti i nostri segreti, le lezioni guadagnate lavorando sodo, ed i trucchi che abbiamo imparato su questo eccitante mondo. Questo libro include: + Il modo migliore per scegliere il tuo coautore + Come scegliere genere e sottogenere + Un metodo a prova di errore per creare storie che vendono + Una guida interna per assumere freelance per l’editing, la creazione della copertina, le traduzioni, e molto altro + Trucchi di formattazione ed editing + Piattaforme di pubblicazione e domande da fare: Amazon, Kindle Unlimited, Nook, ecc. + I pro e i contro della traduzione del tuo libro + Come creare – ed usare – il tuo budget + Trucchi per un marketing di successo + Il potere dei social media + Come mantenere la tua collaborazione vantaggiosa, condividere il lavoro, e continuare a scrivere insieme E molto altro ancora! Se sei pronto ad essere creativo e a scrivere con gli amici, leggi questa guida punto per punto per iniziare ora il tuo viaggio verso l’autopubblicazione di successo!
Come Closer: Everything You Ever Wanted to Ask a Sex and Relationship Therapist
by Charlene DouglasFeeling a disconnect in your sex life?Sex and relationship therapist Charlene Douglas invites you to connect more, communicate better, and love more deeply.Perhaps you’ve considered seeing a therapist before but you worry it might be awkward or it’s too expensive... Come Closer provides the safe space you need to reflect on the past experiences that may have shaped your sexual world, explore what turns you on and what turns you off, and open up to issues in communication and sexual health.Charlene draws on real-life case studies from her experience helping individuals and couples to navigate different relationship problems and combines this with interactive intimacy tasks at the end of each chapter to give you something practical to work on.So whether you’re hoping to reignite an old spark or build a new sense of confidence in the bedroom, take the first step towards a happy and healthy sex life with Come Closer.
Come gestire un blog, Come far soldi con un blog.
by Ylenia Patuzzi Richard G Lowe JrC'è un'arte nello scrivere un articolo che ha la proprietà di invogliare il lettore ad agire. Questo è il filo conduttore del libro che state leggendo sul vostro Kindle proprio ora. Qui, imparerete come si crea un articolo che ottenga l'interesse del lettore, lo affascini, lo informi e lo spinga a prendere una decisione entro la fine della lettura. Il libro che state leggendo descrive i metodi che uso per creare articoli per blog che hanno lo specifico obiettivo di operare su una persona dal momento in cui clicca sul link fino a che preme il bottone compra o sottoscrivi sul fondo della pagina. Imparerai: * Come creare un titolo che attira il lettone nel tuo articolo * Cosa mettere "sopra la piega" * Aggiungere innesti emozionali * Connetterti coi tuoi lettori * Cos'altro aggiungere al tuo articolo * Far si che premano "Compra" * Quanto sono importanti le immagini? * E i video?
Come-Ons, Comebacks, and Kiss-Offs
by Jeanne MartinetWhoever said "First comes love, then comes marriage" was forgetting a slice of living hell we call dating. Happily, women everywhere can now rely on Jeanne Martinet, the mingling maven who's already helped transform hordes of ungainly souls into social swans.In this uniquely useful and funny book, she delivers anecdotes, dead-on insights, and men-tested, ready-to-use lines for every dating situation, no matter how awkward, exciting, unusual, or just plain mortifying.
Come registrare il tuo audiolibro per Audible, iTunes, ed altre piattaforme
by Mattia Baratto George SmolinskiQuesta è una guida completa con istruzioni video che vi permetterà di registrare il vostro audiolibro. Lo so perchè ho utilizzato QUESTE STESSE TECNICHE per registrare questo stesso libro per Audible! Gli audiolibri sono la più grande novità nell'ambito delle pubblizazioni oggigiorno. C'è stata una crescita esplosiva di vendite di audiolibri negli ultimi 4 anni, e voi dovete avere il vostro libro in formato audio. Questa guida vi insegnerà gli ingressi e le uscite della registrazione di audiolibri, anche se lo volete fare da soli! Argomenti discussi in questa guida: 1. L'equipaggiamento necessario per registrare audiolibri e narrazioni 2. Come iniziare a registrare audiolibri con GarageBand e Audacity 3. Consigrli e trucchi per aiutarvi partire con il piede giusto nella narrazione di audiolibri 4. Come caricare il vostro libro finito su Audible e iTunes libri 5. Risorse utili per far produrre il vostro audiolibro se non siete bravi con il fai-da-te
Come Scrivere un eBook in un Mese: Passaggi e Consigli per Concentrarsi, Motivarsi ed Essere Creativi
by Beautrice NorfolkVuoi scrivere un libro senza fatica e impiegando poco tempo? Che aspetti? Scopri subito strategie e consigli che autori e autrici di best seller utilizzano per scrivere i propri capolavori! Leggendo, imparerai a: - Scrivere un Libro in Un Mese o Meno! - Scrivere le Scene Iniziali. - Impostare una Scena. - Sviluppare una Struttura. - Creare Idee. - Mantenere la Concentrazione. >>> Clicca qui per acquistare immediatamente!
Come scrivere un romanzo - Superare il blocco dello scrittore
by Clara Tiscar Corrado PastoreVuoi scrivere ma soffri di una sorta di blocco? Provi una sensazione di panico di fronte alla pagina bianca? Se ti identifichi con le seguenti affermazioni, questo libro fa proprio al caso tuo: Voglio incominciare a scrivere ma non trovo il momento giusto Sono bloccato con il mio romanzo e non so come uscirne Ho chiara la storia che voglio raccontare ma non riesco a scriverla Non sono bloccato ma mi manca la motivazione per andare avanti a scrivere il mio romanzo Se applichi correttamente le tecniche, superare il blocco sarà molto più facile e divertente di quanto credi. Inoltre, imparerai nuovi metodi di lavoro che faranno sì che tu non ti permetteranno di non sentirti più bloccato in futuro.
Comebacks at Work: Using Conversation to Master Confrontation
by Kathleen Kelley Reardon Christopher T. NobletA stimulating, thought-provoking book that lets you know how to break free of negative behavior, take control of office politics, and prevent difficult, repetitive, and avoidable situations. Reardon—a frequent HuffingtonPost contributor and professor at the Marshall School of Business—arms readers with the tools they need to take control of conversations in the workplace. Comebacks at Work combines the best qualities of Deborah Tannen's Talking from 9 to 5, Kerry Patterson's Crucial Conversations, and Douglas Stone's Difficult Conversations, a perfect workplace guide to getting what you deserve.
A Comedian and an Activist Walk into a Bar: The Serious Role of Comedy in Social Justice (Communication for Social Justice Activism #1)
by Caty Borum Chattoo Lauren FeldmanComedy is a powerful contemporary source of influence and information. In the still-evolving digital era, the opportunity to consume and share comedy has never been as available. And yet, despite its vast cultural imprint, comedy is a little-understood vehicle for serious public engagement in urgent social justice issues – even though humor offers frames of hope and optimism that can encourage participation in social problems. Moreover, in the midst of a merger of entertainment and news in the contemporary information ecology, and a decline in perceptions of trust in government and traditional media institutions, comedy may be a unique force for change in pressing social justice challenges. Comedians who say something serious about the world while they make us laugh are capable of mobilizing the masses, focusing a critical lens on injustices, and injecting hope and optimism into seemingly hopeless problems. By combining communication and social justice frameworks with contemporary comedy examples, authors Caty Borum Chattoo and Lauren Feldman show us how comedy can help to serve as a vehicle of change. Through rich case studies, audience research, and interviews with comedians and social justice leaders and strategists, A Comedian and an Activist Walk Into a Bar: The Serious Role of Comedy in Social Justice explains how comedy – both in the entertainment marketplace and as cultural strategy – can engage audiences with issues such as global poverty, climate change, immigration, and sexual assault, and how activists work with comedy to reach and empower publics in the networked, participatory digital media age.
Comedy, Cameos, and Campaign Communication: Leveraging Entertainment Media to Win Elections and Advance Policy (Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics)
by Jason TurcotteThis book provides a thorough foundation for understanding the shift from political campaigning via legacy news media to campaigning through entertainment media. Public discourse that would once transpire on the newsprint of opinion pages or behind a news anchor’s desk and teleprompter is now happening through talk shows and sitcoms, celebrity partnerships and influencer accounts, memes and streams, video games, branded merchandise, and social media. Here, Turcotte explores how media consumption habits have reshaped contemporary campaign norms and shifted strategies for seeking public office and advancing policy goals. He shows how candidates are incorporating entertainment media in their strategic campaigns, moving beyond satirical programs to demonstrate a multi-pronged approach to campaign communication in the entertainment environment. With a compelling introduction to these campaign shifts and an examination of tangible applications, this text is suitable for scholars as well as students in both political science and mass communication courses, particularly courses in political communication and strategic communication.
The Comedy of Errors: The 30-Minute Shakespeare
by Nick NewlinThe Comedy of Errors: The 30-Minute Shakespeare offers five raucous scenes from this extravaganza of mistaken identity.The abridgement begins with a dramatic physical enactment of the twins' separation at sea. The play continues with a series of foibles featuring Antipholus of Ephesus, Dromio of Ephesus, and their identical twin counterparts from Antipholus.Adriana and Luciana receive hysterically misguided attention from the twins. Emilia and Egeon as the long-lost parents, and the riotous conjurer Dr. Pinch round out the cast of characters in Shakespeare's most uproarious comedy.The edition includes a preface by Nick Newlin containing helpful advice on how to put on a Shakespeare performance in a high school class with novice actors, as well as an appendix with suggestions for the specific play and recommendations for further resources.
Comfort is an Old Barn: Stories from the Heart of Maine
by Amy CalderAmy Calder is an award-winning newspaper reporter and columnist, covering city government and everything from murders and car crashes to fires and drug busts. Her 34-year career started at the Waterville Sentinel bureau in Skowhegan, where she served as bureau chief for several years and chased stories from Jackman to Fairfield and Farmington to Newport. Since 2009, Calder has written a weekly human interest column, “Reporting Aside,” which appears in both the Sentinel and the Kennebec Journal. Comfort is an Old Barn is a curated collection of those columns, which include sketches of the colorful characters, quirky animals she has encountered, and special moments, as well as personal stories that make living in Maine special.
Comic Books Incorporated: How the Business of Comics Became the Business of Hollywood
by Shawna KidmanComic Books Incorporated tells the story of the US comic book business, reframing the history of the medium through an industrial and transmedial lens. Comic books wielded their influence from the margins and in-between spaces of the entertainment business for half a century before moving to the center of mainstream film and television production. This extraordinary history begins at the medium’s origin in the 1930s, when comics were a reviled, disorganized, and lowbrow mass medium, and surveys critical moments along the way—market crashes, corporate takeovers, upheavals in distribution, and financial transformations. Shawna Kidman concludes this revisionist history in the early 2000s, when Hollywood had fully incorporated comic book properties and strategies into its business models and transformed the medium into the heavily exploited, exceedingly corporate, and yet highly esteemed niche art form we know so well today.
Coming to Narrative: A Personal History of Paradigm Change in the Human Sciences (Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives #14)
by Arthur P BochnerReflecting on a 50 year university career, Distinguished Professor Arthur Bochner, former President of the National Communication Association, discloses a lived history, both academic and personal, that has paralleled many of the paradigm shifts in the human sciences inspired by the turn toward narrative. He shows how the human sciences—especially in his own areas of interpersonal, family, and communication theory—have evolved from sciences directed toward prediction and control to interpretive ones focused on the search for meaning through qualitative, narrative, and ethnographic modes of inquiry. He outlines the theoretical contributions of such luminaries as Bateson, Laing, Goffman, Henry, Gergen, and Richardson in this transformation. Using diverse forms of narration, Bochner seamlessly layers theory and story, interweaving his professional and personal life with the social and historical contexts in which they developed.
Comm 2
by Rudolph F. Verderber Kathleen S. Verderber Deanna D. SellnowCreated through a "student-tested, faculty-approved" review process, COMM2 is an engaging and accessible solution to accommodate the diverse lifestyles of today's learners.
COMM 4: Speech Communication
by Kathleen S. Verderber Deanna D. Sellnow Rudolph F. VerderberNIMAC-sourced textbook