This book describes how the teaching of English can be organised by educational systems, institutions (e.g., schools, language centres, universities), and teachers. Accessibly written, the book combines theory and practice of curriculum development by explaining key concepts through real-life examples from a range of international contexts, including Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Japan, Spain, the UK and the USA. It includes activities that encourage stude...

A true story set in Europe.A man arrives in Switzerland looking for a better future. By chance, determination, and a different way of thinking, he creates one of the most discreet and successful luxury escort networks in Europe.From Lausanne to London, Paris, Geneva, Monaco, Milan and beyond, this book takes the reader behind the scenes of a world rarely seen by the public.Luxury hotels, international models, millionaires, princes, businessmen, strange requests, unf...

Life on earth is fading to a whisper. Faced with a stalled future of economic precarity and mounting authoritarianism, Carlos and Aitana must make a decision, monumental and world-altering, about what they are prepared to sacrifice to cleave to life.Through sleight of hand and ingenious puzzle-like logic, The White Desert orbits Carlos and Aitana's story and emerges as a collective portrait, mapping the true cost of our frictionless lifestyles. Effortlessly moving between ...

“The drunkard who comes out with an absurd order, the dreamer who suddenly wakes and with his bare hands strangles the woman sleeping beside him – are they perhaps not carrying out one of the Company’s secret decisions? These silent workings, so like those of God, give rise to all manner of speculation.”The affairs of Babylon are dictated by a lottery. Discreetly administered by a mysterious and seemingly omnipotent Company, the lottery can elevate citizens to positions of wealth a...

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERINSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLERINSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe former head of the Pentagon program responsible for the investigation of UFOs—now known as unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP)—reveals long-hidden secrets with profound implications for not only national security but our understanding of the universe.Luis “Lue” ...

This book is a pioneering work that examines cultural diversity policies in Argentina, Brazil, and Peru over the past 15 years. The book offers a critical analysis of the rationalities and concepts underpinning these policies, exposing their inherent contradictions and the social forces that have both supported and resisted their implementation. By highlighting the struggles of marginalized groups in their pursuit of social, economic, and political equality, it reveals the deep intersectio...

Corruption is a complex phenomenon that challenges ethics and integrity in public administration. Over the past decade, increased societal monitoring – particularly through the media and civil society organizations – has brought corruption back to the forefront of public concern and political debate. Since most state bureaucracies are formally grounded in a Weberian ethos of meritocracy, competition, and discipline, this raises fundamental questions: What causes corruption in the public se...

This book is a bifurcated journey through fifteen years of the architecture practice OODA, designed as a "dream state" inner dialogue between Some Kind of Romance and Any Kind of Existence: mirrored reflections of past and future projects that reflects the practice's work and exploring path from Porto to the world. Read together, these two parts are less about buildings than about a way of being in the world, offering an open narrative where architecture is presented as if in a chronicle, ...

Apocalyptic predictions that AI will eliminate millions of jobs have caused widespread fear. When people hear that AI can write, code, and diagnose, they often jump to a scary conclusion: If machines can think, human work is doomed. Messy Jobs argues that this gloomy belief gets the economics of work wrong.Economists Luis Garicano, Jin Li, and Yanhui Wu offer a new framework for thinking about AI and work. They show why some roles will disappear, why others will be reshape...

Are past lives truly past, or are they simultaneous lives? Is it possible that in traumatic situations we lose a part of our soul? And if so, is it possible to recover the fragment that was lost? After having written about the basic technique, the space between lives, life before birth, the purpose of the soul, and the influence of lost souls in the genesis of certain emotional disturbances, the author now presents a novel approach to Past Life Therapy based on his experience of his twenty...

My name is Manko Quispe. I was an Auca Runa (savage warrior, man of war) of the Tawantinsuyo (Empire of the Four Parts). My life was not measured in years, but in battles. So many that their number was lost, like a raindrop lost in the great Vilcanota river (sacred river of Cusco). My body became a parchment of skin, a topographic map of pain where each scar is a valley carved by the edge of foreign iron, a mountain raised by the blow of the macana (war club), a furrow where death sowe...

*THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**THE SUBJECT OF THE AGE OF DISCLOSURE DOCUMENTARY*'I can say without fear of contradiction that Lue has played a central and indispensable role in forever changing the way humanity views the issue of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP)'Chris Mellon, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Former Minority Staff Director of the Senat...