This product is most effective when used in conjunction with the corresponding audio support.- You can purchase the book and audio support as a pack (ISBN: 9781444106916)- The audio support is also sold separately (ISBN: 9781444107012)(copy and paste the ISBN number into the search bar to find these products)Are you looking for a complete course in Czech which takes you effortlessly from beginner to confident speaker? Whether you are starting f...

This eBook+ version includes the following enhancements:Pop-up definitions to explain terminologyLive links to external research and real-world examplesInteractive quizzes featuring multiple choice, true false, and fill-in-the-blank questions.Featuring examples of strategic writing throughout the book, this practical, multidisciplinary text takes students through the fundamental concepts, genres, and techniques of writing for strategic commu...

From 21 of the best writers in the Asia-Pacific region comes a collection about finding connections where you least expect them.It’s a sweltering night in Kuala Lumpur, and a journalist is protesting in a city on the edge of meltdown. It’s post-9/11 San Francisco, and a woman meets her foster child, who provokes painful reminders of her past. It’s contemporary Bangkok, and a writer’s encounter with ladyboy culture prompts him to explore gender boundaries. And high ...

Reb.A.I.... Equal parts rebel and Jedi.... A collection of short stories in the clinch with power, greed, technology, corruption, inequality, and the illionaire. illionaire: them unsatisfied with simple abuse... them who elect to design torment through their oblivious acquisition of power. Satire in the face of serious, civilization spanning crimes. Humor wedged in the center of unanswered questions and concerns. Nine short stories included: And Now They Do What They Sold You, Foundations ...

Written in 1935 at the height of Czech Surrealism but not published until 1945, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is a bizarre erotic fantasy of a young girl's maturation into womanhood on the night of her first menstruation. Referencing Matthew Lewis's The Monk, Marquis de Sade's Justine, K. H. Macha's May, F. W. Murnau's film Nosferatu, Nezval employs the language of the pulp serial novel to construct a lyrical, menacing dream of sexual awakening involving a vamp...

Thank you for your interest in the audiocourse Learn French for pre-intermediate_Part 01 by Audioacademyeu. The course is deigned for slightly advanced learners who have already studied French for one or two years and have mastered the basics. The course is based on contextual learning, which means that you will not only learn words, but also sentences in which you can use the words you have learned. Because of its size, the course is divided into two parts. You are now reading the introdu...

Thank you for your interest in the Business French audiocourse by Audioacademyeu. The course is designed for beginners to slightly advanced learners and focuses on vocabulary you can use at work and in business contacts with French-speaking business partners. The course is based on contextual learning, which means that you will not only learn words, but also sentences in which you can use the words you have learned. In this course you will find a total of 1,000 words and practice sentences...

The mission of the Research Methodology in Strategy and Management book series is to provide a thoughtful medium to comment, critique, and build knowledge relevant to techniques that advance the strategic management field. This ninth volume in the series explores the theme of "Social Entrepreneurship and Research Methods." This volume provides a critical examination of previous approaches used to explore phenomena of interest in the growing study of social entrepreneurship. The importance ...

Shovel dirt into the hole.... Another shovel of dirt to fill.... Bury It Deep! Bury it deep! No... not buried... dug up....Bury It Deep: A manifestation of evil that cannot be avoided uproots in a Mesoamerican tribe's village. The tribe disappears.... An entity turns the flesh of a Professor of Geology, Govver Kennedy, into a tome of wickedness known as the Corpus Altum... the body deep. The Corpus Altum--a living entity--sets out to ink its pages in blood. Blood, but not font... y...

Czechoslovakia, 1968. The Soviet troops have just invaded and, for the young orphan Ilya, life is suddenly turned on its head. At first there is relief that the mean-spirited nuns who ran his orphanage have been driven out by the Red Army, but as the children are left to fend for themselves, order and routine quickly give way to brutality and chaos, and Ilya finds himself drawn into the violence. When the troops return, the orphans are given military training and, with his first-hand knowl...

Languages of Water is a rare but intimate fusion of East, West and Africa, a stunning artefact of writerly immersion and cultural exchange. This child of digital collaboration brings together writers, illustrators and translators of poetry, fiction and essays, and refuses to be contained.In a playful interrogation of French literary theorist, critic and philosopher Roland Barthes' le plaisir du texte and death of the author, Languages of Water opens with the homing story 'When the ...

“Glimmers in anticipation of Hrabal’s later virtuosity.”—New Yorker“A collection of formative fiction from a writer whose work has earned comparison with Joyce and Beckett. . . . Early work from a writer who merits a larger readership.”—Kirkus ReviewsThis collection of the earliest prose by one of literature’s greatest stylists captures, as scholar Arnault Maréchal put it, “the moment when Hrabal discovered t...