-Humanities & Education

Following in the vein of her best-selling elementary book, June Chapin focuses on key topics that are critical to the teaching of social studies in the middle and secondary classrooms.

This brief, practical book enables readers to concentrate on the crucial, relevant strategies and content to become effective social studies teachers who will be able to teach in a wide diversity of classrooms.  The goal for the reader is to teach social studies creatively and thoughtfully so that their students become knowledgeable and responsible citizens acting on core values and beliefs.

A comprehensive collection of resources for tertiary teachers and students of English - Spanish translation in the Caribbean region. This manual consists principally of Caribbean source texts in a variety of discourses, each accompanied by a translation and a commentary.

Young people need to cope in a variety of settings, including school, home, peer groups and the workplace, and with a range of life problems such as examinations and parental divorce. This thoroughly revised and updated new edition of Adolescent Coping presents the latest research and applications in the field of coping. It highlights the ways in which coping can be measured and, in particular, details a widely used adolescent coping instrument.

Topics include the different ways in which girls and boys cope, coping in the family, how culture and context determine how young people cope, decisional coping, problem solving and social coping, with a particular emphasis on practice. Each topic is considered in light of past and recent research findings and each chapter includes quotations from young people. While topics such as depression, eating disorders, self-harm and grief and loss are addressed, there is a substantial focus on the positive aspects of coping, including an emphasis on resilience and the achievement of happiness. In addition to the wide-ranging research findings that are reported, many of the chapters consider implications and applications of the relevant findings with suggestions for the development of coping skills and coping skills training.

Adolescent Coping will be of interest to students of psychology, social work, sociology, education and youth and community work as well as to an audience of parents, educators and adolescents.

Contiene metodos para aprender los puntos claves del espa?ol conrapidez y facilidad

(The fast, easy way to master the finer points of Spanish)

Unsure about conjugating irregular Spanish verbs? Using thesubjunctive? Determining the appropriate definite article? Thiscomplete, accessible guide clarifies grammatical structure andexplains vocabulary usage to help you master Spanish. Whether youneed extra help for a course, want a quick review for a test, orsimply want to brush up your language skills, this is the book tohave. In this completely revised edition of More Practical SpanishGrammar, you'll find:
* An interactive format that lets you work at your own pace
* Exercises to reinforce what you've learned
* Over 1,000 practical Spanish words and terms
* Explanations of the more intricate grammatical rules of Spanish
* Special !Atencion! sections that focus on problematic words andstructures

Méthode de français professionnel de niveau intermédiaire:
Affaires à suivre est un cours qui fait suite à l'ouvrage Comment vont les affaires ? Il permet d'approfondir la communication en situation professionnelle, à l'écrit comme à l'oral.


Cet ouvrage couvre 150 heures environ et mène l'étudiant à un niveau intermédiaire qui se situe au niveau seuil du cadre européen commun de référence.


Il prépare au Certificat de Français Professionnel (CFP) et au Diplôme de Français des Affaires 1 (DFPB1) de la Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie Paris-Ile de France.


Affaires à suivre est un cours de français pratique construit autour de situations courantes de la vie professionnelle.

Does the scientific "theory" that HIV came to North America from Haiti stem from underlying attitudes of racism and ethnocentrism in the United States rather than from hard evidence? Award-winning author and anthropologist-physician Paul Farmer answers with this, the first full-length ethnographic study of AIDS in a poor society. First published in 1992 this new edition has been updated and a new preface added.

ALTER ego 1 workbook serves as a complement to the student's book and is based on the same structure.It reinforces students' skills through a wide range of activities on: - vocabulary, - grammar, - communication skills, - written comprehension ans expression.The students can carry out the activities in the classroom or on their own.The portfolio at the end of the workbook is designed to help students reflect on and improve their language learning.ALTER ego 1 also includes: - a student's book with a CD, - a teacher's book, - three class audio CDs, - one video DVD.

Le cahier d'activités d'Alter ego 3 vient en complément du livre de l'élève dont il suit la structure.

Il propose de renforcer les connaissances acquises à travers une grande variété d'activités:
- de vocabulaire
- de grammaire
- de communication,
- de compréhension et de production écrites, à faire en classe ou en autonomie.

A la fin du cahier, un portfolio permet également à l'apprenant d'évaluer son apprentissage de façon active et réfléchie.

Alter ego 3, c'est aussi:
- un livre de l'élève,
- un guide pédagogique,
- deux CD audio pour la classe.

In An Accented Cinema, Hamid Naficy offers an engaging overview of an important trend--the filmmaking of postcolonial, Third World, and other displaced individuals living in the West. How their personal experiences of exile or diaspora translate into cinema is a key focus of Naficy's work. Although the experience of expatriation varies greatly from one person to the next, the films themselves exhibit stylistic similarities, from their open- and closed-form aesthetics to their nostalgic and memory-driven multilingual narratives, and from their emphasis on political agency to their concern with identity and transgression of identity. The author explores such features while considering the specific histories of individuals and groups that engender divergent experiences, institutions, and modes of cultural production and consumption. Treating creativity as a social practice, he demonstrates that the films are in dialogue not only with the home and host societies but also with audiences, many of whom are also situated astride cultures and whose desires and fears the filmmakers wish to express.

Comparing these films to Hollywood films, Naficy calls them "accented." Their accent results from the displacement of the filmmakers, their alternative production modes, and their style. Accented cinema is an emerging genre, one that requires new sets of viewing skills on the part of audiences. Its significance continues to grow in terms of output, stylistic variety, cultural diversity, and social impact. This book offers the first comprehensive and global coverage of this genre while presenting a framework in which to understand its intricacies.