English for Academic Study: Reading This fully updated 2012 edition of English for Academic Study: Reading is designed to challenge and stimulate students on pre-sessional and pre-departure courses. The Course Book contains step-by-step activities written by EAP professionals at the University of Reading's International Study and Language Centre. The activities are designed for use with authentic reading texts in the accompanying EAS: Reading & Writing Source Book.

EAS: Reading is based on an...

This Nihongo Hyogen Bunkei Jiten is a comprehensive dictionary to Japanese expressions, perfect for all levels. Dictionaries are probably one of the most important materials for learners of a foreign language, but sometimes even dictionaries cannot help, especially when it comes to expressions. You will find it quite difficult to look up a Japanese expression with a general dictionary as most just show the single vocabularies and not the combined expression.However, this dictionary contains t...

Familiar combinations of ingredients and processing make the structures that give food its properties. For example in ice cream, the emulsifiers and proteins stabilize partly crystalline milk fat as an emulsion, freezing (crystallization) of some of the water gives the product its hardness and polysaccharide stabilizers keep it smooth. Why different recipes work as they do is largely governed by the rules of physical chemistry.

This textbook introduces the physical chemistry essential to unde...

The dynamic systems approach is a rapidly expanding advancement in the study of developmental research, particularly in the domain of adolescent development. It provides a unique way of examining the subject, and this innovative study of developmental processes helps social scientists to translate dynamic systems conceptualizations into clear empirical research that readers will be able to implement themselves. The first part of this edited book discusses techniques that describe and assess s...

The most widely-used text of the last 25 years in its discipline, Systematic Theology by Wayne Grudem has been thoroughly revised and expanded (all 57 chapters) for the first time, while retaining the features that have made it the standard in its field: clear explanations, an emphasis on each doctrine's scriptural basis, and practical applications to daily life.

Part of the brilliance of Systematic Theology over the years has been its simplicity and ease of use. Each chapter follows the same...

Das große Werk zur deutschen Geschichte! Umfassend und fundiert werden hier 2000 Jahre deutsche Geschichte in acht Epochen dargestellt. Ein Zeitstrahl und eine Einführung zu jedem Kapitel bieten einen Überblick über die Meilensteine und die prägenden Entwicklungen der jeweiligen Zeit. Die über 500 Fotos, Karten, Tabellen, Kurzporträts und Schlüsselbegriffe machen Zusammenhänge deutlich und erwecken die deutsche Geschichte zum Leben.

The Society of Dairy Technology (SDT) has joined with Wiley-Blackwell to produce a series of technical dairy-related handbooks providing an invaluable resource for all those involved in the dairy industry; from practitioners to technologists working in both traditional and modern large-scale dairy operations. The fifth volume in the series, Milk Processing and Quality Management, provides timely and comprehensive guidance on the processing of liquid milks by bringing together contributions fr...

Presents a controversial view of the origins of fascism, locating them in the eighteenth century with the advent of the Anti-Enlightenment, a far earlier date than most historians. This book contends that J G Herder, Edmund Burke, and Joseph de Maistre can be connected to the origins of the Anti-Enlightenment.

Over a century ago, psychologists who were fascinated with religion began to study and write about it. People with a background in psychology often lack a solid understanding of the religious traditions they wish to study, and theologians may not be up to date on the latest developments in psychology.

Niet voor het eerst zit er een onbekende jongen langs de kant toe te kijken als Joey en zijn vrienden aan het voetballen zijn op het trapveldje. Joey nodigt hem uit om mee te doen. De jongen, die Adil heet, vertelt dat hij in het asielzoekerscentrum naast het veldje woont. Al snel blijkt dat Adil bijzonder veel talent heeft, maar toch overal buiten de boot valt. Ook veel vrienden van Joey wantrouwen hem. Joey komt steeds meer te weten over Adils maandenlange reis van Syrië naar Nederland. De...