This second edition has been updated to include Internet, e-mail and mobile phone languages. Written by a native speaker, this is ideal for students learning on their own or in class and will help perfect pronunciation.

Ecocriticism explores the ways in which we imagine the relationship between humans and the environment across many areas of cultural production, including Romantic poetry, wildlife documentaries, climate models, the Hollywood blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow, and novels by Margaret Atwood, Kim Scott, Barbara Kingsolver and Octavia Butler.

This thought-provoking introduction outlines Taylor's ideas in a coherent and accessible way. Essential reading for students of philosophy, religion and political theory, and will be welcomed by the non-specialist looking for a guide to Taylor's body of work.

Basic Dutch: A Grammar and Workbook comprises an accessible reference grammar and related exercises in a single volume. This second edition contains new chapters on spelling, pronunciation, and indirect speech, as well as revised and additional exercises with lists of new vocabulary.

Written by an academic with extensive experience in translator education, its strong pedagogical emphasis makes it the essential entry-level textbook for courses introducing students to professional translating within translation studies and translator training.

Understanding Signed Languages provides a broad and accessible introduction to the science of language with evidence drawn from signed languages around the world.

This insightful volume is designed as a series of invitations towards living attentiveness, examining how we all make the ‘other’, through ‘projection’ (blaming and shaming the other outside ourselves), our enemy with whom we prefer not to dialogue.

This updated fourth edition presents a wide-scale, interdisciplinary guide to social media communication. Examining platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube, the book analyzes social media's use in journalism, public relations, advertising, and marketing.

This book is a comprehensive introduction to strategic foresight. It explains the theoretical foundations and practical applications of strategic foresight in different contexts, and is essential reading for managers and leaders of organizations who want to establish strategic foresight practices.

This book is not about debits, credits, or accounting theory. Instead, it describes how a chief financial officer (CFO) becomes a Lean CFO by leading a company in developing and deploying a Lean management system. The finance team, business executives, and Lean leaders will all benefit from its forward-thinking improvement approach.