1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910153110103321

Autore

McWhorter Kathleen T.

Titolo

Academic reading / / Kathleen T. McWhorter, Brette M. Sember

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Harlow, Essex : , : Pearson, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

1-292-03677-X

Edizione

[Eight edition, Pearson new international edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (439 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Collana

Always learning

Disciplina

428.40711

Soggetti

Reading (Higher education)

Reading comprehension - Study and teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Table of Contents -- 1. Strategies for Active Reading -- 2. Fundamental Comprehension Skills -- 3. Essential Vocabulary Skills -- 4. Evaluating the Author's Message -- 5. Evaluating the Author's Techniques -- 6. Reading and Evaluating Arguments -- 7. Patterns of Academic Thought -- 8. Reading and Evaluating Graphics and Online Sources -- 9. Using Writing to Learn -- 10. Reading in the Social Sciences -- 11. Reading in Business -- 12. Reading in the Liberal Arts, Humanities and Eduation -- 13. Reading in Mathematics -- 14. Reading in the Life and Physical Sciences -- 15. Reading in Technical and Applied Fields -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Academic Reading: College Major and Career Applications focuses on developing essential reading skills while showing students how to adapt them to specific academic disciplines and career fields.            Kathleen McWhorter offers a unique, contextualized approach that focuses on academic reading skills and also motivates students towards a particular area of interest or field of study. Readers learn important comprehension, vocabulary, and critical thinking skills, as well as how to adapt these skills to study specific academic disciplines. While doing so, they also learn what each discipline involves and explore the available career paths. As an end result, Academic Reading teaches essential reading skills while opening up new academic and career possibilities.      This edition of Academic Reading is supported



by an enhanced MyReadingLab course, which offers text-specific exercises within the Learning Path, all of which feed into the MyReadingLab Gradebook.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797532203321

Autore

Lavergne Michael

Titolo

Fixing fashion : rethinking the way we make, market and buy our clothes / / Michael Lavergne ; cover design by Diane McIntosh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gabriola Island, British Columbia : , : New Society Publishers, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-55092-595-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 pages)

Disciplina

338.4/774692

Soggetti

Clothing trade - Social aspects

Clothing trade - Environmental aspects

Fashion - Social aspects

Fashion - Environmental aspects

Shopping - Social aspects

Consumption (Economics) - Social aspects

Social responsibility of business

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword / by Carry Somers -- Introduction -- 1. Manchester to Mumbai -- 2. To make and market -- 3. Alphabet soup -- 4. Unsustainable -- 5. Aid for trade -- 6. Redefining fashion.

Sommario/riassunto

"The legacy of Rana Plaza is increased consumer awareness of the global apparel industry's serious environmental and human rights challenges. Fixing Fashion exposes the worst of the excesses, while simultaneously celebrating the entrepreneurs and stakeholders driving meaningful change. Written by an industry insider, this compelling manifesto challenges each of us to take responsibility for the hidden cost of our clothes."--