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UNINA9910153110103321 |
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Autore |
McWhorter Kathleen T. |
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Titolo |
Academic reading / / Kathleen T. McWhorter, Brette M. Sember |
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Harlow, Essex : , : Pearson, , [2014] |
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©2014 |
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[Eight edition, Pearson new international edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (439 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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Collana |
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Reading (Higher education) |
Reading comprehension - Study and teaching |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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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 |
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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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UNINA9910797532203321 |
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Autore |
Lavergne Michael |
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Fixing fashion : rethinking the way we make, market and buy our clothes / / Michael Lavergne ; cover design by Diane McIntosh |
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Gabriola Island, British Columbia : , : New Society Publishers, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (242 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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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 |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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. |
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"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."-- |
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