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UNINA9910464199203321 |
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Ward Mark |
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Deadly Documents [[electronic resource] ] : Technical Communication, Organizational Discourse, and the Holocaust-Lessons from the Rhetorical Work of Everyday Texts |
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Amityville, : Baywood Publishing Company, Inc., 2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (266 p.) |
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Baywood's Technical Communications Series |
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Technical writing - Germany - History - 20th century |
Communication of technical information - History - 20th century - Germany |
Technical writing - History - 20th century - Germany |
Jews - History - Persecutions - 20th century - Germany |
Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous - War use |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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""Deadly Documents: Technical Communication, Organizational Discourse, and the Holocaust""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""CHAPTER 1: Can Genocide Be Regulated?""; ""An Ontological Shift""; ""Revisiting the Final Solution""; ""Sample, Method, and Chapter Organization""; ""The Importance of the Study""; ""CHAPTER 2: From Darwin to Death Wagons""; ""Origins of European Anti-Semitism""; ""The Rise of Racial Anti-Semitism""; ""Development of the Gas Vans""; ""Operational Challenges in the Field"" |
""CHAPTER 3: The People's Community""""Organizations as Open Systems""; ""Unifying Principles of Institutional Culture""; ""Aspects of SS Organizational Culture""; ""Lines of Organizational Authority""; ""German Bureaucratic Document Protocols""; ""CHAPTER 4: The Participants and Their Motives""; ""Personnel of the Gas Van Program""; ""Individual Relationships and Motives""; ""CHAPTER 5: Documents for Destruction""; ""Setting Up the Analyses""; ""Introducing the |
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Documents""; ""CHAPTER 6: A Community of Killers""; ""Constructing the Rhetorical Community"" |
""A Safety Narrative and Protean Metaphors""""Discovering Organizational Genres in the Texts""; ""Rhetorical Community in Organizational Contexts""; ""Visuality in the Rhetorical Community""; ""CHAPTER 7: Discourse of Death""; ""What Discourse Analysis Can Add""; ""The Killers Use of Linguistic Resources""; ""Reconstructing an Organizational Discourse""; ""CHAPTER 8: Revisiting Expediency""; ""Boundary Work in Action""; ""Lanzmann and the Why Question""; ""Implications of the Lanzmann Alterations""; ""CHAPTER 9: Bridging the Boundaries""; ""An A historical Consensus?"" |
""Expediency Without Ethics""""Protecting Rhetoric and Rhetoricians""; ""Safeguarding Science and Civilization""; ""Converging on a Comfortable Distance""; ""What the Orderings May Reveal""; ""CHAPTER 10: Some Ethical Implications""; ""A Bias for Explanation""; ""Prescriptive and Descriptive Ethics""; ""Afterword: The Reality of Words and Their Aftermaths""; ""References""; ""Index"" |
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UNINA9910463307103321 |
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Schulte Beerbühl Margrit |
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The forgotten majority : German merchants in London, naturalization, and global trade, 1660-1815 / / Margrit Schulte Beerbühl ; translated by Cynthia Klohr |
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New York : , : Berghahn Books, , [2015] |
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©2015 |
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[English-language edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (325 p.) |
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Studies in British and imperial history ; ; volume 3 |
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Merchants - England - London - History |
Germans - England - London - History |
Naturalization - Great Britain - History |
International trade - History |
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Germany Commerce Great Britain History |
Great Britain Commerce Germany History |
London (England) Economic conditions |
London (England) Ethnic relations History |
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German-language edition entitled Deutsche Kaufleute in London : Welthandel und Einbürgerung (1660-1818); published by Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag GmbH, München, 2007. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Sources and outline -- Ch. 1. Naturalizing newcomers for prosperity (1660-1818) -- Early modern English naturalization law -- Naturalized subjects : their number and native lands -- The occupations of German immigrants to become English subjects -- Ch. 2. Promoting Anglo-German trade in the seventeenth century -- Reorganizing Anglo-German trade during the 1600s -- London's German merchants after 1660 -- Lack of trust and understanding : challenges for both sides -- German merchant trade in London -- Trading regions and commodities -- Late-seventeenth-century German trade networks -- German merchants and London trade companies -- Fighting regulated companies -- Politics and commerce -- Ch. 3. Eighteenth-century German houses and trade -- London's German trade houses -- Starting out in London : the way to independence -- Trade houses and partners -- Chain migration, successors, and transnational alliances -- A German perspective on the development of bilateral trade -- The rise and organization of early "merchant empires" -- Connecting colonial empires -- Early merchant empires : flexible and vulnerable -- Ch. 4. German merchants in the Levant and Russia Companies -- British trade with Russia and the Levant -- Naturalized merchants in the Levant Company -- Naturalized merchants in the Russia Company -- The Russia Company's struggle with naturalization practices -- Naturalized subjects and the British factory in St. Petersburg -- The Bank of Scotland's right to naturalize -- Ch. 5. Boom and bankruptcy -- Insurance and trade at London's German trade houses -- London's early insurance business -- Networking Europe with the Americas and Asia -- The bankruptcy trend and the naturalized subjects' bankruptcies -- Waves of bankruptcy during the Coalition Wars -- The size of failed trade houses during the era of the Coalition Wars -- Muilman & Nantes -- Theophilus Blanckenhagen -- Persent & Bodecker -- Oom, Hoolboom, Knoblock & Co. and Hippius & Co. -- Estates of the failed -- Certificate of conformity and the ware broker : starting all over -- Commodity brokers and the freedom of the city -- Conclusion. |
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The ""forgotten majority"" of German merchants in London between the end of the Hanseatic League and the end of the Napoleonic Wars became the largest mercantile Christian immigrant group in the eighteenth century. Using previously neglected and little used evidence, this book assesses the causes of their migration, the establishment of their businesses in the capital, and the global reach of the enterprises. As the acquisition of British nationality was the admission ticket to Britain's commercial empire, it investigates the commercial function of British naturalization policy in the early m |
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UNINA9910787633103321 |
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Developing materials for language teaching / / edited by Brian Tomlinson |
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London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2013 |
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©2013 |
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1-4411-7687-X |
1-4411-5311-X |
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[Second edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (577 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Language and languages - Study and teaching |
Teaching - Aids and devices |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; HalfTitle; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Introduction: Are Materials Developing?; What is materials development?; What are materials?; What are the issues in materials development?; Who should develop the materials?; What are the current trends in materials development?; What is the future of materials development?; MATSDA; Part A Evaluation and Adaptation of Materials; 1 Materials Evaluation; What is materials evaluation?; Principles in materials evaluation; Second language acquisition research (SLA); Types of materials evaluation |
Standard approaches to materials evaluationDeveloping criteria for materials evaluation; Conclusion; 2 Adapting Courses: A Personal View; Introduction; Adapting materials; A model for adapting courses; Conclusions; 3 Publishing a Coursebook: The Role of Feedback; Introduction; Nature of pathways and loops in materials development; Existence of feedback loops in materials development; The case of Singapore; Role and effectiveness of feedback in the case study; Incorporating feedback loops in the materials development process; Conclusion; Comments on Part A |
Part B Principles and Procedures of Materials Development4 Developing |
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Principled Frameworks for Materials Development; Introduction; Principles in materials development; A text-driven approach to materials development; Using the framework; An example of the framework in use; A web-based adaptation of the framework; Other types of principled framework; Conclusion; 5 The Instructional Design of a Coursebook Is As It Is Because of What It Has To Do - An Application of Systemic Functional; Introduction; Concepts from systemic functional theory; The context of culture: The genre of the coursebook |
From theory to practiceThe plane of expression; Conclusion; 6 Humanizing the Coursebook; Introduction; Humanizing without the coursebook; Partial replacement of the coursebook; Humanizing with the coursebook; Developing humanistic coursebooks; Conclusion; 7 The Visual Elements in EFL Coursebooks; Introduction; Visuals in recent British coursebooks; What might we do with visuals in coursebooks?; Conclusion; 8 Creative Approaches to Writing Materials; Introduction; Part I: What is creativity?; How has creativity been applied?; Part II : Ideas for generating creative materials; Conclusion |
9 Developing Digital Language Learning MaterialsIntroduction; Teacher-created digital materials; Student-created digital materials; Publisher- /Professionally created digital materials; Looking to the future; 10 Demystifying Blended Learning; Introduction; A framework for blended language learning; Blended learning tools; Blended language learning case studies; Conclusion; Comments on Part B; Part C Developing Materials for Target Groups; 11 Authors' Knowledge, Rationales and Principles - Steady Flow-Through or Stuck in the Publishing Pipeline? The Case of Ear; Introduction |
How coursebooks might give support |
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There have been a number of books published on various aspects of materials development for language teaching but Developing Materials for Language Teaching is the only one which provides a comprehensive coverage of the main aspects and issues in the field. This second edition brings it completely up to date and expands on the original book. It deals with advances in IT and an increasingly globalized world. It is the only publication which views current developments in materials development through the eyes of developers and users of materials from all over the world. |
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