This book describes a group tour of "Europe and the Holy Land" Samuel Clemens experienced and reported about 100 years ago. He describes, in a way that only Mark Twain can, the people he meets and the places they go from the point of view from the American West. One memorable example of his American perspective is a comparison of Italian mountains, lakes and rivers with his beloved Rockies, Tahoe, and Mississippi. He also paints humorous portraits of the tour guides and his fellow travelers

During his wide travels John Dos Passos witnessed and wrote about many of the tumultuous events of the early 20th century. This volume collects the vibrant and insightful travel books and essays. Rosinante to the Road Again collects essays on Spanish life, literature, and art. Orient Express describes a journey in 1921 through Turkey, the Soviet Caucasus, Persia, and Iraq

Here is the first collection ever published of this great American naturalist: the classic Travels, descriptions of southeastern Indian cultures, and much more - including Bartram's beautiful drawings, many rare and reproduced in full color, which like his writings convey the wonder of seeing a new world for the first time

In these three influential works, Washington Irving helped shape American conceptions of the western frontier. A Tour on the Prairies is Irving"s account of his month-long journey through what is now eastern Oklahoma. His descriptions of wild landscapes, rugged inhabitants, and dramatic chases and hunts display an eye for romantic sublimity and keen appreciation of the frontiersman"s "secret of personal freedom"

The major theoretical and pedagogical approaches to genre and related issues of social construction are presented in a single volume, providing an overview of the state of the art for practitioners in applied linguistics, ESL/EFL pedagogies, rhetoric, and composition studies around the world. Unlike volumes that present one theoretical stance, this book attempts to give equal time to all theoretical and pedagogical camps

This volume presents a range of views about language, learning, and teaching in English for Specific purposes (ESP). Its purpose is to go beyond individual cases and practices to examine the approaches and ideas on which they are based. The aim is for readers to adopt an analytical stance toward the field, to identify current perspectives in ESP and the ideas driving them

This book is a very welcome addition to the literature on teaching English for academic purposes. It covers a wide range of topics, both comprehensively and thoroughly. This book is certain to become key reading for students, teachers and researchers with an interest in the teaching of English for academic purposes

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Еңбекте Қазақстанның оңтүстік-шығыс облыстарындағы және солармен іргелес, шектес туысқан одақтас республикалардағы қазақ тілінің говорларын зерттеуге арналған

Новый роман Виктора Ивановича Лихоносова охватывает огромный пласт жизни КУбани - от начала ХХ века до наших дней. Главный герой этого удивительно емкого лиро - эпического повествования - Память. Память - как вечность и непрерывность человека, как постоянное движение духовности из поколения в поколение