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Chris Barker

    Continuations and Natural Language
    Cambridge Global English Stages 7-9 Stage 8 Workbook
    Professional patisserie : for levels 2,3 and professional chefs
    What's Where on Earth? Dinosaur Atlas
    Cambridge Global English Stage 7 Workbook
    The Secrets of Dance Music Production
    • The Secrets of Dance Music Production

      • 312 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      The world's leading electronic music production magazine delivers the definitive guide to making cutting-edge dance music. Featuring 312 color pages packed with technique, tips, illustrations and hands-on walkthroughs, The Secrets of Dance Music Production pulls together everything you need to take a mix from concept to club-ready master – whether you make house or techno, 2-step or D&B, EDM or trance. Topics include studio fundamentals, the golden rules of mixing, essential techniques, improving writing chops, bigger beats, learning from the masters and more.

      The Secrets of Dance Music Production
      4.6
    • Journey back in time and find out where dinosaurs roamed. This unique children's atlas explores each continent, revealing fossil sites and stories. Packed with maps of early Earth and more than 40 profiles of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. Stare down a T Rex in North America. Watch out for Velociraptors' slashing claws in the Gobi Desert. Trek across the Siberian tundra and discover a woolly mammoth. This stunning book uses breathtaking computer-generated imagery to make every animal come to life. Using specially commissioned maps, this atlas also shows you what the world looked like millions of years ago.

      What's Where on Earth? Dinosaur Atlas
      4.7
    • Written by leading chef lecturers who have been pastry chefs at the Ritz and Claridge's, 'Professional Patisserie' covers everything needed to help develop industry-standard skills and knowledge whether starting at Level 2, working towards Level 3, or looking to advance current skills further. Master essential skills with step-by-step photo sequences and 400 colour photographs that illustrate hundreds of different skills, products, and processes, from petit fours to chocolate and decorative pieces.

      Professional patisserie : for levels 2,3 and professional chefs
      4.4
    • Workbook 8 is organised into eighteen thematic units of study based on the Cambridge International Examinations English as a Second Language Scheme of Work for Stage 8 The units are carefully structured to reinforce the language learning of the Coursebook, at the same time as extending students' knowledge via a range of exercise types. CEFR Level: B1.

      Cambridge Global English Stages 7-9 Stage 8 Workbook
      5.0
    • Continuations and Natural Language

      • 228 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      This book takes concepts developed by researchers in theoretical computer science and adapts and applies them to the study of natural language meaning. Summarizing over a decade of research, Chris Barker and Chung-chieh Shan put forward the Continuation Hypothesis: that the meaning of a natural language expression can depend on its own continuation

      Continuations and Natural Language
      5.0
    • Cambridge Global English Stages 7-9 follow the Cambridge Lower Secondary English as a Second Language (ESL) Curriculum Framework.

      Cambridge Global English Stage 9 Workbook
      5.0
    • The SAGE Dictionary of Cultural Studies

      • 240 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      `A scholarly lexicon and stimulating "rough guide" for cultural studies as it confronts and navigates the shifting sands of past, present and future′ - Tim O′Sullivan, Head of Media and Cultural Production, De Montfort University `I′m certain undergraduate and postgraduate readers will consider the Dictionary to be a highly useful resource. Taken together, the definitions provide a effective overview of the field′ - Stuart Allan, Reader in Cultural Studies, University of the West of England, Bristol `Any student wishing to acquaint her or himself with the field of cultural studies will find this an enormously useful book′ - Joke Hermes, Editor, European Journal of Cultural Studies and Lecturer in Television Studies, University of Amsterdam Containing over 200 entries on key concepts and theorists, the Dictionary provides an unparalled guide to the terrain of cultural studies. The definitions are authoritative, stimulating and written in an accessible style. There are up-to-date entries on new concepts and innovative approaches. An ideal teaching and research resource, the Dicitionary can also be used as a companion to Chris Barker′s highly successful Cultural Theory and Practice (Second Edition, SAGE, 2003) and in conjunction with his Making Sense of Cultural Studies (SAGE, 2002)

      The SAGE Dictionary of Cultural Studies
      4.3
    • SuperDinosaur

      • 192 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      Travel back in time and get up close and personal with the biggest, fastest, and strangest creatures that ever roamed the earth. Take a dip with the plesiosaur that's bigger than a bus, race the dinosaur that's faster than a galloping horse, and grin at the big cat with teeth that are longer than daggers. Prepare to be amazed as more than 40 incredible prehistoric creatures come roaring back to life in stunning CGI reconstructions. Alongside the amazing images, SuperDinosaur is packed with incredible facts about these extraordinary creatures. Did you know that the fearsome Tyrannosaurus has the most powerful bite of any land animal that has ever lived? Or that the bizarre Amargasaurus had spines that stuck out 60 cm (24 in) from its neck? Or perhaps you fancy your chances in a staring competition with Temnodontosaurus - just be warned, its eyes are 25 cm (9.8 in) wide! Features on fascinating fossils and the latest scientific techniques will show you exactly how paleontologists piece together information about how dinosaurs would have looked and lived. The perfect read for children aged 9 and over, this brilliant and informative guide will appeal to budding dinosaur experts of all ages.

      SuperDinosaur
      4.0