This volume brings together excellent scholarship and innovative policy discussion to demonstrate the essential role of higher education in the development of Africa and of the world at large. Based on deep knowledge of the university system in several African countries, this book will reshape the debate on development in the global information economy for years to come. It should be mandatory …
1. The Bibliometrics of Vocabulary Acquisition: An Exploratory Study (Paul Meara) 2. The Effects of a Speed Reading Course and Speed Transfer to Other Types of Texts (Tran Thi Ngoc Yen) 3. Repeating Input-based Tasks with Young Beginner Learners (Natsuki Shintani) 4. The Development and Validation of a Billingual Version of The Vocabulary Size Test (Hossein Karami) 5. The Most Frequent Engl…
CONTENTS Introduction 547 Vulnerability, risk, resilience: an introduction by James Conoliiy and Paul J. Lane Articles 554 Cultural heritage and climate adaption: a cultural evolutionary perspective for the anthropocene by Joe Brewer and Felix 570 Island risk the resilience of a prehistoric civilization by T. Rowan McLaughlin, Simon Stoddart and Caroline Malone 584 Resilience a…
Winner of the Booker Prize
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Bibliography: p161-162.Bibliography: p161-162B
Includes bibliographical references and index