Comunicación y expresión oral

All too often, arts and crafts are considered a simple pastime for housewives "with nothing else to do" but raise children and care for the home (as if these were small tasks!) Fortunately, new generations of artists and designers are increasingly putting craft techniques to use in their artwork and applying artistic techniques to create beautiful yet utilitarian objects. This book is for anyone aiming to create objects of beauty for everyday use in their own home or in the homes of friends and loved ones.

Eva Peron (1919-1952) was the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. Often referred to as "Evita," she was never an officially elected political figure, but by her husband's second term as President, she had become the most powerful woman in the history of her nation. By the 1960s, Evita was an international pop-culture icon; in the 1970s, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice wrote the blockbuster musical Evita about her; and in the mid-90s, the musical was adapted to a movie starring Madonna. This small, chunky paperback features all manner of vintage graphic treatments from...

Hable como en TED es el libro de referencia para aprender a expresarse en público como lo hacen los oradores profesionales. «Fundamentado en los últimos avances científicos sobre el cerebro, este libro explica de forma práctica y cautivadora qué es lo que funciona realmente, qué conquista a una audiencia y qué no.» Fortune «Cuando se estructuran y se presentan de forma eficaz, las ideas pueden cambiar el mundo.» Carmine Gallo En el siglo XXI, la comunicación se ha convertido en la verdadera clave para el éxito. Por ello, las conferencias TED, seguidas por millones de personas de...

The book presents a selection of papers on syntactic variation from different theoretical and methodological points of view. As such, it contributes to a process of reflection on the dialectical relationship between theoretical explanation and empirical description. In the first part, the authors discuss the use of corpora in syntactic variation studies. The rest of the book presents some new approaches to a number of controversial topics. Part Two concentrates on word order, information structure, and its phonological realization, while Part Three enlarges on variations in the encoding of...