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Written for study abroad practitioners, this book introduces theoretical understandings of key study abroad terms including “the global/national,” “culture,” “native speaker,” “immersion,” and “host society.” Building theories on these notions with perspectives from cultural anthropology, political science, educational studies, linguistics, and narrative studies, it suggests ways to incorporate them in study abroad practices. Through attention to daily activities via the concept of immersion, it reframes study abroad not as an encounter with cultural others but as an occasion to analyze constructions of “differences” in daily life, backgrounded by structural arrangements.

In the debut of literature's most famous sleuth, a dead man is discovered in a bloodstained room in Brixton. The only clues are a wedding ring, a gold watch, a pocket edition of Boccaccio's Decameron, and a word scrawled in blood on the wall. With this investigation begins the partnership of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Если вы изучаете английский язык или свободно на нем говорите, у вас есть замечательная возможность услышать на языке оригинала захватывающий рассказ доктора Ватсона о его первой встрече с Шерлоком Холмсом, а затем проверить свое понимание произведения, прослушав русский перевод. Текст неадаптирован. Английскую версию читает Joseph Samuel Bagley (Великобритания)

Комплект из книги и аудиофайлов предлагает вам погрузиться в захватывающий мир детективов Артура Конан Дойля. Вы сможете услышать и прочитать на языке оригинала один из самых запоминающихся рассказов писателя о блестящих расследованиях Шерлока Холмса – «Этюд в багровых тонах». Свое понимание неадаптированного текста можно проверить, прочитав или прослушав перевод произведения на русский язык. Читая и слушая тексты на английском языке, сравнивая их с переводом на русский, можно по достоинству оценить мастерство писателя и одновременно улучшить свои навыки чтения, а также восприятия на слух иностранной речи. Для работы над текстом в конце книги предлагаются упражнения и словарь. Книга будет интересна и полезна школьникам, абитуриентам, студентам, преподавателям, а также всем, кто изучает английский язык самостоятельно.

Although new ventures’ competitive positioning and their founders’ social networks are both recognized as important in the context of transition economies, not much is known about their multiplicative effect on performance. We build on the strategic management literature and social network theory to develop theoretical predictions about the role of competitive strategies and social capital for entrepreneurial performance. These are tested with survey data from Bulgaria. We find that both the venture’s competitive strategic positioning and the founder’s networking positively influence performance. The hypothesized moderating effect of networking for the relationship between differentiation strategy and performance received only tentative support. Contrary to expectations, we find a negative moderating effect of networking for the relationship of cost leadership with performance. These results suggest that the entrepreneur’s network plays a role in shaping how strategies influence performance by possibly upholding differentiation and deemphasizing cost leadership strategy. Implications for managerial practice and public policy are discussed.

The book details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris (a character created for the book, and based on his closest friend, Joseph Twichell), through central and southern Europe. While the stated goal of the journey is to walk most of the way, the men find themselves using other forms of transport as they traverse the continent.