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Now in its fourth edition, ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY FOR SPEECH, LANGUAGE AND HEARING remains a highly acclaimed tool for instilling a solid foundation in the anatomical and physiological principles that
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Elkin, an educational journalist and former teacher, collects 100 activities and games that stimulate and develop communication, language, and literacy in children up to age five. The activities are o
In the early days of the Web a need was recognized for a language to display 3D objects through a browser. An HTML-like language, VRML, was proposed in 1994 and became the standard for describing inte
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A guide to programming Symbian OS smartphones using OPL (The Open Programming Language): a simple to learn, open-source scripting language, ideal for fast-track development of enterprise applications.
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A compact foreign-language guidebook provides travelers with essential phrases to help them negotiate in South and Central America, Mexico, and the Carribbean where Spanish is the primary language.
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Readers of Jurgen Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action and his later social theory know that the idea of communicative rationality is central to his version of critical theory. Language and Reaso
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This book uses a narrative-oriented approach to shed light on the processes of identity construction and development among Japanese university students of English. The research highlights the instrume
