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  • INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON SIGN LANGUAGE TRANSLATOR AND INTERPRETER EDUCATION
    JEMINA NAPIER / STACEY WEBB / ROBERT ADAM
    The field of sign language translator and interpreter (SLTI) education gets a global treatment in this new volume helmed by editors Jemina Napier, Stacey Webb, and Robert Adam. This second edition updates the information from the 2009 volume and adds new contributions that expand the scope of the work to include additional countries and topic areas. SLTI scholars and educators ...

    $1,839.47

  • SOUL WHISPERER
    DANIEL AUSTIN NAPIER
    Three hundred years before Christianity became a religion, Jesus taught the Way. His earliest followers identified as philosophers--adherents to the philosophy of Jesus. In this book, Daniel Austin Napier guides us to directly experience Jesus' unparalleled genius for renovating human life. A good tour guide, Napier gestures toward and describes other figures on the periphery--...

    $550.00

  • SOUL WHISPERER
    DANIEL AUSTIN NAPIER
    Three hundred years before Christianity became a religion, Jesus taught the Way. His earliest followers identified as philosophers--adherents to the philosophy of Jesus. In this book, Daniel Austin Napier guides us to directly experience Jesus' unparalleled genius for renovating human life. A good tour guide, Napier gestures toward and describes other figures on the periphery--...

    $550.00

  • WRITING THE POETRY OF PLACE IN BRITAIN, 1700–1807
    ELIZABETH R. NAPIER
    This book discusses the intrusion, often inadvertent, of personal voice into the poetry of landscape in Britain, 1700– 1807. It argues that strong conventions, such as those that inhere in topographical verse of the period, invite original poets to overstep those bounds while also shielding them from the repercussions of self-expression. Working under cover of convention in thi...

    $1,160.00

  • HISTORY OF THE WAR IN THE PENINSULAR AND THE SOUTH OF FRANCE FROM THE YEAR 1807 TO THE YEAR 1814 VOL. 3
    WILLIAM FRANCIS PATRICK NAPIER
    Excerpt: "When Gallicia was delivered by the campaign of Talavera, the Asturias became the head of a new line of operation threatening the enemy's principal communication with France. But this advantage was feebly used. Kellerman's division at Valladolid, and Bonet's at San Andero, sufficed to hold both Asturians and Gallicians in check; and the sanguinary operations in the val...

    $39.70

  • HISTORY OF THE WAR IN THE PENINSULAR AND THE SOUTH OF FRANCE FROM THE YEAR 1807 TO THE YEAR 1814 VOL. 2
    WILLIAM FRANCIS PATRICK NAPIER
    Excerpt: "The effect produced in England by the unfortunate issue of sir John Moore's campaign, was not proportionable to the importance of the subject. The people, trained to party politics, and possessing no real power to rebuke the folly of the cabinet, regarded disasters and triumphs with factious rather than with national feelings, and it was alike easy to draw the public ...

    $39.70

  • HISTORY OF THE WAR IN THE PENINSULAR AND THE SOUTH OF FRANCE FROM THE YEAR 1807 TO THE YEAR 1814 VOL. 1
    WILLIAM FRANCIS PATRICK NAPIER
    Excerpt: "For six years the Peninsula was devastated by the war of independence. The blood of France, Germany, England, Portugal, and Spain, was shed in the contest; and in each of those countries, authors, desirous of recording the sufferings, or celebrating the valour of their countrymen, have written largely touching that fierce struggle. It may therefore happen that some wi...

    $39.70

  • ENGLISH BATTLES AND SIEGES IN THE PENINSULA
    WILLIAM FRANCIS PATRICK NAPIER
    Excerpt: "For the authenticity of the events the reader has this guarantee. The author was either an eye-witness of what he relates, or acquired his knowledge from those who were. Persons of no mean authority. Commanders-in-chief, generals, and other officers on both sides; private official correspondence of the English envoys; military journals and reports of the French leader...

    $39.70

  • HERE OR THERE
    JEMINA NAPIER, ROBERT SKINNER, SABINE BRAUN
    The field of sign language interpreting is undergoing an exponential increase in the delivery of services through remote and video technologies. The nature of these technologies challenges established notions of interpreting as a situated, communicative event and of the interpreter as a participant. As a result, new perspectives and research are necessary for interpreters to th...

    $1,664.29

  • LINGUISTIC COPING STRATEGIES IN SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETING
    JEMINA NAPIER
    This ground-breaking work, originally published 15 years ago, continues to serve as the primary reference on the theories of omission potential and translational contact in sign language interpreting. In the book, noted scholar Jemina Napier explores the linguistic coping strategies of interpreters by drawing on her own study of the interpretation of a university lecture from E...

    $1,313.91

  • GLOSTER JAVELIN
    MICHAEL NAPIER
    The RAFs only delta-winged fighter the Gloster Javelin was also Britains first true All-Weather Fighter. Based in the UK and in Germany, the RAFs Javelin squadrons formed the front line of Britains air defences in the late 1950s and early 1960s. During this time Javelin crews pioneered the operational use of guided missiles and air-to-air refuelling by fighter aircraft. In the ...

    $329.00

  • INTERNATIONAL SIGN
    RACHEL ROSENSTOCK / JEMINA NAPIER
    International Sign (IS) is widely used among deaf people and interpreters at international events, but what exactly is it, what are its linguistic features, where does its lexicon come from, and how is it used at interpreted events? This groundbreaking collection is the first volume to provide answers to these questions.        Editors Rachel Rosenstock and Jemina Napier have a...

    $700.75

  • INTERPRETER EDUCATION IN THE DIGITAL AGE
    SUZANNE EHRLICH & JEMINA NAPIER
    This collection brings together innovative research and approaches for blended learning using digital technology in interpreter education for signed and spoken languages. Volume editors Suzanne Ehrlich and Jemina Napier call upon the expertise of 21 experts, including themselves, to report on the current technology used to provide digital enhancements to interpreter education i...

    $656.96

  • BLUE DIAMONDS
    MICHAEL NAPIER
    In the seven decades since the Second World War, 14 Squadron has operated a wide array of aircraft types (Mosquitoes, Vampires, Venoms, Hunters, Canberras, Phantoms, Jaguars and Tornados) in a fascinating variety of roles. For much of this time, the Squadron was based in Germany at the front line of the Cold War, but it also participated in the Gulf War in 1991, in operations o...

    $279.00

  • THE FRAGILE BOND
    AUGUSTUS Y. NAPIER
    Focusing on the author's own marriage and on a group of case studies, this book vividly illustrates the obstacles married couples face today and offers help in overcoming them. ...

    $251.00

  • INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETER EDUCATION
    JEMINA NAPIER (EDITOR)
    The Fourth Volume in the Interpreter Education Series From the moment the World Association of Sign Language Interpreters (WASLI) was established in 2005, an overwhelming wave of requests from around the world arrived seeking information and resources for educating and training interpreters. This new collection provides those answers with an international overview on interprete...

    $1,313.91

  • THE FANTASTIC IN MODERN JAPANESE LITERATURE
    SUSAN NAPIER
    Modern Japan's repressed anxieties, fears and hopes come to the surface in the fantastic. A close analysis of fantasy fiction, film and comics reveals the ambivalence felt by many Japanese towards the success story of the nation in the twentieth century. The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature explores the dark side to Japanese literature and Japanese society. It takes in t...

    $1,600.00

  • THE LURE
    BILL NAPIER
    In this thriller from an author who "deftly mix[es] history, science and science fiction," researchers discover alien life and global conspiracy ( Publishers Weekly).   A signal from space, a conspiracy on Earth.   An underground research station in Eastern Europe is suddenly bombarded with rhythmic bursts of subnuclear particles from beyond Earth—a pattern so complex it can on...

    $109.00

  • SHATTERED ICON
    BILL NAPIER
      An antiquarian bookseller finds himself caught in a deadly, centuries-old conspiracy in this gripping thriller. Antiquarian bookseller Harry Blake appreciates the quiet life. But when a local landowner is brutally murdered after asking Harry to value a four-hundred-year-old journal, Harry's peace of mind is destroyed. Why is the dusty journal a matter of life or death? The tr...

    $109.00

  • TORNADO GR1
    MICHAEL NAPIER
    Replacing the Vulcan, Buccaneer and Jaguar in the front line of the Cold War, the remarkable swing-winged Tornado GR1 provided Britains strike capability in the last years of the Cold War in the 1980s, equipping some 10 RAF squadrons. During the Gulf War, Tornado GR1 crews led Britains contribution to Coalition operations against Iraq, and in the subsequent years Tornado GR1s w...

    $329.00

  • TORNADO GR1
    MICHAEL NAPIER
    Replacing the Vulcan, Buccaneer and Jaguar in the front line of the Cold War, the remarkable swing-winged Tornado GR1 provided Britains strike capability in the last years of the Cold War in the 1980s, equipping some 10 RAF squadrons. During the Gulf War, Tornado GR1 crews led Britains contribution to Coalition operations against Iraq, and in the subsequent years Tornado GR1s w...

    $329.00

  • GLOSTER JAVELIN
    MICHAEL NAPIER
    The RAFs only delta-winged fighter the Gloster Javelin was also Britains first true All-Weather Fighter. Based in the UK and in Germany, the RAFs Javelin squadrons formed the front line of Britains air defences in the late 1950s and early 1960s. During this time Javelin crews pioneered the operational use of guided missiles and air-to-air refuelling by fighter aircraft. In the ...

    $329.00

  • TORNADO OVER THE TIGRIS
    MICHAEL NAPIER
    A Royal Air Force pilot recounts his service flying Tornados over Cold War-era Germany and post-Gulf War Iraq in this thrilling military memoir. After achieving a boyhood ambition to qualify as an RAF pilot, Michael Napier was posted to RAF Bruggen in Germany where he spent five years flying Tornado GR1s at the height of the Cold War. Always exhilarating and often dangerous, Mi...

    $229.00

  • WINGED CRUSADERS
    MICHAEL NAPIER
    Formed in 1915, and still operational today, 14 Squadron is one of the RAF's longest serving and most senior Squadrons. Spending the first thirty years of its operational life in the Middle East, the history of this Squadron is a rich one, but one which, until now, has gone largely unrecorded. Napier effectively brings together all the historical scraps and shreds of stories wh...

    $119.00

  • WILLS' MINERAL PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF ORE TREATMENT AND MINERAL RECOVERY
    WILLS, BARRY A. / NAPIER-MUNN, TIM
    Wills' Mineral Processing Technology: An Introduction to the Practical Aspects of Ore Treatment and Mineral Recovery has been the definitive reference for the mineral processing industry for over thirty years. This industry standard reference provides practicing engineers and students of mineral processing, metallurgy, and mining with practical information on all the common te...

    $1,262.00

  • GRUPOS TEORIA Y EXPERIENCIA
    NAPIER
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    $729.00

  • BLUE DIAMONDS
    MICHAEL NAPIER
    In the seven decades since the Second World War, 14 Squadron has operated a wide array of aircraft types (Mosquitoes, Vampires, Venoms, Hunters, Canberras, Phantoms, Jaguars and Tornados) in a fascinating variety of roles. For much of this time, the Squadron was based in Germany at the front line of the Cold War, but it also participated in the Gulf War in 1991, in operations o...

    $279.00

  • THE AGE OF IMMUNOLOGY
    A. DAVID NAPIER
    In this fascinating and inventive work, A. David Napier argues that the central assumption of immunology—that we survive through the recognition and elimination of non-self—has become a defining concept of the modern age. Tracing this immunological understanding of self and other through an incredibly diverse array of venues, from medical research to legal and military strategi...

    $1,208.62

  • A PASSIONATE PROPOSITION
    SUSAN J. NAPIER
    Scott Tyler might want a red-hot affair with Anya Adams--but that doesn't mean he likes her. On the contrary, he's managed to get her suspended from her brand-new job! Realizing he's gone too far, Scott offers Anya temporary employment at his home. But having her around every day is playing havoc with his self-control. Soon all he can think about is making Anya a proposition--t...

    $109.00

  • THE MISTRESS DECEPTION
    SUSAN J. NAPIER
    When Rachel offered to help Matthew Riordan undress after a party, her intentions were purely innocent. She'd been trying to avoid a scandal--instead she found herself being blackmailed! Yet Matthew oozed sex appeal; he didn't need to blackmail Rachel into his bed! But they'd clashed over a business deal... Was Matthew planning to make Rachel his mistress simply out of revenge?...

    $109.00


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