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Gary Aubin, Stephen Hull
A handbook for parents of children with additional educational needs answering all of your most pertinent questions about supporting your child at home and at school, how to access additional…
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Andy Kirkpatrick
What was it like to live in China in the mid-1970s? Andy Kirkpatrick arrived in Beijing only a few days before the death of Chairman Mao, and offers a vivid…
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This work was originally published in the United Kingdom in 2008 by Hutchinson –T.p. verso.
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This Work was originally published in 2016 by Vertebrate Publishing, an imprint of Vertebrate Graphics Ltd, Crescent House, 228 Psalter Lane, Sheffield, S11 8UT, UK, under the title 1001 Climbing…
Winner of the 2012 Boardman Tasker Prize. Andy Kirkpatrick has achieved his life’s ambition to become one of the world’s leading climbers. Pushing himself to new extremes, he embarks on…
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Unknown Pleasures is a collection of works by the climber and award-winning author Andy Kirkpatrick. Covering subjects as diverse as climbing, relationships, fatherhood, mental health and the media, this book…
The Routledge Handbook of World Englishes constitutes a comprehensive introduction to the study of World Englishes. With a new substantial introduction from the editor, the Handbook is an ideal resource…
The Routledge Handbook of World Englishes constitutes a comprehensive introduction to the study of world Englishes drawing on the expertise of leading authors within the field.
Words like boldness, adventure and risk are surely coined especially for Andy Kirkpatrick. As one of the world’s accomplished mountaineers and big-wall climbers, he goes vertically where other climbers fear…
This book (with accompanying CD) describes selected varieties of World Englishes within the framework of ELT and validates the role of multilingual and multicultural ELT teachers.
1001 Climbing Tips by Andy Kirkpatrick is a massive collection, acquired from three decades of climbing obsession, of all those little tips that make a real difference when at the…
Andy Kirkpatrick (Griffith University, Queensland),Wang Lixun
Asian multilingual speakers are continuously adapting and reshaping English to reflect their varying needs. This book describes how new Asian varieties of English develop, how these reflect the cultural values…
Andy Kirkpatrick,Zhichang Xu
The authors offer a response to the argument that Chinese students’ academic writing in English is influenced by culturally nuanced rhetorical baggage that is uniquely Chinese and hard to eradicate…
Charles Sherwood
Experienced climber Charles Sherwood is on a quest to find the best climb on each continent. The traditional Seven Summits were chosen by height alone, but Seven Climbs considers mountaineering…
Noting ASEAN’s adoption of English as its sole working language, it traces the influence of globalization on English language education in Asia: in many systems, it pushes local languages off…
Lixun Wang,Andy Kirkpatrick
Based on a large scale survey of 155 Hong Kong schools and in-depth case studies in 3 selected schools, the book gives an overview of trilingual education in Hong Kong…
Written by award-winning author and climber Andy Kirkpatrick, 'On the Line' is the first book dedicated to the subject of top rope soloing, covering all current theory, technique and equipment.
This handbook reviews the language education policies of Asia, encompassing 30 countries sub-divided by regions, namely East, Southeast, South and Central Asia, and considers the extent to which these are…
K Bolton
The first volume of its kind, focusing on the sociolinguistic and socio-political issues surrounding Asian Englishes
The Handbook of Asian Englishes provides wide-ranging coverage of the historical and cultural context…
