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Engagement in Professional Genres
Engagement has turned essential in today’s communication, as professional communities are becoming more specialised and transient, and their audiences more diverse. Promotionalism and competitiveness, in addition, increasingly pervade human activity, and thus engaging readers, listeners and viewers to attract and persuade them is part of the know-how of almost every profession. The eighteen chapters in this book, written by well-known discourse analysts from different nationalities and research backgrounds, and with various interests and understandings of communicative engagement, guide us through a discovery of perspectives and strategies across work settings and practices, genres, semiotic modes, discourses, disciplines, and theoretical frameworks and methods. They build a mosaic that leads to a broad picture of (meta)discursive engagement as (di)stance and raises current issues, challenges, and future research directions.
Current Catalog
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Covers recent advances in the scientific understanding of acute inflammatory respiratory failure, with an emphasis on clinical relevance. Discusses the definition, incidence, and prediction of ARDS and summarizes the results of therapy. Also examines clinical problems of infection in the lungs, tissue oxygen delivery, and cardiovascular function during acute respiratory failure. Other topics include the basis of respiratory mechanics measurements, new lung imaging techniques, effects of antiproteases in acute lung injury, and new treatments. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Bacterial Endotoxins
This book brings together the most recent basic and clinical research on the molecular physiology of endotoxin pathology. Avenues for the development of new treatments, especially immunotherapies, are presented throughout.
Ecological Debt
Imagine opening a bank letter at breakfast to find that instead of your normal overdraft, you had an ecological debt that threatened the planet. If the whole world wanted to live like people in the United Kingdom we would need the resources of three planets like Earth. If the United States was our model the number would be five. Simms shows how millions of us in the West are running up huge ecological debts: from the amount of oil and coal that we burn to heat our houses and run our cars, to what we consume and the waste that we create, the impact of our lifestyles is felt worldwide. Whilst these debts go unpaid, millions more living in poverty in the majority world suffer the burden of paying dubious foreign financial debts. The book explores a great paradox of our age: how the global wealth gap was built on ecological debts, which the world's poorest are now having to pay for. Highlighting how and why this has happened, he also shows what can be done differently in the future - and what steps we can take to stop pushing the planet to the point of environmental bankruptcy.
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