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Andy Kirkpatrick
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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.
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…
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…
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.
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…
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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…
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…
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…
Climbing's first top rope soloing manual.
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…
