Michael Lewis Livres

The definitive guide to the Bayeux Tapestry and its legacy, exploring the rich narrative behind its stitches and the turbulent times in which it was created. Political intrigue and treachery, heroism and brutal violence, victory and defeat - all this is depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, an epic account of a pivotal moment in English history. However, there is much more to this remarkable historical and artistic treasure, which tells its tale with an intensity and immediacy that speak to our modern world, almost 1,000 years after its creation. Many mysteries and questions still surround this unique embroidery - and not all is as it might appear at first glance. Who made it, and when, why, where and what for? David Musgrove and Michael Lewis set the events depicted in the context of the machinations on either side of the English Channel in the years leading up to the Norman Conquest and tease out what the Tapestry tells us of the deeds of kings as well as aspects of everyday life in medieval Europe.

Expert authors have taken the content of the AS and A Level specifications and presented them in a refreshingly clear and concise format. Simple illustrations are used to present information in a particularly clear and memorable way, and all content is broken down into short one-page sections.

TEACHING COLLOCATION provides further follow-up to THE LEXICAL APPROACH. It contains papers by a number of teachers and theoreticians interested in the practical classroom implications of incorporating collocation into everyday classroom teaching.

The #1 New York Times bestseller--Now a Major Motion Picture from Paramount Pictures

This basic teacher training handbook for all less-experienced teachers covers the CTEFLA syllabus. The book is highly practical, theoretically sound and jargon-free, putting ELT in perspective for the new teacher. Areas covered include basic principles, classroom management and preparation.

Jonathan Simon, 17, is in his fourth year at Blackleigh. Self-conscious about his appointment as one of five Prefects in Trafalgar House, he's apprehensive as to whether he has what it takes to carry out his responsibilities.

#1 New York Times Bestseller — With a new Afterword "Guaranteed to make blood boil." —Janet Maslin, New York Times In Michael Lewis's game-changing bestseller, a small group of Wall Street iconoclasts realize that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders. They band together—some of them walking away from seven-figure salaries—to investigate, expose, and reform the insidious new ways that Wall Street generates profits. If you have any contact with the market, even a retirement account, this story is happening to you.

Michael Lewis’ bahnbrechendes und viel diskutiertes Werk The Lexical Approach bietet noch immer interessante und revolutionäre Einsichten über das Lehren und Lernen von Fremdsprachen. Kernthese seines Lexical Approach ist, dass Sprache nicht als lexikalisierte Grammatik, sondern vielmehr als grammatikalisierte Lexik funktioniert. Dem Wortschatz – und nicht der Grammatik – wird also die maßgebliche Rolle beim Spracherwerb zugeschrieben, was zahlreiche Konsequenzen für den Sprachunterricht hat. The Lexical Approach plädiert für eine Konzentration auf den Ausbau des Wortschatzes, der bei ihm jedoch nicht nur aus Einzelwörtern, sondern auch mehrere Wörter umfassenden Ausdrücken, sogenannten „chunks“ besteht. Diese Verschiebung der Schwerpunktsetzung im Unterricht erläutert Michael Lewis in diesem Buch ausführlich.

THE LEXICAL APPROACH develops current thinking, synthesizing the best insights of previous theory, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, and modern approaches to grammar.

"For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing to worry about. Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics. Fortunately, there are those among us who study pandemics and are willing to look unflinchingly at worst-case scenarios. Michael Lewis's taut and brilliant nonfiction thriller pits a band of medical visionaries against the wall of ignorance that was the official response of the Trump administration to the outbreak of COVID-19. The characters you will meet in these pages are as fascinating as they are unexpected. A thirteen-year-old girl's science project on transmission of an airborne pathogen develops into a very grown-up model of disease control. A local public-health officer uses her worm's-eye view to see what the CDC misses, and reveals great truths about American society. A secret team of dissenting doctors, nicknamed the Wolverines, has everything necessary to fight the pandemic: brilliant backgrounds, world-class labs, prior experience with the pandemic scares of bird flu and swine flu...everything, that is, except official permission to implement their work. Michael Lewis is not shy about calling these people heroes for their refusal to follow directives that they know to be based on misinformation and bad science. Even the internet, as crucial as it is to their exchange of ideas, poses a risk to them. They never know for sure who else might be listening in"-- Provided by publisher