Bøger af Ian Mackenzie

Professional English in Use Finance is the latest exciting addition to the bestselling English Vocabulary in Use titles.

If you love a good yarn, this book is for you.This heart-warming, funny, jam-packed memoir of a life well-lived will entertain you from start to finish. The author's motivation to leave a wee record of his existence stems from a recurring memory of a winter's night sledging with family and friends. Wrapped up in mother's knitted woollens, filled to the brim with excitement, this young boy looked up into a myriad of stars and the softened light of a full moon. His feeling of awesome wonder and connection needs no explanation... a child of the universe with untangled quantum! He uses this same awesome wonder (and incredible storytelling skills) to reflect on his early childhood and adolescence, life at university and later at sea, his time working in Brazil, becoming a father and finding out he had a half-brother. Plus so much more.Beautifully written and filled with honesty, this compelling memoir captures his innermost thoughts through several milestones of his life. He talks of his health struggles, panic attacks and feelings of isolation at certain times. And he offers plenty of fascinating stories that will have you laughing, reflecting and shedding a tear or two in equal measure.

A New York Times Editors' Pick"e;Devastating, funny and wise, it's among the best novels I know about the fate of American innocence abroad."e;--Garth GreenwellIntelligent and deeply felt, Feast Days follows a young wife who relocates with her financier husband to S o Paulo--a South American megacity that impresses and unsettles, conceals and erupts. Here in her new home, she reckons with the twenty-first century as she encounters crime, protests, refugees gentrification, and the collision of art and commerce, while confronting the crisis slowly building inside her own marriage. In stylish prose and with piercing wit, Ian MacKenzie tells the story of Emma, a young woman who has moved from New York to Brazil just as massive demonstrations against the government are breaking out across the country amid growing economic inequality. Emma has come to Brazil for her husband's career, with no job prospects of her own, a weak grasp of the language, and a deep ambivalence about having a child. Her early days in Sao Paulo are listless but privileged; she dines at high-end restaurants, tutors wealthy Brazilians in English, and observes the city she now calls home.But when Emma volunteers at a local church to assist refugees and grows more deeply connected to the people she meets in the course of her days, she finds herself unable to resist the tug of Sao Paulo's political and social unrest.As the country moves seemingly closer to a breaking point, so does Emma's marriage, as she and her husband can no longer ignore the silent, tectonic shifts beneath the surface of their relationship. Feast Days is a sharply observed story of expatriate life, as well as a meditation on the hidden costs of modern living and how easily our belief systems can collapse around us.

The thinkers dealt with in the title, Kant, Deleuze and Guattari, are the most influential philosophers of the 20th and 21st centuries. It focuses on the key themes of Kantian philosophy and continental philosophy that came after Kant: critique and difference.

The English for Business Studies Third edition Teacher's Book offers thorough guidance and support for teachers using the course. It also includes four assessment tests to help teachers keep track of students' progress. The English for Business Studies Student's Book and the Audio CDs are available separately.

This best selling course has been thoroughly revised to meet the needs of today's business and economics students.

For relevance theory, this theoretical commonplace merely demonstrates the inferential nature of language. This book seeks to show that relevance theory is a more plausible account of communication, cognition and literary interpretation than the deconstructionist theory de Man elaborated from readings of Rousseau, Hegel and Nietzsche.

The life of Paul Metzger, a writer, is in disrepair. Mid-thirties, divorced, underachieving. A mid-winter Sunday in New York sees him traversing the city to visit three people: an elder half-brother; a disgraced, dying father; and, an ex-wife whom Paul still loves. But it is a fourth, unplanned encounter that changes more than one life forever.

Suitable for those learning about or working in finance, this title covers: Numbers; Accounting; Banking; Corporate Finance; and, Trade and Economics. It explains the fundamental concepts of the different areas of finance, and defines essential vocabulary and terminology, as well as common financial idioms and metaphors.

The English for Business Studies Audio CDs feature new authentic audio, including interviews with business people from key areas of business.

This text provides brief biographies of the British print makers working from 1650-1950. It covers 18th century mezzotint portraits, 19th century sporting aquatints and topographical views, and "original" etchings and lithographs in the 20th century.