The phrase "publishing sensation" is standard hyperbole from marketing men anxious to push book sales. Sometimes, however, a book comes along which justifies the term. One such is Freakonomics, which since its publication in 2005 has sold well over 3 million copies. This would be a remarkable...
WHEN the Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, concluded last weekend, it failed to come up with the comprehensive agreement on carbon emission cuts hoped for by environmental activists and some governments. Instead, there emerged a compromise that looked like yet another fudge: while there...
After referring to existing literature, six main keywords were chosen for the searching process, namely COVID-19, coronavirus, temperature, humidity, solar radiation and population density. The current study also utilised the boolean operators (OR, AND, AND NOT) and phrase searching. Scopus was ...
The phrase "climate refugee" - someone who is forced to leave their home due to climate change - reflects people's concern for the environment. According to Stevenson, social media was the main source for the new expressions. "People feel much freer tocoin their own words t...
Hmm, let me count while we hear some other examples of the phrase ‘another string to your bow’… Examples Bookkeeping is another string to my bow – I’ve learnt it in case I lose my job at the bank. It loo...
[...]natural and associated artificial information, the Protocol must reflect ‘mutual coercion, mutually agreedupon’,anotheraptphrase from Hardin.14 Again, the analogy with monopoly patents is fruitful: coercion underpins the[...] lead-journal.org ...
Trump has used the phrase “nuclear warming” in previous interviews. Scientists have no clue as to what he is talking about. Credible climate change scientists also do not believe the ocean “is going to go down.” They have concluded that “Global warming is causing global ...
Lack of control over her own life is one of the most striking features of the book. Her hair is cut short (more than once) even though she wants to grow it long. Her name keeps changing –“They stole my name,” she says, “They took me- away from me.” The phrase ‘a new so...
I keep returning to the phrase Community of Enhancement to describe my philosophy behind my staff development role. It is not astounding but, significantly for me, it is a better than Community of Practice. It reflects and models the ethos of student-centred active learning which is so often ...
But Jinkx, the character, is one precise alloy – always, coherently, remarkably. “I’m borrowing a phrase from Chad Michaels, but what you’re seeing now is galvanised Jinkx,” she says when I ask about the development of the character since the beginning. “You’re seeing Jinkx with...