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Boom Library Cannons Construction Kit WAV


Free Download Boom Library Cannons Construction Kit WAV | 6.4 GB
This cannonade of 15 different cannons with is the most comprehensive cannon library ever to be released on the market. High-quality, 26-channel recordings of fort-smashing bombards, high-angled mortars, 16-pounder frigate loads, and more, these cannon blasts, impacts, and flybys are indispensable components of any sound design for any film or game action sequence set in the late medieval to early modern periods. Not just for cannon blasts, they can also be used to give trailer sound design and general explosions a much heavier punch.

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The Construction of Truth in Contemporary Media Narratives about Risk


Free Download John Gaffey, "The Construction of Truth in Contemporary Media Narratives about Risk "
English | ISBN: 0367431491 | 2021 | 164 pages | EPUB | 1414 KB
The Construction of Truth in Contemporary Media Narratives about Risk provides a theoretical framework for how, in a post-truth era, media audiences are able to understand and navigate everyday risk. The book examines media risk narratives and explores forms of truth, experiential knowledge, and authority.

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Learner Corpora Construction and Explorations in Chinese and Related Languages


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English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811957304 | 523 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 62 MB
This edited book reflects the state of the art in learner corpus and related approaches to Chinese as a second language (CSL). CSL as a field has flourished in the past few decades due to the increasingly important role of the Chinese language at the world stage, yet studies of Chinese as a second language based on learner corpora have been less well developed due to the limited availability of data and lack of theoretical insights. This book represents the latest research in this area by 1) assembling a large group of active researchers from multiple international research communities (USA, China, Hong Kong, Macau, Japan, Taiwan, and France); 2) discussing the latest resources and technologies in Chinese and other Asian languages learner corpora and corpus building; 3) basing Chinese as a second language studies on data from learners of Chinese with a wide range of first language backgrounds (English, Japanese, Korean, French, among others); and 4) integrating corpus methods with a wide range of related methods in allied fields-language acquisition, usage-based linguistics, psycholinguistics, and neurolinguistics. This comprehensive collection is indispensable for anyone who is interested in corpus approaches to CSL and Chinese applied language studies in general.

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Islamophobia in France The Construction of the Muslim Problem


Free Download Islamophobia in France: The Construction of the "Muslim Problem" (Sociology of Race and Ethnicity) by Abdellali Hajjat, Marwan Mohammed, translated by Steve Garner
English | January 15, 2023 | ISBN: 0820363243, 0820363251 | True EPUB | 306 pages | 1.8 MB
In 2004 France banned Muslim women from wearing veils in school. In 2010 France passed legislation that banned the wearing of clothing in public that covered the face, mainly to target women who wore burqas. President Emmanuel Macron has stated that the hijab is not in accordance with French ideals. Islamophobia in France takes many forms, both explicit and implicit, and often appears to be sanctioned by the governing bodies themselves. These cultural biases reveal how the Muslim population acts as a scapegoat for the problematic status of immigrants in France more generally.

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