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Why Not? The Story of a Retail Maverick Courts tells the story of Terry O'Connor and how he brought a British household name to Singapore. Part biography, the book gives a fascinating insight into the history of Courts, a general goods stores first set up in 1850 in Canterbury, England, its subsequent expansion into Southeast Asia, and its transformation from a furniture retailer to a purveyor of electronic goods. The author relates his personal journey from trainee buyer in an electronics store in Liverpool to chief executive of Courts Asia, and gives thoughtful insights into doing business in Southeast Asia.

This book demonstrates how foreign language textbook analysis can inform future materials development to improve foreign language teaching. Through chronological analysis of French textbooks in the United States, this book explores the representations of Canada and Quebec in French beginner textbooks produced from 1960 to 2010. Chapelle couples a large collection of 65 textbooks with a social-semiotic qualitative analysis of the genres, language and images that communicate Quebec's cultural narrative to learners. Findings about the amount and type of content are presented by decade to track the trends in foreign language teaching and changes in Quebec's representation. Particular attention is given to how language politics is presented to students through text and images. This book will be of interest to scholars of Canadian Studies, Quebec Studies and Second Language Acquisition, as well as foreign language materials developers.

The main goal of studying textbooks is to create an optimal textbook model. A foreign language textbook can be viewed from a theoretical and practical aspect of study. The analysis of Russian language textbooks of a generaleducational type from a theoretical point of view, implies a critical analysis of the structural and content components of the textbook as well as the formulation of the basic principles of its construction. Within the theoretical aspect, the analysis of textbooks can be approached from the socio-cultural plan, which takes place on two levels: content, and structural-organisational.In this paper, we consider whether the content of textbooks has the appropriate elements necessary for acquiring socio-cultural competence, which constitutes socio-cultural content, and how these contents can be presented in textbooks. What criteria do we use to evaluate the socio-cultural content of the textbook and how do we check the adoption of socio-culturalmaterial by students.

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[.] In the proposed textbook the methodical bases of organization and planning of foreign economic activity of transport enterprises with disclosure of its specific features, considering international norms and traditions of cooperation, are presented. Relying on the disclosure of legal possibilities of realization of types of foreign economic activity, the essence of the procedures of their organization, the features of contractual activities in the organization of trade cooperation with foreign counterparties and the main content of the stages related to the performance of contractual obligations are revealed. The authors emphasized specific details of the sequence of actions in the organization of foreign trade operations and their implementation, which will ensure logical consistency and systematic presentation of the material and promote full understanding the material. The textbook aims to give the reader theoretical knowledge and practical skills in organizing foreign trade activities by transport enterprises.