Forschungs-Worterbuch: Grundbegriffe zur Lekture wissenschaftlicher Texte (Studientexte Pad/Psy) (German Edition) Review
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Taschenlexikon der Medizin (U & S Taschenbucher ; 44) (German Edition)
Taschenlexikon der Medizin (U & S Taschenbucher ; 44) (German Edition) Review
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Cop Speak: The Lingo of Law Enforcement and Crime
Cop Speak: The Lingo of Law Enforcement and Crime Review
Cop Speak: The Lingo of Law Enforcement and Crime Feature
From the "git-go" until the case is "cleared," law enforcement officials--and the criminals they pursue--have a language all their own. In CopSpeak, Tom Philbin sets the record straight with a fun, factual, and fascinating compilation that's part dictionary, part encyclopedia, and all entertaining. From "Abe" (five dollars' worth of illegal drugs) to "zombie" (a police officer who works at night), CopSpeak is "phat" (cool). Take a "taste" (sampling):
SHANK
A knife or other sharp instrument used by prison inmates.
Prisoners are ingenious at making shanks. They have been constructed from everything from a metal bed slat to a toothbrush handle in which a razor is embedded. "At any given time," said one ex-convict, "there's enough shanks in a prison to open a cutlery factory."
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Sunday, March 27, 2011
Linguistics for Everyone: An Introduction
Linguistics for Everyone: An Introduction Review
Linguistics for Everyone: An Introduction Feature
This book is for students with majors in English, linguistics, secondary education, foreign languages, communication sciences, and other disciplines that need a basic introduction to linguistics.
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Saturday, March 26, 2011
Illustrated Book of Development Definitions
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Friday, March 25, 2011
The Routledge Linguistics Encyclopedia
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The Routledge Linguistics Encyclopedia Feature
The Routledge Linguistics Encyclopedia is a single-volume encyclopedia covering all major and subsidiary areas of linguistics and applied linguistics. The 79 entries provide in-depth coverage of the topics and sub-topics of the field. Entries are alphabetically arranged and extensively cross-referenced so the reader can see how areas interrelate. Including a substantial introduction which provides a potted history of linguistics and suggestions for further reading, this is an indispensable reference tool for specialists and non-specialists alike.
This third edition has been thoroughly revised and updated, with new entries on:
- attitudes to language
- conversation analysis
- English Language Teaching
- gesture and language
- idioms
- language and advertising
- language and new technologies
- linguistics in schools
- optimality theory
- research methods in linguistics
- slang.
The following entries have been recommissioned or substantially revised:
Animals and Language, Artificial Languages, Computational Linguistics to Language Engineering, Contrastive Analysis/Contrastive Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Dialectology, Discourse Analysis, Dyslexia, Genre Analysis, Historical Linguistics, Intonation, Language and Education, Language, Gender and Sexuality, Language Origins, Language Surveys, Language Universals, Linguistic Typology, Metaphor, Pragmatics, Rhetoric, Semantics, Semiotics, Sociolinguistics, Stylistics, Systemic-Functional Grammar, Writing Systems.
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Thursday, March 24, 2011
The Dictionary of Urbanism
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
The Ghetto Underclass: Social Science Perspectives, Updated Edition
The Ghetto Underclass: Social Science Perspectives, Updated Edition Review
The Ghetto Underclass: Social Science Perspectives, Updated Edition Feature
This volume examines the urban underclass from theoretical, empirical and policy perspectives. Focusing strongly on policy, contributors explore such topics as demographic and industrial transitions, family patterns, sexual behaviour, immigration and homelessness. A new introduction updates recent work in the field since publication of the first edition.
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Monday, March 21, 2011
United States History: A Selective Guide to Information Sources
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United States History: A Selective Guide to Information Sources Feature
This important work has been completely revised and expanded with the addition of online databases, web sites and CD-ROM titles. It identifies and describes hundreds of reference books that pertain to American history. Entries offer full descriptive, and in some cases, evaluative annotations. Arranged topically, the guide begins with an introduction and a chapter on sources of general importance. Subsequent chapters cover U.S. history in terms of politics and government; diplomatic history and foreign affairs; military history; social, cultural, and intellectual history; regional history; and economic history. Introductory scope notes provide valuable expository information and suggested search strategies in such areas as automation, government documents, and genealogy. Entries include works published through 2002.
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Sunday, March 20, 2011
Twenty Minutes in Manhattan
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The walk from my apartment in Greenwich Village to my studio in Tribeca takes about twenty minutes, depending upon the route and whether I stop for a coffee and the Times. Invariably, though, it begins with a trip down the stairs.
And so sets out architecture critic Michael Sorkin on his daily walk from his home in a Manhattan old-law-style tenement building. Sorkin has followed the same path for over fifteen years, a route that has allowed him to observe the startling transformations in New York during this period of great change. Twenty Minutes in Manhattan is his personal, anecdotal account of his casual encounters with the physical space and social dimensions of this unparalleled city.
From the social gathering place of the city stoop to Washington Square Park, Sorkin’s walk takes the reader on a wry, humorous journey past local characters, neighborhood stores and bodegas, landmark buildings, and overlooked streets. His perambulations offer him—and the reader—opportunities to not only engage with his surroundings but to consider a wide range of issues that fascinate Sorkin as an architect, urbanist, and New Yorker. Whether he is despairing at street garbage or marveling at elevator etiquette, Twenty Minutes in Manhattan offers a testing ground for his ideas of how the city can be newly imagined and designed, addressing such issues as the crisis of the environment, free expression and public space, historic preservation, and the future of the neighborhood as a concept.
Inspired by Sorkin’s close, attentive relationship to his beloved city, Twenty Minutes in Manhattan is in the end a valentine to the idea of the city that ultimately offers a practical set of solutions that are relevant to not only the preservation and improvement of New York but to urban environments everywhere.
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