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This book illustrates the changing character of Latin over 1000 years, through detailed linguistic commentaries on fifty passages. Aimed at students of Latin interested in diachronic change and sociolinguistic variation, and at Latin and Romance historical linguists. It will also interest social and cultural historians and students of Biblical and Christian Latin.

This up-to-date text helps nursing students master pharmacology by tightly linking it to therapeutic goals and patient wellness. Organized by body systems (units) and diseases (chapters), PHARMACOLOGY FOR NURSES: A PATHOPHYSIOLOGIC APPROACH, 4/e provides complete information on the drug classifications used to treat each disease class. Students can easily locate all relevant anatomy, physiology, pathology, and pharmacology in the same chapter ...

Major history of many of the developments undergone by the Latin language as it changed into Romance languages.

This book gives an extensive account of 'the wonderful and mysterious forms of animal and vegetable life' encountered by Arthur Adams during the voyage of HMS Samarang in the years 1843 to 1846. Adams was the Assistant Surgeon on this expedition led by Captain Sir Edward Belcher which was charged with surveying Japan and South East Asia including, amongst others, the Islands of the Indian Archipelago and the China Seas. His beautifully descrip...

Classical Latin appears to be without regional dialects, yet Latin evolved in little more than a millennium into a variety of different languages (the Romance languages: Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese etc.). Was regional diversity apparent from the earliest times, obscured perhaps by the standardisation of writing, or did some catastrophic event in late antiquity cause the language to vary? These questions have long intrigued Latinists a...

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The popular Pine Forge Press textbook, Sociological Theory, has been broken into two volumes, to meet the needs of lecturers and students. This first volume, Classical Sociological Theory, covers the development of social thought up to the 1930s. The treatment of individual theories and theorists is balanced with the development of key themes and ideas about social life, including race, class and gender.

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This book is the outcome of a careful and detailed study of earthquakes in Central America. It combines information from felt effects and instrumental recordings to reassess the location and size of events since the beginning of the instrumental era. Early sections describe the techniques used, with particular emphasis on the determination of earthquake magnitude. The largest section comprises detailed descriptions of more than 700 of the more...

`At a time when we are moving more and more toward a global village, this ambitious book provides evidence of world-wide trends in families and family relations. It also illustrates the resilience of local cultures, seen in variations among nations in trends and responses to them. This is a very useful resource for obtaining the kind of baseline information that is essential to comparative work. As well, a number of chapters contribute to our ...

This book, first published in 2007, is a comprehensive examination of regional diversification in Latin from the earliest beginnings to late antiquity.

When we are children, we are told that we'll understand once we are grown. But what I have come to see and understand, is how frighteningly little I know. I'd imagine, I am not alone in this. The distorted rhetoric of our families, educators, and cultural leaders is persistently being handed down through generations. All over the world. Everything we do, comes from our individual understanding of ourselves and the world around us. And wh...

When we are children, we are told that we'll understand once we are grown. But what I have come to see and understand, is how frighteningly little I know. I'd imagine, I am not alone in this. The distorted rhetoric of our families, educators, and cultural leaders is persistently being handed down through generations. All over the world. Everything we do, comes from our individual understanding of ourselves and the world around us. And wh...

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Excerpt from Social Change in Latin America Today: Its Implications for United States Policy How can social anthropologists, who have made great strides in the past generation in broadening our under standing of cultural patterns and social forces, best con tribute to the essential fund of our knowledge of new processes of social and political change? And how can political analysts and policy-makers best draw upon the anthropologists' accumul...

Excerpt from Unofficial Proceedings in Connection With the Twenty-Fourth National Encampment, Grand Army of the Republic, Held in Boston, Week August 11-16, 1890: Issued Under the Direction of the Executive CommitteeHis grandfather, Richard Devens, was conspicuous for his patriotism at the outbreak of the Revolution. He was selected by his fellow-citizens as one of the committee of safety, to, provide arms and ammunition for the patriots of 17...

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A major history of many of the developments undergone by the Latin language as it changed into Romance languages.