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Based on a corpus of Texan oral narratives collected by the author over the past fifteen years, this study presents an analysis of the literary qualities or orally performed verbal art, focusing on the significance of its social context. Although the tales included are all from Texas, they are representative of oral storytelling traditions in other parts of the United States, including tall tales, hunting stories, local character anecdotes, ac...

Classic case studies surveying the use, role and function of language and speech in social life.

Bauman's charged, muscular prose, his solid and piercing treatment of his characters, his careful and nuanced exploration of war, peace, honor, and purpose, and his jarring and utterly contemporary sense of dislocation mark "The Ice Beneath You" as a major addition to the literature of war.

Since its initial publication, Beyond Basic Dog Training has achieved well deserved recognition as an innovative, unique guide to obedience instruction. Obedience authority Diane Bauman’ s proven training philosophy asserts that the time has come to go beyond training dogs and start teaching them to please us. This has made a vital difference for those who use her method– and for dogs taught by it to succeed in competitive canine sports. In th...

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A children's classic since 1954, Coals of Fire offers 17 true stories about returning love for hate, good for evil, taken from various cultures and time periods, that will challenge readers, regardless of their age. (All Ages)

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Zygmunt Bauman's book is a brilliant exploration, from a sociological point of view, of the "taboo" subject in modern societies: death and dying. The book develops a new theory of the ways in which human mortality is reacted to, and dealt with, in social institutions and culture. The hypothesis explored in the book is that the necessity of human beings to live with the constant awareness of death accounts for crucial aspects of the social orga...

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In this volume, the editors have provided an introduction to the major historians of the Christian tradition and have looked at their assumptions and their methodology for writing history.

This package contains the following components: 0205402852 / 9780205402854 DVD for Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology: From Concepts to Transcription 0205402879 / 9780205402878 Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology: From Concepts to Transcription

In Deutschland gilt es gegenwärtig als chic, die Soziologie für unfruchtbar und überholt zu halten. Gegen die Argumente von Verächtern soziologischer Analysen zeigt das elegante und luzide Buch von Zygmunt Baumann, daß der einzelne täglich in seinen Handlungen und Überlegungen soziologische Kategorien verwendet. Was es bedeutet, soziologisch zu denken, erklärt der Autor, indem er von den alltäglichen Erfahrungen ausgeht. Jedes Kapitel des Buch...