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Football is ubiquitous and a permanent fixture of modern life. More than a sport, it frequently manifests in broader popular culture. This book examines the significance of football for, and in, popular culture across a wide range of forms, including music, film and social media.

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Trask's Historical Linguistics provides an accessible introduction to historical linguistics - the study of language change over time. This fourth edition of this renowned textbook is fully revised and updated and covers the most recent developments in historical linguistics.

Trask's Historical Linguistics provides an accessible introduction to historical linguistics - the study of language change over time. This fourth edition of this renowned textbook is fully revised and updated and covers the most recent developments in historical linguistics.

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In Genre and Openness in Proverbs 10:1-22:16, Suzanna R. Millar argues that the sayings in these chapters have a hybrid genre, "didactic proverb". These sayings train a student's mind by opening up a number of complex possible interpretations while being multifunctional and widely applicable. By incorporating paremiology, the technical study of the proverb genre, Millar sheds light on important issues within these chapters, including character...

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The essays presented here draw from the Soviet Interview Project's evidence of the internal condition of the CPSU party during the "era of stagnation" and its role, influence, and impact on the operation of legal and economic institutions and state bureaucracies.

Revised edition of: Trask's Historical linguistics / R.L. Trask. London: Arnold, 2007.

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Ion exchange", as Dr. Robert Kunin has said, "is a unique technology since ft occupies a special place in at least three other scientific disciplines - polymer chemistry, polyelectrolytes and adsorption. " It may also lay claim to being one of the most widely used industrially. From its origins in water treatment and the sugar industry, through hydrometallurgical applications as diverse as the treatment of plating wastes and the tonnage produc...

Current work on the transition from communism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union has emphasized the "polity" and the "economy", this book treats four basic areas: ethnic issues, deviance and health, social cleavages, and labor and elitism.

Language, Nation and Power provides students with a discussion of the ways in which language has been (and is being) used to construct national (or ethnic) identity. It focuses on the processes by which a language can be planned and standardized and what the results of these processes are. Particular emphasis is given to the historical and social effects which nationalism has had on the development of language since the French Revolution. For ...

Ion exchange", as Dr. Robert Kunin has said, "is a unique technology since ft occupies a special place in at least three other scientific disciplines - polymer chemistry, polyelectrolytes and adsorption. " It may also lay claim to being one of the most widely used industrially. From its origins in water treatment and the sugar industry, through hydrometallurgical applications as diverse as the treatment of plating wastes and the tonnage produc...

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This sixth volume in the Academy of International Buiness Series presents leading-edge research on contemporary themes in international business. Part one explores several of the major issues that currently face multinational enterprises: government policy, the Asia crisis, knowledge and technology management, corporate-subsidiary relations, strategies for small firms and the impact of the technological revolution. Part Two of the volume exami...

This is a history of Europe unlike any other: a theory-informed history of its language use. The 'rise' and 'fall' of languages are recounted, along with an analysis of why periods of linguistic diversity are followed by hegemony. How did the sociolinguistic past differ from the sociolinguistic present?