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Unlike traditional grammar books that emphasize sentence analysis, this worktext asks students to imitate the sentence styles of professional writers, making the sentence composing process enjoyable and challenging.

Routledge Language Workbooks are practical introductions to specific areas of language for absolute beginners. They provide comprehensive coverage of the area as well as a basis for further study. Language Workbooks can be used for independent study or as part of a taught class.Vocabulary: * covers issues such as the power of words to influence our perceptions* looks at the origins of words from English and other languages* explores the relati...

Applied Antisense Oligonucleotide Technology Edited by C. A. Stein and Arthur M. Krieg The past fifteen years have seen major developments in the field of antisense oligonucleotide therapeutics. Antisense technology now yields large amounts of data in clinical trials and shows tremendous potential for therapeutic use in conditions ranging from cancers to infectious diseases. This volume features articles by scientists and academics at the le...

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By outlining and integrating three different perspectives - discourse, rhetoric and social theory - this book provides a comprehensive and well-illustrated framework for the analysis of everyday texts. The first part of the book describes the tools and resources which can be drawn from discourse analysis, rhetorical theory and social theory. These perspectives are then brought together in an extensive analysis of everyday texts, whilst the la...

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This is the first book to examine the relationship between economic competitiveness and environmental protection in European Union policy. It contains a wide range of international case studies.

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In this book, Francis Lovett examines public parks, especially those administered by the National Park Service, from a communitarian perspective. The author views the parks as an example of a common good_something which is valued for its service to a community or society at large, and not merely for the benefits it brings to individuals or sub-groups. In all public spaces, such as parks, there arise issues regarding the proper balance between ...

Written by and for Asian Americans, this study guide helps you discover and embrace Asian identity and learn to bridge the conflicting values of parents, culture and faith. Through accounts of humorous, frustrating and heartbreaking personal experiences, the authors offer support, encouragement and ideas for living out the Christian faith between two cultures.

This study examines the balance that was struck between democracy and authority, between hierarchy and equality, in short between the old order and the new in early-19th-century France. It seeks to give careful attention to the Napoleonic episode from a political perspective.

A systematic survey and comparison of the work of 19th-century American and British women in scientific research, this book covers the two countries in which women of the period were most active in scientific work and examines all the fields in which they were engaged.

Copublished with Oxford Philosophy Trust, this volume is a collection of the proceedings of a conference organized around four broad themes connected with a wider concern about the nature of lived experience, the construction of such experience through language and the values imminent in that language.

How do Professionals really learn to imporve their practice?Intuition is not Enough is a guide fr trainers and practitioners working with disturbed children and young people, which explores the connections between the challenges of practice and of learning.

Considers the way in which the European Union has affected autonomy in macroeconomic policy-making of the member states. It begins with an introduction to economic ideas, and explores current themes surrounding monetary and fiscal policy and European integration, including economic policy co-ordination, objectives in national policy-making and motivations for participating in the European Monetary System. Particular focus is given to the large...

This book places the whole issue of monetary union in its wider political economic context. The authors discuss: * the effect of EMU on fiscal and monetary policies * Central bank independence * the impact of EMU on unemployment * ERM II * international perspectives. Drawing on their experience in the European financial markets, the authors use a non-technical approach to discuss these issues - both in a general european sense and more specifi...

Max Weber and Michael Foucault are among the most controversial and fascinating thinkers of our century. This book is the first to jointly analyse them in detail, and to make effective links between their lives and work, it coincides with a substantial resurgence of interest in their writings. The author's exciting interpretative approach reveals a new dimension in reading the work of Foucault and Weber, it will be invaluable to students and t...

Postmodern ideas have been vastly influential in the social sciences and beyond. However, their impact on the study of social policy has been minimal. "Postmodernity and the Fragmentation of Welfare" analyzes the potential for a postmodern or cultural turn in welfare as it treats postmodernity as an evolving canon--from the seminal works of Baudrillard, Foucault and Lyotard, through to recent theories of the "risk society." The contributors, w...

Postmodern ideas have been vastly influential in the social sciences and beyond. However, their impact on the study of social policy has been minimal. "Postmodernity and the Fragmentation of Welfare" analyzes the potential for a postmodern or cultural turn in welfare as it treats postmodernity as an evolving canon--from the seminal works of Baudrillard, Foucault and Lyotard, through to recent theories of the "risk society." The contributors, w...

Considers the way in which the European Union has affected autonomy in macroeconomic policy-making of the member states. It begins with an introduction to economic ideas, and explores current themes surrounding monetary and fiscal policy and European integration, including economic policy co-ordination, objectives in national policy-making and motivations for participating in the European Monetary System. Particular focus is given to the large...