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This Dictionary of Language Testing contains some 600 entries on language assessment

There are some 6, 500 different languages in the world. This book investigates why diversity arose, how it relates to the origins and evolution of language and culture, and whether the uneven distribution of human languages may be linked with patterns of human geography and history. Daniel Nettle draws on work in anthropology, linguistics, geography, archeology, and evolutionary science to explain linguistic diversity.

This field guide. covering the butterflies of the eastern United States to a western boundary running from the eastern Dakotas to east Texas, identifies butterflies in their habitat, and includes information on unique field marks and flight patterns, ranges, seasonal abundance, and food plants. It is beautifully illustrated with 71 colour plates, with photographs of all the butterflies native to the eastern United States. The guide will allow ...

The Handbook of ENT for Primary Care provides essential information and skills for recognizing and managing disorders of the ear, nose, and throat in the primary care setting. Comprehensive and accessible, the handbook offers a review of ENT anatomy and physiology so that the normal and abnormal can be recognized. Using a structured approach to the examination of the ear, nose, throat, head and neck region, it explains the essential core knowl...

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Here is a guide for the rookie who is just taking the field in the wide world of baseball memorabilia. The authors offer both money-making and money-saving insight on collecting uniforms, equipment, autographs, Hartland statues, Ethan Allen All-Star Baseball, and much, much more. Learn the best strategies for visiting shows and even the Hall of Fame induction weekend in Cooperstown. The real charm of this book is that it ventures beyond the st...

Russia, Bosnia, Palestine, Ireland--and many other nations are torn by seemingly intractable conflict in which partition has played a major role.

In "Global Instability, " internationally renowned contributors examine the key problems besetting the world economy in the era of globalization and outline possible solutions. They reject the current orthodoxy in mainstream economics, challenging the fatalistic belief that the new globalized economy resists any change of course. This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information.Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf...

For the first time, life expectancy is declining in an industrialized society. In this pioneering work, William C. Cockerham examines the social causes of the decline in life expectancy beginning in the 1960s including: *Russia *Poland *Hungary *Romania *Bulgaria *the Czech Republic *and East Germany. Health and Social Change in Russia and Eastern Europe argues that the roots of this change are mainly social rather than biomedical - the result...

Word Structure, provides a complete introduction to morphology, the study of the structure of words. Word Structure: * examines how words work as part of the language system* encourages readers to take an objective and analytic approach* refers to a wealth of languages, including Turkish and Latin, to illustrate points raised* provides clear and succinct summaries at the end of each unit.

TV Living presents the findings of the BFI Audience Tracking Study in which 500 participants completed detailed questionnaire-diaries on their lives, their television watching, and the relationship between the two over a five year period.Gauntlett and Hill use this extensive data to explore some of the most fundamental questions in media and cultural studies, focusing on issues of gender, identity, the impact of new technologies, and life chan...

Transforming Social Work Practice shows that postmodern theory offers new strategies for social workers concerned with political action and social justice. It explores ways of developing practice frameworks, paradigms and principles which take advantage of the perspectives offered by postmodern theory without totally abandoning the values of modernity and the Enlightenment project of human emancipation. Case studies demonstrate how these persp...

A distinguished group of international scholars wrestles here with what global governance is and is not--and with what it might be, given a clearer understanding of the challenges and opportunities posed by international financial flows, communications technologies, environmental threats, domestic disorders, peacekeeping and intervention, and sanctions and incentives. Taken together, this collection of original essays pays special attention to...

This impressive collection of leading, interdisciplinary experts explores various dimensions of globalization, and their relationship to development processes in the region. "Globalisation and the Asia-Pacific" provides diverse accounts of how globalization is being experienced, understood, managed and resisted at various scales in relation to development processes in the Asia-Pacific. This radical new perspective provides an invaluable analys...

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Contemporary African Politics presents a series of essays focusing on the transition to democracy in the countries of Africa. The contributors use specific case studies to identify the problems and prospects of the search for democratic legitimacy in Africa.

In 1978, Haruki Murakami was 29 and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers¿ award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, which turned Murakami from a wri...

In the history of interpretation the letter of James has been marginalized and compared unfavorably with the writings of Paul. "James" argues for an important canonical role for James, not subordinate to Paul, but a complementary scriptural voice. Richard Baukham explores the historical and literary context of the text, discussing the significance of James as the brother of Jesus and leader of the early Jerusalem church. Major themes of James-...

Analysis of the consolidation of British imperialist discourse about India from the seventeenth century to the 1830s.