"This book presents a comprehensive overview of Applied Linguistics, from its traditional roots in language teaching, to more recent developments such as corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, and forensic linguistics."
"Notice that it is not enough to claim that what I believe to be true, you may believe to be false – that is a commonplace difference ... The claim may be yet more drastic: that even rationality itself is relative to a culture or a language, so there is no universal logic or correct way of reasoning. There can be no doubt about the seductiveness of various forms of relativism and, helped on by the rakish glamour of ..."
Madeleine's World A Child's Journey from Birth to Age Three by Brian P. Hall, PatrickSmith Hardcover, 262 Pages, Published 1997 by Houghton Mifflin ISBN-13: 978-0-395-87059-4, ISBN: 0-395-87059-3
"What might it feel like to be six months old? To have only recently discovered that your hands are your own and that not all round things are breasts? Or to celebrate your first birthday when you don't understand "first" and "birth" yet, and aren't sure about "day"? Or to wonder what the moon is and whether it's farther away than airplanes or the flies on the ceiling? Or to first figure out that books tell a story? Or that places stay a ..."
"Shipwrecks of Southern California chronicles the lives of vessels great and small which have gone to the bottom in the chill waters along California's southern coast from Surf to San Diego. Describing the final desperate hours and minutes of 50 proud ships, Shipwrecks is haunting and compelling, both a work of historical moment and a gripping page turner. The history of each ill-fated ship is presented in rich detail supplemented with b ..."
"Shipwrecks of Southern California lists wreck sites by location. Each wreck is documented with an approximate map, photos of the ship, and a brief history of the event."
"What kind of education will produce principled leaders who bring an authentic sense of morality and meaning to their decisions? This books marks a significant breakthrough response to this question. Author Brian P. Hall posits that our modern social crisis is primarily a crisis of values, and offers a new developmental synthesis for value education."
"A wizard plots to take over the kingdom of Maldoone with the help of the dragons he manufactures."
Your First Classic Car Buying, Renovating and Driving by PatrickSmith Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 1995 by J H Haynes & Co Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-85260-410-3, ISBN: 1-85260-410-7