Reviews of the first edition:'...a work of high seriousness...manna from rhetorical heaven for students and
researchers with a lot of hard graft ahead of them... '(English Today)'...an impressive single-author reference work... '(English)'...Not only is this volume indispensible for anyone, students ...
Originally published in 1989. This diary of a news event looks at how the reporting
happened as spread by the news wire system of the Associated Press service in America. Analysing the flow of information in this detailed way, this ...
This unique and comprehensive account describes the interplay of internal and external factors in the
emergence of the Austro-Hungarian Navy from a coastal defence force in 1904 to a respectable battle force capable of the joint operations with other Triple ...
Suffixes, prefixes and other bound forms play a prominent part in the grammar of Burmese/Myanmar:
they carry almost all the grammatical information contained in a sentence. This dictionary is a comprehensive list and account of those grammatical forms, providing a ...
First published in 1985. Dickens was a vigorous champion of the right of all men
and women to carefree amusements and dedicated himself to the creation of imaginative pleasure. This book represents the first extended study of this vital aspect ...
Fuel Taxes and the Poor challenges the conventional wisdom that gasoline taxation, an important and
much-debated instrument of climate policy, has a disproportionately detrimental effect on poor people. Increased fuel taxes carry the potential to mitigate carbon emissions, reduce congestion, ...
In this study, author Caroline Huey analyzes the copious literary output of medieval poet and
barber-surgeon Hans Folz in all its variety-whether Meisterlied, Reimpaarspruch or carnival play. Heretofore, published research to do with Folz's multifaceted and compelling oeuvre has been ...
This book addresses the question of what it takes to develop social indicators that genuinely
influence important public decisions. It looks historically at the processes of creating and using three important social indicators in the United States: unemployment rates, standard ...
