Classic British war film based on the novel by Pierre Boulle in which a group of POWs are forced to build a bridge in Burma for the Japanese. Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness) is the appointed leader of the men interned in the camp. When the Japanese commander, Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa), orders his captives to build a bridge across the river Kwai, Nicholson agrees on the basis that the project will keep his men occupied and give them an opportunity to prove, through the quality of their work, the superiority of British engineering. However, as the bridge progresses and the POWs strive to show their craftsmanship, Nicholson appears to lose sight of the fact that the ultimate object of the bridge is to help the Japanese win the war. The impending arrival of a British commando team, sent to destroy the bridge, looks set to provide a stern test of where the true loyalties of the increasingly obsessive Nicholson lie.

Secrets Of The Glen chronicles the lives of two immigrant families from 1913 to 1960. The Glen, a fictitious suburb north of New York is a microcosm of the American city where immigrants and those escaping the upheaval in Europe sought refuge. When two immigrant boys aboard a freighter sailing from Dublin to New York become best friends, they set in motion a series of events that will bind them and their progeny forever. Their lives weave a web of intrigue that culminates in a poignant love story played out against the backdrop of the cold war. Secrets Of The Glen, is an entertaining, bodice-busting tale of greed, manipulation, rape and murder.

This book focuses ona hitherto neglected area of research within the fields of academic and professinal descourse: teh language of conferencing. The volume represents a reange of perspectives, from the conference as a whole event to the conferenfe as a system of potential genres, within a given discourse community. Somne discourse feataures of conference language are examined in detail, such as stretegies for politeness and other interpersonal management dur9ng presentations and discussions. The pedagogical implications of conference research are also addressed; in indeed there is a growing need for such a focus. Novice conference participants need explicit linguistic description fo the training in, the relevant generes to enable them to become fullyfledged members of their professional discourse communites. Additionally, the work in this volume makes a valuable contribution to the understanding of he intercultura and educational dimensions of the increasing dominance of English as an international lingua franca--in conferences and beyond. Contents: Eija Ventola/Celia Shalom/Susan Thompson: Introduction--Eija Ventola: Why and what kind of focus on confernce presentations?--Celia Shalom: The academic confernce: A forum for enacting genere knowledge--Chrisine Raisanen: The conference forum: A system of interrelated genres and discursive practices--Elizabeth Rowley-Jolivet: Science in themaking: Scientific conference presentations and the construction of facts--Anni Heino/Eija Tervonen/Jorma Tommola: Metadiscourse in academic conference presentations--Susan Thompson" 'As the story unfolds': The uses of narrative in research presentations--Cassily Charles/Eija Ventola: A multi-semioticgenre: The conference slide show--Monique Frobert-Adamo: Humour in oral presentations: what's the joke?--Pauline Webber: The paper is now open for discussion--Irena Vassileva: Speaker-audience interaction: the case of BUlgarians presenting in English--Tatyana Yakhontova: Titles of conference presentation obstracts: a cross-cultural perspective-Viktor Slepovitch: English as a conference language for students and prospects--David banks: The French scientist and English as a conference language--Eija Ventola: Should I speak English or German?--Conferencing and language code issues--Eija Ventola/Celia Shalom/ Susan Thompson: Afterwood.