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Dear Dumb Diary (DVD)
Emily Alyn Lind, Mary-Charles Jones, David Mazouz, Sterling Griffith, James Waterston, …
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R55
Discovery Miles 550
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Ships in 10 - 20 working days
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Kristin Hanggi directs this made-for-TV comedy based on the
children's books by Jim Benton. At the centre of events is Jamie
Kelly (Emily Alyn Lind), a middle school girl whose diary reflects
the preoccupations of her peers and classmates. Armed with the
support of her friend Isabella (Mary-Charles Jones), Jamie sets out
to win the heart of the boy she has the biggest crush on, Hudson
(David Mazouz), and to get one over on the vindictive Angeline
(Sterling Griffith). The pages of her diary record her successes -
and failures...
First published in 1988, this book explores the grammatical loss of
gender in English. It demonstrates that from the end of the Old
English period, there was a considerable time period, of about
three hundred years, during which there existed "echoes" of the
gender classification of nouns. The study records the best known
conclusions concerning the behaviour of anaphoric pronouns under
grammatical gender "stress" in the late Old English and Middle
English periods. It focuses on a discussion of attributive word
morphology in the noun phrase.
This book raises questions about the just war tradition through a
critical examination of its revival and by juxtaposing it with a
literary phenomenology of war. Recent public debate about war has
leaned heavily on a just-war tradition dating back many centuries.
This book examines the recent revival of that tradition in the
United States and Britain, arguing that it is less coherent and
comprehensive as an approach to the ethical issues arising from war
than is generally supposed, and that it is inconsistent in
important ways with the theology on which it was originally based.
A second line of criticism is mounted through close readings of
modern texts in English - from Britain, Australia and the USA -
that together constitute a more subjective, bottom-up understanding
of the moral dilemmas of military life. In this second tradition
the task of representing war is seen as more problematic, and its
rationality more questionable, than in just war discourse. Works by
William Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott, James Fennimore Cooper,
Stephen Crane, John Buchan, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad,
Tim O'Brien and Kurt Vonnegut are featured. The book will be of
great interest to students and scholars of security studies,
military studies, theology and international relations.
First published in 1988, this book explores the grammatical loss of
gender in English. It demonstrates that from the end of the Old
English period, there was a considerable time period, of about
three hundred years, during which there existed "echoes" of the
gender classification of nouns. The study records the best known
conclusions concerning the behaviour of anaphoric pronouns under
grammatical gender "stress" in the late Old English and Middle
English periods. It focuses on a discussion of attributive word
morphology in the noun phrase.
The contributors to this volume cover the international range of
scholarship in the field of Historical Linguistics, as well as some
of its major themes. The work and ideas they discuss are relevant
not only to other aspects of Historical Linguistics but also to
more general developments in linguistic theory. Along with
Professor Jones' Introduction, their comments provide a major
overview of Historical Linguistics that will be the reference point
for its development for many years to come and form an important
contribution to general theories of linguistic behaviour.
This book raises questions about the just war tradition through a
critical examination of its revival and by juxtaposing it with a
literary phenomenology of war. Recent public debate about war has
leaned heavily on a just-war tradition dating back many centuries.
This book examines the recent revival of that tradition in the
United States and Britain, arguing that it is less coherent and
comprehensive as an approach to the ethical issues arising from war
than is generally supposed, and that it is inconsistent in
important ways with the theology on which it was originally based.
A second line of criticism is mounted through close readings of
modern texts in English - from Britain, Australia and the USA -
that together constitute a more subjective, bottom-up understanding
of the moral dilemmas of military life. In this second tradition
the task of representing war is seen as more problematic, and its
rationality more questionable, than in just war discourse. Works by
William Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott, James Fennimore Cooper,
Stephen Crane, John Buchan, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad,
Tim O'Brien and Kurt Vonnegut are featured. The book will be of
great interest to students and scholars of security studies,
military studies, theology and international relations.
This is an attempt to view historical phonological change as an
ongoing, recurrent process. The author sees like events occurring
at all periods, a phenomenon which he considers is disguised by too
great a reliance upon certain characteristics of the scholarly
tradition. Thus he argues that those innovations arrived at by
speakers of the English language many years ago are not in
principle unlike those that can be seen to be happening today.
Phonological mutations are, on the whole, not to be regarded as
unique, novel, once only events. Speakers appear to present to
speech sound materials, a limited set of evaluative and decoding
perceptions, together with what would seem to be a finite number of
innovation producing stratagems in response to their
interpretation. It is stressed that this interpretation may itself
be a direct product of the kinds of data selected for presentation
in traditional handbooks and Jones notes the fact that phonological
change is often "messy" and responsive to a highly tuned ability to
perceive fine phonetic detail of a type which, by definition,
rarely has the opportunity to surface in historical data sources.
The contributors to this volume cover the international range of
scholarship in the field of Historical Linguistics, as well as some
of its major themes. The work and ideas they discuss are relevant
not only to other aspects of Historical Linguistics but also to
more general developments in linguistic theory. Along with
Professor Jones' Introduction, their comments provide a major
overview of Historical Linguistics that will be the reference point
for its development for many years to come and form an important
contribution to general theories of linguistic behaviour.
This is an attempt to view historical phonological change as an
ongoing, recurrent process. The author sees like events occurring
at all periods, a phenomenon which he considers is disguised by too
great a reliance upon certain characteristics of the scholarly
tradition. Thus he argues that those innovations arrived at by
speakers of the English language many years ago are not in
principle unlike those that can be seen to be happening today.
Phonological mutations are, on the whole, not to be regarded as
unique, novel, once only events. Speakers appear to present to
speech sound materials, a limited set of evaluative and decoding
perceptions, together with what would seem to be a finite number of
innovation producing stratagems in response to their
interpretation. It is stressed that this interpretation may itself
be a direct product of the kinds of data selected for presentation
in traditional handbooks and Jones notes the fact that phonological
change is often "messy" and responsive to a highly tuned ability to
perceive fine phonetic detail of a type which, by definition,
rarely has the opportunity to surface in historical data sources.
This book presents a global overview examining monsoon variability
in South Asia, Australian, South America and North American, as
well as a focus on glaciers and monsoon systems. Monsoon systems
are important components of the Earth's climate and play
fundamental roles in water and energy balances. The variability and
changes in the monsoons affect millions of people and the economies
of many countries. This book presents the physical mechanisms
involved with monsoon systems, including recent modeling advances
addressing climate changes and future projections. The Monsoons and
Climate Change will be of interest to both graduate students and
researchers.
This book presents a global overview examining monsoon variability
in South Asia, Australian, South America and North American, as
well as a focus on glaciers and monsoon systems. Monsoon systems
are important components of the Earth's climate and play
fundamental roles in water and energy balances. The variability and
changes in the monsoons affect millions of people and the economies
of many countries. This book presents the physical mechanisms
involved with monsoon systems, including recent modeling advances
addressing climate changes and future projections. The Monsoons and
Climate Change will be of interest to both graduate students and
researchers.
"Arguing that a corpus-based approach is indispensable for the
study of changes of complementation in British and American
English, the author examines several central patterns of sentential
complementation in a number of electronic corpora to shed light on
the emergence and spread of innovative constructions in relatively
recent English"--
The book shows how the system of English predicate complementation
has been undergoing an amazing amount of variation and change in
recent centuries, and identifies explanatory principles to account
for this change and variation, with evidence from large electronic
corpora of both British and American English.
This monograph focuses on the description, use and development of
the inflectional subjunctive in English and German in the
eighteenth century. A close comparison between meta-linguistic
comments (eighteenth-century grammars) and actual language usage
(corpus study) allows the evaluation of the influence of
prescriptivism on language change.
This monograph focuses on the description, use and development of
the inflectional subjunctive in English and German in the
eighteenth century. A close comparison between meta-linguistic
comments (eighteenth-century grammars) and actual language usage
(corpus study) allows the evaluation of the influence of
prescriptivism on language change.
Today, more than ever, we live in a global world. Whether it's war,
economics, politics, or law, our lives are influenced by a complex
web of cross-border transactions. Dr Charles Jones ably provides
the building blocks to understand these interactions, outlining the
competing theories that attempt to explain them. Arguing that the
strength of International Relations lies in its contradictions -
it's not a single discipline but a fascinating mess of history,
politics, economics, sociology, law, anthropology, and cultural
studies - he provides a lively discussion of the limitations of the
field, but also why it is so essential. Covering conflict, history,
and theory, and with a major focus on the global economy, this is
the perfect primer for aspiring students of International
Relations, workers in an international context, and citizens across
the globe.
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My Antonia (Paperback)
Charles Jones; Adapted by Willa Cather's
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R405
Discovery Miles 4 050
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Drama / 11m, 7f, 7 children / Unit set This faithful adaptation
brings the wonderful romantic novel's profoundly human characters
and its expansive view of 19th century American frontier life
vibrantly to the stage. The play celebrates Antonia's story and her
extraordinary delight in the happenings of daily life. It moves
from the raw hardships of her immigrant family's first year as
settlers on the plains through her joyful and rebellious youth to
her fulfillment as a farm wife and mother. "No romantic novel ever
written in America is one half so beautiful as My Antonia." -H.L.
Mencken
-- James Der Derian, University of Massachusetts
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