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Chomsky's contribution to the study of language has, over the last
four decades, been enormous, and has exerted a powerful influence
throughout the other cognitive sciences. Language is, arguably, an
even more distinctively human characteristic than intelligence, and
the thousands of different human languages are, according to
Chomsy, cut to the same general pattern. This pattern is
determined, he claims, by innate structuring principles which only
human beings possess. Chomsky's search for the universal in
language has revitalized the question of the relationship between
language and mind, and has provided a powerful new tool, generative
grammar, for students of language.
Embodying the aims of the new curriculum for Wales, and forming
part of the Humanities Area of Learning and Experience, Curriculum
for Wales: Geography for 11-14 years will help you plan your
curriculum, offering 18 chapters packed full of geographical
resources, including maps, charts, diagrams and data. >>
Build students' curiosity about the world around them - how it
developed, what it is like now, and what it could be like in the
future by helping you develop an enquiry-based approach to
learning. >> Explore geography at a local, national and
global scale and foster students' sense of cynefin with a focus on
Wales and its place on the wider world. >> Develop core
geographical skills with fieldwork enquiries embedded into the
context of topics, encouraging students to investigate their local
area. >> Support teachers in planning and assessment with
suggested learning objectives. >> Help students to consider
topics in the context of their own lives and the local area in
which they live with regular 'My place' activities. >>
Encourage students to think about the impact of human actions in
their local area, on Wales and the world, to develop ethical
informed citizens. >> Choose from crucial content areas
including: weather and climate; ecosystems; landscapes and national
parks; rural and urban places; sport and culture; climate change;
disease; global consumers and more.
Previous attempts to critique the canonical approach of Brevard
Childs have remained largely theoretical in nature. One of the
weakness of canonical criticism, then, is its failure to have
generated new readings of extended biblical passages. Reviewing the
hermeneutics and the praxis of Childs's approach, Lyons then turns
to the Sodom narrative (Gen 18-19) as a test of a practical
exegesis according to Childs' principles, and then to reflect
critically upon the reading experience generated. Surprisingly, the
canonical reading produced is a wholly new one, centred around the
complex, irreducible - even contradictory - request of Abraham for
Yahweh to do justice (18:23-25).
A gripping memoir of life in Jerusalem from one of Australia's most
experienced Middle East correspondents. Leading Australian
journalist John Lyons will take readers on a fascinating personal
journey through the wonders and dangers of the Middle East. From
the sheer excitement of arriving in Jerusalem with his wife and
eight-year-old son, to the fall of dictators and his gripping
account of what it feels like to be taken by Egyptian soldiers,
blindfolded and interrogated, this is a memoir of the Middle East
like no other. Drawing on a 20-year interest in the Middle East,
Lyons has had extraordinary access - he's interviewed everyone from
Israel's former Prime Ministers Shimon Peres and Ehud Olmert to key
figures from Hezbollah and Hamas. He's witnessed the brutal Iranian
Revolutionary Guard up close and was one of the last foreign
journalists in Iran during the violent crackdown against the 'Green
Revolution'. He's confronted Hamas officials about why they fire
rockets into Israel and Israeli soldiers about why they fire tear
gas at Palestinian school children. By telling the story of his
family travelling through the region, this book is extremely
readable and entertaining, full of humour, colour. It is sometimes
dazzling in its detail, sometimes tragic. Lyons says he has written
it in a way that readers can feel they are there with him - so they
can smell the wonderful markets of the Middle East and feel the
fear of what it is like to be blindfolded and have your hands bound
with electrical cord. Lyons also looks at 50 years of Israeli
occupation of the West Bank - the mechanics of how this works and
the effect it now has on both Israelis and Palestinians.Lyons
explains the Middle East through every day life and experiences -
his son's school, his wife's friends and his own dealings with a
range of people over six years. If you only read one book on the
Middle East, this is it.
The richly varied collection of 15 essays in this volume showcase
the afterlife of the Book of Revelation. It is a biblical book that
has left its mark in many fields of intellectual endeavour:
literature, film, music, philosophy, political theology, and
religious ideology. It is perhaps paradoxical that this book, which
promises God's punishment upon anyone expanding on its contents,
has nevertheless accumulated to itself over two millennia vast
amounts of commentary, exposition, and appropriation. Offered at
the close of the 'Blair/Bush years', this volume also exposes and
highlights the often deeply ironic resonances generated while
studying the reception history of Revelation during a period when
the book has both significant public currency and a potentially
terrifying global impact. Contents. Decoding, Reception History,
Poetry: Three Hermeneutical Approaches to the Apocalypse (Jonathan
Roberts); Self-Authorization in Christina Rossetti's The Face of
the Deep (Jo Carruthers); Revelation, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Alison
Jack); Revelation and Film (Melanie J. Wright); The Apocalypse
according to Johnny Cash (William John Lyons); The Johannine
Apocalypse and the Risk of Knowledge (James E. Harding);
Revelation, Violence, and War (Heikki Raisanen); The Reception of
Revelation, c. 1250-1700 (Anke Holdenried); A Seventeenth-Century
Particular Baptist on Revelation 20.1-7 (Simon Woodman); The Book
of Revelation, the Branch Davidians and Apocalyptic
(Self-)destruction? (Kenneth Newport); Ecological Readings of the
Apocalypse of John in Contemporary America (Michael S. Northcott);
Feminist Reception of the Book of Revelation (Hanna Stenstrom);
Revelation as Form and Content in the Works of Karl Marx and
Friedrich Engels (Jorunn Okland)
Lyons provides a fresh and thought-provoking understanding of the
children's public mental health system, as well as the need to
foster its evolution and improvement. He presents the history of
child mental health systems, including the U.S. system's roots and
the early 19th-century case of the Wild Boy of Aveyron, which
demonstrated the potentially therapeutic effects of environment. He
shows us why modern leaders and presidents have issued calls for
improvements to the U.S. child mental health system, and what
barriers have slowed or even halted this evolution. Such barriers,
Lyons explains, can be removed with community development and
better clinical outcomes management. In addition to providing
information for parents, family members, and advocates for
improving the lives of children needing mental health care, this
work will also interest clinicians, policy makers and students in
social work, clinical psychiatry, public health and public policy.
Motivate pupils to develop their geographical skills, knowledge and
understanding as they become engaged and accomplished geographers,
ready for the demands of GCSE. Specifically designed to provide a
solid foundation for the 2016 GCSE specifications, this Student
Book takes an enquiry-based approach to learning within each unit
and lesson. - Easily and cost-effectively implement a new KS3
scheme of work: this coherent single-book course covers the latest
National Curriculum content, providing 150 ready-made lessons that
can be used flexibly for a two or three-year KS3 - Build and
improve the geographical knowledge and skills that pupils need:
every double-page spread represents a lesson, with rich
geographical data and place contexts for pupils to interpret,
analyse andevaluate - Lay firm foundations for GCSE: key
vocabulary, command words and concepts are introduced gradually,
preparing pupils for the content and question types they will
encounter at GCSE, with a particular focus on analysis and
evaluation questions - Effectively assess, measure and demonstrate
progress: formative assessments throughout each lesson and
summative end-of-unit reviews include questions that show whether
pupils are 'working towards', 'meeting' or 'exceeding' expectations
- Encourage pupils to check and drive their own progress: learning
objectives and end-of-unit learning outcomes help pupils reflect on
their learning and make connections between key concepts and skills
throughout the course
Fifty years after the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls there have
been many advances in the field of Qumran Studies. Yet much work
remains undone. In particular the study of the scrolls has
continued to follow long established historical critical methods
while largely falling to incorporate recent advances in literary,
ideological and sociological approaches. The essays collected here
are the result of the Bristol Colloquium on the Dead Sea Scrolls
held in September 2003. Here, ten scholars working in a diversity
of areas demonstrate how these recent advances in scholarship
increase our knowledge of the scrolls, their historical context,
and their impact on modern critical scholarship. The contributors
consider a wide range of approaches, ranging across discussions in
sociology, anthropology, literary studies, post-colonialism and
ideological criticism. These essays will help to take Qumran
Studies forward in new and creative ways. This is volume 52 in the
Library of Second Temple Studies series (formerly the Journal for
the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Supplement series).
Mike Myers reprises his role as Austin Powers, the oversexed
super-spy from the sixties. Arch-enemy Dr Evil has travelled back
in time to 1969 and stolen Powers' mojo, the secret of his
all-conquering virility. Realising that this theft is probably part
of one of Dr Evil's attempts at world domination, our intrepid hero
gives chase, following the super-criminal back to 1960s swinging
London. Once there, he teams up with the beautiful CIA agent
Felicity Shagwell (Heather Graham), but due to his aforementioned
lack in the mojo department, he is unfortunately unable to
consummate the relationship - which raises the stakes considerably.
Watch for cameos from Elvis Costello, Jerry Springer and Woody
Harrelson.
A collection of new essays on the remarkable work produced by the
poet Geoffrey Hill since the mid-1990s. Hill is widely recognised
as the finest living English poet and the quality of his recent
publications has been matched by the pace at which he produces
quantities of profound and startlingly original verse. This book
brings together work on Hill by figures as diverse as Rowan
Williams and Christopher Ricks, along with penetrating treatments
of these late writings by younger scholars, in order to provide a
series of fresh perspectives on some of the finest and most
challenging poetry now being written. It explores topics including
physicality, death, confession, and recusancy, and also contains a
large-scale bibliography of Hill's writings, which will be
invaluable to all those seeking to read more widely in the work of
this fascinating and exceptional figure.
Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country is a collection of
interviews with residents of Benton County, Mississippi - an area
with a long and fascinating civil rights history. The product of
more than twenty-five years of work by the Hill Country Project,
this volume examines a revolutionary period in American history
through the voices of farmers, teachers, sharecroppers, and
students. No other rural farming county in the American South has
yet been afforded such a deep dive into its civil rights
experiences and their legacies. These accumulated stories truly
capture life before, during, and after the movement. The authors'
approach places the region's history in context and reveals
everyday struggles. African American residents of Benton County had
been organizing since the 1930s. Citizens formed a local chapter of
the NAACP in the 1940s and '50s. One of the first Mississippi
counties to get a federal registrar under the 1965 Voting Rights
Act, Benton achieved the highest per capita total of African
American registered voters in Mississippi. Locals produced a
regular, clandestinely distributed newsletter, the Benton County
Freedom Train. In addition to documenting this previously
unrecorded history, personal narratives capture pivotal moments of
individual lives and lend insight into the human cost and the
long-term effects of social movements. Benton County residents
explain the events that shaped their lives and ultimately, in their
own humble way, helped shape the trajectory of America. Through
these first-person stories and with dozens of captivating photos
covering more than a century's worth of history, the volume
presents a vivid picture of a people and a region still striving
for the prize of equality and justice.
How do we begin to carry out such a vast task-the examination of
three millennia of diverse uses and influences of the biblical
texts? Where can the interested scholar find information on methods
and techniques applicable to the many and varied ways in which
these have happened? Through a series of examples of reception
history practitioners at work and of their reflections this volume
sets the agenda for biblical reception, as it begins to chart the
near-infinite series of complex interpretive 'events' that have
been generated by the journey of the biblical texts down through
the centuries. The chapters consider aspects as diverse as
political and economic factors, cultural location, the discipline
of Biblical Studies, and the impact of scholarly preconceptions,
upon reception history. Topics covered include biblical figures and
concepts, contemporary music, paintings, children's Bibles, and
interpreters as diverse as Calvin, Lenin, and Nick Cave.
Joseph of Arimathea: A Study in Reception History examines the
extensive and convoluted afterlives of a minor biblical character
who nevertheless plays a major role in three pivotal scenes in the
passion of Jesus Christ as presented by the four canonical Gospels:
the request to Pilate for the body, the descent from the cross, and
the burial of Jesus' corpse. Characterised in subtly different ways
by each Evangelist, these sparse biblical Josephs were expanded,
expounded, translated, harmonised, and extended by early literary
sources and developed thematically by the artistic traditions of
the Renaissance. In the Medieval Period, Joseph arrived, by
'fortuitous' accident, in the British Isles, becoming an iconic
figure for English nationalists (through the Glastonbury tradition)
and for British Imperialists (through Parry's musical setting of
Blake's Jerusalem). Twentieth-century developments in church life,
film, literature, spiritualism, and studies of the historical
Joseph round out what such a minor character can accomplish, given
a sufficient richness in original texts and the right opportunities
afforded by later cultural developments. In Joseph of Arimathea's
case, certain aspects proved highly adaptable, especially the sharp
contrast provided by his portrayal as a bold active figure in the
Gospel of Mark and as a fearful passive character in the Gospel of
John, the attractiveness of his wealth and nobility to those who
considered themselves of similar (or much higher) status, and the
opportunities provided by his swift appearance and departure from
the most important event in Christianity's foundational documents.
This is a full-length study in English of the Spanish dramatist
Ramon del Valle-Inclan (1866-1936). Written for a theatre of his
imagination, these works reveal an early attempt to wean Spanish
drama from representational naturalism by the use of cinematic
techniques and a heightened dramatic language reflecting broad
cultural identities. John Lyon analyses the plays within a European
rather than exclusively Spanish framework. He shows that,
philosophically and aesthetically, Valle has links with two
avant-garde movements: the turn-of-the-century Symbolism associated
with Maeterlinck and Yeats and the anti-tragic values which
surfaced in the 1920s and culminated in what became known as
Absurdism. The text is supported by an appendix gathering together
Valle's more important statements on dramatic theory and is
illustrated by photographs of recent productions in Madrid and
London. The book will find a readership among teachers and students
of European drama as well as those in Spanish departments.
John Lyons is recognized internationally as one of the most
influential scholars in modern linguistics. This volume contains
essays spanning many years of his thought and research, in addition
to previously unpublished pieces. Chapters 2, 3 and 4 make their
first appearance here, and set out the view of linguistics and
linguistic theory which underlies the content of this and a
(forthcoming) companion volume. The remaining six chapters have
been either extensively revised or annotated to provide the reader
with their historical context and to bring them into line with the
author's current thinking.
John Lyons is recognized internationally as one of the most
influential scholars in modern linguistics. This volume contains
essays spanning many years of his thought and research, in addition
to previously unpublished pieces. Chapters 2, 3 and 4 make their
first appearance here, and set out the view of linguistics and
linguistic theory which underlies the content of this and a
(forthcoming) companion volume. The remaining six chapters have
been either extensively revised or annotated to provide the reader
with their historical context and to bring them into line with the
author's current thinking.
Fans of John Lyons' lively and appealing style will not be
disappointed in this brand new collection of poems for younger
readers aged 7-11. A breath of Caribbean fresh air, these poems are
humorous, beautifully crafted, and perfectly pitched to their
audience, though readers of any age will enjoy his painterly use of
language. Lyons conjures up vivid images, situations and emotions
which appeal both for their universality and their newness, as he
examines and comments upon the world around him with wit and
empathy.A staple of the schools poetry anthology, John Lyon's poems
never fail to stand out for their originality and exuberance.
Joseph of Arimathea: A Study in Reception History examines the
extensive and convoluted afterlives of a minor biblical character
who nevertheless plays a major role in three pivotal scenes in the
passion of Jesus Christ as presented by the four canonical Gospels:
the request to Pilate for the body, the descent from the cross, and
the burial of Jesus' corpse. Characterised in subtly different ways
by each Evangelist, these sparse biblical Josephs were expanded,
expounded, translated, harmonised, and extended by early literary
sources and developed thematically by the artistic traditions of
the Renaissance. In the Medieval Period, Joseph arrived, by
'fortuitous' accident, in the British Isles, becoming an iconic
figure for English nationalists (through the Glastonbury tradition)
and for British Imperialists (through Parry's musical setting of
Blake's Jerusalem). Twentieth-century developments in church life,
film, literature, spiritualism, and studies of the historical
Joseph round out what such a minor character can accomplish, given
a sufficient richness in original texts and the right opportunities
afforded by later cultural developments. In Joseph of Arimathea's
case, certain aspects proved highly adaptable, especially the sharp
contrast provided by his portrayal as a bold active figure in the
Gospel of Mark and as a fearful passive character in the Gospel of
John, the attractiveness of his wealth and nobility to those who
considered themselves of similar (or much higher) status, and the
opportunities provided by his swift appearance and departure from
the most important event in Christianity's foundational documents.
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