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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Available individually, or as part of the eight-volume set
"American English: 1781-1921." For a complete list of volume titles
in this set, see list for "American English: 1781-1921" [ISBN:
0-415-27964-X].
Available individually, or as part of the eight-volume set
"American English: 1781-1921." For a complete list of volume titles
in this set, see list for "American English: 1781-1921" [ISBN:
0-415-27964-X].
Available individually, or as part of the eight-volume set
"American English: 1781-1921." For a complete list of volume titles
in this set, see list for "American English: 1781-1921" [ISBN:
0-415-27964-X].
Available individually, or as part of the eight-volume set
"American English: 1781-1921." For a complete list of volume titles
in this set, see list for "American English: 1781-1921" [ISBN:
0-415-27964-X].
American lexicography has a distinguished and familiar tradition.
Elwyn (1859) is intended as a corrective response to the excessive
identification of Americanisms, but in fact represents what one
might term the 'traditionalist' position. Fallows (1883) is
significant as a treatment of Americanisms and Briticisms for a
general audience. Norton (1890) is a specific application to
American political life.
The music, image, performances, and cultural impact of some of the
most enduring figures in popular music are explored in Rock Music
Icons: Musical and Cultural Impacts. A rock music icon is readily
recognizable-but intriguing and little-known stories lie behind the
public's enchantment. Readers of Rock Music Icons will encounter
new perspectives on notable recording artists ranging from Elvis
Presley, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, and Bob Marley to Elton John,
David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, Metallica, and Kurt Cobain. One
meets Pink Floyd upon the fall of the Berlin Wall, the drama of
Freddie Mercury, Ozzy Osborne, and Madonna, and the musical craft
of Billy Joel. Rock Music Icons investigates authenticity,
identity, and the power of the voices and images of these widely
circulated and shared artists that have become the soundtrack of
our lives. Rock Music Icons brings a reader an inside look into the
creativity of some of the most prominent rock stars of our time.
This fully revised third edition brings a fresh approach to the
fundamentals of mass media and communication law in a presentation
that undergraduate students find engaging and accessible. Designed
for students of communication that are new to law, this volume
presents key principles and emphasizes the impact of timely,
landmark cases on today's media world, providing an applied
learning experience. This new edition offers expanded coverage of
digital media law and social media, a wealth of new case studies,
expanded discussions of current political, social, and cultural
issues, and new features focused on ethical considerations and on
international comparative law. Communication Law serves as a core
textbook for undergraduate courses in communication and mass media
law. Online resources for instructors, including an Instructor's
Manual, Test Bank, and PowerPoint slides, are available at:
www.routledge.com/9780367546694
This fully revised third edition brings a fresh approach to the
fundamentals of mass media and communication law in a presentation
that undergraduate students find engaging and accessible. Designed
for students of communication that are new to law, this volume
presents key principles and emphasizes the impact of timely,
landmark cases on today's media world, providing an applied
learning experience. This new edition offers expanded coverage of
digital media law and social media, a wealth of new case studies,
expanded discussions of current political, social, and cultural
issues, and new features focused on ethical considerations and on
international comparative law. Communication Law serves as a core
textbook for undergraduate courses in communication and mass media
law. Online resources for instructors, including an Instructor's
Manual, Test Bank, and PowerPoint slides, are available at:
www.routledge.com/9780367546694
This book examines engineering and mathematical models for
documenting and approving mechanical and environmental discharges.
The author emphasizes engineering design considerations as well as
applications to waste water and atmospheric discharges. Chapters
discuss: the fundamentals of turbulent jet mixing, dilution
concepts, and mixing zone concepts diffuser configurations and head
loss calculations different modeling techniques and accepted models
- discussed in detail with theoretical background, restrictions,
input, output, and examples Lagrangian and the EPA UM 2-dimensional
diffuser model the PLUMES interface Eulerian integral methods, EPA
UDKHG 3-dimensional diffuser model, and PDSG surface discharge
model empirical techniques, RSB diffuser model, the CORMIX family
of models for both diffusers and surface discharge numerical
methods with a discussion of shelf commercial models Gaussian
atmospheric plume models Fundamentals of Environmental Discharge
Modeling includes numerous case studies and examples for each model
and problem.
The German comparative philologist Friedrich Max Muller (1823-1900)
was one of the most influential scholars in Victorian Britain.
Muller travelled to Britain in 1846 in order to prepare a
translation of the Rig Veda. This research visit would turn into a
lifelong stay after Muller was appointed as Taylor Professor of
Modern Languages at Oxford in 1854. Muller's activities in this
position would exert a profound influence on British intellectual
life during the second half of the nineteenth-century: his
book-length essay on Comparative Mythology (1856) inspired
evolutionist thinkers such as Herbert Spencer and Edward Burnett
Tylor and made philology into one of the master sciences at
mid-century; his debates with Charles Darwin and his followers on
the origin of language constituted a significant component of
religiously informed reactions to Darwin's ideas about human
descent; his arguments concerning the interdependence of language
and thought influenced fields such as psychology, neurology,
paediatrics and education until the end of the nineteenth century;
his theories concerning an 'Aryan' language that purportedly
predated Sanskrit and ancient Greek led to controversial debates on
the relations between language, religion and race in the Indian
subcontinent and beyond; and his monumental 50-volume edition of
the Sacred Books of the East helped to lay the foundations for the
study of comparative religion. Muller's interlocutors and readers
included people as various as Alexander von Humboldt, Darwin,
George Eliot, Matthew Arnold, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ferdinand de
Saussure, Ernst Cassirer, Mohandas K. Gandhi and Jarwaharlal Nehru.
This volume offers the most comprehensive and interdisciplinary
assessment of Muller's career to date. Arising from a conference
held at the German Historical Institute in London in 2015, it
brings together papers by an international group of experts in
German studies, German and British history, linguistics,
philosophy, English literary studies, and religious studies in
order to examine the many facets of Muller's scholarship. This book
was originally published as a special issue of the Publications of
the English Goethe Society.
The main sources for an understanding of classical Hindu law are
the Sanskrit treatises on religious and legal duties, known as the
Dharma stras. In this collection of his major studies in the field,
Ludo Rocher presents analytical and interpretive essays on a wide
range of topics, from general themes such as the nature of Hindu
law and Anglo-Hindu law to technical matters including word studies
and text criticism. Rocher's deep engagement with the language and
worldview of the authors in the Dharma stra tradition yields
distinctive and corrective contributions to the field, which are
informed by knowledge both of the Indian grammatical tradition and
of Roman and civil law. Davis's introduction presents an
interpretative account of Rocher's many contributions to the field,
organized around the themes that recur in his work, and examines
his key advances, both methodological and substantive. Comparisons
and contrasts between Rocher's ideas and those of his Indological
colleagues serve to place him in the context of a scholarly
tradition, while Rocher's fundamental view that the Dharma stra is
first and foremost a scholarly and scholastic tradition, rather
than a practical legal one, is also explored. This invaluable
collection serves both as summary review of the ideas of Rocher, a
leading authority in the field, and as a critical evaluation of the
impact of these ideas on the present study of law and Indology.
The German comparative philologist Friedrich Max Muller (1823-1900)
was one of the most influential scholars in Victorian Britain.
Muller travelled to Britain in 1846 in order to prepare a
translation of the Rig Veda. This research visit would turn into a
lifelong stay after Muller was appointed as Taylor Professor of
Modern Languages at Oxford in 1854. Muller's activities in this
position would exert a profound influence on British intellectual
life during the second half of the nineteenth-century: his
book-length essay on Comparative Mythology (1856) inspired
evolutionist thinkers such as Herbert Spencer and Edward Burnett
Tylor and made philology into one of the master sciences at
mid-century; his debates with Charles Darwin and his followers on
the origin of language constituted a significant component of
religiously informed reactions to Darwin's ideas about human
descent; his arguments concerning the interdependence of language
and thought influenced fields such as psychology, neurology,
paediatrics and education until the end of the nineteenth century;
his theories concerning an 'Aryan' language that purportedly
predated Sanskrit and ancient Greek led to controversial debates on
the relations between language, religion and race in the Indian
subcontinent and beyond; and his monumental 50-volume edition of
the Sacred Books of the East helped to lay the foundations for the
study of comparative religion. Muller's interlocutors and readers
included people as various as Alexander von Humboldt, Darwin,
George Eliot, Matthew Arnold, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ferdinand de
Saussure, Ernst Cassirer, Mohandas K. Gandhi and Jarwaharlal Nehru.
This volume offers the most comprehensive and interdisciplinary
assessment of Muller's career to date. Arising from a conference
held at the German Historical Institute in London in 2015, it
brings together papers by an international group of experts in
German studies, German and British history, linguistics,
philosophy, English literary studies, and religious studies in
order to examine the many facets of Muller's scholarship. This book
was originally published as a special issue of the Publications of
the English Goethe Society.
Originally published in 1947, it is the essential purpose of this
book to investigate attitudes of leading Elizabethan and Stuart
statesmen, ask whether witchcraft was of any importance in
seventeenth-century English history, or even influenced the Great
Rebellion. The reader is placed in possession of the more pertinent
passages from the arguments used to support or discredit belief in
witchcraft.
Sustainable consumption is a central research topic in academic
discourses of sustainable development and global environmental
change. Informed by a number of disciplinary perspectives, this
book is structured around four key themes in sustainable
consumption research: Living, Moving, Dwelling and Futures. The
collection successfully balances theoretical insights with grounded
case studies, on mobility, heating, washing and eating practices,
and concludes by exploring future sustainable consumption research
pathways and policy recommendations. Theoretical frameworks are
advanced throughout the volume, especially in relation to social
practice theory, theories of behavioural change and innovative
visioning and backcasting methodologies. This groundbreaking book
draws on some conceptual approaches which move beyond the
responsibility of the individual consumer to take into account
wider social, economic and political structures and processes in
order to highlight both possibilities for and challenges to
sustainable consumption. This approach enables students and
policy-makers alike to easily recognise the applicability of social
science theories.
Technology Play and Brain Development brings together current
research on play development, learning technology, and brain
development. The authors first navigate the play technology and
brain development interface, highlighting the interactive qualities
that make up each component. Next, they survey the changes in play
materials and the variations in time periods for play that have
occurred over the past 15-20 years, and then explain how these
changes have had the potential to affect this play/brain
developmental interaction. The authors also cover various types of
technology-augmented play materials used by children at age levels
from infancy to adolescence, and describe the particular qualities
that may enhance or change brain development. In so doing, they
present information on previous and current studies of the play and
technology interface, in addition to providing behavioral data
collected from parents and children of varied ages related to their
play with different types of play materials. Significantly, they
discuss how such play may affect social, emotional, moral, and
cognitive development, and review futurist predictions about the
potential qualities of human behavior needed by generations to
come. The authors conclude with advice to toy and game designers,
parents, educators, and the wider community on ways to enhance the
quality of technology-augmented play experiences so that play will
continue to promote the development of human characteristics needed
in the future.
Technology Play and Brain Development brings together current
research on play development, learning technology, and brain
development. The authors first navigate the play technology and
brain development interface, highlighting the interactive qualities
that make up each component. Next, they survey the changes in play
materials and the variations in time periods for play that have
occurred over the past 15-20 years, and then explain how these
changes have had the potential to affect this play/brain
developmental interaction. The authors also cover various types of
technology-augmented play materials used by children at age levels
from infancy to adolescence, and describe the particular qualities
that may enhance or change brain development. In so doing, they
present information on previous and current studies of the play and
technology interface, in addition to providing behavioral data
collected from parents and children of varied ages related to their
play with different types of play materials. Significantly, they
discuss how such play may affect social, emotional, moral, and
cognitive development, and review futurist predictions about the
potential qualities of human behavior needed by generations to
come. The authors conclude with advice to toy and game designers,
parents, educators, and the wider community on ways to enhance the
quality of technology-augmented play experiences so that play will
continue to promote the development of human characteristics needed
in the future.
Sustainable consumption is a central research topic in academic
discourses of sustainable development and global environmental
change. Informed by a number of disciplinary perspectives, this
book is structured around four key themes in sustainable
consumption research: Living, Moving, Dwelling and Futures. The
collection successfully balances theoretical insights with grounded
case studies, on mobility, heating, washing and eating practices,
and concludes by exploring future sustainable consumption research
pathways and policy recommendations. Theoretical frameworks are
advanced throughout the volume, especially in relation to social
practice theory, theories of behavioural change and innovative
visioning and backcasting methodologies.
This groundbreaking book draws on some conceptual approaches
which move beyond the responsibility of the individual consumer to
take into account wider social, economic and political structures
and processes in order to highlight both possibilities for and
challenges to sustainable consumption. This approach enables
students and policy-makers alike to easily recognise the
applicability of social science theories.
"Rethinking Biblical Scholarship" brings together seminal essays to
provide readers with an assessment of the archaeological and
exegetical research which has transformed the discipline of
biblical studies over the last two decades. The essays focus on
history and historiography, exploring how scholarly constructs and
ideologies mould historical, literary and cultural data and shape
scholarly discourse. Most of the essays illustrate the development
of what has been called a "minimalist" methodology. Among the many
central topics examined are the formation of the Jewish scriptural
canon and how the concepts of "prophecy" and "apocalypse"
illuminate the emergence of Judaism in the late Persian and
Hellenistic periods.
Originally published in 1947, it is the essential purpose of
this book to investigate attitudes of leading Elizabethan and
Stuart statesmen, ask whether witchcraft was of any importance in
seventeenth-century English history, or even influenced the Great
Rebellion. The reader is placed in possession of the more pertinent
passages from the arguments used to support or discredit belief in
witchcraft.
Leadership is an activity that not only manifests itself in formal
positions, but also bubbles up in various places within an
organization. Perhaps given the importance of leadership to any
endeavor, the literature on this topic has burgeoned. Yet among
these titles, Learning to Lead stands out as one of the best texts
available on leadership for college and university administrators.
Critical skills such as managing people, resolving conflict, and
making rational (and legal) decisions are explored within the
context of the campus. The book also addresses the needs of those
who facilitate leadership workshops, serve as mentors to potential
leaders, and teach courses on higher education leadership and
administration. While presenting all sides of key issues, the
author calls for the reader to define his or her own position
through a series of provocative reflection questions in each
chapter. Thus the book invites interaction and teaches
administrators not what to think about leadership, but how to think
about it.
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