Author: J. Harry Wray
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: sense, politics, culture, american, non
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 2000-09-09
List price: $31.20
ISBN-10: 0130833436
ISBN-13: 9780130833433

Designed to introduce readers to the ways that American culture structures the outcomes of political life, Wray’s book addresses American culture and politics with a three-phase approach. First it provides readers with a careful analysis of what culture is, as well as its political significance. The text then offers four distinctive American cultural characteristics and encourages readers to consider how these values influence modern political life. Provides a complete analysis of American cultural characteristics and political culture. For individuals interested in the US political sy

Author: John Wray
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: novel, lowboy
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2010-02-02
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0312429339
ISBN-13: 9780312429331

Early one morning in New York City, Will Heller, a sixteen-year-old paranoid schizophrenic, gets on an uptown B train alone.  Will is on a mission to save the world from global warming—to do it, though, he’ll need to cool down his own body first.  And for that he’ll need one willing girl.  Lowboy tells the story of Will’s odyssey through the city’s tunnels, back alleys, and streets in search of Emily Wallace, his one great hope.  It also follows his mother, Violet Heller, as she tries desperately to find her son before psychosis claims him completely.  Violet is

Author: Alison Wray
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr (Sd)
Keywords: boundaries, pushing, language, formulaic
Number of Pages: 305
Published: 2008-09-11
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 0194422453
ISBN-13: 9780194422451

Examines how formulaic language ("lexical chunks") is used in a variety of real-life situations. Presents a framework for examining the existence and function of formulaic language and tests it extensively against language data within a wide variety of language samples. Formulaic language is a fast-growing area of applied linguistic research, and the author is a key figure in this field.

Author: Alison Wray
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: lexicon, language, formulaic
Number of Pages: 348
Published: 2002-03-04
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 0521773091
ISBN-13: 9780521773096

A considerable proportion of our everyday language is "formulaic". It is predictable in form and idiomatic--apparently stored in fixed or semi-fixed chunks. This book explores the nature and purposes of formulaic language, and looks for patterns across the research findings from the fields of discourse analysis, first language acquisition, language pathology and applied linguistics. It gradually builds up a unified description and explanation of formulaic language as a linguistic solution to a larger, non-linguistic, problem, the promotion of self.

Author: Alison Wray
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: lexicon, language, formulaic
Number of Pages: 348
Published: 2005-11-10
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0521022126
ISBN-13: 9780521022125

A considerable proportion of our everyday language is "formulaic". It is predictable in form and idiomatic--apparently stored in fixed or semi-fixed chunks. This book explores the nature and purposes of formulaic language, and looks for patterns across the research findings from the fields of discourse analysis, first language acquisition, language pathology and applied linguistics. It gradually builds up a unified description and explanation of formulaic language as a linguistic solution to a larger, non-linguistic, problem, the promotion of self.

Author: John Wray
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: tongue, canaan
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2006-08-08
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1400033810
ISBN-13: 9781400033812

Set in the American South in the years before and during the Civil War, John Wray’s hypnotic new novel is at once a crime story, a bravura work of historical fiction, and a fire-and-brimstone meditation on American credulity and corruption.Thaddeus Morelle’s followers call him “the Redeemer.” Over the years he has led the Island 37 Gang from stealing horses to stealing slaves in an enterprise so nefarious that both the Union and Confederacy have placed a bounty on their heads. But now Morelle is dead, murdered by his puppet and prot?g?, Virgil Ball, who may rid himself of the Redeemer

Author: J. Harry Wray
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
Keywords: american, public, life, bicycle, rise, power, quiet, pedal
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2008-01-31
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1594514631
ISBN-13: 9781594514630

In an era of steep gas prices, snarled traffic, catastrophic climate change, and a yearning for a higher quality of life, interest in bike-friendly public policies is surging nationwide. A surprising array of political organizations, visionary politicians, and colorful individuals powers this movement and a growing number of bike enthusiasts are taking to the streets. From the night rides of Critical Mass to the dumpster-diving Rat Patrol, this book shows the eccentric side of the bicycling universe even as it illustrates the mainstream efforts of politicians like U.S. Representative Jim Obers