Authors:Howard Jackson, Etienne Ze Amvela,
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: english, lexicology, modern, introduction, meaning, vocabulary, words
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2007-05-15
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0826490182
ISBN-13: 9780826490186

This textbook is a systematic and accessible introduction to the lexicology of modern English. Lexicology is the branch of linguistics that studies all aspects of the vocabulary of a particular language. The book provides an account of the sources of modern English words and studies the development of vocabulary over time. It examines: What are words? Where do English words come from? How are words made up? How do words ’mean’? How are words used? How can words be investigated? This new edition of the best-selling textbook has been revised and updated throughout. A new chapter has

Authors:Howard Jackson, Amvela,
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: lexicology, open, linguistics, english, modern, meaning, vocabulary, introduction, words
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1999-12
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0826460968
ISBN-13: 9780826460967

This work goes back to the sources of modern English words and studies the development of vocabulary over time. It examines what constitutes a word, with a discussion of words that look and sound the same, words that have several meanings, and "words" that are made up of more than one "word". As well as considering the borrowing of words from other languages throughout the history of English as a means of increasing the vocabulary, the book also outlines how English forms new words by exploiting the structure of existing words, through processes of derivation and compounding. The meaning of a

Authors:Etienne Minvielle, Etienne Minvielle, Etienne Minvie
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: quality, healthcare, management, measurement, imperative
Number of Pages: 214
Published: 2000-01
List price: $71.00
ISBN-10: 1860941737
ISBN-13: 9781860941733

Efforts to reform healthcare systems around the globe are proliferating rapidly. Two fundamental pressures are driving change - cost and access - and every system is experimenting with measure designed to address these pressures. In the midst of these experiments, serious concerns about quality are being raised. Are efforts to contain costs leading to practices which have a detrimental effect on quality? What, in fact, is "quality" in the world of healthcare? How should it be measured? How can it be improved? These questions are on the cutting edge of debates about the management of healthcare

Author: Etienne Wenger
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: identity, meaning, learning, practice, communities
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1999-12-01
List price: $41.99
ISBN-10: 0521663636
ISBN-13: 9780521663632

Learning is becoming an urgent topic. Nations worry about the learning of their citizens, companies about the learning of their workers, schools about the learning of their students. But it is not always easy to think about how to foster learning in innovative ways. This book presents a framework for doing that, with a social theory of learning that is ground-breaking yet accessible, with profound implications not only for research, but also for all those who have to foster learning as part of their responsibilites at work, at home, at school.Book DescriptionLearning is becoming an urgent topi

Author: Etienne Delessert
Publisher: Creative Editio
Keywords: theater
Number of Pages: 30
Published: 2009-07-15
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1568462085
ISBN-13: 9781568462080

Author: Etienne Balibar
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: marx, philosophy
Number of Pages: 139
Published: 2007-09-17
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1844671879
ISBN-13: 9781844671878

The only guide to Marx that the student and scholar will need. Providing a lucid and accessible introduction to Marx, complete with pedagogical boxes, a chronology and guides to further reading, Etienne Balibar makes the most difficult areas of his philosophy easy to understand. One of the most influential French philosophers to have emerged from the 1960s, Balibar brings a lifetime of study and expertise to create a brilliantly concise portrait of Marx that will initiate the student and intrigue the scholar. He examines all the key areas of Marx’s writings, including his early works,

Author: F. Etienne De Vylder
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: perspectives, actuarial, theory, insurance, life
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 1997-08-31
List price: $199.00
ISBN-10: 0792399951
ISBN-13: 9780792399957

This concise self-contained book on life contingencies is written for students, teachers, researchers and life insurance practitioners. The stochastic model, introduced by Professor De Vylder more than twenty years ago and now widely adopted, is used throughout the monograph. Beyond the classical material of life insurance mathematics, the emphasis lies on variance evaluations of mathematical reserves, allowing the estimation of long term ruin probabilities in life insurance portfolios with varying volume. Other characteristics of the book are its great generality, the inclusion of an