Author: John Laver
Publisher: Heinemann Secondary Education
Keywords: russia, modernisation, history, advanced, heinemann
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2002-11-27
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0435327410
ISBN-13: 9780435327415

This book is directed at students studying the economic and social development of Russia and the Soviet Union, as well as the nature of Russian government and its impact on the Russian people in this period at AS/A-level. It forms part of the new Heinemann Advanced History series which has been written specifically to cover modules set by each of the three Awarding Bodies (OCR, Edexcel and AQA).

Authors:Rod Laver, Bud Collins,
Publisher: New Chapter Press
Keywords: player, tennis, education
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2010-04-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0942257626
ISBN-13: 9780942257625

Depicting the monumental achievements of a world-class athlete, this firsthand account documents Rod Laver’s historic 1969 Grand Slam sweep of all four major tennis titles. Coauthored with renowned tennis expert Bud Collins, this frank memoir details Laver’s childhood, early career, and his most important matches. Each chapter also contains a companion tennis lesson, providing tips on how players of all levels can improve their own game and sharing strategies that garnered unparalleled success on the courts. Fully updated on the 40th anniversary of the author’s most prominent triumph, th

Author: John Laver
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: linguistics, textbooks, cambridge, phonetics, principles
Number of Pages: 736
Published: 1994-06-24
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 052145655X
ISBN-13: 9780521456555

This major new textbook is designed for readers who wish to pursue the study of phonetics from an initial to an advanced stage. It moves from a discussion of general concepts to a total of eleven chapters on phonetic classification, and it includes discussion of other issues such as the relationship between phonetics and phonology. There are illustrations from over 500 of the world’s languages. Principles of Phonetics will be required reading for all serious students of speech and language.

Author: Roberto Laver
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: dispute, sovereignty, developments, international, law, argentine, anglo, malvinas, case, breaking, deadlock, falklands
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2001-02-01
List price: $188.00
ISBN-10: 904111534X
ISBN-13: 9789041115348

The dispute over the South Atlantic islands that Britain calls the Falklands and Argentina claims as the Islas Malvinas has its own unique features, but the legal and political problems at its center,the tension between sovereignty based on prior title, the principle of territorial integrity, and the right of "a people" to self-determination are core issues in many of the other difficult conflicts that beset our rapidly changing world. This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the Falklands/Malvinas dispute and offers concrete suggestions for a new approach to its resolution. Th

Authors:Mette Hjort, Sue Laver,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: arts, emotion
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1997-09-04
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0195111052
ISBN-13: 9780195111057

Although there are a number of anthologies dealing with various topics related to the emotions, this is the first to focus on the arts. The editors have collected new essays on emotion and its relation to the arts by fifteen leading aestheticians. The essays consider such topics as the paradox of fiction, emotion in the pure and abstract arts, the rationality and ethics of emotional responses to art, and the value of emotion. Contributors include Robert Solomon, Rom Harre, Kendall Walton, and Jerrold Levinson.

Author: Alison Laver Fawcett
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: physiotherapists, theory, skills, application, therapists, occupational, assessment, outcome, measurement, principles
Number of Pages: 490
Published: 2007-05-08
List price: $94.99
ISBN-10: 1861564805
ISBN-13: 9781861564801

This textbook on assessment and outcome measurement is written for both occupational therapy and physiotherapy students and qualified therapists. It begins by defining what is meant by assessment, outcome, evaluation and measurement and discussing the complexity of therapy assessment and measurement, including the challenge of measuring human behaviour and the impact of factors such as task demand and context, including the environment. Methods of data collection (e.g. observation, interview, standardised testing) and sources (e.g. self-report, proxy) for collecting information about clients a

Authors:William J. Hardcastle, John Laver,
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: handbooks, linguistics, blackwell, sciences, phonetic, handbook
Number of Pages: 912
Published: 1999-03-19
List price: $74.95
ISBN-10: 063121478X
ISBN-13: 9780631214786

This volume provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the key topics of the phonetic sciences. Contributions by many of the leading researchers in the field cover both theoretical and applied areas of speech communication. There are contributions on experimental phonetics, including aerodynamics of speech, speech signal processing, laboratory techniques and acoustic phonetics, as well as discussions of speech technology applications in areas such as automatic recognition of speech and speakers, and speech synthesis. Following are chapters on the biological foundations of speech and