Author: Geoffrey Finch
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: key, concepts, palgrave, second, language, linguistics
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2005-07-22
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 140393391X
ISBN-13: 9781403933911

Previously published as Linguistic Terms and Concepts, this is an invaluable glossary of significant language and linguistic terms and concepts designed for students of English Language and Linguistics. This book also provides a very useful overview of the subject as well as covering principal figures in linguistic criticism and their contribution. Organized into the core subject areas of language and linguistics, it enables the reader to contextualize each particular definition and gain a wider understanding of each topic. This edition has been updated to include more extensive coverage, part

Author: Stella Cottrell
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: skills, study, palgrave, critical, thinking
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2005-10-22
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1403996857
ISBN-13: 9781403996855

Critical Thinking Skills has taken the seemingly baffling art of analysis and broken it down into easy to understand blocks, with clear explanations, good examples, and plenty of activities to develop understanding at each stage. This easy to follow, step-by step guide to developing reasoning skills even applies the techniques to tasks such as reading, note-taking, and writing.

Author: Jeremy Black
Publisher: Palgrave Macmilla
Keywords: britain, history, palgrave, eighteenth, century
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2008-09-15
List price: $38.00
ISBN-10: 0230537502
ISBN-13: 9780230537507

Jeremy Black sets the politics of eighteenth century Britain into the fascinating context of social, economic, cultural, religious and scientific developments. The second edition of this successful text by a leading authority in the field has now been updated and expanded to incorporate the latest research and scholarship.Book DescriptionThis, the first volume in the new Palgrave History of Britain series, is a tour de force. Jeremy Black builds a picture of eighteenth-century society and polity distinguished by its range, diversity of example, and engaging freshness of style. Students will fi

Author: Ye Weili
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: palgrave, studies, oral, history, revolution, china, people, republic, conversations, daughters, growing
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2005-12-11
List price: $84.95
ISBN-10: 1403969957
ISBN-13: 9781403969958

In conversational style and in chronological sequence, Ye Weili and Ma Xiaodong recount their lives in China from the 1950s to the 1980s, a particularly eventful period that included the Cultural Revolution and the ensuing Communist regime. Using their own stories as two case studies, they examine the making of a significant yet rarely understood generation in recent Chinese history. They also reflect upon the mixed legacy of the early decades of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). In doing so, the book strives for a balance between critical scrutiny of a complex era and the sweeping r

Authors:Anton Benz, Gerhard Jager, Robert van Rooij,
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: pragmatics, language, cognition, studies, palgrave, theory, game
Number of Pages: 293
Published: 2005-12-30
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 1403945721
ISBN-13: 9781403945723

Rooted in Gricean tradition, this book concentrates on game- and decision-theoretic (GDT) approaches to the foundations of pragmatics. An introduction to GDT, an overview of GDT pragmatics research to date, its relation to semantics and to Gricean pragmatics are followed by contributions offering a high-level survey of current GDT pragmatics and the field of its applications, demonstrating that this approach provides a sound basis for synchronic and diachronic explanations of language use.

Author: John Bell
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: performance, palgrave, studies, theatre, history, world, puppet, modernism, essays, material, american
Number of Pages: 292
Published: 2008-07-15
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 1403979812
ISBN-13: 9781403979810

In American Puppet Modernism, Bell reveals how understanding puppetry is integral to understanding the nature of the material world in performance and in turn argues that the material world in performance is integral as a means of communication. Insightfully describing and analyzing different types of object performance from the 1860s to 2007, Bell uses the common focus on material objects in performance to link the worlds of traditional puppetry, mechanized image performance, indigenous rituals, avant-garde theater, political street performance, advertising, Kustom Kulture, art cars, and film

Authors:Paola Bongini, Stefano Chiarlone, Giovanni Ferri
Publisher: Palgrave Macmilla
Keywords: banking, financial, institutions, studies, palgrave, systems, emerging, macmillan
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2009-03-15
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0230574343
ISBN-13: 9780230574342

This book is an in-depth analysis of the key players (China, India, Brazil, Russia, Turkey, Indonesia, North Africa) of the unprecedented international economic integration of the last 25 years. Despite their success, the fragilities of their banking systems pose constraints to domestic growth and risks to global financial stability.