Author: Edgar Feuchtwanger
Publisher: A Hodder Arnold Publicatio
Keywords: series, reputations, disraeli
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2000-06-22
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0340719109
ISBN-13: 9780340719107

An adventurer and charlatan? A clever rogue? Or perspicacious politician, founder of the modern British Conservative party? These different characterizations have all had their supporters: Disraeli rarely inspired indifference from his contemporaries, and later commentators have often mirrored these divergent evaluations. By the time he at last became Prime Minister, in 1874, he was no longer the exotic, dandified figure who nearly forty years earlier had obtained protection from his creditors by the simple expedient of election to a seat in the House of Commons. But he was still a one-of-a-ki

Author: S. J. Ball
Publisher: A Hodder Arnold Publicatio
Keywords: history, contemporary, series, international, war, cold
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1997-10-31
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0340591684
ISBN-13: 9780340591680

This study provides a fresh assessment of the entire course of the Cold War, and is based on insights into the structure of postwar international politics revealed by the collapse of the Soviet Union. Drawing on newly released material and scholarly research from both the West and former communist states, it argues that the Cold War can only be understood by exploring the interplay between ideology, domestic politics, and military security--not only in the US and the Soviet Union, but in other states and movements with a capacity for significant military and political action.

Authors:M. A. K. Halliday, Christian M. I. M. Matthiesse,
Publisher: A Hodder Arnold Publicatio
Keywords: grammar, functional, introduction
Number of Pages: 700
Published: 2004-08-26
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0340761679
ISBN-13: 9780340761670

In this extensively revised third edition, Halliday and Matthiessen retain the organization and topical coverage of the earlier editions, while incorporating a considerable amount of new material. They give greater emphasis to the systemic perspective, in which grammaticalization is understood in the context of an overall model of language. Their description of grammar is grounded in a comprehensive theory, but it is a theory which evolves in the process of being applied.

Authors:Wolfgang J. Mommsen,  Richard Deveso,
Publisher: A Hodder Arnold Publicatio
Keywords: authoritarian, state, society, culture, germany, politics, imperial
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1995-09-17
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0340593601
ISBN-13: 9780340593608

The studies in this book are the harvest of more than 20 years intensive research into the history of the German Empire by one of Germany’s leading historians. Taken together, they offer a cogent analysis of the main developments and issues in a formative and portentous period of Germany’s history.

Authors:Robert N. Gwynne, Cristóbal Kay,
Publisher: A Hodder Arnold Publicatio
Keywords: arnold, publication, modernity, globalization, america, transformed, latin
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2004-05-13
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0340809302
ISBN-13: 9780340809303

Now in a second edition, this book explains Latin America’s economic, political, social and cultural transformations, its association with globalization and search for modernity, and how these transformations are affecting the people of the region. Using a political economy approach to unravel these concepts, the emphasis is placed on interpreting the macro-level structures that frame the transformations taking place. Updated and revised to include more student friendly features, the authors have substantially rewritten the material, including three new chapters, to examine the challenge

Author: Lourdes Ortega
Publisher: A Hodder Arnold Publicatio
Keywords: language, understanding, acquisition, second
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2009-01-28
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 034090559X
ISBN-13: 9780340905593

Whether we grow up with one, two, or several languages during our early years of life, many of us will learn a second, foreign, or heritage language in later years. The field of Second language acquisition (SLA, for short) investigates the human capacity to learn additional languages in late childhood, adolescence, or adulthood, after the first language -in the case of monolinguals- or languages -in the case of bilinguals- have already been acquired. Understanding Second Language Acquisition offers a wide-encompassing survey of this burgeoning field, its accumulated findings and proposed theor

Author: Harold Goodman
Publisher: Hodder Arnold
Keywords: foundation, course, audiobook, chinese, mandarin, thomas, method, michel
Published: 2007-09-28
List price: $98.20
ISBN-10: 0340957263
ISBN-13: 9780340957264

Learn another language the way you learnt your own You learnt your own language naturally and enjoyably: now you can learn Mandarin in the same way. You’ll stick with it because you’ll love it * Use the unique method perfected over fifty years by the celebrated psychologist and linguist Michel Thomas. * This method works with your brain, helping you to build up your Mandarin in manageable, enjoyable steps by thinking out the answers for yourself. * You learn through listening and speaking -- without the pressure of writing or memorising. * You pick up the language naturally and unf