This textbook is the only one of its kind to introduce the study of Canadian English in the context of basic concepts of linguistics and sociolinguistics. The book provides foundational information on linguistic principles and on the different branches of sociolinguistics, ranging from the large-scale ‘macro’ study of language usage (the sociology of language, dialect surveys) to the ‘micro’ study of language use (sociophonetics, sociolinguistic variation and change). Each chapter highlights the different ways of collecting and analyzing data, including census data and historical texts, surveys and questionnaires, publically available corpora, and interviews. Mini-projects at the end of each chapter offer hands-on experience with the methods presented in the chapter. In addition to discussing the classic works in the study of Canadian English, this book engages with such contemporary issues as new-dialect formation, language and social identity, and ongoing language change, making it key reading for students taking courses in the areas of Canadian English, varieties of English, language variation, and sociolinguistics.

The Rough Guide to Germany is the ultimate travel guide to this dynamic country. Full-color photography illustrates Germany's stylish cities and beautiful landscapes, its meandering rivers and picture-perfect castles. Detailed accounts of every attraction provide all the information you need to explore the country's exceptional museums, iconic architecture, and its many rural escapes, from the soaring Bavarian Alps and dense woodlands of the Black Forest to the beautiful beaches and islands of the North Sea, or the idyllic Rhineland vineyards where you can sample some of the country's many world-class wines.

The Rough Guide to Germany includes practical advice to ensure that, no matter what your budget, you'll find the perfect boutique hotel, convivial hostel, authentic cellar restaurant, stylish gourmet haunt, design-conscious shop, cutting-edge arts venue, or hip bar and club — all marked on the book's many color maps.

The Rough Guide to Germany includes well-researched historical and cultural background to help you understand and appreciate this complex country and, above all, make the most of your time.

'Fondamenti di Fisica' mantiene le peculiarità delle edizioni precedenti: sintesi e immediatezza nell'approccio teorico, particolare attenzione alla didattica e numerosi esercizi. Il testo incorpora caratteristiche pedagogiche che si sono evolute in oltre 20 anni di esperienza di insegnamento e che sono state modificate e affinate grazie ai feedback giunti da docenti e studenti. L'entusiasmo dell'autore per la materia si traduce nell'accurata ricerca del modo migliore per avvicinare gli studenti ai concetti base, alle leggi fondamentali, all'interpretazione dei fenomeni che ci circondano: gli apparati didattici sono molteplici e hanno l'obiettivo di aiutarli a collegare la comprensione dei concetti con le diverse capacità necessarie per risolvere problemi quantitativi.

A re-discovered masterpiece of reporting by a literary icon and a celebrated photographer

In 1941, James Agee and Walker Evans published Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a four-hundred-page prose symphony about three tenant farming families in Hale County, Alabama at the height of the Great Depression. The book shattered journalistic and literary conventions. Critic Lionel Trilling called it the “most realistic and most important moral effort of our American generation.”

The origins of Agee and Evan's famous collaboration date back to an assignment for Fortune magazine, which sent them to Alabama in the summer of 1936 to report a story that was never published. Some have assumed that Fortune's editors shelved the story because of the unconventional style that marked Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, and for years the original report was lost.

But fifty years after Agee’s death, a trove of his manuscripts turned out to include a typescript labeled “Cotton Tenants.” Once examined, the pages made it clear that Agee had in fact written a masterly, 30,000-word report for Fortune.

Published here for the first time, and accompanied by thirty of Walker Evans’s historic photos, Cotton Tenants is an eloquent report of three families struggling through desperate times. Indeed, Agee’s dispatch remains relevant as one of the most honest explorations of poverty in America ever attempted and as a foundational document of long-form reporting. As the novelist Adam Haslett writes in an introduction, it is “a poet’s brief for the prosecution of economic and social injustice.”

Co-Published with The Baffler magazine

The third edition of Security Careers is the authoritative reference for current job descriptions and pay practices of security, compliance, and ethics occupations. The job descriptions and compensation ranges in this report are drawn from research from the Foushée Group, which has been conducting this research since 1980.

Security Careers includes more than 75 job descriptions for security-related positions, which range from the entry-level security guard to the top global corporate executive. It also provides four years of compensation trend data to give a thorough understanding of competitive pay practices across the industry. This book can be used by anyone who manages security personnel or by security professionals who want to develop their careers.

Security Careers is a part of Elsevier’s Security Executive Council Risk Management Portfolio, a collection of real world solutions and 'how-to' guidelines that equip executives, practitioners, and educators with proven information for successful security and risk management programs.

• Fills the need for solid information based on accurate job descriptions and surveys of industry compensation professionals
• Created for hands-on use: readers may use the job descriptions in their own hiring and staffing plans
• Sheds light on compensation practices and shows security executives how to influence them

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The concept and study of orientalism in Western culture gained a changed understanding from Edward Said's now iconic 1978 book Orientalism. However, recent debate has moved beyond Said's definition of the phenomenon, highlighting the multiple forms of orientalism within the 'West,' the manifold presence of the 'East' in the Western world, indeed the epistemological fragility of the ideas of 'Occident' and 'Orient' as such. This volume focuses on the deployment -- here the cultural, philosophical, political, and scholarly uses -- of 'orientalism' in the German-speaking and Central and Eastern European worlds from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Its interdisciplinary approach combines distinguished contributions by Indian scholars, who approach the topic of orientalism through the prism of German studies as practiced in Asia, with representative chapters by senior German, Austrian, and English-speaking scholars working at the intersection of German and oriental studies. Contributors: Anil Bhatti, Michael Dusche, Johannes Feichtinger, Johann Heiss, James Hodkinson, Kerstin Jobst, Jon Keune, Todd Kontje, Margit Köves, Sarah Lemmen, Shaswati Mazumdar, Jyoti Sabarwal, Ulrike Stamm, John Walker. James Hodkinson is Associate Professor in German Studies at Warwick University. John Walker is Senior Lecturer in European Cultures and Languages at Birkbeck College, University of London. Shaswati Mazumdar is Professor in German at the University of Delhi. Johannes Feichtinger is a Researcher at the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften.

'The works reproduced in this book were exhibited in their entirety in an exhibition titled 'Dust Jackets for the Niggerati - and Supporting Dissertations, Drawings submitted ruefully by Dr. Kara E. Walker' at Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York, from April 21-June 11, 2011' -- from colophon.

Anesthetists James and Walker (Institute of Child Health, UK) provide a guide for trainees, anesthetists, and others that contains 42 chapters on pediatric anesthesia. Anesthetists from the UK first cover foundational material like anatomical and physiological issues in neonates and young children, pharmacological issues, developmental psychology and communicating with children and their families, consent and the law, and safeguarding children, then delve into perioperative principles, including assessment, anesthesia for common conditions and congenital and inherited disorders, premature infants, equipment and monitoring, venous access, outpatient cases, fluid management, total intravenous anesthesia, regional anesthesia, sedation, analgesia, and the prevention and treatment of post-operative nausea and vomiting; clinical anesthesia for various surgical subspecialties; and the critically ill child, including resuscitation, trauma, burns, intensive care, and stabilization and safe transport. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Chronicles the history of the Ohio Penitentiary, focusing on life inside, executions, escapes, riots, fires, legends and the experience of the inmates.

A re-discovered masterpiece of reporting by a literary icon and a celebrated photographer

In 1941, James Agee and Walker Evans published Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a four-hundred-page “prose symphony” about three sharecropping families in Hale County, Alabama at the height of the Great Depression. The book shattered journalistic and literary conventions and was, according to critic Lionel Trilling, the “most realistic and most important moral effort of our American generation.”

But before Agee and Evans collaborated on their now-classic book, they began reporting in Alabama on assignment for Henry Luce’s Fortune magazine. Critics and biographers have assumed that Fortune editors killed their original magazine dispatch, which was presumed to be in the radically artistic style of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, and for years the original report was lost.

But decades after his death, Agee’s young daughter, who inherited his home and archive, recently discovered a typescript labeled “Cotton Tenants” amongst a trove of unread manuscripts. Once examined, it was clear that Agee had in fact written a masterful 30,000-word report for Fortune.

Published here for the first time, Agee’s original report — accompanied by thirty of Walker Evans’ historic photos, some never before published — is an unsparing record of place and of three families who worked the land at a desperate time. It remains relevant today as one the most honest explorations of poverty in America ever attempted, and as a foundational document of long-form reporting. It is, according to novelist Adam Haslett, “a poet’s brief for the prosecution of economic and social injustice.”

Co-Published with The Baffler magazine

Un viaggio in Germania consiste nello scoprire le sue intriganti città, dalla capitale Berlino ad Amburgo, da Colonia e Monaco, per citarne solo alcune. Significa esplorare in bicicletta o a piedi le valli del Reno e della Mosella, le Alpi baveresi e i laghi del Meclemburgo. Viaggiare attraverso la federazione tedesca vuol dire conoscere e apprezzare le differenze tra i diversi Länder, dalla Sassonia alla Foresta Nera e dalla Baviera fino alle isole Frisone Settentrionali dello Schleswig-Holstein. In questa guida troverete segnalate tutte le principali attrattive di un paese più vasto dell'Italia e altrettanto ricco di cultura, storia e arte oltre a tutto il necessario per un tour in Germania tagliato su misura per voi.

Guitar Basics Workouts offers aspiring players a fun and accessible way to learn their scales and arpeggios. Following the step-by-step approach and clear layout of Guitar Basics method, this book introduces major and minor scales and arpeggios through an assortment of simple pieces, activities, warm-ups and technical tips.

The book comes with a fantastic CD containing backing tracks for many pieces and is ideal for individual or group learning purposes, with chords/accompaniments provided for teachers or fellow players.

'Students---undergraduate and graduate---love this book. As a teacher, I do too It tills a huge gap in the field, Walker explains with clarity how to undertake a study of linguistic variation and provides the only serious guide showing readers how their descriptive results inform and advance our understanding of variation as part of a lingustic system. Drawing on a refreshing range of languages for its data sets, this book enthuses readers with the small triumphs of discovery and the statisfaction of making a contribution to the social science of language.'---Miriam Meyerhoff, University of Auckland

'A new and exciling contribution to the field.'---Sall Tagllamonte, University of Toronto

Tying together work on a number of languages and linguistic varieties in different locales, this book provides students and researchers with a convenient, unified overview of variationist analysis in linguistics. Variation in Linguistic Systems takes a theoretical and quantitative approach to the study of variation in language, focusing on the role of language-internal constraints on variation and the relation of linguistic variation to linguistic theory. It introduces the basic concepts of variationist linguistics and includes key discussions on language change, language contact, the different types of variation, multivariate analysis with GoldVarb, and variation in sound and grammatical systems.

Here is an ideal textbook for an introductory course on variation, as well as a useful resource for scholars with some background in linguistics who are interested in the study of language variation and its relation to the wider field of linguistics.

Features photographs of the artist's work beyond his exhibition about Depression-era poverty, including photographs taken during the early 1930s, for the Fortune magazine, and with a Polaroid camera in the 1970s.

Guitar Basics is a landmark method for young guitarists. It starts at absolute beginner level and progresses to beginner level. The method is set out in fifteen stages and contains original pieces and traditional tunes in an array of styles including classical, folk and world music as well as well-known favorite film and TV themes such as James Bond, Batman and The Flintstones.

There is a thorough introduction to standard notation, with sections on chords and TAB, whilst ensemble pieces are ideal for group teaching.
The enhanced CD provides accompaniment parts, teachers' notes and tips for parents which are easily downloaded, or it can be simply used to play the fun backing tracks!

Walker (mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire) guides readers through the main ideas of wavelet analysis in order to develop a thorough appreciation of wavelet applications. Relying on elementary algebra and a small amount of calculus, he demonstrates how the underlying ideas behind wavelet analysis can be applied to solve significant problems in audio and image processing, biology, and medicine. Nearly twice as long as the first edition, this second edition of the book provides 104 worked examples and 222 exercises, two sections on bioorthogonal wavelets, a mini-course on image compression, expanded material on image denoising, an introduction to time frequency analysis, and expanded suggestions for research projects. A companion Web site, new for this edition, includes downloadable software, sound and image files, and links to important papers in the field. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Evil has a name. And it goes by Dr. Regis Blackgaard. He and Philip Glossman have big plans that could put Whit’s End out of business. And it looks like the bad guys are winning! Eventually, right overcomes might while kids ages 8 and up learn about making smart choices and having integrity.
Adventures in Odyssey is exciting, values-based audio entertainment for the whole family—brought to life by actors who make you feel like part of the experience.
Volume 5 contains the following stories (and themes):

• The Imagination Station, 1 & 2 (Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection)
• An Encounter with Mrs. Hooper (Compassion for the elderly)
• A Bite of Applesauce (Disobedience)
• Connie Goes to Camp, 1 & 2 (Disobedience)
• Eugene's Dilemma (Doing what's right; responsibility)
• The Nemesis,1 & 2 (Trusting God in times of trouble)
• Our Best Vacation Ever (Family togetherness)
• The Battle, 1 & 2 (God's protection)

Leaders face numerous critical crossroads in their careers, moments that can provide extraordinary learning and growth opportunities or ensnare them and prevent further development. The good thing about these passages is that they're predictable, and with proper preparation, leaders not only can survive them to become stronger but can use these experiences to enhance their leadership, compassion, and effectiveness. This book lays out thirteen specific “leadership passages” based on research, interviews, and coaching of senior executives in such well-known companies as Johnson & Johnson, Novarits, Intel, GE, and Bank of America. For each passage, the authors describe what to expect, how the passage constitutes a choice point, and what effective leaders do to navigate and grow from the challenge. Some of the passages include: moving into a leadership role for the first time, dealing with significant failure for which you are responsible, derailing/losing your job, being acquired/merging, losing faith in the system, understanding the importance of children, family and friends, and personal upheavals such as divorce, illness, and death. The authors provide a wealth of practical tools and techniques to improve your leadership, along with real-life examples from recognizable leaders and breakthrough ways in which companies can use the concept of leadership passages to grow talent.