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Language Prescription
This book is a detailed examination of social connections to language evaluation with a specific focus on the values associated with both prescriptivism and descriptivism. The chapters, written by authors from many different linguistic and national backgrounds, use a variety of approaches and methods to discuss values in linguistic prescriptivism. In particular, the chapters break down the traditional binary approaches that characterize prescriptive discourse to create a view of the complex phenomena associated with prescriptivism and the values of those who practice it. Most importantly, this volume continues serious academic conversations about prescriptivism and lays the foundation for continued exploration.
Wearing the Trousers
The story of women's liberation as told by their changing dress – in the public gaze and in private
That's Life
In the ending, the word was death and in the world it was everywhere. In the heavens and in the Earth and in the seas was a grey void. It was terrible. It was marvelsome. David West was there. If we could have voted before the Last Blast, it's hard to imagine that Americans or any other sane and semi-civilized people would have selected a middle-age sports writer with a receding hairline and paunch-in-progress to carry the flag for their severely endangered species. But that's the way it worked out. A carpenter, a doctor, an engineer, an astronomer, a plumber, or maybe best of all a wilderness guide, would have been more useful. Instead you got a scribe. So much for "survival of the fittest"...
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First Light
First Light opens a window into a previously dark and secret time in our Universe's history – the time when the first starts were born.
Knowing History in Schools
The ‘knowledge turn’ in curriculum studies has drawn attention to the central role that knowledge of the disciplines plays in education, and to the need for new thinking about how we understand knowledge and knowledge-building. Knowing History in Schools explores these issues in the context of teaching and learning history through a dialogue between the eminent sociologist of curriculum Michael Young, and leading figures in history education research and practice from a range of traditions and contexts. With a focus on Young’s ‘powerful knowledge’ theorisation of the curriculum, and on his more recent articulations of the ‘powers’ of knowledge, this dialogue explores the many complexities posed for history education by the challenge of building children’s historical knowledge and understanding. The book builds towards a clarification of how we can best conceptualise knowledge-building in history education. Crucially, it aims to help history education students, history teachers, teacher educators and history curriculum designers navigate the challenges that knowledge-building processes pose for learning history in schools.
Studies in the History of the English Language VII
This book looks at how historical linguists accommodate the written records used for evidence. The limitations of the written record restrict our view of the past and the conclusions that we can draw about its language. However, the same limitations force us to be aware of the particularities of language. This collection blends the philological with the linguistic, combining questions of the particular with generalizations about language change.
Heart, Helicopters, and Houston
Dr. Don Chapman, who introduced heart catheretization to this part of the country, was present at the first heart transplant performed in the United States as well the first artificial heart surgery here. He explains the medical treatment of coronary artery disease in both men and women, including the risk factors, and discusses new diagnostic techniques. Also included are the use of artificial pacemakers; angioplasty and coronary bypass surgery; the exciting field of heart and lung transplant, and a brief look at Cellular Biology, the "wave of the future." Besides tracing the growth of cardiology and the Texas Medical Center, this book reflects, in an entertaining and educational way, the constantly changing patterns in the practice of medicine in the United States.
