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Crisis in the Red Zone
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 401

Crisis in the Red Zone

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-07-23
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  • Publisher: Random House

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgent wake-up call about the future of emerging viruses and a gripping account of the doctors and scientists fighting to protect us, told through the story of the deadly 2013–2014 Ebola epidemic “Crisis in the Red Zone reads like a thriller. That the story it tells is all true makes it all more terrifying.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction From the #1 bestselling author of The Hot Zone, now a National Geographic original miniseries . . . This time, Ebola started with a two-year-old child who likely had contact with a wild creature and whose entire family quickly fell ill and died. The ensuing global drama act...

Preston Pubs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 153

Preston Pubs

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The Handbook of Dialectology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 616

The Handbook of Dialectology

The Handbook of Dialectology provides an authoritative, up-to-date and unusually broad account of the study of dialect, in one volume. Each chapter reviews essential research, and offers a critical discussion of the past, present and future development of the area. The volume is based on state-of-the-art research in dialectology around the world, providing the most current work available with an unusually broad scope of topics Provides a practical guide to the many methodological and statistical issues surrounding the collection and analysis of dialect data Offers summaries of dialect variation in the world's most widely spoken and commonly studied languages, including several non-European languages that have traditionally received less attention in general discussions of dialectology Reviews the intellectual development of the field, including its main theoretical schools of thought and research traditions, both academic and applied The editors are well known and highly respected, with a deep knowledge of this vast field of inquiry

On the Border of Language and Dialect
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 263

On the Border of Language and Dialect

This volume considers the linguistic borders between languages and dia­lects, as well as the administrative, cultural and mental borders that reflect or affect linguistic ones; it comprises eight articles examining the mental borders between dialects, dialect continua and areas of mixed dialect, language ideologies, language mixing and contact-induced language change. The book opens with Dennis R. Preston’s review article on per­ceptual dialectology, showing how this field of study provides insights on laymen’s perceptions about dialect boundaries, and how such perceptions explain regional and social variation. Johanna Laakso problematizes the common notion of languages as having clear...

The Monthly Army List
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1142

The Monthly Army List

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1893
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Handbook of Language Variation and Change
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 832

The Handbook of Language Variation and Change

The Handbook of Language Variation and Change, written by a distinguished international roster of contributors, reflects the vitality and growth of the discipline in its multifaceted pursuits. It is a convenient, hand-held repository of the essential knowledge about the study of language variation and change. Written by internationally recognized experts in the field. Reflects the vitality and growth of the discipline. Discusses the ideas that drive the field and is illustrated with empirical studies. Includes explanatory introductions which set out the boundaries of the field and place each of the chapters into perspective.

Accounts and Papers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 338

Accounts and Papers

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1818
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Middlesex. Northumberland
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 790

Middlesex. Northumberland

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1738
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Army List
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1282

The Army List

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1910
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 784

The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1830
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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