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The Studies in Slang monographs are a forum for the detailed discussion of slang items, an activity of worth in itself and for the insight it can bring to broader issues in linguistics. We deal here in particular with the study of languages in their social context and the role of the individual in linguistic innovation.
Hailing from the big cities and small towns of America, these young men came together to serve their country and the greater good. They were the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division (the All Americans). Phil Nordyke, their official historian, draws on interviews with surviving veterans and oral history recordings as well as official archives and unpublished written accounts from more than three hundred veterans of the 505th PIR and their supporting units. This is history as it was lived by the men of the 505th, from their prewar coming of age in the regiment, through the end of World War II, when they marched in the Victory Parade up Fifth Avenue in New York, to the postwar legacy of having been part of an elite parachute regiment with a record unsurpassed in the annals of combat.
The definitive history of the Moynihan Report controversy, Beyond Civil Rights examines the cultural assumptions embedded in the report's analysis of "the Negro family" and demonstrates its significance for liberals, conservatives, neoconservatives, civil rights leaders, Black Power activists, and feminists.
Project DEEP (Disease & Epidemic Eradication & Prevention) is a steamy military/government series that takes place in a government bunker in Colorado where the world's most renowned scientists work to cure and prevent diseases. Unfortunately, ten years ago an accident in the bunker infected all twenty-one medical professionals with a rare form of fatal anemia. They were unable to find a cure in time, so they were cryonically preserved in the bunker. Follow the lives of several of these men and women as they are reanimated a decade later and go on to find love and happiness. Reviving Emily (Project DEEP, Book 1) After a decade of cryonic preservation, he brings her back to life. Now he must p...
Mary Chadwick is bored: little does she know how much her life is about to change! It is not every day one meets a ghost. Nor is it every day – or even every year – that Mary acquires a boyfriend. What a shame the two of them cannot get on – because her new ghostly friend Mike is staying.
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