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This updated edition of Sociolinguistics provides a comprehensive introduction to sociolinguistics drawing on a range of real texts and using real studies designed and conducted by students.

Examines the efforts to end slavery in the United States and the transatlantic world. This work focuses on massive, broad-based movements, as well as specific incidents, events, and developments. While focusing on the United States, it also includes accounts of emancipation and abolition in Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America.

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Presents ideas for the development of an intrinsically noncommutative geometry. This book provides numerous suggestions for possible projects, ranging from exercise level to research level. It covers topics such as Grothendieck categorical representations and structure sheaves.

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Focuses on canonical-form characterizations of isometries on Banach spaces. This monograph explores the topic in the context of vector-valued function spaces and operator spaces. It looks at some of the wide variety of methods used in addressing the characterization problem in various types of spaces.

A primary characteristic of landscape archeology is the diversity of its regional traditions, which reveals a range of methods and field locations. This volume demonstrates how landscape archeologies can be used to highlight material situations and the alternative political standpoints from which archaeologists work in the contemporary world.

Winner of the CBC Book of the Year 2002. In his most personally revealing book yet, Philip Yancey searches for the true hallmarks of Christian faith

The demands of emerging software applications can be met only with unique chips and systems. This book addresses several systems and chips that provide new approaches to designing future computing and communication systems. The text presents the TRIPS processor architecture and microarchitecture, the CELL processor from IBM STI, and the continuation based Fuce multi-threading processor. Extended analog computers, Ravenscar, hardware-implemente...

This updated and thoroughly revised second edition of the best-selling The Cybercultures Reader, includes specially selected contemporary articles by key thinkers in the expanding field of cybercultures studies. With general and thematic section introductions, a full bibliography and user guide, this latest edition is an indispensable resource for all those interested in living with and thinking about new technologies.

Advocates of the rights of women, indigenous groups, the landless, and street children have achieved notable gains, so much so that in 1999 "The New York Times" claimed that women have achieved more rights in Latin America than any other region. This work establishes a record of why, how, where, and when human rights reached this level.

Advocates of the rights of women, indigenous groups, the landless, and street children have achieved notable gains, so much so that in 1999 "The New York Times" claimed that women have achieved more rights in Latin America than any other region. This work establishes a record of why, how, where, and when human rights reached this level.

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First Published in 2015. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

Featuring full-color maps and illustrations, this title takes students from the early days of discovery and exploration, through the establishment of the first colonies by the vying European powers, to the events leading to the Revolutionary War and the founding of the United States.

Offers an original approach to a series of traditional topics: the institutions and legal underpinnings of democracy, the roles of political parties and politicians, the significance of a changing political culture.

The Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory and Practice" is the scholarly journal devoted to college student retention. It has published many articles on minority student retention. This book presents a compilation of the very best of these articles, selected on the basis of reviews by a cadre of experts in the education field.

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The story of the Gloucestershire floods of 2007

A fascinating study of English words and phrases in A la recherche du temps perdu, dealing both with the social comedy of French 'Anglomania' - characters who yearn to resemble 'un parfait gentleman' or invite each other to 'le five-o'clock tea' - and with Proust's profound understanding of the necessary 'impurity' of all languages and artistic creation. Karlin demonstrates that English is a significant presence in this greatest of Frenchmaste...