Product Description: The importance of an individual's voice in everyday social interaction can scarcely be overestimated. It is an essential element in the listener's analysis of the speaker's physical, psychological and social characteristics. Differences in voice quality reflect different habitual adjustments, or settings, of the vocal apparatus...read more

Product Description: The Years of ...series provides core coverage of events in British and European History. It features: - strong and accessible narrative written by experienced teachers - a comprehensive selection of visual and written source material - extensive student guidance sections which develop student understanding of exam techniques - discussion points within the text - 'stepped' exercises which promote understanding of the topics and issues...read more

Product Description: This title covers themes such as diplomacy, revolutions, "realpolitik," and the origins of the Great War. It also charts the political, economic, and social development of states such as Germany, Italy, France, Russia, and Austria.

Since Malmberg's classic Manual of Phonetics published in 1968 there has been no definitive up-to-date account of the phonetic sciences. The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences is unique in that it brings together, in the same volume, chapters on the biological foundations of speech and hearing such as brain functions underlying speech, organic variation of the vocal apparatus, auditory neural processing, articulatory processes together with chapters on theoretical and applied areas.The only up-to-date authorative and comprehensive survey of the phonetic sciencesWritten by leading researchersEach article introduces important theoretical innovations and resultsAll newly-commissioned articlesIncludes invaluable consolidated bibliography

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Product Description: This major new textbook is designed for readers who wish to pursue the study of phonetics from an initial to an advanced stage. It moves from a discussion of general concepts to a total of eleven chapters on phonetic classification, and it includes discussion of other issues such as the relationship between phonetics and phonology...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This first title in the "History at Source" series examines the political and economic situation in Russia in 1914, and the February and October revolutions of 1917. The book also examines the impact of World War I, the struggle for power after Lenin, the Stalinist era and economic transformation...read more