Product Description: The book is the first to apply David Brazil’s Discourse Intonation systems (prominence, tone, key and termination) to the study of a corpus of authentic, naturally-occurring spoken discourses. The Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (prosodic) is made up of approximately one million words consisting of four sub-corpora of equal size, namely academic, conversation, business and public...read more

Product Description: Excluding the biological polymers proteins, lipids and nucleic acids, modified tetrapyrroles are the biological molecules that have had the greatest impact on the evolution of life over the past 4 billion years. They are involved in a wide variety of fundamental processes that underpin central primary metabolism in all kingdoms of life, from photosynthesis to methanogenesis...read more

Product Description: The industrial history of Britain has left hugs areas of land contaminated by a range of substances that have adverse and widespread consequences for people and the environment.This new edition of "Contaminated Land", with the UK Environment Act, 1995, at its center, has been produced with the non-lawyer in mind, and is to act as a guide to the regime of Guidance and Regulations that have been introduced to tackle the legacy of historic contamination...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

(view table of contents)