Product Description: In our carbon-challenged, post-Katrina world, how do America's largest cities stack up in terms of sustainability? Which cities are more self-sufficient and better-prepared for our uncertain future, and which cities are operating business-as-usual? How Green is Your City? examines the outcome of a sustainability study of the 50 largest U...read more

'An account of the lives of John and Joel Osteen and their ministry from John's planting of Lakewood Church in a Texas feedstore to its becoming the largest church in America under the leadership of his son, Joel'--Provided by publisher.

Contemporary Latin American Cultural Studies is a collection of new essays by recognised experts from around the world on various aspects of the new discipline of Latin American cultural studies. Essays are grouped in five distinct but interconnected sections focusing respectively on: (I) the theory of Latin American cultural studies; (II) the icons of culture; (III) culture as a commodity; (IV) culture as a site of resistance; and (V) everyday cultural practices. The essays range across a wide gamut of theories about Latin American culture; some, for example, analyse the role that ideas about the nation - and national icons  have played in the formation of a sense of identity in Latin America, while others focus on the resonance underlying cultural practices as diverse as football in Argentina, TV in Uruguay, cinema in Brazil, and the 'bolero' and soaps of modern-day Mexico. Contemporary Latin American Cultural Studies has an introduction setting the ideas explored in each section in their proper context. The essays are written in jargon-free English (all Spanish terms have been translated into English), and are supplemented by a concluding section with suggestions for further reading.

Product Description: The aim of the European Cognitive Science Conference is the presentation of empirical, theoretical, and analytic work from all areas of interest in cognitive science, such as artificial intelligence, education, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, and anthropology...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Music, Popular Culture, Identities is a collection of sixteen essays that will appeal to a wide range of readers with interests in popular culture and music, cultural studies, and ethnomusicology. Organized around the central theme of music as an expression of local, ethnic, social and other identities, the essays touch upon popular traditions and contemporary forms from several different regions of the world: political engagement in Italian popular music; flamenco in Spain; the challenge of traditional music in Bulgaria; boerenrock and rap in Holland; Israeli extreme heavy metal; jazz and pop in South Africa, and musical hybridity and politics in Cote d'Ivoire...read more

Product Description: This book brings together a collection of current research on the assessment of oral proficiency in a second language. Fourteen chapters focus on the use of the language proficiency interview or LPI to assess oral proficiency. The volume addresses the central issue of validity in proficiency assessment: the ways in which the language proficiency interview is accomplished through discourse...read more

Product Description: Everyone loves scary stories, but no one loves them more than children. Storytellers Richard and Judy Young gathered these stories from the most discerning critics the kids themselves. These are the tales kids tell most often and most often ask to be told...read more

Product Description: This study of the Child Support Agency (CSA) compares the accounts of former husbands and wives with those of their respective legal advisers, and incorporates the experience and views of the CSA staff, who attempted to calculate and enforce child maintenance obligations in the same cases...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: At a time when the legal aid system is facing a major overhaul, this book draws attention to the potential and limits of legal aid for achieving criminal justice for defendants. In bringing together 16 experienced writers and researchers who are prominent in this field, it takes the readerbeyond the hitherto narrow discussion over legal aid, and demonstrates its importance in defending liberty and achieving justice...read more

Gathers urban legends and stories about ghosts, murderers, corpses, curses, cannibalism, and monsters

Product Description: Everyone loves scary stories, but no one loves them more than children. Storytellers Richard and Judy Young gathered these stories from the most discerning critics the kids themselves. These are the tales kids tell most often and most often ask to be told...read more

Presents a collection, selected by children as their favorites, of fourteen spooky tales from a variety of ethnic traditions.

Product Description: This major study of the workings of the British social security adjudication system, the first since the tribunal structure reforms of 1984 and the benefit changes of 1988, examines the decision making processes in Department of Social Security local offices and at the social security appeal tribunals...read more

Offers a diverse collection of stories, including trickster tales, humorous stories, stories about creation and nature, heroic stories, and stories of the spirit world, culled from more than a dozen tribes.

A collection of traditional tales, fables, and legends from the cultures brought together by the voyages of Columbus, including those of Spain, Portugal, Italy, and the Indian tribes he encountered (view table of contents)

Product Description: This volume has been replaced by a new (online) edition. Please click here for more information.USING THE BBI, introduces students, teachers, translators, and other interested people to the BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English. The Workbook explains how the BBI is constructed, demonstrates how collocations differ from free combinations and idioms, and shows how collocations of all types can be identified and found quickly...read more

Product Description: This major contribution to second language acquisition theory examines the question of the systematicity of learners' language. Richard Young proposes a new descriptive model for handling what other investigators have claimed to be random variations in performance, and he tests the model on plural inflections in the English interlanguage of Chinese learners...read more