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Culpeper, Jonathan; Katamba, Francis; Kerswill, Paul; McEnery, Tony; Wodak, Ruth
What is the English language like, why is it like that and what do we need to know in order to study it? This wide ranging introductory textbook not only presents the English language from multiple perspectives, but provides the reader with the necessary grounding in linguistics to investigate it for themselves.Written by a team ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-230-61755-1
EAN 9780230617551
The newest addition to Palgrave's Great Generals series focuses on Andrew Jackson's career including his time as a general in Tennessee and his rise up the Army ranks. Jackson's effective use of spies in war time and of martial law in peace time sparked a debate about the curtailing of civil liberties in the name ...
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This book examines transformations in art and critical theory in the aftermath of Auschwitz and Hiroshima and analyzes the current "war on terror" as a symptom of the failure to critically process those historical traumas
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 280 páginas
PVP: 23,39 €
ISBN 978-0-230-00162-6
EAN 9780230001626
Martyn Lyons surveys the changing relationships enjoyed by men and women with the written word, from early times to the present day. He provides a highly-readable account of the social history of reading and writing, relating it to key historical moments such as the Renaissance, the Reformation and the Enlightenment. Offering a fresh history centred ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,86 €
ISBN 978-1-4039-7077-0
EAN 9781403970770
A Middle East journalist offers insight into the realities of daily life in the Saudi kingdom, discussing how citizens from its urban centers, mountain terrains, and poorest sections endure such challenges as tribal rivalries, religious fundamentalism, and limited educational opportunities.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,49 €
ISBN 978-0-230-61437-6
EAN 9780230614376
Five decades after Nasser and the Free Officers overthrew the British-backed monarchy in a dramatic coup d'état, the future of Egypt grows more uncertain by the day. John Bradley examines the junctions of Egyptian politics and society as they slowly disintegrate under the twin pressures of a ruthless military dictatorship at home and a flawed ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,49 €
ISBN 978-0-230-61441-3
EAN 9780230614413
In October 2001, nineteen-year-old Murat Kurnaz traveled to Pakistan to visit a madrassa. During a security check a few weeks after his arrival, he was arrested without explanation and for a bounty of 3,000, the Pakistani police sold him to U.S. forces. He was first taken to Kandahar, Afghanistan, where he was severely mistreated, and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 11,10 €
ISBN 978-0-230-23208-2
EAN 9780230232082
From the Royal Shakespeare Company a fresh new edition of the most famous of all love storiesTHIS EDITION INCLUDES: An illuminating introduction to Romeo and Juliet by award-winning scholar Jonathan Bate The play - with clear and authoritative explanatory notes on each page A helpful scene-by-scene analysis and key facts about the play An introduction ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 11,10 €
ISBN 978-0-230-23210-5
EAN 9780230232105
From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a fresh new edition of Shakespeares much-loved comedy of the battle between the sexesTHIS EDITION INCLUDES: - An illuminating introduction to Much Ado About Nothing by award-winning scholar Jonathan Bate- The play - with clear and authoritative explanatory notes on each page- A helpful scene-by-scene analysis and key facts ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,70 €
ISBN 978-0-230-57622-3
EAN 9780230576223
From the Royal Shakespeare Company a fresh new edition of Shakespeare's magnificent tragedy of love, jealousy and explosive racial politicsTHIS EDITION INCLUDES: An illuminating introduction to Othello by award-winning scholar Jonathan Bate The play - with clear and authoritative explanatory notes on each page A helpful scene-by-scene analysis and key facts about the play An ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-0-230-23213-6
EAN 9780230232136
THIS EDITION INCLUDES: An illuminating introduction to Henry IV Part I by award-winning scholar Jonathan Bate The play - with clear and authoritative explanatory notes on each page A helpful scene-by-scene analysis and key facts about the play An introduction to Shakespeare's career and the Elizabethan theatre A rich exploration of approaches to staging the ...
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PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-0-230-23215-0
EAN 9780230232150
From the Royal Shakespeare Company a fresh new edition of Shakespeare's profound exploration of a prince's coming of age and the rejection of old Jack FalstaffTHIS EDITION INCLUDES: An illuminating introduction to Henry IV Part II by award-winning scholar Jonathan Bate The play - with clear and authoritative explanatory notes on each page A helpful ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 28,60 €
ISBN 978-0230-58009-1
EAN 9780230580091
This volume considers, at global and at local levels, the spread of Spanish today and particularly its role in the face of processes of globalization. Spanish is frequently the dominant language in this contact situation. But how contested is its hegemony; and how far does contact with it threaten other languages? How are these other, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 21,24 €
ISBN 978-0-230-22137-6
EAN 9780230221376
A fresh and engaging account of America's history from the 15th century to the 21st that navigates complexities without oversimplifying or assuming prior knowledge. Kuklick focuses on politics, but places this in the context of religious culture and emphasizes the assertive expansion at the heart of the development of the U.S.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 472 páginas
PVP: 21,24 €
ISBN 978-0-230-57451-9
EAN 9780230574519
A revised and expanded second edition of a highly-praised account of the structure of the government of the Ottoman Empire to the mid-seventeenth century. Colin Imber incorporates the latest research, and the text now also features a new chapter on taxation as well as an up-to-date Bibliography.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-0-230-61444-4
EAN 9780230614444
Dubbed by the World War II press as "The G.I. General" because of his close identification with his men, Omar Bradley rose to command the largest exclusively American field command in U.S. history during the European Campaign. Alan Axelrod applies his signature insight and compelling prose to the life, strategy and legacy of the general ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 24,82 €
ISBN 978-0-230-61445-1
EAN 9780230614451
This persuasive biography sheds light on the nation's first modern combat commander who set the standard for today's four-star officers. Though the U.S. entered WWI with inadquate forces, in just over a year Pershing had built and hurled a one million man army against forty battle-hardened German divisions, defending the hellish Meuse-Argonne and turning the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 12,49 €
ISBN 978-0-230-61427-7
EAN 9780230614277
Christopher Hibbert draws on every known contemporary source to provide a minutely detailed look of the fascinating writer Samuel Johnson. Using facts and anecdotes, Hibbert delivers intimate glimpses into Johnson's time as a schoolboy, his eccentricities as an undergraduate at Oxford, his struggle as a poor writer in London, and his slow rise to the ...
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