Language Studies category: 15171 books
by Michael Rodgers, Eileen Lewis, Aaron French
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018
Exam board: OCR
Level: GCSE
Subject: Media Studies
First teaching: September 2017
First exams: Summer 2019
Target success in OCR GCSE (9-1) Media Studies with this proven formula for effective, structured revision. Clear guidance is combined with exam-style questions and practical tips to create...
by Liesbet Hooghe, Tobias Lenz, Gary Marks
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2019
Why do international organizations (IOs) look so different, yet so similar? The possibilities are diverse. Some international organizations have just a few member states, while others span the globe. Some are targeted at a specific problem, while others have policy portfolios as broad as national...
by Brandon Royal, Paul Strahan
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Dancing for Your Life chronicles the true story of a beautiful, young Filipina who, in order to help her family financially, leaves her home in the quiet Philippines countryside to work as a dancer in Hong Kong's red-light district of Wan Chai. This book will hold special appeal for readers interested...
by Joseph North
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Since the global turn to neoliberalism in the 1970s, movements in literary studies have been diagnostic rather than interventionist: scholars have developed techniques for analyzing culture but have retreated from attempts to transform it. For Joseph North, a genuinely interventionist criticism is a central task facing scholars on the Left today.
by Mary Roach
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2004
"One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year....Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting."—Entertainment Weekly
Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers—some willingly,...
Red and Yellow, Black and Brown
Decentering Whiteness in Mixed Race Studies
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Red and Yellow, Black and Brown gathers together life stories and analysis by twelve contributors who express and seek to understand the often very different dynamics that exist for mixed race people who are not part white. The chapters focus on the social, psychological, and political situations...
Dogfight at the Pentagon
Sergeant Dogs, Grumpy Cats, Wallflower Wingmen, and Other Lunacy from the Wall Street Journal's A-Hed Column
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
A delightful collection of the wild, the weird, and the wonderful culled from the Wall Street Journal’s popular, and long-standing A-hed column.
One of the Wall Street Journal’s most popular features for more than seventy years, the daily A-hed column—named for a headline that looked...
China A to Z
Everything You Need to Know to Understand Chinese Customs and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2007
A practical and accessible guide to an ancient but rapidly changing culture—now revised and updated
Perfect for business, pleasure, or armchair travelers, China A to Z explains the customs, culture, and etiquette essential for any trip or for anyone wanting to understand this complex country....
You're Saying It Wrong
A Pronunciation Guide to the 150 Most Commonly Mispronounced Words--and Their Tangled Histories of Misuse
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
For word nerds and grammar geeks, a witty guide to the most commonly mispronounced words, along with their correct pronunciations and pithy forays into their fascinating etymologies and histories of use and misuse.
With wit and good humor, this handy little book not only saves us from sticky...
by Katharine Graham
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
From Katharine Graham’s Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir Personal History, a stirring narrative of how the legendary publisher of the Washington Post became a feminist.With an introduction from her granddaughter, Katharine Weymouth, publisher of the Post until 2014.
Katharine Graham was the newspaper...
Shocking True Story
The Rise and Fall of Confidential, "America's Most Scandalous Scandal Magazine"
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
Humphrey Bogart said of Confidential: “Everybody reads it but they say the cook brought it into the house” . . . Tom Wolfe called it “the most scandalous scandal magazine in the history of the world” . . . Time defined it as “a cheesecake of innuendo, detraction, and plain smut . . . dig...
And Then There's This
How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2009
Breaking news, fresh gossip, tiny scandals, trumped-up crises-every day we are distracted by a culture that rings our doorbell and runs away. Stories spread wildly and die out in mere days, to be replaced by still more stories with ever shorter life spans. Through the Internet the news cycle has been...
by Hugo de Burgh
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008
Praise for the first edition:
‘A surprising book. I’m surprised that it hasn’t been done before, and I’d also be surprised if anyone did it better.’****– Roger Cook, The Cook Report, Central Television
‘A book that no aspiring student of the subject can do without.’ –...
by William Lutz
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Doublespeak is the language of non-responsibility, carefully constructed to appear to communicate when it fact it doesn't. In this lively and eye-opening expose, originally published in 1989, linguist William Lutz identifies the four most common types of doublespeak—euphemism, jargon, gobbledygook...