The Growth of World Law tells the story of the achievements that constitute an historic trend in the half century since the inauguration of the League of Nations, and documents transition from international law regulating conduct among states to world law for mankind: law transcending states and equ[...]

This book offers inspiration and advice for 7-9 year olds on all aspects of speaking and listening, from giving a talk to performing poetry. Inside you will find suggestions for group work, ways of persuading people, interviewing techniques, great warm-up drama games and ideas for telling riveting s[...]

This is a dictionary of dreams.

The power of language is overwhelming and this is shown in the way in which words are used to define, portray and explain people and situations. With this in mind, this book notes how the language of special needs has always been composed of words and images that foster fear, mistrust and loathing.[...]

"When Helping Hurts" is a paradigm-forming contemporary classic on the subject of poverty alleviation and has sold over 225,000 copies. Now, this stand-alone resource applies the principles of "helping without hurting" specifically to short term missions. "Helping Without Hurting: Short Term Mission[...]

In January 1968, John Corbett and his fellow leathernecks of the 26th Marine Regiment fortified a remote outpost at a place in South Vietnam called Khe Sanh. Within days of their arrival, twenty thousand North Vietnamese soldiers surrounded the base. What followed over the next seventy-seven days be[...]

Considered among the greatest goalkeepers of all time and one of English football's defining figures over a career that spanned more than two decades, Neville Southall has for the first time decided to tell his extraordinary life story. For more than sixteen years Southall kept goal for Everton and[...]

Features are a central concept in linguistic analysis. They are the basic building blocks of linguistic units, such as words. For many linguists they offer the most revealing way to explore the nature of language. Familiar features are Number (singular, plural, dual, ...), Person (1st, 2nd, 3rd) and[...]