The Language of Journalism aims to provide an accessible, wide-ranging introductory textbook for a range of students. The book explores the significance of a range of linguistic practices occurring in journalism, demonstrating and facilitating the use of analysis in aiding professional journalistic [...]

A comprehensive course in translation for advanced students of German, which focuses on improving translation quality, whilst clarifying the theoretical issues involved. This second edition addresses a variety of translation issues such as cultural differences, register, and dialect.[...]

This book provides a clear and thorough introduction to meta-analysis, the process of synthesizing data from a series of separate studies. Meta-analysis has become a critically important tool in fields as diverse as medicine, pharmacology, epidemiology, education, psychology, business, and ecology. [...]

Processes involved in the development of igneous and metamorphic rocks involve some combination of crystal growth, solution, movement and deformation, which is expressed as changes in texture (microstructure). Advances in the quantification of aspects of crystalline rock textures, such as crystal si[...]

On the 30th of April, 1945, Russian radar reported a light aircraft leaving the vicinity of the Tiergarten in Berlin. But who was on board, and where was the plane going? Berlin was in ruins as the Russians moved relentlessly towards the concrete bunker where the Nazi administration was falling apar[...]

By the end of 1943, all evidence of the abortive German attempt to assassinate Winston Churchill has been carefully buried in an unmarked grave in the Norfolk village of Studley Constable. But two of the most wanted ringleaders are still alive In the fourth hard winter of war, British intelligence p[...]

Piano virtuoso John Mikali s flair as a musician is matched only by his skill as an assassin. The trail of bodies he s left in his wake is proof. But when he kills a young woman while fleeing from a murder scene, the woman s father, a special forces soldier in the British military, vows to avenge hi[...]

Locals call it the Rio das Mortes the treacherous Brazilian river where the Huna tribe is known to kill all who trespass. Despite the river s deadly reputation, pilot Neil Mallory agrees to fly supplies to outposts there in hopes of making enough money to buy his passage back to England. But when he[...]

An edge-of-your-seat, white-knuckle thrill ride from the master of suspense Baron Max von Berger was once a young aide to Hitler himself, and in the declining days of World War II, was entrusted with Hitler s diary. Over the years, von Berger has amassed immense wealth and power due to the diary and[...]

Volume 8 of Transformers Classics collects Transformers Universe numbered 1-4, all character biographies from TF issues numbered 47-49, 56-72, and 74-79, plus G.I. Joe and the Transformers numbered 1-4. Also includes issues notes by Mark W. Bellomo.[...]