This volume represents a unique contribution to the area of language attitudes research with its focus on how languages, dialects and accents induce us to form social judgments about people who use these forms. The essays attend to evaluations of speech styles across nations. No previous work has em[...]

Hours of fantastical fun await with simple projects for creating mermaids, dragons, dinosaurs, superheroes, and even a flying horse, out of clay Parents and teachers will be surprised at how simple it is to create brilliant characters using clay "balls and sausages" as a starting point. Book covers[...]

The Bloomsbury Guide to Pastoral Care provides a framework for reflection on pastoral care practice and identifies frontier learning in pastoral care research. The first section sets out core principles underpinning the professional identity and practice of pastoral care. The distinctive language an[...]

Develop the skills and knowledge you need to make evidence-based practice an integral part of your clinical decision making and everyday nursing practice with "Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing & Healthcare." Written in a friendly, conversational style, this Third Edition of the authors' gold stand[...]

The Sanatarium offers no cure for murder...
At the dawn of the 20th century, Healing Sands Sanitarium, southwest of Seattle, Washington, sits on the sandy doorstep of the Pacific Ocean. Famed for its restorative rest cures, fermented diets, and Dr. Hornsby's electrotherapeutics, no one has ever[...]

Develop the skills and knowledge you need to make evidence-based practice an integral part of your clinical decision making and everyday nursing practice with Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing & Healthcare. Written in a friendly, conversational style, this Third Edition of the authors' gold standar[...]

In 1985, at the age of 18, Tania Aebi set out to sail around the world alone. In this volume she presents a compendium of sailing experience and reflections. It is suitable reading for the armchair sailor dreaming about sailing one day, as well as the sailor in the cockpit actively chasing those hor[...]

An informative book offering a totally new approach to the role of fixed stars.

This audacious little book for children ages three and up is a catalog of "don'ts" sure to make kids squirm and squeal with delight--and parents laugh out loud. Jumping down the stairs, sticking your fingers in a fan, swallowing thumbtacks...That's Dangerous![...]