Intercultural Language Activities offers practical teaching ideas which encourage learners to reflect on their own language and culture, as well as that of others. Topics covered in the fourteen chapters include childhood, food, sport, icons, politics and body language. The book also helps learners [...]

Never before have so many electronic resources been available to support the teaching of English. From a wide variety of online corpora to specialized archives of speech and writing, teachers and students are faced with the challenge of understanding these resources and selecting those appropriate t[...]

Provides an introduction to Old English for students with little or no linguistic knowledge. This work focuses on the explanation and demonstration of how the language works, using illustrations from simplified Old English texts and showing how many features of English have their roots in this stage[...]

Sweeping changes have made NHS governance a crucial and contested issue. This text describes and assesses the NHS governance arrangements and accountabilities. It examines how they are working in practice, reporting on how practitioners are responding to the difficulties and paradoxes that arise.[...]

The European Union: How does it work? is the perfect introduction to the EU's structure and operations for those coming to the subject for the first time. An expert team of scholars and practitioners cut through the complexity to explain how the EU works in practice, and equip students with the know[...]

Sir Julian Corbett was regarded as one of the greatest naval historians of the early twentieth century. "Maritime Operations in the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905" was never available to the public during his lifetime. As noted in the introduction to Volume I, Corbett dealt not with "minute details a[...]

As thoroughly examined as the Civil War and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln have been, virtually no attention has been paid to the life of the Union cavalryman who killed John Wilkes Booth, an odd character named Boston Corbett. Corbett became an instant celebrity whose peculiarities made him t[...]